The giant corporations that started from Night City

Chapter 423: A fleet of hundreds of thousands of warships? Is this reasonable?

However, Guilliman quickly calmed the situation down. He knew that his brothers all had some problems to a certain extent, and many of them had dark psychological problems.

Mortarion was apparently one of them.

"The Emperor's order is for us to complete the mission together. There is an abnormal situation at Mandeville Point in the Prospero system. My Ultramarines Legion alone is definitely not enough."

Guilliman did not fall for the other party's trick and was determined to wait until all the Primarchs arrived.

After a long while, Mortarion said a few perfunctory words in a sullen manner, hung up the conversation, and waited for the arrival of the Primarch's troops.

Fortunately, Guilliman did not have to wait too long. When Lion and Russ's legions arrived, Guilliman immediately organized the entire fleet to rush towards Point Mandeville.

As a burst of violent roars continued to be heard, the dimension of the subspace distorted and changed at this moment, and all the Primarch warriors were excited.

The boiling blood burned in their bodies and the battleship's engines exploded in their minds.

Throughout the Great Crusade launched by the Empire, there have been very few cases of the four Primarchs fighting together, and each of these has been recorded in the annals of the Empire.

And today, they are fortunate enough to be able to participate in such a battle!
【Long live the Emperor——! 】

The Astartes warriors from various tribes sat upright in the assault boats, placing their chainswords and bolters flat on their thighs, burning incense and praying devoutly.

Hopefully, this will greatly please the Machine Souls and help them be invincible in the next battle.

Machine Souls are a very unique "mechanism" in the Warhammer universe. They are equivalent to the self-awareness of mechanical devices and can perform some magical autonomous actions.

For example, the driver of a vehicle may have died, but the machine spirit can continue to control the vehicle to move, drift, or make a series of control instructions.

Some powerful machine souls can even control multiple combat devices at the same time to help the empire's warriors attack the enemy.

Pleasing the machine spirit and praying to it is equivalent to "consecrating" your weapon. The bullets will hit wherever you point them and the chainsaw sword will be indestructible.

Soon, the fleets of the Primarchs had each rushed out of the Warp, but the Astartes warriors inside the cabin had not yet received any combat orders from above.

This made them feel confused.

Wasn't it said that there was a trap outside deployed by the Thousand Sons Legion or the evil god? Why is it that everyone has gone out, and there is no new movement in the headquarters command room?

At this moment, a solemn and cramped atmosphere was shrouding the bridge headquarters of each Primarch. The Primarchs, including Guilliman, were all stunned by the scene before them.

"How is this possible——!"

Looking at the radar image displayed on the screen, even Guilliman, who was always calm and composed, couldn't help but curse a few words inwardly.

The radar screen in front of him was a bright red, without a single bit of darkness!

Under normal circumstances, a small red dot on the radar map represents an enemy fleet, which consists of about 10 warships.

But the entire screen was filled with red dots. Doesn't this mean that there were at least tens of thousands of warships outside? How is this possible?
The Thousand Sons Legion doesn't have that many warships.

Even if the enemies outside were all evil gods and demons in the warp, there wouldn't be so many of them, right? They came out in full force just for these few Primarchs? What hatred or grudge!
Guilliman swallowed and turned to ask the Imperial Chief Engineer beside him: "Has the radar device been affected by psychic energy? Is there any malfunction?"

Before the chief engineer could answer, Guilliman had already seen the endless array of warships outside from the porthole of the bridge headquarters.

As if to specifically let the fleet of the Human Empire discover its tracks, the Universal Corporation also specially turned on some high-power light-emitting devices to guide the way and direction of the Empire's warships.

To avoid accidents such as accidental collisions.

The magnificent super fleet array, the celestial-level light-emitting devices shining like stars, the dense and neatly arranged formations, this is the real interstellar fleet!
Compared to the battleship array before them, the more than one thousand battleships that their four Primarchs had pieced together were like a drop in the ocean and were not worth mentioning at all.

Guilliman finally understood why there were so many Mandeville points in the Prospero system, because every warship here had activated the anti-warp force field.

The super-powerful Geller force field device forcibly squeezed out these dense Mandeville points in the subspace.

Since Guilliman had been to the ideal city in the main universe of the Universal Corporation beforehand, he had some understanding of the style of the Corporation's battleships.

He knew that a giant enterprise had arrived here in advance.

But the other Primarchs didn't know what was going on.

Ryan, Russ, and Mortarion all had their eyes wide open in horror, as if they had seen something extremely horrifying.

My scalp was tingling, my whole body was shaking, and I was stunned.

They tensed all their muscles, their brains racing, wondering what order to give next, whether to attack or retreat quickly.

Retreat? This was a mission personally ordered by the Emperor. If they just ran back to Terra in disgrace, they would probably not escape punishment.

As for fighting...

Leman Russ looked at the fleet in front of him. He was very sure that no matter how powerful his Space Wolves were, they would never be able to defeat the enemy with such a huge gap in numbers.

Fighting one against ten, Russ can face his enemies with a cold face.

Facing twenty alone, Russ began to feel the pressure and fought desperately with the enemy at his best.

Facing one against thirty, Ruth began to play badly in despair, wondering if he could find a way to escape.

But the current situation is not just one against thirty, it's one against hundreds!
Russ knew that they only brought 30 people on this mission, with Guilliman leading the largest number, with a total of 10 people.

30 people against 30 enemy warships. On average, each Astartes warrior has to destroy one warship in order to win the war.

Where is the navigator for them? Is this still the Milky Way?

"Hurry up and turn the shield force field to maximum power. Don't act rashly. Contact Guilliman and Lion, quickly!"

Ruth hurriedly gave orders to the soldiers below.

"Yes!"

Looking at the battleship array in front of him, Russ couldn't understand why. This was the Prospero galaxy. Although it was not the core area of ​​the empire, it was definitely not a remote area.

Even if there were alien races secretly invading here, it is impossible for so many warships to suddenly appear!
What are they from?

Russ first ruled out the Warp Daemons and the Thousand Sons Legion.

After all, the evil gods and demons don’t have any industrial system to build such a huge fleet.

The Thousand Sons Legion is even more impossible.

If Magnus could build such a huge fleet, he should be the Emperor.

Just when Russ was puzzled, Guilliman, Lion and Mortarion had already completed the communication connection with him.

"Brothers, don't act rashly. They are the troops of the Universal Corporation. They are allies of the Empire!"

Guilliman's words confused the other Primarchs. It's not that they didn't know about the news of the Cosmos Corporation. They heard that a human branch from an extragalactic galaxy had come to Terra.

The other party even brought safe and reliable faster-than-light travel technology.

But what they didn't know was that the industrial strength of the Universal Corporation was so strong that it had agreed to only bring one fleet to assist.

They are here to conquer Terra!
As expected, as soon as Guilliman finished speaking, they received a communication request from the flagship of the Megacorp.

After the connection was successful, Jack Wells' face appeared in front of the Primarchs, and he introduced himself right away:

[I am the director of the development department of the Universal Corporation. I am now in charge of the Ninth Expeditionary Force of the Universal Corporation. I am here to assist you in arresting Magnus under the order of the Supreme Archon of the Universal Corporation and the Emperor of the Human Empire.]

Jack Wells has a solemn appearance and an extraordinary demeanor.

He had been a senior executive of a giant company for more than half a century, having gone through many hardships and running errands for various departments. He was a tough guy with a strong frame who had fought his way through the battlefields of the universe.

Even when facing these Primarchs, Jack showed no fear at all.

In an instant, except for Guilliman who already knew the truth, the other three Primarchs all looked bewildered.

"You said you were following the Emperor's orders, but what about these warships? Is it the Emperor's order to bring so many warships?"

Mortarion scolded coldly.

[Yes, the Emperor did not limit the number of our warships. The situation in the galaxy is complicated. In order to protect ourselves, we have to bring more warships.]

This makes sense.

To the Universal Corporation, the troops led by Jack Wells are really nothing. With the current explosive growth capability of the Corporation, it is entirely possible to increase its current size tenfold.

This burden is nothing.

However, the "billion points" of the giant corporations in the universe are equivalent to an army of genocide-level scale for the human empire.

Mortarion turned his head to look at the battleship array outside and felt his head buzzing. Does this make sense?

At this time, Grand Admiral Thrawn of the Universal Corporation also spoke: [My fellow Primarchs, we are only responsible for assisting you in arresting Magnus. You need to handle the rest on your own. ]

Thrawn is one of the 007 "Star Wars" universe's naval admirals of the Galactic Empire.

Since the Galactic Empire was taken over by the Universe Corporation, Thrawn has wisely joined the Corporation's camp.

Relying on his outstanding business ability, Thrawn rose step by step in the development department of the giant enterprise and became an executive comparable to Marshal Terrence.

This time, Leon arranged for Thrawn to assist Jack Wells in order to ensure that this expeditionary force would not get out of control due to an accident with the commander.

The Warhammer universe is very dangerous, and it needs two outstanding commanders to keep it stable.

[Don't worry, as long as Magnus appears in the Prospero system, we will be able to lock him immediately and will never let him escape through the warp. ]

As soon as he finished speaking, the communication with the giant enterprise was temporarily disconnected. Jack gave the primarchs some time to digest the information and sort out their thoughts.

At this moment, Russ, Ryan, and Mortarion looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

"Does the Emperor really want this fleet to 'assist' us? Why do I feel like we are the one providing assistance?"

Ryan looked out the porthole at the interstellar fleet again. Hundreds of thousands of warships had come a long way to assist their fleet of less than 2,000 warships.

Who would believe this if I told them!

"Okay, don't doubt the Universal Corporation anymore. This is indeed the Emperor's intention. Now they are allies of the Empire and fellow humans. I believe they will not do anything that is detrimental to us."

Guilliman said this, but he was still a little nervous.

Such a huge fleet has never appeared in the empire, if Paul had not proved in advance that the giant enterprise has people of pure human descent.

Guilliman really thought that a natural disaster had come!

"They actually have such a huge interstellar fleet."

Rus sighed with envy and jealousy. He has always been proud of his Space Wolves Legion. Even when facing Horus's Luna Wolves, he would not be afraid.

But now, after seeing the expeditionary force of the giant enterprise, he knew for the first time what it meant to be dwarfed.

"There shouldn't be any Warp Gods or other powerful alien species on their home planet, otherwise how could they develop so fast?"

Ryan clicked his tongue.

To be honest, he envied the naval commanders of the world's giant companies.

As one of the Primarchs of the Empire, the Dark Angels under Lion's command have already reached 10 soldiers, with nearly a thousand Imperial capital ships and the 28-kilometer-long flagship Indomitable Truth.

But these fleets, which he thought were extremely magnificent, were like the huge gap between a beggar and a king compared to the expeditionary forces of a giant enterprise.

Is 10 Astartes + Imperial warships a lot? Even a fleet of the Universal Corporation would be much larger than this.

Is the Indomitable Truth very long? Compared to other Primarch flagships, the Ultramarines' flagship, the Macragge's Glory, is 26 kilometers long.

The Iron Warriors flagship, the Iron Blood, is only 20 kilometers long.

In comparison, the Indomitable Truth seems to be a behemoth, but compared with the many aircraft carriers and warships of the giant companies, Ryan's flagship may not even be ranked in the T1 level.

"They have retained such a large fleet, it must be because they have fought many foreign wars. Maybe they are coveting the empire's territory now!"

Mortarion was quite afraid of the military power displayed by the Universal Corporation. If a war were to break out with the Corporation, the Empire would probably fall to the enemy's endless waves of warships in an instant.

At this point, even Guilliman had to admit that Mortarion's speculation made some sense.

Although he had indeed been to the main universe of the giant enterprise and other universes, visited some star-level factories and huge megastructures, and knew the powerful productivity of the giant enterprise.

But aren’t these abundant resources all obtained by the world’s giant corporations through a series of plundering and robbery?

Who can ensure that giant corporations will not have their eyes on the human empire?

Thinking of this, Guilliman felt a chill involuntarily rising in his heart. He must report this matter to the Emperor as soon as possible.

"This matter is of great importance. Before the Emperor makes a judgment, no one can make rash guesses, lest they disrupt the morale of the army!"

Guilliman hurriedly spoke up to interrupt the other Primarchs' thoughts. If they continued to doubt like this, this joint operation might not be able to be completed.

How can you question your own people before the work is done?

Maybe the evil gods in the subspace are watching them now, and they can't wait for humans to kill each other!
(End of this chapter)