Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Life points rely on the Squig and fart breeding farms in the bottom nest to achieve unlimited production on a cycle.

Warp energy is steadily recovering as it annihilates the Nurgle plague legions in the Klein system.

Jinggang Steel has accumulated mountains of waste from the recycling of nests.

However, the acquisition pathways for biomass are completely blocked.

From leaving the derelict spaceship and taking over the Oberus Triad to the expedition to the Klein system, all the enemies Lawson faced belonged to the Chaos faction.

There are no gene stealers, no Tyranids, and no Hive Tyrants.

Without a sufficient number of kills, there is no way to replenish biomass.

This has resulted in the fact that not only this newly formed Bear Guard, but also the vast majority of its combat-type assassins, have not yet been implanted with chitinous inner armor.

Lawson closed the system panel.

This is the dark side of the empire.

The tentacles and branch fragments of the Tyranid Leviathan fleet that roamed the outer reaches of the Milky Way had already taken deep root in this defenseless space during the window of opportunity when the starlight was extinguished.

Lawson wasn't worried about not encountering the Zerg.

As long as the intelligence network of the assassins spreads throughout the Dark Side along with Dante's fleet.

Once the coordinates of the Zerg fleet invasion are detected, he will instantly deploy 100,000 elite soldiers to the Zerg landing point.

After acquiring a massive amount of biomass, all combat-type suicide soldiers, especially the three thousand heavily armored bear guards, will be implanted with chitinous inner armor.

……

Somewhere in subspace.

The physical laws of the real universe are completely distorted here.

The turbulent flow of purplish-black and scarlet energy clashed and collided, forming dimensional vortexes large enough to devour an entire star system.

A Conqueror-class battlecruiser is cutting through the waves in this energy surge.

Outside the ship's hull, the Geller force field generator operates at near-critical power.

Outside the shield, distorted warp predators could be vaguely seen ramming wildly, trying to tear apart the thin membrane protecting human souls.

Dante, the regent in the shadows, stands atop the flagship's command bridge.

Unlike the voyage to aid the Klein system, this time, the atmosphere inside the bridge has changed substantially.

When traditional Imperial warships make warp jumps, the bridge must be staffed with a Starlight Navigator from the Navigator family.

But now, at the navigation post stands a suicide soldier dressed in black tactical gear.

The original eyeballs in his eyes were reconstructed by the system and replaced with two gem-like crystals that emitted a faint blue light.

The Starship assassin stood silently before the massive adamantite observation window, directly watching the turbulent warp currents outside the cabin.

"Port correction three degrees."

"High-density etheric turbulence detected 150,000 kilometers ahead. Subspace reefs exist to the right."

After checking the data from the astronomical instrument, the ship's chief officer on the bridge issued a turning command to the helmsman.

The cruiser adjusted the angle of its main engine nozzles, and the massive hull completed an extremely smooth evasive maneuver in subspace.

Dante walked behind the navigator.

He watched the energy vortexes churning outside the Geller force field.

Based on past experience with blind jumps, the fleet would most likely crash directly into the turbulent area, causing shield overload and resulting in severe battle damage.

"You can see the flight path clearly."

"Confirmed, sir."

"The commander has established an absolute coordinate projection within the subspace. I do not need to rely on external celestial references, nor do I need to calculate the flow of energy tides. I only need to lock the fleet's course along the gold line trajectory to avoid all subspace physical obstacles and reach the destination directly."

Dante turned and walked toward the command platform, looking at the ship's commander.

"Report on comparison of navigation data."

The warship's chief commander brought up the holographic data panel.

"Reporting to the Regent. Compared to our journey from the Barr system, the yaw rate of this jump decreased by 94 percent. All evasive maneuvers were anticipated in advance, and no emergency braking occurred."

The warship's commander looked at the final calculation results.

"The estimated time to reach the next assembly point will be reduced by more than 60 percent."

Dante nodded slightly.

Shortening the voyage by 60 percent means that in the Imperial's dark side theater of operations, the fleet can arrive months earlier than the Chaos forces.

This mobility is decisive at the strategic level.

But this wasn't the most concerning aspect of the personnel provided by Lawson for Dante.

Dante's gaze shifted to the other side of the bridge.

There stood another messenger.

At this moment, the remnants of the Fleshbreakers, led by Gabriel Seth, were aboard another strike cruiser, positioned on the left flank of the fleet.

"Contact Seth. Inquire about the current status of his ship," Dante ordered.

One minute later.

The communications assassin mechanically repeated: "Chapter Commander Seth replied. He inquired whether there were any signs of a breach in the flagship's Geller force field, and why attempts were being made to conduct inter-fleet communication within the subspace."

“Tell him that the force field is stable.”

Dante continued to issue orders: "Have his warships maintain their current speed. Report the position and distance of our flagship in their optical arrays."

The communications assassin then spoke again.

"Commander Seth confirmed. He stated that the optical array has locked onto the flagship's plasma engine contrail. The current straight-line distance is 65 kilometers. They are maintaining the left flank cover formation."

"Chapter Commander Seth added, 'This completely defies all common sense about navigation.'"

Sixty-five kilometers is a standard combat formation distance in subspace travel.

In the history of the Imperial Navy, no fleet had ever dared to maintain such a tight formation in the subspace.

Because once spatial folding occurs, the two warships will instantly merge into one.

But now, this fleet has not only completed formation in subspace, but is also maintaining real-time distance calibration through communicators.

This means...

When this fleet leaves the warp and lands in orbit around any besieged planet, they don’t need to spend time regrouping.

The moment they exited the subspace, they could unleash a barrage of cannon fire and light spears upon the enemy forces on the surface in the most perfect artillery formation.

Dante stood on the command platform, gazing at the surging warp currents ahead.

"very nice!"

His slightly hunched back slowly straightened.

Planet Obolos III, Abyss Core Forging Plant.

All 604 Mark X original power armors, originally gunmetal gray, have been modified.

The armor surface is painted with a double-headed eagle emblem, while the right shoulder armor is branded with the white tiger totem of Lawson's private army.

Lawson stood on the elevated bridge, checking the final weapons inventory.

Including the various models of Mark series power armor captured in previous battles and perfectly repaired using living metal, the White Tiger Chapter's standard number of power armor has reached the full strength required by the Code of Astartes.

In addition to the 1,000 power armors already in active service, the forge has another 20 in its reserve for replenishment of combat losses.

In the heavy armor sequence, the reserve of Terminator power armor has reached nine units.

Fully armed, Lawson did not allow this steel torrent to remain in the hive.

One thousand fully armed elite White Tiger Legion soldiers, carrying heavy explosive guns, plasma incinerators, and thermal rifles, set off for seventeen agricultural planets in the Klein system.

As for the three thousand Eugen Bear Guards...

Lawson did not send them into the Klein system.

In the current Klein system, the enemy's advanced demonic engines and heavy armor clusters have been completely destroyed.

The remaining enemy force consists of millions of plague walkers.

Deploying these heavily armed behemoths there would be an extreme waste of the theater's transport capacity and tactical value.

The Bear Guards are positioned as heavy-duty assault units. Their hypothetical enemies are Chaos Knight Titans, heavy demon engines, or physical entities at the level of Grand Magus.

This heavily armed force needs more professional training and tactical refinement.

Planet Obolos III, a red radiation wasteland.

A fierce wind raged across the Gobi Desert.

High concentrations of heavy metal dust mixed in the storm struck the bulletproof glass of the Jingjin observation post.

Three thousand Xiongwei are conducting high-intensity tactical combat training on this wasteland.

In Lawson's view, there was a strong sense of physical incongruity.

In conventional biomechanics, any bipedal, upright-walking organism whose body size exceeds three meters will inevitably experience heavy and slow movements due to the influence of gravity and the weight-bearing limits of its bones and joints.

The Empire's fearless mechs or heavy engineering servants exhibit a mechanical heaviness when moving.

But the three thousand strong men below defied this convention.

They moved through the Gobi Desert without the slightest hint of clumsiness.

The movements are fast, fierce, and violent.

Under the unified command of swarm intelligence, this group of behemoths demonstrated an extremely high level of tactical coordination.

Ahead was a simulated firing position converted from a scrapped Leman Rustank chassis and concrete bunker.

Twelve heavy logging guns were firing in a crossfire.

A full-strength bear guard squad of ten is advancing.

The three bear guards at the front suddenly made a highly deceptive tactical feint while running.