I am the magnetic field maniac

The importance of Terra cannot be described in words, especially after ten thousand years of superstition... In the eyes of the public, Terra has become a sacred place closest to heaven!

But in Leon's opinion, this is not the case.

Putting aside those sacred factors, he felt that Terra should not be overpopulated.

Terra is a throne world, but it is also the largest hive in the galaxy, there is no doubt about that.

The environment of Terra also means that it is not suitable for and should not accommodate too many people.

There are no oceans on Terra, nor will there be rain, because a certain female warlord of the Old Night has completely drained the last drop of Terra's ocean, taking away the last bit of life on the planet.

The environment on Terra is extremely harsh. If it weren't for the Empire's day and night maintenance and protection, Terra couldn't even be called a natural environment.

And more importantly - the biggest bomb is buried under Terra!

The Astronomican and the Golden Throne are merely tools of the Emperor. The former is used to guide humans in their warp navigation, while the latter is used to suppress the huge gap beneath the Imperial Palace of Terra!

The Emperor had originally attempted to create an artificial webway on Terra that would link to the Old Ones' legacy, but his plan failed due to Magnus' recklessness.

These are secondary. The biggest problem is the huge Webway gap that Tzeentch tore under the palace with the help of Magnus!

The reason why the Custodians and the Sisters of Silence made almost no significant achievements during the Siege of Terra was because the Ten Thousand had been almost wiped out in the battle in which the Emperor blocked the breach, and even so, the Emperor was unable to block the Webway at all and could only barely clear out the trouble inside.

If it weren't for the Golden Throne that was built in imitation of the "Black Glaze", the prototype creation of the Dark Age of Technology, a second Eye of Terror would have exploded in the center of the Human Empire long ago!

There is no doubt that the Golden Throne tortured and damaged the Emperor. In the battle with Horus...if he had not dragged his body, which was drained by the Golden Throne, to fight, he might not have ended up in such a tragic situation.

Even Malcador, whose psychic power was second only to the Emperor, had his psychic power drained away by the Golden Throne and died without a complete body.

Who would want to live on a giant bomb? If the Emperor were alive, he would undoubtedly keep the defensive forces of the Custodes and the Imperial Fists, build Terra into a complete military world, and then drive all other buildings and people away from Terra!

This is not only good for the people, but also good for himself!

But during the 10,000 years when the Emperor was silent, what did the High Lords do and what choices did they make?

Not only did they fail to make the throne world impregnable... instead they went crazy and built a large number of severely overloaded hives on it.

Those ignorant civilians rushed into this already overloaded city like crazy...

The population of hundreds of billions has caused the local Gini coefficient of Terra to reach an incredible level... and it has also made Terra the place with the most monsters and demons in the entire galaxy!

However, this is not the most unreasonable thing these idiots have done.

What is the most common thing on Terra?

It's the fucking church.

Excluding the Imperial Palace, which occupies the largest area, the Lion Gate and the Tower of Hegemony, which are essential for defense, are military command centers...

That group of charlatans of the state religion built a large number of buildings that should not exist on Terra, on the already extremely tense land of Terra.

The Pope of the State Religion openly built a church palace on the southern continent of Terra, which was second only to the size of the imperial palace...

This massive united metropolis is even larger and contains praises of the Emperor that far surpass the perfect city built by Lorgar.

And the number of churches in the major hives is too numerous to count...

These buildings, which have no meaning other than being used for worship, occupy at least a quarter of Terra's available space.

But that's not all. If you insist that placing places of religious worship on Terra will help increase the power of the God-Emperor, then what about the huge Navigator's Quarter?

The Navigator Quarter covers a vast area on Terra, and is comparable in size to the Church Palace.

And every powerful navigator family will have its own clan mansion here, and use their wealth to decorate it magnificently.

The Navigator's Palace even occupies a quarter of the area here. The Navigator's patriarch (Paternova) lives in it and leads the entire Navigator tribe. The other residents inside are also from the patriarch's original family until the current patriarch passes away.

This group of navigators insisted on building their home on Terra, where the population was so tight that it was exploding, and then occupied a large amount of limited resources to provide family members with a life of luxury...

Even every time Imperial ships brought icy comets from space to supply Terra with drinking water, they would directly intercept a large portion of it.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with enjoying life. Although the Navigator family lives a life of debauchery, their existence is necessary for the empire.

But they can move their base to other planets, even the moon, or simply live in a giant space fortress.

But they don't, because they think Terra makes them feel safest, so they must compete with the poor for survival resources in this place.

The same thing happened countless times on Terra. The Inquisition, the Ecclesiarchy, the Ministry of Justice, and the Imperial Guard took turns to stake out territory on Terra, plundering survival resources, buying and selling people, and doing all kinds of things you could never imagine.

Then each of them thought that they were indispensable and indispensable to Terra. And the high lords behind these forces, each with their own ulterior motives, were suspicious of each other at a table.

These high lords were not unaware of Terra's serious overpopulation problem... but no one had ever tried to transport the excess population out of Terra.

Because it is a ridiculous fact that dictators like Wangerich's era often rise after tragic wars...

They can be responsible but will not actually face a serious overpopulation problem due to the war on Terra, but when the population explodes rapidly during peacetime when the dictator steps down, the High Lords will not bother with such matters at all.

After all, not to mention the cost and resettlement issues you would face in transporting the excess population, aren't you a heretic if you throw the Emperor's loyal followers out of Holy Terra?

And now, Terra's miserable state is entirely the result of the evil deeds of these high lords themselves.

They didn't care about the extra population, thinking they were a bunch of peasants who could be easily suppressed.

Even though problems like cultists and sophistry keep cropping up, they don't take them seriously at all.

And now, as the magnetic field shifts, they should prepare to face the consequences.

The extreme population overload of hundreds of billions, the uncontrolled spread of the magnetic field rotation, the ideological decline caused by the easy infiltration of the Chaos Evil God, and so on...

In fact, even if Magnus had not done this, Terra would probably have exploded from the inside in a short time.

Maybe we can even go back to the era of warlords ten thousand years ago on Terra.

After Magnus intensified the situation, the problem was not so serious. At least it was not as terrible as if it had been going on for decades and a few 990,000 crazy people had emerged.

But the situation is still extremely urgent. The direct problem brought about by the chaos invasion and the large number of enchanted magnetic field demons is -

They began their attack on the Terra Palace.

Yes, even demons know better than those high lords and interest groups... The only thing that matters on Terra is the golden toilet in the throne room of the Imperial Palace!

Blow that up and the empire will explode on the spot. As for the other places, damn, are they worth a penny?

Leon understood this, Leon was clear about the enemy's goal, and Leon decisively made a treasonous move, but he got to the heart of the problem.

Since there are too many potential chaos pollution and magnetic field maniacs, we should just clear out all the areas that are potential sources of troops.

In other words - orbital bombardment of Terra!!

Leon only wants the palace and to protect his father's throne, and he can destroy the rest of the place.

Eradicate the spread of chaos pollution physically and mentally, and ensure that no more magnetic field maniacs emerge.

He could also eliminate interference and immediately teleport his men to the vicinity of the Terra Palace to protect his father!

Simple and crude, but gets to the heart of the matter.

But Leon knew that his orders were rational and correct...what about others?

"Master Leon... that's Holy Terra!!"

The moment Leon's order was passed down, the entire Dark Angel fell silent. Even Azrael, the most loyal Lion King, couldn't help but raise his voice and shouted...

Orbital bombardment of Holy Terra? The last person to do this was Horus, and he was not as ruthless as Lion!

At least Horus' orbital bombardment of Terra did not use weapons that could directly disintegrate the planet... although this was also due to the extremely strong resistance of the loyalists...

But if Leon wants to orbital bombard Terra, the weapons he needs to use are the main guns of these super star destroyers.

Even though they were not as powerful as the Death Star, these super laser cannons could easily disintegrate the continental shelf on Terra. With a few more hits, it would be easy to completely blow Terra apart.

Even for the Dark Angels who were loyal to Lion, this was too exciting and too blasphemous.

"My sons, tell me, your loyalty is to Terra, or to the Emperor on Terra!"

Leon stared at the most shining crown on this golden planet and said in a solemn tone...

"Without the Emperor, without the Golden Throne, without the Astronomican. All that remains of this planet, however radiant and sacred, is but ashes! And now, our enemies are placing the two on a balance!"

"We don't have much time to waste. Once the evil magic of those Chaos villains succeeds, mankind will lose the Golden Throne and the Astronomican! We are not going to destroy Terra, but to save it!"

"We will use fire to purify Terra, not destroy it! History will remember our actions, but whether it is ugly or right, I will bear the consequences!"

"No, Lord Leon, this is our joint decision!"

Azrael said excitedly that they had already confirmed that this was an act of loyalty... and since it was the Primarch who led them to practice loyalty, was there any need for hesitation?

No one objected anymore, even if some still had their opinions... but they couldn't come up with a better plan than Lion, so they had no choice but to obey the orders of their Primarch.

Twenty-two Super Star Destroyers adjusted their gun barrels once again, and without hesitation... after concentrating their main guns for a few seconds, they tilted violent green lasers towards the void shield covering Terra!

The solid void shield that protected the entire Holy Terra was subjected to continuous irradiation and attacks from star-destroying weapons, wave after wave.

As for the planetary defense facilities in Terra's orbit, they were simply unable to destroy those twenty-two terrifying star destroyers...

Because even the Titanium Fighters sent out to protect the Star Destroyers were a line of defense that was difficult for them to break through.

What's more, the Imperial Guard, which lacked effective resistance to super-gravity weaponry and equipment... couldn't even get close to the terrifying gravity well around the Eclipse-class ship.

After several rounds of horrific radiation, and as the bubble covering the entire planet shattered, Terra... had been revealed to his conqueror without reservation!

138. Question: What would happen if an extermination order was issued against Terra?

The Battle of Terra was the largest battle fought by the Imperium of Mankind from 30K to the present day, involving most of the Legions Astartes, a large number of Imperial troops, the Mechanicum of Mars and even the Emperor's Guards.

The number of people who died in that battle was counted in trillions, and the debris of destruction shook the sky... The fragments of annihilation can even be found in the Solar Star Region today.

But this does not mean that Terra has always had the military power to participate in battles of this scale since then.

First, from the perspective of the Astartes, thanks to the toilet paper that Guilliman wrote before going to bed, and the suppression of the Astartes by the High Lords Council day and night...

The only Chapter able to remain on Terra and take part in the defence of the Throneworld is the Imperial Fists.

Although they were also a "legally reborn" chapter, even if they activated the Final Wall Protocol and brought in all the Imperial Fists, it would be difficult for them to reproduce even one-tenth of the Astartes' strength in the Battle of Terra.

This is even more true from a mortal's perspective.

The former Solar Auxiliary Army possessed the most advanced weapons in the empire and was equipped with the most elite warriors.

On the front battlefield, these mortal armies can generally achieve a five-to-one or even a three-to-one record against the Astartes.

In addition, there are elite troops such as the Lucifer Black Guards. The protagonists of the Battle of Terra in the past were never the Astartes, but these powerful mortal troops.

As for war machines—is there any need to say more about the Empire’s regressive technology over the past ten thousand years?

The super orbital defense system originally built on the moon was razed to the ground by the Warmaster after destroying a quarter of Horus's troops, and was subsequently destroyed again and again due to problems such as the Beast War.

The mountain array that protects the sky above Terra has damaged countless areas over the past ten thousand years, and because of the Martian Mechanicus's secretiveness and lack of understanding, it is hard to say whether the mountain array can retain even half of its power.

This is even more true for the Sun Navy. The biggest threat in this regard is actually Marshal Macharius. His expedition brought the empire a thousand worlds of territory, but it made the empire's power more dispersed... and at the same time further diluted the already severely damaged Sun Navy's strength.

Even the Successor Wars that followed his death turned the ancient flagships of the Sun Navy into mostly junked ships.

As we all know, the technology of the human empire is basically based on archaeology, and some high-end warships such as the Glorious Queen class were said to have built another one, but even the blueprints and STCs were nowhere to be found.

Combined with the efforts of Magnus and Tzeentch, the beastly behavior of the High Lords, and the Star Destroyers brought by Leon, the rapid collapse of Terra's defense system was a matter of course.

However, even so, the high lords would definitely not be able to accept it.

After they learned that Terra's external communications had been cut off, they felt a strong sense of familiarity.

After seeing the chaos spreading on Terra, the sense of déjà vu as if it existed in the DNA became even stronger.

But after receiving the news that Terra was now surrounded by a large number of magnetic field demons from top to bottom, his confusion instantly turned into intense anger and fear!

But the High Lord is not a complete fool after all.

You can say they are corrupt, bureaucratic, or even call them stupid, but you cannot say that the high lords are inactive.

The fact that they were able to keep a scattered Shinra Empire from falling apart is a reflection of the abilities of this group of bureaucrats... Of course, it is also because they are too capable that the Empire is now in such a speechless state.

But in any case, when the Grand Master of the Assassins' Court and the Grand Marshal of the Guards withdrew from the Council to protect valuable things, the High Lords quickly mobilized their forces.

They were the first to abandon the lives of all the high-ranking dignitaries on Terra almost without hesitation.

All the power used to protect those nobles will be withdrawn to protect more valuable places on Terra, such as Lion Airport and the Naval Headquarters.

Even the High Lord representative of the Navigator family, the Star Language Court Master, gave up the protection of the various Navigator families he represented - Navigators are important, but at this time, they are not the most important.

Faced with a formidable enemy, the High Lords of Terra displayed a rare display of high efficiency. They put aside their past grudges, mobilized all the resources they could, and activated various secret weapons, just to annihilate the ubiquitous Chaos pollution on Terra!

They did have an excellent effect. The protected areas effectively contained the invasion of the chaos frenzy and even killed a number of magnetic field demons.

However, the situation did not improve at all.

Even though they were facing hundreds of billions or even close to trillions of Terran people... and these people were a burden to them on a normal day, but to Chaos, they were all potential resources!