Emperor's Bane

Chapter 700 Color War Plan

Chapter 700 Color War Plan
Even for the Primarch, fate remains a strange and unpredictable thing.

The longer she lived, the more thoroughly Morgan understood this sentence: if she had moved the time forward a month or two, she would never have believed that she would one day become a distinguished guest of the Death Guard and a guest of honor of the Endurance.

You know, before this, the only active connection between this Queen of Glory-class battleship and the Spider Queen was the various war plans that were regularly updated every year on the Far Eastern Frontier: in the most heavily guarded confidential archive room of the Dawn Goddess, there was an entire room and twenty giant stasis force fields, which were specifically used to store all the hypothetical war plans that the Dawnbreaker Legion had come up with against the various main legions of the Human Empire.

Most of them would be extreme enough for Leman Russ to call them.

This important room has no doors or ventilation ducts. Only the Primarch's psychic array can flash directly into it and retrieve the black and white words that concern the lives of millions of people: Morgan's most trusted staff will routinely update these plans every year, and according to the latest intelligence and the increase in their own national strength, they strive to plan the best alternative plans.

These plans not only include hypothetical war plans against the various [neutral] and [unknown] brother legions within the Empire, but also include special military operations on how to immediately carry out rescue operations against many allied forces, such as the Ultramarines or the Night Lords, in the event of large-scale riots or foreign invasions that they cannot resolve on their own.

On this basis, we add the actions that must be taken if the Far Eastern frontier suffers an external or internal military attack (the scale of this war plan is larger than the other 19 plans combined); and at a [particularly critical juncture], we will launch an expedition to the Solar Star Region and Holy Terra, where we will face powerful enemies of the legion level such as the Ten Thousand Guards and the Sisters of Silence. Together, these two plans form the military purpose of the highest level in all of Avalon.

Even Morgan did not have enough power to activate them at any time, because any of the [Twenty Color War Plans] would require the entire Dawnbreaker Legion and even the entire Far Eastern Frontier to mobilize all their military forces: convert all large and small docks to militarization and start operating at full capacity; when all reserve soldiers are fully recruited into the Legion, and militarized management is implemented on every world; dig up countless ancient covenants, summon every ally accumulated by the Legion in the past hundred years, and even mobilize the reserve forces in Salamas, and incorporate tens of thousands of Dawnbreaker Warriors into the companies of the Second Legion in a fair and just manner.

Of course, if these [conventional military means] are of no use, the Spider Queen has accumulated some extra trump cards for herself through the fighting over the years.

The six powered Black Stone Fortresses, coupled with the planetary-level engines captured from Ulan Huda, at least ensured that when the Far Eastern frontier was invaded by external enemies, they would be invincible in the battles in their home space.

The Triple Far System, which took two to three generations to gradually integrate and annex and was directly under Morgan's control, had already become a behemoth capable of supporting the military operations of the entire Far East frontier when necessary after feeding countless raw materials and production capacity. The three Forge Worlds were always under the [Armed Protection] of the Dawnbreaker's elite forces, and Morgan also had the means to go there in person if necessary.

In other words, even if she lost every Forge World ally she had accumulated over the past hundred years in an instant, Avalon would not surrender: the Spider Queen was even prepared for Riza to leave her, so she always kept the two Titan Legions, the Corona and the Queen's Hand, tightly in her hands.

Of course, it is possible that Ryza would betray their Queen ally, but it is somewhat unlikely that Ryza would betray their Queen ally: unless the Emperor or Horus can really take out the title of Forge-General, the orthodoxy of the Mechanicus, and the real Tome of Mechanics, which require the destruction of Mars first, Morgan can't think of the possibility of Ryza betraying her.

Not to mention how deep the friendship between the two sides has been in the past hundred years, just based on the complex interests between Riza and the Far East Frontier, if they really dare to betray Morgan, the backlash alone would be enough to make them lose the title of "Large Casting World".

Compared with the powerful Mechanicus allies with whom he was so deeply bound, the secret weapons that were deeply buried by the Dawnbreaker Legion and almost forgotten by the world, and the frenzy that Morgan could summon in the warp when he was forced into the last moment, were just proud embellishments after having sufficient means.

She has plenty of [extraordinary means] to make everyone bleed.

Any one of these means is enough to completely expose the military potential of the entire Far East Frontier to the entire galaxy. When all the candidates are activated, more than half of the twenty-color war plans can be guaranteed to be implemented 100%. As for those plans that cannot even ensure the full implementation of the armed mobilization of the entire Far East Frontier? At that time, it will be irrelevant.

Just kidding: If the Spider Queen used all her military strength and still could not defeat the enemy in front of her, the galaxy would have been burning in hell by then. The Twenty-Color War Plan was designed for this moment, to pave the way for the Dawnbreaker Legion's expeditionary fleet to rush to the galactic battlefield.

Under the advice of Midnight Haunter, who was not only well-informed about these secret plans but also personally participated in their planning, twenty ambitious military plans were named after various colors: the one targeting Mortarion and his Death Guard was the [Moss Green War Plan], and how to encircle and shoot down the Endurance was the absolute core issue of this war plan.

Therefore, the Spider Queen was not completely ignorant of the Endurance. On the contrary, with the help of countless mortal agents and decades of persistent spy infiltration, although she could not be said to know it thoroughly, she could draw most areas of the battleship with her eyes closed.

Not only can he draw it, he also knows how to conquer or destroy it, where is the most suitable place for a large-scale landing, where is suitable for dividing the Death Guard defenders, and then severing their command chain and overloading their warp engines: until these former Dusk raiders either surrender, or, together with their stubborn warships, turn into giant burning monuments in the void, demonstrating the Dawnbreaker Legion's fierce reputation to the entire galaxy.

Yes, that would be a good idea.

Even with her eyes closed, she could feel the sudden change in the light and shadow effects in front of her. When she opened her eyes, she saw that she was indeed close to her final destination: in the desolate space above Nikaea where not even a few stars could be seen, the huge Endurance spread its wings and easily covered the tiny Oberon gunboat in its shadow.

The Spider Queen carefully observed this pitifully simple warship: among all the Glory Queens, the Endurance was undoubtedly the worst in terms of decoration. Not to mention compared with the star players like the Emperor's Pride, Blood and Tears, or Radiant Light, even Angron, who had no interest in decorating warships, his Liberator was memorable enough.

Legend has it that whenever Angron's legions had razed a tyrant's realm or freed a slave world from the chaos of the Age of Strife, they would carve a crowned skull into the outer armor of their Glorious Queen, marking the legion's attack like a warrior of old.

By now, the Liberator's outer armor was covered in thousands of these skulls, making it the most unique ship in the Great Crusade, as it was the largest ship of its kind among its sister ships. In the shadows, invisible to the World Eaters, someone would give Angron's ship a more famous name with great concern.

Regicide.

What a great name: I hope she can come up with equally great names in the future.

When the Endurance opened the largest engine room on the side of the ship and reluctantly sent out the reconciliation signal, Morgan was still lost in his own confused thoughts: he didn't know when it started, but the Spider Queen's senses to the outside world seemed to be slightly dulled, and she was spending more and more time immersed in her own thinking.

But outsiders didn't dare to interrupt her. After all, no one could assert whether what the Primarch was thinking about was crucial. So they could only wait for her to come back to her senses. Fortunately, Morgan didn't stay in a daze for too long this time.

【Are we there yet?】

The Primarch blinked and turned to look at the servants who had already lined up: apart from the six Knights of the Round Table who were already on standby, the only one accompanying was Ahriman who volunteered. Rana, who was standing next to Ahriman, took a step forward and answered his mother's confusion in a low voice.

"The Endurance is ready, and we can board at any time. Or do you need me to notify the Ultramarines..."

[No, I'll go first.]

Morgan shook her head: although the order of events seemed insignificant, and even if she continued to sit here and think for a while, it would only leave Mortarion and Guilliman alone for two or three minutes, but ever since experiencing certain events over Nukeinia, the Spider Queen would never dare to leave any pair, whom she considered an unstable factor, alone for more than five seconds.

Guilliman and Mortarion?

Who knows.

Although in theory, there is actually no intersection between the two men: apart from Mortaria's occasional taunts on Guilliman's weakness, the Macragge has never even commented on the Lord of Death.

Yes, Guilliman did reserve a place for Mortarion in his famous Hall of the Round Table, but according to Morgan's repeated naked eye observations, the place reserved by the Macragge for the Lord of Death was even wrong in style. Unless Mortarion was willing to remove all his armor, he would not be able to squeeze in.

Of course, this was also because Mortarion seemed to have gradually gained weight over the years. Morgan chuckled and waited for the hatch of the Stormbird to slowly fall. The core of the 14th Legion slowly opened the curtain for her. The ceiling, which was also painted dark green, was engraved with skulls as the symbol of the Lord of Death. Every three of them formed a cluster and connected to the sickles and muzzles of the Death Guards.

The Primarch's gaze then turned downwards, and before looking at her blood brother, Morgan first glanced at the Death Guard's formation: whatever his considerations, Mortarion did bring out all his most powerful warriors. Three hundred meritorious Death Guard lined up on both sides of the red carpet leading to the Primarch. Morgan could recognize the face of each of them and could tell the deeds of any of them.

Three hundred warriors indeed, worthy of the Primarch's respect.

In the silence unique to the Fourteenth Legion, the Primarch stepped across the gazes of the warriors and stood in front of her brothers. On Mortarion's left and right were assistants Typhon and Garro respectively. Compared with their genetic father, the two warriors looked at the Spider Queen without any hostility, especially Typhon. There was far more kindness in his pupils than Morgan had imagined.

You know, the last time these two of them had come into contact wasn't...particularly pleasant.

Spider-Girl's last glance lingered on Captain Garro's strange armor. Perhaps in order to show off the fighting prowess of his own descendants, Mortarion did not specifically order his warriors to clean the dirt off their armor for today's ceremony. Therefore, on the Death Guard's originally gray and white armor, one could clearly see the moss-like green stains that were stained from countless battles in harsh terrain and chemical warfare: this was also the reason why Morgan named the combat plan for the Fourteenth Legion [Moss Green].

The Spider Queen had to suppress the laughter that was too boiling in her heart and fixed her face on a perfect smile. She looked up and met Mortarion's gaze, and happened to see how the Lord of Death put on a stiff smile, nodded to her, fulfilled his friendship, and then quickly killed him with his own hands.

"Welcome, Morgan."

A simple greeting was harder for Mortarion to say than swallowing molten lava.

【Thanks for your invitation, brother. 】

In comparison, Morgan's performance was something she came to naturally. Her warm smile and cheerful manner made Garro and Typhon on both sides look a little stunned. If they were not Mortarion's confidants, and knew the bad relationship between the Lord of Death and the Primarch in front of them, just by hearing this greeting, they would probably think that Mortarion was Morgan's most trusted confidant.

However, the pond-like expression on Mortarion's face wore away this suspicion.

"There's no need to be so hypocritical."

After a long silence, as if he had given up the struggle to continue pretending, the familiar rough accent came back: the Lord of Death's throat kept rolling, and his words sounded like a rough sickle.

"I did not invite you here to establish friendship: we have something important to discuss."

"I want you to take this seriously, Morgan."

【Important things? 】

The Spider Queen narrowed her eyes slightly.

[To you, or to me? ]

"To us."

Mortarion's gaze shifted: because Guilliman's Stormbird had just arrived.

"For all of us."

[In that case: Would you mind telling me directly your bottom line? ]

"..."

"can."

It was originally just a joke, but unexpectedly, the Lord of Death was silent for a moment and actually nodded.