In a jungle on the planet of the Long River.

"Hey, Zarawa, do you see the sign on that tree?"

Wearing power armor and holding a laser gun in his hand, Renato was marching at great speed, suddenly asked a comrade beside him.

"Huh? Which tree? ”

Zarava, who was moving fast on his legs, fully armed but not slow at all, immediately looked to the sides vigilantly, but did not know which one Renato was referring to.

"You should react faster, we ran so fast, it's already gone."

"Well, what's wrong with that sign on the tree?"

"It's a sign, and the text says it's Noldor." There was some emotion in Renato's tone.

"What, this place is the city of the Noldor!?"

Hearing Renato's words, Zarawa couldn't help but exclaim.

He still remembers when he was assigned to the planet and enjoyed a leisurely vacation time with Renato in the bustling city of Noldor.

Later, in order to prevent the news of the imminent arrival of the Tyranid creatures from causing the crime rate to soar, they also briefly conducted security management in the city with other astral troops.

"Damn, Noldor used to be so prosperous. But now, it has turned into a forest of crooked-looking alien plants. ”

"No way, Zalawa. Who made it not in a good position and was not chosen as a gathering place for humans? ”

Renato looked at the dense forest around him, and he couldn't feel the warmth of the former Noldor City.

The once prosperous buildings and roads that extended in all directions were corroded and destroyed by the pollution of Tylen spores.

The fast-growing and aggressive plant creatures absorb nutrients and minerals from the earth, and then the other Tyranids eat the plants for dessert, and all the Tyranids left on the surface will jump into the digester and become biomass.

Humans spend so much time establishing themselves on a planet, developing technology and building buildings, and Tyranid has erased all of this in a short period of time.

With the exception of a few large cities that housed all the subjects of the Empire on the planet, the rest of the planet's surface was transformed into a pristine savage jungle.

Renato's heart was full of emotion, lamenting how difficult it is for human beings to survive in the universe. The terrifying xenomorph is always watching humanity with malice, and as a warrior of the Empire, he cannot let his guard down for a moment.

Tyranid ...... Renato clenched the laser gun in his hand.

According to the latest tactical manual, they appear to be controlled by a special subspace-based hive will.

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It is the supreme lord who controls all Tyranid creatures. It is the key to defeating the Tyranids.

Destroy the mind, and the body will collapse with it.

However, according to the description of the Hive's Will by some powerful psionics, its existence in the subspace is so powerful that even the Emperor himself cannot win.

But the origin of the hive's will lies in the biological realm. While Tyranny's creatures seem to be never-ending, if enough creatures are killed, the hive's will will will be weakened. Just kill them all and it's all over.

When the body dies, the mind naturally dies with it.

Looking at the vanishing of human civilization around him, Renato swore that he would do everything in his power to expel the Tyranid creatures from the Imperial world without leaving them behind!

Well? Worthy of being my good brother.

Looking at Zarawa, who was silent, Renato knew that he must have felt the weight on his shoulders as much as he did.

"Zarava, we have fought in countless worlds, and we have been on the verge of destruction. Just ......"

"Renato."

"Huh?"

"Ant beef steak, delicious skoog, mosaic wine...... You even ordered a Katachan demon and said that after eating it, you will become as good as the Katachan people. ”

"Eh, look, Zarava, we're about to leave this forest."

"Don't change the subject, I paid for that meal at the high-end restaurant of the Noldo, don't forget to pay your half of the money, Renato."

"Haha, of course, I owe no one and no one will owe my brother."

Renato smiled wryly, but no one could see it under the shield of the power armor mask.

And at this time, he couldn't wait to slap his two big mouths, and he had nothing to mention Nolddo. It was all in the past, but now it was remembered by Zarawa.

What made Renato's arrival even more uncomfortable was that after leaving the forest, they were not met with a wide plain, but a silty swamp and mire.

Thankfully, Power Armor provides them with additional physical abilities that allow them to travel at a slower speed without expending much stamina when crossing swamps.

With the exception of the walking Astral Army like Renato and Zalawa, the swamps don't have much of an impact on the movement of other troops.

Needless to say, the flying vehicles in the sky are not to be mentioned, and those transporters, tanks, and combat vehicles can rely on the anti-gravity chassis under them to ignore the interference of various terrains.

The Empire, of course, first learned about the situation outside the city before making plans.

Due to the erosion and corruption of Tyranid spores and alien plants, as well as the destruction of Tyranid creatures and Imperial artillery, the highly developed transportation network on the Long River Star has disappeared.

There were no longer hard, flat roads outside the city for the rapid march of the Imperial troops.

This has a slight effect on light infantry.

Relying on a pair of legs and the blessing of the physical abilities provided by the power armor, even if the geological terrain is complex in some places, such as swamps, mountains and other places, the light infantry regiment in the Astral Army can still advance quickly.

However, it is a bit difficult for some of the Empire's armored vehicles, especially those of the Super Heavy Tanks.

As a result, the Empire used some of the anti-gravity chassis that had been urgently produced, modified some of the vehicles, and then formed an armored unit with the anti-gravity tanks in the troops, as well as some anti-gravity vehicles in the Space Marines troops, to support the Imperial forces.

These gravity-defying armored vehicles were few in number, but they were more than enough to cover the Imperial forces as they advanced towards the Tyranid hatching nests around the city.

With the power of the power armor's electronic muscle bundles, the Astral Force and Space Marines were able to march at speeds of up to 36 kilometers per hour. And this speed of movement does not take much physical effort on the part of the soldiers, who are able to enter the combat state as soon as they come into contact with the enemy, rather than being so tired that they can't even pick up their guns.

This speed even surpassed that of some super-heavy tanks. For example, the Storm Lord Super Heavy has a maximum speed of 25 km/h on road and 18 km/h off-road.

This is understandable, though, as the Stormlord Super Heavy is a personnel transport assault vehicle.

The transport pod on it gave the Storm Lord the ability to take forty Astral Army soldiers to the front lines of the battlefield. Coupled with the weight of the super-heavy tank itself, it is understandable that it can only run at such speeds.

But the speed of a super-heavy tank with an anti-gravity chassis will not be so low.

The chassis-mounted anti-gravity metal plate allows the body to levitate on the ground, giving it the speed of a maglev train. The speed of these gravity-defying super-heavy tanks can even rival that of some gunboat machines.

At the same time, the anti-gravity stance created by the anti-gravity metal plate can crush objects that are too close to the body, which can effectively solve the close attack of enemy personnel on tanks.

Although the production of anti-gravity chassis is more expensive than that of a normal chassis, the effect of this production undoubtedly makes the effort well worth it.

While some of the armored vehicles were advancing with the Imperial forces, the other was already at their destination with some soldiers.

This is not the surface of the hatching nest, but a little further away.

The Empire will set up a small military base here where the Empire will provide ammo and protection for soldiers and vehicles fighting the Tyranid creatures in the future.

As the turret of the Hydra tank swept across the sky first, the automatic loader kept roaring highly, and the quadruple automatic cannon supporting it whistled through the gargoyle hordes in the sky with a non-stop line of fire.

The Manticore Missile Vehicle, on the other hand, is equipped with a variant of ammunition known as the Skyhawk Rocket, which deals more concentrated damage than regular missiles and can track enemy air units through thermal sensing.

This powerful anti-aircraft weapon is used against targets that Hydra's automatic artillery crew can't handle, such as the terrifying Tyranid creature in the sky.

The swarms on the ground fell like scythes under the attack of the Storm Lord's super heavy tank.

If Shadowsword is an armored killer that can threaten even the tall Titans, then Storm Lord is a nightmare for infantry and lightly armored forces.

The high-explosive munitions spit out by the twin five-barreled heavy explosive guns of the Vulcan Heavy Explosive Lost Artillery Group installed on it can turn an infantry unit into a reddish mist of blood in an instant.

Its astonishing anti-infantry firepower and personnel transport bays provided an ideal solution to the situation that Imperial forces often had to face—massive counterattacks when invading the surface of a hostile world.

Its incredible firepower, transportation capabilities, and defensive capabilities also make it often used as a mobile fortress rather than a normal super-heavy tank, and is sometimes used as a mobile command by senior commanders of the Astral Force.

Some of the most honorable Astral Legions sometimes don't like to ride the Stormlord, as by the time they arrive at their deployment location and get off the car, there are few enemies left for them.

But when faced with a mountain of greenskins or a swarm of Tyranid bugs, there's nothing more exciting than a Storm Lord joining the fray to excite the Astral Army soldiers on the battlefield.

The super-heavy tank rumbled forward, and two Vulcan Heavy Explosive Misses rained down high-explosive lossless ammunition on the incoming Tyranid swarm, turning rows and rows of enemies into unspeakable droplets of flesh like harvesting crops.

The rain of bullets from its Vulcan Heavy Explosion Missed Gun formed an impenetrable barrier.

Enemies who are lucky enough to escape the wrath of the Storm Lord's primary weapon will soon be killed by the front and sides of the vehicle with twin heavy guns or twin heavy flamethrower reshots.

Once the enemy's advance had been stifled, the Stormlord continued to push forward, firing as he went. Tyranid creatures that weren't killed by ammo or fire weren't spared death, and being pulped by super-heavy tanks was their final fate.

The Stormlord is a steel beast that runs over all the xenomorphs in its way on the battlefield.

And on this battlefield where the number of insect swarms is extremely alarming, the astral army in the tank has not escaped the protection of the tank, but this does not mean that they just sit in the tank and listen to the screams of Tyron outside.

To the left and right of the Storm Lord's personnel transport pod, there are a total of twenty shooting holes for the soldiers it carries to shoot outward, and there are also heavy machine guns on each side of the transport pod for those soldiers to destroy the enemy.

The Empire's battles with the Orcs have made it clear to the Empire how to counter the tactics of the crowd.

In addition to the super-heavy tank like the Storm Lord, there are also new battle tanks for the Space Marine armored forces, the Gladiator anti-gravity tank, on the battlefield.

One of them, known as the Reaper-type gladiator, can be seen from its name as its suppressive power against infantry units.

As the twin Slayer Gatling cannons on its turret began to warm up, the noise from the motors running at high load was enough to make the teeth of those around them chatter.

Two six-barreled cannons, along with the Tempest quadruple guncrew, will sweep through a metal storm that will wipe out all infantry in a matter of seconds.

In addition to these weapons, the automatic grenade launchers located on the sides of the turret are also effective anti-infantry weapons, and the Iron Rain Heavy Logging Gun or the Yincaros Rocket Nest mounted in the turret hatch are used for anti-infantry or anti-aircraft needs, respectively.

Obviously, under the fire of the Empire, whether it is the orc boy or the Tyranid Knife Worm, there is only one way to die.

When the area was cleared of Tyranid creatures, a huge vehicle slowly appeared, protected by a number of vehicles. Even the Stormlord Super Heavy Tank, which could hold forty men, was tiny in front of it.

This is the base car of the Empire, the MCV mobile base car.

It can be deployed as the main base and serve as the core of a force to direct the soldiers on the front line.

With these powerful mobile base vehicles, a Forward Command can be quickly deployed in a frontline position to provide front-line assembly for various military technologies of the Empire, or to receive commands and support from the rear.

Although the current plan of the Astral Army and Space Marines on the Long River is to destroy the hatching nest of the Tyranid creatures, they have set their sights on the reconstruction of human cities after the war.

These small bases built by mobile base vehicles can be used as the foundation of the city in the future, helping to restore the Long River Star.

In addition, these small bases can also provide a landing base for the Empire's air units for the time being, and a place for the Empire's armored forces to repair and replenish ammunition.

This is the first step in the Empire's efforts to wrest control of the Long River from the hands of the Tyranid creatures.