"Forehead......."
"Although this processed picture doesn't look bloody anymore, from the way these things are lying, I think I can easily imagine what your chess pieces did just now."
"...Your chess pieces won't imitate the plot and go out in disguise, right? And adjust the sound or something?" Monthly fee (group 69493) 6135
"Unfortunately, based on Silence's efficiency in commanding the group of skinners, I strongly suspect that they have already put the skins on their bodies. Silence, how about cutting the angle? I want to see if your chess piece is really doing something cool."
"No thanks, I don't think it's anything good."
Locked in the
After finding Serharan's ship and making sure it was within range, Silence sent a large number of prepared Skinner chess pieces into the cabin of the old ship without hesitation using hyperdimensional displacement. And because of the nature of the Skinners' desire for flesh and blood, they almost semi-precisely emerged from all the operators close to the ship.
"Kill all those with Chaos Eight-pointed Star on their bodies. Leave no one alive."
After confirming that the crew members of the ships that the Skinners saw were all wearing clothes with Chaos Eight-pointed Stars or similar paintings, Silence issued the order to kill without hesitation. The Skinners were also quite straightforward. In less than two hours, these things that should theoretically be "alien things" gave the Emperor's mercy to all the traitors - well, almost three minutes of which were wasted on hunting down Loserhallan. The new captain wet his pants as soon as he realized that there were extra things on his ship, and then threw his men out to die one by one to buy himself time. Because Silence's command of the Skinners was not very high, he actually succeeded for a while.
Unfortunately, as the saying goes, "You can't escape the curse once you've escaped." In the end, when Lotharan was trying to escape through some smelly roads in a room that was probably a bathroom, he was blocked in the room by two ghostly Flayers, one in front and one behind. Knowing that he could not escape, Lotharan decisively tore off the Chaos Badge on his body and tried to beg for mercy, but all his words were swallowed by the Flayers.
"Okay, the ones wearing the most gorgeous clothes should be their leaders. There should be basically no traitors on this ship. Even if there are, they probably won't cause any trouble. I'll have the skinners down there search the large warehouses around to see what goods are in there - !!!! What the hell are these things!"
As they really didn't want the Skinners to do too many tricks, Silence, who was standing next to the command desk, decisively switched the Skinners' mission from killing to searching, and asked the Skinners in the middle and lower areas of the ship to project everything they saw onto the Queen of Glory. As a result, the moment these Skinners began to project the three-dimensional images, the Hammers were startled by a large number of 'standing things' that filled the command desk in front of Silence.
"So many Chaos Servants???"
After the oil man looked these things up and down, he easily determined the identities of these "people". However, everything in front of him still made him sigh - the silence had shrunk so much that the projection on his command desk could not even capture the edges of these mechanical servants. He had no idea how many of these things were stuffed into the ship!
"How many people did those Chaos bastards capture for transformation? Wait, are there any elderly people or children among those transformed into servitors?"
"No need to use or, I just have it. I strongly suspect that they have already ransacked the hive world of this galaxy. I will immediately arrange for my ribs to invade and count this ship, and try to invade the traitor's communication channel to determine what they are going to do. Liang Feifan, get your bean sprouts moving and prepare the intelligence. Forget it, I don't need your bean sprouts. If there is a problem, I will directly ask Gu to tell the Wolf Group and say that it was the information from the bean sprouts. As for the Star Army, you, Egg, will notify the news first."
"no problem."
"I'm OK here, you can call the wolf group brother anytime."
"Then I'll start working."
After getting the answers from the two Hammer Guys, Silence immediately led his ghost ship closer to the carrier ship that he had hijacked for more than half, and let the high-level Undead units on board the ship. As pieces of information emerged, the Hammer Guys' brows furrowed more and more.
"This is a bit serious. Jingjing, how many ships can you manage? According to the speed of this ship, it will take less than twelve hours to get from Balaton to Sosekhi - maybe we have ten hours left?"
"They set out in different directions. I can only chase them one by one. I'll try my best to intercept as many as possible. Gu, Egg, notify the local imperial troops. Sosekhi will have to face a large number of cannon fodder from the sky."
13. The Sosaki World in Preparation
Sosaki star.
With the construction of the Hammermen's Imperial Fists, Iron Hands, and the Ultramarines who helped them, the fortifications on the world of Sosekhi suddenly flourished at an extremely "abnormal" speed. The crude fortifications that were originally just a combination of mine tunnels and buildings built by the people who originally worked here and then reinforced were upgraded to various semi-permanent or permanent fortresses. The mine pits that had been mined were recycled one by one and turned into valuable rooms such as warehouses.
These are just some of the changes that the pawns have brought to the Imperial forces of Sosekhi. With the efforts of the Mechanicus pawns, some mining machines and machines for primary smelting of ore have also resumed operation. Although these devices can do very limited things, it has become possible to produce metal plates with qualified performance and some ammunition with less demanding requirements on the world of Sosekhi. At the same time, the Mechanicus has also used various recycled parts and repaired the vehicles of Cadia and Krieg. It can be said that all the combat machines of Sosekhi are now in a state of mechanical joy, and they can't wait to pour their anger on the enemies of the Empire.
The most important space launch center in the world of Sosiki, which is also the hope of the imperial forces here to counterattack into space in the future, has received treatment that surpasses everything else.
Various industrial machines roared nearby, and the best materials were all allocated here first. The pawns of the Mechanicus were repairing the transport ships placed in the hangar day and night, transforming them into suitable things that could be used to send the Imperial troops to the universe in the future. In addition, in order to prevent any accidents, the most elite Astartes pawns and the 51st Regiment of the Political Commissar Sister have all been allocated here. Lord Maldius personally led his most elite Cadian troops to patrol here, Krieg deployed four regiments here, and the warriors of the Space Wolves also set up outposts in hidden places nearby, day and night.
Therefore, when Gu informed all the imperial forces in the Sosaki world that there was important intelligence that needed to be discussed by everyone, within half an hour, Lord Maldius and Gali Wolf arrived at the lobby of the Space Launch Center, which, although not yet completed, had become the headquarters of the Imperial Alliance on Sosaki. At this moment, Lich, Egg, Liang Feifan, and the Political Commissar had already arrived, waiting for the arrival of the only two true imperial people here...
"Sorry, I'm a little late."
Seeing that people of much higher status than himself, including the Mechanicus Bishop, the Imperial Fist Captain, and the Iron Hand Captain, were already waiting here, Castle Lord Maldius apologized in accordance with etiquette, then found his seat and sat down. And after hugging Gu, who had not yet sat down, Gali Wolf sat down carelessly on his fur-covered chair.
"Is the information urgent?"
"According to intelligence from our temporary allies, the Eldar, the world of Balaton launched thirteen transport ships converted from industrial ships used to transport raw ore from their orbital space station. The ships were filled with converted servitors and were heading towards Sosekhi."
"Fenris swears - have they started to take action?"
"Yes, perhaps our arrival has aroused their vigilance, and our temporary allies have also seen some clues about them through the waves of the warp space - they have the mark of blasphemy."
Gu pretended to put down the electronic board in his hand and looked around the room. As he expected, both the Lord of Maldiush Castle and the Gali Wolf showed a trace of pure anger on their faces.
"Sure?"
"I don't think they would joke with us about this - although I know that the Eldar are never trustworthy, when it comes to those filthy things, the most they can do is to let us help them 'serve as a human shield' instead of talking nonsense and making us paranoid."
"Hmm... That's true. If they really want to trick us, not telling us this information is the best solution. How long have those ships been on the road?"
"Two hours and twenty-seven minutes - of course, this is based on the Eldar intelligence."
"Then let's assume it's four hours... The tricky thing is, we don't have the support of a high-altitude auspex array right now, we can't even pinpoint exactly where those things will land!"
"Lord Mardiush, this is not a problem. There are not many places worth occupying on Sosekhi right now. Our current military force is more than enough for defense. If those aliens are not lying, it is more than enough. It is just that... hundreds of thousands of cannon fodder, it will take a lot of time to kill them with swords."
Having already analyzed the intelligence in his head, the Galilean Wolf made a slight gesture of pressing his hands, indicating that the matter was not that troublesome. However, the direction he looked in from the corner of his eye 'clearly' hinted at the wolf's inner thoughts.
"The Adeptus Mechanicus will undertake all necessary ammunition supply and maintenance tasks until the mission is completed."
Egg, who had roughly understood what this Space Wolf was up to in his interstellar war plan, stretched out his hand and calmly pointed out a series of data in front of him. After understanding the meaning of these data, a smile appeared on the face of the Galilean Wolf.
"I have no doubts about the preparations for war."
————————————Planet Balaton——————————————————————
"The third one."
While the Imperial forces on Sosekhi were studying battle plans, in the core building area of the planet Balaton, the fellow of the Dark Mechanicus who had become the leader of this world sat in his chair, staring at the data that kept popping up in front of him with his highly modified face that no longer looked like a human being. About ten minutes ago, he received the news that the third transport ship had disappeared in space, and this naturally aroused his vigilance, because according to his previous calculations, these ships had almost no possibility of being lost in space with the stuff the Imperial garrison on Sosekhi had on hand, but now?
They have lost three ships without any explanation! They didn't even send any messages back!
"Do those Corpse King's lackeys really have some killer weapons that we haven't discovered lurking in space? If so, they have already ambushed this galaxy before the subspace storm blew?"
After repeatedly reviewing the incident, the leader of the Dark Mechanicus of the Balaton World finally "calculated" a certain most reliable "possibility". However, when calculating this possibility, he expressed doubts about it - if he wanted to intercept that
The cheapest and smallest way to destroy these transport ships is to board them. However, if it is a boarding battle, the three ships should at least send some information back. If it is another way, such as a salvo of macro cannons, these ships will be torn apart in space...
Warships of that level could not fail to attract the attention of Balaton's space orbital auspex array!
“…It’s a difficult problem.”
Finally, unable to be sure whether this answer was correct, he stood up, walked to the communicator, raised his hand and answered it.
A message was sent to Udal.
14. Final preparations for war
Joy, joy.
Endless joy that would make a sane person tremble and feel sick from heart to soul.
The Slaanesh-worshipping Astartes revel in the revelry, while the mortals who have succumbed to the power of Slaanesh praise them.
The leader of the Angels of Bliss warband, a noise warrior who has fought in the galaxy for countless centuries, the gorgeous Kalansh, is lying on a chair made of human bones, human skin as a mask, and human flesh as padding, humming a song leisurely. This Space Marine who has already devoted his body and soul to Slaanesh has his left hand around a girl who is dressed in fancy clothes, but whose skull has been pried open and whose brain cavity is filled with wine. With his right hand, he gently touches the meridians of a person who is still breathing, making it emit sounds that can accompany his singing. His feet are stuck in the soft corpse, and his eyes are full of splendor - supernatural, colorful from the warp.
"My Lord, urgent communication from Balaton."
Just when Kalansh was indulging himself in all kinds of sensory stimulation, a somewhat irritating voice dragged him back to the material world. Realizing that something was wrong, the Noise Warrior impatiently drank up the wine in the girl's head using his left hand as a wine glass, and at the same time tore the meridians of the mortal who used him as a musical instrument, and "mercifully" granted him an extremely miserable death. Then he stood up leisurely and yawned loudly.
"Go ahead, wizard, I hope you have some news that will amuse me."
"Three ships sent out by the cowards of Balaton have been lost - three ships have been lost on the way, this is the information they sent."
As a Slaanesh guy, the Chief Sorcerer of the Angels of Bliss, who had long been accustomed to the various states of his boss when he reported, selectively ignored some of Kalansh's small movements and conveyed the news from Balaton in his hoarse and distorted voice.
"——Give me the intelligence——Ha! It is confirmed that the false emperor's dogs have at least one strike force in space——Hehe, I was worried that we wouldn't be able to find enough prey? Isn't it coming? Wizard, go and gather the third and fourth teams and tell them that there is work to do——Wait! I will send half of my team to them——Let them go and capture those guys in the universe! Oh, right! Your apprentice will go with you too!"
Although he had been doing some things that seemed blasphemous and obscene, the superhuman transformation of Astartes and the blessing of Slaanesh were enough to make Kalansh think while having fun. Soon, he estimated some tactical parameters from the intelligence from Balaton and made corresponding arrangements.
"Your will."
The chief wizard of the Elysian Angels gang bowed slightly, saluted to Calansh who was beginning to fall into confusion again, and strode out of this flesh and blood pleasure field. Now, he couldn't wait to see those warriors who were still wandering in the space fall into their hands and become their "entertainment tools" - as for the possibility of his side being defeated?
Please! Based on his understanding of the Corpse King's servants, if the Empire had this level of space forces in the Morton Hess galaxy, would it be necessary to just attack a space station with a small-scale attack, or a tepid attack on a defenseless transport ship that even carried very insignificant things?
Maybe now, no, it is definitely already launching a suppressive attack on Udal!
—————————————Soseki Star————————————————————————
"Although it is a shame, since we cannot send any of our combat units into space in a short period of time, at least for this battle, we can only rely on the intelligence provided by the Eldar aliens in space—"
In the war conference room, Gu was standing in front of the huge war map on the stage, holding something like a pointer and pointing at it, while the other imperial forces sitting below the stage were all silent. Of course, the Hammer guys were pretending, while Gary and Castle Lord Maldiush really felt something called shame.
"Okay, everyone, there's no need to be so serious. We need to make decisions in an emergency. Look, those Eldar aliens didn't even use their usual phrases. Instead, they used a method that is more in line with the Empire's style to send us information. This is enough to prove that they are still sincere now."
After drawing important intelligence about the trajectory and estimated arrival time of the transport ships that had not yet been destroyed, which was actually not sent by the Eldar at all, but by two other more outrageous things, the Tyranids and the Necrons, near the sphere representing the planet Sosekhi floating on the war map, Gu called the others and understood what he meant.
The political commissar sister immediately controlled the company commander of her Iron Hands regiment and nodded slightly to Gu on the stage.
"According to my calculations, if we make good use of the intelligence provided by the aliens, we can increase our chances of winning by percent and reduce our losses in personnel and supplies by at least percent. Of course, the premise of all this is that the aliens are not lying."
"Brother Gary has already analyzed it. There is no need and no reason for those aliens to lie about this matter. At the same time, from the records of the Empire, the most important time to be careful when cooperating with the Eldar aliens is not during the battle, but after they have achieved their goal. There is no doubt that so far, they are still far from achieving their goals in the Morton Hess system."
The Raven Guard champion played by the God's Choice also spoke at the right time, further easing the atmosphere in the meeting room. After seeing that the expressions of Gary and Castle Lord Maldiush were slightly relieved, Gu quickly took advantage of the situation.
"——The latest intelligence Liang sent is here. Although it lacks the accuracy common in the empire, we can roughly determine where those blasphemous things will be dropped on the Sosaki world. This is very helpful for us to arrange our defense forces. The first place to bear the brunt is under our feet."
Gu pointed at the projection of the planet Sosiki and enlarged an area. Seeing the familiar fortifications and terrain displayed on the war map, the Galilean Wolf couldn't help but grin.
"If we have enough anti-aircraft firepower, we can even turn them into fireworks in the sky - and then what?"
"Then there is the large smelter currently controlled by the Mechanicus. Your Excellency Bishop Egger, what do you mean by this area?"
Gu retracted the map, rotated it, and pulled out the second area.
"The Adeptus Mechanicus will take care of it."
Jidan thought about the chess pieces in his hand, and after feeling that it would not be stressful to deal with a large number of mecha servants, he chose to fight with a single faction first.
"Next, there is the No. 3 mine, which has not yet been fully mined—"
"Also, there is a medium-sized abandoned industrial town near the No. 1 Mine that you used as the command center area."
"And... well, I unilaterally feel that there is no need to waste too many troops on this huge wilderness."
In a few seconds, he presented the five areas with the highest probability of being attacked by the Profane Servants to everyone in the conference room, and then he drew a line on the war map with his hand to fix them.
"Everyone, this is all we have for now. Time is running out. We need to discuss the best battle plan as soon as possible, a plan that will burn all those blasphemous things with the Emperor's wrath."
After saying this, Gu walked off the stage, sat back in his seat, and began to write and draw. After about ten seconds of silence, the Lord of Maldiush Castle was the first to stand up and speak.
"My Cadia Armored Regiment..."
15. Transport ship, lowered
Cormac was a traitor, a traitor like Yomer.
However, unlike Yumer who waited and waited until the end before taking sides, Cormac, because of some old grudges with the bureaucrats of the space station he often visited, stood firmly on the side of the traitors the moment he learned of the betrayal, and even killed a loyal soldier of the Empire with his own hands. His actions earned him a gratifying reward from his new master - not only was he kindly allowed to continue to own his ship, he also received some prosthetic modifications that he had never dreamed of before, and was given a status that he thought he would never get in his lifetime - all of this made Cormac ecstatic, and he knelt on the ground on the spot, licked the robe of his new master's messenger, and swore that he would serve his new master until the last moment of his life - of course, Cormac did not think there was anything wrong with this oath, after all, a long time ago, he had also made a similar oath to the Emperor...
And now, the traitor was pleasantly surprised to find that his oath seemed to be about to be "fulfilled"?
"The machine soul is out of control! It is refusing our orders! For the sake of our new master! Do whatever you want! Do whatever you want!!!"
Seeing his ship being captured by the gravity of Sosaki and falling irreversibly towards the surface of Sosaki, and realizing that he was no longer able to control his ship, this tall and strong, but extremely cowardly traitor, who seemed to have seen his own end, tried his best to fix himself on the captain's chair, howling and cursing in a voice so sharp that even the noise warriors would hear it more than once, urging his subordinates to find a way to at least let the ship descend in a stable manner to increase his chances of survival. However, his old friends did not bring him any good news except telling him in trembling cries that there was nothing they could do.
"The engine can no longer be controlled manually? What about the backup engine? What about our backup engine? Light it up! It's an independent system, it should work!"
"——I just blew up the engine room by force. Guess what? Our spare engine has been dismantled! That place is filled with servitors! Moreover, the fuel display is fake! I have confirmed it! Our fuel is a one-way ticket!"
"Impossible! Obviously we only need
Just drop the transported items into space! Impossible! It doesn't make sense!"
Hearing the words of the first mate who was telling him some horrible facts in the engine room in a voice that was obviously broken, Cormac's voice became even more miserable after he understood the truth of certain things.
".....We are the victims, Captain. We are only here to ensure that the ship can accurately reach the 'human navigation device' above Sosekhi. When she reaches Sosekhi, she will no longer obey our command——————!!!"
Just as his deputy was desperately trying to tell the truth, an extremely strong shake suddenly swept through the entire ship. The force of the shake was so great that it even broke the rivets between the captain's chair and the ground. Before he fell to the ground like a dog chewing mud, Cormac heard a dull explosion in the headphones and a scream that was instantly drowned out by the explosion. At the same time, he saw that the green lights indicating that his ship's engine was normal were all off.
"Do not!!!!"
Overwhelmed by the feeling of weightlessness, Cormac realized that this meant his ship had lost all power and his fate could not be reversed. Finally, as his shit and urine flowed out, he let out the most miserable and emotional cry of his life.
Then, with the sound of the transport ship crashing to the ground, Cormac's screams came to an abrupt end.
—————————————The dividing line of the imperial forces————————————————————
“Woo—woo—”
The shrill alarm sounded in the Empire's positions. Cadia's warriors, holding their weapons, crouched down, and quickly moved through the trenches, heading to where they should go according to the predetermined battle plan. Behind the crisscrossing trenches, various artillery, missile vehicles, and vehicles with long-range firepower were collectively ready, with energy replenished and shells loaded - and the Cadia scouts who were patrolling the dangerous front line in simple high-speed vehicles rushed to the crash site of the transport ship as soon as possible, and sent the information and pictures they captured back to the command room - thanks to the efforts of the Mechanicus' pawns, the signal strength in the key areas of the entire Sosaki star is now very good.
"Is this falling deviation?"
Looking at the pictures from all angles of the ships that had crashed to the ground in an abnormal posture and were emitting large numbers of Profane Servants, as well as the coordinate spots representing the area where they were currently located, Castle Lord Maldiush could not help but speak. According to the previous discussion in the combat conference room, everyone unanimously agreed that in the absence of any means of controlling space, these transport ships heading towards the Sosek world would most likely "smash" their contents or even themselves in the area where they were going to "land". Therefore, the tactics they arranged were all centered around defensive counterattacks and chaotic battles, and Castle Lord Maldiush was already prepared for the heavy losses of his soldiers. Admittedly, the combat effectiveness of the Profane Servants was just that, but once their numbers reached a certain scale and entered the range of hand-to-hand combat, their threat would increase sharply.
But now?
Look at the location where it fell, even the longest-range artillery in their hands can’t reach there!
"According to the latest communication from Bishop Egg, the transport ship that crashed towards the large smelter fell 86 kilometers outside our estimated radius. The Mechanicus has already dispatched the rapid forces deployed nearby to conduct a preliminary exploratory attack. Bishop Egg has confirmed that the transport ship's engine suffered devastating damage, which should be the source of its crash."
