The Human Empire has five star fields.

You will face different enemies in different star fields, and there is the most warlike space necromantic dynasty in the storm star field; The Taiping Star Domain is often ravaged by various scattered chaos warbands; Inside the hazy star field are the famous Eye of Fear, and there are strange and unknown aliens at the edges; Beyond the Extreme Star Domain is the rising Titanium Empire, and inside it is the hunting grounds of the Dark Elves.

Among them, the Sun Star Domain is the ancient birthplace and traditional sphere of influence of mankind. The Solar Domain is also often invaded by Chaos Traitors, but it is difficult to see the scale of the alien forces in the Solar Field, because this vast star field has been repeatedly cleaned of alien races by the human regime of the Golden Age long before the establishment of the Human Empire.

In the past, alien races were usually only found in the Frontier Sector, quietly observing the expansion of humanity with their alien eyes. While the Empire invades their homeland as an "invader", the Xenomorphs cling to the border, occasionally snatching a small slice of the Empire's sacred territory, or recreating their erased history by reclaiming the planet where their ancestors lived.

Until the arrival of the "beast", it was so.

This is the test humanity faces in a vast and hostile galaxy. It's grim, but it's not fatal. In the past, people often believed that only those wandering merchants who lived a life of licking blood in the border star sector would have frequent contact with alien creatures, and for ordinary people in the core star sector, "alien" was more like a legend.

But now, things have changed.

There has never been such a precedent in the history of the Human Empire: the savage and filthy Xenomorphs with their soldiers and fleets have brazenly invaded the core star sector of the solar field, trumpeting their will, trampling on the faith of mankind at will, and even attacking the solar system, the birthplace of the human race.

The harbingers of this impending catastrophe were overshadowed by the loyalty and diligence of hundreds of millions of citizens. The citizens of the Empire, who spanned hundreds of worlds, still obediently serve the slavery of the planetary governors for their survival, unaware that they have long been locked in by threats from the Void.

At first, the sonic boom was masked by the communication jamming and background radiation of the stars, drowned out by the cacophony of merchant fleets entering and exiting the galaxy and the cannon fire of the Imperial Navy bombarding pirates, by the industrial roar of the Foundry World and the Nest World, by the overcrowded Anglican churches, by the hymns sung by the suffering crowds.

As the sound of the sonic boom grew louder and the unknown electronic signals that filled the void began to grow stronger, the Empire began to hear the harbingers of their doom.

Listeners who kept their minds and ears sharp were the first to notice. The technical crew of the Naval Observatory in Oopal Ring, the guard sentry at the mind-reading outpost in Catyrus, the communicator of the 41st Regiment of the Thrassie Rifles in the Bosco Jungle Moon, the Ronin Trader who trades in the Ghost Star, and the Technopriest who secretly excavates in the world of Zaha Tan's Ark, which has been turned into a ghost realm......

Official acknowledgment of this strange phenomenon spreads among the upper echelons of the sector. At the same time, the Technocratic Priest of the Order of Language of the Singularity of the Ark of the Machine Ark managed to separate several tracks of the sonic boom, and the Sister of the Language of the Thesaurus Academy of Nissi Mountain Star Sector sent an unusual communication signal. They all reported this particular situation to the Imperial Government through the sector officials in different ways of emergency rhetoric.

The thunderous belly drums that sounded like the predators of some dead world were actually some alien language, the brutal cries of an authoritarian race. The pronunciation is as stiff as cannon fire, deafening through the Void - yes, they belong to the Orcs. Despite the same grammatical pattern, the broadcast has a myriad of translations, all of which are cold and chilling.

In the savage indulgence of this mad beast, it declares itself to be a "beast", "the coming slaughter" and "the end of a weak empire", and its massive body is filled with "endless cruelty" and "promise of blood for blood".

As every marginal sector of the solar field will learn, the "beast" is delivering on its promise step by step. The sonic boom reverberates in every broadcast communications device on every ship and every space station. Within a few Terra standard weeks, six outer galaxies reported the phenomenon, followed by sixty, then six hundred......

The beast spoke, and the people listened.

The distant thunder that had once been overlooked, unrecognized, overlooked the heads of the emperor's subjects. In all the regions of the Rim World, the terrifying roar of the beast became everything. There is nothing humans can do about it, they can't work, they can't sleep, they can't think. Schedules were disrupted, tithes could not be paid, and order began to slip out of the hands of the Empire.

Millions of people have fallen into madness. Because of the brutal and rigid tyranny of the Empire, the vast majority of the citizens of the Empire never left the world in which they lived. Except for a handful of soldiers who could be discharged from the Imperial Guard, almost no one had ever seen a single alien. So when the furious Alien Voices filled all the channels, most people couldn't keep their senses.

The social fabric collapses, and the planet descends into turmoil. Some of them heard the "beast" reaching out to them, so they stretched out their hands to meet them, and in the vengeful resentment of the Orks, something that had been repressed in normal times finally manifested itself.

This is not the same as the Emperor of God, who does not appear in the daily lives of the people of the Empire, except in the chapel and prayer room. But the beast has penetrated into every corner, its fury manifesting itself in temples, echoing in the streets, rumbling in the void...... It wasn't long before the Holy Land was abandoned and demolished, and the Order burned, as if that way it would take a kind of empty solace in the coming doom.

Words have power, and actions have more power. Through radio signal interference, the beast impressed hundreds of millions of people in the fringe sector, followed by gravity storms. If the Beast's followers want to find more evidence of its power, it is enough to see how much it wields over this invisible force.

……

Solar star field, marginal star region.

The outer space of the Coscus Galaxy.

A huge mixed fleet has broken through the barrier of reality one after another, and the paint on the ship's body is roughly divided into seven types, which can be said to be varied.

Fu Qinghai spent a whole week on consolidating the reorganized Fifth Army. This speed can already be called extremely efficient, and it is impossible for any mortal army to complete the reorganization in such a short period of time.

It took a month for the White Scar Legion fleet to reach the edge of the Sun Domain from the Extreme Domain. It is important to note that the speed of a subspace jump usually depends only on the situation in the subspace, and the energy tide is calm, turbulent, or stormy, and needs to be determined by the navigator, not the actual distance in the real universe.

Sometimes the actual distance in the real universe is not very far, but because the situation in the subspace is not good, you need to go back and forth to and through the real universe to avoid those chaotic tides, and it will take longer to reach the goal. Another well-known reason is the chaotic nature of time in subspace, which leads to uncertainty about the time to reach the destination.

The Legion fleet began to readjust its formation, which had become chaotic due to the jump, and quickly sailed into the interior of the system. The first distress caller broadcast received by the Legion fleet during its long journey to the Sun Star Domain became the first destination of the Legion fleet, the Coscus Business World.

Fu Qinghai stood quietly on the bridge of the Suzheng, looking through the large floor-to-ceiling armored glass in front of him, looking at the "grand scene" that appeared to the naked eye: the Angelini Hub Dockyard, a contemporary architectural wonder of the Empire, once surrounded the great commercial world of Coscus IV like a belt.

Now it has been reduced to a strip of broken powder.

"We seem to be one step too late."

Josda stood beside him and spoke.

Fu Qinghai watched silently and did not speak.

He had never been to this star sector, but according to the pictures recorded in the star map data, it was a project that took more than a thousand years to complete. But the scene in front of me is an irregular ring of space junk, as the broken debris slowly drifts into space, accompanied by a dense mass of thousands of broken human corpses frozen by low temperatures.

"Send out the Thunderhawk gunboats."

Fu Qinghai finally spoke:

"Search for possible survivors."

The Iron Float Wargroup fleet in the center did not move, and the Marauder Wargroup warships in front of it opened the hatch of the boarding deck, and flew out of several Thunderhawk gunboats and sailed towards the broken ring. Several cruisers on both flanks spread out to form a defensive formation.

Fu Qinghai turned around and walked back to the captain's command seat.

An hour later, ten Thunderhawk gunboats had searched the ring of tattered space junk, and luckily, they had brought back three survivors.

Three humans who were lucky enough to escape by hiding in a closed cabin, wrapped in blankets, were brought to Fu Qinghai with symptoms of hypothermia and hypoxia.

"I'm Aoyama Khan of the Iron Float Clan."

Fu Qinghai sat on the command seat and said:

"I got a distress signal and came to the Kosquez Business World to tell me what happened?"

In fact, he already had the answer in his heart.

"Emperor bless, Lord Astarte!"

A woman threw herself on the ground and cried loudly:

"We heard a sonic boom, a sonic boom that filled all our communication channels, and then the entire Angelini hub dockyard was hit by some invisible force, and I watched it disintegrate in space with my own eyes, and we didn't even know who attacked us."

"Beasts, beasts, beasts, lords!"

Another middle-aged fat man shouted excitedly:

"I heard that rumor, the beast is coming, it wants revenge, he wants revenge on the emperor and humanity!"

They expected to see a look of surprise or exasperation on the Space Marine's face, but the other had no expression on his face, just tapping his fingers lightly on the armrest of the seat.

"Is there any more information than that?"

Fu Qinghai looked at the young man at the end.

"I work in the shipyard manufacturing department."

The young man looked up at Fu Qinghai and said cautiously. He probably guessed what the Space Marines in front of him wanted to hear, but helplessly, he didn't have any more information:

"The Mechanicus Technocrats and naval security at the dockyard hub don't know what caused this gravitational storm. When the disaster first struck, for most people, it was a rumored demonstration of the power and potential of the 'beast'. ”

"Hmm."

Fu Qinghai nodded with a pestle on his chin.

Suddenly he thought of something and asked:

"When did you get attacked?"

"A week ago."

The young man replied honestly.

"And what about hearing a sonic boom?"

Fu Qinghai then asked.

"About ...... Something similar happened two months ago. ”

The young man thought for a moment and said

"Two months ago? Are you sure? ”

Fu Qinghai thought of something and suddenly stood up.

"I'm pretty sure."

The young man nodded earnestly:

"The first time I heard a sonic boom, rumors of the 'beast' started to spread in the dockyard was two months ago."

"We ...... Last Prediction"

Fu Qinghai turned to look at his soothsayer.

"Just a month ago."

Blind nodded in affirmation.

"Hmmm......"

Fu Qinghai lowered his head and pinched his chin in thought.

"Shows that the orcs have more than one battle moon?"

Qiao Shida couldn't help but interject and asked.

There is more than one battle moon.

Fu Qinghai has known this conclusion for a long time.

Fu Qinghai didn't answer, but looked at the young man:

"What did you do when you heard the sonic boom?"

"Technocrats report to their superior sage."

The young man continued to answer honestly.

"Hmph...... It's kind of interesting. ”

Fu Qinghai thought of something and suddenly snorted coldly.

"I have a conjecture, but it hasn't been confirmed yet."

Fu Qinghai said and turned around and walked back to the command seat of the battleship:

"Let's move on to the next jump node."

"And the Koskez business world?"

Tristan asked, looking at Fu Qinghai's back.

The planet surrounded by the dock debris was still spinning in the holographic projection, and until this moment, there were still many large pieces of orbital facility debris that were slowly pulled to the surface of the planet by gravity, and then turned into fireballs and smashed to the surface.

"We're not here to help the disaster."

Fu Qinghai shook his head and said lightly:

"Inform the other worlds closest to here."

……

Soon, the Legion fleet set off again.

During this time, they constantly received distress signals from the stars.

Under the terrifying power of an invisible gravity storm.

One world after another has been destroyed.

Virgilia is a low-gravity world, with straight, towering buildings piercing through the clouds and reaching into the sky, and sudden gravity anomalies cause chaos. The academic world was hit by this gravity well that erupted, causing the planet's surface to shake violently. Like a holographic image playing slowly, the bell towers and towers rumbled into the ancient research institute and the laboratories beneath it. Within minutes, the cloud-piercing skyline was a mountain of dust and gravel made of refined broken tiles.

"That's how it was."

Virgilia's survivor said sadly.

"What else do you see?"

Fu Qinghai stared at the survivors and asked seriously.

"That black moon has a face on its surface."

The survivor thought about it and affirmed:

"I'm pretty sure I saw a big face."

……

Fenimo orbits the gas giant star 88-Calavia, and the satellite's inhabitants can often look up to admire the beautiful ring system of the giant star hanging high in the sky. However, after a gravity anomaly upset the delicate balance, death fell from the sky, and fragments of ice crystals and meteorites that make up the ring system streaked across the thin sky, tearing the screaming crowd of people on the moon to shreds. As the world transforms, night turns into day, and a razor-like storm emerges from dawn......

Fu Qinghai quietly looked at the picture in the projection.

Fenimo did not find a single survivor.

Only a few footage remnants of the ruins were found.

"For these celestial bodies whose orbital gravitational systems are relatively fragile, such as this satellite, the gravitational storm set off by the battle moon almost has the ability to explode stars, which has not been encountered in other large celestial bodies."

Qing Ming summarized the content of the video and came to a conclusion.

Fu Qinghai touched his chin and nodded.

"Only half of this satellite is left."

Fu Qinghai looked at the half of the satellite outside the porthole.

It looked like an eggshell split in the middle.

"And where is the rest of it?"

Fu Qinghai narrowed his eyes and said to himself.

……

In the fortress World of Brigantia III, General Milles Montague commanded a two-million-strong Imperial Guard, assembled and advanced towards the Zodiac Rift, including the Fixitin Foot Regiment and the Doron Longfoot Regiment, preparing to encircle and suppress the Heruds and other aliens that had inexplicably bred in the rift.

However, a behemoth breached the real universe of the Brigantia system, and the fortress world began to tremble, succumbing to the unseen and unimaginable force of gravity. Despite its fortresses, armored formations, and millions of soldiers, the Brigantia III is still unable to resist an attack from another planet.

So they were also destroyed without any suspense.

Wait until the Legion fleet arrives here.

The fortress world is in ruins.

Two Imperial Guard corps disappeared without a trace.

The survivors of the fortress world are almost all military.

This is good news for the Legion fleet.

The information they give tends to be more informative.

"I'm stationed at the Port Oberon Fleet Base a few light-years from here, sir, and we're in charge of transporting the Doron Longlegs. Our fleet was completely shattered, and the moon, I swear I saw with my own eyes, had a wide mouth split in its face, presumably a silo, from which it spewed out giant meteorites and planetary fragments, which they used as weapons to smash through our warships and fleeing merchant ships. ”

One of the surviving sailors described with horror on his face.

"Battle Moon still has this kind of trick?"

After listening to this, Fu Qinghai thought thoughtfully:

"I kind of know where those half of the satellites are."

"You said there were two million Imperial Guards on the surface."

Manduratu Khan stared at the sailor and asked:

"But we didn't find the corresponding number of corpses on the surface, a whole two million people, it is impossible that there is no residue at all, did the orcs eat them all?"

"They were taken captive!"

A seriously injured crew member struggled to get up and said:

"They have been taken captive, sir. We once took advantage of the cover of artillery fire to scan the surface of the Eurasian armed moon, and I saw the men of the 3rd to 9th Pact of Kronida and the Blue Mechanized Regiment of Royal Borodino, and in that moon, they were driven and whipped like slaves by the orcs, who captured humans as slaves! ”

One more key piece of information:

There are human slaves inside the Battle Moon!

Fu Qinghai and Qiao Shida glanced at each other.

……

In the midst of the cataclysmic roar of the beast and the scourge of many worlds, these unnatural stars span the fringe sectors, and they are indeed more than one, and they all have different physical characteristics.

Some were as black as coal, swallowing up the flickering light of the surrounding stars. Some surfaces are shells made from a collage of battleship wreckage and electroplated armor. The rock ball behemoth above Alex II has a strange face sprayed with green clan markers. The Battle Moon over the desert world of Sangwen is a metal skull with a mechanical horror that grins silently at the citizens of the Empire, whose fate is already sealed.

"Evil Moon, Blood Axe, Dead Skull, Golf, Snake Bite, Evil Sun, the six clans of orcs. Fuck it, I knew it. The six clans were once again united, gathered under the command of a war boss. It reminds me of Ulanno. ”

Looking at the appearance characteristics of the battle moon summarized on the tactical panel, Fu Qinghai smacked his lips and said.

And at the combat conference table behind him.

The battle group leaders collectively fell silent when they heard this.

For a long time, the Legion fleet has been almost chasing behind the orc battle moon butts, visiting the systems where these battle moons have been raging one by one, and then trying to search for and salvage the surviving humans in the galaxy for intelligence information.

Previously, there was a war group leader who accused Fu Qinghai at the meeting, accusing the legion fleet of moving too slowly, and asked to arrive in that galaxy and stop it before the battle moon destroyed the next imperial world, but Fu Qinghai flatly refused on the grounds that "now and the past is to send death", and now no one mentions this stubble anymore. Everyone realized how powerful the enemy was and why the Golden Horde was activated.

In fact, Fu Qinghai deliberately ordered the navigator Tracy to deliberately control the speed of the legion's fleet, and specifically followed the orcs to visit the destroyed imperial worlds one by one, so as to gather more information about the battle moon.

Fu Qinghai has only seen the rough story synopsis of the major event of the plot line of "Beast War", and he does not know the specific complex of each stage, let alone the specific parameters of the battle moon. Therefore, after assembling and reorganizing the legion, he did not choose to rashly face the main force of the orcs, but followed the orcs quietly, collecting intelligence information little by little to improve the combat plan.

Aoyama Khan does not fight unprepared battles.

On the other hand, according to the intelligence, the Orc Battle Moon can directly descend into the galaxy through some unknown teleportation method, and does not need to reach Mandeville Point outside the galaxy first like the subspace jump of human warships, so even if the Legion fleet wants to catch up with the orcs, it is not so easy to achieve.

"I'll summarize."

Fu Qinghai waved his hand to turn the holographic projection:

"First of all, the Battle Moon can directly reach the interior of the galaxy, and secondly, the Battle Moon has some kind of stealth means, presumably consistent with the principle of the 'sonic boom', which can achieve invisibility by interfering with shielding detection instruments. Then, for now, the Battle Moon has at least three ways to attack. ”

"First, it directly sets off a gravitational storm, interferes with the gravitational field in a large area, and creates gravity anomalies, so as to achieve a destructive effect on celestial-level targets. Second, absorb celestial debris through some kind of gravity siphon device and then spit it out with some kind of gravity slingshot device to create cheap meteorite shells to attack the target. Three, there is some kind of subspace portal inside the Battle Moon, which can continuously pour out orc battleships. ”

Fu Qinghai turned to face everyone and said:

"Honestly, this information is not enough to develop a complete battle plan, and we still have many, many problems that have not been solved. For example, how many battle moons do orcs have? Six, or more? For example, does the surface of the battle moon have a shield system, and what type of shield? ”

"But I'm not going to wait any longer."

Fu Qinghai suddenly changed his words and said:

"I've come to realize that the intelligence information we have through survivors is limited after all. Because they simply had no way to launch an effective counterattack against the Battle Moon, they naturally had no way to test the true power of the Battle Moon. So there's no point in continuing to tailgrate, we have to face the moon once in battle to know how many pounds and taels it has. ”

Everyone nodded in agreement with a solemn face.

"We need a goal now."

Fu Qinghai turned his head to look at his soothsayer.

Blind sat in the last row of the conference room.

"Prophecy? Isn't that too much child's play? ”

One of the warband commanders immediately objected.

"Not really."

Fu Qinghai shook his head lightly and said:

"The Battle Moon can go directly to the interior of the galaxy, how do we know its trajectory without relying on prophecy? Without prophecy, how do we get to the target galaxy in advance to stop the orcs? This is the only means of intelligence acquisition that we have at our disposal at the moment. ”

After speaking, Fu Qinghai commanded the blind:

"Give me a goal."

Blind Sight didn't speak, but silently took out a small snuffbox from his robe, pinched the index finger and thumb of his right hand, poured the green crystal powder in the pot on top of the bulging tiger's mouth, and then raised it to the tip of his nose and inhaled it hard.

"Ho-"

The woman jerked her head upward.

The hollow eye sockets erupted with light.

The emaciated body continued to tremble, blood slowly flowed down her nostrils and her ears, and the power of the elixir allowed her to directly connect to the subspace, and the mortal body seemed to be unable to withstand this spiritual power, and there was a possibility of mutation and collapse at any time.

Tengyur frowned.

"Hmm-"

Blind Sight jerked forward, curled up in a ball.

The whole person shrunk between the seats and shivered.

Everyone in the audience turned their heads to look at it.

"Endin."

A small, indiscernible voice came from below.

The voice was as thin as a mosquito's moan, like a whisper in a hallucination.

"Endin."

Over there, Qing Ming has already begun to rotate the projection rapidly:

"The only result of the search, the world of Ending's nest."

"Very good, go to the Ending Nest World immediately."

Fu Qinghai nodded and ordered.

On why you should use prophecy to get goals.

In fact, he still has a reason not to say.

Regardless of who this prophecy comes from.

It doesn't matter if it's from Tzeentch himself.

Even the four gods of chaos would not want to see the orcs destroy the human empire, and if the beasts really destroyed Terra, the power of the second brother in the mortal world would probably swell to an uncontrollable level, which would not be the result they wanted.

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