As the most important military base in the entire human empire, the entire galaxy of Cadia has been transformed into a military fortress.
Hundreds of millions of Astra Militarum soldiers, a huge Imperial Navy fleet, Imperial knight families loyal to the Golden Throne, and several Space Marine Chapters have been ordered to station here for a long time.
Such a huge military force is gathered here, and the number of mortal troops alone even exceeds that of Holy Terra.
But compared to Holy Terra, there is no doubt that Cadia is more important to the human empire.
Because on the other side of the Cadia Galaxy is the largest passage between subspace and the real universe. It is the first star of the former Ada Eldar Empire, the core galaxy of the entire Ancient Eldar Tribe, and one of the Four Evil Gods of Chaos.
The Eye of Terror, the warp gate created when Nie was born.
This huge subspace gate has existed for more than tens of thousands of years. It has been standing here since the fall of the Ancient Eldar Empire.
It is the largest passage from the real universe to subspace, and from subspace to the real universe.
At the end of the Great Heresy in the 30k era, the rebellious Space Marine legions failed in the siege of Terra and after Warmaster Horus was killed by the Emperor, they escaped into the subspace through this place.
In the ten thousand years since then, the minions of Chaos have launched attacks on the real universe from here again and again, trying to extend their evil minions to the human empire.
And Cadia is the front line of the human empire against the evil invasion of chaos, and it is also the most solid barrier of the human empire.
For ten thousand years, Cadia, which has been completely transformed into a military fortress, has been like a dam and a gate, blocking the waves of subspace and evil forces from coveting and spying on the human empire, and firmly blocking these evils within the borders of the human empire.
outside.
And this doesn't just describe Cadia's role in resisting the invasion of Chaos forces.
In fact, the Human Empire has observed through various means that Cadia is indeed like a dam, blocking the subspace energy continuously emanating from the Eye of Terror from outside the territory of the Human Empire.
It is precisely because of the existence of the Gate of Cadia that the territory of the Human Empire can avoid completely falling into the subspace under the influence of the ever-expanding subspace energy.
The evil forces of Chaos can only appear in the Human Empire and drag the planets within the Human Empire into the subspace by seducing the fallen and triggering large-scale sacrilegious rituals and sacrifices.
However, the time it takes to do this is often measured in hundreds or even thousands of years, including battles of wits and courage with the Astra Militarum, the Inquisition, the Battle Sisters, and the Space Marines. Naturally, it is not as efficient as the Chaos army directly coming out of the Eye of Terror to capture it.
Planets are coming one after another very quickly.
That's why Cadia is so important.
So much so that in the past 10,000 years, the Human Empire not only devoted a lot of effort here to build the entire galaxy into the strongest fortress world within the Human Empire, but also concentrated the most elite troops in the entire Human Empire's military system to be stationed year-round.
Here it is.
The veterans of the Astra Militarum in Cadia have also become one of the most famous mortal armies in the military system of the Human Empire. Some people even compare them to the powerful Space Marines.
However, in terms of combat effectiveness, Cadia's Astra Militarum does have a record of fighting and winning against Chaos Space Marines.
These brave and fearless mortals used their flesh and blood to fend off the attacks from the Chaos Space Marines and successfully defended their homes and the territory of humanity.
And in this 10,000-year battle, they repelled the attacks of the Chaos forces again and again, including the twelve Black Crusades launched by Abaddon, and each time they drove the Chaos forces back to the subspace.
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Despite the heavy sacrifices they made behind this, the list of fallen troops was once so long that it shocked the Imperial Military Ministry and the Ministry of the Interior.
But now, Cadia once again faces a test, and this time the situation is more dangerous and the battle is more brutal than any battle that has occurred in the past ten thousand years.
Because at this moment, in addition to their old rivals, the former Sons of Horus and the current Black Legion commanded by Abaddon, those who are attacking Cadia are also those who have rarely appeared in Cadia in tens of thousands of years.
On the battlefield were the Emperor's Children, Death Guard and Word Bearers, three fallen legions of different Chaos Gods, as well as the fallen Primarchs of the three legions who had not left the subspace for tens of thousands of years.
Fulgrim, the demon prince of Slaanesh, Mortarion, the demon prince of Nurgle, and Lorgar, the Primarch of the Word Bearers who finally appeared in the real universe after Corvus Corax, the Raven King, left the Eye of Terror.
It's just that unlike Fulgrim and Mortarion, who have clear characteristics of evil gods, although Luojia was also promoted to a demon prince due to various atrocities during the Great Rebellion, he did not clearly believe in any of the four evil gods.
Bit.
The same goes for his Legion of Word Bearers. They have no clear preference in their beliefs towards the Four Evil Gods of Chaos.
This also makes the Word Bearers Legion, from a certain perspective, also have the power from the Four Evil Gods of Chaos.
And when these four legions of Chaos Space Marines and three Daemon Princes launched an attack on Cadia, even though Cadia was now guarded by the Lord of Crows, it still became precarious.
After all, although Crow King Corvus can block Lorgar in the subspace for ten thousand years, it does not mean that he can fight against three fallen Primarchs at the same time.
Especially among them was Fulgrim, who was the strongest among the Primarchs in terms of performance. During the Great Rebellion, all the Primarchs who were clearly recorded to have killed except Horus and Sanguinius were Fulgrim.
Created.
In the early days of the Great Heresy, he beheaded his friend Ferrus, the Primarch of the Iron Hands, under the control of the Great Daemon of Slaanesh. After the Great Heresy, he slit the throat of Robert Guilliman. This record was enough to rank first even among the Primarchs.
Positioned.
Although Corvus fought with the three traitorous brothers with the assistance of Celestine, the Living Saint sent by the Emperor, he did not gain any advantage or victory.
On the frontal battlefield on the other side, the massive attack of the four fallen Space Marine legions also made Cadia's mortal army unable to resist. Even though there were thousands of Space Marines stationed on Cadia's planet at this time, they could not resist.
It is also difficult to resist the attack of these Space Marine veterans from the Great Crusade era 10,000 years ago.
Even though these fallen space warriors have not spent as long as 10,000 years in the subspace, they are actually space warriors from the Great Crusade era. Both in terms of combat experience and combat quality, they are far from today's descendants.
Comparable.
Over the past ten thousand years, most of the Fallen Space Marines other than the Black Legion have been scattered into warbands.
Among them, most of the real veterans of the Great Crusade were nestled in the subspace and did not move much. The fallen space warriors the empire faced were basically the recruits recruited by these fallen legions in the past ten thousand years.
It was only under the call of the three fallen Primarchs that their legions regrouped and were able to form a complete legion to attack from the subspace.
If there is no Space Marine legion of the same size to stop their attack, the fall of Cadia will be only a matter of time.
Even though there are the Raven Guard Legion and several other Space Marine Chapters on Cadia at the moment, and the Blackstone Fortress captured last time in space serves as strategic support, they are still fighting very hard.
Especially the Blackstone Fortress itself. Although this huge space fortress was captured by the Raven Guard in the last battle, the time it fell into the hands of the Empire was still too short.
Although the Mechanicus has completed its preliminary transformation, a large number of defensive weapons have not been installed, and many damaged areas in the last battle have not been repaired.
This can be regarded as one of the shortcomings of the human empire. Because of the loss of technology and technical templates over the long years, the Mechanicus has lost the ability to repair many ancient and powerful mechanical creations. This makes the maintenance efficiency of the Mechanicus in a sense
Said to be quite low.
It would be fine if there were ready-made technical templates for something they had seen before, but for something that the Mechanicus had never seen before, they would be very slow to repair it.
This also makes the huge Blackstone Fortress can only be used as a fixed fort in space. Although it contains a large number of enemies, the combat effectiveness it exerts may not even be one tenth.
The lack of combat power in Blackstone Fortress was not only caused by the Empire's inability to suppress the offensive of the Chaos army, but more importantly, it gave the Chaos side an opportunity to retake Blackstone Fortress.
Under the frenzied attack of a small Chaos fleet, one of the Blackstone Fortresses was destroyed in the last battle, but the shield generator that had been repaired in an emergency crashed again, causing the Blackstone Fortress to lose four points.
One of the shields.
The attacking Chaos fleet did not miss this opportunity, but they did not use powerful firepower to completely destroy the Blackstone Fortress. Instead, they were personally led by Chaos Warmaster Abaddon, and a group of Chaos Space Marines broke into this huge battle fortress.
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After a bloody massacre of the Imperial Navy within Blackstone Fortress and the Space Marines responsible for guarding the battle fortress, Abaddon seized control of it.
As if it was a reappearance and continuation of the last battle, Abaddon immediately pointed the powerful firepower of the Blackstone Fortress at a plateau on the planet Cadia. The blackstone obelisk standing there was Cadia's ability to block fear.
The key to the wave of warp unleashed by the Eye!
The last attack was Abaddon's battle to destroy this facility. The twelve Dark Crusades before that also served this goal!
The plan that Abaddon spent ten thousand years laying out since the Great Heresy was stopped by Corvos the Raven King last time, but this time the Raven King has been dragged to the surface of the planet of Cadia by the other three fallen primarchs.
No one can stop Abaddon anymore!
Huge energy torrents and metal cannonballs fell from the sky like waterfalls and hit the surface of Cadia's planet.
