Chapter 231 The Rise of the Primarch: Battle of Sosa

Vito still remembers that the first time he came to Sotha was during the Great Crusade. At that time, they heard that in the border star system in the far east of the Milky Way, there was a great monarch who was knowledgeable, talented, benevolent and just. He was tall and powerful. To be honest, every Primarch is easy to identify, right? I mean, there are not many humans who can grow to 4, 5 or 6 meters tall.

So the Emperor immediately recognized who Guilliman was, and then ordered the fleet to turn to the Macragge star field. Vito was still the Supreme Marshal of the Imperial Army, Navy and Space Marine Legion at that time, so he followed. Vito was present when almost all the Primarchs returned.

And after the not-so-moving father-son reunion in Macragge, Vito took the fleet to survey the surrounding star fields. After all, this is the edge of the Milky Way. Vito once wanted to transform it into a fortress world like Cadia.

But of course, as the Five Hundred Worlds were later assigned to Guilliman, the King of the Far East decisively rejected Vito's large-scale construction and reconstruction plan, and insisted on preserving the natural environment of the entire Five Hundred Worlds, so that even after ten thousand years, it would still be the most beautiful galaxy in the entire empire.

When Vito first came to Sosa, it was just an unknown uninhabited planet at the edge of the Milky Way, with no permanent residents. Even the plants and animals on this planet were very rare, and only a few valleys were green, and the rest were barren and barren wilderness.

Even the word Sosa means "nothing land", and you can see how miserable it was back then.

In those days, Sosa was just a small transit station on the eastern border, providing limited supplies and rest for wandering merchants and adventurers, and scientific research fleets traveling from south to north. Almost no one would notice this unknown planet.

Especially during the Heresy, after the Night Lords besieged Sotha and the Shadow Crusade, this place became deserted, but later Guilliman gave it to the 117th Company of the Ultramarines Legion for permanent stationing. This regiment, later known as the Emperor's Scythes, settled here.

Unlike their name, their scythes only harvested the Emperor's enemies, but they were very concerned about their home world, and developed the superior management and construction talents of all Guilliman's descendants. They joined forces with the Mechanicus to transform this place into a livable garden world in ten thousand years.

When Vito passed by here again a thousand years later, what he saw was no longer the barren land and the large craters after the orbital bombing, but a land full of vitality and beauty. Magnificent primeval forests were scattered at the foot of every towering mountain on the continent, and green grasslands covered the once barren land. The craters caused by the orbital bombing were either filled or transformed into beautiful artificial lakes.

Vito still remembers sitting on the edge of the forest, feeling the breeze on his cheeks, the warm sunshine on his face, listening to the forest rustling in the wind, and gazing at the beautiful blue lake and the magnificent waterfall rushing down the mountains.

This place made Vito miss home at the time. He seemed to have returned to the place where he grew up, the beautiful land of the Greek Islands, which brought back many memories for Vito, but when he came to this land again at the end of these 41 millennia, he knew that the beautiful Sousa was gone just like his hometown in his memory.

Those beautiful lands and forests were destroyed by bombing, the towering mountains turned into collapsed rubble, and the green grasslands were flattened by raging flames and ruthless war machines. Under the ravages of the army of destruction, this place has become a land of death like it did ten thousand years ago.

Life was driven away from here, and only death remained. Vito's small planet in the far reaches of the Milky Way could still see the flames rising from the explosion even though it was tens of thousands of kilometers away. The raging fire almost rushed straight out of the atmosphere and burned everything.

"It's the same as ten thousand years ago, Loken, almost exactly the same as ten thousand years ago." Vito said as he stood in front of the window. Loken stood behind him and looked at Sosa in the distance. His pupils reflected the explosions and the Chaos Fleet floating on the surface of the planet like ink.

Loken sighed long and regretfully, "I just hope that everything will not be the same as it was back then, Marshal." "That depends on our performance, Cole, what are the results of the divination scan."

Vito said as he turned around and looked at Cole in front of the holographic image. He and Captain Eisenstein were looking at the projection of the Sosa planet in front of them. As the scan progressed, everything on the planet began to become clear, from a blurry sphere to an extremely clear battlefield hologram.

Cole turned his head and looked at Vito, who nodded. He turned back and continued to look at the star in front of him, and Vito and Loken walked to the holographic image together.

Cole pointed to the extremely high-definition planetary scan in front of him. The scanner of the Infinite Frontier had been greatly enhanced after being blessed by the radar of the Great Expedition era. Its scanning accuracy has far exceeded all existing imperial warships, so what they saw was not the mosaic clarity picture seen by most navies, but a real 4K high-definition picture.

"There are two pieces of news, one good news and one bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?" Cole asked. Vito stood with his hands on his waist and looked at the holographic projection in front of him. Every red dot on it was a real-time bombing, and now the projection was full of red dots, densely superimposed on each other.

Vito looked at the picture with a smile and quickly reviewed all the key information on it. "It's so classic. Let me tell you the good news first."

"The good news is that as we expected, the Emperor's Scythe Chapter is indeed still resisting. They are resisting tenaciously in the construction of the church in Sotha Mountain." Cole zoomed in on the hologram to that area with a wave of his finger. , Omega assisted on the side, his mechanical tentacles were inserted into the card slot, and the system and data information were like a part of his body.

As the map zoomed in, the towering mountains appeared in front of Vito. At the foot of the mountains was the monastery gate of the Emperor's Scythe Chapter. A fierce blocking battle was going on outside the towering city walls and the magnificent gate.

"Lord Cirsius, the Chapter Master of the Emperor's Scythe, is currently leading the Space Marines and the mortal auxiliary troops withdrawn from the surrounding planets, struggling to resist the Chaos army that successfully landed in the wasteland. According to our scans It is shown that the main participants in the attack are the Night Lords rebel army."

Vito nodded and held his chin thoughtfully. He turned to look at Omega, "Octopus, is the fortress' void shield still complete?"

"I remind you again, Marshal, please don't call me the name of a flesh-and-blood creature like Octopus, and yes, the Fortress Void Shield is still intact." Omega spoke word by word, and the mechanical sound came from his sound generator. Jump out word by word.

"The strength of the void shield can still be maintained, but I suggest that the war be ended as soon as possible to avoid overloading the void shield after continuous bombing. The current energy spectrum scan has shown that the energy supply of the void shield has been opened to the maximum, which is very dangerous."

Vito nodded, and then he raised his head and looked at the black spike on the top of Sosa Mountain. The huge spike tower was very huge, and its size was as big as a destroyer. It stood on the top of the mountains. , like a sharp spear piercing the sky.

"Where is the lighthouse? Is there any damage?" Vito asked. A long stream of data passed over Omega's eyes. He shook his head. "According to the scan results, there is no sign of damage, but due to the mountain Interference with the void shield makes it impossible to detect the specific situation on the inside of the mountain. It is recommended to log in for inspection. "

Vito nodded and turned to look at Cole. The latter waved his hand and the image quickly shrank to the size of the planet. As Cole tapped his finger on the surface of the planet, dense projections of chaos warships appeared in front of him. .

Vito looked at the Chaos battleships surrounding the planet. Cole pointed at the ships and said, "This is the bad news I said. Chaos has completely sealed Sosa, without any flaws."

Cole's fingers slid across the equator of the planet, and as the planet rotated, countless huge fleets also rotated. Vito looked at those ships one by one.

"The Chaos Fleet has blocked all orbits from near earth to far earth. We can't even get close. We can only park the Infinite Frontier at its current location. If we get close, we will be discovered immediately and be sieved by concentrated fire."

Cole said and retracted his finger, and the rotating planet stabilized. Vito looked at the planet thoughtfully with his chin in his hands, while Cole looked at the completely locked orbit with his hands behind his back, "We can't If you deliver it to the landing distance, no aircraft can pass through the blockade without being discovered. Landing on Sosa is tantamount to death. "

"The premise is that we are discovered, and the premise of being discovered is that Chaos will notice us, right?" Vito said with a smile, pointing to the things that kept falling from the planet's atmosphere, which were red dots that kept appearing suddenly and looked like Shooting stars one after another, "What are those?"

Cole frowned slightly as he looked at those things, but soon realized what those things were, "Those are enemy and enemy ships that were destroyed in previous space battles. Their wrecks are suspended around the planet, and sometimes they are destroyed by the planet itself." After being captured by gravity, it fell into the atmosphere.”

"What are you thinking?" Cole looked at Vito differently, and the latter showed an evil smile. Loken on the other side took a breath after seeing it.

"No, Marshal, you don't want to." "That's right, Loken, that's what I was thinking about."

"Sorry to interrupt you, what are you talking about? What's that move?" Cole asked in confusion, Vito smiled jokingly, and Loken sighed silently and rubbed his neck.

"The marshal plans to let us hide in the wreckage of those warships and fall into the atmosphere with them to avoid the vigilance of Chaos." Loken said helplessly, Eisenstein frowned and Cole looked at Wei in shock. Tuo, he slapped the table and shouted in annoyance.

"Are you crazy?! The wreckage in the atmosphere will quickly hit the surface, and you are likely to be smashed together with the wreckage!"

"Just break away before the impact. We will drive up the Thunderhawk and break away from the end of the wreckage after it falls into the atmosphere to complete the penetration." Vito waved his hand and said, as if it was no big deal to this almost crazy plan.

Cole was speechless and held his forehead. He had forgotten that Vito was so crazy regardless of whether he was a marshal or not. But when Cole was speechless, Eisenstein stepped forward and nodded.

"This plan is indeed feasible, Marshal. During the Beast Wars, Chapter Commander Thane used similar tactics to hit Ullanor, giving the greenskins a sudden and heavy blow."

Eisenstein said, still frowning, and he looked at the wreckage suspended in the universe, "But this plan has a premise. We need to have the best pilot in the galaxy, who can escape from the impact of the rapidly descending wreckage." atmosphere without stalling and crashing, and such pilots are hard to find.”

Vito smiled and pointed his thumb at himself, boasting, "No, because the best pilot in the galaxy is right in front of you."