Chapter 378 In Front of the Ruined Stars
Light, fierce, dazzling, like the emperor's kindness, cold, terrible, and trembling. Heat, this thing, originated from Prometheus stealing thunder and fire from mortals to the first nuclear fusion as a weapon, and the flames were exerted among people. During this period, it experienced Greek fire, flamethrowers, and many other variations.
Even in the dark forty thousand years today, temperature is still roaring as an existence that can destroy the myriad substances in this world. This is magical, the most essential magic in this world, that is, melting.
Two beams of white light turned into entities, or oak similar to the one that killed vampires, and were smashed into it by a hammer, embedded in the heart of the behemoth, causing a silent and long roar in the void. The destroyed star died under the great power of the empire. Its light is fading, its soul has collapsed, and its light points are scattered around its huge body.
In just half an hour, this behemoth has become a dead thing. The original force that once filled its body has collapsed, and the traitor who drove it will also become part of death in a very short time, but this extreme is different.
Although mortals are stupid and their lives are fragile, the Space Marines among them are a real threat. The gods favor them, and a hundred years cannot take them away. The magic power given to them by the Emperor and his brothers is now used against their compatriots. It is disgusting and nauseating.
Fragments and corpses floated in the void. The heart of this behemoth collapsed. Those deaths turned into a long and terrible hole that was several kilometers long, representing the complete victory of the Empire.
Ailanbaier's arms trembled slightly because of excitement. Waves of cheers like waves were around him. Those loyal elites of the Empire vented all their dissatisfaction and efforts during this period at this command point.
They are like Prometheus who stole fire and taught mortals how to use powerful energy before Zeus discovered it, just like the first mortal pilot who dropped the atomic bomb and left his name in history by murdering tens of thousands or millions of people against millions of others.
What a powerful force this is. Now it has a target of such power. Those burning traces can be clearly seen even if they are tens of thousands of kilometers away. It is like the Emperor took down the flames of the sun, which is more exaggerated than the so-called general cannon, light spear, and all the space-based weapons known to the Empire. And this ability is in the hands of a race that is still immature 40,000 years ago.
Since the beginning of the Dark Technology Age, humans have been constantly mastering more powerful and terrifying powers than this time. The Eldar fearfully called them Monchi, which means barbarians with terrible power. This statement is not groundless, and even to a certain extent, it is true.
It’s just that the Eldar’s behavior of regarding themselves as mentors will only exacerbate the contradictions between humans and them. However, when they see the power of the volcanic cannon, they may have to recite the ridiculous predictions about the future of the universe.
But now, humans have once again proved that their fate can only be determined by themselves, that is, real force and killing can determine their own destiny. When an invincible planetary engine collapsed, all the hazes dissipated, the enemy warships fled in all directions, and this huge corpse was slowly moving outward with the huge gravity outside.
They can follow those movements to find the enemy, but the interior of Engili Port is already a mess. After the former Captain Bordello, now the Governor of Engili, changed his attitude very quickly, he changed from the enthusiasm and joy of victory to the iron-faced and selfless planetary governor.
"Send all the servo skulls and ask them to monitor the situation of the entire hive city. All members of the Ministry of Justice will be dispatched. After the circuit is restored, any illegal acts in the light place will be treated as betraying the empire and sent to the punishment camp!" His words were harsh, and he had obviously been patient for a long time. As the governor of the hive city, he had a wide range of hands and eyes, but he could not stop the malicious emotions from taking root in the dark and obscure place.
Now he can only use worse judgments and harsher means to deal with those lawless criminals, but fortunately, during the power outage, the local PDF still strictly guarded the edge of the lower nest. Every person entering the middle nest needs to read the Emperor's scriptures, and then observe whether his bones have mutations through the perspective equipment arranged by the mechanical sage before entering.
Therefore, during this most chaotic time, those who made Dan were very honest, in order not to let their existence be discovered. After all, no matter how powerful the psychic mimicry is, it is difficult to hide from all the eyes in the fortress where hundreds of people are stationed. At the same time, more than one security check also greatly increases the risk.
Dan knew very well that it was better to approach the imperial high-level officials with more covert means and disintegrate this area unknowingly than to confuse the civilians and show his existence.
At the same time, facing the situation in the void, the imperial navy began to return to the port for maintenance and supplies one after another, because the existence of Engili Port itself was what the Red Pirates wanted, so the imperial high-level officials unanimously agreed that they would get a short break next.
Because there are huge remains outside Engili Port now, the enemy cannot bring the second Ark, which is fatal to them, at this time, because the strong gravity will make them uncontrollable, and there is a possibility that the two nightmare-like behemoths will collide with each other.
Only Alan Bair asked anxiously. "How is the Skadi Fourth Regiment? How long will it take to arrive?"
The communicator answered. "Because of the chaos in the nest city, it will take about four hours to advance back to the upper nest."
This is not much, but on the battlefield, four hours is enough to do a lot of things. Although there is no definite evidence, Alan Baier's sensitive sixth sense has been telling him that this matter is far from over.
He was a little uneasy, but when the cafeteria brought him four strips of Gromon bacon and two fried artificial eggs, with a cup of high-concentration Reka coffee without milk and sugar, he realized that another day had passed.
When Sancan, a mortal, clearly felt that the sign of time disappeared because of the war, he only looked at the battle situation. In this place without stars, Alan Baier once forgot that he still needed to eat, but he did not feel weak, but he finished this meaningless breakfast in less than eight minutes.
Many great figures in human history have such time, not because the food is not delicious, but compared with the huge achievements they have made now, those physical senses can be thrown behind without hesitation.
However, when his stomach was filled, the lord felt his backbone back. When the heat filled his body, his fragile body could hold on for a while longer in this pathetic void. Alan Baier put away the messy tableware and let the hurried mechanical sage use his noble hands to spread out a physical picture drawn on kraft paper for the first time.
Firstly, as an officer of the Imperial Guard, he was most accustomed to such pictures. Secondly, this seemingly simple picture was drawn by him ordering hundreds of thousands of mechanical servants and hundreds of mechanical priests and thousands of internal affairs officials to go up and down on the outer platform where the void could be observed, focusing with the naked eye, and sketching the full view of the current port of Engili.
He drew it during his breakfast time. He never believed in holographic projection. The stars drawn by the naked eye, now reflected by the faint light of Engili's light, were also included in it.
The eyes of tens of thousands of people are focused, overlapping and piling up in it. Although it is not as good as the tens of millions of calculations per second of the Thinker Array, he has an inexplicable trust in such a stupid thing, probably because the thing that draws this picture has a brain similar to his.
And on this chapter of the terrifying star map, which is about 10 meters long, the first thing to bear the brunt is the huge Ark of Evil Omen. Even if it is the largest deep space equipment in the empire, Port Engili is only as big as Port Engili facing ordinary warships in front of it. Now this behemoth is parked here, and there is no news, which makes people feel relieved and terrified.
In addition to Port Engili and the Ark of Evil Omen, the dense dots in the void are the countless warship remains caused by this war, like stars covering a corner of this universe.
At the same time, the Ark of Evil Omen is like a star, with its internal structure constantly burning and emitting light, illuminating this area. The heat reflected by the outer layer of the adamantine of those warships makes them look like stars, forming countless lights in this dark corner of the universe. From the concrete point of view, they are all pain and death, just like the real universe.
Those "stars" are now divided into battleships, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, and transport ships according to their size. Although there are subtle errors, the difference is not big. After all, most ships can only serve as a tiny cover effect in the void battle.
The weapons of a large number of ships have a penetration far beyond people's imagination. Under the condition of the same weapons and equipment, the battle is probably determined by the quality of the void shield and the ability of the boarding troops. It can even be said that in today's universe, countless races have chosen the most primitive fight, that is, close combat to slaughter the enemy, and heavy shields such as the void shield have an indelible contribution.
Therefore, most people could not see why Ailanbaier needed to care about those things that could barely serve as cover, until he looked at them for about eight minutes, and suddenly looked up at the universe recognized by the divination instrument on the normal holographic star map.
The human eye is different from the instrument. In most cases, the instrument is more accurate, but the human eye is not useless, because the instrument may be interfered with. If the enemy is equipped with anti-detection equipment, then they can achieve a certain degree of disappearance on the radar.
Even turning off the engine, an almost suicidal act, can greatly reduce the accuracy of the divination instrument, because its essence is to detect energy and objects suspected of being enemies, and then rely on the huge database of the Thinker Array to match, and a certain amount of manual replacement and confirmation to form the eyes that the empire trusts very much.
But Ailanbaier saw a "star" approaching at this moment, which was not normal, because this dead warship was shown as something that did not exist in the bird divination instrument.
In other words, it was because it reflected the burning light of the Ark of Evil Omen and the light source of the Engili Spaceport that it was possible to be observed. If nothing unexpected happened, this damn thing should be the boarding force that Alanbair had expected.
It turns out that in this cruel universe, no matter how you predict the enemy's greatest malice and madness, it is not enough to completely control them. Those things will not only act unexpectedly in order to survive, but will also act out of your understanding of the current situation again and again.
If Alanbair had not subconsciously felt the necessity of human existence and this war, then, facing the sudden boarding, the Imperial Guard would fall into great chaos, and the enemy would risk cutting into the Ark of Evil Omen to provide more power for the boarding troops.
What gravity, what mutual loss, what death, those heretics don't care from the bottom of their hearts, because taking Engili and this star region is the embodiment of all their goals.
Alan Baier spoke immediately. "There are enemies in this area. Give up the divination instruments and ask the gunners to aim with their naked eyes. It may be a warship full of space warriors. The enemy is going to board!"
Others replied in a mess. "How is it possible? Are they going to launch a meaningless attack? Our defense is so strong?"
And the former captain of Bordello spoke immediately. "Firepower launch, it doesn't matter, even if it is fake, we can't miss the opportunity. Just a few hundred shells are nothing!"
The next second, Engili Port began to vent firepower meaninglessly, but after hitting something, it caused a wave instead of an explosion, which made everyone have to be surprised by Lord Skadi again. When everyone ignored the existence of human beings because of the lack of light here and trusted the so-called thinker array and divination instrument, they almost failed.
However, the shield thickness of the Space Marine ships is much thicker than that of the Imperial warships, and those Space Marines are the elite among the elite. The black ships are relics from the Great Crusade era. Now they are at ease in the face of shooting without the guidance of the auspicious instrument.
The mechanical sage immediately began to report. "It is expected that the enemy will hit the interior in 20 minutes, and the violent power may cause the collapse of the upper nest."
His language was emotionless, but the ticking display light exposed his uneasiness. Everyone was like this. They all felt that they had made serious loopholes in the protection of this place and mistrusted the Emperor's trust in them.
But Alanbair only asked the signalman to do a good job of guarding the Imperial Guard battle group on the upper level of the hive, which was composed of several old regiments and the powerful front line of the Destruction Eagle. The industrial-grade elevators that moved up and down the levels must not be lost, and the heretics must not disrupt any war plans.
At the same time, this means that the bloody ground meat-crushing war has begun. The Red Corsairs once again launched a battle against the Skadi people, but this time the Skadi people are not fighting alone, but the anger of the entire star zone!