"So Sablin and the others may not have served as long as you. They have always grown up in the war group, which is completely different from the environment you grew up in. Although you are related by blood, you actually don't have many similarities.
, there is no need to look at each other through the eyes of former legionnaire brothers, maybe we can find common ground with each other through battles in the future."
After a long silence, Alvarez whispered:
"What about the long battle and punishment promised by the Primarch?"
Talos smiled and shook his head.
"You haven't even met him, so why do you care so much about what he says?"
"But you have seen it, why-"
"Yeah, so I have been fighting all my life, but the goal of fighting has changed. Fighting against the empire is a long battle, and fighting against other things is also a long battle. The empire is false, but it does not mean that those subspace shit are right.
"
“But you don’t have to take any side.”
"Is that different from your previous life? The Astral Knights are a good shelter. The empire cannot interfere with us, and chaos cannot contaminate us. Punishment is only a means, not a goal, not to mention that the empire is already in decay.
Corpses, what's the point of punishing corpses? On the contrary, those degenerates have become cancer, and that's what we should eliminate. Those who succumb to chaos are the real weak."
Alvarez felt that Talos was confusing concepts, but in a sense it did make sense.
"So. I'm going to join the Astral Knights, right?"
"Well, you can say that."
With a wry smile on his face, Alvarez touched the silky black hair on his head.
"Fate is really unpredictable. One second I was a member of the Chaos Warband, and the next second, I suddenly became a so-called loyal warrior of the empire. But to be honest, this Astral Knight can hardly be called loyal. The past is lost.
Descendants of the legions, I have been curious about what happened to the two disappeared legions in the past. It seems that there are many secrets in them."
He looked at Talos.
"Soul Hunter, I still want to know what you really think. Does the Legion really have no future? Do we really have to rely on others forever? And with the emergence of Ulan Huda, I feel that things are not that simple. You
Is there anything you haven't told me? Is it related to the Primarch? You were one of the people closest to the moment of his death. Did he leave any last words?"
"You have too many questions, but your current identity and level don't require you to know that much."
Talos turned around and walked towards the door.
"You will know this when I think you are qualified. Also, don't call me Soul Hunter again. Soul Hunter died a long time ago."
Looking at the other person's retreating figure, Alvarez sighed softly, wondering whether his choice was a blessing or a curse.
But at least, he is safe and does not have to worry about life and death every day.
At this time, neither of the warring parties realized that a demon prince had been caught, and all their attention was focused on two directions. While Angstrom was besieged by a heavy force of red pirates, the expeditionary force and the red pirates were surrounded.
The old Badab will also set off a new, more fierce confrontation.
As the heart of the Huron Kingdom in the past, Old Badab once had the extremely magnificent galaxy-level defense system "Ring of Steel" and more than six habitable worlds. It was the undisputed political, economic, trade and military center of the Maelstrom region.
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But at the end of the Badab War, with the siege of the imperial army, the Ring of Steel was torn apart, and all settlements suffered retaliatory massacres. The once prosperous galaxy turned into a huge ruin, and the survivors watched as they rose again.
The imperial flag raised by the emperor can only survive in the wasteland called "home".
However, the irony is that decades later, the resurgent Huron returned again. He once again swept away the Badab system with thunderous force, and hundreds of millions of people died in a series of attacks.
After regaining control of Badab, Huron began the reconstruction work. First, he learned the lessons from the breach of the Ring of Steel. He no longer built the system defense as a whole, but recycled the remaining parts of the former Ring of Steel.
Three small planet-ring defense fortifications were formed. One was deployed on Badab VI. It was here that the imperial army discovered the weakness of the Ring of Steel and breached the outpost in the planet's orbit, causing the entire galaxy's defense to fail. The second
One was deployed on the planet Secundus (Badab III), which was also the place where Huron was born, and supported him extremely.
During the Badab War, the residents of Secundus resisted the imperial army with all their might, and even the planet's governor did not surrender even when the Minotaur Chapter Master nailed him alive to a church (the Minotaur had done almost everything that Chaos could do at that time,
Even after falling into Chaos, Huron still had some feelings for this world, so the planet also became an important defensive base for the Red Pirates in Badab.
The last one is naturally Badab Prime.
In Huron's vision, after switching from the original comprehensive defense to the key defense, Badab's defense system will not be as it was in the past, where the enemy will break through a little and then lose everything. As long as it cooperates with the galaxy fleet, it will be enough to fight against the empire's
Counterattack again, so he mainly built the three planets that were mainly defended, and the other planets were directly rewarded to his subordinates as territories or turned into pirate stars.
However, when the empire launched an expedition and Honso was sent to defend Badab, he immediately discovered the weakness in Huron's deployment.
Badab VI is too far away from other worlds. Although it has a solid orbital ring defense, it is still difficult to rescue once it is besieged. Even the fleet that goes to rescue may be ambushed by the enemy's encirclement and reinforcement tactics.
Honsou was very smart and did not directly say that he would give up Badab No. 6 because he knew that Huron would definitely be reluctant to part with it, so during the period when he was in charge of Badab, he continued to mobilize local garrison and equipment forces, and made a large number of people who did not obey the command
The red pirate leaders and generals were crammed there, and he focused on strengthening the planets Secundes and Badab.
But in fact, in Honso's view, it is impossible to defend the planet Secundes. Once the imperial army gains naval superiority, those orbital fortifications cannot even be called a timely help, and can only be regarded as a desperate struggle.
In his opinion, the outcome of the battle was not decided in Badab, but in the distant Angstrom. What Honso had to do was to try every means to delay it, the longer the better.
Therefore, all his arrangements are based on the word "drag".
But the word "drag" sounds simple, but in fact there are many ways to do it, and not everyone agrees with Hong Suo's approach——
Just as the Badab system was actively preparing for war, a gray-iron-colored cruiser with obvious militarized characteristics stopped in the high orbit of the main star of Badab in the busy orbit. Its hull was covered with subspace rust and battle.
The traces look ancient, and their history can be traced back to the dark ages of the Horus Heresy, or even earlier.