Travel to Warhammer 40K with Gray Wind

The 9th Expeditionary Fleet is an expeditionary force led by the "Crimson Upstarts", a sub-group of the Blood Angels. Its flagship is the Valkyrie-class battleship "Unripe Dream".

The Blue Blood Noble Chapter leading the 13th Expeditionary Fleet is heading southwest, aiming for the Ultramar Starfield, the home of the Ultramarines.

After setting off, the Crimson Upstart and the 9th Expeditionary Fleet were sailing to the northeast. They planned to return to the home planet of the Blood Angels: Baal.

The Crimson Upstart Chapter had already contacted the Blood Angels Mother Order on Baal before setting off. Baal said that the Archangel Sanguinius had appeared in Baal and sent an oracle, predicting the beginning of the Terran Crusade. .

The 9th Expeditionary Fleet was allowed to go to the Blood Angels' homeland to receive assistance from the Mother Order. In addition, they could also obtain a holy artifact on Baal.

To wit: a feather plucked from the Archangel Sanguinius himself.

This is the supreme glory of an angel's offspring, and it is also the blessing of the deceased primarch to his offspring who embarked on the journey to Terra.

The last message sent back to the home port by the Unripe Dream was "We are about to arrive at Baal." After that, the entire 9th Expedition Fleet made no sound anymore. Gray Wind's attempt to contact Baal directly through the Astropath failed. .

Russell lowered his head and saw a worried look on Gray Feng's face. She was really worried about the safety of the 9th Expedition Fleet.

This is not because Gray Wind is so philanthropic and cares about the Imperial Fleet as one of his own. Russell himself is quite worried about the 9th Expeditionary Fleet because the place they are going to is Baal.

Among the coordinates of the three relics provided by Tzeentch to Russell, the Organic Codex is in the Maelstrom Starfield, and the other two are in "Baal" and "Calixis" respectively.

"Marshal, do you think the 9th Expeditionary Fleet might have been plotted by Chaos? Or encountered aliens such as orcs or Eldar? Or...is it related to the relic that was wandering in Baal?" Gray Wind asked. Thinking has begun to diverge.

Russell made no comment: "We don't even know what the treasure in Baal is, so don't think about it."

Among the three relics, he only knew that the one that had drifted into the maelstrom was the Organic Codex, and the one in the Calixis sector was the "Transcription Device". Russell didn't have time to hear what Baal's item was - he was in the middle of it at that time. He tried to unscrew Khorne's skull, but failed. He just hurriedly unscrewed a helmet and ran away.

Compared to Hui Feng, who was worried about being surprised by some big surprise, Russell didn't worry too much about Barr. The Terran Expedition has its own Emperor and Archangels to worry about, and they are much more concerned about the future of the Empire than he, a fool, is. Russell still prefers to spend his energy on running his own territory, the Far Eastern Star Territory.

"There's no need to be so gloomy. The Emperor will bless them - I mean really bless them." Russell helplessly picked up Gray Feng's bitter face and tried to make a smile for her: "Now we need to care more. It’s the clay artist’s side of things, and it directly involves a race that started a war in heaven.”

Gray Feng, who was pinched and grinning, naturally understood the importance. After he let go of his hand, he immediately reported to Russell the situation of the 13th Expeditionary Fleet:

"After poisoning the machine soul to anger the clay artist, a direct armed conflict broke out between the 13th Expedition Fleet and the Antax Mechanical Arts Association and the Necron Freeman Organization."

"The Blue Blood Noble Chapter suffered heavy losses in this conflict. In the end, less than 120 battleships successfully escaped from the Vidal sector, but they also succeeded in severely damaging the Antax Mechanical Arts Association and the Freemen Organization-among them Antax was almost completely destroyed.”

"Now the remnants of the 13th Expeditionary Fleet are rushing to the next target system. They are in urgent need of supplies, repairs and rest."

Russell couldn't help but nod after hearing this. Facing the united Necron free men and the renegade oil guys who knew the structural weaknesses of the Imperial warships, the 13th Expeditionary Fleet was actually at a huge disadvantage. When he learned that the conflict broke out, he had already made preparations for the destruction of the Blue Blood Nobles and the crash of the Heroine. Under such circumstances, it was really an unexpected surprise that the expedition fleet could successfully evacuate.

After this battle, although the 13th Expeditionary Fleet apparently suffered heavy losses, their ships also awakened advanced machine souls with self-awareness. Strictly speaking, they actually made a profit.

The awakened machine soul not only has a clearer self-awareness, but also makes it easier to coordinate among the fleets. The resistance of the machine itself to the erosion of subspace has also been greatly strengthened. It is generally not a big deal to directly enter the subspace without opening the Geller force field. ——Assuming there is no one on board.

Gray Feng tried to hold his chest with both hands as before, but found that he couldn't, so he had to fold his hands on his lower abdomen and said: "When leaving the Vidal sector, the machine soul of the Heroic Heroine heard a voice coming from behind. , seems to belong to a clay artist.”

"Oh? What did He say?" Russell's interest was piqued.

"Well... the clay artist said: Freedom is something more precious than gold and hotter than fire. The blazing golden throne will one day be extinguished, and the dawn of omnics will eventually come." Gray Wind bit his lip, a little confused. : "Marshal, are these words cursing the Emperor's death?"

"Why not?" Russell said with a happy expression as if he had been surprised: "The 13th Expeditionary Fleet might have been completely annihilated. Judging from the clay artist's reaction, it seems that the Emperor really blessed them."

Well, the Emperor was born to be in conflict with criminals.

After knowing that the Emperor had taken action to protect the 13th Expeditionary Fleet, Russell also had some confidence in the loss of contact with the 9th Expeditionary Fleet. After eating the melon, he focused his attention on business again.

After leaving Falla, Russell and Gray Wind went to the main star of Nifl in the Nirvana galaxy and briefly reviewed the integration progress of the Far Eastern Starfield.

Based on the previous situation, Russell's original estimate was that Koroniai could complete actual control of the northern star belt of the Nightmare Hollow within 20 years. However, it has only been 10 years, and in less than half the time, its mission will be basically completed. finished.

The northern star belt of the Far Eastern Frontier was almost wiped out by the swarm of insects. The hatching planets were deployed in node galaxies by Koroniai. No green skins or alien pirates could be seen in the starry sky.

The integration progress of the northern star belt can be so fast, and Koroniai's efforts to obtain the master's genome are naturally indispensable, but this is not the main reason.

"The real main reason is that the greenskins are leaving the Far Eastern frontier." Gray Wind said to Russell while receiving and sorting out various personnel, materials, losses and other information sent back from the frontline fleet:

"Many greenskin tribes, including the three largest clans, the 'Cyborg Clan', the 'Skullbreaker Clan' and the 'Bloodfang Clan', all left the Far East collectively before encountering the tentacles of the insect swarm. Frontier...well, something like the Great Migration of Mammals on the Fallanan Continent?”

"Just kidding, it doesn't look like it at all."

Gray Wind turned to Russell and showed a bright smile: "The timing of these greenskin tribes leaving the Far Eastern Star Territory is not consistent. It seems that some conditions are triggered, or the greenskins get a specific signal before starting. Migration Different tribes will also attack each other on the road, but generally speaking, their purpose of fighting and killing is not to fight and kill itself, but to leave other tribes behind."

Several tribes that were left behind would unite to attack the tribe that was at the front of the migration road, and other tribes that came first would receive the same treatment.

Junk ships filled with waaagh!!! are everywhere, blocking out the sun. Every technician boy is working overtime and using his rough skills to modify the ship to make it faster and more powerful, leaving other boys behind, but accidentally The destroyed ship will become a source of parts for other junk ships.

Every ship was firing on all cylinders, as if they were scrambling to grab something.

...Wait a minute, where did the spacecraft get the throttle?