Warhammer 40 A New Hope

The Eldar are not united. Whether it is the previous [Eldar Empire] or the Eldar that later split into three major parts: the Ark Eldar, the Dark Eldar and the Wild Eldar (including the Eldar pirates), it shows that the Eldar are not united internally, and they don't even have a unified voice and goal.

This is a problem that must be dealt with. Otherwise, not to mention the planet that most Eldar in the Human Empire covet and that does not require them to worry about the Warp problem, even the status quo that has been maintained with great difficulty may be broken.

Slaanesh is weaker, but not gone, she/he/it is still hunting down all Eldar, but some of her people have let down their guard and are enjoying themselves.

Just as Guilliman said, the Eldar needed to be cleansed, at least the Eldar living on Nuwenus and under Everenne needed to be cleansed.

This is a must...

But on the other hand, most Eldar cannot fully trust humans, let alone accept their purge of the Eldar. No matter how reasonable and correct this matter is, if it is not handled properly or is used by people with ulterior motives, it will be a huge problem for both races.

If things go wrong, it is very likely that the relationship between the Human Empire and the Eldar, which was originally quite good, will once again turn into the previous hostile state, which will definitely be another disaster for the entire Eldar race.

Thinking of this, Evelyne remembered the Silent King, the ruler of the Necrons, who showed off crazily to her when she came here before. Compared with the Necrons, the Eldar are undoubtedly marginalized by the human empire now, and she urgently needs to improve this problem.

At the same time, she also needs to find a way to rationalize the Human Empire's cleansing of the troublemakers among the current Eldar.

After all, for the sake of their fellow race, other elves might show mercy when dealing with those troublemakers, but as for humans, they will definitely make sure that every elf marked as a target to be eliminated is dealt with cleanly.

"Maybe, I can..."

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In the Empire, on a Forge World

A fleet with the Dark Angels Legion logo ended its curvature jump and arrived at a space area where a fierce battle was taking place.

The two sides in the battle were a combined fleet of the Dark Angels Legion and the Imperial Navy, and an Ark Fleet of the Mechanicus, an open enemy of the Empire.

This Ark Fleet originally belonged to a mechanical sage who had been dealt with before. After the Emperor dealt with the sage, the Imperial Fleet took over the [Forge World] of the mechanical sage in his name, but unexpectedly encountered fierce resistance from the other side.

This was originally within the Emperor's expectations. Taking advantage of the fact that they had lost their leader and were unable to form a united front, the Empire's large forces had a smooth initial attack on this Forgeable World.

However, the sudden appearance of reinforcements from another Forging World caused the originally good situation to take a sharp turn for the worse.

According to the Empire's intelligence, this is a relatively remote [Forge World] that rarely has contact with the official human empire - the last contact was several decades ago.

They were servants of the Empire last time, but this time they had hung the Chaos Octagon logo on their ships, and without hesitation launched an attack on the attacking joint fleet of the Dark Angels Legion and the Imperial Navy.

By the way, the reason for their rebellion was'

Liberating technology', that is, the technology from the other world should be 'shared' with them without reservation, rather than being controlled solely by the Human Empire. At the same time, they also accused the Human Empire of going back on its word and violating the various agreements signed with the Mechanicus ten thousand years ago (such as the Olympus Accords).

(During the Great Crusade, in order to gain the support of the vast majority of the Mechanicus, the Emperor signed many agreements with them to ensure the independence and status of the Mechanicus. In some ways, this is why the Mechanicus can do so many fucked-up things - this is the right given to them by Om Messiah/the Emperor)

In this situation, they chose to betray - the Human Empire could not give you what they had, but Chaos gave it to you, so they surrendered to Chaos.

This sudden change caught the attacking Space Marines and Imperial Navy off guard, but fortunately after a fierce battle, they managed to resist the sudden attack, but they also lost most of the areas they had originally occupied and controlled.

So they sent a message for help to the nearby imperial army, and this message for help was captured by Ryan who was nearby.

Carrying a large amount of new equipment, Ryan, who was appointed as the new "Warmaster", immediately ordered the fleet to set out to support this fleet.

"What's the situation now?" Ryan, who had arrived at the area, asked the fleet commander and Space Marine captain in charge.

"They have been trying to stop us from going deeper, and they have also taken over the areas we originally controlled one by one," the fleet commander spoke first. "Moreover, according to the latest intelligence, the traitors seem to be moving various facilities and materials on this planet."

"We once tried to launch a surprise attack with the help of Space Marines, but the results were not satisfactory. The enemy's defense was like a solid wall, making it difficult to penetrate."

"We also tried to lure them into attacking, but they ignored us."

"We're sorry that almost all of our actions have failed."

"This is not your problem," Ryan replied. "These traitors are not something that ordinary people can handle."

"Pass on my orders. All fleets, move closer to me. I will personally lead a raid!"

"I will let them know the consequences of betraying the Empire!"

651. Weapon Testing (Part )

The flagship, the Glorious Queen-class battleship - Indomitable Truth (Revised), which was quite different from regular Imperial warships, plunged into the fleet of the rebellious Mechanicus in front of it like a lion leading a pack of beasts, and the entire ship opened fire at full force.

A single salvo sank the two leading enemy ships, and then the Indomitable Truth (Revised) rammed head-on into another mechanical ark at full speed.

The enemy ship was broken right in the middle and turned into another piece of space junk. The enemy fleet, which had been unable to be conquered for a long time, was torn open by a big hole.

The rest of the warships also arrived at this time, and a large number of light spear arrays and macro cannons began to fire, lighting up the originally dark universe for a moment.

"Nova Cannon energy fluctuations detected!"

Just seconds after the humanoid on Ryan's ship sounded the alarm, a nova cannon directly hit the [Indomitable Truth (Revised)], and this attack directly reduced the energy of its energy shield by 30%!

"More energy signals detected!"

"Start the zone rate engine! Emergency evasion!"

The warp engine on the ship was activated, and the huge [Queen of Glory] class battleship turned into a beam of light and disappeared on the spot the next moment, and suddenly crashed into the enemy fleet in the distance that was able to carry out long-range bombing with nova cannons.

This was undoubtedly like a hungry wolf entering a flock of sheep. Even though there was only one ship, it relied on the [Unyielding Truth (Revised)], which was arguably the most advanced technology in the human empire, to destroy the enemy ships with its powerful firepower.

"Electronic intrusion detected! Counterattack in progress!"

As the only technology supplier and maintainer of the Human Empire, their strength is unquestionable. The Mechanicus has a very good record both internally and externally.

It is well known to the outside world that when a certain forging planet was cleaning up the battlefield against Tyranids, the bugs could not pick up anything. Internally, it is said that different factions and oil men in the forging world would fight for various reasons if they disagreed.

From hacking each other's programs to using their own weapons and vehicles to attack each other, in some ways, the combat effectiveness of the Mechanicus is actually no weaker than the conventional firepower of the Human Empire (but they never fight battles without benefits, so they rarely take action).

Even as an intelligent mechanical individual, the E-type humanoid in charge of this aspect on the [Unyielding Truth (Revised)] is barely on par in terms of electronic warfare. On the one hand, it is because it is the first time for him to participate in this level and this form of electronic confrontation. On the other hand... What on earth is this machine soul?

At this moment, the disadvantage caused by the machine soul problem was suddenly equalized, and a pleasant voice sounded in his ears.

[Little brother~ We have successfully calmed the machine spirit~ Keep going~]

"Received. Thank you for your help, Master Linglong, the mechanical monk of the Charming Fox Clan." The humanoid replied. "Also, please do not interfere with the work of the Dark Watcher (the little man in the robe)."

The rebellious Mechanicus, who had been defeated in mobility, defense, firepower and electronic warfare, tried to gain a tactical advantage. The remaining ships tried to

Cut off the connection between the assaulting Imperial fleet and the follow-up fleet, and surround the ships that have already broken into their defense lines.

However, dozens of red ships broke away from the group at this time and sailed at full speed towards the surrounding enemy ships, releasing various baits and jammers along the way.

The first red ship broke through the interception fire and rammed into an enemy cruiser, and then the flames of the explosion appeared in the dark universe.

One of the characteristic ships of Lud's Left Path/Lud's Church from the Far Planet World, a self-destructing ship transformed from the Prometheus-class fuel transport ship.

Because it was modified from a civilian ship, its firepower and armor are basically equivalent to nothing compared to the ships in the Warhammer world, and its main method of attack is to rush at the target enemy at full speed and then detonate the fuel-filled hull at a suitable distance.

During the cleanup of Lourdes Left Path and the Lourdes Church, even with the information provided by Zhang Yi, many ships were still caught off guard by the suicidal attacks of those fanatics.

But this also became the reason why the Human Empire chose it. A fuel ship of this size, even if the propulsion device is improved and additional decoy bombs, jamming devices and disposable shields are installed, will not cost much money. However, as long as the operation is good, it is not impossible for five or six suicide ships to sink a battleship that is much larger than them. Not to mention that after controlling the planet of the Luddite Church/Luddite Left Path, the Human Empire found a lot of ready-made ships in their ship warehouses.

You ask who the crew of the self-destructing ship is? Aren't there still many crazy and disobedient Luddites left?

By digging out their brains and removing unnecessary memories and consciousness, they become perfect suicide ship pilots.

A round of self-destruction attacks successfully interrupted the actions of the enemy fleet, and the subsequent ships had enough time to catch up with the assault fleet in the front, making it impossible for the traitor fleet to complete the encirclement. The fleet's defense line, which had been unable to be breached for a long time, was also torn open.

After that, the Empire's fleet crowdfunding group ④五六壹二７９４０ began to build a defense line around the [Unyielding Truth (Revised)] to separate the traitors' fleet from it.

After that, the Imperial fleet, which had successfully controlled a certain high-altitude orbit of the target Forge World, began to deploy troops to the ground, but what was different from before was that the first troops to be deployed were various mechanical units.

The fifth-generation SPARK automatic combat robots from the XCOM world, the mechanical forces from the Ring World, and a very small number of automatic humanoids serving as command units.

The tactical bombing carried out in high-altitude orbit in advance has cleared a safe landing area on the surface of the planet. A large number of mechanical landing capsules fell like rain and hit the barren surface.

Unlike Space Marine drop pods, which can only carry a squad or a single Dreadnought, these transport pods can maximize the space in the drop pod and the number of transports that can be transported at one time is also determined by the size of the target.

If transporting small disc-shaped self-destruct robots, then nearly a hundred can be transported at a time; if transporting medium-sized arbitrators or mechanical mantises, then dozens can be transported; large-sized mechanical centipedes, stink bugs, or even fortresses can only be transported one to five.

After landing, these mechanical units began to merge with other mechanical forces and then started to clear out the enemies around them. Their mission was to clear out a safe landing area for large-scale landings, while trying to establish contact with their own forces that were still resisting on the planet.

The weapons in the hands of ordinary traitor skitarians were no match for the large number of Imperial mechanical forces, and their mission was to transfer as much equipment and gear from this forge world as possible, so they did not station heavy troops in this area.

When the Thunderhawk gunship loaded with Space Marines descended from orbit, the engineering machinery that had landed previously had already completed leveling the terrain of an area, and built simple defense positions and command posts, and small groups of enemies in the surrounding area had also been driven away.

This also made the Space Marines, who had always been resistant to intelligent machines, feel a little strange. They wondered why the Human Empire had relied on human lives to accomplish these tasks before, and avoided using automatic machines.

But now they have to admit that if they ignore the possibility of these iron lumps getting out of control, they are indeed much more useful.

In addition to their extremely high execution efficiency, there is no need to airdrop equipment and tools to them, and casualties are greatly reduced.

However, there are things they cannot do - around a forging factory in the distance, a Mechanicus [Technical Wizard] who betrayed the Empire established an interference zone for them. This caused all ordinary mechanical troops of the Empire that tried to attack that area to fall into chaos as soon as they entered that area, and they would not be able to complete the mission according to the procedure.

Obviously, for the short term, battles in the Warhammer world can only be conducted in the most traditional way.

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[Warning: The traitors have broken through the fleet's defenses, and a large number of hateful intelligences have landed on the planet's surface]

[Second warning: A large number of airdrop pod signals have been detected, and the second wave of enemies has landed]

[Battle report: A small number of reconnaissance teams have already engaged the enemy, and the odds are at a disadvantage]

[Order: Speed ​​up the transportation of equipment and devices in each factory. Equipment that cannot be taken away within the expected time must be destroyed on site.]

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Negative: Some equipment/devices/devices are so valuable that destroying them would be a sacrilege! 】

[Correction: Reassign the legion, abandon unimportant equipment, and attack the location of the artifact with all your strength to seize it]

[Support: Following the order, the troops are moving, building a defense line to block possible enemies, supporting the original attacking troops with more armored units to speed up the process]

[Proposal: Send out the 'trophy' to test/experiment/attack, further increase the possibility and speed up the process]

[Proposal received, currently being analyzed]

[Agreed: Send special forces to attack, estimated mission completion time 18 hours]

[The victory of this battle will belong to us]

652. Weapon Testing (Part )

This is a support operation for a certain Forge World that is under attack, and also an experiment with various new equipment and new personnel.

The technical monks of the Fox Clan who can use "special methods" to pacify the Machine Soul; the automatic humanoids (defined as mechanical sub-humans by the Human Empire) who are abominable intelligences and can better control various weapons and vehicles including ships; and various automatic mechanical troops that were originally strictly prohibited in the Warhammer world.

To be honest, with Lion's personality, he probably wouldn't like to accept these things. As a Primarch with a typical aristocratic knight character and who abides by almost all reasonable and unreasonable rules and regulations of the Empire, he proudly thinks that he doesn't need these things to defeat his enemies.

But he agreed to use these new things only after Zhang Yi said that as the new war commander of the human empire, he needed to be familiar with the empire's future new troops and provide useful data for the establishment and use of the new troops.

(Zhang Yi: I use Guilliman's hair as a guarantee. When I said this, Lion was obviously stunned for a moment before agreeing. Later, someone saw him clapping and shouting excitedly)

In terms of technology, whether it's the Machine Soul Appeasing Ritual of the Fox Clan, the electronic warfare capabilities of the mechanical humanoids, or those mechanical troops with higher autonomous action capabilities, they have been tested in their respective worlds for a long time and have no problems in combat. The only possible problem is that they cannot deal well with the various opponents in the Warhammer world and the threats from the warp.

The human empire has acquired many things from many different worlds, and it is impossible for it to not use these things. It is only a matter of time before it faces changes, problems and dangers.

And this battle is the first test that needs to be faced.

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Like a river divided into two by a dam, the Imperial fleet led by the Primarch Lion of the Dark Angels directly divided the traitor fleet attacking the Forge World into two.

Afterwards, fleets from the Human Empire continued to arrive, and those rebellious Mechanicus technicians had lost their previous advantages.

On the ground, the Human Empire that came to support has established another command post and launched the first wave of exploratory attacks on the nearest factory.

The enemy also reacted at this time. A large number of Skitarii, Servants and Swarms (people covered in iron, second only to automatic mecha units, and can be seen as small-sized dreadnoughts) that served as cannon fodder had built a line of defense, and the speed at which the opponent transferred equipment also increased.

"Report!" A Dark Angel Space Marine scout, still covered in dust, walked into the temporary command post. "We have already made contact with the troops stationed here."

"They are defending a building that contains an artifact. The mechanical priest there asked us to help them move the artifact."

"The enemy's main target of attack is also there now."

"Did they say what kind of 'artifact' it is?" Ryan asked.

"The mechanical priest there refused to answer this question, but according to the existing information, it should be some kind of universal STC template parts." The scout replied. "I heard that this forge world has been studying it for hundreds of years, but there are no useful research results."

"These oil guys."

Even now, there are still a considerable number of Mechanical Magos, Forge Generals or Technical Priests who are hiding something from the Imperium of Man. At this stage, due to pressure and the desire for new technology, they only share about one-tenth of the total with the Emperor. As mentioned before, asking them to hand over the technology in their hands is more painful than killing them.

Therefore, even if they have studied something for hundreds or thousands of years and still don't understand it, they will not hand it over. The current situation is a typical example.

"If we want to support that place, we need to go through the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower network." Ryan said as he looked at the full map in front of him. "A forced breakthrough will definitely cause huge casualties, thus affecting the subsequent battle situation..."

"But if we want to annihilate as many traitors as possible, helping them defend the location of the 'artifact' and preventing them from leaving easily is undoubtedly a good choice."

"I have to remind your father that the artifact is not included in this equipment test." A Dark Angels champion next to Ryan spoke at this time. "It still needs more trials and tests, and it needs to be used in more important places."

"But perhaps we can penetrate the enemy's anti-aircraft firepower in another way."

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