Warhammer 40 A New Hope

"We should deal with these possible problems in advance..."

"Have you read Norse mythology?" O'Neill suddenly asked. "All of Odin's efforts have led to the arrival of Ragnarok."

"Perhaps we can indeed take a series of measures to prevent the situation from getting worse, but you have to know that the entire human empire is too big. It is so vast that even I don't know how many planets there are and how many people there are."

"Now I have no idea whether those precautions will be used, and whether they will produce an unpredictable butterfly effect. You have to know that the power released by the Four Gods has returned, and they can't remain silent forever..."

"...what did you foresee, father?"

"A plague, a carnival, a killing, and another..."

O'Neill suddenly stopped talking at this point because Zhang Yi poked his head out of the door at this moment.

"Hi? I need a little..."

"...Wipe the stuff off your neck before you talk."

"Ah? I remember..."

Zhang Yi, who subconsciously tried to wipe the stuff off his neck, reacted the next moment and realized that he seemed to have been tricked by O'Neal.

"You old bacon, are you trying to trick me?"

"Left hand or right hand?"

"I..."

Snapped!

The two psychic hands attacked together, sandwiched Zhang Yi in the middle, and lifted him in front of O'Neill.

"Anything you want to explain?"

"... (the forever stubborn middle finger)..."

boom!

The psychic hand dissipated, and Zhang Yi fell to the metal ground with a crisp sound.

(The middle finger represents my spirit of never giving up)

"Ahem!" Guilliman coughed twice, signaling the two to stop fighting. "What do you want?"

"I want to borrow some spare troops. I'm going to have some big fun."

"Requiem?" Guilliman looked at the information Zhang Yi sent him and asked. "You should have just completed the occupation and control of Ring 04."

"Under the current situation, if nothing unexpected happens, it is already a foregone conclusion that we will be able to control the 04 ring. It would be a waste to just pile up so many troops there and not use them."

"So you want to attack [Shield World] Requiem?"

"It's not really an attack, it's more of a test, because I can't think of any other way for our fleet to enter Requiem directly except for me to open a portal and go in directly." Zhang Yi responded. "But if we can gain control of the entire Prometheus Corps and capture the True Missionary, who may be the only living Forerunner in that world, then it will be of great help to our future exploration of the entire Halo world."

"We may be able to gain control over some of the Forerunner creations by studying the True Missionary."

"Are you sure? I remember your report saying that although the Forerunners may have been wiped out, there is at least one survivor." Guilliman said. "Are you sure they won't come after us because of your actions?"

"That's impossible, right? It's been so long since the Pioneers even made a single move. They won't come out when we do, will they?" Zhang Yi said. "If that happens, will I let the Necrons take the blame?"

"... (holding his head) You didn't plan for that step at all, did you...?"

"That's not the case. You have to know that the existence of the Pioneers in the Halo world is just like the Ancient Saints in the 40K world. They are just a background."

"If I really rely on this to create a deus ex machina, what do you want me to do? Go over and give the author two slaps in the face (crossed out)?"

"Also, among all the Halo worlds, Requiem probably has the most Forerunner military technology and artifacts, right?"

"...How many people do you need?"

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Requiem

This is a huge planet-level entity made almost entirely of metal. Some veterans who participated in the [Beast War] immediately had some bad associations when they saw this thing.

In the original plot, the Master Chief who woke up on the wreckage of the Dawn accidentally activated some of Requiem's ​​systems while fighting against the Covenant forces of the M'dama faction stationed near Requiem, and was scanned by them. The M'dama faction had not been able to enter Requiem for so long, and thus opened its door for the first time (and then was almost swallowed by the star inside Requiem).

Obviously, the reason why Requiem was opened was because the Master Chief who had been transformed by the Chief Librarian was detected, and the Forerunner True Missionary who was imprisoned and exiled inside Requiem was also the husband of the Chief Librarian.

Several Primarchs and a large number of Astra Militarum and Space Marines participated in the battle for the entire Requiem. At the same time, in order to open Requiem, Zhang Yi and others also successfully persuaded two teams of Spartan warriors including the Master Chief and a small UNSC fleet to participate in this operation.

It is now around the end of 2552 in the Halo world, shortly after the end of the Battle of Reach. The Mudama faction in the Covenant has not yet discovered this place. Through Zhang Yi's portal, the entire mixed fleet came to the vicinity of Requiem and began preliminary research and reconnaissance work.

[The Forerunner creations always bring us surprises] Cortana said, looking at the intelligence shared with them by the human empire and the intelligence they obtained through reconnaissance. [This planet is layered, the innermost is a star that serves the entire planet, and the other inner layers also have ecosystems]

[I don’t think this planet is just another ecological simulation experiment of the forerunners]

"This is a weapon," said the Master Chief. "Or rather, this planet they call Requiem contains the weapon they want."

[I guess so, and now the authority to open this weapon or arsenal falls into our hands] (Cortana)

"They just said that I'm the only one who can open Requiem and let us in, and this isn't the only way." The Chief said. "Based on their performance, I don't think they don't have other ways to get into Requiem."

"We have to wait and see, Cortana."

560. ． ． ． Damn?

After a period of investigation and research, a Pelican carrying the Master Chief and Zhang Yi arrived outside the detected entrance to Requiem.

"How do we activate it?" The Master Chief looked at Zhang Yi and asked him and Cortana.

[This creation is completely dormant. All messages we sent to it were blocked by it. Perhaps we can try...]

call out--!

A golden shadow transformed into a stream of light and flew to the surface of Requiem not far away, then crashed into its metal shell. This seemed to awaken Requiem. A red bright spot appeared and began to scan the Pelican spacecraft that the two were riding on.

"Are you ready, both of you? We are about to start a thrilling airborne landing." Zhang Yi said to the sergeant who was a little unresponsive. "Pilot of the Pelican, you can fly back now."

As he said that, Zhang Yi jumped towards the opening entrance of Requiem. Seeing this, the Master Chief hesitated for a moment and then jumped over as well.

"What's the plan?" Looking at the white star appearing in front of the two of them, the sergeant asked Zhang Yi.

"There is no plan. That's how you got in last time. We should be able to get in too." Zhang Yi responded. "Should be...right?"

"..last time?"

After hearing Zhang Yi's answer, the Master Chief immediately regretted jumping down with the little giant, but the huge attraction had made them inevitably fall towards the opened entrance to Requiem, and now it was too late to regret.

On the Endless Expedition, the crew responsible for monitoring the signals of the Master Chief and Zhang Yi confirmed shortly afterwards that the signals of the two had disappeared as expected.

"Sir Chief and Boss should be in, right?" (Kerr)

"I'll be next! No one else can snatch it from me!" (Wu Mo)

"Just keep your distance!" (Kerr)

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A scroll of Feather Fall Technique was torn open in front of the Master Chief, and then the two people who were falling at high speed immediately felt that their falling speed was significantly slowing down. Finally, the two people fell gently to the ground.

"I really didn't expect this scroll to be useful."

"You don't know if it can be used?"

"Well...it should work."

"...Cortana, report the situation."

[We have successfully entered the interior of Requiem. I am scanning the surrounding terrain...]

[Something's happening! Phase travel detected, unknown units approaching us! ]

Almost the next second after Cortana's warning, several mechanical beings emitting blue light appeared around them and scanned them again.

[Breaking into an organism]

[Scan conclusion: Ancient humans (?); Forerunners (?)]

[No entry here! ]

The current situation is somewhat beyond the expectations of the Master Chief and Cortana. Zhang Yi and others did not tell them much about Requiem. At most, they just guessed that Requiem might be a military facility of the Forerunners.

"...I hope you have a plan for this." The sergeant looked at Zhang Yi and said.

"If I must say, no." Zhang Yi looked at the mechanical soldiers of the Prometheus Legion who were obviously up to no good and replied. "Also, although in theory all the successors of the Forerunner creations are human, I don't think the owner of Requiem would be happy to admit this."

At this moment, the Master Chief suddenly found that the Prometheus Knights around him were looking up into the sky. He raised his head and found a white portal expanding.

"Fire!"

Several scorching laser beams shot out from the portal and attacked the Prometheus mechanical soldiers that surrounded them. Many of the mechanical soldiers were unable to react in time to this sudden attack and were directly hit and annihilated, while some of them avoided this sudden attack through short-distance phase transfer.

Immediately afterwards, another white portal appeared, and the nearest Prometheus Knight immediately stepped forward and tried to launch an attack, but the next second he was grabbed by a hand covered in heavy armor and pressed to the ground.

Bang bang bang!

Three explosive bombs were fired, directly destroying the Prometheus Knight. A whole team of Shadow Prisoners walked out of the portal first and launched an attack on the Prometheus mechanical soldiers that surrounded them.

This sudden situation was obviously beyond the scope of handling of these Prometheus mechanical soldiers who only had some basic combat awareness, but soon some of the Prometheus mechanical soldiers looked at Zhang Yi and the Master Chief and realized that this uncontrolled and unaffected white portal should have been created by the two of them.

Then a large number of fast-moving Prometheus Crawlers rushed towards the two first, and at the same time a large number of observers were released, trying to use their numerical advantage to prevent more troops from emerging from the portal.

Whoosh—bang!

The golden light that allowed the two to enter the interior of Requiem appeared again, knocking away a Prometheus Crawlers that was attacking them, then climbing at high speed, and then falling from a high altitude.

boom--!

The huge impact scattered many of the attacking crawlers, and the Master Chief finally saw what the golden object was.

"A...brick?"

[A brick that can fly around by itself, with great density and hardness] (Cortana)

At this time, the Prometheus Knights carrying various Forerunner weapons opened fire at them, but they were all blocked by the [Magic Screen] held up by Zhang Yi. The golden light also floated up from the ground again and flew towards the enemies farther away.

As an elite Master Chief, he would naturally not miss this good opportunity to output. Although he didn't know why Zhang Yi came to Anquiem, now that they had already started a war with the autonomous mechanical legion guarding this world, he could only accept and fight.

The MA37 individual combat submachine gun opened fire. With the one-way [Magic Screen] deployed by Zhang Yi, the Master Chief could concentrate on shooting, but he soon encountered the first problem - he was out of bullets.

In previous high-intensity wars, the Master Chief could always obtain weapons and ammunition from his teammates or enemies, but now the mechanical soldiers of Prometheus did not seem to intend to engage in close combat with them at this stage. After using up several magazines they carried, they ran out of bullets.

At this moment, a Prometheus Knight came directly behind Zhang Yi and him, and slashed at Zhang Yi who was holding up the [Magic Screen] with the beam sword in his hand.

boom!

A small silver figure suddenly appeared at this moment and slammed hard on the visor of the Romithus Knight. Then the silver shadow flew into Zhang Yi's left hand and smashed towards the enemy whose attack was interrupted.

"You're a sneak attack! A sneak attack! A sneak attack! A sneak attack, right!" Zhang Yi repeated as he smashed the thing. "It's quite big, tall and flashy."

Sergeant Chi, who saw this scene and tried to rescue but was interrupted, fell into silence as he watched Zhang Yi smash the Rometheus Knight to death. Cortana also fell into silence.

"This thing is really light. They say the dwarves made it with a new alloy, so it's both light and strong." Zhang Yi said as he looked at the Prometheus Knight that disappeared, then looked at the silent Sergeant. "Look at me, what do you think I want to do? They told me to use a brick from the beginning, and I'm so used to it now that I can't change it back."

Zhang Yi picked up the light rifle used by the Prometheus Knight that had not dissipated, weighed it and threw it aside, then took out a grenade launcher from somewhere and threw it to the sergeant.

"Use this, it's powerful."

"..." This was the nth time that the Master Chief felt that his world view and combat perspective had been refreshed.

Sizzle－－!

At this moment, the Prometheus observers who were blocking the portal were attacked by powerful lightning. The unusual lightning directly penetrated their light shields and destroyed them, and then a red giant walked out of the portal.

Seeing their defenses being breached, the remaining Prometheus observers stepped forward and tried to reach the exit of the portal again, but were then hit by lightning from the red giant who walked out of the portal. Almost instantly, all these annoying mosquitoes were destroyed.

The space in front of the portal was cleared, and a large number of [Imperial Fists] Space Marines ran out of it and erected a shield wall in front of the portal, followed by the [Blood Angels] Space Marines.

When the Emperor's Poison Blade Super Heavy Tank equipped with an energy shield generator drove out of the portal, it meant that the victory of this forced landing was already decided. The Prometheus mechanical soldiers also realized this and began to retreat.

The first battle inside Requiem was an undoubted victory, but the next battle was the key.

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A huge mobile base drove out of the portal, which meant that the Human Empire had initially occupied a part of Requiem, but considering its special structure and a large number of Prometheus mechanical soldiers that had not yet been activated, it might take them some time to gain a foothold here.

The ideal plan is to find a way to complete control of the shield world of Requiem, and of course the Prometheus Legion within it. It would be even better if the only known living Forerunner, the True Missionary, could be captured alive.

But it is obviously not easy. In the original plot, the Infinity, as a UNSC supercarrier with certain Forerunner technology, was trapped on Requiem and had no way out.

At that time, the large number of Covenant troops and Requiem's ​​defense facilities were enough to destroy the super aircraft carrier that the UNSC had worked so hard to build. In other words, there was firepower on Requiem that was capable of destroying the Queen of Glory-class battleship.

It is actually not difficult to destroy this shield world, but if you want to control and occupy it as Zhang Yi and others want, then there will be big problems.

It can be seen from the original plot that even though he has been imprisoned for 100,000 years, the True Missionary, as the owner of this shield world, still has absolute control over it. With a wave of his hand, he can bring the control of the entire Prometheus Legion back to his hands.