Warhammer 40 A New Hope

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After shutting down the main control center, Corax and Omega focused all their energy on cleaning up the liquid metal robots that were everywhere.

Without the control of the main control center, the movement patterns of these liquid metal robots became rigid and their aggressiveness also decreased significantly. However, due to their large number, the two primarchs had to focus all their energy on them.

As mentioned before, these liquid metal robots, enough to cover the entire floor of the room, are not only guards, they are also repairmen. Even though for various reasons their programming has not been completed and their expected number has not arrived, they are still able to perform some simple repairs on the main control computer - like shutting down and restarting.

By the time Corax and Omega discovered the problem, the supercomputer that controlled the entire Flickering World had already completed its restart, and a large amount of cached data began to converge, and the calculation arrangement of the current situation also began.

The movements of those liquid metal robots, which had originally moved in a rigid manner, also became unpredictable. They formed a sealed dome directly above the heads of the two primarchs, preventing them from attacking the main control center again.

[Analyze cache data and confirm the current status...]

[Redeploy, start... Error! ]

[A huge energy source is approaching, turn on the camera... Error! ]

[Unable to capture the target! The target is getting closer! Error! ]

【Error! Error! Error!】

At this moment, a giant golden hand could be clearly seen falling from space. It passed through the atmosphere and came above the city. A large number of city defense facilities discovered it and launched attacks on others, but to no avail.

I saw the big hand reaching directly towards the main control tower, but suddenly, a transparent barrier appeared and blocked the attacking golden giant hand.

The movement was blocked, and the giant golden hand paused as if it had suddenly touched a cactus. After staying in the air for a while, it began to dissipate.

[High-energy reaction disappears, computing power is redistributed]

[Insufficient energy, shutting down... Error!]

[High-energy reaction detected! Increase shield...]

Click - boom!

A golden shadow flashed by, like a passing hurricane, and the energy shield protecting the main control tower was instantly shattered. The remaining power directly broke the entire main control tower. At the same time, the strong airflow blew away everything along the way.

Once again, the main control center that controls the entire Flickering World has gone offline, and this time it should not be able to come online again, but...

"Have I forgotten something again?" O'Neill, who had done all this in the planet's orbit, looked at the surface of the planet and thought.

On the ground, the upper half of the main control tower, which had flown a long distance due to the emperor's slap, finally fell to the ground, and a large pool of silver liquid spilled out.

"You should have destroyed that thing more thoroughly at the beginning." said Omega.

"I didn't expect that stuff could restart it. Doesn't it just chase people and chop them in the movies?"

"That's just a reference, you idiot. Anyone with a little knowledge can know how much a liquid robot can do."

The two Primarchs walked out of the wreckage of the central tower, looked at the liquid metal robots that were wandering around due to program errors, and then looked around.

"Did Dad forget we were still in there?"

"It's possible..."

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An entire Titan army destroyed the large group of Tramplers, then rushed to the vicinity of the city and began "protective technological excavation" - these are their own words (listen carefully).

Although the main control tower had been destroyed by O'Neill's slap, and a large number of automatic factories and fixed defense facilities had been controlled or destroyed, the various weapons and genetically modified creatures owned by the residents of the Glittering World also had a certain impact on the advancement of the Human Empire's troops.

Even though these private armed forces and biological creatures created for various reasons have uneven combat effectiveness, are not numerous, and have no unified organization, they still pose a considerable obstacle to the Space Marines and Astra Militarum forces.

Dinosaur-like creatures were rampaging on the streets, their thick bone shells able to withstand even a few rounds of explosive bombs; there were horse-like creatures like unicorns, with a single horn on their heads that could pierce through power armor; and there were also dragon-like creatures that only existed in legends, with wings and scales, able to emit fire and acid.

The characteristics of the Glittering World give it extremely high technological capabilities, and in order to preserve the technology and creations of this Glittering World to the greatest extent, the Human Empire cannot use weapons of mass destruction, which makes the current attack still not going smoothly.

Ryan, who was in charge of ground combat command, was also beating his chest and stamping his feet about this situation, but there was no better solution. It was not that the human empire's troops had no way to deal with these various modified creatures and private armed forces that emerged in an endless stream, but this would take time, a lot of time.

A giant dragon with three heads was flying in the air. Relying on its powerful physical strength and thick scales, it shot down an imperial fighter plane from the air, and then breathed out a breath of hot flames at the Astra Militarum troops on the ground.

The advancing Hydra anti-aircraft guns immediately covered it with fire and successfully shot it down, but a large circle of half-biological and half-mechanical Zerg dug out from nearby and launched an attack on the anti-aircraft force.

Situations like this are everywhere in the city. These bizarre modified creatures and various private armed forces have fully demonstrated to the Human Empire what it means to be unable to beat you, but to be able to disgust you.

A large group of rich young men wearing power armor rode on the backs of griffins, chasing the Astra Militarum squad fleeing on the ground. However, the next second, a golden figure descended from the sky and directly split one of the griffins and its passengers in two. A human creature wearing golden armor, with wings and lightning wrapped around his body stopped in the middle of the other griffin riders. The next moment, lightning exploded.

[Thundercast Eternal]

These special soldiers, created by the Emperor and the Dwarf Gods from the souls of those loyal to order and justice, have not appeared in the public eye since the Battle of Terra. They have all been summoned for research and debugging. The Emperor intends to make these powerful warriors his own subordinates, similar to the [Cursed Legion], another demon army (crossed out), divine army (crossed out), and private army (that's it).

The addition of [Thundercast Eternals] has accelerated the occupation of this broken shining world, but...

It still takes time...

"Let those people of the Mechanicus do their work! Don't just dig for technology! We still have a lot of enemies on our side!"

"Hello--!"

554.04 Ring

Half a month after the Battle of Reach

Reach, which was supposed to have been glassed, is still intact, and the human empire's fleet is still docked nearby.

The news that spread throughout the entire Covenant had thrown the entire Covenant into chaos. The Covenant, which was once relatively united, was now divided into three major factions: the San'Shyuim, who hoped to maintain their dominance over the Covenant; the Sangheili, who demanded an explanation from the San'Shyuim for the information; and the leader of the exiles, the Jiralhanae Atreaux, who had rebelled against the Covenant in advance.

Among them, except for Atriox who was still recruiting people because he failed to gather enough people due to the sudden split of the Covenant, a fleet led by a Sangheili [Kamikaze Martyr] has begun to openly challenge and demand explanations from the three prophets of the San'Shyuum with a tough attitude. The San'Shyuum prophets have basically completed the cleansing of the dissenting Sangheili in the [City of High Charity].

Now the entire Star Alliance no longer has the energy to actively attack the UNSC human government, at least it is unable to organize a large number of fleets and troops to actively attack.

Zhang Yi and his team have basically completed the first phase of the plan and are preparing to move on to the second phase.

For Zhang Yi and others who are familiar with the situation in this world, their enemies have never been the UNSC human government or the Star Alliance, and their targets are not these two organizations.

Compared to the pioneers who have been submerged in time and halo attacks and the forerunners of almost all things, the UNSC and the Covenant are too insignificant to be mentioned.

Under the watchful eyes of the Reach Star Fleet, the Pathfinders' flagship, the Endless Expedition, began to move, and the white portal that brought this group of giant ships reappeared.

Not long after, the Endless Expedition completely disappeared near Reach, leaving no trace, just like when they came.

"Confirmed. We have completely lost track of that ship. There is no signal from it, whether it is radar or anything else."

"We have no idea where they came from, or where they're going... MD! Isn't this the same situation as when we encountered the Covenant?!"

"Sir, a message from the Human Empire!"

"what?!"

"They said they wanted to talk to us, and... they required John-117 to be present."

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04 Near the ring

This was one of the weapons created by the Forerunners to destroy the Flood. At the beginning, the entire Forerunner race created a total of 18 Halo rings (and a large Ark used to create the Halo rings, which was really outrageous), but in the end only seven rings survived and formed a complete array, launching an impact that was enough to wipe out all life in the entire Milky Way and the surrounding area for tens of thousands of light years.

After that, all the rings lay dormant for at least 100,000 years, and then they experienced at least one Flood outbreak and the landing of intelligent creatures, neither of which affected the existence of the rings, until...

The Master Chief and the Covenant discovered and logged onto Ring 04. The two sides exchanged fire on it and eventually accidentally released the Flood on this ring. The guide on Ring 04, 343 Guilty Spark, tried to trick the Master Chief into activating the ring but failed. In the end, he used the Pillar of Autumn that crashed on the ring to blow up the ring and eliminate the Flood.

This is the original plot, and now Zhang Yi will lead the elite of the human empire to step into this ring facility to dig out more secrets from it. If possible, they will also use this ring as a base point to find the ark used to build the ring outside the Milky Way - Zone 00.

"That being said, none of us are original humans from this world. Will the intelligent system on the Ark really recognize us?" Zhang Yi muttered on the bridge, looking at the Ark not far away. "I personally feel that we may be crushed to the ground by a wave of Templar machines summoned by 343 Guilty Spark."

"I bet we'll get beat up in orbit."

"Hey, hey, hey! Can't you guys think of something better?"

Faced with their Primarch's words, several Pathfinder Space Marines present fell silent, and then...

"Boss, will you not be treated as a human being again if you behave like this?"

"I TM..."

The ideal series of bad situations did not happen. The ship Zhang Yi was on was not blocked or attacked at all and docked near the 04 ring belt.

"Everyone, get ready. We are going to go down to the 04 ring to explore and search." Zhang Yi said to the troops in front of him. "Everyone, please familiarize yourself with the precautions manual I gave you. Don't let the flood demon out later."

"besides..."

drop!drop!drop!

At this time, an alarm sounded inside the ship. At the same time, the auspicious instrument showed that a Covenant fleet had leapt nearby and was rapidly approaching the 04 ring and the ship where Zhang Yi was.

"WTF?"

In the original plot, the Covenant fleet followed the randomly jumped "Leader of Autumn" all the way to the 04th ring, but Reach still exists today, and the Covenant has fallen into division. The plot has changed drastically - how did this group of Covenant fleets get here?

Zhang Yi's inference was not wrong. Now that the plot has changed drastically, the Star Alliance will not follow the "Autumn Wind Pillar" and accidentally reach the 04th ring as before, but this does not mean that they cannot get here.

The current split in the Covenant does make it impossible for them to organize a unified fleet to attack others, but even so, one thing has not changed, that is, they still worship the Forerunners and are actively looking for everything related to the Forerunners.

The Sangheili believed that the San'Shyuum had deceived them and thus split away, demanding an explanation from the latter as to whether all this was really a scam.

But in addition to making the San'Shyuum prophet admit that "my words are all false, a scam", the Sangheili can also confirm it by looking for more Forerunner creations - either find an AI like the Monk of Bias to confirm it from its mouth, or find the so-called ring belt to see if that thing is really as the San'Shyuum said, allowing them to see the Forerunners (in some ways, it can).

The Sangheili hated being deceived and kept in the dark, and they also hated the San'Shyuum prophets who had basically confessed their crimes and were hiding in the City of High Charity, but that didn't mean they would like the humans who had been fighting them for so long, or the human empire that suddenly appeared and beat them up.

Just as the San'Shyums tried every means to hide the truth, the truth that humans are the heirs to the Forerunner legacy, many Sangheilis are also unwilling to believe that humans are the heirs to the entire Forerunner legacy. At least before they personally confirm it, they will not believe it easily, and will not let humans get involved in the Forerunner relics.

[You let us see the reality of human beings clearly, but this does not mean that you can touch the remains of the forerunners in front of us. As early as when you were still hiding on your own planets and fighting each other, we began to explore the remains of the forerunners. This is not something you can touch! ]

[Leave this Forerunner creation, or prepare for war! ]

"Well...does anyone know this elite?"

"The one wearing white armor, now Tyr Vadam should still be an orange armored berserker, right?"

"It doesn't seem to be some crooked mouth."

"So it's a passerby character?"

"That's not true. There aren't many high-ranking Sangheili with names and long lives in the game. A commander who can rule a large fleet can't be considered a passerby in the Star Alliance, right?"

"You are aware that the San'Shyuum began replacing high-ranking Sangheili on a large scale in the later period?"

"Boss, you also know that in the later part of the story, there is almost no San'Shyuum, right? It's all Jiralhanae and Sangheili fighting each other."

"And the Flood."

Speaking of the Flood, Zhang Yi realized that he couldn't just let these Sangheili who had no idea about the 04 ring go up, otherwise they would accidentally release the Flood, and the 04 ring would probably explode again.

"It's too late to call the fleet over now. We can only have one ship to fight." Zhang Yi analyzed the current situation and said, "The enemy's ships are not many, but it is obvious that this Sangheili commander is not just a loyal reckless man. He should know the fighting style of the human empire, so the ships are scattered."

"I didn't see the Covenant sniper ship that only existed in the background, so we should have the advantage in range and firepower. If we use long-distance consumption to pull the enemy, we should be able to delay the Covenant fleet for a while, and then continue to delay with the help of shields and armor..."

"Are you going to tear apart the light ships of the Star Alliance that have already gone to the vicinity of the 04 ring?"

"...I can tear it by hand..."

555.343: Where did you come from, ancient human?

squeak--!

A large ball of blue energy bloomed near a Covenant CAS-class assault carrier, and the blue shield on the hull kept flashing.

But the sudden attack did not panic the Covenant fleet. The Saint Heli fleet commander was obviously well aware of the characteristics of the human empire's ships and their common fighting methods.

Compared with the ships of the UNSC and the Covenant, the Human Empire is just a mobile fortress, with high attack power, thick shields, thick armor, and high health, but it lacks in flexibility and speed - at least that's what they see.

Therefore, the attack method of the human empire's ships is to rush directly into the enemy camp, then engage the enemy ships in close combat, and destroy the enemy with overwhelming firepower and boarding operations.

With this information, it is very simple to respond. Disperse the ships, use the advantages of flexibility and speed to wear down their giant ships. Even if the opponent has advantages in tonnage and technology, they have the advantage in the number of ships.

The order has been issued, and the Covenant fleet began to act according to the order. The two cruisers and a part of the ships jumped to the vicinity of the enemy ships, while the assault carrier attracted fire from the front.

Judging from the existing data, there is nothing wrong with this arrangement, but for the human empire, there is a huge gap between the ships, and it is possible that the performance of the ships does not match their appearance, and...

There are many things that the Human Empire did not show in previous battles.

"Enemy is within range."

"We're surrounded!"

"Enemy carrier-based aircraft drop confirmed."

"Drop stasis bombs, prepare torpedoes for launch!"

The Covenant ship arrived to the left side of the Endless Expedition and suddenly detected an unidentified object appearing nearby. The next second, a special field exploded, covering almost the entire fleet, and all beings in that field began to move slowly.

"Confirmed that the stasis bomb is restraining the opponent."

"All macro cannons fire! Send 'mines'!"