Soshyan used thunderous means to "subdue" the Minotaur warband and warned the Terra envoy. This matter quickly spread throughout Sagan's top brass. The nobles and bureaucrats who had previously tried to use the authority of the envoy to recover their "losses"
He immediately realized who was really in charge here, and immediately changed the previously changed policies back at extremely fast speed, and loudly publicized the great achievements of the expeditionary force and the great victory led by Soshyan.
It's just that he didn't hold his thigh and call him daddy - mainly because everyone knew that Astartes didn't do this, otherwise someone would definitely do it.
But things would not end there. Soshyan still started to make some "optimizations" on the rear.
The first is the problem of the Hoyland family. Not only did Soshyan catch their secret transactions with the Red Pirates, but during this period, through the unremitting efforts of the Inquisition, and even at the expense of some personnel, some information about the matter was also found.
The problem of this ancient merchant family.
The most important one is Ernst Mare Hoyland. After a series of investigations by the Heretic Tribunal, they got a terrible fact. This old man lived under different names for a full 490 years!
This also explains why the Hoyland family has been able to occupy the Maelstrom trade route for a long time. Their patriarch only changed his name. In fact, he has been the same person for nearly five centuries, and a non-transformer and
No matter what means of life extension a non-psionic person uses, it is impossible to live that long under normal circumstances.
The situation is obvious. Ernst Mare Hoyland either used illegal technology or even alien technology, or he was exposed to evil witchcraft.
But how to deal with this merchant family is quite tricky. Compared with their 16 merchant cruisers, 3 "retired" battleships, as well as a large number of small ships and armed transport ships, their fleet strength is one of the best in the entire Maelstrom area.
, and after the expedition, the main members of the family basically stayed in their hometown, the Holy Point Star located in the Kliman Drift Zone. Ernst Marley Hoyland even hid at home for several years. Obviously
Once there is any trouble in the empire, they may run away or even join the Red Pirates. With their strong financial resources and connections, it will be difficult to hide any military or arrest actions by the empire from them.
Even the Inquisition has different opinions on this, but most of them prefer to wait until after the war to deal with it.
But Soshyan was not willing to wait that long.
Then a shocking incident broke out when no one expected it.
An Eldar fleet of unknown origin suddenly appeared and attacked the Holy Point. They approached the galaxy without being detected by any detection equipment, and used powerful warships to destroy the Hoyland family's base in the Holy Point almost instantly.
Orbital defense facilities deployed by the star, and then a large number of Eldar troops poured into the hive spire where the Merchant Family was located, massacred the family's personnel and guards, and those people were unable to fight against the powerful, fast and heavily weaponized aliens.
In less than an hour after the attack began, nearly one million people were killed, and all members of the Hoyland family, regardless of age or sex, were killed until only three children survived.
The once prominent Hoyland family was wiped out in this way!
When the surrounding imperial fleets and the judges of the Alien Tribunal hurriedly arrived, they saw only a large number of wreckage surrounding the planet and some of the battleships that had not been destroyed. Apart from the former large fleet of the Hoylander family, they were still operating outside.
Of the seven merchant cruisers that defended their homeland, only three were left, and only one battleship was left. The others were all destroyed, and the Eldar had long since disappeared.
When the Imperial troops cautiously entered the hive spire, they saw only corpses on the ground. The word "Revenge" was written in alien characters everywhere on the walls. There were almost no living people in the family territory, and the only ones moving were servitors.
, the search team only found three surviving children in a small house, who were confirmed to be the last bloodline of the Hoyland family.
It took three hours for the planet's defense forces to react to the attack, but by the time they slowly ran to the scene, the Empire's reinforcements had already arrived.
Later, the inquisitors of the Alien Tribunal discovered a huge secret space beneath the Hoyland family territory. It was filled with blasphemous demonic decorations and a large number of sacrifices. A large number of direct members of the Hoyland family lay dead.
It was evident that this was their last refuge, but it failed to protect them, and the Eldar tore them apart with shurikens and blades.
Deep in this space there is a huge altar surrounded by a large amount of blood. Ernst Mare Hoyland, the patriarch of the Hoyland family, was cut into pieces by five horses, and his limbs and torso were nailed to the altar with five spears.
, there was also a letter he had written to Huron in his mouth that had not yet been sent. The content was very shocking.
He has realized that Soshyan is beginning to prepare to deal with him, so he plans to transfer the family wealth and troops to the Bloody Skeleton Galaxy before the other party takes action. After that, he will serve the Red Pirates wholeheartedly and is willing to provide some secret information that he has spent a lot of money to collect.
, seems to be related to Soshyan, but the latter part has been destroyed.
When other people took inventory of the Hoyland family's warehouse, they found that the Eldar only took away some items, mainly things related to the Eldar such as soul stones, and did not take away other property and treasures. Therefore, most people thought that
This was a revenge. The Hoylander family had angered the other party by engaging in illegal alien weapons trade for a long time, which eventually led to a bloody and cruel revenge. This kind of thing is not without precedent in the empire.
Most of the time, the Eldar are not the priority enemies of the Empire, and they rarely attack the Empire for no reason. Therefore, in order to reduce trouble, the Empire also prohibits all transactions and research related to Soul Stones.
The Hoylander family learned from the secret accounts they searched that they began smuggling Eldar soul stones on a large scale after the Huron rebellion, ranging from hundreds to thousands at a time, and their destinations were unknown. You must know that the Empire
It is strictly forbidden to trade this item, and even the Inquisition is not allowed to touch it easily. So the "customers" who demand so many soul stones are obviously only one type of people - Chaos traitors.
The Inquisition judged that a large number of soul stones smuggled by the Hoyland family must have flowed to the Red Corsairs for use by their evil wizards. After all, soul stones are required for many forbidden chaos rituals and are also used to please the demons of Slaanesh.
Important items.
After a more in-depth investigation, the Inquisition discovered that Ernst Marley Hoyland had been in contact with Huron when he first became the Star Claw Chapter Master.
Subsequently, they contributed a lot to the road of "becoming bigger and stronger". Also relying on their cooperation with Huron, the Hoyland family began to overwhelm the Claremont family and became the overlord of the trade routes in the Maelstrom region.