Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 581: Pharos Lighthouse

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Greater Nuceria Sector.

Capital World, Nuceria.

Angron stood at the office window and looked at the prosperous scene of Desia City.

Hundreds of World Eaters stood behind the Gene-Father, reporting the situation in an orderly manner.

Some of the World Eaters wore crimson armor with cloaks attached behind their shoulder armor. The armor was extremely ornate, and the ribbons around their waists had patterns with different meanings.

This is a civil servant.

Those who wore bone-white armor with some simple blue stripes and ribbons around their waists, but the style of the armor was extremely simple, were the military attachés of the legion.

"We can now travel at superluminal speeds, and the star sector is functioning normally. We estimate that in another solar month, we will be able to carry out our military expansion plan."

"The astropaths are still unable to contact the outside world. It is still extremely dangerous to conduct astropathic communications. We do not know the current situation of Commander Kiel."

"..."

Civil servants reported on their work one after another.

In Greater Nuceria, every civil servant Astartes will report to Nuceria at the end of each year.

Due to the raging subspace storm, the report was delayed for several months. Now that the faster-than-light travel capability has been restored, the civil servants arrived in the capital system of Nuceria not long ago.

The reason for the resumption of superluminal travel was not the completion of the Emperor's Webway project, nor the sudden cessation of the Warp storm, but the operation of a device called the Pharos Lighthouse.

"My brother has arrived in Nuceria."

The Primarch looked at the rapidly descending transport plane outside.

The transport plane is blue with the Ultramarines logo printed on the side of the fuselage.

"Prepare for a meeting," Angron ordered.

The civil and military Astartes saluted with their chests touched.

The debriefing ended as the Primarch suddenly changed the subject to the next meeting to be held.

But the act of reporting is not about saying or reporting anything in front of the Primarch. For the sons of Angron, it is an opportunity for "father and son reunion", and for Angron himself, it is an opportunity to perceive the inner thoughts of his heirs.

In case of emergencies, the performance review can of course be suspended.

Everyone followed the Primarch out of the office and headed to the meeting room.

Guilliman and the Ultramar entourage arrived in the meeting room shortly afterwards.

Both sides skipped the meaningless etiquette and sat down to talk directly.

"The traitors will attack Sosa."

These were the first words Angron spoke upon seeing Guilliman.

After hearing these words, Guilliman immediately became extremely serious.

Sosa is just an agricultural world located within the Five Hundred Worlds.

This world was originally just a pastoral world. Apart from conscription, there were few things in the outside world that would affect Sousa.

Until recently, a device called the Pharos Lighthouse was discovered on Sosa, and this world immediately became a strategic focus among strategic focuses.

"The traitors come for the Pharos," said Guilliman.

Angron nodded in agreement.

The Pharos Lighthouse is an extremely powerful device that originated not from humans, but from an ancient race.

The device enables people to travel at faster-than-light speeds when warp storms are raging. To humans, the principle is not clear. Even when it is activated and the ship is traveling at faster-than-light speeds, it is not yet known whether the ship is traveling through the warp or the Pharos Lighthouse opens a special path to the target point.

Qin Xia once mentioned the Pharos Lighthouse to Angron, but only said that it was very important, so Angron didn't know the principle of the lighthouse.

As for how this magical ancient thing called the Lighthouse of Pharos works...

When Ultramar activated the Pharos Lighthouse, it gave Nuceria, its ally, a report that only mentioned two things:

First, an art gallery in the Sousa world was suddenly robbed, and all the collections disappeared without a trace.

Second, the people who can operate the Pharos Lighthouse seemed to have appeared out of thin air on Sosa. They refused to explain where they came from, but simply enabled the lighthouse and are still operating it today.

Ultramar had not been concealing anything on purpose, for Angron sensed that Guilliman knew as little as reported.

"Open the star map."

As Angron gave the order, all lights in the conference room went out and the star map of the entire system suddenly appeared.

Those who attended the meeting were able to see the most confidential military intelligence now - the movements of the military divisions and troops of the huge ruling entity called the Ultramar Alliance after the alliance between Nuceria and Ultramar.

The Ultron Segmentum Combined Fleet is already on the other side of the Imperium, supporting the Loyalist Primarchs who are fighting against the Traitor Primarchs.

Before the Pharos Lighthouse was operational, Grand Master Kamath of the Librarian, who arrived in Nuceria using the Tuchucha Engine, reported on the situation.

Thirty percent of the Extreme Star Region’s military forces were dispatched.

Then, on the edge of Nuceria and Ultramar, there is a galaxy that belongs neither to the Empire nor to Ultraman Nuceria. To put it bluntly, it is the second Dawn, but no one lives there.

In this system, the XI Legion is battling the alien forces protecting Horus.

Angron himself saw this information.

With his own essence, he can see through the warp storms and fogs raised by the gods, and see many things directly, even what his father is doing.

"Reinforcements were dispatched before I arrived," said Guilliman.

The Thirteenth Legion is heading to the system where Horus is located.

On the star map, a blue arrow points to the galaxy where Horus is located.

Because Angron had foreseen this, the star map had already marked this matter before Guilliman mentioned sending reinforcements.

“I have ordered the collection of any other World Eaters who have not joined the reinforcements,” Angron said.

On the star map, there are mottled red dots inside and outside Nuceria and Ultramar. Each red dot represents a fleet of the World Eaters Legion.

As the Warp storm raged and the Pharos Beacon was operational, Angron ordered the remainder of the World Eaters fleet to be dispatched to liaise with other sectors of the Imperium and suppress any rebellious worlds that took advantage of the storm to cause trouble.

If they want to defend Sosa, they must regroup the fleet that was sent out.

Those who intended to attack Sosa were also spotted by Angron and marked on the star map.

It was a massive rebel army, with Night Lords, Emperor's Children, Death Guard, and even Blood Angels...

Nuceria and Ultramar are now equivalent to a multi-front war.

"Number 11 produced quite a few Space Marines." Angron looked at the Blood Angels Legion emblem floating on the star map, except that the emblem was green, meaning "subordinate to the 11th Legion."

"Yes, he has the ability." Guilliman looked at the star map with a bad expression.

Before Nuceria and Ultramar restored contact, Salamanders Space Marines attacked the border of Ultramar, and Guilliman had to dispatch a small number of Ultramarines to resist the attack. That force pursued and completely annihilated the Salamanders, but it would take time to return to Ultramar, otherwise Guilliman would have had the manpower to defend Sotha now.

But even though this happened, Guilliman and Angron never thought that Vulkan and the Salamanders had rebelled. They could predict from the beginning that the whole thing was the work of Eleven.

The reason is simple - Vulkan gave the gene seeds to No. 11 for research.

"The enemy attacking Sosa will number about 50,000 to 60,000." Angron spread his arms. "Brother, how long do you think it will take for us to gather the troops we have sent out to defend Sosa?"

"About a month." Guilliman quickly calculated and gave the answer.

"The rebels may not all rush to Sotha," Angron said. "I still have a 20,000-man regiment under my command. Should we deploy them to Sotha or send them to the interior of Ultramar to prevent small enemy forces from wreaking havoc in your sector?"

Guilliman took a split second to think.

The World Eaters still had one Chapter left that could be mobilized immediately, but it had not been considered a card by Angron before because this force was made up of Space Marines who had failed to be reformed and Space Marines who had retired due to disability in the war.

Deploying them to Sosa would change nothing.

Angron's meaning was clear. This chapter should go to Ultramar to protect some important industrial worlds in Ultramar when the enemy forces that intended to attack Sotha were divided.

"If we hadn't sent out several regiments including the Champions," said Kahn in the corner of the conference room, "then we, the World Eaters and the combined fleet, could have annihilated all enemies, including those who intended to attack Sotha."

"If they hadn't gone to support Mortarion and his men, we would have won a miserable victory in the Battle of Chemos, and only a few warships would have been saved under my father's protection." Angron pointed at his eyes. "This was the possibility I deduced after seeing the situation on the front lines. In short, the combined fleet had to be sent out. There's nothing to regret."

Kahn saluted with his chest raised, but he still grumbled in his heart.

The chapter he led was taken away, and now he is the commander of the chapter composed of the old, weak and sick.

"I still hope that the Chapter you mentioned can protect some important industrial worlds." Guilliman said, "After all, we are not without any deployment in Sotha."

Angron nodded.

On the star map, next to the marked Sousa are written the number of troops deployed there.

More than 1.3 million people.

Ultramar, Nuceria, the mortal auxiliary forces of these two star regions.

Of course, Angron did not call the Nuceria Mortal Auxiliary Army the Auxiliary Army, but the Regular Army. However, in fact, it made no difference, because the Regular Army of the World Eaters had never taken on the main attack mission in the Great Crusade.

Knowing the importance of the Lighthouse of Pharos, Angron deployed a large number of elite conventional army troops to Sosa in advance.

“Who is the commander of the regular Nuceria army on Sotha?” Guilliman asked.

"Cleist."

"Your partner, the female warrior whose legs were transformed into anti-gravity spears?"

"Yes, she was the commander of the regular army during the Great Crusade."

After a few questions and answers, Guilliman fell into deep thought.

Finally, after some consideration and judgment, Primarch No. 13 gave a prediction: "Crest can lead the auxiliary army to hold out in Sosa until the reinforcements withdraw and arrive."

“I think so too.” Angron nodded. “Besides, there are more than just ordinary people on Sosa.”

The voice just fell.

On the star map, the world of Sosa was magnified and a document emerged, showing the faces and information of three Space Marines.

Avida: A former soldier of the Thousand Sons Legion, he later joined the Society for the Study of Human History and worked as an agent. Now he is engaged in guidance and consulting work in the society, which is the exclusive spy organization of the Lord of the White Knights.

Erebus: After being forced to commit suicide by Abaddon and then revived, Erebus reappeared. He was forcibly brought back by the Primarch of the Word Bearers, Lorgar, to prevent Erebus from doing anything to Horus again. But later, for some reason, Erebus was exiled by the Legion again.

Dantioch: Former Iron Warriors warsmith, exiled.

"All three of them were picked up by the Institute of Research Intelligence after they left the Legion. I had originally intended to leave them in Nuceria," Angron explained, "but after the Pharos Lighthouse was operational, I ordered them to go to Sosa."

"Erebus was exiled." Guilliman looked at Dantioch. "That's understandable. After all, Lorgar must have been worried that Erebus would do something to the Word Bearers after he showed up, so he kept Erebus away."

"But what about Dantioch?" Guilliman looked up at Angron.

Angron felt a headache when he thought of Perturabo and Dantioch.

"Perturabo transformed Olympia into an ideal world, and then he realized something was wrong before the storm, so he took the planet Olympia with him and ran away."

"Dantioch stood up and objected, saying that Olympia should remain in the Eye of Terror."

"So Perturabo told him to get lost as soon as he could."

Angron thought of what his adoptive father had told him about the great rebellion in the normal timeline.

Dantioch will also appear in the Battle of the Pharos.

I thought Perturabo would not exile Dantioch now, but in the end Dantioch still had to be kicked out of the Iron Warriors and taken to Sosa.

This may be the convergence effect of the timeline.

"They can hold out for a while on Sotha together with the mortals." Guilliman said with a more relaxed tone, "Master of psychic prophecy Arvida and former warsmith Dantioch are both strategic talents. Only Erebus may cause some trouble."

"But... the battle on Sosa will probably still be a battle between mortals and Space Marines."

"I hope that Crest is ready and can hold out until reinforcements arrive, as I expect."

(End of this chapter)