Warhammer: Empire Reboot

Leontus had calculated countless times on the tactics board.

How long can 10 billion ordinary people delay the Lord's tentacles?

Can sacrificing an Astronautical Army save the Forge World behind them?

Which star system should be abandoned to give the Imperial fleet time to regroup?

Guilliman knew what those orders meant.

All they could do was slow down the empire's demise.

After Lawson joined the fray, everything began to change.

The war, which was originally expected to last for months or even years, was completely reversed in a short period of time.

Guilliman looked at the fleeing Zerg fleet on the screen and finally let out a slow breath.

This decapitation strike against the Norn Queen was indeed a satisfying victory.

Guilliman turned to look at Lawson.

If anyone dares to step forward now and accuse Lawson of being unworthy to be the ruler of the empire...

Guilliman felt he would likely be the first to draw the Emperor's Sword.

Frontline rest area.

Dante has already replaced the damaged jump pack.

The death mask lay to one side, the acid stains on the armor still unwashed. He stood before the observation window, watching the Zerg fleet disintegrating in the void.

The Holy Blood Angels stood quietly behind him.

Many people thought of Barr.

In that war, swarms of insects covered the sky.

Kadan, the primary star of Baal, and the secondary star of Baal fell almost simultaneously.

The Holy Blood Angels and their minions resisted amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, the chapter fortresses were surrounded by hordes of insects, and countless warriors who had lived for millennia perished on their homeworld.

A chapter leader of the Holy Blood Angels walked up to Dante.

"If the Lord of the Seal had appeared sooner... Baal wouldn't have lost so many brothers."

Dante paused for a moment, then shook his head.

The past cannot be changed, and the dead will not return.

But at least from today onwards, the Empire no longer needs to turn every war against the Terran swarm into a defense of Baal.

Dante watched as the Imperial fleet advanced relentlessly through the void.

"It's not too late for it to appear now."

"Except for the emperor..."

"The one who holds the seal is the greatest being of this era."

The collapse of the two main tentacles quickly spread to every battlefield in the Pacific Starfield.

The Zerg fleet that had been obscuring the star began to move away from the planet's orbit.

The large transport carrier abandoned its unfinished deployment and withdrew towards the edge of the star system, dragging its damaged hull.

Many sporangia lost their traction and deviated from their course in the upper atmosphere; some fell into the desert, while others burned directly into clusters of red fireballs.

The swarms of insects that had penetrated deep into the planet's surface suddenly lost their supply from the void.

More deadly changes occur in the synaptic network.

With the Norn queens dying one after another and the core mothership destroyed, large gaps appeared in the swarm's will covering the Pacific region.

Many Hive Tyrants and Neurals are still maintaining local control, but the commands they receive from the higher levels have been broken.

Conflicting residual signals are fed into the neural network at the same time.

The swarm of insects on the ground began to deform.

The knife-like insects, which were originally able to bypass the fire zone and actively seek out weak points, suddenly lost their unified direction.

Some continued to charge according to the old orders, some stopped among the mountains of corpses and repeatedly turned their heads, and many more low-ranking Zerg broke away from the ranks and relied on instinct to pounce on the nearest flesh and blood.

A neurobeast is attempting to regain control of the entire war zone.

Its brain tissue on its back expanded rapidly, and synaptic impulses spread in concentric circles.

However, after losing the Norn bug and the higher-level nodes, the signals it needs to process far exceed its capacity.

Blood blisters bulged on the surface of the massive brain tissue.

The next instant, the neurobeast's head exploded from the inside.

Snapped!

The purplish-black brain matter was splattered onto the surrounding knife-like insects.

After losing its last layer of restraint, the swarm completely scattered.

For the first time in months, the defensive orders that had been in place on the Astral Army command channel were replaced.

"All artillery units, extend firing range!"

"Armored units have crossed the first line of defense!"

"Infantry follow!"

"A full-scale counter-offensive!"

Artillery positions covering the entire continent opened fire simultaneously.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The muzzle flashes stretched across the horizon.

A deafening roar rolled across the trenches from behind, sending mud and insect blood raining down from the tops of the bunkers. Shells flew over the Astragalus soldiers' heads and slammed into the chaotic, shrinking insect swarm.

The earth was repeatedly torn apart.

The sword insects, warrior insects, and tattered carapaces flew into the sky together.

Before the flames had even died down, a second barrage of fire had already fallen, tearing the swarm of insects that were trying to regroup to shreds once more.

The armored gate in front of the trench slowly rose.

Riemann Rustank was the first to break out.

The tracks rolled over the pile of insect corpses, and the turret fired as it rotated. The battle cannon shattered the lower limbs of a Dominator-class Executioner at close range, and two tanks behind it immediately followed up with fire.

boom!boom!

The giant beast was hit repeatedly in the chest cavity.

It also wanted to rely on its independent neural core to rush towards the armored column, while the shrieks of heavy railguns could already be heard from its side.

Pass!

The bullet pierced through the giant beast's shoulder armor, tearing out large chunks of flesh from the other side.

Wolverine swept through the dust and smoke.

The repulsive shield slammed head-on into the heavily wounded executioner, knocking him to the ground.

The plasma cutting blade on his right arm pierced his chest, and then he stepped on the armor, pushing the heavy railgun into the wound.

Pass!

The entire upper body of the Dominator-level executioner exploded outwards.

Wolverine pulled out the cannon, the back nozzles ignited again, and he chased after the next swarm of fleeing heavy insects.

Thousands upon thousands of Wolverines charged through the Star Guardian defenses.

They hunted in packs.

The Zerg heavy armor units that had been pressing down on the Astronauts were being overturned one by one from behind by these steel behemoths.

Further away, the saber-toothed tiger had caught up with the retreating Titan creatures, hunting them down like a pack of wolves!

The laser guns of the nearby Astronautical soldiers formed a red rain of light.

Da da da da!

The disorganized knife-like insects fell in rows.

The remaining Zerg attempted to flank the infantry formation, but were shredded to pieces by the heavy explosive blasters mounted on the Chimera armored vehicles.

"Drive them into the shelling zone!"

The soldiers advanced forward, stepping on a layer of insect blood that was half a meter thick.

They could no longer discern the original location of the trenches.

The entire plain was covered with armor, severed limbs, and flesh charred by artillery fire.

The tank tracks rolled over the corpse, leaving two deep, bubbling trenches.

In another world, the Astartes Chapter also broke out of the fortress.

The Land Raiders of the White Sanctuary smashed open the broken city gates, and heavy bombardments spewed flames to both sides.

Warriors clad in white power armor followed behind the armored vehicle, their chainsaw swords spinning at high speed.

The swarm has lost the collective consciousness that allowed it to gradually drag Astartes into encirclement.

The synaptic creatures that once required a tactical squad to hunt down are now exposed on an open battlefield, surrounded only by a swarm of low-level Zerg that charge around on instinct.

In the sky, a squadron of phoenixes leaped from the belly of a transport plane.

Hundreds of figures swooped down from the clouds, bypassing the swarms of insects on the ground, heading straight for the last few synaptic nodes.

Zerg anti-air units raised their gun barrels.

Before the aiming was even complete, the black shadow blade fell from the sky.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!

The muzzle, the biological eyeball, and the nervous system were all pierced simultaneously.