Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 441 06.0440: "Prelude to the Fourth Sky Expansion"

When the vibration subsided for a while, Old Man Joe jumped out immediately, took out a homemade copper stethoscope, attached one end to the hull, inserted the thin end into his ear, and used a small stick to knock on the bulkhead, sometimes fast and sometimes slow.

The reason why he can become an evergreen tree in the mixed middle and lower nests is not only because of his ability to judge the situation, but also because he has his own unique skills. He uses this simple but commonly used equipment to know where the problem is with the metal lump after just two knocks.

After all, those gear guys' non-destructive metal flaw detectors are not that easy to get.

Old Man Qiao had also seen that thing on the mechanics employed by several big gangs. It was indeed about 70% of his own strength, and he often sighed about it in private.

"Hey! Here!"

After listening attentively for a few seconds, he immediately discovered a long and thin crack in the inconspicuous weld, which was a slight damage to the hull caused by the shock of the explosion.

He then picked up the ion welder at his waist and quickly welded the crack back together.

During wartime, damage control to this extent is sufficient. More complete and in-depth repairs will have to wait until after the war, when technical priests will fill the cracks with refined gold and molten iron.

In the void.

Two torpedoes flew towards the Envoy-class light cruiser one after the other.

She dodged the first torpedo that was fired in a straight trajectory, but the maneuver was just as Horatio had predicted. The second explosive torpedo she fired met the target that seemed to have come to her door and hit her manta ray-like bow directly.

"Torpedo No. 3 hits!" Louise, who was closely watching the battle situation, shouted out her observations.

puff!
Like a harpoon hitting a giant whale, the entire hull of the Envoy-class battleship trembled at first.

Immediately afterwards, the joints between the functional modules exploded from the inside, and raging flames and scorching rays tore through the front of the ship.

While the torpedo itself was powerful enough to shatter a portion of the Tau warship, the impact itself was not fatal enough for the Envoy-class cruiser.

"Turn torpedo No. 4! It doesn't need to pretend to be an unguided torpedo anymore."

The priest in charge of the wire operation immediately injected the packaged data packet from the source power circuit into the wire along the interface and transmitted it to the wetware in the thunder body.

Under the stimulation of the needle electrodes connected to the decoder, the built-in wetware, in the midst of complete unconsciousness and only the torment and paralysis of physical instinct, drove the lightning body to change direction, draw an arc in the void, and aim again.

This time, its target was the midship of the Envoy-class light cruiser.

boom!
The enemy was caught off guard, and the well-maintained torpedoes successfully passed through the sparse and messy air defense network due to the attack, and detonated themselves with satisfaction when they hit the target, shattering the entire port fin and midship of the "Envoy" class.

On the black curtain of the universe, huge scars flashing with brilliant sparks and flames made this new battleship of the Tau Empire completely unable to be repaired on the battlefield.

Even if they drove back to the port, the Tu clan engineers would just shake their heads at her and choose to give up the repairs which would not be worth the effort.

Even the non-stop automatic repair drones could not fill such a huge gap. After being hit by two mines, she had completely turned into a piece of floating garbage. Perhaps only the green-skinned orcs could have any new ideas about her.

"Praise Ohm Messiah! May the God of All Machines bless you! The blasphemous and unclean alien technology will be purified under your great power!" The mechanical priest Voss who was operating the torpedo praised the grace of the God of All Machines with a stiff electric voice.

When the shirtless men in the torpedo room heard this prayer, they instantly knew what was happening in the void.

"Yeah!!!!" they shouted with extreme excitement.

"Yeah!!! All the bullets hit! Hahahaha!" The shirtless men passionately raised their muscular arms and bumped them together. Gray towels soaked with sweat and engine oil were also flying over their heads.

From the moment they passed numerous tests and boarded the ship to become part of the Imperial Navy, they had been extremely proud of their identities. Many of them acted quickly and had the Epic's ship emblem, the saber-toothed sawfish, tattooed on their upper arms.

Now they are eager to ask their colleagues who have experience in tattooing to tattoo three more skulls for them to symbolize their victories.

"We killed her." Horatio looked at the freshly minted space ruins in front of him, which had completely lost their basic functions. Lightning and flames burst out from the twisted and hideous cracks from time to time. Unstable energy leaks caused small explosions, tearing off new fragments from the remaining hull.

Some surviving Tau crew members boarded the successfully launched lifeboats, but were soon blown to pieces by the close-in defense turrets of the Gladius-class escort ships that arrived later.

The Astartes, the successor group of the Ultramarines, were clearly unwilling to allow these aliens who desecrated the God-Emperor's universe to live.

Of course, it is also possible that they are not aliens, but humans who have defected to the Titanium. They are called Guvisa by the Titanium.

The Empire prefers to call them the Rapes, a servant race of the Tau Empire, and obedient 'second-class citizens'.

It could also be some other strange alien, but it doesn’t matter. The Human Empire will only destroy all aliens and traitors equally.

Looking at the shattered escape pod, Horatio felt nothing in his heart.

On the Blue Planet, shooting at the lifeboat is an immoral act.

But in this cold and dark 41st millennium, this 41st millennium of only war, there is only one kind of morality on the battlefield.

Just give the enemy a quick death!

Killing and being killed is the only iron law in this world, and it is true for them and the empire as well. Pulling his thoughts out of his insignificant melancholy, he raised his hand and ordered: "Turn the bow, resume the battle position, and continue searching to see if there are any other threats in the void. At the same time, send out flag signals and ask the Ultramar Defense Fleet to strictly enforce the light control. Don't let this happen a second time."

"As you wish, Captain!"

Horatio pulled a handkerchief from his bosom and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Who would have thought that the first victory achieved by the Epic was not the expected Tau Empire cargo ship, but a real Tau warship?
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A headquarters in the gate world of the T'au Empire.

"Tongdu, Ilbor&Polk'an#Uriowa has lost the signal." A fleet manager of the Air Clan of the Tau Empire reported to an Ether holding a cross-shaped golden staff.

"Last navigation node?"

"367.846.9533, the last message they sent back indicated that their action plan was to attack the enemy transport fleet."

"How strange! Our intelligence shows that the enemy's Gothic Vanguard Fleet has not set sail yet. She should not be discovered by the enemy's fleet. Continue to search and pay attention to relevant news."

Ether, who was wearing a loose robe, frowned, and tapped the four fingers of the Cross-Monogram Golden Staff non-stop, wondering how the commerce-breaking ship could be disconnected out of nowhere.

"We will discuss this later. Let's first conduct the oath-taking ceremony for the fourth expansion of the celestial vault! The galaxy is huge, and there are many intelligent civilizations. They are all waiting for enlightenment from the Greater Good."

Ether, wearing a pointed white hat with two horns, looked out at the endless parade ground. The morning sun was already shining on the thousands of troops that were lined up waiting for inspection. Combat uniforms of different sizes stood on the ground in an orderly manner.

As the star of our home world rose over the horizon, so too did the flag of the Tau Empire.

It seems to symbolize the vitality of the only truth and hope in this dark universe, which will eventually hang high in the sky and illuminate all living beings.

The red eyes of a maintenance drone clinging to the nanomast lit up, and it started its suspension engine after completing its self-inspection according to the established procedure.

It flew over the parade ground, passing by the wasps buzzing in the air, and below it was a formation of expeditionary forces that stretched as far as the eye could see.

Whether they were Tau people, Guvisa, or other alien auxiliary forces, they all wore uniformly-styled individual equipment of the Tau Empire, holding rail rifles or other weapons customized according to racial characteristics, walking through the parade grounds in high spirits and strict discipline, and finally lined up to step onto the landing ship.

Under the guidance of the 'Greater Good', they will rush to the sea of ​​stars and spread the only truth and enlightenment to all intelligent creatures.

They will become the vanguard of the fourth sky expansion of the Tau Empire, and under the sacred revelation of the "Greater Good", they will clear the obstacles for the fourth expansion of the Tau Empire.

The drones flew across rows of neatly parked landing craft and over densely packed, neatly parked hammerhead gunboats.

The Hammerhead Gunship is similar to the tank in the Empire of Man.

During the Battle of Taros, the exchange ratio between Hammerhead gunboats and Leman Russ tanks reached an astonishing 1:5.

However, considering that the two sides fought in the open desert, which was favorable to the Tau Army, and the Imperial supply lines had been cut, this exchange ratio was not representative.

Also, although the Imperial armor looked badly beaten.

But considering the total number and production of Leman Russ tanks in the Empire, the five-for-one exchange ratio is not worth mentioning for the Imperial Guard.

After hovering for a while, the Drone Bee increased its flying altitude, but nearly collided with a row of neatly-formed, whizzing Barracuda fighters. Fortunately, thanks to the automatic path-finding and obstacle avoidance system programmed by Tu, it stabilized its body in the gradually weakening airflow after several deft maneuvers.

The Drone continued to climb straight up and flew onto the shoulder of a huge and majestic mecha creature.

KX139 is a new generation of giant war armor built by this emerging civilization after it was repeatedly defeated by the Imperial Knights and Titans in the face of the cruel universe. It is 16 meters high and its main weapon is a pulse cannon array that is said to be able to crush everything.

It can also be replaced with a comet missile system or a heavy railgun/cluster gun, and each arm also carries a set of triple ion cannons or fusion annihilation cannons.

and two chest-mounted alert defense systems, equipped with rapid-fire cannons and missile pods.

In terms of defense, it has an advanced barrier shield generator that is enough to withstand the bombardment of Titan-class weapons. It is a cutting-edge "Imperial Decisive Battle Weapon" that combines all the technological crystallizations of the Tau Empire.

This time, they vow to tear apart any enemy who dares to stand in the way of the Greater Good.

Whoosh whoosh!
Rows of Razor Shark attack aircraft passed through the parade ground that was surging like waves, and the huge rotary ion cannons on the front of the aircraft buzzed menacingly.

The turbulent air waves caused by the powerful engine flipped the Drone over again, and it almost lost its balance and fell.

As it spun out of control, the drone's camera turned toward the sky.

There were fluorescent dots in the low-Earth orbit, and hundreds of cutting-edge warships that had come down from the shipyards of the world were also docked in a standard naval review formation, blocking out the sky and the sun.

Among them are huge golden giants that are comparable to the battleships of the Human Empire, and the huge hulls of the "Guardian" class aerospace carriers.

Finally, after turning over and regaining balance, the maintenance drone's camera barely aimed at the Tau Empire flag that had been raised to a high position, and turned its disc-shaped head that was blown crooked by the jet engine left and right.

It was like saluting the flag of the Land of the Rising Sun, which has golden and orange as its main colors.

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