"Oh, yes, those traitors took away the Saber of Glory. Fortunately, the angels of the Astral Knights Chapter came and they eliminated most of the traitors."
Loken roared loudly on the bridge of the Starfire, and his voice was transmitted by the long-distance communicator to the surface of the planet Ma'kande 2. Ever since it received the distress signal, it has been trying to contact the orbiting station.
The ground has not considered sending troops to support, but because communications are blocked, they do not know the situation of the orbital station.
If the orbital station is already controlled by the enemy, the reinforcements are likely to be intercepted halfway.
It wasn't until the signal from Loken was transmitted that they realized that the orbital station had suffered a serious attack.
"Loss situation."
A metallic voice sounded from the other end of the communicator, and Loken could tell that that guy was the current master of the furnace, and there was a high probability that he was the one who assassinated his mentor.
Just from the guy's tone, Loken could hear a hint of schadenfreude.
He sniffed and said in a sad tone:
"Archbishop, the losses have been heavy! The energy system of the orbital station has been severely damaged. The traitors have also destroyed a large number of automatic defense forts and kidnapped everyone in the orbital station!"
"Everyone!?"
This time, the voice was not as calm as before, and Loken suddenly felt a sense of revenge.
"Yes! Those damned! Traitors who deserve to be cursed ten thousand times! They kidnapped everyone! Even my health care servitor was not spared!"
Not far behind him, Soshyan shook his head looking at the other person's pretentious manner, while Brother Lothar couldn't help but smile.
"you sure?"
"I saw it with my own eyes!"
"Then why weren't you kidnapped?"
"Because the noble Astral Knights Chapter arrived in time! They eliminated the group of traitors before I suffered!"
"I...let me speak to their commander."
"Archbishop, I'm afraid this won't work. The angels are busy chasing the traitors. Oops! The Glory Saber is about to escape into the subspace! The angels are about to join the gang!"
As he spoke, Loken inserted one of his mechanical appendages into the console and entered a string of garbled codes. Suddenly, the communication channel was filled with static noise.
"What? Hey! Lorcan! Do you hear me!"
"Archbishop! Please don't worry, I will try my best to bring the Glory Saber back! Just wait for me!"
After speaking, Loken immediately hung up the communication, turned around and made an OK gesture to Soshyan, who then nodded slightly.
"Start the warp engines!"
The two battleships, one behind the other, jumped into the subspace one after another, not far from the orbital station, and disappeared into the vast void in an attitude that was close to catching up.
At the location where they left, the shattered wreckage of the New Pharos was floating quietly in the icy void.
When the vanguard troops on the ground arrived at the orbital station, all they saw was a metal structure as silent as a cemetery. It could be said to be a mess inside. Not only was there not a single living thing in sight, not even a large number of automatic defense turrets attached to the orbital station were missing.
Already.
The Mechanicum troops that arrived later carefully inspected the orbital station. In addition to seeing a pile of unidentifiable pieces of meat in the bloody main control room, they were the mutilated and completely burned corpses of nine Chaos Space Marines.
They were placed in the chapel of the orbital station, facing the emperor's icon, and were all fixed in a kneeling posture.
On the ground, there is a line of Gothic text written in blood.
"Traitors will die in disgrace"
After preliminary inspection of the corpses of these medium-rare Chaos Space Marines, it was found that all the gene seeds had been dug away. Based on the degree of rigor mortis of the corpses, it was obvious that they had been dead for some time.
Then the Mechanicus people checked the warehouse again and found that it was cleaner than the face of the Emperor's statue in the church. Not only were all the materials and equipment that were supposed to be sent to the Astra Militarum gone, but also the twelve Mark multiple vehicles.
The armor also disappeared.
What’s even more outrageous is that even the food warehouse and kitchen in the orbital station have been evacuated!
Did those traitors bring a group of beggars to rob?
This problem troubled the priests of the Mechanicum. When they conducted further inspections of the orbital station, they found that the automatic turrets did not seem to be destroyed, but more like dismantled.
Including the energy system, power system, and communication system of the orbital station, many parts were not destroyed, but directly missing.
Moreover, the technique was quite professional and caused no collateral damage to the surroundings.
Difficulty Are there any heretical Mechanicus cultists involved in this invasion?
In any case, this can be regarded as a huge loss, both in terms of materials and personnel, not to mention that a frigate belonging to the navy was taken away.
This lawsuit will probably go all the way to the Sector Governor. The Archbishop of Ma'kande No. 2 will have to deal with these headaches for a long time.
As for Loken.
That guy would be better off disappearing into the warp forever.
"Starfire, this is the Glory Saber. Everything is normal. Geller's position is open."
As soon as they entered the subspace, Hodges's voice sounded from the bridge.
"This is Spark, I am Soshyan, and the target for the escape point is Volistad High Orbit 1-23."
"receive."
The Starfire jumped into the subspace immediately after the Glory Saber. The moment it entered, tendrils of energy burned on the opened Geller Stand, and pink and blue lights lit up the navigation shield.
.
She seemed to have plunged into the atmosphere of a certain world.
Immediately afterwards, strange harmonics echoed in the communication network inside the ship, and the messy and distorted sounds emitted by the auspicious device on the ship seemed to be begging for mercy, shouting in pain, begging, and whispering.
These sounds will be familiar to sailors who have been sailing for a long time. They come from the void and are the most direct manifestation of subspace.
However, Soshyan felt that just when those endless sounds were about to pour into his ears, they receded one after another and turned into some kind of distant echo.
The ship vibrated, but quickly returned to calm.
Those voices disappeared too, the enhanced Geller stance blocking them.
After Soshyan handed the bridge to Lothar, he turned and left, heading straight to the armory.
Originally, he planned to return to his hometown - not because of any homesickness, but because he wanted to get a group of recruits suitable for transformation from there. Now the battle group is in urgent need of new blood.
But Brother Seid suddenly woke up and asked Technical Sergeant Rico Rogris to send him a message asking him to change his target to Volistad.
The name Soshyan has never been heard of, and it is obviously not a very important world.
But Brother Said must have a purpose when he said this. Soshyan followed his idea and changed the intended target. However, that world was located in the Draco star region, close to the famous Armageddon star system, and it would take some time to sail there.
Taking advantage of this time, Soshyan wanted to ask Brother Said the purpose of doing this.
"Chapter Master?"
As soon as the automatic door opened, Soshyan saw Rogris checking Brother Seid, but it seemed that the Divine Fearless was in good condition, Rogris just put some engine oil on his left arm.
"Well, you go out first. I have something to discuss with Brother Seid."
"yes."
When Roglis exited, Soshyan said straight to the point:
"Why go to Volistad?"
"A very precious gift there."
"Gift? What is it?"
"I have forgotten too many things. I only remember this name and what it is. I need to find it myself to find out."