Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 144 The Huge Gap in Strength

Gao Yi told Ian that he agreed to the request for cooperation.

"Lord Gao Yi, it has been agreed. The dynasty's fleet has already set out and will arrive at the galaxy where Malfi is located in seven days."

Leon was also curious. Could this dynasty have its own astropath in Malfi? Wasn't this reply too quick? Or perhaps Ian held a special position within the Mongot Dynasty, allowing him to make decisions for the Rogue Trader?

But no matter what, Lyon's goal has been achieved.

Lyon also provided Gao Yi with a large amount of intelligence about Malfi. In addition to the military deployment and ground firepower locations, he also provided a large list of problematic nobles collected over the years.

"Inquisitor Lyon, I hope you can use your political influence to prevent the Imperial Navy's fleet in orbit from being commanded by Glades. The Lord does not want loyal warriors to be lost in a meaningless civil war. Do you have a way to disable the defense platform near Mandeville Point?"

"Yes, perhaps Glades and those affected families can ignore my orders. Some nearby Imperial Navy units have also been infiltrated by them, but I am still an Inquisitor after all. I can still command some people."

"Then it's up to you!"

Five days passed again.

Glades became increasingly anxious. It was as if Damon and his crew had completely disappeared in Malfi, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't find any trace of them.

Even those Imperial Navy fleets that had originally obeyed her orders because of her sub-sector commander took action without authorization.

When she asked who had given them the order, she was told it was the Inquisition.
Glades has been searching for the Inquisition's base hidden in Malfi, but has found nothing after all these years.

The Inquisition's authority is truly unique within the Empire and cannot be shaken at all. Even the power of a sub-sector governor is useless in front of it. Fortunately, the planetary defense fleet that she has spent hundreds of years to manage still obeys her orders, and the countless defense platforms in orbit are also under the control of the planetary defense fleet.

The PDF she established and the powerful family guards were the basis for him to control the entire Malfi.

These were forces completely loyal to her, and when the orbital defense platform near Mandeville Point was shut down, she immediately realized that an enemy fleet was about to enter the galaxy where Malfi was located.

The large number of hunters pouring into the middle nest has caused chaos in the entire upper nest.

There were even many secret sacrifices, allowing Chaos corruption to begin to grow in secret.

Glades is using this opportunity to eliminate those nobles who are not part of her faction and seize their resources.

Only in this way can she truly rule Malfi and make perfect use of all of Malfi's power.

Norris and his men have sneaked into her palace, but the search plan is not as smooth as expected.

When Norris brought five ghosts into the palace, they, who had psychic talents, immediately felt something unusual in the palace.

There are few living people in the seemingly normal palace. For such a large palace to maintain normal operation, it should have a large number of servants.

However, there are only a large number of automatic devices in this palace to maintain its operation, and these devices are not mechanical creations made by normal mechanical orders. Although they are very secretive, you can still see a lot of blasphemous technology.

The terrain detection and life signal detection power on the tactical eyepiece have been turned to the maximum.

But still nothing was found. There was some kind of psychic energy in the entire palace, invading their perception. Norris hurriedly used the psychic energy to offset this negative effect.

"There's something wrong with this palace, Lord Norris. These forces are affecting our senses! No wonder we can never find the right path, we're basically going in circles!"

Conventional exploration is almost useless in the face of this power.

Norris also looked solemn. The assassination plan ran into trouble at the very beginning.

When he first entered the hive to collect intelligence, he heard the legend that the Governor's palace was like a maze, and anyone who entered without permission would never be able to come out. He didn't expect that this was not an exaggeration, but a real thing.

Psionic magic was altering some of the physical structures within the palace. If someone without psionic talent entered here, it would be impossible to find their way through using conventional means.

The ghosts who were still invisible suddenly heard heavy and dense footsteps coming towards them.

Norris and others immediately remained still for fear of being discovered, and soon several people who looked like priests came here with some combat servants.

After seeing these priests and the mechanical creations around them, Norris immediately realized that this group of people were definitely not ordinary priests of the order.

Instead, it was the corrupted Dark Oil Man, and the joints of the Fighter Servant's mechanical components had grown deformed flesh and blood linking them together.

And these priests are particularly similar to the dark oil man he had killed before.

Profane prosthetics took over their bodies, and near Norris they stopped.

"Be careful! Someone may have sneaked into this palace! The creatures provided by the great Vashtor have sensed abnormal psychic signals here."

But the signal clearly appeared at this location, but all the investigations did not produce any response. The ghosts' special combat uniforms blocked all their vital signs.

In order to offset the influence of the psychic energy here, Norris and others had to actively release psychic energy, and the traitor relied on this to capture their traces.

When these dark oil men wanted to leave, the ghosts simultaneously fired locking bullets to control these mechanical enemies in place, and then exerted mental control on all the dark oil men at the same time.

"Steal the data in their brains!"

Mind control made these black oil men voluntarily release the defense of their processing components. After the reading device was forcibly inserted into their brains, the topographic map of the palace was successfully stolen.

"Got it! Since the enemy already knows we're coming, there's no need to go in stealth."

Gao Yi told them that infiltration did not necessarily have to be done secretly, and killing everyone who discovered them could also be considered a successful infiltration.

At this time, Franky also said to Glades beside him that some uninvited guests might have broken into her palace.

And is killing her soldiers.

"Those priests were killed? Humph. There's no way they could find the right path in this palace. Ignore them. Have the palace guards keep an eye on them. They were just a few assassins. Aren't there many assassins who have died in this palace?"

And not long after.

Relying on the powerful subspace engine of the Star Pioneer, Gao Yi's fleet arrived at the Malfi galaxy ahead of time.

When the huge fleet appeared on the auspicious chart, Glades found that he had underestimated this dynasty of wandering merchants.

Both in terms of quantity and quality, it is definitely not the scale that a traveling trader should have. As the governor, she knows very well how much resources are needed to maintain a warship.

One light cruiser is generally the limit that a dynasty can support.

But now, in addition to the behemoth Star Pioneer, there are several cruisers in the enemy fleet.

All those who knew about the sudden arrival of the fleet on Malfi fell into panic.

The identification signal of the warship showed the Monguet Dynasty, and they also knew that their governor's actions had brought about retaliation from the other side.

Ian and the others reacted with great excitement, but Lyon had a gloomy face. When he actually saw the scale of the fleet, he did not feel the joy of the successful cooperation before. He had overestimated the strength of the Merchant Rogue Alliance in his heart, but when the other party really showed their fists, he realized that he still underestimated them.

The best cooperation is based on a situation where the power gap between the two parties is not that great, but now? He has become the particularly weak party in the cooperation.

(End of this chapter)