The Astartes Family's Notebook

The empire needs a god, a god belonging to all mankind, so the emperor must be a god.

Imperial Truth undermines the foundation of the state religion on this core issue, therefore Imperial Truth must be heresy.

Imperial Truth, in its practical methods, pursues the common interests of all mankind, but it also shakes up the Empire's current membership system and threatens the interests of planetary governors. Therefore, the practitioners of Imperial Truth can only be cultists.

The aftereffects were too strong; he needs to catch his breath.

The bustling outer space has nothing to do with Katz.

The sixth company commander went to the Pioneer Star, and the seventh company commander went to the Shining Star. Although they were company commanders of a shell company, they still had stretcher teams. Even the frigates and destroyers arranged tactical squads.

Loyal ships are not afraid of the Shadow of Death's boarding tactics.

As for the Victory Balance?

Hahaha, Kaz remembered some happy things, which made his depressed mood much more relaxed.

He came to the library to look after Gavaro.

That's right, Katz was bullied again.

Ingus and Tyrant eagerly awaited the landing operation, while Kaz was responsible for keeping an eye on the psionicists on the ship to prevent them from getting out of control.

After all, the enemy is the Chaos Warband, and anything related to the warp is always a bit sinister. Gavarro is a new blood who has survived thirteen transformation surgeries, so putting a psionic suppression collar on him directly would be detrimental to unity.

So Kars's task was simple: read books within his sergeant's authority to broaden his knowledge, and if Gavaro's psionic powers went out of control, just throw his head off. That was all.

The Wings of Desolation and the Raptor Legion have invested more than three years of their time and resources, and they are determined to offer their spoils to the Golden Throne.

The shadow of death has fallen on both warbands; even Abaddon's pleas won't work.

After more than a thousand days and nights of meticulous preparation, the fighting brothers were already at their most excited. How could they relieve their worries without taking lives?

Then let the flames burn everything.

The space battle ended quickly. Although the Chaos Fleet did launch boarding torpedoes, the frigates and destroyers that had been suppressing their firepower had been waiting for this moment.

The excited machine guns completed the interception of the boarding torpedoes with extremely high efficiency. The only boarding torpedo that managed to pass through the barrage of fire amused all the ship commanders.

The Victory Balance was a battle barge with specialized armor. The boarding torpedo failed to penetrate the barge's thick ablative armor, resulting in an overloaded self-destruction of the torpedo head penetrating the warhead, scattering the unfortunate creatures inside the boarding compartment like a dud firecracker in space.

Of the Death Shadows, only one destroyer escaped using an emergency subspace jump, leaving only the cruiser still struggling.

Is it that this cruiser cannot perform a blind jump in subspace?

Of course not, it's just that the loyalists simply didn't give it a chance.

Don't forget, there are two conditions for entering the subspace from the real universe: the Geller field and instantaneous acceleration.

Although the Shadow of Death had allied with Nurgle, the Warp was not only home to the Four Gods, but also to many wild demons and a whole host of strange and twisted creations.

Therefore, even the Chaos Astartes, which are protected by destructive forces, still need the Geller Force to enter the warp.

Moreover, the Shining Star had been maneuvering to intercept the Chaos Cruiser, preventing it from increasing its speed and achieving the instantaneous acceleration required to enter warp space.

After a long three-year wait, the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh companies all needed to achieve sufficiently illustrious military exploits to demonstrate their loyalty to the emperor.

A Chaos Cruiser, barely qualifying as a passable appetizer.

Kars is already a seasoned native of the Warhammer universe and doesn't think the Imperial fleet could make any mistakes under these circumstances.

Sure enough, the battle ended before the Void Shield of the Victory Balance could fully cool down from its overload.

As another Chaos frigate with an overloaded Voidshield opted for a warp jump, the massive eight-on-one firepower disparity directly shattered the Chaos cruiser's Voidshield. Nurgle's Blessing couldn't save the ship from the Emperor's wrath, and it exploded into three pieces.

This is completely hopeless.

Three main warships, accompanied by destroyers, began entering the planet's orbital sphere to collect preliminary data for the upcoming ground battle. Meanwhile, four escort ships patiently carried out finishing blows, ensuring that these wrecked ships corrupted by Nurgle wouldn't pull off any bizarre feats like regeneration.

After Euler took over, Kaz gave a subtle hint that nothing had happened, then placed the borrowed books on the desk with lit holy oil candles and left.

In the Warhammer universe, the Astartes have strict rules regarding reading internal books, because they are the Emperor's handpicked super soldiers, and even the Four Gods praise their abilities.

After Kaz left, Euler carefully examined the books Kaz had borrowed. Only after finding no signs of Chaos Corruption did he instruct Gavarro to put the books back in their original places.

After taking off his tactical helmet, Euler looked rather unwell.

It wasn't because Katz was looking at the revised version of Imperial Truth that aroused his suspicion.

Rather, it was the condition of planets invaded by the shadow of death that caused the think tank's concern.

The space tower connecting the orbital space station has been destroyed by the Chaos Warband, most of the planet has fallen, and Nurgle zombies are rampaging through the occupied areas. The remaining Imperial garrison is isolated and helpless, divided and holding their ground.

The fleet had prepared a large amount of promethium fuel, but had no other supplies to support the Imperial forces still holding out on the ground.

If the Imperial army on the surface is completely wiped out, then a few hundred Astartes alone would not be able to eliminate the remnants of Chaos from the entire planet using conventional methods.

To make matters worse, although the Fourth Company managed to take down Judge Odach with a Cyclone torpedo, it did not have a suitable warhead.

Ironically, the city that was captured by the Shadow of Death war gang still had a sturdy and durable large void shield.

Note that this is not an energy shield, but a void shield.

The Nurgle Plague swiftly crippled the defenses of the hive, and the hive's Void Shield fell almost intact into the hands of the Chaos traitors.

Although those Chaos Astartes are now trapped on the planet, eradicating them will be no easy task.

Euler wasn't as optimistic as his other excited fighting brothers; he just felt immense pressure.

In particular, in order to maintain secrecy during long-distance raids, the fleet did not prepare any small landing ships such as the Averus barges to accompany them.

Getting the troops to the ground was also a major problem.

Damn the Shadow of Death! The Space Elevator Tower is so hard to repair, how could it have been blown up? What a bunch of good-for-nothings.

Chapter 105 The Correct Way to Cope

Air superiority—everyone who's used it raves about it.

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The arrival of reinforcements was completely unexpected by the acting governor of Skord.

The Ministry of Justice was completely unprepared for the large number of reinforcements arriving.

Skold, despite being an important mining world within the sector, is actually not important at all.

Three thousand years of full-capacity mining has yielded little to praise other than the accumulation of two nest cities for the planet.

With the depletion of high-quality rare mineral resources, the once frequent Charter merchant fleets have now become a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence.

As a hive city built during the M38 era, it was entirely an ancient building constructed by the Mechanicus, so naturally there wouldn't be any ancient technology to be discovered.

Skold, trapped in a resource crisis, is in a sense the kind of imperial world that can be abandoned.

If the Shadow of Death hadn't been a member of the Chaos Warband of Nagur, the Governor might have surrendered.

Unfortunately, it was no use refusing to surrender. The shadow of death had no intention of leaving any survivors. The old governor neither contracted the plague nor died in the war; he simply scared and exhausted himself to death.

The daily routine of the empire: foreign invasion, the governor's sudden death, the Ministry of Justice turning the tide, classic scenario.

Having been a mine owner for three thousand years, although his fortunes declined in the M41 era, the wealth accumulated by his ancestors has not yet been squandered. The important facilities of the hive city all require the genetic code of the governor's family to unlock.

Therefore, the planet's legal department supported the governor's granddaughter to take over.

run?

Even the legal experts haven't run away, so who dares to run away? Who can escape? They all need to be loyal to the Emperor!

So when Motor Sich and Yesfer requested to speak with the planetary government, the top of the hive was filled with cries of despair.

It's Astartes! We're saved!

The Emperor's angels have come to collect tithes!

Motor Sich's face turned green.

Damn it, the Orbital Tower wasn't destroyed by the Shadow of Death, you guys destroyed it yourselves?!

Very good, very loyal. This action effectively stopped the spread of the Nurgle plague.

only......

How strange that Astartes, with his two hearts and three lungs, would experience chest tightness and shortness of breath.

At least one of our strongholds is still in the hands of the loyalists, so we can still fight this battle.

Although the strike fleet in orbit cannot rapidly project forces, the news of reinforcements arriving is the best stimulant.

[Morale UP★ Great] Activation successful.

The first to land were the eagles of the Raptor Squadron.

Due to the depletion of shallow mineral resources on the planet's tectonic plates, the green area of ​​Skold's planet has recovered rapidly over the past century, and the Raven Princes, skilled in jungle warfare, quickly began reconnaissance operations.

During the three years that Yesfe had played countless war game simulations with Motor Sich, he reluctantly accepted the fact that Motor Sich was a better commander. Therefore, the fourth company commander stayed on the Victory Balance to oversee the overall situation, while the fifth company commander was sent down to the Nest City to guide the work.

Hehe, why is it that even though it's a sad thing, Yesfo's damn smile just won't go away?

Hehe, I don't know.

The planet's military affairs department is practically defunct; the Empire's mortal forces can't do any better when faced with organized Chaos Astartes.

Therefore, the most urgent task is to send the two Astral Legions that I am carrying to the second hive city to stabilize the defensive situation.

Compared to the first hive city, which possesses a void shield, the younger and smaller second hive city only has an energy shield.

Damn mine owners, tsk tsk, all they have are energy shields. What will the Nest, which can't even afford energy shields, think of this damn nouveau riche attitude?

The defeat of the Chaos Fleet spurred the Shadow of Death, and they did not hesitate to plan a large-scale Chaos offensive.

It's obvious they want to destroy the second hive city in one fell swoop.

But Motor Sich couldn't understand whether the brains of these Chaos Traitors had been burned by subspace energy.

The loyal Imperial fleet is still hanging in orbit. How large exactly? Did they get permission from the naval gunners?

Light spears swept across the ground, macro cannons roared, and Kaz felt as if he had seen this scene before.

Did Anwislan and Skord form a sister planet alliance in the past?

The aberrant walkers infected by the Nurgle Plague were clearly no match for the Light Spears and Macro Cannons, but Desolwing was in a panic trying to take down these things with ship cannons.

The mountains and fields stretch endlessly, seemingly numerous, but the density per unit is not high; the Death Shadow Gang knows how to play the game.

Previously, the Chaos War Gang focused its main efforts on corrupting the first hive city and did not spend much time targeting the second hive city.

Now that the Desolation Wings and the Raptor Legion have arrived, the Nurgle Warband's ancestral skills can finally be put to use.

The supernatural plague in the warp can even corrupt planets themselves!

Hehe, just kidding.

Because of the black stone deposits beneath Skord, warp forces are severely suppressed.

After exchanging information with the planet's natives, the importance of the Black Stone Obelisk was placed on Motor Sich's desk.

The think tank Euler has confirmed that these mysterious alien creations do indeed suppress psionic energy.

Although the specifics of these mysterious creations are unclear, the Empire can simply do the opposite of whatever the Chaos foe wants to do.

Since the Shadow of Death is systematically destroying these Black Stone Obelisks, the Empire only needs to protect these alien structures.

With such thorough preparations, Motor Sich was not afraid of going head-to-head with the Chaos Traitors.

Without the Imperial Navy's cooperation this time, the Astartes didn't even bother to pretend, and the situation of being beaten head-on by Orcish aircraft in Anwizland is unlikely to happen again.

They acquired two sets of high-power promethium engine cylinder molds from a planet where they had previously resupply supplies. The technical sergeants set up a small production line and accumulated more than 8,000 aircraft engines over the past three years.

The main problem is that the entire machine takes up too much space; even a large ship like the Victory Balance couldn't fit much of it.

Therefore, once it was confirmed that the second hive city was still in the hands of the planetary government, the first military priority was to require the hive city's factories to immediately arrange for technological transformation, using these readily available aircraft engines to modify tactical bombers.

Without the constraints of the Mechanicus and the Imperial Navy, the Astartes had no technological fastidiousness; they could simply copy the Orcs' aerodynamic designs.

If any local engineers have different opinions, the Astartes don't care. As long as they can fly and carry promethium incendiary bombs, it doesn't matter. You can decide for yourselves. The angels are very casual.

The loyal Astartes of the Empire come to Skold for only three things.

To incinerate chaos.

Execute the traitors.

You died, Shadow of Death, and all the Chaos Traitors.

Kill! Kill! Kill!