When we entered the Sigma Segment of the Araneus Prime Core Research Facility, I noticed that it looked almost no different from the last time that I was here... which was around fifteen thousand years ago.
Reaching the Central Artificial Intelligence Mainframe's Physical Mainframe Room was rahter fast thing, because I still remembered the path into the server room, which was an enormous underground room filled with black boxes.
Hundreds of huge black metal boxes.
All of them were actually servers.
The most advanced technology that the Terran Federation built, mostly based on the obtained Necron technology, because they were the most advanced species in this area, and they were often in conflict with the Federation.
When the Federation managed to encounter a Tomb World and woke the slumbering Dynasty.
"Give me a moment... I need to access the main console and biometric locks and bypass them to initiate the download process."
The area of the servers on the Central Artificial Intelligence Mainframe where the research data were being stored was compeltely isolated from the rest of the Central Artificial Intelligence Mainframe.
It was like a state within a state.
Network within a network.
With zero connection between them.
Thus, I needed to manually connect to the servers that were storing the research data on everything in the Araneus Prime Core Research Facility and download it manually to the data storage in the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer Dreadnought.
Fortunately enough, the entire process was rather smooth and fast, and within twenty minutes, everything that I needed was right now stored in the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer Dreadnought, and I would be through the data at a later date.
When the download was completed, we headed to the area that was storing the remnants of the Webway Project.
It was essentially a huge vault that was holding the Webway Gate and some other Aeldari devices that were used to traverse and navigate the Webway that the Federation obtained through various sources.
"That's the gate?"
In the middle of the vault that was as huge as an entire warehouse, was a Webway Gate.
Also known as a Webway Nexus when multiple destinations from a single gate are possible, it is a xenos technological artefact composed of wraithbone. They were typically incorporated into the Aeldari Craftworlds and ships, which provide an opening into the Labyrinth Dimension of the Webway.
Webway Gates large enough for voidships to pass through are known as Waygates and are often constructed in orbit around certain prominent worlds within the Webway network.
"Yes... Webway Gates are also found scattered on worlds throughout the galaxy, allowing the Aeldari to use them in times of need or to reach the individual planets according to their wishes. Once in the past, the entire Aeldari Empire was interconnected through the network of the Webway Gates."
I said that because the Webway and the critical material were basically wonderful.
The Wraithbone is something that even the Federation wasn't able to obtain that easily, much less research. We only had some weapons made from the Wraithbones and they were literal wonders.
When I remember them...
Wraithbone was the primary construction material used by the Aeldari Empire... more specifically, the Asuryani, the Craftworld Aeldari, and the staple of their psycho-technical engineering.
It was a form of crystallized Psychic Energy of the Empyrean that can exist as a solid in realspace brought forth from the Warp and shaped by an Aeldari concentrating his thoughts and intent upon it.
If we could incorporate the Magic into the concept of the Wraithbone, then the possibilities of such material would be unparalleled acorss countless Universes.
I already done my math...
Several times at that.
The Wraithbone was a superconductor for Psychic Energy.
If we learned the process of making the Wraithbone and used the process in an adjusted way, replacing the Psychic Energy with pure Mana, we would have a superconductive material for Mages that would rank in the top 3 of the entire Kadath Universe.
And contrary to the other superconductive materials, this would not be finite and could be created.
Which would be something that no other material acorss the entire Kadath Universe could achieve.
"How do you even turn it on? There is nothing visible..."
Esdeath asked as she was observing the Webway Gate with newfound curiosity about the thing. She found it hardly believable that this thing that was here was able to transport them from one point in the galaxy to another, often through distances that were enormous and in a rather short span of time.
"Either through a specific mechanism that we are not aware of, or you use your Psychic Powers to activate the Gate, or you obtain some Command Node like the Webway Lexicon that I have right here, or another type of Command Node that allows you to activate and control the Gate. Unfortunately, the Aeldari were and most probably are guarding these things with extreme prejudice."
The Webway Gates that allow entry to the Labyrinth Dimension range in size from personal gates intended for foot travel to massive ones that entire craftworlds can use. Because of the Webway Gates's rarity and importance, the Aeldari, even in the past, were extremely protective like hell of it.
Especially right now, the Asuryani and Drukhari will stop at nothing to either claim or deny the use of these gates to the enemy.
"And here it is... well, we can now go because I have everything that I need to locate another Webway Gate."
Unfortunately, I cannot take this Webway Gate with me back to the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer Dreadnought. I wanted to refrain from using the Psyker Powers in the Hive City for various reasons, primarily not attracting attention.
"Are we not taking this with us?"
She pointed at the Webway Gate as I thought over it once again, and how to transport it with us.
I could theoretically use the Telekinesis to levitate the Webway Gate and bring it with us, but that could hardly be realized because the pathways within the Underhive and Lower Hive were too narrow for that.
That was a no-go zone.