Warhammer: Lord of the Endless Monsters

Chapter 540 Facing the Orc Fleet
"The orc fleet is at least a light-year away from us. Even at full speed, it will take at least several days to leave the warp and enter the real universe," Karga said.

Their empire's fleet was able to reach the warning point at such a high speed thanks to its advanced faster-than-light engines, but what did the orcs rely on? Their junk ships.

In the real universe, the only beings capable of faster-than-light travel used to be the Necromancers, but now humans have joined them.

This does not include the Ork's junk ships.

"Lord Karga! The junk ships built by the orcs may have collected some of the Empire's ships."

"Or perhaps it was the Empire's destroyed warships that gave them access to faster-than-light engines," a Ultramarines company commander said.

Over the past decade or so, faster-than-light engines have been widely adopted by fleets, and even the entire fleet of the Unyielding Expedition has adopted this faster-than-light engine.

The combat power and sailing speed of the entire human fleet will naturally be greatly improved, but such a large number of faster-than-light speeds will be discontinued!

Naturally, some Imperial fleets will be destroyed, and the faster-than-light engines of these destroyed fleets will be left behind.

Other races might not be able to crack it; they might say it would take a very long time. But the orcs are different. Once they get their hands on it, it will belong to them.

So the most likely explanation is that the Ork people, for some reason, also have this kind of faster-than-light engine on their spaceships, which is why they can travel a distance of one light-year at such a high speed.

"Give me a detailed report on the current situation with the orc fleet. Have they already entered the interior of the star system?" Karga asked.

“Commander, the orcs are still more than a dozen astronomical units away from us. At their speed, they should collide with us within 24 hours!” an Ultramariner said.

Upon hearing this, Calga frowned. A distance of dozens of astronomical units, at the speed of Imperial ships!

Without the faster-than-light engine, it would take 24 hours to arrive, but if the orcs had the faster-than-light engine, they could arrive in just a few minutes.

At this moment, the Ultramarines commander in charge of monitoring the radar discovered something strange. Contrary to their guesses, the Orc fleet's ships did not seem to be equipped with faster-than-light engines.

They were rapidly transported here by some unknown subspace force, as if they, the Ultramarines, had suddenly arrived.

Calgary turned around abruptly and roared, "We can't worry about that now, the entire army is on high alert!"
All orbital defense platforms on the warning planet are immediately activated, and all non-combat personnel are immediately evacuated to underground shelters. The orbital defense platforms are placed into the highest alert state.

In addition, notify the Imperial Navy docked on the satellite to immediately rendezvous with my Ultramarines fleet, and we will go together to confront the Ork.

They also prepared a large number of airdrop pods so that if the Ork landed, they could fight them on the ground. "Kalgar quickly arranged the combat mission."

After receiving Calgar's orders, the Imperial fleet stationed in the spaceport had no choice but to set out and join the ranks of the Ultramarines, slightly increasing the number of Ultramarines' fleets.

Under Calgar's command, the Ultramarines' battle barges, Avenger-class cruisers, Overlord-class cruisers, Dreadnought-class light cruisers, Sword-class frigates, and Firestorm-class frigates began to quickly form ranks.

Battle barges, belonging to the battleship class, also lined up, aiming their most powerful light weapons, as well as their newly installed Pedanium ray cannons, at the orc fleet.

Calga also returned to its main battleship immediately. Calga's main battleship is an Apocalypse-class battleship that is 12 kilometers long.

The arriving Vigilant Star Navy, under Calgar's orders, also filled all their ammunition magazines, preparing for the upcoming battle.

In this battle against the Orks, Kalgar plans to send a group of Space Marines and the Imperial Battle Sisters to form a boarding fleet for a surprise attack.

Meanwhile, another group of Ultramarines will land on the planet's surface to fight the green-skinned orcs alongside the local garrison.

With giants like Astartes active on the battlefield, the morale of the local mortal garrison will be boosted.

These local garrison troops were not injected with the superhuman drug, so their combat strength did not reach the level of the original Space Marines. In terms of combat strength, they can only be regarded as the old Space Marines from decades ago.

They are even worse off, because they have not experienced any real combat and are merely the planet's defense force.

A dozen hours later, the orc fleet, piloting its dilapidated ships, approached the vicinity of the warning planet and collided with the combined fleet of the Ultramarines.

"Waaagh!"

"Waaagh!" Inside the orcish space junk ship, countless green-skinned lads began to roar excitedly, their "waaagh" sounds rising and falling incessantly.

They had long been eyeing this human-inhabited planet, or rather, all the planets inhabited by intelligent life along the way. As long as a battle could be fought, the orcs would charge forward without hesitation.

They were supposed to have two more days of subspace travel to reach this star system, but for some unknown reason, a small subspace storm suddenly blew them out of subspace.

Then, they inexplicably appeared in this star system, very close to the enemy. So, the green-skinned orc warlord Krogh, and his orc lads, charged forward almost without a second thought.

This must be the blessing of Mao Zedong!
A great war! A great waaagh!

The first wave of orcish junk ships charged forward and opened fire, their fierce firepower striking the void shields of the Imperial warships.

The orc fleet's dilapidated warships formed a chaotic charging formation in the void, their cannons flashing with unstable green energy. Crude junk cannons and rocket launchers fired wildly, raining down bullets on the Imperial fleet's void shields.

"Hold the formation!" Calga's voice echoed through the fleet's communication channel. "All battleships, fire all Pedanium guns at once!"

All of these attacks were blocked by the Void Shield, and Calgar ordered the Imperial Fleet to launch a counterattack.

Golden Pedanium ray cannons shot out from among several battleships, striking the opposing orc junk ship and blasting it to pieces.

The Pedanium Ray Cannon of the Apocalypse-class battleship fired first, a dazzling golden beam piercing through the void and directly hitting an orc junk ship modified from an asteroid.

The terrifying rays instantly melted through the armor of the orc warship, the orc boys inside were vaporized in the high temperature, and the entire warship turned into cosmic dust in a violent explosion.

Immediately afterwards, the light spear arrays of the four battle barges opened fire simultaneously, the blazing white beams like swords of judgment, cleaving the three orc cruisers that were trying to approach in half.

Other Imperial Navy units, especially those on Vigilant Planet, did not possess powerful energy weapons like the Pedanium Ray Cannon. They could only use older macro cannons and light spears to retaliate.

"Lord Karga! The orcs are trying to break through our left flank!" came the urgent warning over the communicator.

Karga turned to look at the tactical holographic projection, where dozens of orc junk assault boats were charging towards the flank of the Imperial fleet in a near-suicidal attack.

These crude spaceships, welded together from scrap metal, were devoid of any tactical capabilities, but their suicide bombs posed a deadly threat to frigates.

"Right-wing frigate, take emergency evasive action! Firestorm-class frigate, intercept with close-in weapon systems!" Calga quickly gave the order.

The Firestorm-class corvettes unleashed a barrage of close-in weapon systems, creating a dense web of bullets that shredded most of the orc assault boats in mid-air.

However, several ships still managed to break through the fire net and rammed into a Sword-class frigate.

Boom! The violent explosion caused the entire frigate to tremble violently, and a huge hole was blasted in the hull, instantly sucking out oxygen and the crew from the vacuum.

Calga's eyes darkened: "Order the damaged ships to retreat. Ultramarines and Battle Sisters' boarding forces, prepare for a surprise attack! I'll draw their fire from the front."

The four combat barges and main battleships brought by Karga were combined together, and then their energy shields were deployed to work in conjunction with the Void Shield Array to withstand the orcs' fierce firepower.

The fleet radar revealed the largest orcish junk flagship, surrounded by dozens of smaller orcish warships; it was clearly the command ship.

"First Company Terminator Squad, follow me on a surprise attack!" Karga planned to personally lead an elite Ultra Warrior Terminator Squad directly into the Orc flagship.

But he was immediately pulled down by several company commanders of the Ultramarines. Their deputy legion commander, or rather the former battle group commander, was just like that; he would personally take charge at the drop of a hat.

You should be sitting in the command ship directing the operation! How could you suddenly lead people to charge up and engage in a boarding maneuver?
Finally, after being persuaded by everyone, Calga gave up his idea of ​​personally going up to participate in the boarding action and continued to command from his flagship.

The task of boarding was assigned to the company commanders, and hundreds of Thunderhawk gunboats and assault boats roared out of the Imperial fleet, heading straight for the Orc fleet.

The Ultramarines, along with the Battle Sisters, stormed into the Orcs' junk ship.

"WAAAGH!" Dozens of orc special forces soldiers brandished chainsaw axes and power claws and charged forward madly.

"For Macurag!" roared a Ultramarines company commander.

"For Ultramar!" the Ultramarines roared.

"For the God Emperor!" a battle nun clad in power armor roared.

These older versions of the Battle Sisters, while not as powerful as the new generation, are not much weaker in terms of fighting spirit.

Inside the orcs' junk ship, the battle nuns and ultramarine warriors engaged in close-quarters combat with the orcs!

(End of this chapter)