Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Nineteen Firestorm-class and modified fire-capable frigates.

Thirty-four Cobra-class or similar destroyers.

More than forty armed cargo ships.

Seven light cruiser-class privateers.

A dozen or so Dark Mechanicus repair and salvage ships with special modifications.

The remaining ships are heavy transport ships, slave transport ships, fuel ships, ammunition ships, and decomposable shipbuilding ships.

Lawson wants it all.

Can't escape a static force field?

Then let's just seize the ship.

The cornerstone sequence replaced the crew.

Those who resist, kill them all.

Ordinary slave crew members who were willing to kneel were isolated.

Capture the Dark Mechanic Cult assistant who has technical value.

The crew members, whose lives were heavily polluted by chaos, were burned.

An armed cargo ship named "Rotten Tooth" attempted to escape.

Its captain, an old pirate, immediately cut the berth cables and started the engines.

But as soon as it left port, its external thrusters burst into blue and white sparks.

The infiltrators left a glitch inside three days ago.

The next second, the Yazi squad boarded the ship through the static anchor point.

Blood flowed across the bridge.

Rotten Tooth has been taken over.

One of the Firestorm-class frigates reacted more violently.

The captain preferred to self-destruct rather than hand the ship over to Lawson.

He called out Huron's name, trying to overload the reactor.

The T-sequence assassins didn't give him a chance.

Inside the engine room, thirty keystone sequence maintenance workers simultaneously disconnected the auxiliary reactor link.

The White Tiger breaks through the gate.

The captain was captured alive.

Execute him on the spot.

The ship was preserved.

The Great Whirlpool, Day 5.

The main star warehouse of Agrippina is overflowing.

This is a very rare occurrence.

The entire storage system of the forging world was crammed to near its limit by the wealth and technological resources continuously flowing in from the vortex.

Jingjin and Taogang occupy the Hongpao assembly plaza.

Precious metals and ransom boxes filled the Third Track warehouse complex.

The Mechanicus casket and the ancient data casket were sent to the forbidden vault.

The reactor core and void shield components filled the old ore transshipment port.

The Blackrock Shards need to be sealed off separately, taking up a significant amount of security space.

Ordinary gold and silver, gemstones, works of art, and ransom certificates from noble families—wealth of low strategic value—were downgraded and transferred to a temporary vault.

But it's still not enough.

Lawson was prepared.

The warehouse of the Oberlus Triad is open.

The Tri-Star originally had been reorganized by Lawson and possessed a large number of cleared-out old noble storage areas, abandoned military depots, orbital transfer stations, and outer cargo warehouses of the hive capital.

These places were originally intended to serve the Green Skin Cultivation Pool, the Sky Clearing Project, and the Reconstruction of the Nest City.

It has now been temporarily converted into a loot warehouse.

Adjustment of the static force field circuit.

Agrippina couldn't let go, so she turned to Trinity Star.

The old aristocratic treasury district on Planet Obolos I began to fill with gold and gems looted from the Great Vortex.

The orbital cargo ring of the Obolos II received propellers, gun turrets, and large metal ingots salvaged from armed cargo ships.

The abandoned supply depot of Obolos III contains Red Pirate weaponry, explosives, molten metal weapons, and Dark Mechanicus equipment that has been determined by the T-series to be purifiable.

Residents of the Tri-Star cannot see these things.

They only saw the frequency of cargo ships and rail elevators in the night sky suddenly increase.

Some speculate that war is on the horizon again.

Some people say that the Lord of the Seal has robbed someone again.

This guess is very close to the truth.

The Great Whirlpool, Day Six.

Most of the high-value warehouses that were available for looting have already been emptied.

The combat sequence began to shift towards "dismantling bones".

The remaining Red Pirates inside the Great Whirlpool grew increasingly desperate.

They finally understood that Lawson had not come to conquer.

Move what you can.

Dismantle anything that cannot be moved.

Blow up what can't be demolished.

A red pirate leader and his remaining troops guarded the last warehouse in Broken Star City.

All that remained inside were a batch of hull armor plates, which were not of the highest value, and a few old propellers.

His face was covered in blood, and he was screaming as he held the communicator.

"The overlord will return!"

On the opposite side, the White Tiger Shield Wall slowly advanced.

No one responded to him.

"You imperial dogs! This is the Great Vortex! This is the Red Pirates' territory..."

A barrage of explosives was fired.

He and the guards behind him were smashed to pieces.

The foundational sequence bypassed the corpse and began dismantling the thrusters.

The Great Whirlpool, Day Seven.

Lawson stood at the highest point of the ruined star city.

In the distance, a patch of firelight shone.

Many valuable areas inside the vortex have been hollowed out.

The underground warehouse at Rust Star Wharf is empty.

The Red Bone Market ransom vault is empty.

In the Black Tooth Lake area, the navigable boats were taken away, and the navigable boats were dismantled.

The Dark Mechanicus warehouse was now filled with only heavily contaminated, low-value, or immovable items.

The treasure trove of Broken Star City is like a bone that has been stripped bare.

More than 300 ships were taken over in succession. Those that could navigate were being guided away from the edge of the whirlpool by the core crew and were following the pre-set evacuation routes. Those that could not leave were left in place after their core components were removed.

The combat formation has been engaged in continuous combat for seven days.

They are not tired.

The foundational sequence is not tired either.

But Lawson knew the time had come.

Huron is returning to provide assistance.

Although the vortex's reaction was destroyed, it cannot be paralyzed forever.

Continuing to compete will decrease profits and increase risks.

Now, it's time to wrap things up.

T-001 reports: "BOSS, the transfer of high-value gold targets is 87% complete."

"Fifty-three percent of the silver target has been achieved."

"Red bombing target preparation is 91% complete."

"The remaining materials are mostly low-value, heavily polluting, too large in size, or not profitable to dismantle."

Lawson asked, "Taking control of the ships?"

"312 ships have been taken over. 226 are navigable. 51 need to be towed. 35 have been abandoned after their cores were removed."

"personnel?"

"Approximately 1.4 million prisoners were captured, the majority of whom were slaves, technicians, crew members, and low-ranking machine servants and maintainers. The Red Pirates and Chaos Cultists have been executed or are awaiting trial."