Stars for the good Warhammer

Time moves back slightly, to about four hours ago.

It is located in the central area between the Soul Seizing Star and the Warning Star, in the airspace close to the star.

At present, a large-scale Imperial fleet is unfolding under the personal leadership of Calgar, the Chapter Master of the Ultramarines.

Under the rays of stars, a firepower cluster consisting of three battleships and twenty-seven cruisers was slowly turning its bows in the same direction, and red light splashed on the ancient and sacred deck of the battleship.

At the bow of the ship, the laurels representing the five hundred worlds of Ultramar and the reliefs on both sides of the ship are shining brightly. Around these giant ships, nearly a hundred smaller warships are scattered according to their respective responsibilities. within the surrounding airspace.

Not long after, in the tense bridge room, a female crew member came to bring worrying news to Calgar, who was making adjustments to the fleet deployment.

"We have just lost contact with the Vigilance Shield site. The space disturbance signals around Mandeville Point are still increasing. It is expected that more Chaos warships will arrive in the future."

The Vigilance Shield is a group of space fortresses located on the outside of the Vigilance Galaxy near the Soul Grasp Star. It is composed of a large number of torpedoes and heavy laser platforms that guard the surrounding Mandeville Point for ship passage. The number of permanent personnel alone is As many as 170,000.

However, now, less than an hour has passed since it was attacked and completely lost contact. Obviously, this is not a good sign.

"How many enemy ships are currently gathered in the star field?"

"According to the auspicious signal, the current number of enemy ships is about five hundred or more, and based on the signal wavelength, it is judged that there are a large number of main warships among them, and the number is about one hundred."

five hundred

And one-fifth of them are large battleships of the battleship level.

In contrast, there are only less than two hundred imperial fleets gathered around the star, and the supply and maintenance status of each ship is not ideal.

When they heard this report, the naval officers standing behind the Chapter Leader frowned. From their erratic eyes, it was not difficult to see that even these battle-hardened veterans were still under pressure. The moment I heard this number, I couldn't help but feel a sense of despair.

During this period, Calgar's eyes never left the dozens of data panels in front of him, which displayed the details of the Imperial fleet.

Perhaps out of distrust of those allies, or simply wanting to prove that they can still fulfill the Primarch's expectations and shoulder the mission of guarding the Empire even without the help of the Alliance.

As the leader of the Ultramarines Chapter, Calgar did not inform the Alliance of the incoming Chaos immediately. Instead, he chose to take the initiative to lead the Imperial fleet to attack, intending to use multi-level intensive firepower output before the Chaos forces were fully prepared. Give the traitors a head-on blow.

In order to achieve this goal, Calgar personally assigned the tasks to be performed by each battleship in the fleet, and even the firing angle of each torpedo was carefully calculated by the Chapter Master, thus launching a war around the star. A huge interception net.

I don't know how long it took, but a young naval officer took the initiative to step forward and expressed his thoughts to the tall chapter leader under the vigilant eyes of two members of the Honor Guard.

"Lord Calgar, I think the most appropriate choice is to ask for support from the Alliance now, or at least wait until support from the Blood Angels or the Gothic Fleet arrives."

As the words fell, the naval officials who had been silent for a long time cast worried glances. It was not difficult to see from their expressions that these people also agreed with the officer's point of view.

However, regarding such a suggestion, the tall giant expressed his thoughts in a slightly indifferent tone.

"Those Chaos traitors will not leave us enough time to wait for the arrival of support, as for the Alliance fleet."

When he said this, Calga's tone paused for a moment.

"I hope they can take good care of the alien fleets and provide timely support to the battlefield on the ground during our absence. This is also an important task."

The alien fleet in Calgar's mouth refers to the Necron that suddenly visited not long ago. At this moment, the large tomb fleet is continuously bombing the orc clan in the Dead Forest Festival area.

However, anyone can tell that this statement is just a crude excuse. If nothing else, the chapter leader should be worried about the recent behavior of the alliance.

Since the arrival of the Ash Lord's fleet, the strategic layout of the entire Vigilance Star has almost immediately come under the dominance of the Alliance, although to this day the Senate led by Calgar is still nominally the highest command in the theater.

However, including members of the Mechanicum of Hell No. 8 and a small number of nobles and the Planetary Defense Force, they seem to be more interested in these external forces and the support they bring than accepting the assignments from the Senate. .

In their view, the Lord of Ashes is using sugar-coated bullets in technology and productivity to establish his own influence.

Those members of the Senate were worried that the arrival of the Alliance might cause the planet to gradually escape the control of the Empire, just like [Karen] not long ago.

And Calgar hopes to do something to reaffirm the dominance of the Senate in the warning star.

Soon, the chapter leader continued to add.

"Even without the help of the Alliance, the Human Empire has still lasted for more than 10,000 years, and will continue to exist in the future. This is not their credit. The Empire does not need to rely on outsiders and should not rely on others. The guardians are just a group of outsiders who have appeared recently. "

"I believe that our genetic father, the Primarch, must have a better way to lead the empire through the crisis."

"Rather than resorting to the power of aliens everywhere"

I do not know how long it has been.

While Calgar's officers were still discussing the analysis results of the auspicious instrument, a scream from the navigator suddenly penetrated the sound array channel and echoed in the minds of everyone on the bridge.

The sound was so painful that no one knew what the psyker had seen. As the alarm sounded, the electronic equipment in the bridge began to appear abnormal, and the lights in the hall began to change irregularly. Flashing, some strange sounds began to appear in the communicator used to communicate with the fleet.

The next second, the servitor who was originally responsible for recording the auspicious instrument suddenly fell into madness and launched an attack on the unprepared mortal officer on the side. Fortunately, an honorary guard of the Ultramarines drew his sword in time to stop the crazed servitor. Cut off and successfully prevented the accident from happening.

However, this crisis is obviously far from over. According to reports coming continuously from various decks of the battleship, a large number of servitors and some key electronic equipment inside the battleship fell into chaos almost at the same time. .

According to the technical priest on the ship, the machine soul in the battleship is becoming more and more violent for unknown reasons. According to the inspection results, these strange changes seem to come from a person with a special man-made sound. It is related to the frequency of tachyon signals, an unknown [ghost signal].

While everyone was still trying to figure out what was going on here, the next second the silent auspicious radar suddenly reacted. According to the content, there were suddenly more weapons around the imperial fleet. received dozens of unidentified ship signals.

The strange thing is that through the observation window of the battleship, the crew did not find any abnormalities in the surrounding space, but as time went by, the signal spots that appeared in the radar were still getting closer, as if they were caught by a weapon. As if surrounded by an invisible fleet, I have to say that this situation is too weird.

Amid the sirens that kept echoing in the bridge, Calgar, as the commander, tried to remain calm as much as possible.

"Quiet! Find out what happened here! In addition, inform the fleet to be prepared in case there is any abnormality."

However, before he could finish his words, an officer on the bridge suddenly raised his hand and pointed out the window with a look of horror.

"Sir! Look there!"

Looking in the direction pointed by the other party, I saw a translucent shadow appearing out of thin air in the originally empty space. From the appearance, it seemed to be a ship composed of a large number of shipwrecks and A space hulk made of planetary debris.

Like a huge floating fortress, that thing appeared without warning in front of the imperial fleet that was in interception formation, like a ghost walking in the void.

And with the appearance of that thing, more and more battleships with unique designs began to emerge from the void. In just less than a minute, one of them seemed to exist in two time and space at the same time, looking out of place. The ghost fleet suddenly appeared within the fire range of the imperial fleet.

Even Calgar had seen such a strange scene for the first time. Seeing those things approaching at high speed, he had no time to think about what those things were. Under the order of the chapter leader, hundreds of space torpedoes were carefully deployed in an instant. The calculated angle was launched.

Countless macro cannons and heavy laser beams launched a concentrated attack on the huge hulk, but the strange things were obviously far more than that.

Facing the attack of the imperial fleet, the strange ghost fleet did not take any action, but sailed straight into it, allowing countless cannonballs to pass through their constantly flashing amorphous hulls.

When the torpedo's warhead came into contact with it, the expected explosion did not occur. It seemed that these things did not have an exact entity at all, or it seemed that the hull was temporarily hidden elsewhere through some unknown technology.

Such a situation made the naval generals at the scene have to suspect that perhaps this was just a cover-up trick released by the Chaos side to interfere with the Empire's interception operations.

Since there was really no way to effectively intercept it, not long after that the ghost fleet successfully reached the center of the imperial front, and then something unexpected happened to everyone.

In Calgar's eyes full of disbelief, accompanied by a faint flash of light, it was as if the outer shield had faded away, and the space hulk that was still in a phantom state suddenly took on a physical form again. .

"What on earth are these?"

Without waiting for Calgar to react, nearly twenty small warships with a strong mechanical style following the space hulk immediately stopped submersing in the space mezzanine, and then used the ion cannons equipped on the ships to face the imperial warships. launched an attack.

The green plasma sprayed out like a violent storm, hitting the void shields of the surrounding imperial warships one after another. At the same time, a swarm of drones came from the [core] area of ​​the space hulk. Inner feelings emerged.

The sudden attack undoubtedly disrupted Calgar's deployment and tore apart this carefully prepared interception network. While the chapter leader was still busy readjusting his deployment and trying to prioritize the elimination of these special enemies in front of him, he was responsible for the control. But at this time, the auspicious observers brought even more desperate news.

"The Chaos fleet has completed its assembly, and they are currently heading towards us!"

"Currently, most of the sensor devices in the warships are out of control. We are currently unable to count the specific number of enemy ships, but it is roughly estimated that there are more than a thousand enemy ships that have completed the assembly."

"A thousand? How is this possible?"

Although the strengthening surgery of the Space Marines makes these demigods almost unable to have negative emotions such as fear, when he heard this number, Calgar still felt a trace of panic in his heart. A thousand battleships gathered together. He couldn't even imagine the concept of being together in one place.

During the siege of Terra, the traitor fleets had obviously suffered heavy losses, not to mention that even the Vengeful Spirit had sunk in the hands of the Alliance not long ago. How could it be possible now with the strength of the Chaos traitors alone? How to reassemble such a large fleet in such a short period of time?

Thinking of this, Calgar couldn't help but cast his eyes on the mechanical fleet that was fighting the imperial fleet.

Could it be said that just as the Empire received support from the Alliance, these traitors also received help from certain external forces?

But who will the other party be?

Watch the enemy ship signals in the ship's auspicious device that almost fills the entire screen, as well as the strange enemies that move quickly and have strange shapes.

Although he felt somewhat unwilling to do so, the situation in front of him was obviously beyond the control of the empire.

"We need support from the alliance."

After a moment of silence, Calga spoke solemnly to the female officer beside her.