Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 132 Wandering Port

In the expansion area, Gao Yi still let Will and Rebecca carry out development. Four suitable worlds required for the third level of the game have been completed, and the ecological circulation system obtained from the Star Pioneer can stably transform the planets.

It has to be said that the habitability requirements of the system are still very strict. Not every planet can be considered habitable if humans can survive there.

Some wastelands near the hive city on Agathos have begun to show some signs of life again, but the process of transforming the entire planet will take a long time. However, as long as it develops steadily, it is only a matter of time before the third stage of the process is completed.

A large number of void defense platforms are also being built outside the giant mouth. With massive investment of resources, these defense platforms are enough to deal a devastating blow to any enemy that breaks into the expansion area.

During the two years, fleets would occasionally pass through the giant mouth and reach the landing port and attempt to launch attacks.

However, in the face of a large number of defensive facilities and a powerful fleet, the enemy's fleet was destroyed, and from the wreckage and corpses of the enemies, it can be found that those people were cultists who believed in Chaos.

Gao Yi knew that the evil gods were also trying to make their existence clear. Without the rich subspace energy, they could only rely on mortal believers.

Port Wanderer, a huge void starport located in the Empire's hazy star field, on the border of the Calixis sector.

Compared with the expanded area, the port of entry is like a newborn baby in front of it.

If the landing port is just a platform stacked together for travelers to temporarily rest, then the scale of the roaming port is a nest city standing in the void.

Its function is similar to that of a landing port. The landing port is the only way for the expansion area to reach the empire. The roaming port is the distribution center connecting the expansion area. It was originally established because of the discovery of the expansion area's waterway.

However, the current condition of Roaming Port cannot be said to be good.

At this time, the total population of the roaming port was less than 400 million, even less than that of the landing port.

The battered fleet was docked in the starport, and priests and workers were repairing the warships day and night.

And the faces of the void crew members were also full of fatigue.

The legitimate ruler of the entire Wandering Port is the Imperial Navy, which occupies the central fortress in the heart of Wandering Port, but other forces also occupy various areas of this hive city.

However, the Imperial Navy, which should have been the most powerful force in Wandering Port, was caught in an endless war of attrition, and they did not even have more follow-up support.

Most of the Imperial Navy fleet was diverted to support the more brutal battlefield.

There were even orders from the sub-sector capital of Malfi to continue withdrawing the remaining warships and combatants from Wandering Port.

This also means that Wandering Port will be completely abandoned, and all the imperial civilians here will also be abandoned.

Ever since two years ago, more and more enemies have been trying to enter the expansion by bypassing Port Wander, as if something is attracting them.

Although the wealth in the expansion zone is tempting, it is only relative. The size of the currently discovered star fields is far from comparable to that within the empire.

As loyal believers of the God-Emperor, how could the navy of Wandering Port watch them pass through the giant mouth? Although Wandering Port blocked some of the enemies, many enemies still successfully passed through the giant mouth.

But the bad news did not end there. The long battle even attracted the orc fleet, and these orcs rushed over like sharks smelling blood.

For a moment, the battle turned into a melee among three parties.

The enemies kept pouring in, the orcs were endless, but Wandering Port could not get more support. Even the large number of wandering merchants who originally existed in Wandering Port were recruited to transport supplies to Sintira and Cadia.

Otherwise, the fleets of these wandering traders can also provide a lot of support.

The Imperial Navy Rear Admiral Larius here knew very well that once he left, everyone here would be slaughtered by the aliens, and the existing transport ships and fleets would not be able to take away all the people.

Larius Sanz, the naval commander of Wandering Port, angrily yelled at his subordinates.

"God Emperor! Those lunatics from the Mander family are still obsessed with that little profit at this moment! Don't they know that if Wandering Port can't be defended, their losses will only be greater?!"

Looking at the documents handed over by his subordinates, Larius couldn't believe that these guys who called themselves bankers from Mander dared to lend him money!
Wandering Port is now short of everything. It is not a planet that produces almost no local materials, and everything needs to be supplied from outside.

Weapons, equipment, personnel, and supplies for ship repairs—the Mander family actually let him spend dozens of times more than their original value in throne coins to buy them. He didn't have the money, but that was fine. The Imperial Navy's various assets in Wandering Port could be used to pay off the debt, or an IOU could be written in the Navy's name, and the Mander Chamber of Commerce would take it all. "Have you received a response to the request for support sent to the Sintira Military Affairs Department?"

"The Military Affairs Department didn't reject all of our requests for supplies, and even ordered us to assemble in Malfi immediately according to Malfi's previous orders."

"How is this possible?! Do they just want to watch Port Wanderer be completely destroyed?"

Larius didn't know that the crisis facing Wandering Port at this time was just a small situation.

Throughout the Hazy Star Region, not only Chaos, Orcs, Eldar, but even the Necrons and Tyranids have their own actions.

The gains and losses of Wandering Port were nothing compared to the threats facing the entire star field, and Larius also found that the fleets returning to the Empire from the expansion area had almost disappeared.

Originally, Larius could have obtained some supplies from these returning Rogue Traders. He also learned from some returning Inquisitors in the expansion that a Rogue Trader dynasty called the Monget Dynasty was trying to unify the forces in the expansion.

It is this Mongot dynasty that prevents other Rogue Traders from returning to the Empire.

Moreover, the expansion fleet should have arrived to fill the empty defense of Wandering Port.

"The Monget Dynasty is a selfish bunch. None of these wandering traders are good!"

The Mander family had obviously received some news that he didn't know about, which was really a threat to him. He knew he had no other choice.

They knew Port Roam was going to be abandoned, so they did everything they could to profit from it.

"Do we really have to accept the demands of these lunatics who only care about profit?"

Larius clenched his fists. The Wandering Port that he once had a firm grip on was now being hampered by these scum.

The Mander family also has an elite mercenary force here, and most importantly, Larius has no idea where their supplies are hidden.

Port Wanderer, like a hive city, has countless hidden places for supplies, which even Larius cannot find.

But before Larius could make up his mind.

The alarm sounded.

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack?! Who are the enemies? Pirates? Traitors? Or orcs?!"

"It's those orcs!"

"God Emperor, it's those greenskins again. It's endless! Get the soldiers ready!"

The exhausted soldiers boarded the warship again. Larius agreed to the Mander family's request. He did not care about anything else and wrote an IOU in the name of the navy in exchange for material assistance. Otherwise, the soldiers would not even have ammunition, and the cannons needed for the warship would be out of supply.

Larius no longer cared about the possibility of being held accountable by the Military Affairs Department for doing so.

The members of the Order could have made it, but without the supplies they couldn't conjure it out of thin air.

They had to fight again before the battleships were even fully repaired.

The orcs' garbage ship was now lurching closer.

The engine at the rear of the battleship was spewing intermittent flames, and there wasn't even a decent windshield on the bridge. I really don't know how these orcs survived under such conditions.

But no matter how dilapidated the warship was, no one dared to underestimate the fighting power of these orcs.

Ten garbage ships rushed straight towards Wandering Port, and the only seven remaining imperial warships near Wandering Port also began to leave the dock. They did not leave Wandering Port. The crew knew that they did not need to go out to fight. These orcs would approach them on their own initiative, and then they could use the fixed firepower of Wandering Port to fight against this group of orcs.

(End of this chapter)