Travel to Warhammer 40K with Gray Wind

Year 49 of the 40th millennium.

Russell led the Order of Truth to massacre the descendants of the warring Fang Bing in the miniature galaxy.

Robert Guilliman was busy pacifying the political situation on Terra and preparing for the Indomitable Crusade to regain the lost lands.

The remnants of the 1st Expeditionary Fleet and the 13th Expeditionary Fleet have followed the Primarch to Terra, and the Stargate is under construction. The 'Terra Expedition' launched by the prophetess has been successfully concluded, but other expedition fleets scattered across the galaxy do not currently know this news.

They are still trudging hard towards the Sun Star Territory.

Currently, the expedition fleet closest to the Sun Star Domain is the 5th Expedition Fleet.

The 5th Expeditionary Fleet is led by the Salamanders Chapter "Red Dragon", and its flagship is the Valkyrie-class battleship "The Widow".

This powerful expedition fleet once chose to forcibly cross the harsh environment of the Ghoul Nebula in order to save expedition time, but unexpectedly encountered an Eldar craft world on the way. The Eldar prophets on this Ark world claimed that they were conducting The expedition will lead to the rise of mankind, which will threaten the revival of the Eldar. In this name, the Eldar Ark launched an attack.

The Salamanders' sub-group made full use of the harsh environment in the Ghoul Nebula to deal with the Eldar attack. With their strong combat power and the maneuverability of the Valkyrie-class battleship 'The Widow', the 5th Expeditionary Fleet ultimately paid a heavy price. The craft world was successfully destroyed, but due to its heavy losses, the Red Dragon Chapter was unable to continue leading the 5th Expedition Fleet to Terra.

The 5th Expeditionary Fleet moved slowly from star system to star system for many years, struggling to recuperate while laying star gates everywhere in the Obscure Star Field.

And recently, they came to a planet called 'Medusa'.

Medusa is the home planet of the Primarch Ferrus Manus and the home planet of the 10th Legion Iron Hands.

This is a planet with a very harsh environment. The easily exploitable resources on it have long been exhausted. The unstable geological environment has caused the continents on the surface of this planet to float on the molten lava layer like rafts in the sea. Changing positions every moment, almost no humans can survive on this planet except for those powerful clans that provide soldiers for the Iron Hands.

To some extent, Medusa's environment is even worse than Salamander's home planet.

Therefore, the 5th Expeditionary Fleet did not expect to obtain any supplies from the home planet of the Iron Hands from the beginning, and they would not ask poor relatives for food. The Chapter Leader of the Red Dragon Chapter, 'Nabal', now just wants to get L as soon as possible. -Give the Stargate construction template to the Iron Hands, and then continue to Terra.

But as soon as the Widow approached Medusa, Captain Nabal noticed something was wrong.

As the home planet of the Iron Hands, Medusa was almost armed to the teeth. This geologically unstable and harsh planet was almost turned into a big iron ball by dense orbital defense facilities. After getting closer, Captain Nabar discovered , Medusa's orbital defense facilities showed serious signs of damage, the artillery arrays were in pieces, and the orbital starport showed signs of being shelled.

And most importantly, various defense systems in Medusa's orbit were largely dismantled.

Captain Nabal has rich experience in combating Chaos. When he saw this scene, he immediately realized that Medusa was attacked by Chaos on a large scale, and the defense facilities of the Iron Hands were corrupted by the subspace during the battle. , so it was largely demolished after the war.

"To be able to destroy the home planet of a founding battle group to such an extent, it seems that this is not an ordinary chaos attack..." Captain Nabar was awe-inspiring, and with an uneasy mood, he talked with those who were repairing the Medusa defense system. Iron Hands got in touch.

From the mouth of the current chapter leader of the Iron Hands, the 5th Expeditionary Fleet had a general understanding of what happened on Medusa:

After the death of Nurgle, the cults and Chaos warbands who believed in Nurgle were all scattered. Those Chaos Space Marines who were deeply influenced by their loving father and whose bodies had been corrupted by the warp died suddenly. The strength of Chaos was greatly affected. of damage.

However, some of the Nurgle warbands who were less affected by the warp survived. The death of their loving father caused their faith to collapse, and they became a group of stragglers without any purpose or pursuit. They have been guarded by the Eye of Terror such as the Iron Hand. The annihilation of the imperial military might.

But recently, for unknown reasons, the remnants of Nurgle's followers were united. They called themselves the 'Plague Apostles' and acted collectively, launching an almost crazy attack on the planet Medusa located near the Eye of Terror.

"At first, we thought that this group of Plague Apostles was just a ragtag group of people driven by extreme ideas, but we soon realized during the actual battle that this was not the case." Iron Hands Chapter Leader Dorkas said in the communication array : "Their actions were unified and planned, with clear combat objectives and tactical division of labor. In the early stages of the war, we suffered considerable losses because we underestimated the enemy."

Nabal was a little confused. Medusa was not a good place with rich resources, but it was also garrisoned by the founding war group the Iron Hands. They were armed to the teeth. To attack Medusa, you would have to face the strong defense line of the Iron Hands. Even if it succeeds, it will only get a barren planet with a harsh environment.

In short, attacking Medusa is a foolish act that achieves half the result with twice the result. The rewards obtained after paying a huge price to attack are completely disproportionate.

"Why did the Plague Apostles, the remnants of Nurgle's followers, invade Medusa?" Nabal was puzzled.

"I don't know." Iron Hands Chapter Leader Dorkas said: "But during the war against the Plague Apostles, our soldiers captured some figures suspected of being Tzeentch believers. We suspect that they are the Lord of Changes. The lackeys incited Nurgle's remnants to plot an invasion of Medusa."

After hearing this, Nabal basically gave up the idea of ​​finding the motive for the Plague Apostles' invasion of Medusa. If this was really planned by the Lord of Changes, it meant that there was probably no motive.

Followers of Tzeentch have very strong attributes of fun people, which ordinary people cannot understand.

"The motivations of the followers of the Lord of Change are indeed difficult to understand." Captain Dorkas expressed his understanding of Nabal's reaction.

Just when Nabal was about to change the subject and talk to the Iron Hands Chapter Leader about the L-Star Gate, suddenly Dorkas seemed to suddenly remember something and said: "Although the motives of the Tzeentch followers are difficult to understand, I understand, but if you want to find a motive for the actions of the Plague Apostles... it seems that you can find it."

"How do you say this?" Nabal asked quickly.

Dorkas then continued: "About half a century ago, the Iron Hands hunted a strange creature in the star field near the Eye of Terror. It was an indescribable creature... That creature The corpse is now sealed in the secret vault on Medusa. Our battle group’s think tank believes that the Plague Apostles’ invasion of Medusa was probably to snatch the creature’s corpse.”

Of course, this is only a possibility and cannot be completely confirmed.

"What's the name of that creature?" Nabal asked curiously.

"It seems to be called - Poison Saint."