Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Numerous churches and sanctuaries stand in the central region of the Vigilant Star.

Missionaries, nuns, pilgrims, and religious bureaucrats penetrated every layer of life in the Nest City.

The Battle Nun has independent fortresses in some of her nests.

The state-run relief stations could influence the loyalty of the lower classes.

The bishops' conference even has the power to mobilize tens of millions of believers to take to the streets and paralyze the transportation system of a city.

The Agamemnos family has a legitimate lineage.

The Mechanical Repair Association has Industry and Shield.

The state religion has religious and military influence.

The Star Guard, the Planetary Defense Force, local nobles, and imperial bureaucrats wavered between these various forces.

To prevent the conflict from escalating into an open civil war, representatives from all factions formed a parliament.

The nobles and imperial bureaucrats referred to it as the Council of Aquilaria.

The Mechanical Order called it the Gear Council.

The same thing, two names.

This in itself speaks volumes.

In peacetime, this parliament barely manages to maintain the status quo.

Every decision had to go through the arguments of the nobility, the data rebuttals of the Mechanicus, the theological opinions of the State Church, the risk assessments of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the review of the authority of the Ministry of Justice.

It's extremely inefficient, but at least it can move.

After the Great Rift tore the Milky Way apart, this balance began to shift.

Then, the green-skinned cars arrived.

The swarm intelligence mechanism unlocked the data on the first phase of the alien invasion on the Vigilant Star.

A fleet of green-skinned orcs suddenly emerged from a warp storm and appeared in the Vigilant Star System.

Because the Great Rift interfered with psionic early warning and outer galactic detection, the Vigilant Star was almost unable to make effective preparations beforehand.

Some of the orc warships broke through the orbital defenses, streaking into the desert between the hive cities with flames and thick smoke.

The remaining warships engaged the Imperial Navy in battle on orbit.

After the surviving greens crawled out of the burning wreckage, they immediately dismantled their own spaceship.

Broken hulls, engines, armor plates, weapon systems, propulsion systems, and ammunition depots were all used to piece together makeshift fortresses, tank workshops, and crude gun emplacements.

Orc strongholds, built from garbage, steel, and violence, rise in the Starry Sea of ​​Vigilance.

The leader of this green-skinned army is named Kruldaka. He calls himself the Speed ​​Overlord.

He has gathered a large number of extremely fast and eccentric individuals under his command.

These greenskins are obsessed with speed, explosions, engine roars, and tank charges.

They drove war motorcycles, trucks, combat off-road vehicles, assembled tanks, and all sorts of absurd vehicles, unleashing a massive high-speed WAAAGH in the desert.

In the swarm's images, Lawson saw an orc caravan crossing the desert.

Hundreds of tanks spewed black smoke, their fronts painted red and adorned with human skulls and iron teeth.

The orc driver fired wildly into the air as he drove. Vehicles behind crashed into the wreckage in front, and after the explosion, other orcs used them as ramps to jump over them.

Initially, the Greenskins were unable to breach the fortress-level void shields surrounding the major hive cities.

They crashed, fired, and roared outside the shield, turning the desert into a sea of ​​scrap metal, but they couldn't do anything about the nest.

However, the shield of the Vigilant Star is not always reliable.

The warp storm triggered by the Great Rift impacted the Vigilant Star, causing some of the hive city shields to malfunction.

The green-skinned man immediately saw an opportunity.

The speed demons of Kruldaka cheered and slammed on their gas pedals, the convoy of vehicles surging into the outer region of the hive city like a metal torrent.

The Astral Army, PDF, Battle Sisters, and Mechanicus forces were forced to hastily engage in battle.

Streets, factories, main transport routes, and outer city defenses quickly turned into a sea of ​​fire.

Lawson was not surprised to see this.

If the Vigilant Star only has green-skinned individuals, the situation is bad, but it's still manageable.

Fortress-level Void Shields, Imperial Navy, PDF, Astral Army, Mechanicus firepower, and Iron Hand support can gradually push the Orks back to the desert.

The problem is that the green skin is only the first layer.

The second layer consists of gene stealers.

The Poor Princes sect infiltrated Vigilant Planet centuries ago.

The source was a gene stealer that successfully infiltrated the underground of the hive city. Years later, it grew into the patriarch of a sect and was revered by its followers as the Venerable Father Worm Dragon.

Through generations of breeding and infiltration, the bloodline of the Poor Prince has spread to various hives on Vigilant Star.

Lawson looked at the diagram of the cult's infiltration, his eyes turning cold.

The red pollution spots are densely packed.

Lower nests, mine pits, sewage systems, abandoned transport layers, water supply stations, factory labor areas, PDF logistics, noble servants, and even individual parliamentary offices.

The poor prince originally planned to continue lying low, waiting for a more perfect "day of ascension".

But the Great Rift and the invasion of the Greenskin disrupted everything.

The venerable father, Worm Dragon, realized that if the orcs were allowed to destroy Vigilant Star, the poor prince's centuries of hard work would be reduced to ashes.

Therefore, it issued a psionic summons ahead of schedule, ordering the cult to launch a full-scale uprising.

Countless mutated hybrids emerged from the underground tunnels, mines, sewage systems, and abandoned transport layers of the Nest City.

They are equipped with industrial tools, stolen laser guns, explosive devices, and civilian weapons, and launch attacks on Imperial targets.

In certain areas, the Poor Prince deliberately shut down the Fortress-level Void Shield, exposing Imperial forces to the Greenskin offensive.

Lawson saw an old video clip captured from a latent foundation sequence.

An armored company of the Astral Army was ordered to leave the city to support the outer defense line.

As soon as the convoy left the hive, the protective shields behind them rose up again.

Over the communications channel, the company commander requested that the door be opened.

No one responded.

A few minutes later, the orc racers burst out of the desert.

The armored company attempted to deploy firepower, but their retreat route was blocked by shields, and they were attacked on the flanks by a hybrid demolition team that emerged from underground.

Fifteen minutes later, the convoy was destroyed.

Before the last Leman Rustank was overturned by the Orc war wagon, the commander was still roaring in the communication channel:

"Open the door! We're on the same side!"

No one answered the door.

The government of Vigilant Star reacted extremely slowly.

The Aquilali Parliament is bogged down by factional infighting, intelligence chaos, and sectarian infiltration.

Many officials are unwilling to admit that the situation is out of control, still explaining the attacks as localized riots, criminal activity, or collateral chaos caused by the Greenskin invasion.

By the time they realized that the Poor Prince had launched a global rebellion, multiple hive cities were already caught in a pincer movement.

Then, the first Space Marines arrived.

A hand of steel, and its offspring, brass claws.

The fleet was led by Kadan Stronus of the Steel Hand.

They were originally heading to the Styx Expeditionary Zone, but after learning that their allies in the Vigilant Star Mechanic Guild had been attacked by aliens, they changed course and rushed to their aid.

The Steel Hand originally thought they would be facing a direct offensive from the Greenskins.

They soon discovered that the enemy on the Vigilant Star was far more complex than orbital reconnaissance had indicated.

Outside the city, a horde of green-skinned tanks charged forward.

Inside the hive, there are gene-stealing hybrids, rebel militia, contaminated PDFs, and followers of the Poor Prince who are ambushing the city.

The Imperial tanks were blocked by a roadblock made of rocks, cables, corpses, and abandoned machinery.

The Astronaut Corps company was swallowed up by a sudden ground collapse during its march.

The battle nun was attacked by claws emanating from the underground sewage pipes.

Every street, every factory, every water station, elevator shaft, and ventilation duct could harbor an enemy.

The Steel Hand is suited for this kind of battlefield.

They are highly mechanized and can crush complex blocking forces with systematic firepower and armored propulsion.

But they were not numerous enough.

They could stabilize a few key points, but they couldn't fill all the holes in the entire Vigilant Star.

After the Steel Hand, the Space Wolf arrives.

Battle leader Haldor Frospi led his forces into the Ordnance Nest.

Otek possesses a vital water supply system for the Vigilant Star, making it a key target for the Poor Prince.

The Space Wolves' combat record there is very much in their style.

However, the number of enemies on the vigilant planet continues to increase.

The Dark Eldar have appeared.

They appear and disappear through hidden network entrances and exits in nearby galaxies and at the poles of the warning star.

They took advantage of the chaos to attack imperial ships, plunder civilians, capture slaves, and bring the spoils back to Comoros.

Some evacuation trains arrived at their destination with only empty seats, bloodstains, and some peeled skin remaining.