The Human Empire manages millions of planets, and this vast territory makes it difficult for the Empire to truly manage every planet effectively.

In fact, every moment a planet is captured, every moment a planet is reclaimed, and the territory of the empire is constantly in a state of dynamic change, which makes it impossible for the Terra authorities to figure out how to deploy their troops.

They can only divide the territory of the empire into five star fields, which are divided into star sectors, sub-star regions, and galaxies, and basically each star sector has a battlefleet of the Imperial Navy, and these battleships will be named after the star sector they want to defend.

Due to the large number of sectors to be defended, these naval fleets are usually not grouped together, but are divided into multiple small task forces to patrol the sector, and when they encounter problems that cannot be handled, they will send a signal for help and wait for the rest of the fleet or Astarte warriors to help.

Of course, more troops are usually deployed near strategic points and important planets to defend against foreign invasions, such as the Solar System Battlefleet, which is deployed only in the solar system and is only responsible for defending Terra and Mars.

The territory of the Empire is too large, and even such a large number of Imperial troops are so scattered, and the deployment of more than a thousand Astarte warbands throughout the galaxy is a drop in the bucket.

The Astarte fighters, who were already understaffed, could only divide several companies into groups and patrol their own defense areas, just like the Imperial Navy.

If a world is invaded by demons or has an alien crisis, if you are lucky, there are Imperial Navy or Astarte companies patrolling nearby, and with their help, the crisis may be resolved quickly without causing major casualties. But if the source of the disaster is not stopped in time, it may develop into a tug-of-war with the entire planet as a battlefield.

Faced with such a situation, it may be necessary to put an entire Astarte warband into the battlefield, and it will also need to have multiple heroic Astral Army legions to support the operation, so as to have a chance to recover the invaded planet.

If you don't have the Imperial army patrolling around you in the face of danger, you can only rely on the local planetary defense forces to step forward first and buy time for the support of the Imperial Navy and the Astar Army and the Astarte warriors, but often by the time the support arrives, the entire planet is about to fall.

At this time, it was difficult to solve the alien that was about to occupy the entire planet with the Imperial Guard and one Astarte wargroup alone, and multiple Astarte warbands were needed to come to support. But even if there are multiple Astarte battle groups, their number is only a few thousand, and they are a little powerless in the face of billions of aliens at every turn, and the war for this planet may last for tens or even hundreds of years.

Over the course of these centuries of fighting, the members of the Astarte Warbands who fought together often developed a strong sense of brotherhood, which sometimes outweighed loyalty to the Emperor.

This is one of the reasons why the betrayed Astarte warbands often rebelled in multiple groups.

Due to the sheer size of the empire's territory, the latter is what happens most of the time after certain planets are invaded. There are also planets that fall before they can even be rescued, and some desolate areas don't even have warriors to help.

For thousands of years, the Fire Barrier Warband has served as a firefighter, rushing to fight fires wherever there is fire, and has worked with many warbands in the Star Zone to fight together, and has maintained good relations with them.

Sometimes even the warbands in the surrounding starfields will ask the Fire Barrier Warband for help, and the Fire Barrier Warband will never refuse them, no matter how difficult the battle, no matter how far away, the Fire Barrier Warband will never ignore the help from their brothers.

Laurent was confident that he would convince the other warbands to help with his plan, and if Lord Sivir could go with him to unite the other warbands, it would be even more secure.

Naturally, Sivir did not refuse, but said that he could not take the Battle Barge of the Fire Barrier Wargroup to other systems.

Laurent frowned in confusion.

"Why? Lord Sivir, if you don't show this kind of thing in front of them, those Astarte warriors won't fully believe it. ”

Sivir shook his head.

"It's not that I don't meet them, but I can't go through the subspace. Ever since I came into this world, I could feel the Chaos Gods from the subspace watching over me. ”

Sivir explained to Laurent,

"My psionic energy in the subspace attracts many demons like a torch, and they can't hurt me through the veil of the subspace and the material world when I'm in the material world, but if I take the initiative to enter the subspace, the minions of those evil gods will come up and take me and sacrifice me to their masters."

Hearing Sivir's explanation, Laurent suddenly fell into distress, if the emperor's son did not accompany him, the credibility of his words would be reduced in the hearts of those Astarte warriors, but he was not sure that he could protect Lord Sivir in the subspace with hundreds of warriors of the Fire Barrier.

Even if he summoned all the Fire Barrier warbands, Laurent could not guarantee that he would be able to send the Emperor's Son to his destination safely under the attack of a group of demons in subspace. But if you don't pass through subspace, you may not be able to reach another galaxy in a few hundred years if you travel at sub-light speed.

Looking at the distressed Laurent, Sivir smiled and said:

"Laurent, don't worry, come with me, I have another way."

Led by Sivir, Laurent and his re-landed on the planet Orunki at his feet.

Not far in front of the two of them was a cruiser of about 6 km, with a three-stage design capable of carrying a large number of heavy weapons and ammunition.

Sivir said to Laurent:

"This set sail is my way."

"I don't quite understand, is this ship well resistant to subspace erosion?" Laurent said.

"No, Laurent, the key to this ship is not in its defenses or firepower, but in its engines."

Siwell said with great ambition,

"This is also the basis for my unwavering confidence in reforging the glory of the Empire, which has a hyperspace engine!"

Hearing this, Laurent had a bold conjecture in her heart.

Looking at Laurent, who seemed to have guessed the answer, Sivir no longer went around the pass,

"Ships equipped with hyperspace engines can move rapidly between the edges of galaxies through intergalactic hyperspace lanes. No need to go through subspace. The subspace storm can no longer stop us. ”

Laurent immediately understood the importance of this engine.

There are so many uncertainties in subspace that if you use subspace, you may be able to reach your destination before you set off, but it is also possible that when you come out of subspace and find that 10,000 years have passed. Not to mention the dangerous creatures and cruel demons in the subspace.

If humans had other faster-than-light travel technologies, no one would choose to use subspace navigation to reach their destination.

In fact, the Emperor originally went to research the network plan in order to free mankind from its dependence on subspace, but unfortunately it fell short.

Now that all the problems were solved, Laurent immediately summoned the navigators and starwhisperers on his battle barge, as well as a company of Astarte warriors, to board the cruiser in front of him, which was of great significance to mankind.

As the warriors of the Fire Fortress warband boarded the ship, they discovered that the ship did not have the same large crew as those cruisers of the Empire.

The ship is full of robots operating the ship, and most of the robots seem to be service robots, and there are only a few hundred robots that actually keep the ship running.

You must know that the cruisers of the empire often need thousands of crew members to ensure that the entire ship is launched and operated, and if you want to fully exert the combat capability of the ship in battle, you need a crew of more than 10,000 people.

While the Space Marines visit the ship, Sivir and Laurent are in the command room discussing which warband to unite first.

In the end, based on the distance of the voyage and their attitude towards the High Lords, the two decided to convince the Bonebreaker Hammer warband in the Abel system first.

The sub-light drive began to kick in, the Voyage gradually flew away from the planet Orunki, and when sailing to the borders of the galaxy, the hyperspace engine began its debut in this world.

With a fluctuation in space, the Voyage sailed to the distant Abel galaxy in the physical world at a speed unprecedented for humans.