After Gavins arrived at the bridge, he immediately formed a new temporary command team with Captain Tabers and Mechanic Bishop Klein.
After communicating with the theater commander, Grand Master Aidan, they received permission to return to Titan.
Also returning together were two other strike cruisers that had just completed their missions from the neighboring Efflan system.
It is planned that when the three battleships arrive at the Hesus Festival area that they passed through on their way in, the battleship Supreme Decree, which is the preparatory force that comes later, will also join them in returning to Titan...
Within two Terran Standard Days, the other two Gray Knight strike cruisers had already separated from their respective battlefields and arrived at the scheduled rendezvous point.
But before that, a supply barge from other strike cruisers in the theater quietly came to the loading and unloading deck of the Revenant Redeemer, and after staying for 6 standard time units, it quietly and mysteriously sailed away from the Revenant Redeemer. p>
As the "temporary" commander, Gavins knew nothing about this. He just stayed on the command seat in the center of the bridge and quietly performed his basic functions as a commander.
After a brief communication between the three ships and confirmation of the command sequence, with the Revenant Redeemer as the central flagship, the remaining two strike cruisers will be deployed in an escort posture at a later position on the left and right.
This small fleet of three strike cruisers began preparing to leave the current war zone and return to Titan.
The engine of the Revenant Redeemer has started first and started to output power.
It will lead the other two strike cruisers to the Manzeville Point located inside the Efflan system for a subspace jump, and then sail through the subspace to arrive at the Hesus Festival area as soon as possible to rendezvous with the battleship Supreme Decree waiting there.
As the fleet sailed to the jump point, Gavins sat on the command seat in the center of the command platform on the bridge, looking at the scenery out the porthole directly in front of him.
He was confused by the information contained in the traffic order he had received previously.
"Did the reserve team evacuate first? Or is the Supreme Edict coming for us? I think if it is just for escort, this is not necessary." He asked Tabos on the left.
Tabos had no intention of hiding it. He looked at the battle deployment situation in the galaxy in the holographic projection in front of him and explained to Gavins:
"That's not the case. In fact, the battle in these two galaxies is now at an end. In view of your command sequence problem, there is a certain lag in the information you receive. In fact, the frontline troops have begun to evacuate." As soon as he finished speaking, the navigator in front of the command podium had already sent out a signal that he had arrived at Manzeville Point and was about to enter subspace navigation.
"Epilogue? I only see the updates of our four troops now."
Gavins also turned his attention to the holographic projection in front of him. He pointed at the logos of the three strike cruisers on the projector that were still suspended above the planet where the battle area was located. He looked back at Tabos and asked:
"So what happened to these three ships?"
"They? They have some individual tasks that need to be completed, and they are probably still waiting for the final instructions." After hesitating, Tabos decided to truthfully tell what he knew to the "temporary commander" who had never assumed the responsibility of a leader.
Official".
"What mission? May I know?"
As a new official, Gavins was very curious about his new information authority.
But he still knew that his name as "commander" was prefixed with the word "temporary" after all, so the limited and high-density information was destined to be impossible to completely open to him.
When he asks about some topics that he feels are sensitive, he will still carefully confirm whether his authority is sufficient in advance to avoid embarrassing situations.
Tabers' answer caught him off guard. The other party's answer did not dwell on his authority. Instead, the specific information made him feel extra special as a front-line combatant who had never assumed command authority.
Heavy.
Tabers said this:
"Of course you can know. In fact, it can't be hidden from you. If you want, just go and look out the window. Before we leave here, take one last look here. Some scenery, if you don't look at it, you won't look at it again.
It's not here..."
Just like this, at the last moment before the Revenant Redeemer entered the subspace, Gavins followed the guidance of Tabos and saw the three real planets in his sight, and all he saw was that the entire planet was melted.
A scene.
On the corresponding planets below the three strike cruisers, the same scene is happening at this time:
A huge ring of fire that can be seen with the naked eye in space is rapidly growing from scratch on the planet, spreading from small to large.
At the center of the ring of fire, there is even more intense prominence-like lava that is violently spewing upward from the earth's crust.
The shock wave generated by the violent plate movement brewed and exploded, and then spread to the entire planet following the previous ring of fire...
Gavins stood up suddenly from the command seat. The servo inside his Terminator power armor hummed in protest at this violent movement, but he could no longer care about it.
He looked at the destructive scenes taking place on the three distant planets in front of him, and a dry voice came out from his mouth like a groan: "Double...polar cyclone torpedo...extinction order?" p>
At the same time, the communication signals of the entire fleet also captured the encrypted announcement that resounded throughout the galaxy and even the sector:
"In the name of the Lord of Mankind! In the name of the Council of High Lords of the Human Empire! In the name of the Tribunal of the Human Empire! I, the High Judge of the Demonic Tribunal Terinka Lyudmila, under the gaze of the God-Emperor,
It is solemnly announced that the following three worlds will be punished with the most extreme punishment! The execution list is: Alfaran No. 1 Hive World! Alfaran No. 5 Agricultural World! Alfaran No. 15 Hive World! Every inch of the empire’s territory
Blood, all hard-won! All the people of the empire are the treasure of the God-Emperor! We are incompetent and cannot defend ourselves from the enemy. We are ignorant, so we can only take this strategy to save the rest. After this battle, all the blame will be on me.
.I, the High Judge of the Demonic Tribunal Terinka Lyudmila, am willing to accept the "Century Investigation" initiated by any colleagues into my decision-making in this battle. If there is any oversight, I am willing to take responsibility for it.
Accept the trial of the Empire and the excommunication of the High Court! This judgment takes effect immediately! Time..."
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The high-pitched and sad voice of Judge Lyudmila from the Demonic Tribunal still resounds on the encrypted channel of the SATA Sector, and this declaration is also spread through this channel to all planets, starports, and hives in the SATA Sector.
, battleships and other places where the imperial forces are still fighting.
After hearing this declaration, both the Astartes warriors fighting on the front line and the manufacturing directors in the forging world behind the scenes silently stopped their work.
They silently looked towards the invisible place in the distance, where there were three worlds that originally belonged to the empire, and countless people of the empire were abandoned like this.
But this is necessary.
The issuance of an extermination order is never a trivial matter.
Being able to make such a choice already shows that the war situation here has deteriorated to the point where the highest commanders in the war zone are helpless. Or, perhaps, the cost of saving this planet has proven to far exceed the planet itself.
The end of the extermination order is no joke. Any judge who issues an extermination order will be responsible for his decision to the end.
If anyone in the next hundred years can prove that her order is unnecessary, then what awaits her is the most severe punishment from the empire-the order of excommunication.
Therefore, every judge who is forced by the situation to formally list the options for the extermination order needs to have great will and consciousness. Every decision he makes affects the life and death of one or even several planets.
Here I borrow a sentence from the original work:
"There is no room here for weak-willed and hesitant people. Only through firm actions and beliefs can humans survive. There is no sacrifice too big to bear, and no betrayal too small to tolerate." ------ Inquisition Trial