Stars for the good Warhammer

At the same time, on the surface of the planet Karen.

In a solid fortress converted from a mineral refinery, a lean and capable middle-aged noble dressed in gorgeous clothes was trotting up the stairs and heading to the command platform on the third floor.

At present, several low-level officers of the defense army have gathered here, and standing in front of them with their backs against the crowd is an advanced robot servant. After wiping the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand, the noble said in an anxious tone.

"Ms. Moras! Our two armored regiments have been defeated. The rebels are now advancing towards the hive. The rebels seem to have received help from professional troops. According to the news from the front, they were attacked by plasma artillery and laser rifles. Reports claim that there are even psychics and Ogryns in the rebel ranks."

As the man's voice fell, the sound of the tracks turning came from the front of the crowd. Driven by the chassis, the servitor slowly turned around. It was a modified projector servitor. Its original head had been completely removed and replaced by a set of electronic equipment that could display images. At this moment, the image of the female governor Moras was displayed in it.

For some time, the hostess was commanding the work on the scene by remotely controlling the servitor, and she herself had never stepped out of the private shelter from beginning to end.

Behind her, through the glass of the command platform, you can see a huge cyclone torpedo loaded with a purgatory warhead already standing on the launcher of the hangar. At this moment, several operators on the platform are using the Thinker array to make the final adjustment to the launch program of the missile.

"The Langer family and the nearby forge worlds rejected our request for assistance. Since hearing that the Ash Alliance was going to intervene in this matter, the local Crusaders had already evacuated Karen earlier. It is said that they received a direct order from Mars. We still don't know what kind of deal the Alliance and Mars have reached."

When he said this, the noble hesitated for a moment, as if he was hesitating whether to say the second half of the sentence.

"But it is said that because a scholar in the Ash Alliance was affected by the Karen civil war, the governor of the star region warned us to immediately stop all acts of expanding the war to avoid further escalation of the incident, and then accept Terra's investigation."

The noble's words made the officers present feel a little incredible. You know, Karen is an important place for producing fine gold. They can't understand why the Terra government or even the Mars forge generals are so weak in front of a group of heretics.

At this moment, a calm and harsh voice came from the sound array system of the mechanical servant.

"Anyone who dares to question me is a hateful traitor who defies the Emperor, no matter who they are."

Even in such a passive situation, the female governor still has great confidence in herself. As the voice fell, Moras once again set his eyes on the whirlwind torpedo that was ready to launch, and said with a cold look.

"We will solve all this, and impose the most cruel judgment on those who dare to resist me. They dared to question the power given to me by the Emperor, and betraying me is betraying the Emperor!"

Just when the noble wanted to say something else, accompanied by a shaking of the ground under the feet of the crowd, a muffled explosion suddenly came from a distance, and then the piercing alarm began to echo in every corner of the fortress, which made the officers present feel cold in their hearts.

Just then, a soldier ran over in panic.

"Sir! It's those rebels, they broke in from the main gate!"

Moras was not surprised by such news, but sneered a few times.

"They came just what I wanted."

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On the other side

When the Ogryns wearing exoskeleton armor held up the still-moving Chimera armored vehicle with both hands and smashed through the gate and waaagh into the factory, the defense forces responsible for guarding the position had already peed on the ground.

Without waiting for the people present to react, a team of soldiers holding Lucius-style hot-shooting rifles and mixed Gauss weapons immediately rushed into the battlefield through the passage opened up by the Ogryns' bodies. Several guards on the sentry tower wanted to take the opportunity to attack, but the next moment they were greeted by psychic lightning as surging as a tide.

Seeing this, Gerard, who was walking in the middle of the team, couldn't help but whistled at the girl who was still electrified. Because of the side effects of using psychic energy, the seemingly quiet girl was constantly talking trash from her mouth, as if this could make her feel better.

At this time, the members of the Free Army led by Hoffman had also entered the refinery from several other directions. A few days ago, with the assistance of the Sixth Company of the Raven Guard, the Dark Tide Squad learned that Governor Moras intended to use nuclear weapons to clean the surface of the planet.

In order to stop this madman as soon as possible, the two sides successfully reached a cooperation by using the prestige of the engineering scholar Clara in the rebel army, and finally killed their way to this suspected launch site.

"Waaagh!!!"

Looking at Ogryn who was still rampaging in the distance, and the pilgrims holding chainsaw swords and shouting "Dedicate your skull to the throne of the stars", for a moment Hoffman thought that he was probably mixed with a group of madmen. While thinking, he told the doubts in his heart to Gerard who seemed to be more normal.

"Have your people always been like this?"

In response to this, the veteran with a mustache who looked like a hive city gangster just said helplessly in a low voice, just get used to it.

"Guys, we have to move faster, before that crazy woman launches the missile."

However, just as he was about to lead the team behind him to continue to advance into the factory, a disgusting voice suddenly sounded from above his head.

"Your folly ends here."

The sound made Hoffman, who was walking in front, tense up.

"It's that witch"

As the group of people looked up, they saw several more figures in front of the window of a control room above the factory, and the leader was the projector with the image of Moras.

"You have nothing, you are just a bunch of worthless bugs. I gave you value and made your humble life somewhat meaningful to the empire. And this is how you repay me?"

Given value?

Such an arrogant tone obviously aroused the anger of the Karen people. Some Free Army soldiers raised their guns and started shooting at their location. However, the flying bullets seemed to be blocked by a transparent wall. Apparently the control room with its thick bunker protection was under the protection of a force field.

"As for you, I presume you are Cadian."

While speaking, the Governor ignored the others and turned his attention to Turalyon and his party.

Looking at those unique pairs of lavender pupils, if you look at the appearance alone, these soldiers are not much different from the traditional Astra Militarum troops. It is just that on their bulletproof breastplates, the original most sacred Imperial Sky Eagle emblem Now it has been privately altered.

A silver-gray sword wrapped with flames was deliberately added in the middle of the double-headed eagle. From a distance, the sacred eagle seemed to have been forced to grow a third head. Of course Moras knew that extra head. The long sword is the symbol of the Ashes Alliance, for which she did not forget to sarcastically say.

"A group of cowards who can't even protect their homeland have now even abandoned their loyalty to the empire and are willing to become the lackeys of the heretics."

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense. At this moment, Hoffman took the initiative to take a step forward. He knew that it was the person in front of him and the empire behind her that had brought so much suffering to Karen. .

"You'd better start praying that your sanctuary is strong enough, because sooner or later we're going to get you out of there for all the suffering you've brought upon the Karen people. I swear you'll be judged."

Facing the culprit, his voice was so calm, even though his clenched right hand was trembling slightly with anger. Governor Moras on the stage just replied jokingly.

"I am waiting for you."

"The premise is that you can get out of here alive."

As the words fell, the conveyor belt above the group's heads suddenly started to rotate again. Not long after, a huge mechanical crane brought a huge plastic steel container to the group's head. At the same time, the fire door in the hall also quickly After falling, the crowd was trapped in the hall.

Looking at the liquid leaking from the container above his head, he seemed to realize something, and suddenly saw a member of the team showing a look full of fear.

"That's the high-temperature molten iron used to smelt ore. The old witch is planning to burn us to death!"

What the hell?

Looking at the empty and unobstructed environment around him, Gerald realized that something was wrong and couldn't help but cursed. Then he hurriedly pointed to the fire gate not far away and shouted at the Ogryn people beside him.

"Big man! Get us out of here quickly!"

After receiving the order, the big man first patted his chest hard to show that everything was covered by him, and then he stretched out his head like a heavy truck and rushed towards the thick metal wall.

However, the next moment, accompanied by a deafening impact, the wall was still intact.

"I'm thinking. I can't knock it open."

After leaving such a sentence, the big Ogryn man fell straight down. This situation made the stunned Gerard on the side couldn't help but let out a scream.

On the side, Loli, who is a psyker, also tried the same, but the result was only to dent the wall. Obviously this was a trap prepared in advance. The governor may have deliberately leaked the news just to attract The arrival of their team

Seeing that the container filled with hot molten iron above his head was about to overturn under the guidance of the robotic arm, at this critical moment, accompanied by the roar of the jet pack starting up, an Astartes wearing black armor suddenly emerged from the factory. jumped down from the second floor area, and then shouted sharply in the direction of the console.

"Stop your behavior immediately, mortal! A tyrant is unworthy of leading the people of the empire!"

The appearance of the black-armored warrior surprised Hoffman who was present. He recognized this guy named Solak. He once claimed that he wanted to help the people of Karen defend against the tyranny of Governor Morath, but out of disgust for the empire, He did not accept such a suggestion, and did not expect that the other party would follow them all the way here.

Looking at the faces on the stage that were either horrified or disgusted, Sorak thought that with his status as an Astartes, he could intimidate the actions of the mortal governor.

However, this didn't seem to be the case. The other party was even crazier than he imagined.

"Your body will evaporate into the molten iron, and no one will notice it. Since you plan to be buried with those bed bugs, then I will make it happen for you."

"No one can stop me, my authority is everything!"

Seeing that the mechanical arm was still rotating, the next second I saw Sorak activated his jetpack again, jumped to the conveyor belt under the horrified gaze of everyone, and almost without any hesitation used his hands to support the container that was about to overturn.

As the power of the jetpack continued to increase, the warrior actually stopped the container from overturning for a while, even though the temperature of thousands of degrees on the surface of the container had burned his ceramic steel gauntlets until they were red, burning his skin. But when he thought of the tyrant's face, he still forced himself to block it.

O Emperor, please give me the strength to save your suffering people.

This scene shocked Hoffman deeply. He couldn't figure out why the warrior named Solak could do this for a group of strangers like them.

Listening to the constant clicking sound of the mechanical gears above him due to blocked operation, Gerald, who was located below, knew that this was not a long-term solution. Just as the Cadians were still trying to blast open the wall with overloaded laser batteries. .

I don’t know how long it took, but the originally locked gate suddenly opened miraculously. At the same time, a familiar mechanical voice came from the communicator in Gerald’s ear. It was the iron man named Clara.

"I have unlocked the passage for you, but it won't last long, so don't be stunned and take them out of here quickly."

Although I was very curious about how the guy did it, I didn't have time to think too much. Under Gerald's call, first the workers under Hoffman, and secondly with the help of Loli and the Cadian people, the group of people successfully The big man who fainted was dragged out.

Seeing that the crowd below had dispersed, Sergeant Dark Crow, whose body had already reached its limit, suddenly let go of his hand. In an instant, the entire hall below was completely submerged by a torrent of molten iron.

Gazing at the red molten iron pouring out of the factory behind him, Gerald, who had already run hundreds of meters away, finally collapsed on the ground and kept repeating the same sentence.

"Miss Clara, I really love you to death."

But before a few people could take a breath, the next moment, accompanied by the sound of rocket engine ignition, a cyclone torpedo suddenly pierced the roof of the factory, and on the plain in the distance, more The missiles have already taken off, like meteors flying from the ground to the sky, trailing a trail of destruction, and their targets are precisely those gathering places with a large number of refugees that are already under the occupation of the Free Army.

At this moment, Hoffman was completely desperate. Unless a miracle happened again, it seemed that no matter what they did, they could no longer change the outcome in front of them.

Once again, he began to pray sincerely in his heart, praying that the people of Karen could be saved, and sincerely calling for any existence that could save Karen from the crisis, because except for the so-called power of gods, he could no longer think of anything at this time. There is nothing else that can change Karen's fate.

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However, as the warrior named Sorak said, [Karen's people are lucky].

This is not true at all

The next moment, as if some god responded to his wish, with the red laser projected from above the orbit, in front of everyone, the previously launched cyclone torpedo suddenly appeared in mid-air. It turned into a blooming red lotus.

The dense laser fire network is effectively intercepting every missile trying to leave the ground, followed by the second and third missiles.

It was only then that people discovered that a huge fleet had appeared above their heads at some point, staying above the leaden gray clouds in a manner that covered the sky and the sun.

——And that is the fleet of the Ashes Alliance.