Warhammer: Empire Reboot

[Start Recycling]

Only then did the orcs in the distance finally rush over, and the war elder in charge was so angry that he immediately raised his machete.

"My big bug!!"

"That shrimp stole my kill!!"

……

The Norn nucleus has been entered into the bee colony gene database.

As the number of samples increased, most life structures began to repeat themselves.

[Analysis of Norn-level life nodes completed]

[Acquired Norn Mother Core: 1]

[Norne Gene Weaving Furnace Upgrade Progress: 17/100]

[Main gene data overlaps with existing databases]

[Added 327 new identifiable basic life forms]

[Unique Warfare Biological Structures Discovered: 19 Species]

The remaining repetitive structures have been used for existing template validation and completion.

Lawson was quite satisfied.

This result was expected; over three hundred varieties is already quite a lot.

Moreover, repetition does not mean it is without value.

The same life structure often exhibits subtle differences in the gene pools of different Norn worm queens.

Sending all these variants into the Norn gene furnace allows for continuous correction of defects in existing templates.

Just like the same set of mechanical blueprints.

A single sample can only prove that it works.

Only by stacking together a hundred versions under different environments can we know where the most problems are most likely to occur and which parts still have room for optimization.

The new structure was then directly incorporated into the bee colony database.

You can never have too much information, especially when it comes from outside the Milky Way.

Just as Lawson was watching the Tyranid swarm and the Ork warriors tearing each other apart, with life points and Tyranid gene samples being fed into the swarm database, an abnormal battle report suddenly popped up.

Large-scale military activities by space-dwelling Necromancers confirmed.

[Number of dynasties involved: continuously increasing]

[Identities of the parties involved in the conflict confirmed]

[Szarek Dynasty Alliance]

[Sotek Dynasty Alliance]

[Key figures in the battle: Szarek the Silent King vs. Imotek the Stormlord]

After seeing the last line of names, Lawson sat up straighter.

"These two finally started fighting?"

A star map of the northeastern part of the Milky Way and the vicinity of the Silent Node quickly unfolds.

The green markings that originally belonged to different necromancer dynasties have now been clearly divided into two parts.

A portion of the Triune Council system, re-established around King Szarek the Silent, has come together.

Another group began to align themselves with the Sotek dynasty.

This conflict did not happen suddenly.

After Szarek ended his 60 million-year self-imposed exile and returned to the galaxy, a problem has always existed within the Necromancers.

How many people still recognize this king?

In the ancient era of the Dead, the Szarek were indeed the supreme rulers of the entire race.

It was also he who ordered the deal with the Star God, allowing the entire Fearful Death civilization to complete its biological transformation.

After discovering the Star God's deception, he led the Necromancers to shatter the Star God and dissolve the absolute control agreements with the dynasties before the Great Sleep began.

Then, he left the galaxy on his own.

Sixty million years have passed, and those emperors, overlords, and rulers who were once merely his subordinates have long been accustomed to issuing orders themselves.

Among them, the one least willing to bow down again was Stormlord Imotek.

One of the most successful conquerors of the Necromancer Age.

Before the Silent King returned to the galaxy, he conquered the surrounding crypt worlds through war after war, expanding the Sothek dynasty into one of the most powerful undead forces in the entire galaxy.

In Imotek's view, Szarek made a mistake that could have destroyed the entire Fearless race.

Now, this person has suddenly returned after being gone for 60 million years, and with only the ancient title of Silent King, he wants to make all dynasties bow down to him once again.

Why?

The two sides have an even more irreconcilable difference on another issue.

The Silent King has always wanted to reverse the transformation of life forms.

To give the space necromancers real flesh and blood again.

Imotek, however, believed that the mechanical body itself was a form of evolution.

To abandon his immortal living metal body and return to an organic life form that ages, gets sick, and has a finite lifespan seemed almost foolish to him.

These two contradictions overlap.

Ultimately, only one solution remained: war.

Now, this undead civil war, which was originally confined to the Silent Node, is rapidly expanding.

The swarm remarked more than a dozen regions on the star map, seven of which overlapped with the existing territory of the Empire.

Lawson stared at the red borders.

"It got burned over here so quickly?"

Two groups of ancient beings from 60 million years ago are vying for the throne.

As a result, the battlefield was buried in a human's home.

As more and more tomb worlds awaken, similar situations will certainly continue to occur.

If the war between the Silent King and Imotek continues to escalate, sooner or later the absurd scene of two undead fleets firing at each other across a human industrial world will unfold.

Lawson thought for a moment.

A notification was sent directly to the highest operational command of both sides in the conflict.

[Imperial Seal Holder's Office - Supreme Announcement to Both Sides in the War Against the Space Necromancers]

[To King Szarek the Silent, Lord Imotek the Stormlord, and all the dynasty fleets that participated in this undead civil war:]

The human empire has no interest in the thrones, grudges, and old scores you left behind 60 million years ago.

But the galaxy is not your arena for vying for the crown.

The imperial territory is not a place for you to wage war.

From the time this notice is delivered, all undead fleets, legions, and Tomb World armed forces participating in the civil war are prohibited from entering Imperial territory, crossing Imperial sea lanes to engage in combat, or bringing the flames of war into the human world for any reason, such as pursuing the enemy, awakening the Tomb, or fighting for relics.

Take your fleet and go fight out of the galaxy.

If a single cannon shot lands on Imperial territory, an undead legion sets foot on the human world, or a Dynasty warship crosses the Imperial border without permission...

From that moment on, the Sealholder's Palace no longer distinguished between Szarek and Imotek.

The Imperial fleet will fire on both sides simultaneously.

Whoever crosses the line will die.

If both sides cross the boundary together, I will attack both sides simultaneously.

Do not test them.

Furthermore, do not use your understanding from 60 million years ago to measure today's human empire.

—Losen, the Seal Bearer of the Empire

Chapter 311: Have you ever seen a battle moon used as light cavalry?

Will the Necromancers of space heed the warnings of the human empire?

Of course not!!!

To King Szarek the Silent and Lord Imotek the Stormlord, Lord Lawson's strongly worded ultimatum was more like that of a short-lived race that had just completed technological integration, attempting to define the boundaries of the galaxy.

The Triune Council of Szarek did not give a public response, but its actions spoke for themselves.

The firefight has not stopped.

The pursuit continues.

Deep within the stars, one after another, tomb worlds that had slumbered for 60 million years were awakened, forcing the neutral fringe dynasties to choose sides.

Szarek seeks to reshape the Triune Supreme Order, while Imotek aims to prove that the monarchy of 60 million years ago has long since become obsolete.

Thus, on the seventeenth standard day after the ultimatum was delivered, the first transgression occurred.

In an attempt to escape the pursuit of the Sotek Guard Fleet, a Necromancer squadron loyal to the Tristan Council cut into the core shipping lanes of the Empire's 47th Sector.

The Sotec fleet did not slow down and followed closely behind.

The battle erupted above a Tier 2 industrial world of an empire with a population of over eight billion.

A deflected particle beam lance tore through the No. 3 main cargo spaceport in near-Earth orbit. Two civilian spaceports were reduced to wreckage in the explosion. Three Imperial patrol ships that attempted to issue navigation warnings according to procedure were vaporized by a salvo from the Sotec vanguard ship as soon as they entered the firing range.

The message was captured by the cornerstone listening beacon in the first second and directly connected to the swarm's mainframe.

[Target confirmed: Both the Szarek and Sotek factions have crossed the border and engaged in combat]