The Far Eastern Frontier is a long, north-south narrow star belt located on the extreme eastern border of the Extreme Star Field, composed of multiple star regions such as Espernez, Karalam, and Astoria.

The standard definition of a star sector in the Human Empire is "a cube of space about 200 light-years long", but due to the poor governance ability of the Imperial bureaucracy, the Terra government has been very loose in its control of the Far East, and there are a large number of newly developed colonies or planets seized from Xenomorphs in the Far East Frontier without reporting upwards.

…… In fact, it was reported, that is, the local governor of the star sector was not sure whether the new colony registration information reported by his grandfather 1500 years ago had been passed on to Terra for registration.

As a result, the actual size of the many human star regions that make up the Far Eastern Frontier will always be much larger than the regular star regions of the imperial standard, and the shape is mostly narrow and north-south, which is the result of natural expansion.

At the same time, due to the thin starlight density at the edge of the Milky Way, there are fewer planets that can actually be exploited in the vast space of the Far Eastern Frontier than some secondary star regions located in the inner hinterland of the Milky Way.

Big and empty, this is the current situation of the Far Eastern frontier.

At the same time, due to the collapse of the Dream Nebula caused by the Worm of Time, an open area called the "Nightmare Cavern" was born, tearing the entire Far Eastern star belt into two sections:

by Espernes, Arcanaia, Iris...... The southern star belt composed of isostellar regions.

By Astoria, Calalam, Erinsia, Odina, Lucion...... The northern belt of contours.

After 13 fleets sailed to the galaxy for the supreme glorious expedition to Terra to deliver the stargate to the God-Emperor, the defenses of the Far Eastern Frontier were completely empty, and a large number of elite nobles and ruling classes abandoned the world they ruled and set out, and a large number of imperial colonized planets fell into unregulated chaos.

The emptiness of the defenses caused the green-skinned orcs, alien pirates and other forces to invade in a big way, dragging the two starbands in the north and south into the bottomless abyss.

The Dark Elves are indulging in the killing of unarmed civilians on abandoned imperial colonized planets; Alien pirates loot and loot in dilapidated airships that can be easily crushed with a single shot of a small macro cannon, grabbing resources and capturing large numbers of young, healthy Empire populations for meat and livestock.

A handful of recalcitrant officers and governors who refused to leave with the expeditionary force in the face of high glory gathered the remaining munitions on their respective planets, and gathered the citizens of the empire who did not want to sink under their command to fight the invasion of the Greenskins, vowing to live and die with their homeland.

However, their stubborn resistance only makes the greenskins more waaagh!!。

In the 40th year of the 001st millennium, it was a time of despair.

The remnants of human resistance are so insignificant compared to the green tide and the rampant alien pirates and dark spirits, like a candle lit during a tsunami, which can be extinguished in an instant.

The wails of countless souls converged in the starry sky into an endless Asura purgatory—it was in this purgatory that the scarlet shadows shrouded silently, and deadly swarm tentacles stretched out from the great void of Nightmares, enveloping the "Astoria" star sector closest to him, located in the northern star belt.

The arrival of the swarm has brought a shadow of subspace that blocks all astral communications, but the remnants of the Astoria sector's stubborn resistance to the alien ravages are not very sensitive to this, because the star-language communication system in the sector has long since completely collapsed with the departure of the expeditionary force, and they have always been alone.

They didn't even have a decent warship, even the orbital defensive artillery was dismantled and taken away by the Mechists, the great and noble expedition drained all of Astoria's military power, and the abandoned people could only hide in despair under the nest, allowing the alien ships in orbit to bomb them wantonly.

Therefore, they do not see what is happening in space.

"Orbital bombing...... How did it stop? ”

On the historic main planet of Valrhona, the capital of the Astoria Sector, the newly appointed Governor of the Sector pokes his head out of the fortifications and looks at the lit sky overhead.

The originally high-hanging pirate strike boat has disappeared at some point, and the haze that covers the sky is gradually dissipating.

Above the haze, something looms.

She opened her eyes wide and tried to see what it was, but was dragged back into the pit by the guards behind her.

On the ground, the fierce attack of the green-skinned orcs against the fortification gradually thinned out, but the mortal guards guarding the fortification did not let up in the slightest, because the "Baron" was here.

The second daughter of the governor of Astoria, Lady Henriette, is also the current Valrhona lord who has just taken office.

"There's no need to be so nervous, soldier, I'm the commander, I need to know the situation on the battlefield." Henriette said with a frown.

The guard wiped the blood from his cheekbones with his sleeve and shook his head: "No matter what's going on outside, your first priority is to keep yourself safe. As for battlefield intelligence...... There are no more birdscarf that can be used, but we can collect them. ”

At the end, he stared into the baroness's eyes again and emphasized: "Duke Valrhona has abandoned us, and you are the only nobles and officials on the entire planet who did not board your father's warship and stayed here secretly. Praise to your nobility, Your Excellency, and in the name of Lady Henriette we have rallied this resistance. So I ask again, be sure to cherish your life. ”

With that, the guard, along with two other soldiers, cautiously crawled out of the fortifications to investigate why the greenskinned orcs had slowed down.

"I just...... I just don't want to run away. Henriette sighed in annoyance.

How does she know what battlefield command, she just enrolled in Valrhona Military Academy last year, and she has only been in classes for half a year, and she has just taught that "dying for the God Emperor is the supreme honor".

Even if he stands here with such an awareness, he can only be a mascot that invigorates the morale of the army, and even the title of Baroness is temporarily self-proclaimed.

Watching the soldiers who had gone out to scout fade away, Henriette poked his head out of the bunker again and stared at Valrhona's sky.

Due to the departure of the expeditionary force with a large number of technicians, Valrhona's main planet's factory complex has been suspended for a long time, and the pollution cloud that has been hanging over the nest capital for many years has also subsided, and now the haze above the head can be seen slowly dissipating in a visible trend.

The dense gunfire in the ruins of the city somehow subsided, and there was a desolate silence.

Through the fading haze, Lady Henriette saw a bright mechanical ring, swirling silently over Valrhona's orbit.

The clouds had lifted, and a trace of cold fell on the ladyess's dusty snow-white face, making her frown.

"It's raining?"

Henriette stretched out his palm to catch a few falling rays of rain with some confusion, so light that it quickly melted into the flesh and disappeared as soon as it fell into the palm of his hand.

The mechanical rings above her head were still spinning silently, and the silver rain was getting heavier and heavier, enveloping Valrhona.

(End of chapter)