Warhammer 40 A New Hope

[It's a little unreasonable. Whether they are from outside the galaxy or really from other worlds, they know too much about us and our enemies] (Cortana)

"Their target is something in Requiem, and we know nothing about it." The Master Chief groaned. "Cortana, can we hack into their internal network? We need to know more."

[Already trying... How is it possible?!] (Cortana)

"what happened?"

[The programs and systems of the Forerunner facilities in this area have been completely rewritten.] Cortana's surprised voice sounded in the Master Chief's ears. [In such a short time, they have...]

[Your access is prohibited, Ms. Cortana] (9S)

Zila——!

With a sound of electricity, Cortana was forcibly kicked out of the local network and her access rights were also shut down.

"Cortana?!"

[I... am fine.] Cortana's weak voice sounded.

"Our tolerance for you is not endless, Master Chief." 9S's voice rang in the Master Chief's ears at this time. "Please don't go too far."

The communication was hung up and the Master Chief fell silent. It was obvious that the Human Empire was warning them and their attempts should stop here.

"...Plan the safest route and prepare the vehicles." The sergeant was silent for a while, then spoke. "We will go to the support location first to complete our mission."

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After making the plan, Zhang Yi teleported more troops into Anquiem, preparing to further expand the scale of the war.

A large number of Human Empire troops will tear through the defenses of the Prometheus Legion and reach the location of the True Missionary's cage. Then Zhang Yi will invade the system of the surrounding area and completely isolate the cage.

In this operation, the attacking side includes not only the troops of the Human Empire, but also many Necron troops from the [Nihilak Dynasty] where the Necron Tarazin is located.

As mentioned before, even though the Necrons now have a way to restore their bodies and souls, for various reasons, only a very small number of high-ranking Necrons have restored their souls and bodies, and 99% of the Necrons are still in their original state. On the other hand, as the ruler of the Necrons, the [Silent King] Shalek also seems to want to further consolidate his position through this technology.

Therefore, the Necrons now urgently need military merit to get the opportunity to regain their souls. At the same time, more and different related technologies are also what they pursue most - just like no one would think that having too much money is the same.

The emergence of the Necron Army was completely unexpected for the Prometheus Legion. Just like the emergence of the Human Empire, the Necron Army with more advanced technology was undoubtedly another huge threat to them.

At this time, the [Infinite] Tarasim, who was called the "King of Figures" by Zhang Yi, was trying to disassemble a Prometheus Knight he had captured alive, watching it turn into light fragments in the sky amidst the screams.

"Interesting!" Trazyn said as he looked at the collected data. "The physical consciousness of a creature is completely converted into data, and then reconstructed into a human form through the so-called 'hard light' technology, allowing it to wear that high-tech armor..."

"This is a technology used to cure the so-called Flood infection, but the creature will be extremely painful when being transformed, which makes it possible to clear the infected part in time and inject it into a body that is no different from the original body. The target will die or become violent after a period of time."

"Obviously, he (the True Missionary Class) did not realize that the so-called [Recombiner] destroyed the souls of living beings when it digitized them."

After saying that, Taraxin looked at Zhang Yi on the side, and after a moment of silence, he said, "I want to participate in the research on that pioneer."

"We haven't even started yet, why are you so anxious?"

"Then please tell me, why might we lose?" Tara said. "Perhaps, if this fortress world is completed, the Ming Forerunner is still alive, and the so-called Prometheus Legion is fully established, we will lose the war because of this. But now, with only a broken fortress world and a group of machines without much tactical planning, I don't think we will lose."

"I have already prepared the Forerunner's cell, and I can't wait to fully analyze it and collect it."

"You really haven't changed at all..."

563. Halo: Total War

Groups of Prometheus Observers are besieging an Imperial Starhawk bomber in the air. These autonomously modified Observers carry a heavy beam cannon, which reduces flexibility at the cost of allowing them to pose a considerable threat to the flying units of the human empire in the air.

The bomber's machine gun turret was no match for the sheer number of enemies and it soon crashed under the attack of the observers.

But the next moment, a green lightning struck, instantly annihilating the cluster of observers in the air, and a Necron Doomsday Ark slowly appeared from the distance.

The addition of the Necrons made the situation of the Prometheus Legion stationed on Requiem even more difficult. To make a comparison, the Necrons can be completely compared with their creators, the Forerunners.

In response to this, they can only shrink their defenses and awaken more sleeping Prometheus mechanical soldiers to exchange space for time.

With only simple combat thinking and tactical concepts, they had no idea at this stage that these suddenly appearing enemies were targeting the imprisoned Forerunners. That was why the attacks of the Human Empire and the Necrons were very smooth and victorious for a period of time.

An entire tank corps of the Human Empire was advancing at high speed across the plains. With their thick armor and heavy firepower, they could almost ignore any small-scale enemies.

Their mission is to capture and occupy the nearby Prometheus transmission nodes to cut off the enemy's support and facilitate the attack of the frontal forces.

Their intention was soon confirmed, and a large number of Prometheus mechanical soldiers carrying heavy weapons formed a defense line, attempting to stop the advancing human Empire armored forces.

The two sides engaged in a fierce exchange of fire at the first moment of contact. In terms of flexibility and functionality, the Prometheus Legion, researched and manufactured by the True Missionary Organization, is far stronger than the tank forces of the Human Empire, but its firepower is relatively weak (some high-powered weapons cannot be used for the time being).

The tank forces of the Human Empire are still as tough and powerful as before.

Now, weapons that have been tested in actual combat for thousands of years have begun another battle with the stillborn anti-Flood weapons.

A large number of observers were released to suppress the armored clusters on the ground from the air, but soon these annoying "mosquitoes" were attacked by Hydra's air artillery from a distance.

With a large number of observer machines falling from the sky, the first line of defense of the Prometheus Legion was broken, but soon after, the attack of the knights and reptiles began.

The Imperial tanks at the front were attacked by a large number of beam weapons. The energy shield generators they carried were overloaded within seconds of sounding the alarm, and then the hot beam stream melted their heavy armor.

Several Leman Russ tanks at the front were destroyed, but their sacrifice successfully bought an opportunity for the follow-up troops. Heavy bombers and laser cannons fired, and heavy cannons roared.

The excess firepower common in the Warhammer world taught the defending Prometheus Legion a lesson. Even if they were not hit directly, the shock waves generated by the explosion of the shells nearby could severely damage some mechanical soldiers that were closer.

The fixed turrets located near the target building began to attack, and a hot beam swept across, and several Leman Russ tanks were directly vaporized, but this could not stop the charge of the Imperial armored forces.

"F*ck! The enemy destroyed five of our tanks in one round of attack!" The tank commander on a Leman Rust tank shouted into the communication device in his hand. "I sent you the coordinates! Blow that place up!"

The artillery units in the rear, having obtained the coordinates, began to use them as a benchmark to adjust the gun mounts of the petrified lizard artillery, the Griffin self-propelled heavy artillery, and the petrified Banshee siege tanks. After confirming that everything was correct, they fired all the artillery pieces.

The whistling sound of the shells flying through the air was heard on the front line. The anti-aircraft Forerunner turrets responded immediately and fired into the air. All of a sudden, a large amount of exploding flames appeared in the air.

However, the Empire had too many artillery pieces, so even after the Prometheus Legion, which had the advantage of terrain and home field, intercepted 90% of the artillery shells, it was still badly blown away by the remaining 10%.

A siege artillery shell hit the powerful floating turret directly, and the entire turret was directly blown up. At this time, the armored forces of the Human Empire had already rushed in front of them.

The rotating tracks rolled directly over the body of a Prometheus Knight, and continued to move forward in the light it turned into.

The knight holding the incendiary cannon fired at a very close range, destroying the Leman Rust tank in front of him, but the next moment it was hit by several heavy bombs, shattering it.

Several Prometheus crawlers dismantled a tank in a siege, biting off its gun barrel, tearing off its tracks, and breaking its armor plate. The driver inside the tank did not sit there and wait for death, and detonated all the stored shells inside at once, taking the enemies to hell with him.

Even though this was their home turf, with the advantages of terrain and home field, the mechanical warriors of the Prometheus Legion were still suppressed by the human empire in terms of numbers.

As machines, they won't think very far ahead, but if there is an officer with some knowledge of intelligent life forms here, they will clearly realize that this is an unequal battle.

Requiem is their home turf, so they have certain advantages, but this time the army sent by the Human Empire is not just the army of one planet, but the army of thousands of planets - from the very beginning, the Human Empire intended to suppress them through the number of troops, while making up for the technological disadvantages.

As mentioned before, the Human Empire has too many troops, and the opponent's technological level is not weak, which makes the Prometheus Legion always at a disadvantage in the overall war.

Even though this human empire's armored force suffered a lot of casualties due to enemy attacks on the way, the number of them that rushed to the garrison was still large enough, so many that the losses were not even noticeable.

Small teams of Astra Militarum soldiers ran down from the armored personnel carriers, took up advantageous positions, and coordinated with their own armored units to attack the stationed Prometheus mechanical soldiers, further complicating the battle situation and affecting the enemy's judgment.

The Promethean mechanical soldiers still tried to rely on the advantages of weapons and flexibility to fight the enemies in front of them. However, when a Promethean knight who had just exited the phase state was directly attacked by a star soldier holding a chainsword, the knight fell into a brief daze.

This brief daze did not have much impact on its battle. The light blade emitting blue light collided with the high-speed rotating chainsaw sword, and it soon began to suppress the weak creature in front of it with its strength.

However, when it looked at the several pull rings on the enemy's fingers, it was stunned for the second time.

Although the human empire has the advantage in numbers, in individual combat, a Prometheus Knight is fully capable of annihilating an ordinary Astra Militarum squad, so in this case, one option to reduce losses is to take risky moves.

boom--!

Amid the explosion, the shell of this Prometheus Knight was severely damaged and was only a hair's breadth away from falling apart - the opponent had actually pulled out the ring of the fragmentation grenade during another charge, and forcibly pulled him into close combat, just to defeat him!

The Human Empire has many enemies, many of which are technologically stronger than it. In this regard, what the Human Empire often does is to use human lives to fill the gap!

This is even common! A large number of soldiers loyal to the Empire are willing to do so, because they know that some enemies cannot be defeated by fighting with all your might.

This Astra Militarum's suicide attack was not meaningless, because the knight, who had become slow in movement due to the explosion, was soon targeted by an entire Astra Militarum squad. Under the attack of lasers and explosive bombs, he turned into a sky full of light fragments.

The combination of overwhelming numbers, battle-hardened soldiers, and abundant firepower meant that the remaining mechanical soldiers of the Prometheus Legion could only enter the Forerunner buildings and prepare to start street fighting.

Naturally, the Astra Militarum was aware of the opponent's intention. They did not enter the building directly, but chose to surround the place after clearing out the remaining enemies and wait for reinforcements.

When several Thunderhawk gunships appeared from a distance and landed nearby, several Space Marines from the Dark Angels Chapter walked out of them. After understanding the situation, they each chose an entrance and prepared to enter.

The Prometheus Legion's mechanical soldiers inside do not know what kind of new enemy they will face.

564. Starfighter: Requiem

The Astra Militarum troops surrounding the Forerunner building deployed jammers to prevent Prometheus from detecting the outside world inside the building, which temporarily deprived them of first-hand intelligence on the outside world.

On the other hand, the Human Empire had obtained the internal topographic map of the target building through the previous invasion of Requiem, and was clear about the locations of all possible defense lines.

[Dark Angels] The Space Marines will enter in batches and teams. The first and second teams of Space Marines will clear the remaining enemies in the building, and then the mixed team composed of Astra Militarum and Space Marines will occupy and control the key nodes in the building one by one.

After fully understanding the situation, the four teams of Dark Angels Space Marines, who were the first to join the army, stepped into the Forerunner building almost at the same time. A confrontation between super warriors was about to begin.

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The modified auspicious instrument was constantly scanning the surrounding situation, and a five-man team of [Dark Angels] Space Marines were advancing in a somewhat narrow passage.

A red dot representing the enemy appeared on the handheld auspicious device, but the next moment, the red dot disappeared from the screen.

Beep beep－－!

The auspicious instrument sounded an alarm, and at the same time, the split screen representing the space disturbance began to jump with its originally stable bands.

Ding!

A Prometheus Knight exited its phase state behind the Space Marine squad, and then slashed towards the last Space Marine with a blade of light flashing blue.

In response, the Space Marine rolled to avoid the sudden attack with a speed and reaction that was inconsistent with his size, and then opened fire with the grenade launcher in his hand.

Bang bang bang－－!

Small rocket-propelled bombs flew towards the enemy, but a blue light curtain appeared and blocked them.

An opaque blue light shield appeared on the right arm of the attacking Prometheus Knight, completely covering his body. Having failed in his sneak attack, he prepared to release the observer he was carrying.

With two ring-shaped flying wings unfolding, the observer was about to take off, but the next moment a burst of plasma flew over and hit the target, overloading its shield, and then a second burst came and destroyed it.

The release of the observer failed, and the knight holding the light shield fell into a passive state of being beaten. The three [Dark Angel] Space Marines suppressed him with their successive shooting.

Beep beep－－!

The auspicious instrument in the hands of the captain of this squad of Space Marines still sounded the alarm, but there was still only one mark on it representing the enemy.

Looking at the auspicious instrument in his hand that was sounding the alarm, and then looking at the Prometheus Knight who was suppressed, he fell into silence, but his right hand reached for the power sword at his waist without any expression.

Swish—DUANG!

He grasped the hilt of the power sword and swung it back violently, and the blue light blade that suddenly appeared and fell was deflected. The other Prometheus knight who came out of stealth mode obviously did not expect that his sneak attack would be discovered.

The deflected light blade was pressed to the ground, and the team leader took off the bolt pistol from his waist and pointed it at the enemy in front of him.

The knight immediately took a few steps forward and tried to regain the initiative through a close combat, but his intention was immediately noticed by his enemy, and almost instantly he changed his actions and collided with him sideways.

Bang--!

This was another situation that was beyond the knight's expectations. The heavier Space Marine was obviously more advantageous, causing it to be knocked back several steps before it could stand firm. But the next moment after he stood firm, several small bombs exploded on his portable shield.

The entire bolt pistol's magazine was emptied in a few seconds, the second Prometheus Knight's shield was overloaded, and a few individual bolt shells hit his armor.

The Space Marine holding the plasma rifle pointed the muzzle at it at this time, and a ball of hot plasma shot out, directly vaporizing it.

Click!

A crisp cracking sound was heard, and the light shield on the arm of the first Prometheus Knight who attacked the team was shattered, and was submerged by dense bombs.

Due to their special nature, the mechanical soldiers of the Prometheus Legion will decompose directly after being defeated. Cortana described this process as "information deletion". If there are observers nearby within a short period of time, they can be resurrected directly by reassembling the scattered light fragments (in the game, a light ball for resurrection will be left in place).

Watching the light fragments in the air spread and gradually disappear, this Dark Angel Space Marine squad reloaded their magazines and continued to go deeper. This kind of thing happened at any time in this Forerunner building.

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The idea behind using the [Recombiner] is to digitize living organisms, then delete the data infected by the Flood, and then inject the purified data into a new body to complete the treatment of the infected. This is the idea behind using the [Recombiner].

However, the extremely rapid digitization of the body and consciousness will cause great pain to the target life form, and even if the purification is completed afterwards, the biological consciousness re-injected into the body will fall into frenzy or die after a few days.

This method of treating infection was therefore judged to be a failure by the Forerunners, but later, this technology was used by the True Missionaries to build the Prometheus Legion.

Soldiers with purely mechanical programming have flaws, but if they are digitized through the [Recombiner] and then reinjected into a mechanical body, the target will have all the consciousness, personality and skills of that life form.

It is also because of this that the True Didact tried to use the [Recombiner] to digitize ancient humans in order to form a powerful mechanical army that would not be infected by the Flood and could confront them head-on. However, when he insisted on doing so, he was stopped and ambushed by his wife, the Chief of the Think Tank, and has been imprisoned ever since.

To sum up, although most Prometheus Knights are like machines, inflexible, rigid, and need time to learn and evolve, there are a few who are as brave and good at fighting as the veteran Space Marines.

A machine that was taller than the other Prometheus Knights threw a Dark Angel Space Marine out. Several bombs hit it but were all blocked by its personal shield. Several beams flew towards the Space Marine that attacked it.

This Prometheus Knight is the true soldier that the Didact believes can fight against the Flood, a powerful, ruthless war weapon that ignores infection and obeys orders unconditionally. All others are just defective products.

Several observers in the air continuously provide energy to friendly forces on the ground, repair damaged aircraft, and occasionally launch a salvo at enemies on the ground.