Warhammer: Empire Reboot

The inside of the vortex is becoming increasingly chaotic.

The tax conflict at Rusty Star Wharf was not over when a slave riot broke out at Red Bone Market.

Three small gangs attempted to escape from the Black Tooth Pirates area, but were pursued by the Red Pirates, which in turn triggered panic among the surrounding privateers.

A dispute arose over the maintenance system of the defensive turrets in the abandoned star city. The Dark Mechanicus accused the Red Pirates of arbitrarily modifying work orders, while the Red Pirates countered that the Mechanicus was delaying the martial law order.

Several small black market space stations began to close their ports.

Some of the captains' lieutenants were suspicious of each other.

While Huron was away, several Red Pirate officers attempted to expand their temporary jurisdiction, resulting in a fight with the local pirate group.

Some of this chaos was instigated by lurking agents.

Some of them grew naturally on the pirates.

Lawson only needed to make a slight movement.

A whirlpool will bite itself.

It was during these twelve standard days that the three million cornerstone sequence quietly entered the vortex.

Three million sounds like a huge number.

It can be put into a whirlpool, but it's like three million grains of dust being scattered into a shipwreck graveyard.

This region has countless ships, countless ports, countless slaves, countless black markets, and countless people whose identities have been swallowed up by war and piracy.

The vortex only checks whether you can pay taxes, move goods, fight, and make money.

Huron's lockdown order led to stricter checks.

The chaos created by Lawson distorted the inspection process.

The combination of strictness and chaos actually creates more entry points for the foundational sequence.

Swarm intelligence creates a color map within a vortex.

Red indicates military targets.

Red Pirate Command Ship, Star City Command Center, Fire Control Center, Subspace Anchor Point, Defense Battery, Patrol Ship Berth.

Black, a dangerous technological target.

Dark Mechanicus warehouse, contaminated reactor, demon engine storage vault, chaos rune core, and warp rift experimental chamber.

Gold represents high-value wealth goals.

Adamantite Warehouse, Blackstone Fragments, Precious Metal Reserves, Ransom Vault, Mechanicus Sealed Casket, Alien Power Core, Ancient Armory, STC Suspected Archive Box.

Silver can be converted into industrial resources.

Hull armor plates, reactor components, macro cannon barrels, engine nozzles, void shield generators, thinker arrays, navigation equipment, maintenance servitors, and standard material ingots.

Gray represents human resources and low-value goods.

Slaves, sailors, miners, technicians, medicine, food, fuel, and ordinary weapons.

Green can be temporarily abandoned.

Rotten waste, heavily polluted areas, warehouses with excessive demonic remnants, and low-value, high-cost miscellaneous items.

Lawson wanted to take it.

But he doesn't steal indiscriminately.

Time is limited, the static force field space is limited, and transportation capacity is limited.

What he wanted was to cut off the head first, then move the gold, and then dismantle the bones.

Within twelve days, the cornerstone sequence clearly marked many valuable areas of the Great Vortex.

On the third underground level of Rusty Star Wharf, there is a warehouse made of a mixture of refined gold and high-purity ceramic steel, which was directly levied by the Red Pirates.

On the east side of the ruined star city, there are seven macro cannon barrels and a batch of uninstalled void shield secondary generators.

Deep within the Redbone Market lies the noble ransom vault, piled high with gold bars, gems, relics, family seals, bonds, and hostage ledgers from dozens of imperial worlds.

On the outer ring of the Black Tooth Lake area, there is a small dock containing twelve semi-repaired frigates and a large amount of dismantled ship materials.

Dark Mechanicus Warehouse No. 3 contains a reactor regulator, an alien power core, an ancient data casket, and a batch of sealed servant control arrays.

Inside the Broken Star City lies one of Huron's backup treasure locations, filled with rare metals, adamantite ingots, and mechanical caskets.

There are also more than a dozen warehouses, six munitions depots, three fuel anchorages, nine slave markets, and four core areas for shipwreck salvage, which have been successively marked with gold, silver, and black.

At the same time, the main planet Agrippina also became empty.

Lawson gave advance orders to clear out the outer freight plaza of the Agrippina Foundry World, the third-track warehouse complex, the abandoned macro cannon assembly plaza, the old ore transshipment port, and eighteen large enclosed warehouses.

The cornerstone sequence establishes the receiving area.

T-series suicide squads establish a rapid quality control line.

The Mechanic priests were brought in to prepare to deal with ancient devices that might contain remnants of machine spirits.

They didn't know how much stuff Lawson was going to move.

All they know is how to prepare the warehouse.

Prepare more warehouses.

Prepare more warehouses.

Lawson also gave clear instructions to the swarm intelligence approach.

After the action begins, the static force field space is divided into three parts.

Of the 300-cubic-meter turnover window, only 3% is reserved for emergency dispatch.

This includes command, wounded personnel, high-risk core components, and sudden battlefield needs.

Twenty-seven percent was used for troop deployment.

Deploy the battle sequence to key battle zones of the Great Vortex, forming a system of decapitation, suppression, clearing, and defense.

The remaining 70% was used to transfer supplies.

Non-urgent internal supply chain operations within the sector are suspended.

Non-critical administrative transportation is suspended.

Transportation of general building materials is suspended.

Some green-skinned livestock farms are being temporarily suspended due to low-priority scheduling.

The transport of warship parts has been delayed.

Now, the stasis field serves the purpose of robbery.

Time is up.

Inside the bridge of the Ghost of Destruction.

Lawson looked at the node diagram of the Great Vortex.

Twelve standard days have passed.

Huron has caught up far enough.

His main fleet, a large number of vassal pirates, and many greedy outlaws were all suspended in the warp.

Going back isn't as simple as just turning around.

They need to regroup, navigate the turbulent whirlpool, find a stable window, and escape the false trails left by Lawson.

A pirate fleet is not a swarm of bees.

Lawson grinned, revealing his fangs.

"start."

As soon as those two words were spoken, all the hidden nodes in the Great Vortex lit up simultaneously.

A ghostly blue light appeared in countless places it shouldn't have been.

The tax hall at Rust Star Wharf.

Maintenance wells for the gun emplacements in the abandoned star city.

Below the slave auction house in the Red Bone Market.

The dock mezzanine in the Black Tooth Lake area.

The outer pipes of the Dark Mechanicus warehouse.

The precious metal vault of Broken Star City.

The engine room of the Red Pirate's command ship.

The communications room of the Star City Command.

One by one, static anchor points were activated.

The Ghost of Destruction no longer needs 120,000 combat troops.

The flagship has been taken over by 300,000 cornerstone crew, 3,000 T-series aircraft, and 200,000 servants.

Therefore, all 120,000 combat units were transmitted back to the Great Vortex.

Using local foundational sequences as anchor points, they descend in large numbers.

The first to land were the White Tiger Battle Group.

Inside the Red Pirates' command hall at Rusty Star Wharf, a temporary leader was roaring into a communicator, ordering his men to suppress the riot.

As soon as he turned around, he saw a static light screen light up behind him.

A White Tiger assassin stepped out from the light screen.

"Enemy attack—"

The leader only uttered two words.

Captain White Tiger's bomb gun has already opened fire.

His upper body was blown to pieces, and blood splattered on the flight map.