Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 43 Agasos' Current Situation
The waiting time was torturous. The intermittent information uploaded from Agathos let Gao Yi know that the situation was getting worse.

The characteristic of these Chaos Cults is that they spread rapidly. Once the corruption is completely expanded, he will have no choice but to bomb the hive even if he doesn't want to.

When the last Banshee was produced, Gao Yi immediately ordered the team to set off.

At this time, in the Hive of Agathos.

Located in the Royal Court area at the top of the tower.

Planet Governor Rebecca was staying in her Governor's Palace, directing the loyalists to carry out defense work.

Looking at the pile of documents on the desk, Rebecca took out a potion from the desk and stabbed herself in the neck.

When these nerve stimulants were injected into her body, Rebecca's fatigue was swept away. She had not slept for 10 days, and the effects of these mental stimulants were getting weaker and weaker.

The news of the Rogue Trader's return did indeed inspire all the loyalists. When they looked up, they could see the fleet in orbit, but at the same time, they also saw the planet's ground defense artillery driving the warships away.

This made the loyalists feel even more depressed.

Rebecca did not expect that this power struggle would turn into an all-out war. She and her family did not belong to the bloodline family of the Monget dynasty. They joined after the dynasty was established and were appreciated by the traveling merchants.

On the other side, the leaders who attempted to seize power were the blood relatives of the dynasty. They also had the glorious blood of the Monget dynasty flowing in their bodies, but they chose the path of rebellion and even resorted to the power of the subspace.

As a family that has existed since the founding of the dynasty, their control and infiltration of the entire Agassus far exceeds Rebecca's imagination.

The moment they decided to launch an armed coup, it instantly swept through all departments of Agathos, and the most deadly was the planetary defense force, the most important armed force.

From the moment the coup began, Rebecca's armed forces were reduced by at least half. During the years that the dynasty had existed, the rebellious blood families had already become a behemoth with a terrifying number of people. A large number of descendants from these families entered the army, and with the help of power, they became officers, allowing the rebels to control a considerable part of the army.

At this time, the combat forces of the loyalists are divided into four types. The former law enforcers belong to the Imperial Ministry of Justice. The combat effectiveness of these law enforcers is even stronger than the planetary defense forces under his command.

They do not belong to the Monget political system and have not been infiltrated by the rebels. They still maintain their combat effectiveness. They still maintain order here as before and participate in battles when necessary.

The second type is the planetary defense forces loyal to the family, who are also the main force on the front battlefield.

The third part is civilians temporarily recruited from refugees. These people lack professional military training and can only temporarily take up weapons and join the brutal war.

The fourth part is the clergy of the Church of St. Drusus, the state religion of the empire.

This state religion worships Saint Drusus, a saint blessed by the God-Emperor. He is the pioneer of the Calixis Sector and the terminator of the aliens. It is rumored that Saint Drusus' blood is even enough to banish the Great Demon.

When the political struggle within the dynasty began, the church members just watched coldly. They were not under the jurisdiction of Monget and had a transcendent status in the empire. As long as you still believe in the God-Emperor, it doesn't matter to them who has the right to rule the planet.

But when the armed coup began and cultists who slandered the God-Emperor began to appear among the enemy's soldiers, the nature of the situation changed completely.

Those priests who were usually gentle and polite and always stayed in the church to pray with the believers broke out with unimaginable fighting power when facing the cultists. They would not retreat, and shouted the name of the Emperor to drive away all uncleanness. Although they also suffered considerable losses, they maintained the situation in the early stage of the unrest.

And it was these priests who made people believe that the God-Emperor had not abandoned Agathos.

And within the state religion here there is also a combat nun order.

This group of 100 holy battle sisters abandoned their position in the Upper Hive and instead entered the Lower Hive, intent on finding the source of Chaos corruption and purifying it. Initially, they were still able to contact Rebecca after leaving the Upper Hive, but as they went deeper, Rebecca lost contact with them and could only pray to the God-Emperor for them.

Rebecca consciously and secretly stockpiled weapons, food and various necessary supplies since the beginning of the power struggle. She always made the worst-case scenario plans. It was precisely because of the supplies she had stockpiled over the years that she was able to continue to control the Upper Nest in her own hands.

However, as negative emotions continued to accumulate, various problems began to arise. She could only hope that Gao Yi, the new wandering merchant, would come up with a solution.

Compared to the current population of the Upper Nest, the Lower Nest, and even the huge population of the Bottom Nest, are all sources of soldiers for the traitors. Even if only one percent of them voluntarily or forcibly join Chaos, the number is still enormous.

Rebecca knew that they had no chance of winning a war of attrition. It was not just the difference in troop strength, but also the fact that the opponent was becoming more and more difficult and crazy.
Psykers from the Astropathic Tribe saw the shadow of the Warp begin to envelop Agathos, and the Great Terror was about to come.

Those rebellious families originally belonged to Shangchao and had been in Shangchao longer than anyone else. They also knew all of Shangchao's firepower deployments and some secret passages.

At this time, it is located in the lower nest of the Agassos Hive.

Inside the DT-31 factory area.

The factories that originally produced various materials for the Dynasty have now been transformed into blasphemous workshops of the Dark Mechanicus.

The workers who originally believed in the God-Emperor were now lying on operating tables with their eyes white.

Even if their bodies were dissected alive, life-support equipment still kept them alive, and the priests who had devoted themselves to the dark gods were using various heretical technologies to transform their bodies.

They seemed to have completely lost the sense of pain, and kept muttering, "For the Final Dawn."

"Dawn, these combat servitors will be fully modified soon. In the next attack, they will assist you in breaking through the defenses of those false emperor's followers. My priests will also continue to control the ground defense firepower to prevent those fleets from approaching!"

"You've done a great job. I'll provide you with all the resources. There are plenty of living people here who can be transformed."

Looking at these humans who were being transformed, the man called Dawn was very satisfied with everything these Dark Mechanicus priests had done. If these priests had not helped him seize control of the artillery position, the battle situation would not be what it is now if the Rogue Traders' fleet had arrived.

He and these blasphemous priests of the Dark Mechanicus were merely partners, as they worshipped different dark gods.

Originally, these priests of the Dark Mechanicus only provided them with weapons, but just a few days ago, they seemed to have received oracles from the gods they believed in.

He began to devote himself to the war without reservation and even joined the battle himself. He didn't know the specific reason, but he was happy to see this situation.

As the two were discussing, a soldier walked in.

"Patriarch Valentine, those nuns have attacked one of our strongholds again!"

"I said, I'm no longer Valentine Monget, call me Dawn!"

"I'm sorry, Lord Shuguang!" The soldier's body began to tremble with fear. He couldn't help but look at the blasphemous transformation scene on the side and immediately turned his head away.

Gao Yi and Rebecca were both wrong about one thing. It was not that the rebellious blood family was in collusion with the cult, but that these people were the cult itself.

(End of this chapter)