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Finally, under the siege of the Ultramar Navy, the Phalanx was hit simultaneously by the psychic main guns of three Blackstone Fortresses. The roaring engine at the core of the fortress was extinguished, and the ancient fortress of the Imperial Fists sank.

The 93rd Ultramarines Company launched a fatal blow to the desperate fortress-monastery. Shouting the name of Roboute Guilliman, Captain Kanrel cut off the head of the commander of the 3rd Company of the Imperial Fists.

He raised the head wrapped in a bright yellow helmet above his head, and the dripping blood fell on the blue armor of the Ultramarines, and the Phalanx burned under his feet.

"Blood sacrifice to the God Emperor! Head sacrifice to the golden throne!!" Captain Kanriel shouted loudly, using the Imperial Fist Captain's head in his hand to offer unyielding loyalty to Terra at his feet.

Behind him, the Ultramarines had slaughtered all the soldiers of the 3rd Company of the Imperial Fists.

Guilliman stood in the command post of the Macragge's Glory and witnessed the sinking of the Phalanx, and was speechless for a long time.

"The future of mankind should not be forged with the blood of the loyalists..." Guilliman held his head in his hands and groaned in pain.

"It's not your fault, but mine." A gentle female voice came from behind Guilliman, and the prophetess Alexi came behind the Primarch wearing a light white veil.

Alexei gently stroked Guilliman's trembling shoulders and said, "We also tried to convince the Imperial Fists..."

As he spoke, a guard of the Imperial Guards in golden armor came to Guilliman's side. Bramimond held a long tray in one hand and lifted the red cloth covering it. The tray contained nine bloody old heads.

"The heads of nine high lords, including the Martian Forged General, are a gift from the Admiral of the Imperial Army to you." Bramimond said: "Following the Emperor's will, we have eliminated the instability on Terra. factors, clearing the way for the original body to inherit the throne."

After all, the solar system is the mother system of the human empire, and the nine major planets have long been fortified under the highest level of vigilance. Even the Northern Expedition Fleet, composed of the Ultramar Navy, the Gothic Fleet, the 9st Expeditionary Fleet... wants to attack The lower solar system is also a difficult task.

It was precisely because of the support from the Imperial Guards that they were able to so efficiently break through the Gates of Hades and Heaven, defeat the Solar System Defense Force, and send the fleet over Terra and Mars.

Guilliman had miscalculated one thing.

He believed that he held the supreme command of the Northern Expedition Fleet, but in fact, Alexi, the living saint with the support of the Imperial Guards, had a higher prestige than him.

"If everything was premeditated by you... why did the Phalanx still sink?" Guilliman sighed, with a rare sob of grievance in his voice: "Why didn't you convince the Imperial Fists to lay down their weapons? Why did you open fire on the Phalanx and slaughter all the loyal Terran Guards?!"

Bramimond was silent.

"We have also tried to contact the Imperial Fists and explain the situation to them." Alexey whispered: "Before the Northern Expedition Fleet entered the solar system, we tried many times to get in touch with the captain of the third company of the Imperial Fists. We do not want to be at war with the Guards of Terra, and military conflict is always the last option if possible...

We tried our best, and even the Admiral of the Adeptus Custodes took the risk of boarding the Phalanx himself to persuade the Imperial Fists to peacefully hand over the air control of Terra, but he did not make any concessions. "

The Imperial Fists were so stubborn that they were beyond anyone's imagination. Even the Grand Marshal of the Imperial Guards and the Emperor's Living Saint could not budge these solid rocks.

The Imperial Fists are the guards of Terra, and protecting Terra's safety is the responsibility entrusted to them by Rogal Dorn. No matter what happens, they will not be able to make even the slightest concession on this matter.

Even if the Emperor of Mankind stood up from the Golden Throne and gave the order, the guns of the Imperial Fists would never be pointed at Terra. Such is the stubbornness of the children of Dorne.

"Dorn... these offspring of yours are just like you, stubborn and inflexible." Guilliman murmured softly and stood up from the floor.

The Primarch's figure has become burly again. Below the Glory of Macragge, Terra is burning. The Valkyrie battleship, the Valkyrie of the Palace of the Immortal, is dropping a fully armed Titan formation to the Imperial Palace, but unlike when the Phalanx was captured, the palace guards did not put up any resistance to the arrival of the Primarch's army. The Grand Admiral took the initiative to open the Lion Gate of the Imperial Palace and welcomed Guilliman's Northern Expedition Army into the inner walls of the Imperial Palace.

This is the 40th year of the 49th millennium. When the subspace storm is sweeping the galaxy, Robert Guilliman, the Lord of the Ultramarines, launches his northern expedition in Ultramar. He travels all the way through the Storm Star Territory and defeats Beta-Gar. The Mongolian Defense Line came to the Imperial Palace of Terra, wearing golden armor, and proclaimed himself the Regent of the Empire, also known as the 'King of War'.

12 of the 9 high lords were killed on the same day, and their political power was also vigorously purged by the Imperial Guards and the Assassin's Court. The Holy Great Sage Belisarius Caul was appointed to temporarily take over the position of General of the Forging of Mars, a living saint. Alexei Reipt was 'elected' as the Pope of the State, and there was no longer any obstacle to the Primarch's control of the Empire.

Historical name: Storm Coup.

In the same year, construction of the Terra Star Gate began.

Chapter 380 Indomitable Expedition

The Terra Council, also known as the Terra High Lords Council, is the highest ruling body of the human empire, and the high lords who make up the council are the ones who hold the highest ruling power of the empire. There are 12 seats in the High Lords Council, including 9 fixed seats and 3 floating seats.

The 9 fixed seats are:

The Pope of the State Church, General of the Forging of Mars, representative of the Inquisition, Supreme Master of the Assassin's Court, representative of the Navigator Family, representative of the Astronomical Tribunal, representative of the Astronomical Chamber, Minister of the Interior of the Empire, and Minister of Justice.

The remaining three mobile seats are competed by powerful figures such as the Commander-in-Chief of the Astra Militarum, the Marshal of the Imperial Guard, the Head of the Merchant Marines, the Marshal of the Imperial Navy, the Prime Minister of the Empire, etc.

However, under normal circumstances, one of the three mobile seats is permanently locked by the Advocate Marshal by default. This is the political tacit understanding of the Terran Council for many years.

After the Storm Coup, all 12 of the 9 High Lords except the Marshal of the Forbidden Army, the Master of the Merchant Marines, and the Supreme Master of the Assassin Court were killed. No one can tell what happened in that chaotic political struggle. What, there are rumors that the Assassin's Court planned the murder of other high lords long before the Primarch's army entered the Sol Sector, and some people claimed that they saw the shadow of the Custodes in this political purge.

No matter how dark and tortuous the process was, the result was certain. All dissidents were physically wiped out, and Robert Guilliman took full power.

But only Guilliman himself, who sat on the throne of regent, knew that the empire under his one-man rule seemed stable, but in fact it was not. The crisis of division had begun to brew secretly.

The first is Mars.

During the Storm Coup, Mars was directly subjected to a comprehensive orbital bombardment from the 1st Expeditionary Fleet. The Ring of Steel fell apart and a large number of facilities were completely destroyed. Even the Foundry General of Mars was personally led by the Admiral of the Imperial Guard to kill and replaced him with Belisarius Cawl, the notorious member of the Mechanicus, temporarily assumed the role of Forge-General.

This caused a lot of complaints on Mars.

The Adeptus Mechanicus generally believes that the original Treaty of Olympus has been torn up by the original body, and the independent status granted to the Adeptus Mechanicus by the Emperor himself has been threatened as never before. The new Foundry General airborne now is the best evidence—— Cawl is a heretic, not a follower of the God of All Machines, but a lackey of the Primarch.

The Primarch is trying to take control of Mars, something the Adeptus Mechanicus cannot stand.

The Adeptus Mechanicus is the largest and only technology supplier in the empire. The followers of the Mechanicus control almost all the industrial production capabilities and military-industrial groups of the human empire. It can be said that the death of the Foundry General has a greater impact than the other eight high lords. It all adds up to something even more significant.

This is a problem that must be solved immediately. If the Adeptus Mechanicus cannot be appeased as soon as possible, the human empire will soon fall apart and perish.

However, just as Guilliman was anxiously reading the original text of the Treaty of Olympus, trying to ease the relationship between the new Terran government and Mars, an unexpected news suddenly came:

"Caul has successfully convinced almost all the high-ranking sages of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Now Mars is very supportive of Caul as their Forge General. There are even voices saying that Caul is the only candidate for the Forge General of Mars. Mars will never accept anyone else's involvement. This location.”

How is this going? Guilliman was almost stunned by the sudden good news.

After in-depth understanding, the answer he got was very joking:

Cawl dug out a large amount of precious Dark Age technology and ancient STC from his own database. In this way, he bribed all the mechanical sages on Mars to support his camp. Many of these people had very bad relations with Cawl, and some could even be called his mortal enemies, but Cawl gave them too much.

According to Guilliman, the most important part of the price Cawl paid to buy off Mars was the research on the biological jump engine.

Caul publicly showed the corpse of the ether giant worm to everyone on Mars, as well as the battle video of the ether giant worm in the Ultramar galaxy making a faster-than-light jump with its physical body. He warmly invited all the biological sages on Mars to join his research and crack the code together. The secret behind this creature's ability to physically make superluminal jumps.

As a result, many Mechanical Sages who do not specialize in the biological field also forced themselves to join the project, otherwise they would be extremely determined to oppose Caul.

No matter how bizarre the process was, the result was that Caul successfully secured his position as General of the Forge of Mars. This absurd fact made Guilliman feel that he had overestimated the integrity of the Adeptus Mechanicus in the past.

——These oil guys have no moral integrity at all. Once they heard that Caul had something good to study here, they could even ignore the humiliation of Mars being bombarded from orbit as if it never happened.

It is also thanks to Caul's ghostly methods that Mars fully supports the construction of the Terra Star Gate. It is believed that the Terra Star Gate can be completed before the 40th year of the 50th millennium.

During the two years of building the Stargate, Guilliman focused his energy on pacifying Terra's political situation.

The impact of the Storm Coup was too bad, and the aftermath caused by the Northern Expedition's Qing Dynasty army needed to be calmed down.

In order to hedge against the political impact of the Storm Coup, Guilliman decided to announce a piece of bombshell news to the Terran government and civilians: Llane El'Jonson, the Primarch of the Dark Angels, had returned.

This is old news many years ago. Lion's return was several years earlier than Guilliman. However, due to the green skin siege of the Sun Star Territory, Terra has never known about it. Many people thought that the Green Skins were besieging the Sun Star Territory. Liman was the first Primarch to return.

Guilliman briefly summarized the current situation in the galaxy:

After Nurgle's death, a huge warp storm swept across the galaxy, warp navigation was completely paralyzed, all star regions and colonies of the human empire were lost, and the empire was facing a de facto state of great division.

However, due to the long-term sailing and efforts of the Terra Expedition Fleet, currently about 1/8 of the important galaxies have been connected to the L-Stargate network.

Represented by worlds such as Cadia, Badab, Ultramar, Fenris, and Krentalina, once the Terra Star Gate is built, the Terra government will immediately gain full direct control over these worlds.

Moreover, it is an unprecedented direct rule with almost no time lag.

In general, today's human empire has lost about 7/8 of its galactic territory, but has gained a star field system that is more closely connected and ruled more efficiently, using those node galaxies that have been connected to the star gate network as a jump version, Kiri Mann began preparations for an expedition to regain the lost territory.

"Let's call it the Indomitus Crusade." Guilliman gently penned down on the parchment, setting the outline of the next action.

Chapter 381 The Poison Saint Swallows the Steel Hand

Year 40 of the 49th millennium.

Russell led the Order of Truth to massacre the descendants of the warring faction in the miniature galaxy.

Robert Guilliman was busy pacifying the political situation on Terra and preparing for the Indomitable Crusade to regain the lost lands.

The remnants of the 1st Expeditionary Fleet and the 13th Expeditionary Fleet have followed the Primarch to Terra, and the Stargate is under construction. The 'Terra Expedition' launched by the Prophetess has been successfully concluded, but other expedition fleets scattered throughout the galaxy do not currently know this news.

They are still trudging forward with their target in the Solar System.

Currently, the expedition fleet closest to the Sun Star Domain is the 5th Expedition Fleet.

The 5th Expeditionary Fleet is led by the Salamanders' Red Dragon Chapter, with the Valkyrie-class battleship Widow as its flagship.

This powerful expedition fleet once chose to forcibly cross the harsh environment of the Ghoul Nebula in order to save expedition time, but unexpectedly encountered an Eldar craft world on the way. The Eldar prophets on this Ark world claimed that they were conducting The expedition will lead to the rise of mankind, which will threaten the revival of the Eldar. In this name, the Eldar Ark launched an attack.

The Salamanders made full use of the harsh environment in the Ghoul Nebula to deal with the Eldar's attack. Relying on its own powerful combat power and the mobility advantage of the Valkyrie-class battleship 'Widow', the 5th Expeditionary Fleet finally paid a huge price and successfully destroyed the Craft World. However, due to its own heavy losses, the Red Dragons were unable to continue leading the 5th Expeditionary Fleet to Terra.

For many years to come, the 5th Expeditionary Fleet moved slowly from galaxy to galaxy, laying stargates throughout the Obscure Star Field while resting and recuperating with difficulty.

And recently, they came to a planet called 'Medusa'.

Medusa is the home planet of the Primarch 'Ferrus Manus' and the home planet of the 10th Legion, the Iron Hands.

This is a planet with a very harsh environment. The easily exploitable resources on it have long been mined out. The unstable geological environment makes the continents on the surface of this planet float on the molten lava layers like rafts in the sea, changing their positions every moment. Except for the powerful clans that supply troops to the Iron Hands, almost no human can survive on this planet.

To some extent, Medusa's environment is even worse than Salamander's home planet.

Therefore, the 5th Expeditionary Fleet did not expect to obtain any supplies from the home planet of the Iron Hands from the beginning, and they would not ask poor relatives for food. The Chapter Leader of the Red Dragon Chapter, 'Nabal', now just wants to get L as soon as possible. -Give the Stargate construction template to the Iron Hands, and then continue to Terra.

But as soon as the Widow approached Medusa, Captain Nabal noticed something was wrong.

Medusa, the home planet of the Iron Hands, is armed to the teeth. This harsh planet with unstable geology is almost wrapped like a big iron ball by densely packed orbital defense facilities. After approaching, Captain Nabal discovered that Medusa's orbital defense facilities showed signs of severe damage, the artillery array was in disarray, and the orbital starport showed signs of being bombarded.

And most importantly, various defense systems in Medusa's orbit were largely dismantled.

Captain Nabal had extensive experience in fighting Chaos, and upon seeing this scene he immediately realized that Medusa had been attacked on a large scale by Chaos, and that the Iron Hands' defense facilities had been corrupted by the Warp during the battle, which was why they had been demolished on a large scale after the war.

"To have destroyed the home planet of a founding chapter to this extent, this is no ordinary Chaos attack..." Captain Nabal was awed and nervous, and he contacted the Iron Hands who were repairing Medusa's defense system.

From the mouth of the current Iron Hands Chapter Master, the 5th Expeditionary Fleet roughly understood what happened on Medusa:

After Nurgle's death, the cults and Chaos warbands that believed in Nurgle scattered. Those Chaos Space Marines who were deeply influenced by their father and whose bodies had been corrupted by the Warp died suddenly, and the strength of Chaos was greatly damaged.

However, some of the Nurgle warbands who were less affected by the warp survived. The death of their loving father caused their faith to collapse, and they became a group of stragglers without any purpose or pursuit. They have been guarded by the Eye of Terror such as the Iron Hand. The annihilation of the imperial military might.

But recently, for unknown reasons, the remnants of Nurgle's followers were united. They called themselves the 'Plague Apostles' and acted collectively, launching an almost crazy attack on the planet Medusa located near the Eye of Terror.

"At first, we thought that this group of Plague Apostles was just a mob driven by extreme ideas, but we soon realized in actual combat that this was not the case." Iron Hands Chapter Master Dorcas said in the communication array: "Their actions were unified and planned, with clear combat objectives and tactical divisions. In the early stages of the war, we suffered considerable losses because we underestimated the enemy."

Nabal was a little confused. Medusa was not a good place with rich resources, but it was garrisoned by the founding chapter of the Iron Hands and was armed to the teeth. Attacking Medusa would require facing the Iron Hands' strong defense line. Even if they succeeded, they would only get a barren planet with a harsh environment.

In short, attacking Medusa is a foolish act that achieves half the result with twice the result. The rewards obtained after paying a huge price to attack are completely disproportionate.

"Why did the Plague Apostles, the remnants of Nurgle's followers, invade Medusa?" Nabal was puzzled.

"I don't know." Iron Hands Chapter Leader Dorkas said: "But during the war against the Plague Apostles, our soldiers captured some figures suspected of being Tzeentch believers. We suspect that they are the Lord of Changes. The lackeys incited Nurgle's remnants to plot an invasion of Medusa."

After hearing this, Nabal basically gave up the idea of ​​finding the motive for the Plague Apostles' invasion of Medusa. If this was really planned by the Lord of Changes, it meant that there was probably no motive.

The followers of Tzeentch have a very strong sense of fun, which is difficult for ordinary people to understand.