Warhammer Inquisitor

Chapter 689 The End of Autumn: The Era of the Nova Terra War and Two Emperors

The armored window of the bridge rose slowly, and brilliant starlight poured in from the window. Cole stood among the stars and closed his eyes to bathe in those cold stars.

"Oh, aren't the stars here brighter than elsewhere?" "The light is the same all over the universe, Ragnar, from the same stars." "Is it?" "Oh brother, where are you? What did Fenris learn..." "Hunting, trapping, survival, and how to slay the Emperor's enemies?"

Cole heard footsteps coming up behind him, he opened his eyes, and Vito stood beside him with his arms in his arms and looked at the stars outside, "But what Ragnar said was right, the stars here are indeed brighter , Captain, don't just let Bell have a chance to show off."

"As you wish, Marshal, Ragnar is right. The stars here are indeed brighter. The reason is that the entire galaxy here is underdeveloped, so there are no dredging ships and hive worlds of the Mechanicum to drain this place. of stellar energy."

The Mechanic Church builds a huge Dyson ring around the stars in the entire galaxy, drawing a steady stream of power from it to provide energy support for the surrounding planets that are being initially developed. A large number of Mechanic Teaching factories will also be spread on the ring belt. production and excavation.

After countless generations, when the resources of the entire galaxy are completely exhausted, and even the sun in the Dyson ring is finally completely drained, the Mechanicus will abandon this galaxy and leave the local people there, and they will either move by themselves Leave, or stay in the dark with the utterly depleted galaxies, with their suns.

This is the case for most of the empire's worlds, repeated again and again, appearing in the registers of the Ministry of Government Affairs and being forgotten, and as those registers grow thicker, the stars in the galaxy grow fainter and fainter.

"This is a forgotten corner. After all these years, the Taiping Starfield is still exactly the same as when I came here." Cole said, Ragnar walked to the captain's console behind him, and poked there. In the star map opened after the ship's jump, the ship's scanning array has already shown the appearance of the entire galaxy.

But in fact, there is no workload. The Taiping Starfield is no different from the past. The system only needs to call out the old star map.

"Have you been here before? Captain." "Yes, old wolf, I was here for the first time as a trainee deputy captain, following in the footsteps of Macharius." Cole looked up at the starry sky, not letting him think The thought that Macharius the Sun Lord had sailed under these stars, and that he was following in his footsteps, made Cole shudder with excitement.

But the ignorant wolf cub of Fenris obviously didn't understand. He planed those planets with his hands, looked at Cole and those stars differently, "What is he excited about?"

"Oh... bro, do you space wolves really not teach anything but how to use an axe?" People will automatically ignore boring things." "Unless their saga poems are sung well, I may have a little impression, such as the sentence scolding the court in the month of shame."

"Then let me make it up for you, so that you can have more things in your mind besides scolding us." Vito said with his hands on his hips. He stood on the bridge and was under the starry sky. Across the disk of the Milky Way, countless never-exploited galaxies criss-cross, turning it into the most splendid beauty.

"The Taiping star field has always been a corner that the empire has never paid attention to. In the golden age, it used to be a prosperous star area, producing various industrial products and ships. But for this reason, it was the focus of later wars. Take care of it, various rebels and aliens took turns to sweep here, and finally before the beginning of the dark age, this place has almost become a no-man's land."

"Later, when the Great Expedition started, it was ignored because of its high degree of destruction and no development value. The main direction of the expedition was to the east. It was not until the golden age of the millennium that there were some sporadic explorer families here. The aristocratic families who lost in the struggle came here to colonize here and there."

"They gradually established order in this galaxy, and flourished in the following thousands of years. Although not as good as other places in the empire, the large unexplored deep space here is full of aliens and strange celestial phenomena , but with the beginning of the apostate generation, the mainland of the Milky Way fell into flames of war. A large number of fugitives and dignitaries from the Sun Starfield came here with their families in order to avoid the chaos of war. Not only was there no loss in the age of apostasy, but it developed explosively."

"In the later revival era, the Taiping Starfield also became a key care area because of its vast territory. In addition, the influence of the families who fled originally on Terra allowed the Taiping Starfield to obtain more resource investment, and Perhaps semi-independent status, they can decide their own development direction, colony construction and taxation, etc., they only need to pay eleven taxes to the central government of his empire on a regular basis."

"That sounds like the beginning of a stupid act, like all the idiots in the empire." "Well, it is indeed the beginning of a stupid act, but it's not the same as you think Ragnar, not Star Not the district government, but the high lords of Terra."

Vito said, leaning on the captain's armrest with his hands in his arms, "They didn't realize that although they could receive enough taxes from the Pacific Star Field, it actually caused them to sit on the Golden Mountain and forget to pay attention to the Pacific Star They don’t even know that the Taiping Starfield has developed to a level that can support half of the empire’s finances and population in the next era, enough to compete with the entire empire.”

"So if this is the case, then why do you have to obey the empire's central government? So, like all star area governments that have developed to a certain degree of conceit and think that they can break away from the empire, the Pacific Star Region declared independence, and they elected their leaders as Emperor, it is said that he is the descendant of the oldest family on Terra, and his blood can be traced back to before the unification war of Terra, and he has a blood relationship with the Emperor, so he called himself the Second Emperor and created the Nova Terra Empire."

"Really?" Bell asked, and Vito burst out laughing, as if it was an extremely ridiculous joke, "Nonsense, of course it's fake, the old bastard has no offspring, I mean except cloned in the Himalayas Outside of those, it is said that my credibility is slightly higher."

"Anyway, he thinks he is right. The Taiping Starfield declared independence and started war with Terra in the name of the new empire. Naturally, the high lords were furious, and they sent a counter-insurgency army to Taiping Star Territory, thought they could easily deal with the rebellion, but they were given a hard lesson by the first batch of counter-rebellion troops and were annihilated. Only then did those idiots realize how serious the matter was and how much trouble they had caused .”

"This was the beginning of the Nova Terra War, also known as the Age of the Two Emperors, you know he proclaimed himself the Second Emperor anyway, and this war continued for the next few centuries, the High Lords realized After his own troubles, he mobilized all the resources accumulated by the empire after the era of revival, and also recruited a huge army of space fighters that had never been seen after the civil war. More than twenty chapters were also thrown into the war in the Pacific Starfield. "

"But the war is still protracted. The Taiping Starfield has developed and grown in the previous era, and can produce huge armaments to arm their population. And they also dug up the STC template from who knows where, and a large number of quasi-technologies from the golden age were mass-produced. Production, invested in the war, can even suppress the offensive of the Space Marines."

"In this way, the rebel army, which should have been crushed in an instant, has paid a heavy price for Terra after centuries of stubborn resistance. More and more military forces have been drawn here from various galaxies, causing many The colonies that developed in the era were swallowed by chaos and aliens because of the emptiness, but the high lords still have to continue to fight, and must not allow any galaxy to leave the empire without punishment, let alone an entire star sector."

Vito shrugged helplessly, and continued, "This war has been fought for a long time, and countless worlds have been repeatedly seen. The empire and the rebels have repeatedly fought in every galaxy, and they have paid a heavy price. Over the centuries, casualties The numbers have reached astronomical levels."

"How did it end in the end? I remember that the Nova Terra War ended inexplicably, as if the rebels surrendered suddenly." Lancelot sat on the side and asked, he was listening to the story, and compared Ragnar knew some of these stories better.

"Because I got the Dark Angels to intervene. At first I commanded the battle on the side of the empire. I thought it was an ordinary counter-insurgency war, but gradually discovered that the situation was completely out of control. The Nova Terra Empire even began to use civilians on the battlefield." Iron Man, ghost knows where they found the production line, but I heard that it was caused by a mysterious giant who brought the Dark Mechanicus to join the side of Nova Terra."

"After realizing that the situation was completely out of control, I went to Terra to meet the head of the Dark Angels at the time, and told him that there might be a... ahem, a fallen angel in the Nova Terra Empire."

"Oh..." "Yes, Bell, that's it. After hearing this, the Dark Angels didn't need me to say anything, and immediately expressed their joining. The entire Dark Angels battle group drove the giant rock into the battle, and I pulled I took a regiment of thousands of imperial guards and led them to jump through an ancient star gate. In the hinterland of the Nova Terra Empire, they jumped out of a star gate that they had forgotten and didn't know how to use, and arrived at Nova directly. Near the capital of the Terra Empire."

"Afterwards, the great battle began. Without waiting for my order, the Dark Angels rushed to the capital of Nova Terra in one go. I led the Imperial Guards to intercept the returning rebel fleet on the periphery. It was a tragic battle. After all, we went deep into the enemy's forte, with enemies in front and no reinforcements behind, and the rebel fleet frantically returned to the capital for reinforcements, throwing all the iron men and war weapons they could find."

"Sounds quite exciting." Ragnar finally became interested. He sat down, and Vito laughed and cried, "If tragedy is exciting to you, then it's true that you shouldn't be exciting that day."

"Hundreds of warships exploded in the universe, the rainstorm-like drones rushed into the void, and the meteor shower-like explosion fireballs streaked across the sky. Plasma and rays intertwined in the darkness, sinking into the endless void."

"The fleet of the imperial army and I are fighting against dozens of times the enemy. The huge warships armed with half-golden age technology drive straight in. In order to stop them, the imperial army launched batch after batch of jump gang battles with no return, overloading the power , detonated the system they had not fully mastered, and those magnificent ships were like shattered dragons, smashing the six satellites around the capital."

"But we are still outnumbered. In the end, the Tribune of the Custodian, the last emperor ban, he was the last millennium veteran who had ever seen the emperor in person and served as the Custodian during the Unification War, Weiss Deritius Deciding to sacrifice himself, he dismissed his subordinates, and alone drove the battleship of the imperial army to rush towards the rebel fleet. After bearing countless firepower, he rushed to the middle of them, overloaded the subspace engine and detonated himself into a huge subspace rift. The rebel fleet sucked it all in."

"The remaining rebels were outnumbered and quickly wiped out by the forbidden army. After that battle, only a hundred of the forbidden army were left alive. Fortunately, the dark angels completed their mission. They spread the news and killed the false emperor. With all the officials of his court, the capital of Nova Terra fell completely, and we later destroyed that planet to prove to the whole galaxy that the False Emperor is dead."

"The remaining rebels in Nova Terra quickly collapsed after losing their command. Some surrendered, and some diehards led the remnant fleet and fled to the unknown area in the north. Although the subsequent suppression continued for many years, But that's the end of the Nova Terra War."

"So everything is over?" Ragnar patted his thigh and said, still wanting more, Vito looked at the stars and smiled and turned his head and shook his head, "No, Ragnar, it's still early, after that , Macharius' expedition has just begun."