Warhammer: Empire Reboot

The breach of contract is undeniable, resulting in losses to the Empire's assets and personnel.

[Empire Global War Status Update]

[Target A: The Silent King's All-Domain Military Group]

[Target B: The Sothek Dynasty and the Storm Lord's military group across the entire region]

[The first, second, and third strategic clusters are immediately released from silence]

[Global Warfare]

……

Holy Terra, Hall of Strategy.

As Guilliman strode into the control hall, the dark gold and crimson icons representing the Imperial War Sequence on the holographic star map began to shift.

He walked to Lawson's side and stared at the shifting strategic arrows: "Are you sure you want to wage war against both undead alliances at the same time?"

Without even looking up, Lawson said, "The notice is very clear. Whoever crosses the line will be punished. If both sides cross the line, then both sides will be cleared out together."

Guilliman rubbed his temples: "Theory is one thing, execution is another. Could we consider a tactical split first? Forcing one side to withdraw from the Imperial defense zone, concentrating superior forces to compress the main battlefield, and then turning back to deal with the other side."

Lawson closed the light screen and turned to look at Guilliman: "Robert, when have I ever had the habit of compromising before a war? Once both sides are subdued, they will naturally sit down and listen to what the Empire has to say."

On one side of the hall, the Emperor walked up to the high platform with his hands behind his back: "Losen's judgment was correct. Faced with a civilization like the undead, any retreat will be judged as weakness by their core logic. Fight, fight until their core protocol recalculates the gains and losses!"

Guilliman shrugged. "It seems I'm the only one in this room seriously carrying out the risk assessment procedure today."

Lawson patted his shoulder armor: "That's why the position of Imperial Regent belongs to you. You are responsible for pointing out the risks, and whether to adopt them or not is up to the General Staff."

Guilliman: "..."

……

The Empire's war machine is activated on the twelfth standard following the issuance of the order.

This time, the main battle formation did not feature an overwhelming number of old-style Imperial Navy battleships.

Space Necromancers are different from other enemies.

As an ancient civilization that stood at the pinnacle of galactic technology 60 million years ago, its inertialess propulsion engine endowed its ships with maneuverability that defied classical mechanics.

They can perform tactical displacements within the conventional physical horizon without relying on subspace jumps.

Tens of thousands of old-style Moon-class and Berserker-class battlecruisers were not eliminated, but were incorporated into the second defense echelon by Lawson in their entirety. They were responsible for blocking the gravitational jump point of the star system, escorting the strategic logistics line, guarding the Industrial World, and besieging the remnants of the undead that had been scattered by the main force.

The fleet that truly entered the first frontal assault group was the new generation fleet that the Empire had developed in recent years, having completed its technological loop.

The first to break away from the deep-space anchorage were the [Light-Sweeping Class] high-speed interceptor group, followed by the [Township Class] heavy battlecruiser.

After all the main warships completed their battle formation, the [Burning Star] strategic ship entered the fray.

Just as the main fleet completed its battlefield location, three external communication requests were successively connected to the highest command link of the Seal Holder's Palace.

First-level Wotan Alliance communication access.

"Your Excellency, the Master of the Seal."

"The First Heavy Armored Group of the Wotan Joint Expeditionary Force has completed its reorganization and has been integrated into the Empire's Third Strategic Attack Array."

"In accordance with the covenant of the ancestral spirits, we await your command."

The second Ark Eldar communication arrived shortly afterward.

"Your Excellency, the Master of the Seal."

"The Ark Eldar combined fleet has arrived at the pre-designated ambush area."

"The Ghost Guard Legion, the Eldar Phantom Titan Battle Group, and the high-speed cruiser formation have completed their tactical neural network integration and have been incorporated into the Imperial Second Mobile Order."

"From this moment forward, the entire fleet will be subject to the unified fire control and dispatch of the Seal Holder's Office."

The third step was to use Titanium Empire Communications to penetrate the market.

"Your Excellency, the Master of the Seal."

"The Second Expeditionary Combat Group of the Titanium Allied Forces has completed full-domain combat readiness."

"Drone swarm relay stations, heavy combat suit assault teams, and anti-gravity armored units have been integrated with swarm neural algorithms."

"The Empire's Fourth Auxiliary Sequence, all troops on standby."

The three light curtains closed one by one.

The emperor watched all of this unfold.

Only when the last alien marker turned into the dark gold code of the Imperial allies did He lower His head and examine the entire war zone star map.

During the Great Expeditionary Era, it was almost impossible for these ethnic groups to appear on the same friendly forces list.

In deep space, the last batch of shuttles completed their boarding of the ship.

Lawson activated the highest command frequency across the entire domain:

"Full fleet, set sail."

The full-scale war between the human empire and the two major alliances of the space undead has officially begun.

On the sixth standard day after the declaration of war, the first fleet battle between the Imperial People and the Necromancers broke out in the air at the outer edge of the 47th sector.

At the edge of the star map, a main assault group of the Sotek dynasty is cutting in formation toward the Imperial border defense corridor.

The core of the entire fleet is anchored by four Kane-class Graveyard Ships, surrounded by dozens of Scythe-class Reaper Ships, Death Ray Cruisers, and hundreds of escort and interceptor units.

These ancient creations appeared as crescent-shaped outlines in the void, with living metal on the surface of the ship flowing through eerie green phase energy circuits from time to time, resembling an emerald shadow against the backdrop of deep space.

Upon detecting the human fleet blocking their path, the Sotek fleet directly locked onto the three core beacons directly in front of their formation:

[Burning Star] Strategic Mothership, [Zhenyue-class] Heavy Battlecruiser, [Light-skimming-class] High-speed Interceptor Group.

The two sides had just entered the long-range engagement range of millions of kilometers when the lead Kane-class graffiti ship completed its energy recharge.

Green particle death rays traverse deep space.

Immediately afterwards, dozens of main undead ships simultaneously changed their motion vectors without inertia propulsion, spreading their battle formation to both flanks and forming a semi-encircling arc of fire constructed from death rays, attempting to simultaneously cut into the weak points on the Imperial fleet's flanks from multiple blind spots.

Inside the strategic command temple of the Star-Burning flagship, the Emperor stared at the green trajectories on the holographic tactical map, his gaze slightly somber: "The mobility does indeed exceed the limits of a conventional physical engine."

Guilliman, standing beside him, pulled up a damage assessment model: "This is exactly the kind of opponent the old Imperial Navy feared most. Their firepower projection intensity is on the same level, but their maneuverability is a generation behind. If you try to create distance, you can't hit them; if you try to encircle them with numbers, they can break free from the encirclement at any time with a jump without inertia."

The words fell.

Outside the battle zone, the void twisted and a series of spatial collapse reactions erupted!

The Sotec fleet's passive detection arrays simultaneously sounded tactical alarms.

The spatial curtain was torn open.

The first object to burst forth from the subspace rift was a war-like celestial body with a diameter of 3,700 kilometers.

Followed by.

More than two hundred combat moons simultaneously leaped out from eight spatial quadrants surrounding the Sotec fleet!

These celestial bodies had just emerged from the jump when the compressed star, buried deep inside the Earth's core, was pushed to 100% overload power.

boom!

More than two hundred steel celestial bodies with the mass of solid planets simultaneously corrected their attitudes and then crashed head-on into the maneuvering Sotec fleet at sub-light speed!

For the first time, the Sotek fleet's command network experienced computing overload.

In the traditional concept of interstellar warfare, celestial-level war fortresses are defensive pivots that should be anchored in strategic locations within the core star system to serve as immovable fortresses.

No one would mistake hundreds of artificial moons, each thousands of kilometers in diameter, for light cavalry in a tactical charge.

The Sotec fleet's evasion orders were issued within milliseconds.

A Sickle-class harvester started its non-inertial propulsion, its hull flashed briefly, and it disappeared from its original coordinates.

The technology of the Necromancers in space did not fail; the vast majority of Necromancer warships successfully completed spatial displacement before the impact.

However, the macroscopic gravitational environment of the entire war zone was rewritten after hundreds of celestial bodies entered the area.

A celestial body with a diameter of several thousand kilometers is itself a giant source of mass.

When more than two hundred combat moons simultaneously entered the airspace, the overlapping gravitational fields wove a web of gravitational turbulence in the void.

With the help of the thousands of Blackrock Gravity Anchors that the Empire had pre-launched around the battlefield, the originally smooth void curvature was distorted into a geometric maze on both the ethereal and physical levels.

It can still perform short-distance jumps even without inertial drive.

However, the difficulty of calculating the coordinates before each jump increases exponentially.

One microsecond ago, it was a coordinate point in a safe vacuum; the next microsecond, it was covered by the gravity well of another combat moon that was hurtling past at high speed.

For a fleet that relies on high-speed infiltration and formation coordination, the collapse of the formation is a disaster in itself.

A Sickle-class harvester that had just emerged from the jump appeared out of the void.

Before the undead nobles on the bridge could recalibrate the fire control, the entire field of vision was filled with an arc-shaped black land extending to both sides.

That was the surface of a combat moon, made of composite armor.

In space battles that are often measured in light-seconds, this distance is equivalent to physical face-to-face contact.

The Necromancer Reaper, heavily loaded with a non-inertial engine, began to distort space.

However, the gravity traction beams on the surface of the battle moon locked onto the ship's hull, and the four Imperial gravity anchors around it simultaneously locked onto the spatial coordinates.

Boom!!

Trillions of trillions of tons of armored crust, carrying planetary kinetic energy, rolled head-on over it.

The hull was first compressed into a flat sheet of iron, then broken off from the central axis and rolled into the outer armor belt of the combat moon, which was tens of kilometers thick.

Seconds later, a cloud of eerie green ether exploded from deep within the earth, blasting away thousands of square kilometers of rock and armor plates.

The battle moon, now bearing a deep crater on its surface, continued its course, relentlessly grinding forward amidst the swirling debris.

On the other side, four Kane-class catacombs quickly gathered their firepower and fired simultaneously at a combat moon that was rushing towards them from the front.

The tens of kilometers-thick ceramic steel shell, underground alloy fortifications, and anti-aircraft gun emplacements were peeled off in large pieces due to high temperatures and molecular disintegration. A scorched canyon hundreds of kilometers wide was plowed out of the lunar surface, and a large number of engineering structures and thin air were ejected into space.

However, for a celestial body with a diameter of nearly four thousand kilometers, this level of surface stripping did not damage the core.

During a break in the second round of firepower recharge by the Sotek Tombship, the artificial moon, its surface ablaze with decay, crashed into the Necromancer fleet's escort group.