The Jump Engine is arguably the most powerful tool of movement currently in human possession, and ships equipped with it can make leap voyages, ignoring any other movement directly to the target system within a limited jump range.

When the Jump Engine kicks in, it shatters the local space-time continuity, ripping open a ship-sized hole in real space, and then reassembling on the quantum plane to a state identical to the target location.

So, in an instant, it completed the "jump" between galaxies.

But it's not perfect.

The jump engine is capable of ignoring any other system that moves directly to the destination system within a limited jump range. However, this Jump Voyage feature has a cooldown of more than half a year of Terra after use.

Obviously, the jump sailing function cannot be used again during the cooldown time unless there is a risk of damaging the engine.

However, this does not mean that the Jump Engine loses the ability to move faster than the speed of light, and like a normal Hyperspace Engine, a ship equipped with a Jump Engine can use the Hyperspace Channel to move faster than the speed of light between stars, and the Jump Engine has a faster start-up speed.

However, after the ship has jumped, the ship's sub-light speed will drop by almost half during the cooldown, which is a serious weakening.

So unless necessary, the ship usually does not make a jump.

Not only does that mean that it will cost almost enough energy to last some Imperial worlds for years, but it also means that the speed of the ships will be greatly reduced when the engines are running with such energy, making it difficult for the Imperial Navy to maintain its maneuverability advantage in the face of the enemy.

However, these shortcomings can hardly hide the advantages of the "jump engine" in war.

When the fleet is surrounded by the enemy, it can jump and shift instantaneously to avoid being forced into battle; When the battleship is seriously damaged and urgently needs to be repaired, the crew casualties are huge and it is urgent to retreat, it can be instantly and urgently evacuated and flee the battlefield; When an enemy enters an uninhabited system, an entire fleet can come up to them and annihilate them in an instant.

A ship equipped with a jump engine can appear where it wants to appear in an instant, and this ability has earned it the nickname "the most powerful space engine".

But like I said before, it's not perfect.

There are places in the galaxy that don't "jump" to the past...... For example, the destination of the fleet led by Debra.

Although the fleet from the Livingston system jumped out of the encirclement of the subspace storm by "jumping".

But as soon as the Living Saint told everyone about her true mission, they knew that their final destination was none other than the location of the destroyed hazy star psionic beacon that echoed with the Eye of Fear and extended into such a huge "Great Rift".

That is, the place where the psionic avatar occupied by chaos uses itself as a wire to detonate the energy of the huge subspace.

It is also the place where the incarnation of Sivir was destroyed.

It's a place of chaos.

The laws of physics do not apply here, because they are part of a universe of ever-changing minds and consciousnesses.

The explosion of energy from the explosion of the "psionic incarnation" permanently broke the curtain separating the subspace from the real world, so all the planets and stars in this area are now trapped in the subspace. Those worlds became demonic worlds.

And at the very center of it is a large hole that penetrates the structure of reality, from which pure and primordial chaotic energy pours out.

This is where Debra fulfills her mission.

Even with the jump engine equipped, it would be difficult for Debra's fleet to "jump" a battleship to such a place.

However, if the Empire can combine psionic technology with this kind of transition technology, then ......

But that's for later.

After quickly reaching the edge of the "Great Rift" through the "Jump Engine", for Debra at this time, they can only sail slowly in the subspace, and unswervingly and slowly move towards the ultimate goal in this unpredictable space.

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"Subspace navigation...," Eric muttered.

Beside him, Inquisitor O'Neil is tirelessly educating the ship's crew about how to protect themselves in subspace, while giving his minions and agents a mission and ordering them to keep an eye on everyone at all times.

During O'Neill's impromptu lecture, there was even a section of Space Marines listening with their ears pricked up.

If you move the timeline forward by nearly a thousand years, the response of anyone who says to any member of the Empire, 'A group of Space Marines who have been in service for hundreds of years and have not sailed in subspace,' will either laugh out loud or wonder if you're sane.

Still others will choose to arrest you because they think you are making a mockery of the Empire in a way they don't understand.

But if you put that sentence up to now, sorry, it's true.

After the popularization of the faster-than-light engine in the Empire, few humans will come to this place with many origins, except for some special forces, some traitors and heretics.

Not to mention the new space marines recruited in the Livingston system, even Eric himself, the psionic master, although he had already had many contacts with this world in meditation in the past, it was also the first time for him to actually set foot in it.

Fortunately, although the subspace engine is not installed, all warships produced by the Empire are equipped with Geller force field generators.

The Empire has never ignored the threat of Chaos.

The device emits a powerful, invisible force field of subatomic particles of unknown composition to allow a combat-capable starship and its occupants to survive in an extremely hostile combat environment, also known as "immaterial space".

The Gela Force Field protects the starship and its occupants from the hostility of the mind-reactive distorted environment itself, nor from the attacks of subspace entities such as demons.

It essentially forms a foam-like force field in real space-time around the spaceship, using its subspace drive to penetrate the immaterial layer between the material universe and subspace.

Since an immaterial proto-entity cannot break beyond its boundaries into the material universe, except in some very special circumstances, organisms native to the subspace will be excluded from the boundaries of the Geira field.

But if this kind of thing is really as reliable as it describes, then the empires of the past don't have to have a headache with "subspace navigation".

There is a chance that such a Geller position will malfunction, fail, or collapse.

Although it stands to reason that the probability of such a thing happening should be very small. However, it seems that in this universe, there is a high probability of a small probability event.

So Eric and the others can't let their guard down just because they have the protection of Geller's shield, they have to learn how to deal with all kinds of eventualities.

And Inquisitor O'Nell's vast knowledge of chaos is of great help to them.

However, as the piercing sirens sounded, the entire fleet immediately entered combat mode. No one could have imagined that the invasion of demons would come so quickly.

"The completeness of Geller's position is declining." This was reported by the rows of sensor workstations located at the far end of the bridge.

At this time, the siding on the bridge began to bulge inward, only a few meters from where Eric was standing. He saw the metal of the siding bulge inward into the shape of a fist, and what was outside the wall was ready to break through.

"Demon trails detected," a monophonic reader said sharply, "activity is high and, increasing." ”

"They're boarding the hull," one of the crew members burst out, "they're coming in!" ”

Eric heard the shrill screams and scrapes coming from outside, and the long whining of something whipping the keel with its tail. One of the compartments began to crumble, and he could see the cracks in the bulkhead spreading, like wrinkles.

The same thing happened on the bridges of every ship, and those things outside the battleship kept laughing on the outside.

The monsters that scratch the hull of the ship... They are laughing. Eric was convinced.

And with Geller's position failing, the hull of the ship being punctured, and he finally sees these demons.

They are like wisps of nothingness, some with wings, some with tentacles. Some have slender heads, some have broken stomachs, some have horns, some have rows of sharp teeth, and some wield blades like silver shards from the void... They're so weird.

They emerge out of nowhere, circling the battleship in the millions, without any real form.

"We sailed into the abyss." Eric thought to himself. Using psionic communications, he ordered the Space Marines to protect the ship's vital facilities and clear the enemy of those who entered the ship.

At the same time, he raised his psionic staff and began to prepare for a battle with the evil creatures of the subspace that entered the bridge.

But suddenly, Eric felt that the laughter and scratching sounds in his ears had become much quieter.

Through the holes carved out by the demons, he saw several warships approaching, huge and slowly burning, their ancient, charred hulls still burning with subspace flames.

And as they approached, the various strange demons that clinged to the Imperial warships gradually disappeared.

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The fickle scene flickered. There was no sun here, but the light was still dazzling, shimmering with scattered subspace light.

But in this dead space, two fleets appeared. Several of the ships in one of the fleets were covered in flames, following the other fleet like a convoy.

Debra said her final goodbyes to the crowd, flicking her wings and flying out of the battleship.

She raised the silver sword above her head, the light shining on it. The silhouette of the living saint glowed with golden light, and her gorgeous wings and golden aura made her feel like an angel descending from the light.

She made her way towards the large hole in the center of the area that pierced through the structure of reality, and the subspace wave of pure subspace energy gushing out of the "hole" failed to wash away the living saint with incomparable power.

And with another change of scenery in the Chaos Realm, the Living Saint disappeared.

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“... Has the mission of the living saint been accomplished? On the battleship, Eric, who had been waiting for a long time, frowned and asked the inquisitor O'Neil beside him.

I don't know how long it had been since the Living Saint had stormed the hollow, but nothing had changed.

O'Neill shook his head.

This is not to deny it, but to say that he is not aware of it.

Even if O'Neil had a deep understanding of chaos, he couldn't be sure what was going on.

Where did the Living Saint arrive through the Void of Nayaspace? Is she working on her mission at this time? No one knows.

"Can we get over there?" A somewhat apprehensive Eric asked the captain beside him.

And the captain shook his head. This time it was a denial.

Pure and primordial chaotic energy poured out from that subspace void, and while the Living Saint could ignore the waves of subspace energy composed of it, it was impossible for the Imperial warships to get close there.

After hearing the captain's words, Eric made a difficult decision - his soul flew outboard the ship and entered it like a living saint.

Although exposure to the subspace would bring intense pain on the soul level, Eric immediately lay down and shifted his will.

"Shhhhh

Although Eric was somewhat prepared for the pain of hurting his soul, the pain was powerful enough to penetrate his soul, revealing his tormented fangs, and gnawing and chewing on his bone marrow fiercely.

He was ready to rush into the subspace hollow, though anyone with a discerning eye could tell that doing so would be tantamount to self-defeating, or worse.

But Eric didn't care.

His soul broke away from his body and rushed towards the subspace void.

And just as Eric's soul passed through the hull of the ship, he saw it.

Golden light poured out of the void.

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The Solar Field, on psionic beacons in the solar system.

In its central room, a giant psionic avatar sits atop the throne, and a large number of intellectual and military forces are in front of it to handle the affairs of the empire in place of the emperor and the son.

On the throne's side, Sivir lay quietly in a device.

It is a time-warping generator, known as the Static Force Field.

It disrupts the normal flow of time within its sphere of action, thereby drastically reducing the progression of causality. The closer you get to the center of the static force field, the slower the flow of time becomes, so much so that to an observer outside of the affected area, it appears to be frozen.

Static force fields, on the other hand, are often used to contain people and objects under stable conditions. For example, the stasis force field that envelops the body of Robert Killiman, the original Ultramarine.

Since the time in the static force field is "derailed" from the normal time flow rate, it is practically impossible to change the conditions in the field in any way. This leaves anything "trapped" by the stasis field in a situation where it is almost completely stagnant and unable to take any damage.

But through the transparent surface, it can be clearly seen that Sivir, who was lying quietly in the stasis force field, opened his eyes.