Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 327: Colleagues are enemies

The war with Tyrannosaurus Rex has been almost non-stop and endless.

On Ixos, the Leviathan fleet, replenished with biomass from Lysius, began a relentless assault.

Every moment, countless Tyranid creatures are released onto Ixos.

Regardless of the cost, the Terrans seized a small area of ​​the planet from the Zerg.

They built a small number of capillary towers and digesters in this area, which finally allowed them to reclaim some biomass.

As if seeing a glimmer of hope in winning the war, Tyrion began to increase his investment in the war against Ixos once again.

As losses continued to mount, the Tyranids began to demonstrate their strong adaptability, producing more and more Tyranid creatures specifically designed to counter the Zerg.

The Flame Eaters began spewing flames as they began clearing away the nearby creep, realizing that they had no chance of winning against the Zerg on the creep.

There is a difference in the combat power of the Zerglings whether they are on the creep or not. They are faster on the creep and can even use the creep to heal their injuries.

The Hive's will never have imagined that it would be unable to gain a numerical advantage on the planet's surface during a war.

They might even have to hold out in a confined area, slowly waiting for an opportunity to advance.

In addition to Flame Eaters, Sporozoites, which serve as artillery emplacements, are also being mass-produced to counter the Zerg's relentless, large-scale advances.

The massive swarms of locusts continuously released by the host made life unbearable for Tyrannosaurus's smaller units, who could only rely on spore worms to consume these endless locusts.

On the front lines of the battle between the Zerg and the Terrans, the number of Terran behemoths, such as Tyrants and Tyrant Guardians, far exceeded the normal scale.

In a one-on-one situation, the savage beasts could not defeat the tyrant, but their numbers kept increasing.
For the Hive Will, Tyrants cannot be produced at will, but in this battlefield that is like a meat grinder, the acquisition of biomass is virtually endless for Abathur.

The pure energy absorbed by creep cannot directly produce savages, but as long as there is enough biomass, Abathur can evolve any Zerg ground unit into a savage.

It fights, devours, and evolves simultaneously. One second it might be just an ordinary jumping insect, and the next second it might have absorbed enough biomass to become a giant beast.

Tyrannosaurus has yet to unleash his ultimate weapons, such as the Zergling and the Swarm Master.

Tyrannosaurus was also searching. The battles with the Zerg made them realize that the Zerg and they had something in common: their Gestalt civilizations all had a central hub.

Zagara is now daring to appear directly on the battlefield.

Her intelligence and self-awareness attracted the attention of the Hive Will, and the manifestation of her intelligence led the Hive Will to regard her as a synaptic center, much like the Norn Queen.

As long as it appears on the battlefield, the Hive Will will kill it, even at the cost of wasting countless biomass.

The Zerg have an overwhelming advantage in ground warfare, but the Terrans still dominate in the Void, which allows them to deploy forces anywhere on a planet whenever they wish.

If Zagara hadn't been accompanied by enough Queens, she might have already died in a reckless airdrop assassination attempt by the Hive Will.

However, Zagara becoming a visible central node is not necessarily a bad thing for Gao Yi.

"Zagara, have you recovered?"

"Abathur, we could have gathered enough troops to destroy the area they've occupied! Why did we just let them stay there?!"

Zagara's voice was full of resentment! She was the one charging into battle, she was the one fighting, while Abathur hid here and even restricted her from leading her swarm of insects to directly destroy that area in the name of the Queen.

"Zagara, war is not so simple. Have you forgotten the Queen's and the Lord's orders? Winning this war entirely through devouring and attrition will consume far too many resources and take far too long. But you don't need to be too impatient; revenge won't be long."
"Your presence will only attract attacks from those so-called tyrants and Licat. We need to wait patiently, waiting for the Zerg to grow stronger and consume enough of their biomass, so that you become a greater threat in their eyes and they will be willing to use more powerful bio-weapons to kill you." Abathur said these words calmly and without emotion.

In Zagara's eyes, she knew that Abathur was trying to use her as bait again.

She did want revenge, but she only wanted to use other Zerg to eliminate the enemy, since she wasn't particularly good at fighting anyway.

"Are you trying to use me as bait to die, Abathur?!"

“Zagara, the Queen will not let you die. Our master is no longer the ruler. We are the Queen’s subordinates, no longer disposable objects. You must trust the Queen and the Lord.”

Abathur's words calmed Zagara down considerably.

She didn't trust Abathur, but she trusted Kerrigan. Special Zerg like Abathur and Zagara obeyed Kerrigan not just because of the Swarm Network, but because they were willingly loyal under her charismatic personality.

They all believed that the Zerg would become great again in Kerrigan's hands.

The situation in Asford is also beginning to change.

Day .

The Imperial soldiers in Asford had forgotten how many attacks they had repelled.

The stench of Tyrone's burned body permeated almost the entire city of Fodia, and the gray-black smoke obscured the sky.

The Tyranids within the city of Fodia have been largely eliminated.

While the casualties among the civilian troops were still within acceptable limits, the soldiers' mental and physical strength were slowly approaching their limits.

Fortunately, Tyronn's large-scale offensive seemed to have gradually stopped.

With the efforts of everyone on this planet, Tyrone gradually began to give up on Asford.

The analysis of the Hive's will even began to suggest that the biomass that could be obtained from capturing Asford would be insufficient to compensate for its losses.

Gao Yi's act of burning all biomass, which essentially destroyed his livelihood, left the insectoid hive's will helpless.
Instead of continuing the pointless fighting on Asford, we should throw all available ground troops onto Ixos and grind them down with the Zerg.

Once victorious, the Hive's will can use its immense biomass to overwhelm Asford with sheer numbers.

As the war between the two races becomes increasingly brutal, for the Terrans, the war against the Zerg is no longer just about the pursuit of biological resources.

As the saying goes, rivals are enemies. Sensing the ability of the alien insects to devour biomass and energy, the insect hive's will knew that if it allowed them to grow stronger, then its own food would be eaten up by them!

The tyrannical genes contained within the savage beasts were also discovered by killing several savage beast nests.
Given the current situation, if the Zerg gets its fill, it will starve to death, and all its accumulated wealth will end up benefiting the other side.

However, to avoid human intervention on this planet in the battle against Ixos.

The Hive Will still left behind a considerable number of biological fleets along Asford's orbit.

They controlled the remaining Tyranid creatures to hold their ground on the wasteland, refusing to attack again.

For the Hive's will, as long as the humans leave the positions they have established, their swarm of insects on the plains can still win the war.

(End of this chapter)