Warhammer 40: Doom

Chapter 99 Boarding! Boarding!
As the ships drew closer, in the unpredictable universe, the Fifth Legion's warships surged forward from below.

The jets of the plasma engine resembled a long river of fire, and the warship's weapons ceased firing, with all energy being supplied to the engines and shields.

Harlan's flagship is an ancient warship equipped with powerful energy-output light spears. A single salvo overloaded the Empire's ship's void shield.

Under the precise control of the Iron Man, the heavy light spears continuously bombarded the ship's structure, melting the warship's external structure.

"Turing brothers! Cease fire!"

Harlan saw the gradually clearer image of the ship on the holographic image, which had broken free from the subspace interference zone, and he quickly called out to Iron Man Brothers.

That unknown warship was unlike any of the Rebel Alliance's ships; it was a completely different style.

The alliance against Nur, though their ships are old, share the same technological heritage as Nur and have similar appearances.

The warship that suddenly leaves subspace and enters the star system has a completely different appearance from the technological heritage, representing a different technological path.

The three-kilometer-long warship, covered in heavy armor, with cannons and light spears protruding from its hull, presents a ferocious and wild aesthetic of violence.

While simple and rough, it is clear that ships are a mature industrial product, a product of mass production on an assembly line.

After a quick identification, Harlan immediately realized that the warships that entered the star system from the subspace were not Rebel Alliance warships.

"Cease fire! Cease fire!"

Harlan felt an even greater aversion to the warp; the filthy warp energy caused too much disturbance to the real universe.

Without the identification of friend or foe, it is difficult for the detection array to immediately determine whether a ship that has left subspace is friend or foe.

In the Nur Star System, any warship that enters combat without being identified as a friendly force is automatically classified as an enemy ship.

Before your warships re-enter combat mode after you have just left subspace, launch a preemptive attack to seize the initiative.

Once the holographic image outlined the ship's silhouette, several volleys of light spears had already been fired. The unknown warship's void shield overloaded, and its hull structure was melted by the light spears.

Harlan immediately ordered Turing to cease fire and told it, "Send a communication and ask them where they came from."

“I’ve calculated that they can’t receive communications anymore.” Iron Man Turing raised his hand, stroking the back of his head with his steel arm, his synthesized voice a little embarrassed: “I’ve destroyed their entire communications system.”

Harlan turned his head, his lips twitching, looking speechless at his Iron Man buddy.

"You said that when attacking ships, you should first attack their communications systems, making the enemy deaf and mute, unable to contact friendly forces or formulate tactics."

Turing looked at Harlan, shrugged, and said he was innocent and everything was done according to the tactics.

"Your aim is pretty accurate."

Harlan looked at the holographic ship's silhouette. The ship's external equipment had been mostly destroyed by Turing's precise firepower, leaving it like a burning piece of driftwood in space.

"I did hit pretty well!" Turing said proudly, his electronic eyes flashing as he accepted Harlan's praise.

Harlan's ugly expression only deepened his speechlessness. Iron Man was indeed a formidable fighter, possessing incredibly strong logical thinking skills.

However, at times, they may exhibit slight deviations when understanding human contexts.

But now is not the time to hesitate; that warship is charging towards us, and it looks like it's a fight to the death.

"Send out the light signal," Harlan said to Turing again, instructing it to control the ship's lights and send out an inquiry signal.

Under the control of the Iron Man, the warship's exterior began to flash lights in a regular pattern, inquiring about the ship's origin and its relationship to the enemy.

At this moment, inside the Imperial ship, the ship's hull structure was still intact thanks to the "force field support".

With all external functions lost, alarms flashed inside the warship as Imperial soldiers frantically repaired the vessel in the cabins, attempting to stabilize the various systems.

The entire crew of twenty Space Marines jogged to assemble on the deck, intending to use a boarding maneuver to turn the tide of their battle against the enemy ships.

The boarding ships are ready. Space Marines are boarding in an orderly fashion. The ships are moving to the appropriate distance, and the macro cannons will provide cover for the boarding team.

The enemy warships are exceptionally powerful; we must strike hard!
If all goes well, we can seize that precious relic warship as a trophy and a new flagship.

The Imperials believed that no one could stop the Space Marines.

Suddenly, the warship attacked by the light spears stopped wailing, and its tremors ceased.

The Space Marine lieutenant who led the boarding action heard the captain's communications over his helmet channel: "Sir, they've stopped attacking and are sending out light signals."

The lieutenant's voice was icy, his anger barely contained by the barrage of attacks as he asked, "What did they mean?" The captain looked out the porthole and saw lights flashing across the white warship, conveying some general information.

Unintentional attack, misjudgment, expressing intentions, giving up resistance.

General light signals can only convey brief messages; specific light language depends on how it is written.

During the golden age of humankind, in addition to universal light bulb messages, there were even dialects from various star clusters.

The captain pondered for a moment, trying to understand the message in the lights: "Sir, they say the attack was an accident, due to their misjudgment, and asked where we came from."

Captain Mortal's translation was relatively accurate, and he carefully considered the wording when conveying it to the soldiers of the Fifth Legion.

"Anything else?" The lieutenant, a space soldier with keen senses, heard the mortal captain's hesitation over the communication channel.

"They told us to give up resistance," the captain sighed inwardly, uttering the meaning of all the light communications.

Based on his own feelings, the captain actually felt that this was a misunderstanding, since it was his own ship that had intruded into the other side's combat zone.

"Impossible!" The lieutenant's suppressed rage erupted instantly, his roar echoing throughout the warship: "We are the vanguard of the human empire, and we will never give up the fight!"

"We are the Emperor's angels of death, bringing destruction to the Empire's enemies!"

The lieutenant was the first to climb into the boarding craft, roaring angrily, "Brothers, board the ship! Let those enemies who rely on their warships show us what we're made of!"

"Huha~"

The Space Marines cheered as the landing craft's locking clamps pressed down, securing them inside the cabin and preventing them from accelerating out of control.

The genes of the Space Marines are inscribed with the warlike instincts and indomitable will bestowed upon them by the Emperor.

Want to get superhuman soldiers to give up resistance? Absolutely not.

"Fire the cannons and spears in unison to cover Astartes' boarding maneuver."

The captain returned to the command throne and ordered all shipboard fire to provide cover for the boarding craft.

Those boarding boats carrying deadly passengers were the real killers.

Harlan's warship glided through the void, waiting for a response from the unknown vessel, when suddenly it saw the opposing warship begin to move.

The cannon was accumulating kinetic energy, and the light spear was beginning to charge up, both looking like they were fighting desperately.

"If they dare to open fire, we will retaliate."

Although they felt they were in the wrong, the ceasefire signaled a communication, and the other side, after reading it, prepared to retaliate decisively.

Harlan felt a sense of awe and respect for the tough guy opposite him: "Don't show any mercy later, give them a dignified death."

Turing's electronic tentacles on his chest connected to the ship's computer, and began to allocate energy to erect multiple shields, ready to defend against the enemy's attack.

In the tense atmosphere where neither side was willing to back down, the Empire's Light Spear struck first, its orange-red energy beam bombarding the Void Shield.

"fight back!"

Even without Harlan's orders, Turing's rapid data-driven thinking bombarded multiple weak points of the enemy ships.

The Empire's cannon fired with a dull, powerful sound. A massive projectile, hundreds of meters long, flew out of the electromagnetic acceleration barrel and accelerated to one-tenth the speed of light.

The firepower of the Nur ship was even more terrifying. Its smooth hull had all the mesh decks open, and there were countless light spears and long-range plasmas.

Amidst dazzling lights and the exchange of fire between macro guns, two boarding boats mingled in the darkness of space, navigating under the cover of macro guns and torpedoes.

"Landing craft spotted."

The ship's scanning array issued an alarm, displaying an unusual target on the hologram, indicating the presence of life.

Harlan immediately zoomed in to examine it, and the unusual shape of the small boat came into view, rushing straight toward the spaceship.

The word "jumping the ship" immediately came to mind!
"Attention Night Guards, we have guests arriving on our ship!"

Boarding action. Ancient Terra, the Age of Exploration.

The artillery of that era was not advanced. In order to determine the winner as soon as possible in naval battles, sailors from both sides would swing to the other ship by ropes and kill the other's crew.

(End of this chapter)