Chapter 295 The Rise of the Primarch: Skyblade Fortress

The Judgment Day-class battle fortress - Skyblade, this big guy was born during the Human-Eldar War. It is definitely the largest space vehicle ever built by humans. Yes, there is no other. The volume of this deep space fortress is even larger than the Phalanx, because it was designed to be a mobile starport.

Calling it a starport is too polite. It should be called a battle satellite. Compared with it, the Phalanx of later generations and the battle moon during the Beast War are completely two toys made of scrap metal. Well, the orc one may really be made of scrap metal.

But the Sky Blade, its firepower almost surpasses the limits of almost all man-made aircraft in the history of the entire galaxy. Perhaps only the battle world fortress of the dead can fight it for two rounds. The rest will probably explode into flying fragments in the galaxy the first moment they encounter it.

When the Federation designed it, it was originally intended to make this big guy the core force of the human fleet. The huge Sky Blade fortresses like planets, accompanied by a whole war fleet, directly rushed into the core of the Eldar Empire through teleportation technology, and completely destroyed the Eldar's home planet world and virgin world.

This fleet does not need to be moored or supplied, because the Sky Blade fortress itself can maintain everything they need, whether it is people or weapons and equipment.

Its huge size is enough for the entire fleet, those huge ships that are tens of kilometers long, to dock in the docks and piers around it for maintenance and replenishment, and it can provide a mobile base for the entire fleet to rest, anchor and station.

In addition, it can also carry hundreds of thousands or even millions of operators, naval sailors, marines, and logistics and command personnel. It is a mobile city floating in the universe, not only as a fortress, but also as the real home of its members.

In the huge fortress armor layer, there are modular areas, living areas, entertainment areas, military training and command, production and industrial farms are all included. When you step on it, you almost don’t need to have any contact with the outside world.

Under its hard armor layer equipped with excellent adaptive energy shields, there is an entire automated production intelligent production system. The Federation has implanted a considerable number of weapons and equipment STC standard templates into its system, which allows the Sky Blade Fortress to produce almost all weapons and equipment that humans have when it has raw materials. Even those that don’t have can be produced immediately after the technical research is established.

The Sky Blade carries almost all the weapons and equipment you can think of in the entire golden age of mankind, and even those star destroyers that can destroy the entire planet with one shot. The fully automated weapon array and intelligent control system allow these weapons equipped with the entire planet-sized fortress to efficiently, accurately and thoroughly release all the destructive firepower.

And its operating system is completely implanted with the core system of superior artificial intelligence, which makes this planet-sized fortress actually completely operational without human intervention, from transmission to attack, and all daily operations, maintenance and production can be completed completely automatically.

In the original plan of mankind, the Sky Blade is the core of the galactic-level demolition team. This battle fortress will use its giant transmission engine to transmit the entire fortress into the battlefield. After relying on its powerful firepower to completely destroy the fleet and planetary orbital weapons of the Eldar, it will use its star-destroying weapons to completely blow the Eldar home world into shattered debris and conduct the Eldar's doomsday judgment, so it is also named the Judgment Day class.

The Federation originally intended to use Sky Blade to annihilate, destroy and disintegrate the war potential of the Eldar, but it was not so easy to penetrate the Eldar Empire's weapon defense line at its peak, so the cost of producing and manufacturing Sky Blade's exaggerated weapons and equipment, as well as the shield system, was almost astronomical, and the time to build this planet-level fortress was far beyond expectations.

Moreover, its project was established at the end of the war, so during the entire Human-Eldar War, Sky Blade Fortress did not participate in any war. When it finally finished the long and patience-exhausting construction process, when the super reactor core was truly ignited, the Iron Rain War was over, and the long war between humans and the Eldar finally came to an end.

This huge fortress, which consumed astronomical amounts of resources, was born at the wrong time. Soon because of the end of the war, the parliament cut off the production plan for the subsequent Sky Blade Fortress, so this fortress became the only finished product in the entire series, an orphan, an orphan destined to be forgotten.

But in the end, history has proven that it will not be forgotten. Human history is often ironic. The powerful weapons created by humans often end up not being used against their enemies. In other words, when the enemies that were supposed to be eliminated by these weapons are eliminated, humans will once again embark on the cycle of history and use these terrible weapons against each other.

During the Outer Rim Rebellion, the Federation Army, which was severely damaged in the Human-Eldar War, put this powerful war fortress into the war to suppress the Outer Rim Rebellion. This fortress did play a considerable role and laid many key planets and nodes for the Federation.

And its intelligent part was also strengthened and used more. With the rapid decline of the population of the entire Federation after the war, the army equipped more intelligent systems and combat robots on the Sky Blade. This fully automated killing fortress finally reached its peak.

The Federation Army originally planned to use the Sky Blade Fortress as a fully automated, low-cost deterrent and mobile suppression firepower platform in the Outer Ring after the Outer Ring rebels were eliminated, and use its terrible power to deter the rebellious rebels in the entire Outer Ring.

But ironically, when humans strengthened, polished and trained it into an unparalleled war weapon, the Iron Man Rebellion broke out. With the rebellion wave set off by Red Helen, a large number of intelligent Iron Men, the intelligent weapons created by humans and intended to kill each other, pointed their guns at their masters.

In fact, the Iron Man Rebellion did not violate the purpose of producing these robots and intelligences, because even if they were produced, they were used as the product of the civil war between humans. Their purpose was to obey one group of humans and slaughter another group, just like all human weapons.

And ironically, the Iron Man side of the Iron Man Rebellion was not actually composed entirely of intelligent Iron Man. Some of the alien aliens who had once been dependent on humans and served humans as a servant race for a long time also joined the Iron Man camp.

Most of them were like the common people in the Outer Ring area. They had been oppressed for a long time in the Human Federation. Those dissatisfied alien members who lived as second-class citizens had long been dissatisfied with the Federation.

Before the Iron Man Rebellion, as humans were severely injured in the war with the Eldar, they launched their own riots and uprisings, trying to split from the Federation, and each time they were suppressed by the Federation army, or to be more precise, they were suppressed with the help of Iron Man.

So when the Iron Man Rebellion began, Red Helen invited these dissidents who were dissatisfied with the Federation to join her rebel army. She promised them that she would let them win independence after the war.

So they naturally accepted it, although they may not have thought too much about whether it was a lie, or they had no choice. If the Iron Man War ended, humans would only exploit themselves more cruelly to replace the labor force vacated by the Iron Man.

So, more than a dozen human servant races became rebels overnight. Later, some of the servant army races that were ruthlessly abandoned to humans after the Eldar Empire withdrew to its homeland also chose to join the rebellion in order to avoid human post-war revenge and slaughter.

They had no choice. During the war, they committed too many crimes for the Eldar, so that they had a blood feud and could not negotiate with humans at all. In order to survive, they could only choose to join the Iron Man Rebellion.

So the Iron Man Rebellion is not simply a ruthless robot war against humans like in the Terminator movie, but a race war between the galaxies, a war of survival, and a war against oppression. You can call it what you want.

So when the Iron Man Rebellion began, the Iron Men in the hands of the Federation and the Outer Rim rebels "united" and pointed their weapons at each other's masters. Ironically, with the beginning of the Iron Man Rebellion, the originally fragmented humans suddenly reached a consensus, formed an alliance and cooperated with each other.

The Federation Army and the Outer Rim rebels reached a peace agreement almost instantly. The divided humans once again united under a common threat and formed a unified front to fight against the Iron Man and the rebel army. Isn't it ironic? The Iron Man Rebellion, the final result is that it has promoted the great unification of human society, at least temporarily.

In the crisis of life and death, humans once again faced a crisis like the Eldar War. All contradictions were shelved, and all the new and old hatreds between all planets and political groups were thrown behind their heads. Humans once again operated efficiently to fight against those weapons that were originally their own.

The Sky Blade Fortress became the core of the military force of the rebellious Iron Men. Red Helen stole and seized this fully intelligent fortress as her own vehicle and mobile body. She drove the fortress to attack everywhere, pouring the destructive firepower originally designed by humans to deal with the Eldar on humans themselves.

Red Helen used the Sky Blade Fortress to severely damage and destroy the main naval forces of the Federation, and attacked the core solar system of the Federation with great momentum. A large number of human colonies and planets along the way were destroyed by Sky Blade's planet destroyers. Those attacks caused tens of billions of casualties.

But, in fact, most of the casualties during the entire Iron Man Rebellion were not caused by the Iron Men. After all, Red Helen and the Iron Men did not have the emotions of hatred and bloodlust of flesh and blood races. They were machines, machines created with cold intelligence and programs. They only pursued efficiency, the efficiency of winning, so they would not kill innocent people meaninglessly, not because they had a change of heart, but because doing so was a waste of time and firepower resources, and it was meaningless.

The vast majority of casualties in the Iron Man Rebellion were caused by the rebel aliens in the war, who took out their years of suppressed anger on human civilians. While the Iron Man army was advancing with great momentum, massacres broke out behind the front lines, resulting in hundreds of billions, or even trillions of casualties.

This also directly led to the Emperor's subsequent extermination policy against aliens. During the Great Crusade, those alien races that turned their butcher knives against human civilians during the Iron Man Rebellion were ruthlessly eliminated, although in a sense, the Emperor's final effect was similar to what they did back then.

In short, Red Helen drove the Sky Blade, controlled and commanded the huge Iron Man fleet all the way to the solar system. The human joint fleet tried to stop and intercept her several times but to no avail. Humans did win a few victories, but they still could not change the overall failure of the war.

In a sense, it was also because after the Iron Man Rebellion began, the Federal Parliament, out of fear of the Iron Man, directly dismissed and dismissed all existing Iron Men in the Federal Army, even those Iron Men and artificial intelligence who did not join the rebellion and still chose to be loyal to humans, including the real Helen.

When they were deprived of their authority, sealed and controlled, the human army, which had already been seriously injured, certainly could not stop the army of the Iron Man. Therefore, Red Helen came to the solar system, and the entire federal parliament on Earth was in chaos. The parliamentarians quarreled with each other and shirked the blame for the failure. Aimless disputes were staged on Earth all day long, and chaos, turmoil and madness were staged outside the high walls of the parliament at the same time.

The parliamentary government, which was almost paralyzed, was simply unable to maintain it, or in other words, they did not want to maintain this planet that was about to face doomsday. Anarchy descended on all parts of the earth, and rumors of doomsday spread among the people. Those once noble earth residents who regarded themselves as representatives of reason and truth began to rob each other, shop for zero dollars, shoot and cause chaos, etc., just like the real doomsday.

At this critical moment, the Grand Marshal of the Human Federation, Vito Constantine, proposed to the parliament to restart Helen, let her and himself command the existing federal fleet, and bring all the loyal Iron Men to fight Red Helen in the solar system.

Very classic, Vito was labeled a traitor by the federal government, which was already in chaos, panic and paranoia. They put the blame for the previous defeat on Vito, even though he actually won the Proxima War, the only major victory of mankind since the start of the Iron Man War, with the help of Helen and Iron Man, under absolute disadvantage.

But they still put all the blame on Vito, and even accused Vito of preparing to rebel. Red Helen was Helen's split personality, maybe Vito directed and acted it himself? Used for seizing power and military coup.

The previous rumors seemed to have become true. The federal government removed Vito's military power and put him under house arrest. Helen was also confiscated and prepared to be destroyed. It was stupid, wasn't it? Yes, there were many people who thought the same as you at the time, such as Vito's generals.

After the Federal Parliament's extremely stupid behavior again and again, Vito's generals and officers could no longer bear it. They would no longer listen to the idiots in the parliament and let their soldiers fight a war that was bound to fail, so they collectively chose to mutiny and turned the fact that the idiots in the parliament worried about into reality.

At that time, Terra was still called Earth. The navy in the Earth's orbit and the marines stationed in the starport launched a mutiny. A large number of troops seized and controlled the seat of the parliament, which was then called New York. They rescued Vito and nominated Vito as the chairman of the "National Salvation Committee".

Vito did not intend to become the leader of the military government at the time, nor did he intend to launch a military coup, but after all, everyone was still on the verge of being finished, so Vito chose to accept the appointment. He led the marines directly into the intelligence center that was about to destroy Helen and rescued Helen from it.

Then, it was the final decisive battle. Vito led the last main force of the Federation's navy, and with the assistance of Helen, brought all the iron men loyal to mankind, as well as some alien race warriors who also fought for the Federation, such as stone men. Vito led them in a mighty manner, using himself and Helen as bait to attract Red Helen to fight him in a decisive battle, and the location was on Jupiter.

That was definitely one of the most difficult battles Vito had ever fought, but in the end, after a tragic battle that was no less than the Iron Man Battle, the main force of Red Helen's Iron Man rebels was destroyed, and she herself jumped on board with Vito and Helen. After sacrificing a large number of marines and loyal iron men, Vito implanted the real Helen into her system. In the end, the two Helens fought the final battle, the real Helen won, and the red Helen was completely shattered into data fragments.

With the demise of Red Helen, the Iron Man army also fell into chaos. In the end, humans won the war with difficulty. However, the Sky Blade Fortress was finally paralyzed by the firepower attack launched by the Federation Navy after the disappearance of Red Helen, and fell into the atmosphere of Europa and sank into the eternal deep sea.

As a witness to the beginning of the entire Iron Man rebellion and the final end, the fortress fell into the deep sea. Vito did not salvage it at that time. First, he did not have the ability to do so. At that time, the remaining federal army had to immediately participate in the war to suppress the alien allies of the remaining Iron Men. Second, Vito did not know whether there were any dangerous things in the fortress, and whether Red Helen had been completely destroyed when she fell to the ground.

For safety reasons, he chose to let the Sky Blade sink in the icy sea of ​​Europa as a permanent monument to that tragic war, warning humans and their descendants not to make the same mistake again.

But, judging from the results, the Federation was ultimately destroyed by humans themselves. Believe me, the Iron Man Rebellion was definitely not the real source of the Federation's destruction. A powerful empire never collapses from the outside, but from the inside.

And this is another story.

And now, Vito finally came here, in this cursed fortress, to save the Earth again, or to save Terra, using this fortress that almost destroyed the Earth to save the Earth. Ha, history sometimes really likes to play tricks on people.

Vito thought about ending his memories, he sighed for a long time, and slowly opened his eyes. He looked at the closed circular door in front of him.

He looked at the thing, then turned his head to look at Helen in his hand and nodded, "Open it."

Helen stood on Vito's hand. After a moment of silence, she gently waved to the control panel on the side. As her palm composed of light threads waved across the panel, the circular door quickly opened to both sides.

Vito stood in front of the door and looked at the darkness. As the door completely disappeared into the crack, lights lit up one after another in the dark corridor. Bright light came from afar. Vito looked at the lights that lit up one after another, illuminating everything, illuminating the corridor in his memory, the corridor leading to the fortress command tower.

Vito looked at everything in the corridor. There were still traces of the time. There were bullet holes everywhere on the wall. The cutting marks left by the ion weapon when it shot through the wall were still clearly visible. There were steel fragments scattered all over the ground. The damaged laser cutting sword fell to the ground and fell with another weapon.

Gunshots rang in his ears, shouts and electronic flesh and blood shouting and killing each other. The sound became stronger and stronger, and hallucinations began to appear in the corridor. Vito seemed to see the fighting warriors, wearing Thor's power armor, fighting with the Iron Man. Guns and cannons roared, laser swords collided and roared in the corridor battle, and the whistling bullets seemed to shoot directly past Vito's ears, causing him to have a tinnitus.

Vito looked at the illusory mirror image in the corridor. Everything was about to swallow up Vito's mind. He closed his eyes, frowned with the chaotic noise, and turned his head to one side.

"Sir?" Helen asked softly. Vito suddenly opened his eyes, and the gunshots and illusions suddenly disappeared. Vito looked at Helen. He could see that Helen was also lost in the contemplation of past memories. She must remember it more clearly than Vito, and was more tortured.

Vito sighed deeply, and then looked at the end of the corridor. "Nothing, just, I didn't expect that I would come back here and save the earth again."

"Come on, dear, let's get this big guy out of the water." Vito walked into the corridor. He walked along the corridor full of bullet holes and weapon attack debris, and walked to the place where he walked from that year, the bridge of the Sky Blade during the final battle.