Travel to Warhammer 40K with Grey Wind

Planet No. 1, the indigenous civilization is in the early stage of atomic energy evolution. "

Planet No. 1, the indigenous civilization is in the late chemical energy evolution stage. "

Planet No. 1, the indigenous civilization has evolved into the middle stage of atomic energy..."

The reconnaissance results were reported one after another. As the fleet headed for the center of the vortex, it conducted a simple and quick shallow scan of each galaxy it passed through, only roughly observing the level of development of civilization in these galaxies - the Ark Eldar of Fordlan were accustomed to using energy technology to classify civilizations.

The results are similar to the previous reconnaissance results on the outer side of the nebula. In general, the closer the natives are to the center of the vortex, the higher the level of evolution of their civilization.

These investigation results, which coincide with the prophet Salazar's past predictions, actually have no practical significance, but they can stabilize people's hearts.

Planet No. 1, indigenous people... there are no indigenous people, this is a dead planet."

Another message was transmitted through the psychic network to the ears of Salazar and the chiefs of the various Eldar clans inside the Ark, interrupting their subsequent discussion.

"Death planet, how is that possible?" Salazar first doubted the authenticity of the information reported by the reconnaissance team.

Because according to his observation, the planet numbered 114 is connected to tens of millions of threads of destiny, which means that there are at least tens of millions of intelligent creatures on it.

"Report, the reconnaissance results are correct. Planet 114 is a dead planet... No, it's worse than that."

"This planet has no atmosphere at all. Its surface is riddled with holes. There is no sign of life, no organic matter of any kind, and no valuable minerals. In short, there is absolutely no resource on Planet 114 that can be used by intelligent life."

There is an idiom from Holy Terra that fits the current state of this planet very well - a locust swarm.

"However, there are some artificial mechanical facilities floating in the orbit of Planet 114, which are suspected to be the remains of artificial satellites. This should have been an indigenous planet whose civilization evolved into the post-atomic energy period."

"For some reason, this planet has been over-exploited to the point where no oil or water can be squeezed out. It's really strange..."

Salazar breathed a sigh of relief, he was glad that his divination was not wrong, there was indeed an indigenous civilization on Planet 114, but this civilization was destroyed by external forces. Not only was the genocide, but the entire planet was completely drained.

At the same time, it was also a little confused, because the traces of the explosion left on the satellite wreckage in orbit were still very recent, and the destruction of the planet took place in recent years.

The destruction of a civilization on such a scale would inevitably cause turbulent waves in the ocean of the soul. Salazar believed that it was impossible for him not to observe such a big movement.

In doubt, the Wraithbone Fleet continued to survey the surrounding celestial bodies while going deeper into the Lost Dream Star Cluster. Short but terrifying scan reports came up one after another:

The indigenous civilization of Planet No. 1 has been destroyed, and the entire planet has been completely drained."

The indigenous civilization of Planet No. 1 has been destroyed, and the entire planet has been completely drained... There are many small space bases on the satellites of this planet, and they have taken the first step towards the starry sky. The evolution level of this civilization is on the eve of the space age. "

Planet No..."

The reconnaissance results sent back by different reconnaissance teams were highly similar, as if they had not found even a single planet with life since the fleet crossed a certain boundary. One after another, the screen of the Void Dragon was constantly refreshed with images of exhausted planets, using cold numbers to tell the story of the doomsday catastrophe this star region had endured in the past few years.

Salazar was completely confused. Such a large scale of devastation should have set off a raging wave in the warp, and the thread of fate should never have been as calm and smooth as it had observed. But that was the fact. Hundreds of depleted worlds like a swarm of locusts were right before its eyes, and it could not deceive itself.

"What exactly happened here?"

"Why on earth are they still moving forward?"

Outside the Eldar's route, in the open area between the two miniature cantilevers, the Grey Goo mothership with a psychic cloaking field silently observed the Wraithbone Fleet passing through hundreds of depleted worlds, and was still moving forward firmly and cautiously.

Seeing such a large number of depleted worlds and traces of destroyed civilizations, anyone can sense that something is wrong with this star field and the dangers lurking within it.

——Since you know there is danger and something fishy, ​​why do you still keep moving forward?

"Because they can't turn back." Russell sat in the core cabin of the Gray Goo mothership and leaned back slightly, saying nonchalantly, "This is a sunk cost issue. Fordlan placed all its hopes on the so-called Pure Land. They mobilized all their forces to plan this operation, and they paid too much for it... So much so that even if they look back, they would be blaspheming their compatriots who risked their lives to fight for this opportunity for them."

"Then we should not let their sacrifice go to waste." Grey Wind narrowed his eyes and said, "The Zerg of Coronie is being launched in batches by slingshots. With the help of the warp engine, they will soon be able to assemble and surround the Eldar fleet. Marshal, when will we launch the attack?"

"No hurry, my real target hasn't appeared yet." Russell shook his head: "It's not easy to set up this game. If I just take down this Eldar fleet, it would be a shame for the huge amount of energy and resources I have spent over the years."

"You've been playing with Coronie the whole time...we're the ones doing all the work." Gray Wind whispered.

"If even measuring and screwing in slingshots has to be done by the marshal, then I am a complete failure as a marshal." Russell half-jokingly resolved Gray Wind's resentment.

Grey Wind also felt that he was a little strange. In the past, he would never care about such things. So he tried to change the subject: "If your target is not this Eldar fleet, then what is it?"

It could not think of any strategic goal more important than this Eldar fleet with multiple Leviathans.

"Yes, it's the Eldar's Ark World Ship." Russell said with a smile.

"Arkworld... but there is no Webway exit in the Lost Dreams Cluster, and the Eldar do not dare to travel in the Warp. Even if Fordlan's Craftworld ship departs from the Aurora Segment Region now, it will take too long to get here at sub-light speed." Grey Wind said.

Russell shook his head: "Who said that the exit of the webway must be fixed in one place?"

Chapter 98 Countdown

Outside the Milky Way, the critical base galaxy is no longer as lively without the high-intensity electromagnetic radiation. The adult battleships controlled by Coroniai are clustered around the largest hive biological mothership in the swarm, swaying their tentacles in space and swimming towards the inner ring of the galaxy.

There is the recently completed slingshot, with 8 torsion lenses operating at full power.

The huge energy extracted by the slingshot through the imprisonment of pulsars can instantly launch a ship to a great distance of astronomical units, but its accuracy is not very good.

The word "slingshot" may not be accurate enough. This thing is actually more like an interstellar shotgun. The fleet is pressed into the barrel as bullets, aiming at a certain point on the star map and firing randomly. The ejected ships will be randomly distributed within the scattering radius of the slingshot with the target point as the center of the circle, and the main force will be strong and fly away.

Therefore, fleets using slingshots for interstellar travel are often scattered across multiple adjacent star systems and require time to converge.

While Coronia was deploying its forces into the Lost Dreams Nebula, the Grey Goo mothership remained in its psychic invisibility, following the Eldar fleet from a distance.

The swarms of insects scattered among the nebulae are gathering, but Salazar, who claims to be a prophet, is unaware of this fact. The thread of fate has been disrupted by the Star-Bomb and cannot be observed.

All they can do is to move forward despite the high sunk costs; the center of the vortex is not far away.

At this distance, the influence of the nebula is almost negligible. As shown in Alexei's star map, there are about hundreds of stable and mature star systems in the Lost Dreams Cluster, evenly distributed in a vortex around the central area of ​​the Lost Dreams Nebula. After the vision became clear, the psychic detector on the Void Dragon Leviathan was able to extend its tentacles into the starry sky, giving a glimpse of the entire vortex and a strange fact:

——The closer the star system is to the center of the vortex, the smaller its volume is.

——Although these galaxies at the center of the vortex appear to be "smaller" when observed from the outside, when you actually enter the galaxy, you will find that it is not small. There is an error in the observation results obtained inside and outside the galaxy.

——This error was quickly corrected because as the fleet got closer to the center of the vortex, the Void Dragon continued to shrink in the process.

"When it is small enough, it becomes a singularity..." Salazar muttered to himself on the Void Dragon.

In its psychic vision, it can be seen that countless threads of fate are extending from the center of the vortex, and the volume of the Lost Dream Star Cluster as a whole is constantly expanding outward. There are countless new galaxies that are expanding outward from the singularity at the center of the vortex.

Then, Salazar knew the truth about the Pure Land.

"The so-called Pure Land is actually another small universe that is independent of our universe, or it was once independent. Now it is connected to our universe through a singularity." Salazar looked at the increasingly dense starry sky in front of him and said slowly:

"Because of the mass difference between the two universes, the larger one is siphoning the smaller one, so new galaxies are constantly being 'pulled' out of the Pure Land Universe from the singularity and spreading out in the Lost Dream Star Cluster."

After learning the truth about this star cluster and the Pure Land, Salazar also understood one thing - they have the ability to close the gate to the Pure Land and stop the siphon effect. Although doing so has certain risks.

"Life and death depend on this moment..." Salazar closed his eyes and sighed: "In my name, activate the gate and summon the Ark!"

It knew that an enemy was secretly observing it, but it had no choice. The will of the Supreme Prophet was quickly conveyed, and almost all the combat ships in the entire fleet entered a high state of alert. Several of the largest Leviathan ships spread out in a ring in space. The huge clamp-like spiritual bone structures on their bows slowly unfolded and connected to each other with a special spiritual energy field. With the injection of a large amount of spiritual energy:

The "webway" is open.

At the very end of the War in Heaven, the Necrons created a technological artifact called the "Tombstone Gate". As the name suggests, the Tombstone Gate is a door that can forcibly invade the Old Ones' Webway and open a door on it.

Although the self-detection system of the Ancient Saints' Webway would forcibly cut off the entire branch line that the Necrons had stepped on once it detected that it had been invaded by the Tombstone Gate, in order to prevent this group of iron ribs from invading and polluting the entire Webway, it still could not save the Ancient Saints from defeat.

As the eldest sons of the Old Ones, the Eldar have much better control over the Webway than the invading Necrons. The Webway gates they build with wraithbone are far stronger and more stable and controllable than Tombstone Gates - yes, from the Ark World Ships that are larger than planets, to the close-fitting armor worn by the Howling Banshees, to the Webway gates built by the Eldar, all are made of a special material called "wraithbone".

Wraithbone is to the Eldar what living metal is to the Necrons, it can be used to make anything.

——Completely contrary to many people's stereotypes, the Ark World Ship was never a colony ship like the Spear of Adun, but a trading merchant ship used by the Ancient Eldar Empire. Its huge size and complete ecological circulation system are all designed to carry the Eldar residents on it to wander around the galaxy and trade everywhere.

Therefore, in some of the most special Ark worlds, such as Fordlan, there may be one or two extremely precious treasures preserved.

Such as the precious giant movable temporary webway gates built by the Eldar during the War in Heaven.

"Salazar's fleet carries a temporary Webway Gate generator left over from the ancient Eldar Empire. Once they decide the time is right, they can quickly bring the Ark Worlds that have been hidden in the Webway here and to the pure land in the hearts of the Eldar."

Although he didn't know why Gray Wind had molded a humanoid construct in the belly of the Gray Gu mothership, Russell still touched Gray Wind's head and said, "This is exactly the moment I've been waiting for."

The moment of direct destruction of the entire Ark world.

The webway gate that spans the starry sky lights up at the border between fantasy and reality. The interior is ancient and profound. Soon, a graceful female Eldar statue emerges from the webway. It is the statue of the Eldar mother goddess Aisha, located at the bow of the Arkworld ship of Fordlan. She is the common mother of all Eldar.

Originally serving as a trading ship, the Ark World has been expanded many times over a long period of time. Its size is now much larger than that of an ordinary planet. The layered space folding technology inside makes its actual living space more than twice as large as it appears.

As the planet-like "Fódlan" Ark World Ship sailed out of the Webway gate, a hideous and ferocious giant disaster insect tore open the nebula veil covering its body.

The vortex is densely starlit, and countless stars are being sucked into the universe from there, but our swarm blocks out the sky, no matter how many suns there are in the sky.

"Countdown half an hour, prepare to attack." Russell said softly.

Chapter 99: A Glimpse into the Abyss

Fordlan Arkworld Ship.

Serving as a refuge for the survivors after the collapse of the Eldar Empire, this world-class battleship houses more than a dozen different Eldar clans and a large number of corresponding Eldar populations.

As a trading merchant ship of the former Eldar Empire, it carried two most important cargoes, one extremely precious and the other extremely dangerous.

The precious one has been used by the Prophet Salazar to open a temporary webway gate, and the dangerous one will be used soon to help the Eldar truly grasp the prophesied pure land and be reborn in a new universe that Slaanesh cannot reach.

The main body of the Fordlan Arkworld was passing through the Webway Gate, its layers of hulls stacked like towers, its wraithbone structure as grand as a planet and as delicate as a nuclear ship, emitting a dreamlike beauty under the shining of thousands of stars. Every resident of the Arkworld was rejoicing at this moment, because they saw the singularity in front of them that was gushing out countless star systems, and also saw the beautiful pure land universe where they would live in the future.

But the more important the moment, the more likely accidents are to happen.

When the main body of the Ark World sailed out of the webway, the swarm of insects hidden in the nebula finally tore off the psychic camouflage covering themselves. In an instant, all the stars in the sky went out, and the entire universe that the residents of the Ark World could perceive showed a sickly scarlet color at this moment, and a will as vast as a god quietly descended.

Beacons marked with bright yellow warning colors suddenly appeared within the sensor display range of the Void Dragon Leviathan - this was very abnormal, because whether it was a meteorite or a space battleship, any flying object that approached the Ark World Ship through physical navigation should gradually emerge from shallow to deep in the sensor display, rather than emerging out of thin air from the material universe like this, as if it had always been there.

And if it was a warp jump, the act of tearing the reality veil would not be able to escape the psychic detection arrays carried by the warships and the sensitive perception of the Eldar prophets...

In a trance, some of the oldest clan chiefs recalled a terrible enemy called the Necrons, against which their ancestors had fought. It was recorded that the inertia-free engine used by the Necrons could achieve such an effect.

However, the Necrons' combat ships widely use a special material called living metal, and the signal source that suddenly appeared in the sensor like the Necrons does not even contain much of the most basic ordinary metal components, let alone living metal.

"Report: Multiple unidentified targets have been discovered outside the galaxy. The targets are mainly composed of flesh and blood organisms with life reactions. Preliminary judgment is that they may be some kind of giant organic biological group wandering between galaxies, but they are not any known creatures that we know of."

"This group of creatures is swimming towards us. Is this abnormal astronomical phenomenon related to them?... These creatures seem to have no souls. The psychic detectors have no reaction to them - they are attacking me! They are - attacking -!"

Communication was interrupted.

As soon as the Eldar reconnaissance plane, which was trying to get closer and observe itself, came within range, the Adult Battleship immediately launched a large number of Scourge missiles that had been prepared at it.

The disaster missile is just a general term. The Presolin protozoa will prepare targeted complex biochemical substances to attack different enemies according to their different characteristics, in order to cause the greatest damage with the least resource consumption.

After the Queen Sorin Protozoa was dominated by Coroniai, with the support of the Queen's powerful gene editing and blending technology, the targeting and lethality of the Scourge Missiles have achieved a qualitative leap. For example, as it is now, as long as one Scourge Missile successfully hits the target, the composite biochemical matter loaded on it can directly dissolve through the body of the Eldar and shoot down the elegant and agile Eldar fighter.

The first shot fired by the Scourge Missile quickly set off a war in the depths of the isolated Lost Dreams Cluster, just like everywhere else in the galaxy. The sky-blocking swarms of insects, with scarlet tentacles and hideous mouthparts floating around, could not wait to pounce on the Ark World Ship with a large number of spiritual mouths, which had already stuck most of its body out of the webway.

The Zerg Hive Fleet brought disaster and wantonly tore at all the air defense forces that dared to stand in its way. Countless Zerg carrier-based aircraft rolled in like dark clouds, and large natural disaster missiles poured down like heavy rain. The shadow of the Zerg spread wantonly in the space of the starry sky, constantly attacking the Eldar defense fleet guarding the temporary webway gate. Desperate battle reports continued to flow into the Void Dragon Leviathan.

"Correction! This giant space creature is extremely aggressive and dangerous! The 'Carrier Pigeon' reconnaissance squadron has been completely shot down!"

"The Blue Heart Griffin frigate was attacked by a boarding attack! Bugs are coming! This group of bugs is suspected to be symbiotic creatures... Damn it! Psionic energy has no effect on them! These——bugs."