"Huh, I've been away for more than a year and finally arrived... the big vortex."
Looking at the distant and slowly floating red nebula outside the window, Soshiyang subconsciously clenched his fists.
Now the fleet is located on the edge of the Kriman drift belt, which means they have officially stepped into a strange area called the Great Vortex, and then the fleet will head straight to the Sagan Galaxy.
The Great Vortex, the area connected to the territory of the Empire, is usually called the Great Vortex Region, and the Ministry of the Interior has given it a lengthy administrative name, called it the "Imperial Resource Mining Network 004-357 Great Vortex Autonomous Region", is located in the extreme star field near the silver core.
Like the Eye of Fear, it is an ancient subspace rift, but unlike the Eye of Fear created when the God of Chaos was born, the Great Vortex is a natural phenomenon as far as the imperial scholars can certainly be found.
Just like using physical means to observe the center of the Great Whirlpool, you will find that it is dark, because all light is swept into the subspace, where matter and the intangible world intersect. If you are not careful, you will fall from reality to void or return again.
But the area around the Great Whirlpool is visible because it is located near a straight line between the core of the Milky Way and Terra, and the densest star mass, so the outer rotation covers hundreds of light-years. If you only look at the outline of its outer area, you will find that it is a huge, slowly rotating spiral, composed of a mixture of nebula, dust and stellar matter, although countless stars and worlds have long disappeared.
Although the turbulent and unpredictable subspace storm is enough to make any star map worthless, and any conquest or even patrol would be an incomplete task, it is still much more stable than most other subspace storms recorded, and there is evidence that it existed before human evolution.
However, although it is stable, it is not a static existence. As time goes by, the size of the vortex and the turbulence will fluctuate periodically, and the location where it was last cannot be found through any internal position. This is also the situation that Bai Scar told Soshiyan very carefully.
For centuries, many scholars and explorers have tried to find a pattern for the chaotic fluctuations of the Great Whirlpool, but most have gone crazy or lost themselves, and a few who leave recognizable records often compare its pattern to the intermittent sleep breath of the gods, or the electroencephalography of the brain when nightmares tear apart.
But this did not affect the importance of the Great Vortex. As early as the Great Expedition, the Emperor sent troops to try to penetrate the Great Vortex and clear out the hidden evil forces. At the same time, the wealth in the Great Vortex also attracted various human explorers and trade fleets to the Great Vortex area.
With the unremitting efforts of many explorers and expeditions, some of the situation in the Great Vortex was discovered in the middle of the Great Expedition. It turns out that humans also tried to colonize here in the early days, and there is a lot of evidence that humans in the Golden Age once existed in the region.
Similarly, the Great Vortex Zone also has numerous enemies, in various forms and disgusting, and hundreds of warships and armies died here in the early battles of the Great Expedition, and with the reconquest of other parts of the Milky Way, the Emperor declared that the area had been purified.
In the years after the Great Horus Rebellion, the Primarch of the Extreme Warriors Legion believed that the Great Whirlpool posed too much threat to the stability of the scarred empire, and subsequently ordered the strengthening of the surrounding area to curb any attacks that could come from within.
Over time, the Empire slowly established several important imperial outposts in the Great Vortex Area during the 38th and 39th millenniums, which became increasingly prominent as the regional imperial influence and the swaying lighthouse-like defensive power.
Three important star systems formed a distant trade chain, allowing resources and wealth from the Great Vortex region to flow into the empire's treasury. These three star systems are Siniax, Sagan and Badab.
As time entered the 41st thousand years, the power of chaos became more and more active, especially the Word Bearer War Gang summoned demons many times to launch attacks on the Empire world. The situation in the vortex became increasingly unstable, resulting in this space almost becoming a paradise for pirates, criminals and traitors, and also making the empire's most important business path increasingly threatened.
Especially after the destruction of the Empire in Siniax, the most important military city of the Great Vortex region, the empire's control over the northern Great Vortex zone quickly collapsed, without Signax, coupled with other losses in the region over the past few centuries, the important imperial military supply chain extending to Backa and Terra was threatened, forcing the High Lords of Terra to take action.
587.M41, under the command of the High Lord, the Great Vortex Guardian Alliance headed by the Claws of the Starry Sky was established.
These include the Crypto Warriors, the Tomb Guards and the Mantis Warriors Warriors.
"I originally thought this was our former glory land, but I didn't expect it to become our curse land in the end."
A low voice made Soshiyang turn around, and then he saw Malakin slowly coming over. Suddenly he remembered that he had indeed invited the other party to the flagship before.
Because he wanted to know some details inside the Guardian of the Great Vortex back then.
“Brothers Malakin.”
Malakin walked to Soshyan and looked at the Kriman drift belt with a little remembrance in his eyes.
"I left the recruit company at 647.41 and officially joined the sixth company, and happened to participate in the Battle of Natural Disaster."
"The Battle of God?"
"This is a battle initiated by the alliance against the demon worlds occupied by the chaotic forces in the core of the Great Vortex. The main goal is actually Galmek, occupied by the Word Bearer. This world has become a nest of the Word Bearer before the end of the Horus Rebellion. They are entrenched here and continue to invade the empire."
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Soshyan then remembered information about this legendary demonic world, but since Huron's rise, the word bearers seem to have rarely shown any active performance.
Malakin continued to describe everything about the past in a gentle tone.
"At first, the expedition was successful, until the exit of the Tomb Guardians, the thrones forced them to withdraw from the Great Vortex Guardians and sent them to the distant Veil Star Zone to support the Sonatos Expedition."
"this--"
At the critical moment of the war, if it were Soshiyang, he would probably be furious.
"What are the turtle lords thinking?"
"I don't know, but this sudden mobilization actually ended the Battle of Natural Disaster. The Guardians Alliance requested to reassign a group to replace the Tomb Guard to the Great Vortex Zone, but was rejected by Terra... In the past 100 years, the Alliance suffered a series of setbacks, and the remaining three teams suffered heavy casualties. I also became the company commander at that time. Rovik Black, the former commander of the Star Claw, was killed in the 715.M41 period because he resisted a green-skin attack. Ruft Huron, who was the third company commander, then became the commander of the battle."
As he said that, Malakin turned his head to look at Soshiyan.
"He had only served for one hundred and sixty years, almost the youngest commander of the war in the Empire's record, of course... until this record was broken by you."
"....Yeah."
Seeing that Soshiyang was embarrassed, Malakin retracted his gaze and looked at the star cluster.
Chapter completed!