Relying on defenses built from the asteroid belt and wreckage, the Imperium fleet stood like reefs in a storm beneath the impact of the endless green tide. Though it shattered wave after wave, it too was being steadily eroded and depleted.
The Forerunner Fleet had already taken on the primary burden of absorbing damage, drawing immense amounts of fire. The engineering ships flitted like silver elves through the forest of steel, desperately mending the scars across Imperium vessels and holding together the fleet's crumbling frame.
Yet the number of Ork vanguards seemed endless.
The curtain over the battlefield was brutally torn apart by an even more violent force!
A massive green tsunami crashed into the battlefield!
One of the ships dwarfed every Ork vessel seen before, even rivaling an Imperium battleship!
It had been cobbled together from countless crude shipwrecks, its surface covered in densely packed gun barrels of horrifying caliber.
Countless Orks clung to its hull like an ant swarm, roaring deafeningly.
At the front of the ship, a gigantic, savage Ork skull painted in crimson radiated unnerving WAAAGH! energy fluctuations—the Gargantuan Junk!
At the highest point of this mobile fortress, upon a massive throne fashioned from crude metal, sat a terrifying being far larger than any ordinary Ork warlord.
His entire body was covered in heavy armor studded with spikes and rivets. His one remaining eye burned with cunning and destruction, and he gripped an enormous power claw.
He merely sat there, yet the berserk will he radiated struck like a tangible shockwave, driving the surrounding Orks into greater frenzy and abruptly raising the entire Ork fleet's offensive by a level!
"Detected... an immeasurable energy source! Its origin is that largest ship!" The communications officer's voice was grave.
"Target confirmed! Main Ork force! Command core!" Lion's crimson lenses