The Psyker Gene was something that a person needed to be born with, and it couldn't be replicated artificially. Even though I was doing my best to research the dammed thing, there was zero progress since the time I started, so the only thing that I could do about it right now was to give up.
At least, until I gather some Psyker as experimental subjects for much-needed clinical experiments that were an absolute necessity in this kind of thing.
Psyker...
Psychic powers are sometimes referred to as "sorcery" when they are gained or enhanced through interaction and bargaining with the malevolent entities who exist within the Empyrean.
Psykers were also sometimes called "witches" in the Imperium of Man and among the Aeldari, particularly when such powers are used in a way that they show no regard for the dangers they may spawn for others or are used in pursuit of the agenda of the Chaos Gods. Psychic powers are sometimes referred to by the ignorant in the Imperium as "magic", also spelled "magick".
All Psykers draw their powers from the extradimensional realm of Psychic Energy, the Immaterium or the "Warp" that underlies and penetrates four-dimensional realspace and is the source of all Psychic Energy in the universe.
***
Reaching the outskirts of the continent where he was right now took me approximately one month or so; counting the days in this kind of environment was something rather hard. Often, it was impossible to distinguish between day and night.
Fenran Rex IX. was a cold, frozen world that was most of the time in perpetual darkness, and every time of the day, it seemed like a night. When I arrived at the shores of the continent, standing in front of the enormous cliffs, I noticed that a large part of the ice that was separating the landmasses was frozen.
'The exact size of the Fenran Rex IX. is huge, probably enough to be considered as a Super Planet, so the distance between two continents would be equally tremendous and challenging. Especially when I would be traveling on foot.'
Because I had some records of the Fenran Rex IX. from my time in the Terran Federation, though the records about the planet were pretty obscure, I knew that it was approximately forty times bigger than Terra and was classified as a Super Planet by the Terran Federation.
Planets like these were most often dangerous because flora and fauna adapted to such environments, and thus, the Solar Federation often refrained from entering such planets and sending expeditions there unless there was something on the planet that they desperately needed.
Some creatures living within the planets, like Fenran Rex IX. could destroy Titans and other of the most advanced machines of the war of the Terran Federation. There were many cases where the Terran Federation even attempted to colonize some of such worlds, but most often, it ended in total disaster.
I still remember one occasion when entire Spartan Legions of genetically engineered soldiers were wiped out by hostile fauna that lived in the Super Planet, when the high-ups of the Military Command decided to take the entire planet due to rich deposits of Thorium and several other important metals.
There was no point in thinking about that... right now, the most important thing was to find civilization, gather subjects with the potential Psyker Gene, and regain my strength as fast as possible and as much as possible.
From the reports that I had about the current state of the Milky Way Galaxy, I would really need it.
***
Several weeks later, the outskirts of the continent.
After several weeks, I finally managed to get to the outskirts of the continent where I was located, thankfully. It was becoming a hassle to move just through the frozen wasteland, so finally, there was some change in the enviroment.
If we could even call it that way, because here, on the Fenran Rex IX., the freezing temperatures went to absolute extremes, and even large parts of the oceans and seas were frozen to vast chunks of ice that broke only when some of the super lifeforms living in the seas wanted to get some breath of fresh air.
I had already built myself a makeshift boat, primitive, yes, but it would serve its purpose in transporting me from point A to point B. Hopefully, I will have luck on my side and avoid some of the most troublesome creatures.
Those living in the sea.
Generally, it seemed that the beings living in the sea were always bigger than those living in the land or on the ground.
Something that I was already noticing within the Kadath Universe's various planes and realms, be it Magical Beasts, Monsters, or anything else, something that lived in the depths of the ocean was always bigger, stronger, and more dangerous.
"It looks rather calm..."
Observing the calm ocean that was separating these two continents, I sighed while controlling the makeshift ship to depart from one continent to another. At the same time, I was deeply hoping that I wouldn't attract the attention of some sea monster.
Though I was confident in fighting them, right now, my capabilities were rather limited, and I didn't want to waste my trump cards on something insignificant, such as big fish living in the ocean that decided to make me their dinner.
Fortunately, after several days I have spent on the oceans, aside from the minor turbulence in the form of rather bad weather, everything went smoothly. Right now, after spending more than twenty days on the open ocean, I am probably beyond half of the journey to another continent.
The entire time I spent in meditation, I was trying to draw the chaotic energies of the Warp and refine my physique to a higher degree because it was the best that I could do right now to increase my strength in a short time.
The more I repeated this, the more familiar I became with using the energies of the Immaterium to temper my physique. Unfortunately, the Terran Federation didn't really have an advanced program when it came to cultivating the Psykers.
There were too few of them, and many of them basically embarked on the path of self-training; the training methods of the Terran Federation were crude.