- (For those who are familiar with the background of Warhammer, please read the second volume first)――

As the human empire enters its 42nd millennium, new threats emerge one after another, squeezing the old and dilapidated empire. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Among them, the heresy of the Dark Age human remnants who returned from the outer river system is the most significant, as a heretical human race with intact Golden Age technology, it has proven its strong combat effectiveness in many battles, and it is by no means as easy to drive out by the empire as ordinary aliens or heretical rebellions.

And the heretical ideas they continue to propagate in the occupation of the world have had a huge subversive effect on the stability of the Empire, although the Inquisition has to take more radical measures to curb it, but what has really frightened the top of the Council of Terra Lords has been really terrifying recently, is that its heresy has begun to erode the Empire's strongest shield, the Astarte Warband!

The news that the renegade warbands had begun to appear in the army of the remnant heresy undoubtedly terrified the High Lords of Terra.

Although in the long years of war, with the erosion of chaos, or various overt and covert political disputes, and even the entanglement of honor, history, and grievances between various war groups, it is not uncommon for a renegade war group to betray the emperor's mission and honor. But the blatant throwing in on the heresy of the remnants really broke with the traditional thinking that had been going on for thousands of years.

The Astarte monks are elite warriors who have been selected by thousands of human beings and have undergone countless arduous trainings, and they have supreme pride and self-esteem, and they cannot easily fall under the command of heretics! Even in the archives carefully collected by the Inquisition for 10,000 years, except for those traitors who have fallen to the pollution of Chaos, the other renegades are arrogantly divided into kings, and it is impossible for them to fall to different forces.

And even in the chaotic subspace, these renegades are unruly and difficult to be driven by mortals, but now the battle report sent from the Hengduken system and verified and investigated by many parties has made the imperial high-level really gasp.

The battle report is as follows, a record of a call between the local Imperial Defense Force command and the front line.

"Report to the Command! There are a huge number of orbital descent capsules in the orbital descent force of the Remnant Heresy, oh my! The God Emperor actually appeared in the troops descended from the ~~~ remnants! And there are a lot of them! O God Emperor! There are so many 'them'~~ We've never seen so many Space Marines! Oh no――――――"

Communication was then cut off, and according to the report of the fleeing governor of the planet, the entire planet's defenses collapsed within a few hours of communication, and the video footage he handed over showed that more than a standard warband size of Space Marines were present in the attack on the nest.

The footage has been destroyed, and internal secrets have been strictly sealed.

Not long ago, it was reported that in the Kosato Nebula encounter, the Inquisition Special Investigation Team was attacked, and the remnant fleet was even more remodeled Imperial Standard Space Marine Battle Mothership.

One of the judges, Kosle? The last audio-visual data sent after the Vichy ship was jumped confirmed the uneasiness of the Supreme Lord's Council.

"Heretic's landing torpedoes ran through the deck, and they turned out to be renegade Space Marines! The God-Emperor is burning these rebellious heretics on top! Attack and fire using all means! Destroy these rebels for the emperor ~~~~ (murmurs, electromagnetic waves, and ion weapon excitation sounds) there are too many of them~~~~~ Damn! Not only did they betray the Empire, but they also gave up the Divine Emperor's Honor Transformation! I used heretical technology equipment~~~~! What weapons~~~ Our defense array has been destroyed~~~~ Ah! They rushed in! Never give up! Fight to the end for the emperor! ”

There is a sound of chainsaw swords clashing (the Inquisitor's voice stops at this point), and then a tall giant appears on video, clad in a non-Imperial power-powered armor made of heretical technology.

He shouted at the screen, "Remember me? Tyra's lackeys! I'm Hickskiraton the head of the Sons of Aruye, and I've just turned out to be one of your lackeys, but this is only a prelude to settling our old scores. Now that we have formed an alliance with our allies who have truly saved hope for the future of humanity, we will restore our rightful strength and break the shackles that you have set up for your selfish desires once and for all. ”

"Wait! In the near future, the Son of Aruyah will appear before you in a true form that you never imagined, tearing apart your hypocritical and shameless rule, and humanity will truly regain the glory and self-esteem of the Golden Age. This is the punishment for your long years of greed, untrustworthiness, and treachery~"

Video and audio are interrupted.

According to the analysis of the video data, there is no doubt that the attacker is indeed the Astarte Monk Warband, and the confidential investigation results of the archives of the Sons of Aruya show that it was created in the third founding of the mother group, whose origin is unknown, and at its peak there was a full 1,000-person warband-sized formation, and the home planet was located on the third planet of the Hulanu system, Aruya.

However, in 41K992, the star was invaded by space necromancers, and the Inquisition ordered to purify it. Among them, the Sons of Aruyah were purged for refusing the Inquisition's order, and about 60% of the troops were confirmed to be eliminated, but the whereabouts of the remnants of the three companies carried by the flagship Aruyer Blood Oath are unknown......

The person who appeared this time was confirmed by voice, scanning, and genetic verification to be Hickskiraton, the deputy commander of the son of the old Aruye, and his strength confirmed by the remnants of the Inquisition that the number of troops in this incident had exceeded 5 standard wargroup levels.

The confirmation of this news once again surprised the Council of High Lords of Terra!

According to the latest Ronin Merchant Intelligence, it is clear that more than one renegade warband has appeared in the area of the Relic heresy, and its strength is increasing at an alarming rate, and the remnants are obviously using their advanced technology to increase the renegade warband to the size of the 30K Great Expedition Legion, and carry out a large number of technological reloads!

Once this comes to fruition, the strongest backing that the Empire has been proud of for 10,000 years will become the sharpest spear of the remnants of heresy to destroy the Empire! These concerns had to be taken very seriously by the High Lord of Terra, who had been usurped by the rebellion of the remnants of the Divine Emperor, no less than the threat of the Chaos Rebels.

In response to this crisis, the Council of High Lords of Terra has ordered that all sectors should be closely monitored for the actions of potential renegade warbands with rebellious and heretical tendencies, and that they must no longer add rebellious support to the heresy of the remnants.

Each Star Warband must be strictly vetted, and the location of their genetic seed collection must no longer allow the Emperor's whim to be the result of treachery.

Finally, in order to cope with the continuous expansion of the strength of the Athenant Star Warband, whether to allow the warbands to restore the old legion formation and break the "Astarte Codex" was also put on the agenda.

Slowly after a long night, in the Warhammer 42K era, the Astarte Legion split and reappeared heretical. Dissatisfied with the tyranny of the Empire, some renegades switched to the remnants camp, and with scientific and technological assistance and legions, they lifted the shackles of expansion and reorganized their military forces to direct the Empire.

And after a lapse of 10,000 years, the Astarte Legion will restore the military strength of the 10,000 armies, and fight in the same room as the galaxy battlefield, will it determine the future rise and fall of the human race......