Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

"How long will it take?" Tabers once again asked the servo deck responsible for large-scale data calculations. This was the third time in two hours that he took the initiative to ask about this matter. (Navigators are usually responsible for long-distance navigation during subspace navigation, while medium- and short-range subspace jumps are completed by warships after calculation.)

He was aware of the pressure the original body was facing, and he also knew that the situation ahead was out of control. The two precious imperial armed forces were engaged in internal fighting, but they were at an insurmountable distance from there.

"No wait!" Tabers thumped the handrail in front of him hard, and the same words from Calvin made him look up suddenly.

The Primarch returned to the bridge at some unknown time, and the opinions he brought coincided with Tabos's.

"Bishop Klein." Calvin looked at the mechanical priest in front of the console, who showed him the parameters of the battleship that had been prepared:

"The Retribution-class battleship has an energy supply that far exceeds that of battleships of the same class due to its configuration of energy weapons throughout the ship. The same is true for the subspace engine. So if we are willing, then it is estimated that according to real-world time, it will take up to 12 hours. We can see the brilliance of the star Barlog."

"Real time?" Calvin keenly grasped the message left by Bishop Klein.

"What about time in the Warp?"

"One hour, the error is within plus or minus one hour." Bishop Klein replied.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's do it!" Calvin met Tabos' eyes and then gave an order to Bishop Klein.

The chief engineer was obviously well prepared, and took out two data keys from his waist under the gaze of the two men. She used the robotic arm on her back to complete the wake-up procedure for the two keys, and then inserted them next to the six keys on the engine management platform.

"General order, special matter 009, handle with the highest priority." She gave the order in the direction of the engine room, then got up and walked towards the engine room.

Such a violent driving method will inevitably cause protests from the battleship's machine soul. She needs to go to the engine room in person to preside over the machine soul's comfort and guidance procedures.

The Gray Knight fleet was sailing in the deep and strange subspace. Among the fusiform space bubbles of different sizes, the one belonging to the Relentless Jihad suddenly accelerated and began to separate from its comrades behind it.

But this is still not enough, because if Calvin guessed correctly, the war between the Inquisition and Fenris has already begun.

He stared closely at the auspicious omen on the battleship, and fell into focused thinking with Tabos beside him.

"Initiate contact with Lisetta." The quiet air was broken again by Calvin, but the order he gave made everyone confused.

The inquisitor's resistance to the Gray Knights was obvious enough, and since the previous orders had been prevaricated by the other party in the name of "internal regulations," what was the significance of this contact?

It still makes sense, such as the Gray Knight Arbiter named Alvin. It can be used as a transmission beacon that actively and continuously sends signals to allow the Relentless Jihad to obtain a more accurate position during mid- and short-range subspace jumps.

Tabos obviously thought of this, but it still didn't solve the problem.

The function of this beacon will certainly speed up their speed again, but compared to the distance of more than 200 light years they have to cover, this speed increase is still a drop in the bucket.

Unless...unless the Primarch wants to act alone!

The Emperor is above! What a dangerous behavior!

Is he crazy? You actually want to do something by yourself that the entire battleship can't do?

What if there was a warp trek? What if this is an enemy conspiracy?

Compared with the value of the original body, the entire Gian Moro is not worth mentioning in the eyes of the Gray Knight. He must stop the original body's ideas, and he must clarify his responsibilities to the original body!

Tybus almost spoke out to stop the original body the moment he thought of this idea, but as soon as his raised eyes touched Calvin, he swallowed his words again.

That was not a look seeking advice, it was a declaration of determination.

Yes, this is not a multiple-choice question, at least in the eyes of an Emperor's Son, this should not be a multiple-choice question.

"Yes! I'll contact him right away!" Tabos thumped his chest heavily with his hand armor, then turned and walked towards the Astropath deck.

Calvin, who was still on the command deck, continued to look at the holographic projection. As the distance between the Relentless Jihad and the target shortened, the last question also emerged in his mind:

Will Alvin, a comrade who has not returned to Titan for a whole century and has never met him, answer his call? ——

The war in Ballog is still going on, and at this time the Inquisition has taken full initiative on the battlefield.

The Astartes mixed fleet headed by Savillian has completed its deployment in the galaxy. Under the absolute suppression of the Grand Fleet's firepower, the Space Wolves' strike cruisers and attached assault fleets can only fight and retreat. , and was finally besieged near Ballog's capital planet.

The war has progressed to this point, and the damage that has occurred is no longer limited to the Space Wolves. Although Ballog's planetary defense system is not as strong as that of Fortress World, the local defense has still accumulated some accumulation after decades of operation.

Two abandoned ruins from the early empire were found by these Space Wolves, and the pedestal weapons left in these ruins gave them a fierce attack on the flanks of the Grand Fleet when it focused its main efforts on the capital of Barlog. one strike.

These two anti-ship base weapons placed on the third and fifth planets of Ballog have obvious backgrounds of alien civilization technology.

Unlike the hill-sized volume of the Imperial anti-ship technology, their power systems are deeply rooted in the ground like tree roots, leaving only narrow and sharp pipes on the ground.

Because of this, the Grand Fleet ignored the threat. After the Grand Fleet cleared the weapon platforms in its orbit, the battle barges of the Emperor's Spear and the Dark Hunter that passed by nearby were locked by this weapon without any defense, and then instantly penetrated.

The hundreds of meters long bone-white projectile flew into the sky under the energy supply from the underground. The atmosphere along the way was constrained by the magnetic field array hidden on the surface, becoming the barrel for the projectile to continue to accelerate.

The sharp warning instantly resounded on the battle barges of the two Astartes regiments. However, before their auspexes could react, the armor-piercing steel needle that had reached Mach 15 after accelerating through the barrel of dozens of kilometers had penetrated the energy shield and directly penetrated their warships.

Mach 15, this is exactly the lower limit of the data that the battleship void shield can sense and effectively defend. It is also this speed that makes the void shield identify it as a slow and non-significant threat, and it does not play its due role.

Under this vicious attack that is obviously aimed at human defense technology, the armor of the two battle barges was instantly penetrated from the abdomen, and the huge shock wave and the projectiles that spontaneously started a secondary explosion after entering the battleship completed the lateral killing with dense metal jets, instantly extincting all life within one kilometer along the way.

Hundreds of Astartes warriors died in the first wave of fragments and thermal kinetic killing effects of this attack without time to react. The life signals of tens of thousands of mortal crew members disappeared, and they died in the kinetic killing after the explosion and the subsequent failure of the battleship's vacuum stand.

The entire battlefield of Ballog paused because of the heavy damage to the two battleships. In the empty galaxy space, everyone was watching the two battleships explode, and countless tiny figures that were instantly frozen in space after being thrown out.

And that's not all, because the one belonging to the Emperor's Spear of the two battle barges was attacked right at the plasma engine.

After tearing the bottom deck of the battleship, the sharp armor-piercing shell moved all the way up, and after instantly piercing the plasma engine, the remaining kinetic energy pushed the self-sharpening warhead all the way, and after penetrating layers of armor barriers, it overturned the battleship's bridge.

The captain of the Emperor's Spear, Graham, and his entire battleship command team were killed in this attack. The subsequent explosion that spread from the plasma engine to the entire battleship made the descendants of Guilliman, who originated from the Second Founding of the Army, stay forever in the starry sky of Balelog.

Grand Inquisitor Lisetta and front-line commander Savillian were silent, and the intervention operation that seemed to be smooth in their plan was also cast an ominous shadow from then on.

The Grand Fleet of the Inquisition then launched a saturation bombardment on the two planets, but this retaliatory killing seemed quite powerless in the context of one Astartes company suffering heavy damage and the other being completely sacrificed.

So more fierce artillery fire began to be released from the direction of the Grand Fleet. Stimulated by the sacrifice of friendly forces, the Grand Fleet had no scruples and began to truly regard the Space Wolves on Balelog as enemies.

They began to form the main force of the fleet into a horizontal array, pouring artillery fire on Balelog with macro cannons fired at full power.

And the Imperial Navy, under the protection of many large warships, also began to open the belly deck of the Grand Cruiser and release groups of space fighters carrying bombs with various destructive effects into the orbit of Balelog's capital.

At this point, the war was no longer a civilized "knight duel". When the Space Wolves extended their claws to their compatriots, they were already regarded as mortal enemies by the three war groups in space.

The physical damage of the macro cannon and the kinetic energy of the light spears were no longer enough to express their anger. The weapons of extinction unique to the Inquisition, which were carried on the Imperial Navy fleet, were the hideous faces after they tore off their last dignity and tenderness.

Seeing the dense mushroom cloud rising on the ground, the Space Wolves' assault ships were forced to rush out of the planet's defense system to seek blocking.

However, Savillian's large fleet was waiting for this moment. Under the intensive attack of the light spears of five cruisers, these small warships with only the most basic void shields could neither evade nor resist.

They were like blood-red fireworks blooming in the starry sky of Balelog. In the deep hatred after both sides stopped holding back, they gradually turned from hot melting into cold wreckage...

However, the counterattack of the Space Wolves still could not change the gap in the military power between the two sides. Whether it was the blocking of the assault fleet or the two destroyed anti-ship weapons, they were just twists and turns in the process of victory in the war turning to the Inquisition.

They could not stop the advance of the Inquisition fleet, just as they could not stop the entire orbital defense of Baelog, which was being cleared point by point.

The black ship where Lisetta was quietly suspended at the back of the battlefield. Her figure sitting high on the throne was so indifferent that even the fall of the Emperor's Spear did not move her.

The Black Templar battleships also came here, and Marshal Fidel (Company Commander, Marshal is a unique military rank of the Black Templar) of this company had a heavy look on his face, obviously feeling extremely deeply that these compatriots died in such a dishonorable war. regret.

"Judge, your intention has been achieved. So what will you do with these descendants of Russ next?"

He looked at the woman sitting under the emblem of the Inquisition and said, but Grand Inquisitor Lisetta did not respond.

This was undoubtedly an obvious offense and disrespect, and Field had no intention of being tolerant and directly raised his voice to question the owner of the black ship.

"Representative of the Tribunal, you..."

Just as he was about to speak out his accusation, a sharp warning came from the scanning array on the battleship, forcing him to stop.

And he didn't need to find the source of this threat. In fact, the cruiser covered with Fenris' unique bronze decorations had already used its huge body to rush out of the asteroid group, allowing Field to see it with the naked eye. its existence.

The huge battleship has occupied the entire view of the porthole in front of Field, and at such a close distance, he can already see the jumping torpedoes that appear at the flight deck hatch.

"Alert! The rebound gang is ready for battle!" Field reacted almost instinctively, having already guessed and responded to the Space Wolves' tactics.

A cruiser, two frigates, including his flagship, as well as the Black Templars he sent to the black ship where the Inquisitor was located, also occupied favorable positions on their respective battleships and began to respond to the coming counterattack. Get ready for gang-hopping battles.

wrong!

Field suddenly seemed to remember something. He suddenly turned around and looked at the top of the screen. As expected, he saw a successful smile on the woman's face.

"You have guessed it a long time ago? Really?" Field suppressed his anger and asked her. He felt that he and his soldiers were being used by the former.

"It's just a little bit of prejudgment, nothing more." Lisetta stood up from the throne of the battleship, raised her hand and made a gesture to express her pleasure towards Field.

As she stood up, hundreds of heavily armed Stormtroopers emerged from the Black Templars guarding her.

Not only that, the same scene was playing out on the entire black ship. At least tens of thousands of elite Tribunal guards poured out from all over the black ship under Field's observation through video signals.

They held various heavy equipment in hand, and with a plan that was obviously calculated and acted, they began to garrison various key nodes of the battleship.

"This is a conspiracy!" Field accused the judge, but he was powerless to stop the gang war that had begun.

Hundreds of bronze spindle torpedoes passed over the Black Templars' warships and headed towards the black ship in their sight. They almost thought that they were going to kill the enemy with their own hands, thus gaining a hearty victory through beheading operations.

What was different from what they expected was that under the thick armor of the black ship, what awaited them were traps and weapons all over the battleship, as well as tens of thousands of emotionless Tribunal soldiers...

The balance of victory seemed to be tilting in favor of Lisetta again, and even Field believed that the Space Wolves were doomed to fail.

However, just as these Space Wolves melted through the black ship's armor, entered the black ship amidst bursts of explosions, and then found themselves trapped in a tight siege, outside this small battlefield composed of five battleships, another light appeared. The light projected by Kia Space.

"Herafinkel!" Field almost groaned out this ancient word as he looked at the huge thing leaping out of the huge subspace hole.

The already complacent Grand Inquisitor Lisetta couldn't help but lose her original composure when she saw this giant battleship that represented the top crown of human industrial civilization.

"Queen of Glory...Queen of Glory belonging to the Space Wolves..."

Strong signal interference reverberated violently on the black ships of the Inquisition and the Black Templar warships. After a burst of piercing noise, Ragnar Bloodscream, the contemporary chapter leader and alpha wolf of the Space Wolves Chapter, appeared. In front of the two of them.

His burly figure was wrapped in an ancient armor, and the mane of wolf fur hanging from his shoulders was intertwined with his own beard and hair, full of wild flavor. The blood-red eyes on his face were trembling and rough. Holding tightly in his gauntlet is a heavy ax half as tall as a man.

The owner of this face is obviously not on the bridge. The background behind him looks more like he is in some kind of large device.

Transmission platform...

Both of them realized the significance of the device in an instant, and it was at this moment that the beast-like terrifying figure leaned down and brought his face closer, and then said to Lisetta with its fanged mouth:

"Zombie, hold your head, I'll be there soon!"

Lisetta is also a battle-hardened inquisitor, but has she ever faced such horror?

She was momentarily shocked by this wildness that faced her soul and lost the ability to speak. However, many Black Templars noticed the crisis of the situation and began to look around cautiously.

The atmosphere on the entire battleship fell into silence for that huge battleship, and in the silence of everyone, there was a firm aura in the hand of the gray knight Elvin behind the crowd, which was faint on the eve of the storm. flashing...

It’s a big chapter of 5,000 words, and will be updated. I remember the first two chapters, but my health has been a bit unstable recently, so I’ll finish it slowly.