The next day, the Inquisition's Order found a forged Golden Throne and fake Shinichi armor in the basement chamber of the private mansion of Admiral Wagner Ebolon Civitas of Otrama.

Marshal Wagner himself was found dead, and the eight bullet holes behind his body were considered by the 'Order of the Holy Hammer', which deals with the threat of chaos in the Inquisition, as strong evidence of his private belief in evil gods and cruelty.

The marshal's body was later professionally identified by the high-ranking inquisitor Favonis, who committed suicide in fear of crime.

After Wagner's suicide, the political faction led by him was also purged, and its representative was the conservative mechanical sage Trivins, who had condemned the 13th Expeditionary Fleet as a rebel and tried to prevent the L-Stargate network from being laid in the Otrama field.

Trivins has been accused of having a weak faith in the God of All Machines, and the Inquisition suspects that he has some unexplained relationship with the 'Clay Artist', an electronic god believed in by the Antars Casting World who betrayed the Empire.

And so on and so forth. Under Kiriman's thunderous wrist, there was soon only one voice left in the Otrama field.

This bloody purge of the already volatile Octrama political scene has once again caused an uproar, and many people with a keen sense of smell have smelled something unusual from Killiman's operation. Most of the officials who have been purged seem to have something in common that cannot be clearly stated...... The Protozoa seems to be intent on getting closer to the Smarbles and the Human Federation.

And when the news of Marshal Wagner's death was finally sent to the front line in the miniature galaxy by the logistics department of the Order of Truth due to Kiliman's repeated requests, and reached the ears of the bullet star, Russell's reaction to this was:

"Who is Wagner?"

Grey Wind retrieved his memory, then said, "It seems to be the commander of the naval fleet of Otrama, and I have dealt with him...... Oh, and I remember, I asked Makulag if he needed support when the second Aether Worm invaded Otlama, and he scolded me. ”

"Well, it's good to be dead."

"Very good." Grey Wind nodded in agreement and said, "In addition to Wagner's death, there is also a request from Robert Killiman in the news that has been heard. ”

"What request?" Russell asked.

"Although the Aether Giant Worm Jörmungandr has been wiped out, the Tyron War is far from over, and Kiriman judges from all indications that more hive fleets will invade the galaxy in the future, and the Empire's military strength gap is getting bigger and bigger."

Gray Wind snapped his fingers and said: "Terra is still in a state of disconnection, the Sun Star Domain is surrounded by countless green skin clusters, Kiliman intends to organize a fleet to personally conquer the Sun Star Domain and relieve the siege of Terra, but he is worried that after he takes the main fleet away, the Zerg will invade again." ”

"So what does he mean?"

"Killiman hopes that our exterminator fleet stationed in the Pamenio system will be able to cooperate with the remaining defenders of Otlama after his departure to jointly defend against the next wave of Tyranid invasions." Grey Wind said.

Russell was stunned for a moment, "We have a fleet stationed in Pamenho?" ”

"Yes." Gray Wind nodded, "There are 8,000 battleships alone. ”

"Ah......h

In the end, Russell did not choose to call the fleet stationed in Pamenio back to the miniature galaxy to fight, but handed over the use of this fleet to Killiman to arrange for himself - I believe this will give Killiman a headache for a while, because there is not even a single crew member in these tens of millions of warships.

Russell continued to devote his energies to the war in the central star field of the miniature galaxy.

As the battle line progressed, the resistance encountered by the Federation Navy during the invasion became more and more formidable, and powerful star bases of the 'Optimus Fort' level began to appear frequently, and these armed fortresses equipped with ultra-long-range strike weapons often reacted before the Federation Navy's fleet entered the corresponding galaxy's gravitational well range, and quickly launched an over-the-horizon strike against the Federation's fleet.

The Federation Navy, accustomed to fighting with the short-handed and slow-legged Elves and the Space Necro Fleet, suffered heavy losses in the initial contact with the core defense forces of the belligerents, and each destruction of the Optimus Fortress required a huge price ranging from a few to a dozen battleships, which made the morale of the Federation soldiers who were accustomed to the Generational War appear demoralized for the first time.

If the morale of the army is quantified as such a thing as war weariness, the war weariness of my group is already skyrocketing...... That's what Russell had thought.

But later it turned out that the sacrifice of several dozen warships did not hit the army's enthusiasm for combat at all, and the morale of the short-term depression quickly rebounded at an incredible speed, even higher than when the wind was in the early stage, and the soldiers of the Federation did not have the slightest timidity under the threat of death, but became more and more courageous the more they fought, and this inexplicable fighting spirit made Gray Wind a little confused for a while.

It wasn't until later that Russell finally figured out where the extraordinarily high morale of this group of macho men in the fleet came from.

- Because the enemy directly engaged with us is a synth produced by belligerent party C.

The deformed system of out-of-control servants has severely stimulated the Iron Man Rebellion PTSD of the cosmic humans, and the depraved and decadent appearance of the organic furnishings raised by the synths in the ideal city has made them feel a deep fear, and the fear is followed by a monstrous rage. Therefore, war exhaustion and the like are completely non-existent, and even if there is only one person left alive in the fleet, he will never take a step back in the war against the Iron Man. The extreme of thought and the determination of action made Russell call him a good guy.

After the heavy losses in the early stage, the Federation Navy gradually became familiar with fighting an enemy with the same or even higher level of technology as itself, the time and loss of ships to capture the Optimus were reduced, and the sharply rising battle loss ratio began to be alleviated. However, as the battle line grew closer to the center of the miniature galaxy, the strength of the enemy forces they encountered also increased exponentially, battlecruisers armed with weapons of mass destruction such as shaped arcs and tachyon light spears began to appear in clusters, and the Titans were dragged out of the ancient shipyards.

The soft flesh on the periphery of the miniature galaxy has been gnawed, and the next thing is the really tough bones.

When the forward fleet under Russell's personal command broke through the dense network of firepower woven by the Optimus and the battle patrol formation, and broke through a galaxy called 'Teslus Focus', something unexpected appeared in the detection range of the deep space sensor, attracting the attention of everyone in the fleet.

After identifying the building, even Russell and Grey Wind couldn't help but be a little surprised.

It was a massive man-made structure orbiting the rings of a gas giant, the size of an asteroid, with four pairs of independent ailerons hanging from its massive core, and data and light points flowing between the grooves of the delicate mechanical structure. The operation of the singularity reactor at the center of the hub causes a strange gravitational distortion that pulls the magnificent rings of the gas giants beneath its orbit.

This is not a military facility in space, as it is not equipped with any form of ship-to-ship weapons. However, the senior officers of the Federal Navy are no strangers to the appearance and structure of this building, as the Order of Truth has been preparing to build a massive structure similar to it in recent years:

It's a 'science hub'.

(End of chapter)