Travel to Warhammer 40K with Grey Wind

"The motivations of the followers of the Lord of Change are indeed difficult to understand." Captain Dorkas expressed his understanding of Nabal's reaction.

Just when Nabal was about to change the subject and talk to the Iron Hands Chapter Leader about the L-Star Gate, suddenly Dorkas seemed to suddenly remember something and said: "Although the motives of the Tzeentch followers are difficult to understand, I understand, but if you want to find a motive for the actions of the Plague Apostles... it seems that you can find it."

"How do you say this?" Nabal asked quickly.

Dorkas then continued: "About half a century ago, the Iron Hands hunted a strange creature in the star field near the Eye of Terror. It was an indescribable creature... That creature The corpse is now sealed in the secret vault on Medusa. Our battle group’s think tank believes that the Plague Apostles’ invasion of Medusa was probably to snatch the creature’s corpse.”

Of course, this is only a possibility and cannot be completely confirmed.

"What's the name of that creature?" Nabal asked curiously.

"It seems to be called - Poison Saint."

Chapter 382 Poisonous God

The Poison Saint, or 'Poison God', is a strange creature that was discovered only a few centuries ago.

According to the records of the Iron Hands, around the 39th year of the 769th millennium, a hive planet named 'Thetis' in the southwest of the Medusa sub-sector suddenly lost all contact with the Empire. The decree sent by the district government in Star Language received no response, and the imperial ships that went to the planet to collect tithes never returned.

Soon, Thetis' unilateral severance was declared by the Inquisition as an unforgivable act of treason, and a disciplinary fleet responsible for quelling the rebellion was organized. Since Thetis is a hive world with considerable industrial capabilities, the Iron Hands responded to the counter-insurgency operation, and approximately 50 Space Marines joined the punishment fleet against Thetis.

When the Punishment Fleet arrived at its destination, the Iron Hands discovered that the Inquisition had been wrong to hastily declare the planet a traitor.

The people of Thetis did not betray the Empire, they simply died.

When the Punishment Fleet arrived at Thetis, this hive world with a population of 193 billion had been completely destroyed. The entire planet was flooded with deadly toxic substances, the adamantium foundation was corroded and riddled with holes, the hive spires collapsed in the sea of ​​poison, and the entire planet became a purgatory filled with highly toxic substances.

The Punishment Fleet remained in orbit around Thetis for some time, and the Inquisition worked with the Iron Hands to investigate the cause of the planet's destruction, but found no clues.

An inquisitor of the Order of the Holy Hammer once believed that the poison that polluted the entire planet into a Jedi purgatory might be the work of the evil god Nurgle, but after careful investigation, they did not find any large-scale subterranean poison on Thetis. Traces of space pollution, these deadly poisons still belong to the category of the physical universe, rather than the strange powers and chaos of the subspace.

During the investigation of Thetis, at least three Iron Hands warriors were contaminated by toxic substances, forcing them to remove their poisoned and necrotic limbs and replace them with mechanical prostheses. ——Mechanical prosthetics can resist the erosion of toxic substances to a certain extent, but the effect is not significant. The poison with strange composition can corrode even fine gold.

The Punishment Fleet's counter-insurgency trip failed, and Thetis's destruction was recorded by the Inquisition. The Iron Hands obtained some samples of toxic substances and brought them back to Medusa for further research.

But just a few decades later, in the 39th year of the 799th millennium, another planet lost contact.

It was an agricultural planet about 13.5 light-years southeast of Thetis. When the combined fleets of the Tribunal and the Iron Hands arrived there, they saw the same scene as Thetis: deadly toxic substances. It polluted the entire planet and killed all the Imperial population on it, leaving no one alive.

In the next nearly two centuries, similar events occurred frequently in the Medusa sub-sector. Planets continued to fall under the pollution of toxic substances and transformed into unsurvivable toxic purgatory. Hundreds of billions of people The Imperial population was brutally massacred, and the Iron Hands viewed this as a disgrace and sent even more forces to find the culprit.

Finally, in the 39th year of the 999th millennium, Iron Father Heracross calculated based on the coordinates of dozens of previously fallen planets and successfully predicted the location of the next pollution incident - Medusa.

The Iron Hands, the Inquisition, and the Adeptus Mechanicus concentrated their forces in the Medusa system and set up defenses. Then, in the 40st year of the 001th millennium, the culprit who had polluted 31 Imperial worlds and caused a massive tragedy appeared in Medusa and crashed into the encirclement set by the Iron Hands.

"The scene at that time was beyond all of our expectations." Iron Hands Chapter Master Dorcas said, "We thought that the cause of this series of tragedies would be an evil alien race, a cult that believes in Chaos, or the remnants of madmen in the Dark Ages, but the facts proved that we were all wrong. The 'thing' that appeared in Medusa was not any form of battleship or interstellar fortress, it was a living creature with self-awareness."

"That's a giant space creature similar to a void whale. It looks like a turtle the size of an asteroid... with tentacles? Its carapace emits highly toxic gases that are enough to corrode the hull of a warship. Its mouthparts emit a sickly light, and it wanders in space carrying a very large range of toxic radiation. Once our warships get within a certain distance of its body, the mechanical structure of the hull will quickly rust and age, and the plasma engine will decay into a highly toxic source of pollution."

"The moment the 'Poison Saint' appeared in the Medusa galaxy, all the mortal soldiers in our fleet lost the ability to fight. They were either directly killed by the poisonous radiation emitted by the Poison Saint, or were killed by The pain of body ulcers is excruciating. Only the monks of the Iron Hands and the mechanical sages of the Adeptus Mechanicus, whose bodies are highly mechanical and prosthetic, can maintain a certain degree of combat effectiveness in such an extreme environment."

"But even a powerful machine cannot sustain for long in the face of the Poison Saint's powerful power."

What happened next is somewhat difficult to announce to the public. Captain Nabar of the Red Dragon Chapter finally only learned that the Iron Hands at that time were forced into a desperate situation by the poisonous god, and that Medusa was about to be poisoned by the poisonous flow from the sky. submerged. At the critical moment, the Iron Hands reached some kind of secret agreement with the Adeptus Mechanicus, activated some forbidden weapons left over from the dark technological age, and paid a huge price to finally kill the Poison Saint.

However, the Iron Hands refused to disclose more details to the 5th Expeditionary Fleet regarding the specific methods and weapons used.

Captain Nabar was too sensible and didn't ask any more questions. The founding war groups all had their own little secrets that they couldn't reveal to outsiders.

"After the death of the Poison Saint, its body structure quickly dissolved under the corrosion of the venom it secreted. Before it completely dissolved itself, we deployed a super giant stasis force field that was enough to freeze an entire planet to remove the remnants of the Poison Saint. The corpse was sealed in a device called the 'Crystal of Clarks', and this device is now hidden on Medusa, deep in the lava sea."

Dorkas, the Chapter Master of the Iron Hands, finally said: "The Chief Librarian of our Chapter dreamed of revelations from the Golden Throne during a deep sleep. He suspected that the remnants of Nurgle who were instigated by the followers of Tzeentch were... The reason for invading Medusa so crazily is to snatch the body of the Poison Saint."

Nabal was confused. Does the body of the Poison Saint have any important significance to the followers of Nurgle? Or is it actually the lackeys of the Lord of Change who want to get this poisonous god to carry out their so-called big plan?

Chapter 383 The trick of the god of trickery

After many discussions, the Iron Hands and the Red Dragon Chapter still cannot understand the logic of the Plague Apostles' actions, and do not know how to connect the Poison Saint's body with the Plague Apostles' invasion of Medusa. They began to wonder whether the think tank chief had not been inspired by the Golden Throne at all and had simply had a dream.

Thinking about it day by day and dreaming about it at night, it is quite normal for Astartes to dream about the Emperor in Golden Armor during adolescence.

Putting the matter of the Poison Saint on hold for the time being, the 5th Expeditionary Fleet began to negotiate with the Iron Hands Chapter and the local Mechanicus to build the L-Star Gate on Medusa.

Even of all the Astartes Chapters, the Iron Hands are the most unique.

A standard Holy Scripture Chapter generally consists of 1000 people, and every 100 people are organized into a company, for a total of 1 companies.

The 1st Company is a veteran company. The most elite and senior Space Marines in the entire Chapter are gathered here. They have access to the best resource supply in the entire regiment. Whether it is weapons or armor, they are the best within their capabilities. In principle, only veterans of the 1st Company are eligible to wear the precious Terminator armor.

The first company is a regular combat company. These companies all adopt similar tactical organization, dividing the soldiers into different types of tactical teams to face combat tasks in different scenarios. They are the backbone of the regiment.

The first company is the reserve company. These inexperienced soldiers are used as reserve substitutes for regular combat companies. The commander will dispatch the soldiers of the reserve company according to the specific situation on the battlefield, mainly to carry out tasks such as mobile support and weakness breakthrough.

The 10th Company is a recruit company. The Astartes recruits who have just completed the transformation surgery and have not yet been officially awarded armor will serve in the 10th Company as scouts. They will not be able to put on power armor and become a soldier until they pass the recruit inspection period. A true space warrior.

The above is the framework of a standard Codex Chapter written by Robert Guilliman in the Codex Astartes.

However, as we all know, not all Chapters abide by the Codex Astartes so well. For example, the Space Wolves completely ignore Guilliman and still maintain the Grand Company configuration from the Legion era. To them, the Codex Astartes is only slightly harder than toilet paper.

Although the Iron Hands, as a founding regiment, also has a standard chapter organization of 10 companies, its companies are not divided into recruit companies, veteran companies, combat companies, etc. as stipulated in the Codex Astartes, but correspond to the human clans and tribes on Medusa.

The harsh environment of Medusa cannot give birth to a stable planetary government. The planet is ruled by at least 10 different human clans in the form of tribes. These tribes are in a competitive relationship with each other, corresponding to the 10 companies of the Iron Hands Chapter. Their soldiers do not communicate with each other, and specific companies only recruit soldiers from specific clans.

For example, the soldiers of the 1st Company of the Iron Hands are all from the Averni Clan, and the soldiers of the 4th Company are all from the Kalgur Clan... Each clan represents the source of soldiers for a company of Space Marines. In this way, the Iron Hands have firmly bound themselves to their home planet Medusa, forming a de facto military monopoly. External forces cannot penetrate into Medusa even a little bit.

Therefore, unlike other sectors controlled by the bloated bureaucracy of the Imperial nobility, Medusa is a planet controlled almost entirely by Space Marines.

The 5th Expeditionary Fleet did not encounter any political stumbling blocks here. The Iron Hands, who advocated machinery and technology, quickly learned about the functions of the Stargate and the fact that other star sectors in the empire had been connected to the Stargate network. An agreement was quickly reached with the 5th Expeditionary Fleet. Under the guarantee of the Salamanders' Red Dragons and the local Mechanicus in the Medusa system, the construction of the Medusa Star Gate began immediately.

It can be said that since the launch of the Terra Expedition, this has been the smoothest negotiation by the expedition fleet.

While the construction of the Medusa Star Gate was in full swing, in the Eye of Terror, a fleet that was severely damaged and had not received any effective repairs slowly came to an inconspicuous and desolate planet and parked.

They are the 'Plague Apostles' repelled by the Iron Hands. This rabble who have lost their faith in gods gathered on this planet that was once a demon world of Nurgle, chasing the non-existent hope in the lies of the Lord of Change.

A humanoid monster covered with blue-purple bird feathers stood on the bridge of the shattered battleship, staring at the lifeless patchwork fleet and shook his head helplessly: "After all, you are just a bunch of rabble. It is still a bit difficult to rely on you to capture the home planet of the Iron Hand."

If there were any high-ranking monks from the Order of Truth here, they would be able to recognize at a glance that this humanoid monster covered in bird feathers is none other than the great Tzeentch demon 'Asker the Drowned' that had appeared in the Battle of the Flare Galaxy. At the root of each feather on its body grows a bloodshot eyeball, which is the most striking feature of Asker the Drowned.

Behind the Drowned Ask, a burly giant in a human skin cloak stood respectfully. He was the nominal leader of this group of Plague Apostles, the Chapter Master of the Nurgle warband 'Bacteriophage', the Duke of Decay Zakharov.

The Phages are a warband that is not very favored by the Father. Although they believe in the Father, they are hated by him because their war style is too radical and cruel. The warriors of the Phages have never been able to receive the blessing of Nurgle - this has turned out to be a blessing in disguise for them. Since they failed to receive the blessing of the Warp, they were not killed on the spot when the Father died, and became the only remaining Chaos warband that believes in Nurgle.

Today, the Phage Warband is the core force of the Plague Apostles.

Zaharov's posture was humble at this moment, standing respectfully behind the great demon Yask of Tzeentch, and said cautiously: "Please give us another chance. Although this invasion of Medusa failed, But the Iron Hands have also suffered heavy losses from us, and their recovery will take time. As long as we give time and find a suitable fighter plane to launch another attack, we will definitely be able to..."

"Will we be able to successfully capture the body of the Poison Saint?" Ask, the drowned man, asked jokingly.

"Uh..." Zaharov had a troubled look on his face.

He really couldn't guarantee that he would be successful next time. After all, Medusa was the home planet of a start-up battle group. This planet had already been turned into an iron barrel by the hands of steel. There was no place for inserting pins, so he could only Frontal attack.

The Drowned One, Yask, chuckled grimly: "See, your faith in the Father is only this much? Even with the guidance of the Lord of Change, it is impossible for such a mob to revive the gods you believe in... You can't even pass this first hurdle, how can you talk about the future?"

Zaharov lowered his head in shame: "Yes, the Lord of Changes has pointed out the way for us, but we can't even cross the first step of this road..."

There is no mistake, it is the Lord of Change who unites the remnants of Nurgle's followers and condenses them into the Plague Apostles.

Tzeentch once made a promise to his father's followers through the mouth of the drowned Yask. The Lord of Changes claims that as long as Nurgle's followers can successfully collect a few specific treasures in the galaxy, the Lord of Changes will have a way to resurrect the dead Nurgle and become the eternal god who reigns supreme in the sky.

Those treasures are: Poison Saint's Throat, Javo's Rash Sample, Plasma Core, Infinity Root, Last Ba'au, Eternal Spin Top, Plague Crucible...

Although Tzeentch was already notorious as the god of trickery and deception, the Plague Apostles chose to follow the urging of Tzeentch's Archdemon Yask the Drowned in order to resurrect the god they believed in. But to their despair, they couldn't even get the first of these treasures - the Poison Saint's Throat.

The Iron Hands' Medusa line of defense is hopelessly strong.

Chapter 384 The Wind of Silesia

In the bizarre void, there were a large number of twisted weapon wreckage and mechanical components scattered around. The severely damaged colossus was engraved with the motto of the Order of Truth. It anchored itself in the orbit of a mechanical planet and silently dropped a gun hanging high on the dome.

As a large amount of energy violently bombarded in, the last inhabited planet located in the center of the miniature galaxy below the Colossus was blown into pieces from the inside out.

The principle of the Colossus Weapon Earth Explosion Star is to heat the star core through massive energy infusion, transform the target planet into a huge nuclear fusion reactor, and then detonate it, completely destroying the planet from the inside out.

This is a desperate strategy to eliminate children and grandchildren, because the Order of Truth's invasion of the miniature galaxy is not a war of extermination at any cost, but a competition for living space with the indigenous people here. Every habitable planet that the Federation conquers is its future. home, using a geoblast star to detonate a planet is like dropping a nuclear bomb in your own home, which is a stupid act that outweighs the gain and loss.

But in the face of the powerful 'warring party C', the Order of Truth had no choice but to make this decision. They really could not take the integrity of the city into consideration and protect it while fighting against a powerful opponent whose technological level was equal to or even higher than their own. Every habitable planet.

"Okay, this is the end." Gray Wind stood on the bridge of the Gray Gu mothership and stretched out: "All the indigenous people in all the galaxies in the miniature galaxy have been cleared, and now we are the only ones here. ”

"Oh, no, there's also this."

Grey Wind turned around and saw behind her a huge man-made structure that completely imprisoned an entire star and moved automatically as the celestial body rotated.

This is a stellar quantum computer powered by the magnetic field of a neutron star. All weapons have been removed. Its memory stores a Gestalt AI named "Silesian Wind", which is the last trace of the warring party C.

Russell propped his chin with one hand and stared at the CPU of "Silesian Wind" expressionlessly.

His fleet is now at the very center of the miniature galaxy. Contrary to common sense, there is no galactic center black hole here. The center of the miniature Milky Way is a single star system running with a neutron star as its core. This galaxy was named 'Silesia' by the warring parties, which is their hometown. name.

There are three planets in the Silesian galaxy, all located in the habitable zone, but there is not a single living creature on them. There are only three mechanical planets that have fully integrated resources and are controlled by a Gestalt AI called "Silesian Wind".

The descendants of the warring party Bing huddled in the miniature galaxy and were cared for by AI and synthetic humans. They looked like a fallen empire that was sleeping. It showed no signs of awakening when a new civilization came to the door. It was like There was a dead pig lying on the chopping board. It was just that this pig was relatively strong and it was quite troublesome to slaughter it.

The fleet of the Human Federation destroyed all the weapons of the AI ​​Silesian Wind, and used the Earth Explosion Star to blow up all 3 mechanical planets in the galaxy, declaring the extinction of the civilization named 'Warring Party C'.

"The excessive intensity of the war destroyed the habitable planets in the Silesian galaxy, causing serious losses. But this is just right. We can use the planetary debris shattered by the Earth-shattering Star to dismantle this stellar quantum computer as materials to build a 'ring world' in the Silesian galaxy..." Grey Wind paced slowly in front of Russell with her hands behind her back. She was already planning the next construction work on the miniature galaxy.

Planning and building are what Gray Wind likes to do. The Order of Truth now has the technological level to build a ring world.

Grey Wind walked back and forth excitedly, formulating detailed construction plans for the Human Federation to take over the miniature galaxy. Russell watched her happy expression silently without saying a word.

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Gray Feng noticed his abnormality. She immediately put down the work at hand, walked forward carefully, and asked worriedly: "What's wrong? What happened?"

"Nothing, I'm just relieved." Russell gave Gray Wind a smile: "It's a very scary thing to be against the original power of the universe. I was actually very nervous before, but now I can finally relax."

Grey Wind blinked suspiciously. She actually didn't quite understand Russell's concerns.

As the Worm of Time said, the original power has very strong hostility and hatred towards the outsider Russell who pierced the wall of the universe.

The original driving force, that is, the "first driving force" that drives everything in the universe, being cared about by Him is equivalent to the entire universe itself being against him, from the industrial machines on the hive planets in the Far Eastern Star Territory to the giant shipyards. The massive number of warships produced, and even the organic matter that made up Russell's body, all contained the possibility of betraying him.

Once the original motive force successfully breaks away from its shackles and begins to truly exert its influence on the universe, it can be said that Russell will not even have a foothold in this world.

The rejection from the world itself made strong loneliness and uneasiness begin to permeate Russell's heart. He had never been so clearly aware of a sad fact:

'This is not home, this is not my place'.

Now they have successfully exterminated the warring party C and seized this miniature galaxy as the base camp of the human federation. In theory, this is a safe place that is not affected by the "First Mover", but the uneasiness and loneliness lingering in Russell's heart did not disappear as the situation eased.