Travel to Warhammer 40K with Grey Wind

In fact, Grey Wind didn't say one thing - the Hive Mind is very smart and has a strong ability to learn and grow. After learning the lesson of Behemoth's annihilation, the subsequent Hive Fleets such as Kraken and Leviathan will definitely be more perfect and more difficult to deal with, and it will be difficult to kill them with unexpected concentrated fire sniping.

As the Marshal said, this is only the end of the beginning.

To Grey Wind, the impending invasion was just another stirring of the chaos in the galaxy by the Great Devourer. But to the Ultramarines, it was devastating news.

Because the first stop of the Zerg invasion is Ultramar.

On Parmenio, which was ravaged by the Zerg, Captain Hatin urgently convened a secret meeting. The meeting had only one theme:

"Should we trust the Star-Bombard?"

Hatin spoke in a loud voice to the Ultramarines Captain and a few senior Macragge military officials who were attending the meeting: "According to the Star-Bombard, the attack of Behemoth on Parmenio is just a prelude to the full-scale invasion of the Zerg. More Ether Giants are about to arrive. The situation is very serious..."

"That's not necessarily true, my respected leader."

Before Hatin could finish his words, an arrogant voice with aristocratic accent interrupted him.

The old captain's face darkened slightly, but he did not shout at anyone, because the person who interrupted him was no one else but Wagner Ebolon Civitas, an Imperial Navy Marshal with a golden emblem on his shoulder, the absolute power figure in the Ultramar Navy.

He was born into the Sivitas family, a great noble family of Macragge. He had been in the Imperial Navy for many years and was very powerful and well-connected to the Adeptus Mechanicus. There were also many Astartes from the Sivitas family in the Ultramarines Chapter, and even the leader, Harding, was very close to the Sivitas family in terms of family bloodline.

This is the norm throughout the Ultramar star field. The great nobles who control the planets regard it as a great honor for their offspring to become Ultramarines.

Wagner Civitas gave Harding an apologetic smile and said, "Although it may be a bit rude, what I want to say is that the true face of the Star-Flinger may not be as easy to deal with as the image he presents to you and me."

Chapter 272: Dedicated to the Country

"Before you express gratitude to the Star Bullet and his pseudo-federal regime, I hope you can at least think about a few things first."

Wagner Civitas didn't care about the gloomy look of the adjutant next to Harding. He looked at the Grand Sage Trevens of the Mechanicus who was sitting a few seats away from him and said calmly:

"First of all, it is true that the Star-Ballist fleet rescued Parmenio from the mouth of the Aether Giant Worm, but... did we take the initiative to ask for help from the pseudo-federal regime?

Because the warp shadow blocked the signal, even Macragge had difficulty receiving the request for help from Parmenio. Since we did not ask for help from the pseudo-federal regime, how did the Star-Ballist, who was far away in the northern part of the Far East Star Region, know about the invasion of the Ether Giant Worms?

Moreover, the preparation time required to mobilize a fleet of that size is by no means a small number, but the Star-Bomber's "support" came extremely timely, which makes me wonder if Faya knew about the invasion of Parmenio before Macragge did?"

Harding remained silent.

Although Wagner's attitude was arrogant, his perspective on the issue was indeed tricky. The powerful nobles in the empire might be greedy or corrupt, but very few of them were incompetent.

Wagner Civitas smiled and continued:

"Speaking of the size of the fleet, I think everyone has received the news, right? Even though the Aether Worm has been annihilated and its corpse has been taken away by the Titan ships, the star gate of Macragge is still open. At this moment, there are still ships pouring out of the star gate and heading for Parmenio.

Even the great sage of the Mechanicus, the servant of the God of All Machines... could not close the star gate and put an end to this farce."

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at the great sage Cui Wensi, who had remained silent.

The venerable Casting Sage nodded slightly and said, "The state of the Star Gate has been completely locked by some incomprehensible program. Even as a builder, I cannot close it."

Everyone was silent. Everyone present was a powerful figure in Ultramar, and they naturally understood what Trevens meant by this.

The stargate construction template brought by the 13th Expeditionary Fleet contains a backdoor program for the Star Launcher.

Wagner struck while the iron was hot and said, "And what is the reason for the pseudo-federal regime to continue to send troops to Parmenio without our consent? It was the Star-Bombing who asked them to use all their forces to aid Parmenio! What a poor excuse! They were too lazy to even make up a lie to justify themselves... Don't you think it's ridiculous and humiliating?"

The Admiral of the Navy supported his hands on the table, with an excited look on his face, and spoke impassionedly, showing everyone at the meeting his eloquent skills as a noble of Ohmakrag.

"Don't confuse us, Wagner. As a naval admiral, you should know better than me that aliens like the Ether Giant Worm rarely act alone. The invasion of Parmenio is just a prelude." Hatin said:

"There is a possibility that more Zerg will continue to invade Ultramar. It may be embarrassing for the Star Slinger fleet to stay here, but in reality, it will benefit us more than it will harm us."

Wagner did not refute. He nodded and said, "More ether giant worms will invade Ultramar in the future. The pseudo-federal government dispatched a fleet to Parmenio out of good intentions. Indeed, if this statement is true, my speculation about the Star Bullet is indeed a bit offensive. But the premise is... this statement can really be established."

Hatin frowned slightly: "What does this mean?"

Wagner smiled slightly: "What if the so-called Zerg alien invasion is actually a disaster farce planned by the Star-Bomb?"

In an instant, the conference room, where people were whispering from time to time, became so quiet that you could hear a pin.

"I need you to give further explanation." There was no emotion in Harding's tone.

"It's very simple. The claim that the so-called ether giant worm is an extragalactic alien from outside the abyss is completely untenable, because more than two hundred years ago, in the Far East Star Region, in Faya, an ether giant worm appeared." Wagner's expression became solemn, and he spoke word by word: "And that ether giant worm is suspected to be controlled by the Star Bullet."

This light sentence was like a heavy hammer, causing the faces of several Ultramarines captains who originally held the same position as Hattin to change.

"If that's the case... bring me evidence to prove your words." Hatin sighed and made a decision in his heart: "If your words are true, then in the name of the Emperor, the Ultramarines will fight the Star-Ballists to the last drop of blood in the name of the Emperor, in the name of the Father of Genes."

Wagner smiled confidently, and reached into his coat slowly, pulling out the results of the investigation he had prepared long ago: "In fact, long before the 13th Expeditionary Fleet came to Ultramar, I had already started an investigation into the Star-Bombers that had suddenly risen up in the Far East Star Region..."

Everyone held their breath and listened quietly to Wagner's account of the whole story.

From the so-called living saint who was not recognized by the Terra headquarters, to the martyr expedition launched by the prophetess, to the creation of the first stargate terminal exit... Russell did not deliberately order anyone to keep these things secret. With the Far East Star Region opening up navigation and trade with the outside world, many things that were originally only communicated in a small range began to spread in the Extreme Star Region. As long as one is willing and capable, it is not difficult to investigate them clearly.

Wagner Civitas, a high-ranking noble who is the Admiral of the Navy, has this ability and connections.

"When the first stargate was about to be built in the Nirvana system, Chaos launched a fierce attack on both the Faya and Nirvana systems. During that incident, the imperial army of Nirvana, led by the prophetess Alexi, repelled the Chaos warbands that came to attack. However, Faya, as a wild and uninhabited border world, had no decent self-defense force at all, and the troops left by the prophetess were not enough to resist the brutal Chaos warbands."

"But the Star Bullet managed to hold Faya, without using any ancient relics or receiving the blessing of His Majesty the Divine Emperor. The one who massacred the Chaos warband that attacked Faya was a giant star beast, a giant ethereal worm."

Wagner placed a thick paper document and a file with the Mechanicus's sacred gear emblem on the table, and then said, "These are the intelligence related to the Star Bullet that my intelligence personnel have collected over the years, as well as the multiple chains of evidence that I have personally compiled. You can verify them at will through your own channels."

Harding said nothing as he took the parchment document in front of him. Wagner smiled and said, "I have no evil intentions to frame a reliable ally of the Empire. Everything I did was out of loyalty to the Empire and faith in the God-Emperor. The rise of the Star-Bullet and the appearance of the Star-Gate have brought everyone a beautiful dream. You may think it is cruel for me to wake people up from their dreams, but... I have to do this and I can only do this."

Only in this way can the Empire recognize the sinister intentions hidden under the gentle appearance of the Star Bullet.

Only in this way can we prevent stargates with backdoor programs from becoming popular throughout the galaxy, and avoid tragedy before the Star Missiles use this technology to strangle the human empire.

Wagner Ebolon Civitas, devoted to his country.

Chapter 273 Organic Nanoworms

From 40 to 019 of the 020th millennium, for more than half a year, the star gate at Macragge remained open, and large numbers of fleets crossed the starry sea and came to Parmenio for garrison.

The number of warships was so great that it was despairing. The clerk in charge of monitoring the movements of the star gate threw his pen in anger and simply gave up on counting.

What is even more frustrating is that, according to the intelligence gathered by the Ultramarines in the past six months, the huge fleet gathered in Parmenio, which cannot be resisted even if all the production capacity of the Greater Ultramar is emptied, is actually just the conventional naval force hastily produced by the Far East in recent years.

The true destructive power in the hands of the Star-Bomb has not yet been deployed. The Hive Fleet known as the 'Coroniai' has been entrenched in the southern star belt and has never deployed a single soldier.

No, maybe it had moved, for example, the giant etheric worm that came from the outer abyss and attacked Parmenio.

Admiral Wagner's impassioned speech convinced everyone, and the entire Ultramar was mobilized. With the comprehensive and in-depth investigation of the Star-Burning, pieces of intelligence began to surface, and Ultramar had a clearer understanding of the current situation in the Far East Star Region:

For example, the Order of Truth under the Star-Ballist is an academic heresy organization that does not believe in the God of All Machines at all; for example, there are a large number of Eldar serving in the armed forces of the Order of Truth; for example... the shameless Federation pseudo-regime relied solely on a land cession contract that was not recognized by Terra, and unreasonably and forcibly declared the Far East Star Region as its legal territory.

It is said that when the general content of the cession agreement was investigated and sent to Macragge, Marshal Wagner cried all night at his desk and vowed to take back the territory occupied by heretics for the God-Emperor.

He invested a lot of energy in this endeavor, focusing on collecting intelligence on the combat power under the Star-Ballist. One piece of information caught his special attention: among the Zerg swarms controlled by the Star-Ballist, there was a special being called the Queen.

Unlike the beast-like lower-level Zerg, the Zerg Queen possesses a cunning mind, extraordinary wisdom, and powerful psychic powers that are beyond the reach of Alpha-level psychics. If Ultramar wants to reclaim the occupied Far Eastern star field for the Empire, the Zerg Queen is a serious threat that must be eradicated.

But it seems that since a few years ago, the Queen of Insects has been hiding somewhere in the southern part of the Far East Star Region and has not gone out for any activities.

"What has the Queen of Insects been doing during these years when she hasn't shown up in public? Has she been hiding in the dark, plotting a conspiracy against the empire?" Wagner frowned.

"Coronia has been staying at Iris Proxima for so long, and I wonder if any results have been achieved?" Gray Wind smiled and in a good mood brought the biological supervisor Joshua and his subordinates to the biological Ark.

Ever since Russell ordered Coronie to decipher the Organic Codex and rebuild the human genetic code, the Fordola Bio-Ark has been anchored at the outer edge of Iris Proxima without moving. Grey Wind's mood has improved after not seeing the big bug for several years.

Grey Wind entered the Biological Ark with great anticipation under the guidance of several Eldar banshees. The Biological Department monks following behind her seemed very excited, especially Joshua. They all had a great interest in it.

"Creating new humans is something that only the omniscient and omnipotent God in Terra's ancient mythology can do. I never thought that I would be able to receive this honor in my lifetime and personally participate in God's great cause of creating a new race..." Joshua's tone was full of emotion, and his steps were a little light-headed as he walked in the coffin corridor.

Gray Wind was a little confused: "Don't you guys not believe in God?"

"We believe in objective facts. If God really exists, even if we cannot understand it at our level, it does not prevent us from acknowledging it," Joshua said righteously.

"You guys are really hard to understand..." Huifeng sighed and didn't dwell on this issue any further.

The group passed through the corridor and came to the entrance of the Tree of Life courtyard deep in the Biological Ark. As soon as Huifeng's left foot stepped out of the door, he saw a tall figure running towards him and pounced in front of the stunned Huifeng.

The two-meter-tall Koroni Ai clung miserably to the tiny Gray Wind's arms, not even reaching her chest, looking like a pitiful creature: "Gray Wind, Gray Wind, it's so hard to be God."

"What are you talking about..." Gray Wind touched Coronie's head and wrinkled his nose.

"Don't you call the creation of new humans God's work?"

"Only Joshua would yell like that." Gray Wind helplessly tried to push the tall queen insect away from his arms, but Coronie had no intention of getting up: "Why are you holding me?"

Joshua subconsciously took a step back, looked at the monk behind him nervously... and then took a few more steps back.

"Grey Wind, Grey Wind, please help me. Can you go and beg for mercy in front of the master on my behalf? Ask him to give me some more time...at least, at least another 20 years..." Coroni's four arms tightly hugged Grey Wind, with an expression that said, "I will not let go unless you help me."

"You can do this kind of thing yourself... But, are the Marshal's requirements so difficult? Even you need twenty years?" Huifeng stroked Coronie's sad face helplessly.

When it came to business, the miserable expression on Coronie's face quickly disappeared. The insect queen said in a serious tone that was unique to reporting work: "20 years is just the time required to decompile the Organic Codex. If it is to create a new species required by the master... even I am not very confident."

"Is it that difficult?" Huifeng was a little surprised.

"It's extremely difficult." Koroni nodded repeatedly. "With the complete organic gene library as a reference, whether the master wants a powerful warrior or a smart intelligent species, I am confident that it is not difficult to create an advantageous species that is particularly outstanding in a certain talent. But the master wants it all."

"Can't we have them all?" Gray Wind asked.

"It's difficult." Koroni shook his head. "The brain of organic creatures has always been the number one energy-consuming organ, and it is even worse for intelligent creatures like humans. Even for the Zerg, the biomass consumed to produce a brain worm with a developed brain and powerful psychic power is much higher than that of a knife worm or a gun worm of the same mass, not to mention that the movement of muscles and tendons itself consumes a lot of energy."

"The ultimate creatures that the master requires have reached the pinnacle of molecular biology in terms of intelligence, physical strength, and even metaphysical willpower. In contrast, their energy consumption is extremely high. No matter how I optimize the digestive system and the efficiency of food absorption, it is difficult to maintain the functioning of all organs in the body."

“Perhaps, we can research a high-energy food specifically for this high-energy-consuming body?”

"Of course, it is possible, but supply is a problem. The products created in this way will lose the ability to survive in the natural environment of the universe. Once the rear supply is lost, it will not be able to obtain enough energy to maintain life signs. The master should not want to see future Federation crew members starve to death on the way to the expedition."

"So... speed up your metabolism? Solve the problem by improving your eating efficiency?"

"Such new humans would excrete more frequently than the birds of ancient Terra. And excessive metabolic efficiency would also shorten the lifespan of the species."

"That……"

Huifeng made several suggestions in succession, all of which were feasible to a certain extent, but the final product always had a weird style.

After another idea was rejected by Coronie, Grey Wind had no more ideas.

"Really? Can't do it?" Gray Wind was a little discouraged. "Aren't the physical conditions of the Eldar very close to the Marshal's requirements? They have flexible minds, extraordinary psychic talents, and strong bodies... Coronie, you can try to refer to the Eldar."

"The genes of the Eldar are a pile of shit codes..." Koroniai lost his temper: "Moreover, it is a shit code that has been encrypted layer by layer by the Ancient Saints and the later Eldar Empire."

Indeed, as organic creatures, the Eldar are close to perfect in all aspects, and it is not an exaggeration to call them the most ideal life form. But the problem is that the superiority of the Eldar comes from the work of the Old Saints. No matter how powerful the Zerg Queen's genetic engineering skills are, how can they compare to the Old Saints?

Coroniel couldn't even decipher the slightly deeper genetic code of the Eldar, so if he wanted to decipher it, he would probably have to look for the Haemolyx.

The earliest group of Haemonchi were actually the upper nobility of the original Eldar Empire. They possessed the most orthodox and complete ancient Eldar bio-technology.

"The Marshal has been active near the Eye of Terror recently, and he is planning to lead his army to invade Comoros... Why don't we ask him to capture all the Haemonchi in Comoros alive and bring them back for your research?" Gray Wind suggested in a low voice.