While waiting for news from afar, Soshyan did not devote himself wholeheartedly to the affairs of the war group. In fact, he let the company commanders discuss and solve many things themselves. He spent most of his time on his own thoughts.
Upgrade.
These days, he often conducts tactical drills with Mazhar, Joel and other chapter leaders, and has also conducted several large-scale war drills, because since the Battle of the Death Star, Soshyan has deeply felt that he is incompetent in commanding large-scale battles.
The shortcomings were that the command training he had received in the past was basically at the company level, so a million-scale battle was still a difficulty for him to overcome.
In addition, the other thing that worries Soshyan the most is the battle group's fleet.
When the Battle of Pandora was launched, the battle group had a total of 7 capital ships, including the flagship Unbound Soul, the large cruiser [Eternal Loyalty], the battle barge [Soulbringer], the strike cruiser [Starfire], and the moon-class cruiser [Absolute].
Power] [Reason] [Golden Wind], but in the second Battle of Pandora, Reason was sunk, and Golden Wind suffered heavy damage. It needed to squat in the dock for at least a year and a half before it could be used, and
Due to Lothar's tactics of sacrificing small battleships, only 3 of the 10 destroyers and frigates before departure finally survived.
Fortunately, after the war, a Vanguard-class strike cruiser was obtained from the Navy and was named [Pandora]. But Soshyan still remembered that Mars owed him two strike cruisers, so he asked the Astropath to urge him, but he didn't
I thought the other party said the ship was already on its way.
After waiting for a month, Mars indeed sent two strike cruisers.
But Soshyan was not happy. Instead, he was a little strange. Logically speaking, there were still almost five years left before the delivery date. Why was Mars so active in sending the ship?
Faced with his question, the technical priest in charge of the transportation hesitated and couldn't answer, but Soshyan had a bad premonition in his heart.
Mars......
I'm afraid sending these two ships was just a way. It's very possible that they have received information about Mechanical Ark and sent a fleet to compete with Reza.
Realizing that his guess might be correct, Soshyan immediately went to the Trace of Victory to check the detection records there - as a large star fort, the Trace of Victory has a very large scanning device that can detect subspace disturbances in the star sector.
As a result, it turned out that things were exactly as I imagined. A fleet labeled Mars was divided into two at the edge of the star sector. One headed for the Nessen system, which was the two strike cruisers, and the other quickly left.
The whereabouts of the star sector are unknown.
Thinking about Mars' possible fate, Soshyan was not only not nervous, but also secretly happy in his heart.
In the current situation, the muddier the water is, the better it is for him. Let the people of the Mechanicus make trouble first, and only when the trouble gets bigger will he have a reason to step in and clean up the mess.
And now that there is no reply from Reza, Soshyan is convinced that the great sage is going to break his promise.
But originally he had no more expectations for the Mechanicus.
If you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust.
Putting this aside in advance, Soshyan immediately took delivery of two strike cruisers, naming them Dawnguard and Primordial Strike respectively.
At the same time, Soshyan ordered some small warships from the surrounding forge worlds. After all, frigates and destroyers were also very important in a fleet. A fleet composed solely of large ships would be very cumbersome in actual use.
Joel's eyes widened when he saw that there were three more strike cruisers in the Astral Knights. He couldn't figure out when the battleships became weeds on the roadside. If you want them, you can have them.
The Blood Knight now only has one strike cruiser left, and it is still being repaired in the shipyard of the Scar of Victory. It has not been able to run for half a year.
Just when the Astral Knights were contacting surroundings to order warships, a representative of Zhao Akada suddenly came up to him, and when they met, he asked Soshyan if they wanted to work together to excavate a ruined ship, which contained a mechanical ark.
At that time, Soshyan was dumbfounded and quickly asked the other party how he knew the news.
As a result, the answer given by the other party left him speechless.
Intelligence black market——
Soshyan could only say that Reza's confidentiality work was far less sophisticated than theirs in the plasma field. A matter that should have been kept secret was now made known to everyone.
When the representative of Zhao Akada saw Soshyan's attitude, he realized that the other party had known about it for a long time, so he proposed cooperation very simply.
But what Soshyan is concerned about is, how many people or forces are still aware of this matter?
Then he used all the available information to inquire about the matter, and the results he obtained were not satisfactory.
Judging from the current situation, most of the forge worlds in the Storm Star Territory are aware of it, but of the forge worlds outside the Star Territory, only Lucius and Phaethon seem to know about it at this time, and their fleets have already appeared in other forge worlds in the Storm Star Territory.
Location.
Soshyan had to face this situation squarely. If it was just a conflict between Mars and Reza, then he could sit back and watch the fight, but if he was involved in several or even a dozen forging worlds, then as the guardian of the empire,
The Space Marines must intervene immediately to prevent a large-scale intra-Imperial struggle from spreading to other innocent worlds.
Fortunately, the specific location of the hulk has not yet been exposed. Therefore, the various forging worlds are relatively restrained and are only observing in secret. Moreover, they obviously also take into account that this may attract the attention of other institutions in the empire, such as A
Order of the Start——
Zhao Akada came to Soshiyang hoping to use his influence in the star field to increase his voice in this competition.
Soshiyang did not reply to the other party, but just said that the matter still needed to be "looked at". It would not be too late to discuss the specific situation after the hulk appeared, and Zhao Akada itself was a relatively weak forging world.
During this turmoil, I also had the mentality of taking advantage of it and not forcing it if I had no chance.
Just as Soshiyang was actively preparing for this operation, he suddenly received a very unexpected news——
Talos fell.
During a training session for new recruits, he suddenly fell into coma without warning, which frightened the people around him so much that they quickly called for Valier.
After seeing Talos's condition, Valier told everyone that nothing was wrong, but then he found Soshyan, and after much hesitation, he told Soshyan something about Talos's body.
After hearing that Talos might not die soon due to a problem with his gene seed, Soshyan was very shocked.
I don't know when he started, but he had become accustomed to having this person who he should have denounced as a "heretic" in the past. Whether he was in the war group or in the legion, he liked to ask Talos for his opinion, even in
During the most tense battle, he could trust his opponent with his back.
By Astartes standards, their relationship can be called—