Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

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The Stone Fortress.

Now the Imperial Warmaster Headquarters.

The most magnificent hall in the Stone Fortress was originally used by the Dark Angels for daily rituals and worship of the Gene Father, but now this hall has been transformed into a place that can accommodate a large number of people for meetings.

The huge Lion statue that once stood in the hall was ordered to be dismantled by Lion himself, and he ordered the statue to be melted into a small armor plate and affixed to a weak part of the Stone Fortress.

The hall, which was then converted into a meeting hall, was crowded with people from all over the Empire every day. Guilliman and Lion, the two Primarchs, stayed in the hall without sleep to deal with matters concerning the greatest threat to the Empire.

"According to the intelligence coordination contract." Calgar quickly walked into the hall, came to Guilliman, the Gene Father, and presented a document to him, "The intelligence department of the Talon sector shared with us the information they obtained about the undead machines."

Countless documents were passed in and out every day.

But the document presented by Calgar immediately made Guilliman and Lion put down everything on hand and stand side by side to watch the document presented by Calgar.

The speed at which the two Primarchs browsed the file was like flipping through a book casually, and they wrote down all the contents in the file in a very short time.

"As we expected." Guilliman handed the file to the attendant beside him and signaled him to file it. "Our enemy is very powerful."

Even the Lion, who was extremely confident in his military power, remained silent at this time, and agreed with Guilliman's opinion with silence.

The content of the file was a record of the battle between the Tyrone Navy and the Menak Dynasty Fleet. It not only described in detail the entire process of the void war, but also had a detailed description of the weapons and equipment used by the Necrons and warships.

The Imperial Navy had also fought against the Necrons fleet before. Guilliman and Lion had long known how strong the Necrons' ships were.

What really worried the two Primarchs was the part about information warfare.

The Necrons invaded the information system of the Tyrone Navy, and within one second all ships, whether AI or anything else, were invaded at the same time.

The main control intelligence that specifically manages the firewall and the Necrons' invasion program can iterate and evolve tens of thousands of times in less than a second.

Things like the Thinker Array used by the Imperial Navy are obviously not able to withstand this level of invasion.

"We are not without advantages." Lion said after thinking, "The Imperial Navy's ships are not highly automated, and they do not use abhorrent intelligence on a large scale like the Tyrone Navy. Even if we fail to resist the information invasion stage, they cannot control much."

"Indeed." Guilliman nodded in approval.

The Tyrone Navy's ships are highly automated and heavily dependent on AI. Once they fail in the defense of information invasion, the entire fleet will be destroyed.

The Imperial Navy is different.

No matter how powerful the Necrons' invasion program is, it cannot invade the sailors who carry and load ammunition in the ship through the air, nor can it invade the gunners who manually operate macro cannons and light spears on the gun deck.

Thinking of this, Guilliman suddenly laughed out loud, and then felt infinite melancholy.

The Imperial Navy's hateful weakness, that is, the behavior of using manpower to handle most of the ship's affairs, has now become an advantage when facing the Necrons, which is really ridiculous.

But this advantage is not great, and can even be said to be extremely weak.

The documents provided by the intelligence department of the Talon Sector also wrote that the Necrons have things like the Heartlock Beetle that can directly control humans.

"Now that I think about it." Lion pointed to the documents being filed by the attendants, "Even in the heyday of mankind, the chances of winning against this undead mechanical race would not be very high."

"Of course." Guilliman was not surprised.

The Necrons are one of the oldest and most powerful species in the galaxy. Although they are not as strong as before after falling asleep and waking up, compared to humans, they can be regarded as "old masters".

The two Primarchs talked about the threat of the Necrons, and then Guilliman asked Lion a difficult question: "Based on what we know now, what do you think is our chance of winning if a full-scale war begins?"

Hearing this, Lion sighed and sat on the ground, stroking his gray beard and thinking.

Guilliman added: "Counting Sanguinius, Jaghatai, and all other Astra Militarum and Imperial Navy forces that can be mobilized, without considering assembly time and material supplies, and assuming that our Empire is united and fights side by side with the Talon Sector as in the Golden Crusade..." Guilliman mentioned several extremely favorable preconditions for the Empire. He was not blindly optimistic, but hoped to make Lion feel that there was still hope. It would definitely be bad if the Warmaster fell into pessimism before the war began. "The Empire's... no, the Human's winning rate." After thinking about the result, Lion looked up at Guilliman, "One in ten or two in ten." "One or two percent winning rate." Guilliman said, "Does this result include the most pessimistic and optimistic scenarios?" "No, it's not the worst, there's a 10% winning rate, and the best is 20%." Lion shook his head slowly, "To be honest, I think it's only a 10% winning rate. The reason why I said one in ten or two is just because I don't want you to be too pessimistic. The 20% winning rate is actually a consolation." Guilliman was silent.

He was not shocked by the results Ryan said, but his and Ryan's judgments on the winning rate were almost the same, maybe even more pessimistic.

"An enemy can catalyze a star into a supernova and destroy an entire galaxy."

"The enemy's snipers can escape into another dimension and then come out to carry out undetectable assassinations. The bad guy named Kor Phaeron of the Word Bearers was shot dead by the undead snipers."

"The enemy has a giant void war machine the size of an entire world, similar to the Tyronian celestial engine."

Lion counted on his fingers the truly horrific things he knew the Necron had done.

"The Astral Knights once destroyed a world engine at a cost that was close to destruction, but from a rational perspective, their sacrifice was not particularly useful. In the end, it was the fragment of the Star God that helped them destroy the world engine."

"The Kriegs once killed an obelisk with their constant death-filling lines. If what they encountered was a world engine, do you think the Kriegs could fill a world engine to death with all their flesh, blood and life? ?”

After saying this, Lion looked at Guilliman, waiting for the latter's reaction.

Guilliman was silent for a moment and then said: "We are not bound to start a full-scale war."

Ryan nodded: "Perhaps the situation is more optimistic than we imagined, but there is still a possibility of war. We will make huge sacrifices, but we cannot surrender anyway."

While the two primarchs were talking, Felix, one of the Four Heroes of the Ultramarines, suddenly came to Guilliman and reported: "The holographic communication from Talon is a private line."

After hearing Felix's report, Guilliman looked at Lion.

The latter nodded.

Guilliman turned and left.