As the Imperial Army gradually took control of the walls of the Molanssen Alliance's enormous city and began advancing through the districts toward the central towers where the upper class and religious personnel resided, the Adeptus Custodes and Thunder Warriors were deployed.
Like a gun, the orbital relay station rapidly fired every drop pod in succession. Their landing sites were the underground sections of towers whose teleportation points could not be resolved by the teleportation devices and were protected by various factors.
At that moment, Terra's Northern Hemisphere had rotated out of the sun's light, and night covered the surface.
The drop pods swiftly entered the atmosphere, their blazing trails staining the sky blood-red.
The drop pods rapidly reached the outside of the Void Shield. Just before passing through it, they sharply decelerated to a speed that would not trigger interception. Such extreme deceleration would have placed immense strain on those inside even with Protection Devices, but to Thunder Warriors and the Adeptus Custodes, it was no more than the violent jolt of an ordinary person riding in a vehicle.
The moment the drop pods entered the Void Shield, defensive fire intercepted them. Yet the energy shields protecting their hulls carried them easily through the barrage. Laser drills at their tips bored into the ground, and after racing underground at astonishing speed for ten minutes, every drop pod reached its target.
In temples, council halls, supply depots... in every designated target location, the superhuman warriors would carry out decapitation operations.
The only unexpected factor in this war was the Molanssen Alliance's astonishingly efficient communications. The Thunder Warriors and Adeptus Custodes encountered interception immediately upon appearing at every target site.
Guards stationed within the city, elite gene-modified warrior units, and their commanders were assigned to each drop pod's landing site. Each