Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

The mechanical transmission shaft in the darkness started to work, and the hydraulic rods around the mechanical arm slid down with a burst of air, pushing the mechanical arm to slide down. The red metal object grasped by the mechanical arm fell diagonally downward, and a ray of sunlight shone up from its edge.

The light shone along the uneven metal structure on its back and the towering buildings. Shadows were stretched very long and extended from the red surface. They slid over the light and passed by the sides of a mechanical skull like a surfing pedal.

Most of the shadow covered half of the body of the mechanical skull. The human bone side was exposed to the sun, while the mechanical half was shrouded in darkness. In the darkness, light lit up in its machinery, and a deep blue light lit up with a light humming sound.

Soon, accompanied by a heavy roar, the sun slid up from the side and illuminated the side of the mechanical skull. The blue light was instantly suppressed under the bright halo. The strong sunlight seemed to come from all directions, lighting up all corners of the skull, and the shadows covering the red surface disappeared instantly.

The eyes of the mechanical skull continued to flicker, and two hatches slid open on the metal surface below. A pair of huge mechanical arms stretched out, and its end thrusters ignited flames. The blue flames stirred the dust cloud below, allowing it to dive deep from above the cloud.

The debris floated in the surrounding dust clouds, and the sunlight refracted in the dust, eventually illuminating them all, and also reflecting a piece of light on the surface of the mechanical arm that stretched out to the huge wreckage. It grabbed the wreckage, and the hydraulic rod of the mechanical arm was retracted backwards, dragging the wreckage in front of itself.

The two mechanical arms tightly controlled the wreckage. In the eye socket on the right side of the mechanical skull, the blue eyes flashed for a moment and then emitted a scanning beam, which passed across the surface of the wreckage.

An antenna stretched out from the back of the mechanical skull, and the radar blades rotated in the dust. With a ticking signal sound, the results passed through the dust and debris around, and were transmitted to the huge ship floating above, and summarized on the bridge illuminated by the sun.

A new line of data popped up in the corner of the holographic display. Cole saw him and then looked back at the intelligence window in front of him. There was an image of a broken planet on it. It was like a smashed watermelon. After the main body was broken, the skin and the inner "flesh" flew around.

"What happened here?"

Olaf looked down at the broken planet below. Its entire ground was torn from the center. Countless flipping shells pierced the star shell, like an iron maiden statue with thorns growing from the inside.

And those real statues, the magnificent churches of the past, turned into fragments that were difficult to distinguish, and drifted into many long lines in the universe with the remains of the entire planet.

The Infinite Frontier pushed through the fragments, and the bow kept pushing away various debris along the way. The thrusters spit out dazzling flames between the dust clouds, lighting up those clouds and refracting various light colors around.

"Father Almighty, what happened here?" Olaf asked, looking at the huge building debris flying in front of him. It was half of a building, half the size of the Infinite Frontier. It should have been a giant building that stretched from the clouds to the depths of the ground, but now it was pulled out of the surface, broken and floating in the vacuum. "The hive was destroyed, and the divination ritual did not find any survivors." Cole said, leaning on the holographic terminal. The glowing dust cloud around the planet flickered in the universe and also shone on Cole. And on the holographic image in front of him, the image was mixed with the light of the dust cloud, but the data flow was still scrolling rapidly on it. The crew members were walking behind the huge French windows of the bridge. The technicians holding the analysis data ran around, approached the computing instruments, handed the data board to the operator there, and then pointed at the screen to communicate with him. The rolling data controlled the scanning light waves outside through the cable. Different instruments scanned the floating debris outside through the glass. Beams of light were emitted from the hull of the Infinite Frontier and swept over the cold debris.

The information was summarized on the holographic image in front of Vito. The scanning light waves in front of him kept scanning the remaining debris of the planet, but so far, the vital signs on the side were still zero.

Olaf looked at the cold number. It was simple, but more terrifying than any sword.

"The whole planet was destroyed." Vito held his chin and looked at the holographic image in front of him. He didn't look at the planetary debris outside the window because it was too broken and almost filled the entire galaxy and could not be seen clearly.

When they returned from the Kakas galaxy, they found that the entire Hive World of the Storm Rain Galaxy, as well as several surrounding sub-nest worlds, were all destroyed.

The Infinite Frontier traveled through a galaxy-level debris group that stretched for several light years. These fragments all came from the planets below. The surface was shattered, cities were razed to the ground and thrown into the sky, mountains collapsed, and the oceans were evaporated. The former buildings became cosmic dust, along with the hundreds of billions of people in them.

"Have you found any clues?" Lancelot asked with his arms folded.

"Nothing is left." Cole shook his head and pointed to the planet in front of him where the holographic image was torn into pieces.

"It was completely destroyed. The city was either reduced to ashes, or it was so shattered that it was indistinguishable."

"The surrounding orbital starport has also been torn apart. Judging from the damage gap, it should have been broken from the inside."

Cole said.

"What's the meaning?"

Lancelot asked.

"It means that the Storm Star exploded on its own, and its core self-destructed, detonating the entire planet and destroying the star port."

Cole raised his hand to indicate another satellite on the map.

"And its crust was thrown up into the sky, smashing the satellites, all the surrounding space stations, all the information was destroyed together, and we found nothing."

Vito looked outside. The Adeptus Mechanicus' exploration ship was moving through the wreckage, and several excavation ships released were also looking for any clues.

Even anything that can be called complete, something that can bring some explanation, but so far they have achieved zero results, just like the scanned numbers on the hologram.

Vito stood in front of the window. He held his chin and stared outside for a while, thinking. Then he turned around and said, "Cole, look in the direction of the steel ring and see what's going on there."

After hearing this, Cole nodded, and then walked to the armrest to give orders to the Oracle Chief. The latter started working, and soon Cole returned to the holographic image.

He flicked the screen, and the broken planet above was replaced by a steel ring surrounding the galaxy.

Vito came back too and stood with his arms folded.

"The Infinite Frontier's divination array scanned over there. There is no damage to the steel ring. Most of the rings are intact except here."

Cole said as he zoomed in on a certain area, where the iron ring defense line was destroyed, and debris was flying in the sky just like the situation outside the window.

"It was crashed."

Vito said.

Cole leaned on the holographic instrument and looked at him, while Lancelot frowned. He and Olaf, who walked aside, nodded to each other, and the latter came to Vito's side.

"Who did it? Or should I ask, how?"

Olaf asked, looking at the wreckage.

"The Steel Ring is an advanced line of defense no matter what. It has withstood the Scarlet Expedition. It is impossible that it cannot detect the coming crisis."

"Not to mention the scale of this crisis."

Olaf asked a question, and no one could give an answer for a while. Cole leaned on the table and put his chin in his hands to think, staring at the holographic image in front of him.

Several things flew over from above the hologram and passed over the wreckage, pulling a long tail composed of halos.

It was long, almost like a large sailing ship.

"what is that?"

Ragnar on the side asked, he didn't say much, he has never been very good at this kind of thinking, this is the first time he said something.

"Can't you ask a good question? Ragnar, that's a shooting star."

Lancelot replied angrily, while Ragnar scratched his head and smiled.

"Didn't I hear what you said that something hit there? When I saw it, I asked, what if they flew towards us?"

"Don't worry, the ship's automatic cannon will..."

Cole stopped as he spoke, his eyes gradually widening, and then he stood up suddenly.

This caught Vito's attention, and he looked over and frowned.

"Meteor, it's a meteor."

Cole looked at them and said loudly, as if he was a scholar who had discovered the truth about mysterious problems that have troubled people since ancient times. He turned to look at Vito and Olaf.

"Meteor shower areas often have meteors passing by. The attackers arrived mixed in with the meteors, so the space station didn't notice them until they were hit head-on."

"The "giant meteor" rushed all the way here, and the Ring of Steel was instantly paralyzed. The hive city had no time to warn, so it was caught off guard."

After Cole said that, Vito looked out the window. The meteors that were originally on the hologram were already close in front of him. Their long tails pulled out long halos and leaped from the distant sky.

The Infinite Frontier's weapons array detected them as they approached, and the automatic cannon on its back between the tall spire and towering statues turned its muzzle and aimed at them, but as the red icon on the monitoring screen in the bridge Turns green and they all close again.

"Scan the trajectory around the planet." Vito said, looking at the meteors flying overhead. "That thing must be very big. The entire galaxy has been destroyed. When the dust cloud spreads, it will definitely leave an obvious trajectory." ”

"Let's go there in one boat?" "No, in the name of the Tribunal, let's send out the star language and recruit all the imperial armed forces in the surrounding star fields to come and gather." "I'll do it right away."

After Cole finished speaking, he stood up and went to give the order, leaving Vito to turn his head and look at the meteors flying past the window and the many debris floating around.

"Do you think Eisenstein is still alive?" "I'm not sure, Ragnar. The planet outside is shattered. I'm afraid he hasn't even had a chance to fight the enemy." "Damn it, I'd rather be eaten by a void whale. No, I don’t want to die like this.”

Ragna muttered, crossing his arms and looking outside.

"Vito." Olaf came to Vito and whispered, "Do you think he is still alive?"

"If there's anything I know about Dorn and his sons, Olaf," Vitor said, "it's that they are hard-fought."

Vito said, squinting his eyes and looking at a long track stretching into the void among the dust in the starry sky. Its arc-shaped range penetrated the dust cloud and headed towards a twinkling star outside the galaxy. , and that star has never appeared on the star map.