Chapter 464: The Emperor Sits on the Throne, the Emperor Goes on a Great Expedition
While the Far Eastern Star Territory was intensively preparing for a larger-scale war, Russell passed through the gradually dissipating Green Storm through the restarted L-Stargate network and entered the core sanctuary of the Human Empire.
The ancient home of the human race, the solar system.
Regarding the visit of the Star Bomber, there was a lot of discussion in the solar system, and people on Mars, the holy land of the Adeptus Mechanicus, were even more panic-stricken. Forging General Caul was restless because of Russell's arrival. A large number of sleeping forbidden technological creations were secretly awakened by him. Under the red earth of Mars, waiting for the call to attack.
Caul, who was always arrogant, was so nervous that his technicians couldn't help but wonder: "Is the Star Bomber that scary?"
Even if he was really that powerful, given the friendly alliance between the Human Federation and the Human Empire, he shouldn't have pulled a gun from behind.
"What do you know!" Kaul was furious. His thick mechanical arm directly slapped the unscrupulous technician away. The great sage's huge body like a heavy main battle tank nervously moved back and forth in front of the forge. murmured:
"The Star Bomber has never been a friend of the Empire! He has mastered a variety of physical super-light navigation methods including star gates, jump engines, and warp engines from the beginning, but he is only willing to use stars with backdoor programs installed. The gate blueprints were given to Terra in order to make the empire rely on the star gate network under his control, so that the star bomber could control the lifeblood of the empire. "
"The empire that uses the stargate network on a large scale has not been able to break free of the chain called subspace navigation. It has only changed the people holding the chain from lifeless chaos to insidious star bombers. We are still constrained. "
"This is a naked conspiracy, the conspiracy of the Star Destroyer. His plan is extremely vicious. While controlling the transportation lifeline of the empire, he also used the Heritage and Organic Codex to build a strong claim on the legitimacy of human genes. This man is determined to win the throne of the Lord of Mankind..."
"But his plan was broken by me, Caul! I separated the true empire's super-light navigation method, the biological jump engine, from the gene pool of the ether giant worm, because of the ingenuity and amazingness of my great sage Caul. Wisdom! Only then can the empire truly break free and take control of its own destiny.”
Kaul's voice became hysterical: "But will the Star-Buster, who once tried to control the Empire through the Star Gate, sit back and watch all this happen?"
He won't. The careerist whose plan was exposed has already bared his fangs.
So the star bomber came to the solar system, and he came to call for punishment... If nothing else happened, the moment the human federation's fleet entered the solar system, the war started.
"I must immediately discuss with the original body a strategy to fight against the Star Destroyer! Mars is in danger!" Caul gritted his teeth angrily, and his huge body rumbled out of the machine room where the Hollow Forge was located.
Then Caul saw that Russell's fleet was escorted by the Solar System Defense Force and drove directly to the sky above Terra.
"..." Kaul was stunned for a moment, and then quickly explained: "The Star Destroyer is truly a galactic hero who once established the Order of Truth. He was able to suppress his hostility towards me who ruined his plan and pretend to be He went to Terra as if nothing had happened. His scheming was really deep. His behavior was so treacherous that it was almost impossible to predict. "
Even the self-proclaimed great sage has to admit that the wisdom of the star flicker is like the sea and the city is unfathomable.
But in fact, at the same time that Call was lamenting the unfathomableness of the Star Bomber, Gray Wind was lying on Russell's lap, coquettishly asking him: "Don't you go to Mars first before going to Terra? Call's research The biological jump engine was put into mass production at the shipyard on Mars.”
"It's just another imperial-style dark sacrifice, using human lives to make up for the backwardness of technology. There's nothing interesting about it." Russell shook his head, not even looking at Mars.
Later, Russell's fleet docked over Terra, waiting for Guilliman to receive him personally.
Terra, the ancient mother planet of mankind, has been devastated by 40,000 years of suffering. The civil war between warlords has evaporated the ocean of Terra. The emperor's palace occupies the entire Eurasian continent. The light of the star torch shines from Terra. It radiates out from above, dazzling and divine.
Just a little green.
"I actually thought you came to the solar system to go to Mars to see the newly developed jump engine." While waiting, Gray Wind couldn't help but said: "But you don't seem to be interested in Mars at all now... So, dear, you come to Thailand What's the point of pulling?"
Russell touched Gray Wind's head and said softly: "During Armageddon, I gave a fortune to the Emperor."
"Huh?" Gray Feng was stunned: "Does a subspace existence of the emperor's level count?"
"Obviously it can't be counted." Russell shook his head decisively: "What I was counting was actually Guilliman's Indomitus Crusade. I wanted to see what the empire would look like after the biological jump engine was mass-produced by Caul... As a result, in that scene During the expedition, I saw the Emperor."
"The Emperor has come down from the Golden Throne?" Gray Wind suddenly became curious.
"In a sense..." Russell showed a troubled expression: "I saw in the illusion of the subspace that the Emperor's believers divided into two groups and marched toward the Milky Way together."
"On one side is the 'Great Waaagh!!!' launched by the Orc Emperor of the Ultra Clan. Groups of greenskins drove garbage ships and set sail from Armageddon towards the stars."
"On one side is the 'Indomitable Crusade' initiated by Guilliman, which was later called the 'Second Great Crusade' by the faithful believers of the state religion for some reason. At first, I thought that the warmaster in the Indomitable Crusade should be Lion the Lion, and only he could take on this important task... but I was wrong."
"Because I saw the Emperor in the Great Crusade."
Russell sighed, covering his face with his hands and trying not to let himself collapse: "I thought it was the Emperor who came down from the Golden Throne, but when I looked up, he was still sitting on it, so the one in the Great Crusade team What is the golden giant?"
"The answer is 'Brother Emperor'..."
Grey Wind blinked and suddenly realized: "The Emperor split into 'Brother Emperor' and 'Brother Emperor' because of the beliefs of the orcs. Brother Emperor continued to sit on the golden throne of Terra, while Brother Emperor stepped down from the throne and became the warmaster of the Indomitable Crusade, that is, the Second Great Crusade? !"
"It seems so now." Russell held his forehead with one hand: "So I have to talk to the Emperor and confirm His situation in person."
If nothing else, Lion must be the first one to lose his temper when Brother Emperor became the warmaster of the Great Crusade.
While Russell and Grey Wind were discussing the Emperor's split, suddenly, a strong shock wave passed over Terra.
Grey Wind turned his head and saw that the red planet wrapped in a ring of steel suddenly exploded from the middle and split into two halves.
Mars exploded.