Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!.

Chapter 503 06.0502: "Latti's wonderful craftsmanship (thanks to book friend 5702 for the reward!)"

"These humans must have thought that we would panic and be at a loss as to what to do after losing our Clan Ball, but they are wrong!"

Chief Kroot, standing on a smashed, twice-desecrated statue of a saint, brandished his war club and shouted, "They certainly don't expect us to seize their warships! And then drive them back!"

A Kroot shaman walked up to the chief and whispered, "Our tribesmen on guard outside were killed. It seems that it was done by the genetically modified warriors of the enemy."

After hearing this, Chief Krut's dark animal eyes turned around, but he did not stop his speech and continued:

“I remember that this is a warship we have never seen before. They destroyed our clan ball without anyone noticing! Although we have lost many compatriots, as long as we drive this new warship back, our blue allies will definitely help us build a brand new clan ball!
Fellow tribesmen! Kill these enemies! Seize their bird ships! Go! "

"Meat! Glory! Reproduction!"

At its loud shout, the middle-aged and adult Kroot species under the table raised their pulse rifles decorated with Kroot customary carvings and vowed revenge.

Finally, Chief Kroot waved his hand, swung his scepter to smash another statue of a saint, and took the lead. Behind him, the mighty Kroot counterattack army followed the retention of pheromones and moved towards the Epic at an astonishing speed.
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"Did you hear what the first lieutenant said? The enemy may counterattack the ship from here." said an armed sailor sergeant holding a laser gun.

"How dare they do that?" Another sailor sergeant was obviously surprised: "So many of us rushed in, and we haven't wiped them out yet?"

"Not sure. I think we should do something."

"Now everyone listen up!" Leidos interrupted the two people's whispering in a stern tone:

"Now start moving to the higher ground on both sides. Set up mobile breastworks and heavy explosives on the handrail fence above. Deploy the stairs on both sides with folding barricades and pile barbed wire on top to prevent these aliens from getting up from below."

"Lieutenant, are we not going to guard the gate?" asked one of the sergeants.

"This is the captain's order. They are said to be coming in great force. There are probably tens of thousands of them. We can't hold them with just over 120 men. Execute immediately. Set up defenses from above. Open the gates and let them go. There are things waiting for them inside."

"Inside?" The sergeant scratched his head and looked at the docking port. He didn't understand what the lieutenant meant, but he immediately led his men to drag the mobile breastwork and heavy explosives on wheels from the stairs on both sides to the viewing platform above.

While they were busy outside the battleship, the work inside the ship also never stopped.

Technical Priest Lati looked at the structural diagram of the Epic.

The nerve bundle behind the brain is connected to a heavy thinker array.

Through this Thinker Array, Lati can control all the servitors and the Crusaders through the source power circuit.

All of the Mechanicus' assets are running at full speed and precision, like the gears of a clock that rotate slowly and precisely.

The Wolf Spider sentry turret was placed in a carefully pre-set battle position. It was an automatic unmanned turret with twin heavy bombs. Although it was called "unmanned", the control unit's built-in culture dish was cultivated with excellent wetware. After all, the standard of "unmanned" was defined by the Mechanicus.

More than one hundred crusaders were evenly divided into a dozen combat teams. Each team had ten people, with the vanguard soldiers and hunters reasonably allocated to form a combat team.

The Scatteran mecha also replaced its shoulder with the spare ion rotary cannon captured from the XV8 combat suit. It looked like an oversized Gatling gun that fired plasma beams.

Coincidentally, these weapons of the Tau Empire do have some origins in humans. According to Lati's research files, these weapons are related to an alien species called "Short Man".

They call themselves "Furnaceborn" and are called "Artisans" by the Tau.

The information she revealed while pondering indicated that these aliens had originated from Terra just like humans, and had traveled to the galaxy with the Iron Man and Gold Man of the Dark Technological Age before the establishment of the Human Empire.

Ten thousand years after the split, they have now become a faction of their own, going against the Emperor's path. Their appearance is the same as their name, and they are extremely short. Considering that there are few records of that ancient history left in the Empire, it is not surprising that most Imperials regard them as aliens. As for the humans who defected to the Tau, although they would not be regarded as aliens, the Imperials, who have been taught to hate heretics and kill aliens since childhood, cannot resist the urge to send such people to the stake.

After all, there is an old saying that "heresy is more hateful than paganism", and in the empire of the 40th millennium it means "heresy is more hateful than aliens."

Squeak! — Squeak! —

As the data cables automatically fell off in the pressure-releasing steam, the myriad weapons that had completed their pre-war preparations began to move one after another.

Following the Scatteran mechas also took action with the captured new XV8 battle suit.

This combat suit mecha requires manual operation by the driver, and it has stood up!

Even Horatio was unaware of this situation.

Lati smiled with satisfaction as he looked at the XV8 'Crisis' combat suit which had successfully stood up and started self-inspection.

No one knew how this was done, was there really a Skitarii pilot inside, or had Latti tinkered with some weird wetware or servitor to operate it?
Anyway, it just started moving.

After landing, the "square head" on the top of the XV8's 'Crisis' combat suit - the target lock device turned around, and dense data streams emerged from the dark green screen base, and the skull gear logo of the Mechanicus appeared in the lower right corner.

『Activating: Killing Protocol』

"I believe, under such special circumstances, Captain, you will definitely understand that I have to do this for the defense of the ship."

The captured Tactical Drones also had the same gear skull logo of the Mechanicus as the XV8 combat suit in front of them, and a waterfall of ink-colored characters appeared on the data pad in Lati's hand.

Tactical drones bearing the mark of purity took off one after another, and the plasma carbines hanging below them rotated according to a set program, guarding the surroundings.

They floated along with the Cherubim equipped with plasma weapons and the Servo Skulls with laser launchers in their mouths, forming a 'drone defense network' in the empty frontier cabin of the Epic.

Of course, this scene is possible thanks to the fact that only the Mechanicus are stationed inside the Epic now.

If it were discovered by someone who knew something about it, it would definitely cause a wave of protests.

Lati stood in front of the holographic display console, watching the internal defenses being programmed and operated like the tight gears in a clock.

An emotionless smile appeared on his calm face.

She was confident, and there was no sign of worry on her perfect face.

Her confidence and optimism are well-founded.

for a long time.

No one had ever lived to reveal her secret.

never had.

"The experimental party has begun."

(End of this chapter)