Warhammer: Don't Call Me the God of All Machines

Chapter 39: Alliance
"My astropath and navigator told me that the scale of this warp storm is unprecedented. Even the light of the Astronomican has disappeared. The territory of the Empire has been torn apart at the warp level. It is very difficult to return to Macragge."

Luo Xi's face suddenly turned ugly. Through telepathic communication with the intelligent computer, he knew that this was indeed the case.

Even the Red Alert controlled by an intelligent computer cannot maintain its direction 100% in the subspace storm. Entering the subspace at this time is tantamount to seeking death.

The Red Alert is crucial to the implementation of the plan. Subconsciously, Luo Xi regards this doomsday ark as some kind of fragile treasure of civilization that cannot be easily touched.

He wanted to use it in an absolutely safe environment and exert its capabilities, rather than in a dangerous situation where war could break out at any time.

But now, there doesn't seem to be much choice.

He pondered for a moment, then continued, "I will remain in Ultramar until the Ruinstorm is over. But if I can leave, you must not stop me from going."

Both parties were well aware that this would be as fair a deal as possible, with Roche providing the Five Hundred Worlds with some suitable technology for Guilliman to build a more powerful war force to fight against his traitor brothers.

Guilliman must also do everything possible to provide shelter and necessary support. He will condone the existence of an alien using artificial intelligence in the Five Hundred Worlds. Neither the forces of the Empire nor those traitors can touch Roche's bottom line.

This is actually an unwritten alliance. The two sides will become a community of interests and help each other in accordance with the covenant.

"You won't regret it." Guilliman smiled as brightly as the sun. "The Empire may not be able to accept you, but I can. I am the Lord of the Five Hundred Worlds. No one can judge you beyond my reach."

"We have to evacuate Cowes now. The radiation level here is no longer suitable for human survival."

"What about those who are still in the underground bunkers on the planet?" Luo Xi asked.

"Our ships can only take away some people, but the fleet has been severely damaged. We can only do our best."

Guilliman's words were sincere. The Ultramarines today were incapable of saving everyone, and some of them were destined to remain on Calth until he had enough strength to send another fleet to pick up the rest.

"The remnants of the Word Bearers have also entered the underground of Calth. They rely on the complex underground cities to carry out guerrilla warfare. We also need to continue to annihilate them. I have given this task to Ventanus."

Guilliman called Ventanus to him.

"I will appoint you as the supreme commander of Calth. Calth's underground city and intricate network can shelter those who are unable to evacuate in time. They need a leader. Can you do it, my son?"

"I will do my best," said Ventanus.

"It may be many years before we send a fleet to rescue you. We are about to go to the battlefield against the traitors, and no one knows when the war will end."

"But I can assure you that reinforcements will come after we gain some breathing space."

Ventanus, son of Guilliman, stood calmly before the Primarch.

-

The Macragge's Glory and the fleet left the Viridian System, and Calth was left alone.

Ventanus and a group of Ultramarines stayed in Calth. They returned to the underground fortress of the ATLAS Museum. The transmitter left by Roche was still working, and senior technician Tauron would continue to maintain the machine.

The voice of the Supreme Commander of Calth was broadcast over the radio in a global loop:
"The star in this galaxy has suffered from abnormal flare activity. The radiation intensity on the surface of Calth will kill all unprotected life. If you are a local resident, an imperial soldier, or a soldier of the Thirteenth Legion, please go to the nearest underground passage immediately."

"We can survive this stellar activity. We can defeat the Word Bearers rebellion hiding underground. All loyalists who can receive the broadcast should go directly to the nearest dungeon. Information about the dungeon can be found in the encrypted attachment to this broadcast."

Ventanus finished the voice recording and looked at the servo engineer who remained here.

"You can leave. The Primarch needs high-level technicians like you."

The waitress just chuckled.

"Compared to the misty starry sky, I prefer the feeling of stepping on the ground."

Her electronic prosthetic eyes flickered. In the darkness underground, the most familiar lover had never left.

-

Roche did not stay on his ship, but accompanied Guilliman at this moment.

And he also gained a new identity: Primarch's advisor.

"We must return to Macragge first. The flagship and fleet have suffered heavy damage. I believe my traitorous brothers will never just attack Calth. I must restore my legion before they launch a larger-scale destruction."

Guilliman stood on the bridge. The Ultramarines had assembled nearly 250,000 warriors on Calth, but after betrayal and bloody killings, this number was reduced by nearly half. About 70,000 Astartes were killed and more than 30,000 Astartes were seriously injured.

This was a devastating number, and beyond that, over three digits of Titans had been destroyed, approximately 1.5 million mortal auxiliaries had been killed, and half of the fleet had been sunk. Even the largest Legiones Astartes, such as the Ultramarines, were severely weakened by this blow.

Hill compiled the details of the Battle of Calth, and a data tablet full of data was sent to Guilliman. The Primarch only took a glance at the contents of the data tablet and deduced the enemy's losses.

"The Word Bearers lost at least fifty thousand Astartes, sixty-five Titans, and over half a million cultists on Calth."

"It's a terrible loss," said Luo Xi.

Although he was an eyewitness to the war, his experience was limited to the battlefields around the Global Museum and he did not know much about other places on the planet.

It was the countless heroes who used their lives to resist the attacks of the Word Bearers, the Astartes, the mortal auxiliaries, and the pilots of those Titan machines.

"Thanks to you, we can confirm that Kor Phaeron is on the False Emperor. The biggest murderer was about to escape, but you intercepted and destroyed him."

"It is also because of your message that our losses have been reduced a lot. I believe that if we had not received an early warning, the Thirteenth Legion might have been annihilated in Calth, and my damned brother Lorgar's ambition would have come true."

Guilliman placed his large hand on Roche's shoulder, expressing his gratitude heavily.

"This is a cruel era. Humanity's greatest enemy is not the aliens in the void, but other humans with different ideas."

"A great empire never falls to the hands of foreign enemies; it only falls apart from within."

Luo Xi sighed with emotion. In the past, humans formed an alliance after entering the starry sea. Although the relationship between them was not very close, there had never been such a brutal civil war.

In other words, even if a war breaks out, the main mode of engagement is still with weapons such as iron men. Humans rarely go into battle in person, using swords and guns to fight.

Just a glimpse of this era shocked him greatly.

Every moment, his worldview was refreshed, and he had to spend time and energy to adapt to this fucked-up reality.

Although the intensity of the war was far less than before, in that era, humans relied on iron men who could fill the galaxy to wipe out the alien threat. Those terrifying warships could extinguish stars with a single shot, and nanorobots could easily decompose everything on the entire planet into the required materials.

Apart from the Eldar who called themselves the Eldar and the Necrons discovered from some death worlds, humans encountered almost no enemies.

Even those things called "Greenskin Orcs" would be destroyed before forming a terrifying green tide, and they also had their own emperor, so both sides remained restrained.

However, the wars of this era were more brutal and bloody. Soldiers killed each other with explosive bombs and swords, and Titan machines bombarded each other at a very short distance, using huge melee weapons that matched their size.

Both sides of the bloodshed are human beings, and it is the concept of humanity as a whole that suffers losses.

"We recognize the dangers of the Warp. My brother Lorgar, he threw himself into the arms of the Warp. I don't even know if some evil existence within it bewitched him."

Even though he was betrayed by his closest brother, Guilliman still felt sad after calming down. They had the same father, but the other party wielded the blade of betrayal without hesitation.

Roche sensed Guilliman's low mood.

While the Primarch was observing him, he was also silently observing the other party.

"What an incredible creature! How did the guy called the Emperor create such a near-perfect life? More importantly, his humanity is stronger than I imagined."

The strength of the Primarchs is by no means as crude as their strong physical bodies. This is just a slight projection of their life essence. Their essence is much more advanced and far exceeds that of ordinary humans.

Even in the Golden Age, Roche had never seen such a perfect creation of genetic technology.

Since waking up, Roche has tried his best to analyze everything he sees with an objective perspective. Although he took in some soldiers of the Broken Legion since Isstvan V and helped the Ultramarines in the Battle of Calth, this does not mean that he stood on the side of the Empire.

The barbarity and fanaticism displayed by the Empire was also difficult for him to accept, but compared with those enemies, the Empire was not so rotten.

After coming into contact with Guilliman, Roxi had to admit that he was somewhat infected by the other's temperament.

He originally wanted to just walk away after it was over and not get involved in these complicated matters, but after a debate with Guilliman, he became a little shaken.

Maybe running away isn't really the best solution.

Guilliman possesses a leadership aura that makes people trust and feel good about him.

Therefore, on the premise of ensuring the safety of Red Alert, he didn't mind helping the Primarch.

(End of this chapter)