Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 269 Korcash, the Appearance of the Alien
Several strike cruisers belonging to the Astartes Chapters set off from Amara and arrived at the fortress world known as Korkash after a long journey of several weeks.

This place was once built as a fortress by the forces of chaos. The barren land of the planet is full of traces of the defensive fortresses made of human bones and steel by demon blacksmiths.

But after the great battle in the Leyak sector, it was evident that the Chaos Demons had voluntarily abandoned this place.

The Inquisition also discovered this place during the subsequent clean-up and recovery operations. After a thorough clean-up, today's Korcash is already in ruins, without any trace of life.

The spaceship started patrolling in Korkash's orbit, and the detection arrays on the fleet were activated on a large scale, repeatedly searching for any suspicious traces.

Calvin and Marduk were sitting in the front hall of the bridge at this time, which was located in the center of the detection array on the bow and the psionic choir on the dome, and it was the best place to get immediate feedback.

"Stay vigilant, one-third of the fleet must be outside the bounds of gravity."

Calvin issued clear orders to the subsequent fleet members to prevent the tragedy Marduk had seen in the prophecy.

As for the fleet members in charge of detection in orbit, the weapon arrays have also been deployed at this time, and they are ready to fire at any time.

"The shield of order reports that the bird divination instrument has completed 15 standard work cycles, and there are no suspicious targets on the surface!"

"continue."

Calvin did not respond, and the adjutant behind him confirmed the next order in the communication channel.

"Hammer of Order reports that there are no suspicious targets on the mantle!"

"Dawnfire report, there are no suspicious targets in the satellites and galaxies!"

One by one communications were accessed in real time, but Calvin still sat motionless on the anti-gravity chair.

Under Marduk's inquiring eyes, Calvin did not question him, but tapped the armrest of the seat lightly with his fingers wrapped in steel armor.

Finally, when the air on the bridge was about to freeze, the strike cruiser "Blood Rebirth" from the Lamenters sent a different message:

"The gravitational period of the planet has been calculated. After repeated calculations, there is an anomaly in the gravity of Korkash. It is initially suspected that there are suspicious objects deployed in the center of the earth!"

How to do?
Marduk looked in the direction of Calvin, that demigod was the absolute leader here.

His traveling sermons over the years are not ineffective. A huge "jihad" army composed of pilgrims and the Imperial Guard has been forming an army in the Storm Star Field for more than ten years.

But the change in the war in the direction of Orpheus came too fast, so fast that he had no chance to react during the whole process.

By the time he assembled his personnel and achieved the legal unity of "jihad" within the state religion, Calvin, who was named the supreme lord of the empire, had already descended into the world, leaving no room for this great confessor to participate in it.

The prophecy on him from a hundred years ago has completely lost its original appearance;
Today's Marduk has lost the thread of his destiny, and the huge power he has accumulated in order to complete his mission has no choice but to stagnate in the Storm Starfield with him.

This huge expeditionary army, consisting of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians, is temporarily settling in the center of the Orpheus star area.

Calvin welcomed them.

Under the background that the Hassan star area and Leyak are in dire straits, and the population needs to be replenished and colonized.

Calvin’s idea that he was originally a guest, he would not refuse these elite populations who were economically affluent and had at least received a secondary education, had an attitude of “when you come, you are an Orphic”.

In this huge alien population cluster, only a small number of Astra Militarum were recruited and allowed to accompany Marduk to participate in this operation.

And this part of the army, in front of thousands of Astartes warriors and millions of truly elite Tindalos Legion, has no possibility of occupying a dominant force at all.

"Preparation! The fleet has entered a first-level combat state."

Calvin's voice came down from the high throne, and as his orders were conveyed to the entire fleet, except for the Shield of Order, which had its shields fully opened, the other three warships in orbit were boosting their engines to break free. The gravitational bondage of planets.

"Notify the shield of order, the two-stage cyclone torpedo is ready. Within half an hour, I want to see the destruction of Korkash!"

Calvin gave the order again, his eyes wandered on the galaxy map in front of him, and finally locked on the asteroid belt outside the galaxy.

The group of celestial bodies there is being pulled by the gravitational pull of a nearby red giant star, and is moving in the direction of Korcash with a super large orbit.

Calvin, who has experienced several naval battles, has enough experience. If there are other forces, then looking at the ground situation of the entire galaxy, there is only the possibility of hiding there.

The fact is just as he expected.

Not long after Calvin gave the order to recharge the main guns of the Angel of Punishment ship, in the asteroid belt outside Korcash, as expected, alien spaceships began to appear.

It was a fleet composed of one large, four small and four meniscus-like spaceships, all of which were shining with strange green light, and they were heading towards the fleet from the asteroid belt with agility and swiftness that Calvin had never seen before.

Their speed is so fast that even the naked eye can observe the accelerating trajectory of the spacecraft;

Their weapons are so strange, the leading battleship began to spread an unknown terrifying position at a long distance, causing the crew members of the human fleet to feel great fear except for Calvin's ship.

The arc-shaped energy is like a long whip, extending from the alien battleship to the Shield of Order, which is responsible for destroying the planet. The distorted particle field has a wonderful effect, squeezing and distorting the void shield of the battleship in a short time.

"Forward! Buy time for the Shield of Order!" Calvin ordered loudly.

The captain of the punishment angel received the order and turned around to give the crew a more radical order:

"Engine speed up! Block their range!"

The engine of the battleship violently burst out bright tail flames, and on the silver and black side deck, the array of light spears began to fire counterattack artillery fire at the alien.

After the reorganization, other members of the fleet were not far behind, and after a few breaths, their artillery fire also participated in the blocking of the alien.

However, the blocking of these artillery fires failed, and the unknown parameters of the alien ship caused a huge deviation in the calculation of the advance amount by the servo on the battleship;

And the faster and faster acceleration of the alien spacecraft made the results of each recalculation go wrong again.

"How could they be so fast!"

The mechanical priests on the battleship exclaimed in disbelief.

The green trajectories pulled out by those alien spaceships that accelerated to the extreme have already exceeded the extreme value of the gravity of the hull that he calculated based on the strength of the carbon-based biological body!
That is by no means a technical characteristic of carbon-based organisms!
He issued a dire warning to Calvin, who also understood the message behind the Priest Mechanic's reminder.

Since these alien civilizations do not belong to the category of carbon-based organisms, there is no need to release the many conventional strike methods possessed by the fleet.

"Keep the light spear firing, the gravitational field capture device is ready! The macro gun is ready!"

Calvin reminded the captain below to prepare to destroy the enemy's battleship with the most basic physical destruction if the distance is sufficient.

And the target of the alien is also clear and unusual.

At the moment when the fire window leading to the Shield of Order was blocked, the main guns directly in front of these rapidly approaching alien warships were activated one after another.

After the four green beams of light instantly hit the Retribution Angel's void shield, under Calvin's clear perception, a series of quaint stone gates are passing through the space barrier and appearing in various parts of the Retribution Angel's hull!

"Rebound help prepare! We, here are the guests!"

Calvin picked up the warhammer next to the throne, and while the psychic energy was surging, the legion mode had been activated again.

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　　Also, welcome back, Privet of Zhu Xia.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)