Warhammer 40,000: Mortal Gods

"Report."

"The Commander-in-Chief of the 21st Cruiser Group of the Imperial Navy's Solar System Fleet is requesting communication."

When there was silence in the bridge, and everyone was staring at the strategic star map waiting for the undead to react, a crew member reported loudly to everyone.

The Solar System Fleet will join the Armada, the absolute main force of the Tyron Navy, one day later and rush to the frontline theater.

So Adam nodded without hesitation: "Connected."

The commander of the 21st Cruiser Formation of the Imperial Navy's Solar System Fleet appeared on the bridge in the form of a projection.

But two seconds after the image of this old man covered with medals and wearing gorgeous clothes appeared, the projection suddenly flickered a few times, and the commander turned into a tall living metal skeleton.

"They invaded the communication equipment of the Solar System Fleet from hundreds of light years away!"

"Use the Solar System Fleet as a transit point to avoid being filtered by the firewall!"

The crew member responsible for overseeing the communications system spoke urgently to Adam.

The Necrons did not choose to invade the communication system directly, but instead chose to invade the communication system of the Solar System Fleet to send out communications. This was equivalent to directly stealing an ally's number and entering the camp's communication channel. No malicious programs were implanted without triggering interception.

When the crew was about to cut off communications from the Solar System Fleet, Adam raised his hand to interrupt the crew's actions.

Everyone in the bridge looked at the projection of the undead.

Ryan was surprised to find that the other party turned out to be the Sotec dynasty king in the information provided by the Tyrone people, that is, Imotek himself.

"Thank you for being willing to listen to me." Imotek glanced at everyone on the bridge. "According to the war etiquette of the Necrontyr, you are the weaker party, so I will provide you with an advantage before the battle."

"What advantage?" Ryan asked.

"Information advantage." Imotek replied, "I will passively defend when you take the initiative to attack, and let you discover a problem in your army. This behavior is a war etiquette and a gift in itself. "As for what the problem is, it depends on whether you are smart enough."

After saying this, Imotek knocked on his metal skull and took the initiative to cut off the communication.

The communication on the Solar System Fleet returned to normal, and the projection of the old man who was the commander of the cruiser formation appeared in everyone's sight.

"I mentioned before that I would completely take over your communication system." Veins popped up on Adam's forehead and his voice was cold. "Give me your answer now, otherwise I will completely block any communication requests from your Imperial Navy in one minute. ”

The old man turned around, as if listening to the adjutant's report, then turned to look at Adam: "Admiral Quallen said it's okay."

Communications were cut off.

Gray looked at Ryan, asking the original body what he thought of Imotek's "kind reminder" with his eyes.

"It's nonsense." Ryan said without hesitation, but out of caution, he lowered his head and carefully observed the strategic star map on the tactical table.

He stretched out his hand and flexibly controlled every part of the strategic star map, sometimes zooming into the macro, sometimes zooming out to the micro. Every piece of information about the Astra Militarum was observed by his eyes.

It was like a person was carefully inspecting his masterpiece, and then Ryan raised his head and looked at the others: "There will be no problems with my strategic deployment, and there will be no problems with the soldiers on the front line. There is no crisis now." , and there is nothing unusual, I don’t think there is anything wrong with the army.”

Everyone else present nodded.

But after thinking for a while, Gray asked: "Is it possible that the problem is not in your area of ​​responsibility?"

"I am in charge of the war, and Guilliman will handle other matters, so I have nothing to worry about." Ryan said with a relaxed look.

The others thought about it and felt relieved.

…

Time passes day by day.

In the lounge prepared for Ryan on the Glory Humanity, Ryan had just completed his daily strategic inspection.

The original body's big hand tightly grasped the data pad in his hand, and his eyes that had not been closed for two consecutive months were staring at all the military affairs displayed on the data pad.

"It can't possibly go wrong."

Ryan said to himself.

The two elite naval forces of the Tyrone Naval Armada and the Solar System Fleet converged and then headed to the frontline theater together.

Before the rendezvous, the Tyrone Navy spent some time waiting for the Solar System Fleet, but fortunately Quarren was not a person who waited for nothing, and did not let the Tyrone Navy wait too long.

After the two fleets merged, they immediately headed to the frontline battlefield. The end of the journey was New Orps, a sector that had been recovered and now became the core of the war against the undead.

The allied navy, composed of the Armada and the Solar System Fleet, will be in the New Orps sector, ready for a decisive battle with the undead in pursuit of the void.

In the past two months, Ryan repeatedly inspected military affairs, from strategic deployment and tactics, to background investigations and arrangements for generals participating in the war, to everything else related. Every inspection did not find anything that might go wrong. place.

After Imotek's communication ended two months ago, Ryan acted indifferently, but he actually cared very much about what Imotek said.

On the way to the Tyrone Navy Armada, Ryan had already understood that he was going to deal with Imotek. A simple understanding. He just knew that Imotek was a master strategist and legendary commander. In the Battle of Heaven and Against the Stars, He played the most important role in God's revenge war.

As the same military commander, it is impossible for Ryan to not care about Imotek's words, because it involves a confrontation between the two.

However, he had not found any problems after repeated inspections, which made him suspect that Imotek deliberately wasted an opportunity to use the Solar System Navy as a communication relay just to waste the energy of himself as an imperial war commander.

But Ryan soon felt it was impossible. Because for the original body, energy is the cheapest thing.

After thinking for a while, Ryan placed the data pad on the table and dealt with other things.

At this time, the projection equipment in the room flickered a few times. The extremely long-distance super-light communication signal was transferred to Ryan by the Tyron communication station, and Guilliman's projection suddenly appeared.

"Sorry, brother." Guilliman's first words were an apology.

Lion, who was about to tell Guilliman about Imotek, swallowed his words and listened seriously.

"There are some problems with war logistics." Guilliman told Ryan equally seriously, "I mobilized the Ultramarines in Ultramar before, so I just found out about it."

"What's the problem?" Ryan was extremely puzzled. He had already checked the logistics of all the garrison in the frontline theater. Everything was normal in the frontline worlds used to store war supplies.

"Most of the material transport fleets have changed their original routes. These transport fleets have begun sailing towards the Orpheus sector and are almost there." Guilliman replied in a deep voice, "After I heard the news in Macragge Rush to Terra immediately and I will solve this problem."

Ryan thought for half a second.

Most of the transport fleets converge on the Orps sector. This is a normal behavior, because the imperial department responsible for the transport link in logistics affairs will distribute the materials obtained from the Logistics Office to the most suitable place on the front line. Wherever there is War will naturally go wherever it leads.

But Ryan's first reaction after hearing this was anger.