Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

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Stone Fortress.

Now the Imperial Warmaster's headquarters.

The grandest hall in the Stone Fortress was originally used by the Dark Angels Chapter 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 Ryan statue that once stood in the hall was demolished under Ryan's own order. He also ordered the statue to be melted and made into a small armor plate, which was attached to a weak part of the giant stone fortress.

The hall that was later converted into a meeting hall was crowded with people from all over the Empire every day. The two Primarchs Guilliman and Lion stayed in the hall sleeplessly dealing with matters concerning the greatest threat to the Empire.

"According to the intelligence cooperation contract." Calgar quickly walked into the hall, came to the father of genes, Guilliman, and presented a document. "The intelligence department of the Tyrone sector shared with us the information they obtained about the undead machines. information."

Countless files are transferred in and out every day.

But the document presented by Calgar immediately caused Guilliman and Lion to put down everything they were doing and stand side by side watching the document presented by Calgar.

The two primarchs browsed the file as fast as they casually flipped through a book, writing down all the contents in the file in a very short time.

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

Even Lion, who was extremely confident in force, remained silent at this time, agreeing with Guilliman's views with silence.

The content in the file is the record of the Tyron Navy's battle against the Menak Dynasty fleet. It not only describes the entire void battle process in detail, but also describes in detail the weapons and equipment used by the Necrons, as well as battleships and other information.

It's not like the Imperial Navy has never fought against the Necron fleet. Guilliman and Lion already knew how powerful the Necron ships were.

What really worries the two primarchs is the part about information operations.

The Necrons invaded the information system of the Tyron Navy, and within a second all ships, whether AI or otherwise, were invaded simultaneously.

The main control intelligence that specializes in managing firewalls and the Necron intrusion program can iteratively evolve tens of thousands of times in less than a second.

Things like the Thinker Array used by the Imperial Navy are obviously unable to withstand this level of invasion.

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

"Indeed." Guilliman nodded in approval.

The ships of the Tyrone Navy are highly automated and rely heavily on AI. Once they fail to defend against information intrusion, the entire fleet will be destroyed.

The Imperial Navy is different.

No matter how powerful the Necron's invasion program is, it cannot invade the sailors on the ship who manually transport and load bombs, nor can it invade the gunners on the gun deck who manually control weapons such as macro cannons and light spears.

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

The hated weakness of the Imperial Navy, that is, the use of manpower to handle most shipping operations, has now become an advantage in the face of the Necron. It is really ridiculous.

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

The documents provided by the Tyrone Sector Intelligence Department also stated that the Necrons have something like the Heart-locking Beetle that can directly control humans.

"Now that I think about it." Ryan pointed to the document being filed by the attendant, "Even in the heyday of mankind, the chance of winning against this undead mechanical race would not be very high."

"Of course." Guilliman was not surprised.

The Necrons are also one of the oldest and most powerful species in the galaxy. Although their strength is different after they fall into sleep and wake up, compared to humans, they can be regarded as "old masters".

The two Primarchs talked about the threat of the Necron race, and then Guilliman asked Lion an unanswerable question: "Based on what we know now, what do you think our chances of winning are if all-out war begins? "

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

Guilliman added: "Including Sanguinius, Jaghatai. And all other Astra Militarum and Imperial Navy that can be mobilized, regardless of the assembly time, regardless of material supplies, and assuming that our empire We are united as one, and fight side by side with the Tyrone Sector just like we did in the Golden Crusade..."

Guilliman mentioned several preset conditions that were extremely beneficial to the Empire. He was not blindly optimistic, but hoped to make Ryan feel that there was still hope.

It would definitely be bad if the war commander fell into pessimism before the war started.

"The empire's... no, humanity's winning rate." After Ryan thought about the result, he raised his head and looked at Guilliman, "Two out of ten."

"A 10% winning rate or a 20% winning rate," Guilliman said. "Does this result include the most pessimistic and the most optimistic scenarios?"

"No, it's not the worst, the winning rate is 10%, and the best is 20%." Ryan slowly shook his head, "Honestly, I think the winning rate is only 10%. The reason why I said 10 to 20 is just because I don't want you to be too It’s just 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 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 by filling the line with death. 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.