Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

The Judgment Day-class battle fortress-Sky Blade, this big guy was born during the human-eldar war. It is definitely the largest space vehicle ever built by mankind. Yes, there is no other one. This deep space fortress is The volume is even larger than the Phalanx, because it was designed to be a mobile star port.

Calling it a star port is too polite. It should be called a battle satellite. Compared with it, the Phalanx in later generations and the battle moon during the Beast Wars are just two toys made of scrap metal. Well, the orc one might actually be made of scrap metal.

But the Sky Blade's firepower has almost surpassed the limits of almost all man-made aircraft in the history of the entire galaxy. Perhaps only the Necrons' Battle World Fortress can fight it for two rounds. For the rest, it will probably be destroyed the first moment it encounters it. Will explode into pieces flying across the galaxy,

When the Federation designed it, it originally planned to use this big guy as the core of the human fleet. It would consist of planet-sized Sky Blade Fortresses, accompanied by an entire war fleet using teleportation technology, to directly attack the Eldar over long distances. The core of the empire completely destroyed the Eldar's home world and virgin world.

This fleet does not need to be anchored or resupplied, because the Sky Blade Fortress itself can maintain everything they need, whether it is people or weapons and equipment.

Its huge size is enough for the entire fleet, those giant ships that are tens of kilometers long, to dock in the surrounding docks and piers for maintenance and supplies. It can provide a mobile base for the entire fleet to rest, berth and station. ,

In addition, it can carry hundreds of thousands or even millions of operators, navy sailors, marines, and logistics and command personnel. It is an entire mobile city floating in the universe, not just As a fortress, it serves as a true home for its members.

Within the armor layer of that huge fortress are modularized areas, including living areas, entertainment areas, military training and command, production and industrial farms. When you step on it, you can hardly No contact with the outside world is required.

Under its hard armor layer, equipped with an excellent adaptive energy shield, is an entire intelligent production system of automated production. The Federation has implanted a considerable number of stc standard templates of weapons and equipment into its system, which makes Tian Blade Fortress can self-produce almost all weapons and equipment that humans already have as long as it has raw materials. Even those that do not exist can be produced immediately after technological research is established.

The Sky Blade is equipped with almost all the weapons and equipment you can think of throughout the golden age of mankind, and even those Star Destroyer weapons that can destroy the entire planet with one shot. The fully automated weapon array and intelligent control system can allow these to assemble the entire Planetary Volume Fortress' weapons deliver their full destructive firepower efficiently, accurately and completely.

And its operating system is completely implanted with the core system of superior artificial intelligence, which allows this planet-sized fortress to actually carry out complete operations without human beings, from teleportation to attack, and everything. Daily operations, maintenance and production can be fully automated.

In humanity's original plan, Sky Blade was the core of a galaxy-level demolition team. This battle fortress would teleport the entire fortress into the battlefield through its giant teleportation engine, and rely on its powerful firepower to completely destroy the Eldar fleet and After using the planet orbital weapon, it will use the star destroyer weapon it carries to completely blow the Eldar's home world into fragments and conduct a doomsday judgment on the Eldar, so it is also named the Judgment Day class.

The Federation originally planned to use the Sky Blade to annihilate, destroy and disintegrate the Eldar's war potential, but it was not that easy to penetrate the weapon defense line of the Eldar Empire at its peak, so the Sky Blade's exaggerated weapons and equipment, as well as shields The cost of system production and manufacturing is almost astronomical, and the time it takes to build this planet-level fortress far exceeds expectations.

Moreover, the time when its project was established was still at the end of the war. Therefore, during the entire human-eldar war, Sky Blade Fortress did not participate in any war. After the construction process was completed, when the super reactor core was actually ignited, the Battle of Iron Rain was over, and the long war between humans and the Eldar finally came to an end.

This huge, resource-intensive fortress was born at the wrong time. Soon after the war, the Council cut off the production plan for the follow-up Sky Blade Fortress. Therefore, this fortress became the only one in the entire series. A finished product, an orphan, an orphan destined to be forgotten.

But in the end, history proved that it will not be forgotten. Human history is often ironic. The powerful weapons created by humans often end up not aimed at their enemies, or in other words, when those who originally relied on these weapons to eliminate Once the enemy is eliminated, humanity will once again go through the cycle of history, pointing these terrible weapons against each other.

During the Outer Rim Rebellion, the Federation army, which had been severely weakened in the Human-Eldar War, devoted this powerful war fortress to the war to suppress the Outer Rim Rebellion. This fortress indeed played a considerable role in providing support for the Federation. Many key planets and nodes were laid down.

And its intelligent part is also being strengthened and used more. As the population of the entire Federation decreased sharply after the war, the army equipped more intelligent systems and combat robots with the Sky Blade. This fully automated The killing fortress finally reached its pinnacle.

The federal army originally planned to use the Sky Blade Fortress to serve as a fully automated, low-cost deterrent and mobile suppressive firepower platform in the Outer Rim after the outer ring rebels were eliminated, to deter the entire Outer Rim from having second thoughts with its terrifying power. The rebels.

But the irony is that when humans personally strengthened, polished and tempered it into an unparalleled weapon of war, the Iron Man rebellion broke out. With the wave of rebellion set off by Red Helen, a large number of intelligent Iron Men were originally created by humans. Smart weapons used to kill each other turned their guns on their owners.

In fact, the Iron Man Rebellion did not actually violate the purpose of producing these robots and intelligences, because even if they were originally produced to be used as products of the civil war between humans, the purpose of their appearance was to obey a group of humans. Just killing another group, like all human weapons.

And the irony is that the Iron Man side of the Iron Man rebellion is not actually composed entirely of intelligent Iron Men. Some of the alien aliens who once relied on mankind and served mankind as a servant race over the long years have also joined. In Iron Man's camp.

Most of them are dissatisfied alien members who have been oppressed within the Human Federation for a long time and live as second-class citizens like the common people in the outer ring areas. They have long been dissatisfied with the Federation.

Before the Iron Man Rebellion, as humans were severely weakened in the war with the Eldar, they launched their own riots and uprisings, trying to separate from the Federation, and each time they were suppressed by the Federation army. To be precise, Use iron men to help suppress it.

So when the Iron Man rebellion began, Red Helen invited these dissidents who were dissatisfied with the Federation to join her rebel army. She promised them that they would win independent status after the war.

So they naturally accepted it, although they may not have thought too much about whether this was a lie, or that they had no choice in the first place. If the Iron Man War ended, humans would only squeeze themselves more cruelly, To replace the labor positions left vacant by Ironmen.

As a result, more than a dozen human servant races turned into rebels overnight, and later some were ruthlessly abandoned to humans after the Eldar Empire shrank back to its homeland. In order to avoid human post-war revenge, and Slaughter also chose to join the rebellion.

They had no choice. During the war, they had committed so many crimes for the Eldar that they had a bloody feud and were completely unable to negotiate with humans. In order to survive, they had no choice but to join the Iron Man Rebels.

Therefore, the Iron Man Rebellion is not simply the kind of ruthless robots fighting humans in the Terminator movies, but a race war between the galaxies, a war of survival, and a war of anti-oppression, whatever you want to call it.

So when the Iron Man Rebellion began, the Iron Men in the hands of the Federation and the Outer Rim rebels "united" and pointed their weapons at each other's masters. Ironically, as the Iron Man Rebellion began, the Iron Men who were originally divided Instead, humans suddenly reached a consensus, formed alliances, and cooperated with each other.

The federal army and the outer ring rebels reached a peace treaty almost instantly. The divided humanity once again united under a common threat to form a unified front against the Iron Man and the rebel army. Isn't it ironic? The final result of Iron Man's rebellion was to promote the unification of human society, at least temporarily.

Under the crisis of life and death, mankind once again faced a crisis situation like the Eldar War. All conflicts were shelved, all old and new grudges between planets and political groups were put behind them, and mankind once again operated with high efficiency. Get up and fight against those weapons that are your own.

The Sky Blade Fortress became the core of the military power of the rebellious Iron Men. Red Helen stole and seized this completely intelligent fortress, using it as her own vehicle and mobile body. She drove this fortress to attack everywhere. , pouring the destructive firepower that humans originally designed to deal with the Eldar on humans themselves.

Hong Helen used Sky Blade Fortress to severely damage and destroy the main force of the Federation's navy, and launched an unstoppable attack towards the Federation's core solar system. A large number of human colonies and planets along the way were destroyed by Sky Blade's Star Destroyer weapons. The attacks caused countless Tens of billions of casualties.

But, in fact, the vast majority of casualties during the entire Iron Man Rebellion were not caused by the Iron Man. After all, Red Helen and the Iron Man did not have the emotions of a flesh-and-blood race such as hatred and bloodlust. They were machines, each using cold blood. Machines created by intelligence and programming only pursue efficiency, the efficiency of winning, so they will not kill innocent people indiscriminately, not because they have conscience, but because it is a waste of time and firepower resources. It makes no sense either.

The vast majority of casualties in the Iron Man rebellion were caused by the alien aliens from the rebel side during the war. They exerted their suppressed anger for many years on human civilians. While the Iron Man frontline was unstoppable, behind the battle lines Massacres broke out one after another, resulting in hundreds of billions or even trillions of casualties.

This also directly led to the Emperor's policy of extermination of alien aliens. During the Great Crusade, he ruthlessly eliminated those alien races who turned their butcher knives on human civilians during the Iron Man Rebellion. Although in a sense, the Emperor finally achieved The effect is similar to what they did back then.

In short, Hong Helen drove the Sky Blade and controlled and commanded the huge Iron Man fleet all the way to the solar system. Several attempts by the human joint fleet to stop and intercept her were in vain. Humanity did win several victories, but it still could not change the situation of the war. The overall failure.

In a sense, it is also because after the Iron Man Rebellion began, the Federation Council directly dismissed and dismissed all existing Iron Men in the Federation Army out of fear of the Iron Man. Even those who did not join the rebellion still chose to be loyal to human Iron Man and artificial intelligence. The same is true, including the real Helen.

When they were deprived of authority, sealed and controlled, the already severely weakened human army was of course unable to stop the Iron Man army. Therefore, Red Helen attacked the solar system, and the federal parliament on the entire earth was in chaos. The members were quarreling with each other and would fail. The blame for each other's crimes is passed off, and aimless disputes are staged all day long on the earth. Chaos, turmoil and madness are staged at the same time outside the high walls of the Parliament.

The almost paralyzed parliamentary government is simply unable to maintain, or in other words, they no longer want to maintain this planet that is about to face its doomsday. Anarchy has descended on all parts of the earth, and rumors of doomsday are spreading among the crowd. The inhabitants of the earth, who represent reason and truth, began to rob each other, buy for zero dollars, shoot and have chaos, etc., just like the real doomsday.

At this critical moment, the Grand Marshal of the Human Federation, Vito Constantine, proposed to the Congress to restart Helen, allowing her to command the existing Federation fleet with him, and bring all the loyal iron men to fight Red Helen in the solar system.

Very classic, Vito was labeled a traitor by the federal government, which was already in chaos, and was plunged into panic and paranoia. They passed the responsibility for the previous defeat to Vito, even though he was actually at an absolute disadvantage with the help of Helen and Iron Man. Despite this situation, humanity still won the only major victory in the Battle of Proxima Centauri since the beginning of the Iron Man War.

But they still shirk all responsibilities to Vito, and even angrily accuse Vito of preparing to rebel. Red Helen is Helen's split personality. Maybe Vito directed and acted it? Used to seize power and military coups.

The previous rumors seemed to have become true. The federal government lifted Vito's military power and put him under house arrest. Helen was also confiscated and prepared to be destroyed. It's stupid, isn't it? Yes, there were many people who felt the same way as you at the time, such as Vito's generals.

After the Federal Assembly acted extremely stupidly again and again, Vito's generals and officers could no longer endure it. They would no longer listen to the idiots in the Assembly and let their soldiers fight a battle that would lead to defeat. war, so they collectively chose to mutiny, turning the facts that the idiots in Parliament worried about into the truth.

At that time, Terra was still called Earth. The navy in the earth's orbit and the marines stationed at the star port launched a mutiny. A large number of troops seized and controlled the seat of the Congress. At that time, it was still called New York. They took control of the giant city. He was rescued and elected Vito as chairman of the "National Salvation Committee".

Vito did not intend to become the leader of the military government at the time, nor did he plan a military coup. However, after all, everyone was still on the verge of being destroyed, so Vito chose to accept the appointment, and he led the marines directly into He rescued Helen from the intelligent center that was about to destroy Helen.

Then came the final decisive battle. Vito led the last main force of the Federation's navy, and with Helen's assistance and command, he brought with him all the iron men loyal to mankind, as well as some alien race warriors who also fought for the Federation, such as Stone. People or whatever, Vito led them to use himself and Helen as bait to attract Red Helen to have a decisive battle with him, and the place was on Jupiter.

It was definitely one of the most difficult battles Vito had ever fought, but in the end, after a brutal battle that was no less impressive than the Iron Man Battle, the main force of Red Helen's Iron Man rebels was destroyed, and she herself was also Vito took Helen to join the gang. After sacrificing a large number of marines and loyal iron men, Vito implanted the real Helen into her system. In the end, the two Helens had a final battle, and the real Helen achieved victory. Victory, Red Helen was completely shattered into data fragments.

With the demise of Red Helen, the Iron Man army also fell into chaos. In the end, mankind won the battle with difficulty, and the Sky Blade Fortress was eventually paralyzed due to the continued fire strikes by the federal navy after the disappearance of Red Helen. Entering Europa's atmosphere and sinking into the eternal deep sea.

The fortress fell into the deep sea as a witness to the beginning and final end of the Iron Man Rebellion. Vito did not salvage it at the time. First, because he did not have the ability, the remaining federal troops at that time had to immediately invest in suppressing the rest. In the war between Iron Man and the alien allies, the second reason was that Vito didn't know, he didn't know if there were any dangerous things in the fortress, and whether Red Helen was completely destroyed when she fell to the ground.

For safety reasons, he chose to let the Sky Blade sink in the icy sea of ​​Europa as an eternal monument to that tragic war, warning humans and their descendants not to make the same mistake again.

However, judging from the results, the Federation was ultimately defeated by humans themselves. Believe me, the Iron Man Rebellion is definitely not the source of the true destruction of the Federation. A powerful empire never collapses from the outside, but from the inside.

And this is another story.

And now, Vito finally came here, in this cursed fortress, in order to save the earth again, or to save Terra, use this fortress that almost destroyed the earth to save the earth, ha, history Sometimes I really like to tease people.

Vito thought about ending his memories. After letting out a long sigh, he slowly opened his eyes and looked at the closed circular door in front of him.

He looked at the thing, then turned to look at Helen in his hand and nodded, "Open it."

Helen stood on Vito's hand. After a moment of silence, she waved gently to the control panel on the side. As her palm made of light filaments waved across the panel, the circular door quickly opened to both sides. .

Vito stood in front of the door and looked at the darkness. As the door completely disappeared into the crack of the door, lights lit up one after another in the dark corridor. Bright light came from a distance. Vito saw The lights that came on one after another illuminated everything, illuminating the corridor in his memory, the corridor leading to the fortress control tower.

Vito looked at everything in the corridor. There were still traces of that time. The walls were full of bullet holes. The cutting marks left when the ion weapon shot through the wall were still clearly visible. Steel fragments were scattered all over the floor. The damaged laser-cutting sword fell to the ground, tumbled together with another weapon.

Gunshots rang in his ears, shouts and electronic sounds of flesh and blood shouted to kill each other. The sounds became stronger and stronger, and hallucinations began to appear in the corridor. Vito seemed to be able to see fighting warriors wearing Thor power armor. , the soldiers fighting with Iron Man, guns and cannons fired, laser swords collided and roared with each other in the battle in the corridor, and the whistling bullets seemed to be shot directly from Vitor's ears, making him tinnitus.

Vito looked at the illusory mirror image in the corridor, which almost swallowed up Vito's mind. He closed his eyes, frowned at the chaotic noise, and turned his head to one side.

"Sir?" Helen asked softly. Vito opened his eyes suddenly, and the gunshots and hallucinations suddenly disappeared. Vito looked at Helen. He could see that Helen was also deep in thought about past memories. She must have Remembered more clearly and tortured than Vito.

Vito let out a long sigh and then looked towards the end of the corridor, "It's nothing, it's just that I didn't expect that I would come back here and save the earth once."

"Come on, honey, let's get this big guy out of the water." Vito walked into the corridor. He walked along the corridor filled with bullet holes and the remains of weapons attacks, and walked towards the place where he lived. This is where he went from here, to the bridge of the Sky Blade during the final battle.