Chapter 281 Ghost Signal

Time went back a little, about four hours ago.

Located in the central area of ​​Soul Grabber and Vigilant, in the airspace close to the star.

At present, a large-scale imperial fleet is deploying its battle line under the personal leadership of Calgar, the commander of the Ultramarines.

Under the shining of the star, the firepower group consisting of three battleships and twenty-seven cruisers is slowly turning its bow in a unified direction, and the red light is splashed on the ancient and sacred deck of the battleship.

At the bow, the laurel wreath representing the five hundred worlds of Ultramar and the reliefs on both sides of the hull are shining, and around these giant ships, nearly a hundred smaller warships are scattered in the surrounding airspace according to their respective duties.

Not long after, in the tense bridge room, a female crew member took the initiative to come to Calgar, who was adjusting the fleet deployment, and brought a worrying news.

"We have just lost contact with the Vigilance Shield station. The space disturbance signals around Mandeville Point are still increasing. It is expected that more Chaos warships will arrive in the future."

Vigilance Shield is a space fortress group located outside the Vigilance Galaxy near the direction of the Soul Grabber. It is composed of a large number of torpedoes and heavy laser platforms. It guards the Mandeville Point for ships to pass through. The number of permanent personnel alone is as high as 170,000.

However, now, it has only been less than an hour since it was attacked and completely lost contact. Obviously, this is not a good sign.

"How many enemy ships are currently gathered in the star field?"

"According to the signal of the auspicious instrument, the current number of enemy ships is about more than 500, and according to the signal wavelength, there are still a large number of main battleships among them, about 100."

Five hundred

And one-fifth of them are large battleships of the main battleship level

Comparatively, the Imperial fleet gathered around the star is only less than 200, and the supply and maintenance conditions of each ship are not ideal.

When they heard the report, the naval officers standing behind the chapter leader all frowned. From their erratic eyes, it was not difficult to see that even these veterans who had been through many battles could not help but feel a sense of despair when they heard this number.

During this period, Calgar's eyes never left the dozens of data panels in front of him, which showed the details of the Imperial fleet.

Perhaps it was out of distrust of those allies, or simply to prove that even without the help of the Alliance, they could still meet the expectations of the Primarch and take on the mission of defending the Empire.

As the commander of the Ultramarines, Calgar did not inform the Alliance of the news of the Chaos attack immediately, but chose to take the initiative to lead the Imperial fleet to attack, intending to use multi-level intensive firepower output to give the traitors a head-on blow while the Chaos forces were not yet ready.

In order to achieve this goal, Calgar personally assigned the tasks to be performed by each warship in the fleet, and even the firing angle of each torpedo was carefully calculated by the warlord, so as to deploy a huge interception network around the star.

After an unknown amount of time, a young naval officer took the initiative to step forward and expressed his thoughts to the tall warlord under the vigilant eyes of two members of the Honor Guard.

"Lord Calgar, I think it is the most appropriate choice to request support from the Alliance at this time, or at least wait until the support of the Blood Angels or the Gothic Fleet arrives."

As the voice fell, the naval officers who had been silent for a long time cast worried eyes on the side. From their expressions, it is not difficult to see that these people also agree with the officer's point of view.

However, for such a suggestion, the tall giant only expressed his thoughts in a slightly indifferent tone.

"Those Chaos traitors will not give us enough time to wait for the arrival of support, as for the Alliance fleet."

When he said this, Calgar's tone paused for a moment.

"I hope they can take care of the alien fleets and provide timely support to the battlefield on the ground during our absence. This is also an important task."

The alien fleet that Calgar mentioned refers to the Necrons that suddenly visited not long ago. At this moment, the large-scale tomb fleet is continuously bombing the orc clans in the Dead Forest Festival.

However, anyone can hear that such a statement is just a crude excuse. If nothing unexpected happens, the commander should be worried about the recent behavior of the Alliance.

Since the arrival of the fleet of the Lord of Ashes, the strategic layout of the entire Vigilance Star has almost immediately been dominated by the Alliance, although the Senate led by Calgar is still nominally the highest command department in the war zone.

But including the members of the Mechanicus of Huangquan No. 8 and a small number of nobles and planetary defense forces, they seem to have a special liking for these foreign forces and the support they bring rather than accepting the assignment of the Senate.

In their view, the Lord of Ashes is using technology and productivity to establish his own influence.

The members of the Senate are worried that the arrival of the Alliance may gradually make this planet out of the control of the Empire, just like [Karen Star] not long ago.

And Calgar hopes to do something to re-establish the Senate's dominance in the Vigilant Star.

Soon, the commander continued to add.

"Even without the help of the Alliance, the Human Empire has continued for more than 10,000 years and will continue to exist in the future. These are not their credit. The Empire does not need to rely on outsiders or rely on the protection of others. Those people are just a group of outsiders who have emerged recently."

"I believe that our gene father, the original gene body, must have a better way to lead the Empire through the crisis."

"Instead of relying on the power of aliens everywhere"

I don't know how long it took.

Just as the officers under Calgar were still discussing the analysis results of the auspicious instrument, a scream from the navigator suddenly penetrated the sound array channel and echoed in the minds of everyone on the bridge.

The sound was so painful that no one knew what the psychic had seen. As the alarm sounded, the electronic equipment in the bridge began to show abnormalities. The lights in the hall began to flicker irregularly, and some strange sounds began to appear in the communicator used to contact the fleet.

The next second, the servitor that was originally responsible for recording the data of the auspex suddenly fell into madness and attacked the unprepared mortal officer on the side. Fortunately, an honor guard of the Ultramarines drew his sword in time to cut the crazy servitor in half, which successfully prevented the accident from happening.

However, the crisis was obviously far from over. According to the reports from the decks of the battleship, the large number of servitors and some key electronic equipment inside the battleship fell into chaos almost at the same time.

According to the technical priests on the ship, for some unknown reason, the machine soul in the battleship is becoming more and more irritable, and according to the results of the inspection, these strange changes seem to be related to a tachyon signal with a special frequency sent by an artificial person, an unknown [ghost signal].

Just when everyone was still trying to figure out what happened here, the next second, the originally silent auspicious radar suddenly responded. According to the content, there were suddenly dozens of unidentified ship signals around the imperial fleet.

Strangely, through the observation window of the battleship, the crew did not find any abnormalities in the surrounding space, but as time went by, the signal light spots that appeared in the radar continued to approach, as if surrounded by an invisible fleet. It must be said that this situation is too weird.

In the constant echoing alarm in the bridge, Calgar, as the commander, kept calm as much as possible.

"Be quiet! Find out what happened here! Also notify the fleet to be prepared in case of any abnormal situation"

However, before he finished speaking, an officer in the bridge suddenly raised his hand and pointed out the window with a look of horror.

"Sir! Look there!"

Looking in the direction pointed by the other party, I saw a translucent shadow suddenly appeared in the empty space. From the appearance, it seemed to be a space ship composed of a large number of ship wreckage and planetary fragments.

Like a huge floating fortress, that thing appeared without warning in front of the Imperial Fleet that deployed an interception formation, like a ghost walking in the void.

And with the appearance of that thing, more and more uniquely designed warships began to appear from the void. In just less than a minute, a ghost fleet that seemed to exist in two time and space at the same time and seemed out of place suddenly appeared within the firepower range of the Imperial Fleet.

Even Calgar had never seen such a strange scene before. Seeing those things approaching at high speed, he had no time to think about what they were. At the order of the Chapter Master, hundreds of space torpedoes were fired at carefully calculated angles in an instant.

Countless macro cannons and heavy laser beams launched a concentrated attack on the huge wreck, but there were obviously more strange things than that.

Facing the attack of the Imperial Fleet, the strange ghost fleet did not take any action, but sailed straight into it, allowing countless shells to pass through their constantly flashing amorphous hulls.

When the warhead of the torpedo came into contact with it, the expected explosion did not occur. It seemed that these things did not have a definite entity at all, or that the hull was temporarily hidden elsewhere through some unknown technology.

Such a situation made the naval generals on the scene doubt that perhaps this was just a trick released by the Chaos Party to interfere with the interception of the Empire Party.

Since there was really no way to effectively intercept it, the ghost fleet successfully approached the center of the Empire's front soon, and then something unexpected happened to everyone.

In Calgar's incredible eyes, accompanied by a faint flash of light, it was as if the outer shield had been removed, and the space wreck that was originally in a phantom state suddenly became real again.

"What on earth are these things?"

Without waiting for Calgar to react, nearly twenty small warships with a strong mechanical style following the space wreck also lifted their submerged navigation in the space layer, and then launched an attack on the Empire's warships with the ion cannons equipped on the hull.

The gushing green plasma group hit the void shields of the surrounding Empire warships like a storm, and at the same time, a swarm of drones like a swarm of bees emerged from the [core] area of ​​the space wreck.

The sudden attack undoubtedly disrupted Calgar's deployment and tore apart this carefully compiled interception network. While the commander was still busy readjusting the deployment and trying to prioritize the elimination of these special enemies in front of him, the observer who was responsible for operating the auspicious instrument brought a more desperate news at this time.

"The Chaos fleet has completed the assembly and is now heading towards us!"

"Most of the sensors in the warships are currently out of control. We cannot count the specific number of enemy ships for the time being, but it is roughly estimated that there are more than a thousand enemy ships that have completed the assembly."

"One thousand? How is this possible?"

Although the enhanced surgery of the Space Marines made these demigods almost free from negative emotions such as fear, when hearing this number, Calgar still felt a little terrified in his heart. He couldn't even imagine what it meant to have a thousand warships gathered together.

During the siege of Terra, the fleets of the traitors had clearly been severely damaged, not to mention that the Vengeful Spirit had sunk in the hands of the Alliance not long ago. How could the Chaos traitors reassemble such a large fleet in such a short time with their own strength?

Thinking of this, Calgar could not help but set his eyes on the mechanical fleet that was fighting the Imperial fleet.

Could it be that just as the Empire received support from the Alliance, these traitors also received help from some external forces?

But who could the other party be?

Looking at the enemy ship signals that almost filled the entire screen of the ship-borne auspicious instrument, as well as those strange enemies with fast movements and strange shapes.

Although he was somewhat unwilling in his heart, the situation in front of him was obviously beyond the control of the Empire.

"We need support from the Alliance."

After a moment of silence, Calgar said solemnly to the female officer beside him.