too late, organism

This period is called the Renaissance Era. In the 2000 years after the Saint-class battleships began to serve on a large scale, the empire's territory gradually recovered to the level before the rebellion began, and it was able to rely on numerical superiority to win almost all wars. .

For a while, it seemed that the empire had returned to the era when the emperor and all his heirs were still fighting for the empire, but it was like when the emperor was still walking in the world, Chaos was secretly planning their conspiracy. Chaos has also prepared another dagger in the shadows for the Empire, ready to stab at the heart of the Empire again.

Episode 320 Episode 304

Due to the vast territory of the empire, to maintain such a huge empire, the number of starships required is astronomical. At the same time, in order to deal with the threats of aliens and chaos, the empire must give priority to the limited output of superluminal engines for the navy.

So much so that warp space navigation engines are still used on a large scale in the empire's merchant fleet, which gives chaos a chance to corrupt.

For a long time, even in the golden age of human beings, in order to navigate in the subspace, human beings have a group of psionic mutants called navigators who provide navigation for huge starships so that the ships will not be in the subspace. Trek in space.

Even after the Emperor, who hated mutants and psykers, established an empire, in order to travel among the stars, the Emperor tolerated the existence of families including astropaths and navigators.

Even if you hate psykers and mutants, these astropaths and navigators are indispensable to maintain the empire lock.

But things began to change when the catcar brought the warp drive and regular inter-system communication to the Emperor.

Especially when Vulkan became Regent of the Empire, while the Empire began to weaken the authority of the High Lords, the Navigator family began to suffer the most serious weakening.

Especially when the empire began to replace the engines of naval battleships with curvature engines in batches, the navigators who were originally used by the navy to use the net stagnation field for strategic reserves for fear of not being enough, were kicked out of the naval fleet for the first time.

After that, some members of the Navigator family also began to appear on the black ship of the Inquisition Chamber.

After the emperor sat on the golden throne, in order to reduce the pressure on the emperor, the star moments located all over the empire need to be filled with some special fuel to reduce the consumption of the emperor. This kind of fuel is the psyker.

It may be from that time that the navigator family, which was originally a member of the high lord council, began to gradually degenerate.

Although the Emperor had expected this, the Tribunal and the Assassin Court paid special attention to these dangerous people, and discovered and tried many navigators who wanted to embrace Chaos in time.

But it seems that the emperor did not expect the scale of his son's rebellion to be so large. At the same time, Magnus, who was nicknamed the magic pony, would initiate a psychic communication with himself at the most terrible time, making everything irreparable .

Nor did the Emperor anticipate that Chaos would unleash the greatest invasion of all time at this point in time.

In the three thousandth and 760th year after the end of the Beast War, that is, not long after the beginning of 307.M36, an unprecedentedly large Chaos Legion rushed out of the Eye of Terror and launched an attack on the Empire.

In this war known as the first invasion of darkness, Chaos dispatched the Primarchs including Lorgar, Magnus, Angron, etc. The famous Chaos Space Marine Warband.

At the same time, just like every Chaos invasion, an unprecedented warp space storm enveloped the Gothic star sector. A large number of demons poured out of the space crack and occupied the entire planet almost instantly.

And those chaotic battleships gushing out from the Eye of Terror also caused heavy losses to the Gothic fleet that was supporting those planets that were attacked by chaos from the very beginning.

But the empire is no longer the same empire as before. After changing the curvature engine, although it is still a difficult task to dispatch the huge naval fleet of the empire, after getting rid of the interference of the subspace, the empire navy can follow the emperor's order. It is necessary to devote time to any battlefield to punish the enemies of the empire.

So in front of the imperial navy that was constantly coming, the Chaos troops, which had completely lost their numerical advantage, had to carry out large-scale landing operations, and reduced the imperial navy by invading Cadia or mixing the Vigilante with the imperial defenders. The advantages.

And this unprecedented chaos invasion, especially the appearance of the Primarchs who usually hide in the depths of the Eye of Terror, has greatly attracted the attention of the empire and even the emperor, and even Vulkan is preparing to Leading a large Legion of Space Marines and some of the Custodians to meet his fallen brethren for a while.

And at this moment, members of the rebellious Navigator family who were scattered all over the galaxy launched their long-planned rebellion.

Countless merchant ships sailing in the warp left the range illuminated by the star moment and lowered the Geller force field, sacrificing the entire ship to the evil god of chaos.

And those navigators who are located in the space station or hive outside the ship also use some innocent passers-by, their friends, or simply their own souls to sacrifice to Chaos and open up countless subspaces. crack.

In order to deal with the unprecedented chaotic invasion in the Gothic sector, the empire dispatched a large number of mobile troops to the Gothic sector to fight against the invasion of the traitors. When members start a rebellion.

The Imperial Navy can't spare enough ships to support the invaded planets, especially when a large number of ships are sacrificed to Chaos, and it is impossible to determine whether the remaining navigators are Chaos believers or not. The Star Defense Forces are also unable to mobilize on a large scale to support those invaded planets.

Although the battleships of the space warriors have been replaced with curvature engines, their number is too rare compared to the number of these invaded planets, especially when some irrational governors and star defense forces are attacking those who have not rebelled. The preventive execution of the navigator family made the situation even worse.

Finally, when the Imperial Navy defeated the Chaos fleets pouring out of the Eye of Terror, it began to carry the assembled Astral Defense Forces to the planets that had been invaded by demons.

Everything is too late.

So far, the imperial administrative agency has not announced how much the empire suffered in this rebellion initiated by the navigator family, which is called the second rebellion.

But after the Second Rebellion, famine and reduced production capacity due to lack of enough cargo ships appeared on almost every imperial world, even on Holy Terra, there were protest teams of hungry people.

So much so that the Emperor even had to order the Imperial Navy ships to temporarily put into transportation operations. Even the trump card that the Fist of the Empire would hardly use, the largest battleship in the Empire, the Mountain Array, was also put into transporting food for the Holy Terra. work.

It took more than 3000 years from this time until the Imperial Navy stopped assisting the Merchant Fleet in material delivery, which is known as the era of scarcity in history.

Chapter 321 305 An Old Friend of the Human Empire

In the long era of scarcity, as the Navigator family became unreliable, and the Chaos God continued to carry out large-scale invasions of the Empire through the sacrifices of cultists.

In the past 3000 years alone, the Chaos Gods have launched more than eleven dark invasions. What's worse is that after the Chaos Invasion, those aliens who were originally hidden in the corners also began to take advantage of the fire to loot, whether it is the Dark Eldar The orcs, who were still severely injured in the Beast War, all wantonly devoured the flesh and blood of the giant empire at the moment when the empire was weakest since the Horus Rebellion.

During this period of time, the heavy cargo and combat tasks exhausted the glorious Imperial Navy, and although the honorable Star Guards were full of courage to sacrifice themselves to punish the enemies of the Empire at any time, but in the face of the pervasive chaos and corruption, courage is not enough. And honor can sometimes bring irreversible corruption.

In the pervasive penetration of chaos, the empire did not stand still, although the emperor once banned religion in the empire, and promoted the imperial truth with scientific and technological progress as the main theme of the empire as the orthodox spirit of the empire.

But when the Emperor sat on the Golden Throne, things changed again.

The belief of the people of the empire in the emperor has strengthened the power of the emperor in the sea of ​​souls. The belief of the trillions of people in the empire has made the emperor a round of icy sun in the sea of ​​souls. The subspace demons even just see the emperor The brilliance will be irreparably damaged.

So when the emperor got the speaking device, the imperial church did not show how to run from the Holy Terra to the Eye of Terror in 5 minutes in the emperor's anger.

On the contrary, the state religion of the Empire, like those astropaths who were soul-bound with the emperor, was bestowed with the emperor's spiritual power by the emperor and became the most loyal servant of the emperor.

And in the era of scarcity that lasted for 3000 years, it was these emperor's most loyal servants who used their own flesh and blood to build the empire's solid line of defense in the battlefield of the soul in this dark age.

And it is precisely in this seemingly endless battlefield between the soul and the will that the Battle Sisters, the fanatical fighters who call themselves the Emperor's Daughters, were able to escape from the state religion's numerous religious orders with the most devout faith and the most fearless sacrifices. It stood out from the rest of the world and even replaced the holy war knights, the most important armed force of the state religion.

In the 530th year after the beginning of the era of scarcity, relying on large-scale sacrifices of cultists, an army composed of demons and word bearers among the fallen space fighters appeared in the limit star field through the crack of the warp space. For San Leo on the farming planet.

When the demon army appeared, the planetary defense forces on San Leo, who had never faced such a dangerous enemy, were almost collapsed. Just as the demon army was about to occupy this planet and turn it into a plaything in the hands of the warp gods .

A small monastery in St. Leo opened its gates, and five hundred nuns with crude weapons walked out of the monastery and embarked on the road to fight for the Emperor.

Although it seems that these nuns who only have simple cold weapons are no match for the monsters and ghosts in the subspace, but when some of these nuns spread their wings behind their backs and fly in the sky, they can use the weapons bestowed by the emperor with just a wave of their hands. Even the most cowardly of the Planetary Defense Forces were plucked up after the divine power burned away those daemons and Chaos Space Marines.

When the Imperial reinforcements arrived, they saw the Planetary Defense Forces led by the War Sisters, slaughtering the daemons in the warp, while the Word Bearers were scrambling to escape into the warp rift.

So from then until the end of the Age of Scarcity, the War Sisters served as vigilant guards on the Empire's line of faith, building their monasteries in almost every star field belonging to the Empire of Man.

It wasn't until the No. 40th millennium, when the Human Empire finally recovered from the lack of transportation capacity with the assistance of the Mechanicus, it began a large-scale expedition called the Reconquest Movement.

Different from the aggressive style of the Great Expedition era, the attack style of the Reconquest Movement is very conservative. It is no longer a large-scale offensive that brings together all the mobile forces of the empire, but a merciless attack launched by a small elite battle group. A short assault, capture a star field to consolidate a star field, and then launch a new offensive to the next star field.

This kind of steady offensive makes the aliens and chaos have almost nowhere to attack, especially the emerging alien empire Tau Empire rising in the extreme star field. These noseless aliens control an empire composed of multiple alien members.

Having determined that these xenos were not the mindless savages that the Imperium had often encountered, the Emperor declared that these xenos, unaware of the warp, would be a threat to humanity.

So Vulkan, the Regent of the Empire, led the largest expeditionary force since the Great Crusade, convening a large number of space warriors including the Custodians, including the Death Watch, War Sisters, Star Guards, and knight families who drove huge walking war robots , a huge expeditionary force including the Mechanicus fleet, which has a strong interest in alien technology, launched an expedition to the Tau Empire.

In the beginning, these aliens were still relying on their own flesh and blood, as well as the creations of alien technology to resist. Their large number of war machines such as combat uniforms and guns caused a lot of trouble for the Imperial Expeditionary Force.

But when the Titans of the Custodian and the Mechanicus appeared on the battlefield, all these supernatural beings could do was delay the inevitable defeat with their own lives.

Just as the Imperial Expeditionary Force was advancing triumphantly, an unprecedented large-scale subspace storm blew across the entire empire. Not only did the expeditionary force fighting far away on the edge of the Limit Starfield lose contact with Terra, in fact the subspace The storm cut off half the empire from Terra.

Although due to the existence of the curvature engine, the empire was still able to obtain sporadic news from the other half of the empire through the merchant fleet, but after the connection between the regent king and the elite mobile force that assembled most of the empire was interrupted, the empire once again fell into a situation where it could only Relying on the situation where the local governors and sectoral government agencies play their own roles.

Although the emperor can know almost everything that happened in the empire through prayer, the evil gods in the warp do not seem to intend to let the human empire out of their grasp, and no one knows what happened in the warp.

But on a certain day in the millennium No.40, all the emperor statues in the empire not only shed blood and tears, but also showed a large number of cracks, and the emperor on the golden throne has never spoken to the emperor since that day. His servants said a word.

And the leaderless government departments on Terra had to rebuild the High Lords Council again to maintain the operation of the empire until the regent returned or the emperor spoke again.

And at this time, the old friends of the Human Empire once again came to the Human Empire, which was in crisis again, in a voyage.

Chapter 322 306 Emperor!As expected of you!

When Maoche knew what happened to the empire in the past 1 years.

After holding back for a long time, Maoche could only sigh in his heart, he deserves to be the emperor, so messed up...

After figuring out what the general situation is now, Maoche feels that waiting for this matter, the emperor will not make him a prince and give him a few daughters, which will be sorry for Maoche's contribution to the empire.

Therefore, as the saints recorded in the classics of the national religion, and the airdrops on the planet are the Shenluo version of the war nuns, so the governor and defense forces on this planet did not question the cat car. After all, the saints in the classics of the national religion The cat cart appeared so abruptly on Terra 1 years ago and saved the empire.

It is also reasonable to appear in the Hadwell agricultural world after 1 years. Who is not a devout believer in the state religion?

After discovering that his name seemed to be extremely useful, Maoche began to use his fame to withdraw cash without hesitation. Anyway, after withdrawing the cash, it was also used in the empire. I think the emperor would not mind his little currency being used by cats. The car was misappropriated elsewhere.

So Mao Che began to mobilize the surviving Krieger troops on this planet, but when mobilizing the Krieger troops, Mao Che saw a somewhat familiar surname, and only after asking did he know that this somewhat familiar surname was A descendant of the political commissar who I used to make a talking device for the emperor back then.

After such an acquaintance, of course, he had to be asked to bring it with him as a spare part of the talker. After all, after 1 years, according to the technical habits of the empire, maybe the two brains soaked in the talker hadn't been replaced.

Now that the emperor doesn't speak, maybe the emperor's psychic output is unstable, and he burned the two brains, causing the talking device to lose the receiving device, and the group of brain monsters in the imperial army didn't know the core structure of the emperor's talking device Sprinkle some chili and eat it now, but think that the emperor is now in the warp battlefield and has no time to distract them from talking.

Of course it is possible that the Emperor is now too caught up in the warp to talk to them.

Maybe even the appearance of myself and the Shinra Expeditionary Fleet Trek in the territory of the empire is caused by the emperor. After all, the emperor ran away after half of his work, and the Academy of Social Sciences of Shinra could see clearly .

Although the Emperor still owed him the final payment of the transaction, but this time he had to deal with the Emperor to return to Shinra.

However, in the previous conversation with the local governor, Maoche also understood that what he had to do next was to go to Terra to repair the emperor's speech device, and to go to the extreme star field to find the lost imperial expeditionary force, and A choice is made between his old acquaintance Vulcan.

After thinking for a while, Maoche decided to go to his old acquaintance Vulkan to see what the situation of the Imperial Expeditionary Army was like.

Although it is possible to go back to Terra first to repair the Emperor's speech device directly, and then go online with the Emperor to make another transaction.

But it is also possible that the emperor is really busy driving out the four unscrupulous traders who occupy the road in the warp, so going to Terra first will not only fail to receive the task, but also waste time.

In contrast, it is much safer to find the lost Imperial Expeditionary Force. After all, it is a force supported by the Titan Legion and the Custodian Army. The cause of the warp space storm, suffered heavy losses when entering the warp space.

After deciding on the next course of action, when the remaining members of the Krieger Legion on the planet boarded the fleet led by the cat car, the cat car began to advance to the Imperial Navy port in this star area.

After the empire replaced the curvature engine, the empire re-drawn a new route and star map, which can effectively prevent the cat car from leading the fleet into some dangerous areas.

After all, after the original Shenluo land, although the ground troops still don't need to care much about losses, the battleships are sinking one ship and one ship is missing, and there is no chance to be replenished.

Before reuniting with Vulcan's expeditionary force, Cat Che didn't want to devote too much of his fleet to the battle.

And when Mao Che led the fleet to the nearest imperial naval base, Mao Che found that things seemed to be a bit complicated, because in this naval space that should have been stationed by a small imperial fleet, it has now become a floating sea. Junk in space.

Near the destroyed space station, the Shenluo Expeditionary Fleet not only discovered the wreckage of the Imperial Navy ships, but also found many ship wrecks with the Chaos God of Chaos logo.

Obviously, the Imperial Navy fought a battle with the Chaos Fleet here, and the result of the battle was that the Imperial Navy lost this naval port, and the reason why Hadwell's agricultural world did not receive support is now very clear. It was the imperial navy that lost control of this area.

Then the next actions of the expeditionary fleet must be more cautious, although in the past 1 years, Chaos fought the Empire more than ten times, and lost a large number of warships in the previous beast war.

However, if the Chaos God wants a ship, he can not only let the Dark Mechanicus to build it, but directly corrupt the Imperial Navy ships under construction, and devour the Imperial Navy ships sailing in subspace, which can effectively supplement the number of Chaos fleets. .

Not to mention those space hulks that even the evil gods don't know how many are swallowed by the subspace due to system failures or subspace storms during navigation. Many of these ships even came from human beings. A lost ship from the golden age.

The cat car that has lost its supply ability does not want to engage in a quality war that is bound to fail with these things that can not talk about martial arts at any time and play void violence at other people's home courts.

It's just that when the fleet was sailing to another port of the Imperial Navy, Maoche was thinking whether it should be faster to build the Juggernaut-class battleship, or go a step further and directly build a home ship that can manufacture Titan-class battleships inside the battleship .

At that time, as long as this kind of warship is thrown to the front line, and then let the work ship create a few mining space stations, then you can happily engage in quality wars that Shinra is best at with any enemy.

Even a little more, when the battle is over, as long as you can win, you can directly recover the wreckage of the battleship on the battlefield and directly build a new battleship in the ruins of the battlefield.

I'll use your wreckage to build a new warship to beat you. This gameplay is extremely insulting, and the damage is not low. It's ok. Now set up a project in your brain and build a folder first, so that the boys can start thinking.

Just when Maoche began to think about the design indicators of this class, which he temporarily named as the Mao-class battleship, the Shinra Expeditionary Fleet also arrived at another imperial naval base.

Chapter 323 307 Emperor: Act according to my face

As the backbone of the empire, even if the enemy is outnumbered, the imperial navy will never surrender without a fight.

When the cat cart arrived here, what the Shinra Expeditionary Fleet saw were only three moon-class cruisers and more than a dozen frigates, including several battleship-class warships, and hundreds of battleship-class battleships. The Chaos fleet launched an onslaught.

And behind this small fleet is the Imperial Navy Base, which is pouring firepower into the Chaos fleet.

The Shenluo Expeditionary Force led by Maoche happened to appear at the six o'clock position of the Chaos Fleet.

Without any extra thinking, Cat Che immediately ordered to open fire on the Chaos Fleet.

The sudden blow threw the Chaos fleet into chaos, although their void shields effectively intercepted part of the Shinra fleet's firepower.

Weapons such as megaton cannons and tachyon light spears failed, but those dense missiles successfully bypassed the defense of the void shield, and directly penetrated the armor of the battleship after breaking through the close-in defense system. The internal explosion severely damaged those larger warships.

Although the void shield can absorb all damage during operation and transmit excess energy to the subspace, it is almost a perfect barrier in theory.

But there is no perfect thing in the world, so those theoretically immune to all damage also have shortcomings. In this 360-degree spherical shield, there is a point that is the weak point of the shield. Will cause the overall collapse of the shield.

Coupled with the fact that many of the Chaos Fleet are corrupted former Imperial battleships, when the Empire usually attacks the Chaos Battleships, they usually look for the weak point on their void shields to release their shields.

But how does Shinra understand this? In addition, the fleet battles in the star world have always been to compete with each other for reactor power and energy conversion efficiency to determine the outcome of the battle, so the attack methods adopted by the Shinra expeditionary fleet are relatively inefficient. .