Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Having resolved the deployment of ecological transformation, Lawson's focus returned to the analysis of strategic intelligence.

In front of the holographic sand table in the command room of the Avengers, the brain memories of the Iron Warrior, battleship blacksmith Grendel, have been analyzed into structured data packets.

Lawson consulted the memory.

In the memory of the Iron Warriors Chapter Leader, there were only wide-area bounties belonging to the Khorne faction.

Skrag, the high-ranking demon Khorne whose body was blown off by Lawson, used his primal power to issue a kill order for Lawson's head to the entire Eye of Terror and the Chaos Warband at the edge of the galaxy.

However, Lawson searched through the memory database—

He found no clues about the Nurgle faction.

In terms of harboring filth, it is remarkably quiet.

But this did not make Lawson feel at ease; instead, it made him more wary.

He understands the logic of hatred all too well.

A barking dog may not bite, but a truly deadly venomous snake often makes no sound before striking.

Lawson was certain that the Nurgle faction would send a massive army to retaliate.

And their target for revenge is only themselves.

The Great Impure Ones are not ordinary demons. They are direct extensions of the will of Nurgle, and are one of the seventy-two Great Demons.

Slaying a Great Impure One is tantamount to directly weakening Nurgle's overall strength in the warp.

Not only that, but in a single day, he traversed fourteen planets and simultaneously beheaded fourteen Nurgle demon princes using stasis fields, shattering a galactic-scale pulling ritual that had been planned for years.

This caused a large number of warp entity demon souls to completely disappear into the black hole.

All these old grievances combined have amplified the level of hatred to an extreme degree.

It was high enough that Nurgle would cast a personal glance at him from his throne in the Plague Garden.

Khorne's retaliation is linear. They will send wave after wave of berserkers to their deaths.

Known as the benevolent father, Nurgle's revenge is often accompanied by meticulously planned schemes, incurable diseases, and overwhelming fleets of plague.

When Nurgle's retribution comes, it will not be a harassment by one or two warships, but a green plague swarm that could engulf the entire sector.

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Lawson turned his head and looked at the seventeen planets representing the Klein system on the holographic star map.

He didn't want to keep the battlefield in the Klein system.

In his plan, this place was already his territory.

It was his farm, his arsenal, and his logistical lifeline.

If Nurgle's main fleet were to engage in battle here, these seventeen planets would instantly become dead stars, where even death squads could not find a foothold.

Since the target of the warp's hatred is oneself.

So wherever they are, they will follow like dogs.

On a galactic scale, a tug-of-war ensues. Using oneself as absolute bait, one draws away the chaotic firepower from one's own logistical base.

The holographic star map began to shrink under Lawson's command.

The field of vision expanded outward from the Klein system, traversing a vast void, and settled on a huge star field flashing with dense red light.

Lawson looked toward the Agrippina Galaxy.

On the dark side of the empire, this is a name soaked in blood and steel.

This is the capital system of the Agrippina Sector, and also one of the most brutal and devastating war zones in the entire Milky Way, apart from the Cardian Gate.

This is the famous "Agrippina Meat Grinder".

At the core of the Agrippina galaxy lies a forged world of the same name.

It is the industrial heart of the Mechanicus in this sector, producing hundreds of millions of guns, ammunition, Leman Rustanks, and sacred Titan armor.

It was precisely because of the existence of this world-forging star that the Agrippina system became an essential route for the forces of Chaos to attack the heart of the Empire.

Upon leaving the wrecked spaceship and landing on the planet Obulus, Lawson, after obtaining the surrounding star map, absolutely dared not approach the Agrippina system.

Entering Agrippina is like throwing an ant into a fully powered industrial shredder.

The current battle situation in the Agrippina system is ten times more chaotic than the official Imperial records suggest.

Intelligence indicates that the area is not only home to various Chaos Legions from the Eye of Fear, the Dark Apostles of the Word Bearers, the Night Lords' terror forces, but also countless pirate warbands that have come to plunder.

In addition, the roaming orc legions have also built massive, illegally constructed space stations on the edge of the galaxy, engaging in fierce battles with all factions.

The Legions of Nurgle and Khorne considered it the main battleground for the struggle for control of the Warp.

The war in the Agrippina system has raged for centuries without ever ending.

Countless human worlds were reduced to scorched earth, and every inch of space in the galaxy was filled with the wreckage of warships, cold corpses, and unexploded torpedoes.

The number of lives the Imperial Star Forces poured into that place was in the tens of billions.

The factories that forged the world collapsed in bombings and were rebuilt from the ruins, producing killing machines day and night.

Extremely chaotic, extremely dangerous. But also extremely fertile.

Since that's the case, then I, Lawson, will also join in the fun.

He intends to use Agrippina, this massive crusher, to wear down the vengeful fleet that Nurgle is about to send.

Lawson stood up from the command seat.

The highest priority strategic transfer order was issued.

The elite troops remaining in the Klein system and the Oberlus triple star system have entered a state of absolute defense and infrastructure production.

"Avengers main reactor preheating."

"Sword-class frigates No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3—de-orbit anchor and enter escort formation."

The orbital defense network of the Agrippina system is extremely dense and difficult to distinguish between friend and foe. If a large fleet jumps in, it will immediately become a sitting duck for all forces.

A Gothic-class heavy cruiser equipped with a light spear array serves as the firepower center and command post, along with three Sword-class frigates that have undergone extreme modifications and possess extremely high maneuverability, acting as the spearhead.

This type of small, elite formation has a higher tolerance for error.

At the front of the bridge, the heavy adamantite armor slowly descended, revealing a huge panoramic observation window.

Tens of thousands of kilometers ahead in the vacuum, the subspace engine is tearing apart the physical dimensions of the real universe.

A purplish-black energy vortex began to spin, and the dark blue shield of the Geller force field unfolded on the surface of the Avenger's hull.

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The Agrippina Galaxy.

The light from stars cannot penetrate this region of space.

The entire vacuum was filled with the wreckage of the warship.

Metal fragments floated coldly, and the ruptured bulkhead still held frozen flesh and blood that hadn't had time to dissipate.

This place is known as the Imperial Meat Grinder.

This is not only because this is the main battlefield for resisting the Eye of Fear's vanguard and fighting against the Chaos Legion.

Furthermore, this is due to the logistical and population consumption logic here.

A meat grinder grinds more than just chaos.

Cardian is broken.

As the Thirteenth Black Crusade advanced, the Gates of Khadija collapsed.

This fortress world, which has borne the heavy responsibility of the empire's defense for millennia, has physically disintegrated.

The shattered star shell was torn into pieces by the subspace vortex and thrown outwards.

The Kadians did not all die out.

Thousands of transport ships, refugee boats, and even damaged cargo ships, carrying the remaining Cadian soldiers and civilians, poured into the neighboring star system.

Some ships were devoured by demons in the warp.

Some ships didn't make it to the port in the real universe.

Other ships successfully docked, only to be ordered to be sunk by the garrison fleet on the grounds that "it cannot be determined whether there is subspace contamination in the cargo hold."

Agrippina was the first to be affected.

This is the forging world of the Mechanicus, where the surface is covered with endless factories, forging furnaces, and exhaust towers.

The sky is an eternal rust color.

The atmosphere was filled with the smells of sulfur dioxide, metal dust, and engine oil.

Any mortal who has lived on the earth's surface for more than a month will have a permanent black film corroded in their lungs.

The refugee boat is anchored in the near-Earth orbit of Agrippina.

Billions of Kadian refugees were dropped onto the outer regions of the planet's surface.

Ella is a female soldier in the 8th Infantry Regiment of the Kadian Army.

He is 24 years old this year. He started using a laser rifle at the age of 16 and has been fighting on the fungal plains of Kadian for four years.

When Cardian disintegrated, she and her family—her father Colin, her mother Martha, and her twelve-year-old brother Thomas—crammed onto a bulk carrier carrying promethium.

They traveled in subspace for thirty-four days.

The cargo ship's lower deck lacked oxygen and food.

On the seventh day, people began to die in the cargo hold. On the fifteenth day, people began to eat the dead.

Ella used the soldiers' rations to save her family's lives.

The cargo ship landed in isolation zone number four in Agrippina.

The quarantine zone is a shantytown built from abandoned shipping containers and rusty corrugated steel sheets.

There was no clean water source. The only rations were the bare minimum of corpse starch.

The rain is yellow. When it falls, it burns small dents into the corrugated steel sheet.