Warhammer: Just unified the Empire, you said it was 40K

Chapter 257 Guilliman Awakens
The empire continued to drift aimlessly.

The inevitable result would be that the empire would become yet another dynasty destroyed by chaos in this millennia-long war.

Even if the empire makes changes, the possibility of its future being destroyed remains very high.

The fleet from Cardia is heading towards the Empire.

The destruction of Cardia did not completely defeat the people of Cardia.

Even if only tens of thousands of Cardians remain, they will continue to fight against an unbelievable number of enemies on the fragments of Cardia. They are prepared to perish together with their enemies. The glory of the Empire will shine upon them, and the spirits of the Cardians will watch over them as they continue to fight.

Those chapters that abandoned their defenses then rallied around Macado, returning to the Empire to reclaim all the power that rightfully belonged to them.

For the sake of the empire, and for the future of humanity, the empire urgently needs reform.

But before Macado's return.

In the world of Alteramar in the extreme star field, a new transformation has also begun.

When no one was paying attention, the Gamma World attempted to establish its first contact with Ultramar.

As the Great Rift was imminent, the chief of the extraterrestrial alliance and the minister of foreign affairs of the Gamma world quickly restarted the establishment of a communication station with Alterama. Moreover, given that the impending rift was highly likely to completely separate the two worlds, the Gamma world provided Alterama with a technology that could transform the entire 500 worlds: the Gravity Slingshot.

Although given the technology of Alteramar and the decay of the Empire, it would have taken them a long time to complete its construction, the technology was directly provided by the Gamma World. This means that the Gamma World offers a stable way to travel through the real universe, a way that can avoid the invasion of the warp.

Providing this technology would not be detrimental to the Gamma World. Firstly, the gravity slingshot can only launch one warship at a time. If a large number of ships were launched in a short period of time, the distance from the Ultramar World to the Gamma World would likely be scattered to a distance of more than one light-year.

If the world of Ultramar can be conquered by the power of Chaos, then Ultramar shouldn't be considered a second empire. Ultramar is arguably the strongest military force in the entire empire. Even though it has been split into countless warbands, the current combat power of the world of Ultramar already exceeds the entire empire's sphere of influence.

Located in the core area of ​​Altramah.

Fleets of ships are sailing near a planet named Celestial Planet.

The celestial body is a decaying neutron star.

In the past, such a neutron star would have been the most dangerous area for the Empire. Even the Empire's fleet was unwilling to pass through this place, lest the neutron turbulence emitted by the neutron star completely destroy them.

But now, they see in the constrained neutron flow of the engine a desire for victory.

This neutron star travel channel, capable of traversing hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of light-years, almost undoubtedly solves their battlefield support efficiency problem. Although the engine's output power requires drawing power from an entire planet to barely supply power, they are willing to sacrifice the industrial power supply of an entire planet just to provide power for the gravity slingshot.

Moreover, even if the gravity slingshot is only incredibly accurate when launched from a single warship, as long as enough soldiers are packed onto it, a single fleet can function as if it were dozens of warships.

"What else did the Extraterrestrial Union say from the Gamma World?" Calga, who had already lost an arm, looked at the gravity slingshot provided by the Gamma World.

Imagine he has hundreds of gravity slingshots and uses them as a foundation to build a complete imperial defense system.

He can then guarantee that there will never be a Chaos that can take advantage of the situation to invade the human empire.

There are now so many Chaos beings within the human empire that he can hardly count them all.

Moreover, too many things have happened in the Empire recently.

Before the Gravity Slingshot was completed, the Chaos fleet appeared near Is 3. Typhon's Nurgle and Nurgle Spirits began to wreak havoc on the world of Alteramar. Several worlds were invaded by Typhon's Nurgle virus, and psionic energy became the conduit for the infected, forcing them to be wary of the Chaos attacks.

Then, a warp storm arose, and shortly after they received news of Macardo's resurrection, the horrific Cardia invasion occurred. While Cardia was being invaded, the Tyranids rushed through the frontiers of Alteramar toward the core world of Alteramar, and Typhon's minions further began spreading the virus into Alteramar.

This caused many worlds to be transformed by Typhon into the chaotic and filthy Garden World.

The Great Rift event pushed them to the brink, forcing them to abandon parts of their worlds, relocate humans to other worlds, issue extermination orders, and utterly destroy worlds one by one. It was only with the support of the Gamma World that they were able to withstand the invasion of Chaos.

And now.

They were severely weakened, and the damage from the Chaos Rift put them under even greater pressure. Meanwhile, the Tyranids, who had been driven away, could return at any moment.

Even they themselves needed support and morale boosts. Although the Gamma World's tough stance against Chaos made them feel that this powerful world was helping them fight against Chaos, they didn't know the extent to which the Gamma World could actually do it, whether it was just empty talk or something else.

Calga understood this well, ever since the Great Rift began.

It seems that the entire situation of the empire will be reversed. The empire will truly enter the final stage of destruction. Everything they are doing now will not make things better for the empire; everything they are doing is merely keeping the empire barely clinging to its last, decaying corpse.

Even he himself was unsure whether the empire could win.

Even emperors don't know where humanity's future lies.

"Commander Calga has confirmed that Macado has begun his return to the Empire."

Macado, the former regent of this empire.

Was his return part of the empire's plan?
Or perhaps, Macado's return could inject a sliver of life into the empire.

The Empire desperately needs any favorable news, anything that can change its current state. They need the Regent, they need the Primarch's leadership, they need the Emperor to rise again, they need the Empire to return to what it was before the Great Rebellion, they need everything to return to the Empire's most powerful era, even if it costs him his life, even if it requires his self-destruction.

However, he knew that such expectations were just wishful thinking.

"By the way, Chapter Master Calgar, there is a message that you need to receive personally. It is a message from the Chaos Rift."

The Chapter Master of Calgar was holding the entire world of Altramar together. He knew the Empire's current predicament and the irreversible state of Altramar. No matter how powerful he was, he couldn't directly change the fate of Altramar's decline; it was an inevitable outcome. All his efforts were merely watching the Empire crumble. They needed to maintain the Empire's winning streak for the common people and the chapters, a state that would destroy them.

Carl receives the message.

This is a message from the Angel of Forgiveness.

Only a few short sentences.

However, it revealed information that shocked him.

"The Primarch has returned."

"Your Primarchs will also awaken, and all the other Primarchs will return."

The news of the Angel of Pardon was like a death warrant left in Calgar's mind.

The news instantly sent a jolt through Karga's heart. He was even more excited and thrilled than when he fought against billions of executioners in the Battle of Alteramar.

His mind was constantly being affected by waves of emotions, which neither he, as a veteran, nor the rehabilitation surgery could suppress.

The momentary surge of adrenaline made Calga feel as if he were fighting another battle.

After all, the current predicament facing Alteramar is almost impossible to resolve without the Primarch's intervention.

Returning the original body to its original state would be incredibly difficult.

The other side, however, said that if the Primarchs returned, their Primarchs would also return, all of them would return.

How dare they be so confident?
Who gave them confidence?
From the other party's attire, Calga knew some secrets about the Dark Angels.

The other party is most likely a fallen angel from the Dark Angels. Although not many people know this, a veteran like Calga obviously knows something.

The other party mentioned the return of the original body.

The return of Lion King Ryan is a natural consequence.

This has already been confirmed.

The return of Makado and the return of Lion King Lionheart, and what the other side clearly meant was not only the return of these people, but also the return of the Primarch on Alteramar, which naturally referred to Guilliman's awakening.

So, does the other side have a way to wake Guilliman up?
If the Empire's Macardo returns, and the Primarchs return again, they can still salvage the Empire's situation if the Primarchs of Chaos do not reappear.

In addition to providing the gravity slingshot, the Gamma World also proposed a plan to save Guilliman after providing the technology.

Of course, in order to gain the other party's trust, the Gamma World did not directly propose this plan. It only told the other party that the Gamma World had the technology to help them recover from the Chaos corruption and provided them with relevant data, such as treating the infected Space Marines and successfully removing the Chaos Demon infection from them. When Lion King Lionheart discovered that the Gamma World actually dared to try to repair Angron, he was shocked and also knew what this meant.

He knew that the Gamma World was related to the Emperor's plan, but he didn't expect the plan to be so audacious. However, if it succeeded, the Empire would probably usher in a period of great victory.

(End of this chapter)