The Protoss in Warhammer

Chapter 309 297. Charon Expedition

Gray immediately contacted his troops after Netat left. He would not be stupid enough to go out on his own for this operation. This time, it was not like a special operation like the one in Blackstone Fortress, but a war with an entire Forge World. In this way, the intensity of the battle would be much higher.

If there was no powerful fleet as a shield to protect it, the result would be imaginable. His goal would never be achieved, and the fragment would fall into the hands of the Mechanicus forever.

Although Gray himself had a huge fleet, he did not intend to pull out such an ace fleet for battle.

Unlike other so-called Old Saints' navies, this huge private fleet only obeyed Gray's orders. They were the Old Saints' Guards, and the actual command of other armies was mostly divided up by the Parliament and their generals. The Old Saints' Guards were undoubtedly one of the most powerful armies in the entire Eastern Galaxy, enough to defend more than 200 planets centered on Aiur.

The reason why Gray did not intend to fully activate such a fleet was very simple, because their main goal was to defend the entire Greater Aiel region to prevent the five evil gods in the warp from doing something strange when they were not there. Moreover, this trump card had to be kept all the time, and Gray had to keep his power in the entire Aiel region to maintain his influence.

This was not because he was worried and vigilant about Aldaris, but because he was wary of the dissatisfaction of some parliamentarians and leaders of political factions. They were not enemies, but they had some small thoughts, and it was best to prevent them from having such small thoughts.

Aldaris quickly put his propaganda machine into operation and also notified the religious faction. Soon, under the vigorous propaganda of the conservative faction of the Supreme Speaker and the religious faction, the tone of this war had been set:

The conservatives claimed that this was an invasion of the Empire's territory by the Mechanicus, and they took away the remains of the gods. This was a trampling on the dignity of the country, and they must fight back to defend the dignity and property shared by the Kalai race and all the races of the Empire. The religious faction directly claimed that this was a holy war. They called on all races to donate so that the army of the ancient saints would be ready to attack those backward and superstitious technological shamans, recapture the remains of the gods, and defend the purity of their beliefs.

When Gray saw the news report, he couldn't help but laugh at himself and said,

"Who could have thought that one day religious belief would become an indispensable thing for our race?"

Faith, religion, superstition. Sometimes you have to sigh that these things are very useful, because in some cases, it will become one of the few commonalities in a group and the best healing agent for pain.

War costs money, and Kalai doesn't have the ability to make every expedition like the human empire launched, which makes the sky angry and the people resentful, and at the same time he himself has nothing to do. There is no way, who wants the golden humans and the emperors in the golden age and the great expedition to have such a thick foundation, no matter how the waste and maggots of the high lord council squander it, it can still stand proudly above the stars.

Therefore, Gray is doing his best to avoid war, not only to reduce the internal friction of the so-called Order camp, but also to find ways to reduce the internal expenses of Kalai, so as to prepare for the inevitable war in the fable hundreds of years later. But in a galaxy full of wars, where is peace? In fact, a war breaks out in Kalai every week. On the long border of the empire, conflicts are breaking out with the human empire, the Orks, the Tyranids, the Eldar pirates, and even those unnamed alien races. If it had been neutral in the past, it would have been a big fuss in the country because of this situation.

But the Old Saints appeared, and the former Old Gods returned to his people. The religious fanaticism wiped out the harm and pain brought by the war. More and more people believed that such a war was for the peace of the Old Saints and the galaxy. And more reasons are that the opponents they fought against were indeed a little too brutal, which made them more impressed and believed that this kind of war would bring freedom and liberation.

Under the call of freedom and liberation, the people were brave and excited. They learned about the things that the Mechanicus did in the propaganda: turning living people into mechanical slaves without thoughts and feelings, ignoring life, believing in stupid technological shamans, etc. All the most common darkness in the galaxy was unreasonable in their eyes. In their eyes, everything must be modified and corrected to restore the order and light of hundreds of millions of years ago.

Under this concept, the army was formed, with 4 motherships, 14 aircraft carriers, 56 auxiliary warships, and of course, the most terrifying amphibious landing ship of the Ancient Saint.

In fact, if it is just to deal with a forge world, it doesn’t take so much effort. The main thing is the soul fragment. I don’t know what the fragment has become after being beaten by Kellarian. Don’t make a Kalai Protoss version of the Star God fragment in the end. And what’s more terrible is that the ripples of the subspace began to be violently attracted, and the Chaos Gods who smelled the smell have begun to act. They must be prepared for a two-front battle. That’s why he needs such a huge army to deal with all these problems and win.

And the arrival of the amphibious landing ship also has another benefit, because this thing is also a mobile dock, for example, part of the aircraft carrier and the mothership can be directly docked in the amphibious landing ship. After all, this voyage in the webway is no less than five months. Due to the fluctuations of the subspace soul sea, even the webway is affected, so the journey will be longer than originally expected, and it will be safer to place the warship in the mothership.

If they suffer terrible losses on the battlefield, they can even directly build four aircraft carriers or a medium-sized mothership in the dock in the belly of the ship with the parts inside, which can directly play a key role in the direction of the war.

Therefore, the amphibious landing ship is like a space castle, which can prepare for the long-term tug-of-war that will be faced in the future. After all, it can store millions of soldiers. If it really consumes, the expeditionary force is not inferior to the forge world and possible imperial reinforcements and chaos forces.

After thinking that they were well prepared, Gray also began to arrange the plan for the underground facilities after he left, stopped the large-scale search for books, and Erda and Marcus tried not to leave Aiur. Phoenix's guards would start daily patrols after entering the underground to prevent accidents.

The shining blue sun appeared again above Aiur, and the huge fleet would cross tens of thousands of lights and come to the hazy star field to seize their heritage.

So in M41 938, the Charon Expedition began.