Travel to Warhammer 40K with Grey Wind

"You'll soon find out," Russell said softly.

After he finished speaking, he stood up, turned off the projector, and signaled Dimitri that he could lift the sealing spell on the room.

When the psychic shielding spell that radiated the entire office faded, Dimitri's helmet immediately received the sound array communication request from the Flame of Repentance, as well as the psychic communication sent by the Grey Knights in his own team.

Alexei also immediately received the astropathic message from the psychic. All these messages were conveying the same message, an obvious message that could be seen by just looking up out the window.

Two moons, one big and one small, were slowly moving in the clear sky of Faya. In addition to these two bright moons, a dazzling light suddenly lit up in the sky.

The intelligence officer's voice came from the sound array communication channel, describing the changes that occurred in space while they were talking to Russell:

The Zerg fleet that left Faya was attracted by some unknown existence to a distant and remote galaxy. It was a desolate place with no habitable planets and no resources, even poorer than Faya.

After the arrival of the Zerg, the binary star system that had been running stably in the center of the galaxy suddenly collapsed.

The larger of the two stars expanded rapidly due to some unknown energy disturbance, and the mass gained after devouring the other star at an incredible speed caused it to explode into a destructive flare in a short period of time that was enough to destroy the entire star system, swallowing up all the insect swarms that were attracted into the galaxy.

The reconnaissance team that was following the Hive Fleet from a distance was also affected. Their hulls were seriously damaged, but fortunately they did not crash in space.

The surviving scouts sent back a terrifying message that made one's scalp tingle:

They observed a huge battleship of a strange shape in the star system before it turned into a flare.

The reconnaissance team initially determined that it was very likely that this battleship had used some method to detonate two stars, destroying the entire swarm in one fell swoop.

"Now, let's talk about the terminal exit of the L-Stargate network again, shall we?"

Russell said with a smile.

"Star-Darters" is the name given to human civilization by the Singer civilization in the novel The Three-Body Problem.

In the article, humans' behavior of using the sun as a signal amplifier to broadcast to the entire universe is vividly described as "playing the sun."

Therefore, the singer affectionately calls humans "Star-shooters".

—Then destroyed humanity.

Chapter 41 Dispute

In fact, it is not difficult for the human empire to destroy stars. They have many ways to achieve similar effects, and they don’t even need to use the artifacts left over from the dark technological age.

As an Alpha-class psyker, the prophetess Alexei herself was confident that she could, through lengthy incantations and complex rituals, and after a long period of preparation with the assistance of multiple disciples, cast powerful subspace spells capable of distorting stellar-level celestial bodies.

But that was too slow, and too easily interrupted... What the Star-Bombard did was more than just exploding stars. It was more like a demonstration, using the destruction of stars and the demise of the Zerg to show the Empire its wisdom and strength.

Intended to force them to make concessions.

After leaving the Faya Governor's Palace, Alexei returned to the Fire of Repentance with weak legs.

In the conference room where the high-ranking officials of the expeditionary force gathered, the incomplete video footage that the reconnaissance team had recently recovered at the risk of their lives was being played. It was a video taken by the monitor-type unmanned reconnaissance aircraft they launched, and it showed the situation before the binary star system was detonated.

This short video has been watched dozens of times by the senior executives, and was played again when Alexei returned.

The video quality is not clear, because the energy anomaly in the binary star system of this star system had actually appeared long before the arrival of the Zerg, but it had been hidden until now.

The reconnaissance team calculated the approximate direction of the Zerg fleet's biological mothership and predicted the target galaxy that the Zerg would arrive at, so they were able to launch a monitor-type roaming reconnaissance aircraft to the galaxy in advance to take pictures.

In the picture, two blazing stars, one large and one small, are rotating at abnormally fast speeds. The disordered spectrum shows that their fusion or aging speed is accelerated by external forces, pulling the two stars away from their original orbits and crashing into each other.

The picture kept shifting, and finally, the drone's view locked onto an inconspicuous target submerged in the spectrum.

Compared to stellar-class celestial bodies, this target was so small that even the most advanced monitor-type unmanned reconnaissance aircraft passed over it several times, and it was finally noticed because of its own movement.

After zooming in, I could finally see clearly - it was a slender silver-gray warship. Due to the lack of available reference objects, the size could not be measured for the time being. In the blurry picture, I could only barely see that the warship was in a graceful shuttle shape, with a complex armor structure shaped like reptile scales and a shield system with extremely high energy density.

The Tech-Sage, who had just returned from "communicating" with the local Mechanicus of Faya, extended a curved mechanical arm from under his red robe and uploaded another video to the display device in the center of the conference room.

This is a work video, and the background is Falla before the war. The First Moon and the Second Moon running in the inner and outer orbits are clearly visible. Technical priests and technicians operate various engineering machinery and use modular ships to assemble a large space station called the Seeker in orbit.

In the video, we can see a beautiful silver-gray warship anchored on the back of the first moon, which is almost exactly the same as the gray warship that appeared in the video sent back by the reconnaissance team.

——It’s just that the battleship in the work video does not have that strange scaly structure.

The blurry video quickly played to the end. As a large swarm of Zerg that covered the sky and the sun broke into the picture, the two stars finally merged into one, and rapidly changed into a dazzling spot of light that incinerated the entire galaxy.

The monitor's surveillance ended here, and the data chip storing the video was submerged in the light spot, and was eventually retrieved by the reconnaissance team that rushed to the scene at the risk of their lives.

As for the mysterious shuttle-shaped silver battleship, it was also submerged in the stellar explosion.

"Judging from the trajectory of the Hive's biological mothership, the target that attracted Tyron to leave Faya was precisely that mysterious silver battleship."

The Technosage suppressed the trembling in his voice and said in a voice mixed with electronic noise: "What a coincidence, isn't it? This warship that detonated a star and annihilated the entire Hive Fleet is so similar to the 'Golden Age Relic Warship' in Governor Faya's hands. Except for the outer armor structure, the two warships are almost identical."

Even different forms of the same ship.

Although the technical sage's voice was calm on the surface, he was suppressing the anger in his heart that was about to ignite the display screen in front of him. He couldn't believe that the unknown guy named Russell could be so bold, so presumptuous, and so... extravagant.

Using a precious ship from the dark technological age to detonate a star system and perish together with the Zerg fleet... Whenever he thought of this devastating and tragic fact, his mechanical heart could not stop dripping blood... and engine oil.

The Archbishop of the Espionage region had a different opinion on this.

He insisted that President Russell's action was a manifestation of his utmost loyalty to the Empire. Holding such a huge relic ship in his hands could have brought him endless wealth and glory, but the governor abandoned it without hesitation, thus avoiding the crisis of destruction for the Faya galaxy and the expedition fleet that was severely damaged after the battle with the orcs.

The established church produced countless evidences about Governor Falla's personal conduct and repeatedly boasted about Russell's personal achievements in an attempt to consolidate his sainthood.

The Mechanicus constantly emphasized the immeasurable value of the heritage of the Dark Age of Technology, denounced Russell's horrific crime of destroying the relics, and demanded that they must protect all the remaining ancient technologies on Faya to prevent them from being destroyed by some unreasonable madman.

The two groups were each clinging to their own interests and arguing fiercely in the conference room, but no one was willing to devote their energy to the most critical issue:

How did that gray battleship lead the Zerg fleet away from the Faya system?

Miraak, who knew the inside story, kept silent about it. He could not possibly tell the fact that the "last Bao" had actually been taken away by the Star-Ballist.

Alexi took a deep breath and interrupted the quarrel between the Ecclesiarchy and the Mechanicus: "Everyone, can you please stop this useless quarrel for a while? We have more urgent things to discuss now."

The prestige of the prophetess finally made the Ecclesiarch and Tech-priests, who had been a little over the top, stop their fight. The Tech-sages and the Sector Archbishops all fixed their eyes on her. Even the Inquisitors, Admirals and Space Marine Chapter Captains, who had been watching the fight from the sidelines, started to take it seriously.

The Emperor's prophetess would not easily interfere in the factional wrangling within the expeditionary fleet, but once she spoke, it meant that the matter was of great importance.

This is true.

Alexei first signaled the robot servant beside him to remove the video that was being played repeatedly, and then took out the metal tetrahedron he got from Russell from his arms.

The prophet has something important to announce... Mirak consciously dismissed some low-level personnel, and the entire conference room was left with only:

Several Space Marine Chapter Masters, Admirals, Tech-Magnus, Inquisitors, Moffs, and Grand Astropaths.

Alexei was silent for a moment, and politely asked the Navy Commander, the Grand Astropath, and most of the Space Marine Chapter Captains to leave the conference room.

She decided that what happened next was not suitable for them to know.

Chapter 42 Awakening

After completing all confidentiality measures, Alexei finally connected the metal tetrahedron in his hand to the display, allowing the first page of the L-Stargate design to appear in front of several senior executives.

"This...this is!"

It took the technical sage less than 0.1 seconds to finish browsing the first page of the brief description of the giant structure and its basic operating principles. Then, indescribable great happiness suddenly overwhelmed him.

Mirak said nothing, but turned to look at the archbishop beside him.

Under the gaze of everyone, Alexei calmed down and spoke slowly:

"The authority of the Lord of Mankind is unquestionable. His Majesty the Divine Emperor declared in my dream that I will obtain a treasure here that will change the fate of the empire..."

“Now, I got it.”

As the prophetess finished speaking, the eyes of several senior executives all turned in the same direction.

At one corner of the round table sat a beautiful woman who looked no more than 20 years old. She had a stern look and a tall figure. Even without the high heels, she was much taller than the admiral who sat next to her. She was almost as tall as an unarmored space marine. Her flaxen shoulder-length hair was neat and tidy, and her gem-like green eyes were fierce and sharp, like a lone wolf.

She is the only Inquisitor allowed to stay in the conference room, and the most staunch supporter and promoter of the "God-Emperor's Resurrection Theory", the radical Inquisitor: Bernatita.

It was Bernadette who, through her own connections and prestige, connected the grassroots personnel of the state religion and together took the right to interpret the prophetess's precognitive dream for herself, declaring that the treasure mentioned by the Lord of Mankind in the prophet's dream was the same treasure in the hands of the orcs that could revitalize the planet. She further insisted that as long as this treasure was obtained, the Emperor would be able to walk the world again.

It was precisely because of such heavyweight slogans and flags that they were able to summon such a large fleet and force in just a few years, forming two major legions of martyrs and pilgrims, singing hymns praising the Emperor, fighting bloody battles, and killing their way through the green starry sky.

And now, this banner that brings hope and motivation to everyone has been falsified by the prophet himself.

The treasure is not in the hands of the orcs.

The L-Gate is indeed a priceless treasure, and it is no exaggeration to say that it can completely change the destiny of the human empire. However, in the eyes of paranoid Space Marines and fanatical believers of the state religion, this outrageous lie involving the life and death of the Lord of Mankind, this appalling blasphemy and betrayal cannot be ignored or forgiven.

The Inquisitors themselves were not a very popular group. In times of crisis, the major factions could still acquiesce to Bernatita's willful behavior. After all, they really needed the power to fight against the Green Tide. But now...

The orc warlord was beheaded, the battle moon was destroyed, and it's time to settle some things.

However, when the archbishop was about to lead the charge, it was Alexei who helped to smooth things over.

She didn't want to see the expeditionary force continue its meaningless internal fighting at this time.

Although the theory of the resurrection of the God-Emperor was a lie, Bernadette's actions objectively united the people of Espiones and the surrounding star regions. The hastily assembled pilgrims resisted the fierce attack of the orcs at the critical moment, minimizing the losses of the empire and saving hundreds of worlds from destruction.

And because the slogan of resurrecting the God-Emperor was so loud, she actually provided an almost perfect cover for the real purpose of this expedition - obtaining the L-Star Gate - to a certain extent.

In fact, everyone present can understand this statement. They all hold high positions of power in their respective factions and can learn some unknown secrets through various channels to a greater or lesser extent.

For example, the Emperor’s great achievement in the past - the Webway Project.

The Webway Project, which was planned by the Lord of Mankind himself, was aborted due to the targeting of a powerful enemy. If they had not used the name of resurrecting the God-Emperor and used such a huge lie as a cover without knowing it, how could they have successfully arrived in Faya and obtained the L-Gate.

Understanding is one thing, but the human empire is about deeds as well as heart.

No matter what Bernatita's motives were, no matter whether the consequences were good or bad, a lie is still a lie.

It was only at the prophetess's suggestion that the handling of this radical inquisitor was temporarily shelved. She will be subjected to the most severe multi-party trial after everything is settled. Before that, the senior officials have more important things to focus on.

Stargate.

When everyone attacked Bernadette, there was only one person who was not angry at all, and that was the technical sage from the forging world Musbell.

The master foundry worker did not participate in the condemnation of Bernatita at all. He read over and over again the important sections of the design with the utmost enthusiasm, and finally said with sobs that there was no way this thing could be a fake.

Then everyone understood why the Prophetess had excluded even the Grand Astropath and the Admiral from the meeting.

——This design is real, and the human empire has really obtained a means of faster-than-light travel that is completely independent of the subspace.

As long as the subsequent construction can proceed steadily, the evil that has plagued the empire for thousands of years will soon be completely cured, the empire will completely get rid of the unstable subspace navigation, the position of navigator will no longer be needed, and the dependence on astropaths will also be greatly reduced.

The Great Star Talker, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy who has close ties with the Navigator family, is precisely its strong stakeholder.

But everyone present understood that the prophetess Alexi who took out the design was the chief navigator of the expedition fleet.

——Navigators, special psykers created by the Emperor of Mankind for warp navigation.