Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Kuhl's logic was not wrong, but he overlooked the fact that there was a variable in the universe called Lawson, which did not follow the laws of physics.

Agrippina lost 68 mineral stars?

It doesn't matter.

Supply has never been a weakness for Lawson.

Lawson shifted his attention from the lost outer star system to the planet at the very center of the star map.

Agrippina, the main star.

The situation is not optimistic, but it is far from the worst.

Because the strength of the No. 1 main star itself is beyond the comprehension of conventional military theory.

Under the deep scanning of swarm intelligence, the holographic structure of Agrippina primary star was dissected layer by layer on Lawson's retina.

This is not a natural planet at all.

Ordinary planets have a crust, mantle, and core. They also have mountains, rivers, and oceans.

Agrippina did not.

This planet resembles a giant eye stripped of its flesh and blood, leaving only steel and flames, hanging in the center of the entire galaxy.

Its diameter reached a terrifying 20,000 kilometers, making it even larger than the standard Holy Terra.

Lawson's gaze pierced through the toxic haze and smoke on the planet's surface.

Below the Earth's crust is the deck.

Layer upon layer of composite deck made of refined gold and plastic steel.

Each layer is hundreds of meters thick, and the decks are connected by hydraulic supports and load-bearing keels that are tens of meters thick.

The crisscrossing network of underground maglev train tracks transports hundreds of millions of tons of ammunition and components between different forging plants every day.

A deep pit, over 100 meters in diameter, leads directly to the ground and contains a super macro cannon capable of launching an entire hive city spire into near-Earth orbit.

The planet's core has been completely transformed by the Mechanicus, which extracts heat energy from the core to power tens of thousands of plasma reactors, providing the entire planet with inexhaustible power.

The arsenal, covering an area comparable to an entire continent of the old Earth, had assembly lines that roared day and night, with molten metal flowing like rivers in man-made ditches.

A supercomputer array, buried hundreds of kilometers underground and submerged in coolant at absolute zero, handles the planet's firepower coordination and production scheduling.

These buildings, factories, and fortresses interlocked to form an armored cavity without any weaknesses.

It is the ultimate war machine disguised as a planet.

Looking at the enormous steel monster, Lawson suddenly realized something.

No wonder it has survived until now.

If it were an ordinary agricultural world or a hive world, even with billions of Astral Army soldiers stationed there, without air superiority and outer outposts, the Chaos Fleet would only need to anchor in near-Earth orbit and carry out a standard "whirlwind torpedo" orbital bombardment, or conduct a continuous half-month-long macro-cannon sweep, to completely erase the surface ecology of the entire planet and turn it into glass.

But the planet itself is thick enough to swallow a salvo of naval gunfire, and deep enough to bury an entire legion.

Enemy naval guns shattered the first deck, and there was a second deck below; enemy thermal bombs melted through the surface fortress, and below lay an intricate steel labyrinth and underground bunkers.

More importantly, Agrippina's fangs remained sharp.

The complete railgun belt remains.

In Agrippina's geosynchronous orbit, a defensive ring consisting of thousands of armed space stations surrounds it.

Although nearly half of the base stations were destroyed, the remaining defense platforms still formed an interlocking network of fire.

Any enemy ship attempting to approach the low orbit will be met with concentrated fire from the light spear array.

The railgun, buried deep in the earth's crust, still exists.

These massive cannons, installed in underground silos hundreds of kilometers deep, are the ultimate trump card of the Mechanicus defense system.

Their cannons are thousands of meters long and are accelerated using the electromagnetic force of the planet's core.

The weight of the launched projectiles is in the thousands of tons.

When they fire, the recoil can even cause minor earthquakes in localized areas of the planet.

These massive cannons could not accurately target small targets, but they posed a deadly threat to the Chaos cruisers, which were several kilometers long.

A single hit would be enough to tear apart the void shield and snap the warship's keel in half.

The interstellar defense fire network remains in place.

The surface of Agrippina is covered by an energy matrix consisting of hundreds of large void shield generators.

These overlapping void shields directly transfer energy weapons and physical projectiles fired at the ground into the subspace.

As long as the plasma reactor at the planet's core remains operational, this shield will never collapse.

The six main ships have not yet sunk.

As the swarm scanned, six massive Imperial capital warships lay silently anchored in the defensive harbor behind Agrippina.

These six warships were Agrippina's last mobile force.

They rely on the planet's void shield for cover, like hunters lurking behind reefs.

When the Chaos Fleet attempts to concentrate its firepower on the orbital defense platform, they suddenly rush out of the shield's range, unleashing a close-range flank salvo before quickly retreating.

As long as these things remain, the Chaos Fleet is in a dead end.

They cannot easily occupy the low orbit.

Because once it enters low orbit, it will enter the blind spot of the railgun and be torn apart by ground-to-air fire.

They cannot carry out devastating bombardment of the same coordinates for an extended period of time.

Because the planet's void shield can transfer damage, warships that remain stationary in the same position become sitting ducks for the orbital cannon belt and the three main ships.

They couldn't simply erase this world from the void in one fell swoop.

Conventional orbital bombardment is like tickling an elephant to this metallic crust that is hundreds of kilometers thick.

Therefore, the Chaos Legion had no choice but to resort to the bloodiest tactics.

Forced airdrop.

To board the ship.

Ground-based meat grinder warfare.

They used tens of millions of cultists, plague zombies, and demon engines as cannon fodder to force their way through the gaps in the void shield and land on the ground.

They would fight on the ground, using infantry, tanks, and mechs, factory by factory.

This is a meat grinder that consumes resources.

Before Lawson took over, Agrippina's defensive strategy was passive.

Belissa Kuhl only knows how to plug leaks.

Wherever a breach occurs, fill it with machine gunners and friars.

The defensive line kept shrinking until there was nowhere left to retreat.

But now, everything has changed.

Lawson stood on the high platform of the Forging Temple, watching the mechanical sages swearing allegiance to Xerath.

He slowly began to smile.

Defense is the survival rule of the weak.

From the moment Lawson started chopping down farts in the wrecked spaceship, the phrase "passively taking a beating" was not in his vocabulary.

Since Agrippina is a planetary-level war machine.

Since its armor is thick enough and its cannons are powerful enough.

Now that the command and logistics supply lines are in perfect sync.

So, starting today, the Agrippina Galaxy officially enters a berserk phase, shifting from defense to offense!

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Chapter 160 Agrippina's Logical Upheaval

The old-fashioned priest Trajan stood before the central array of thinkers in the Temple of Planetary Fire Control, his right eye's bionic optical lens adjusting its focus forty times per second.

He served here for 312 Terra standard years.

For three hundred years, he had witnessed Agrippina's most glorious years. Back then, hundreds of forging ships were anchored in interstellar orbit, and metal towers on the surface spewed out thick smoke day and night, obscuring the artificial atmosphere. The production capacity they generated every second was enough to arm an entire Astral Legion.

He also witnessed firsthand how this world, under the gaze of the Eye of Fear, was besieged by the Chaos Legion for four years, gradually turning into a massive but stiff corpse.

Outsiders, even the Space Marines who came to help, all thought Agrippina's problem was a lack of firepower.

Tula knew it wasn't true.

The quadruple railgun beneath the Earth's crust is still there, the anti-aircraft laser wells on the rail ring are 70% fully charged, and the main gun arrays of the three forged ships are ready to pierce the void at any time.

Agrippina didn't lack artillery; what she lacked was nerves.

Each fire control system is like a terminally ill and eccentric old man.

Railguns have a dedicated approval process from the Defense Forces Command.

The surface railgun group was divided into twelve zones, and the bishops in each zone used different methods to appease the machine spirits.

The anti-aircraft laser well only listens to the direct code input of the local temple.

The fire control systems of the six main ships stationed in near-Earth orbit are logically isolated from the surface defenses, and each ship identifies the other as a potential risk of friendly fire.

The Chaos Legion exploited this sluggishness to keep Agrippina under their thumb for four years.

Today, Trajan holds a four-hundred-page application for fire control circuit optimization, ready to fix those logical loopholes that can never be plugged, just like every day for the past four years.

Then, Lawson, the Dark Side Master, walked in.

He strode to the projection platform of the holographic star map, his gaze sweeping over the densely packed fire nodes that flashed with dozens of different authority colors.

"Can all the cannons obey a command within one second?" Lawson asked.

Tula's vocal cords instinctively whirred, his prepared rebuttal already on the tip of his tongue: "Your Excellency, this is against the rules. Forcing a physical network will cause the surface railgun groups to lock each other's fire control units, and the logic circuits of the anti-aircraft silos will cause the machine spirits to go berserk due to parameter overflow. Furthermore, the Geller Barrier of the three main ships will reject unverified..."