A Dreadnought housed a severely wounded Astartes within the rectangular chamber at its center.
A Dreadnought was roughly the same size as an Astartes.
A Dreadnought was a special kind of combat walker used by the Astartes.
During battle, Astartes could suffer wounds that could not be healed, such as being slashed by blades laden with radiation and poison, or being blown into limbless stumps.
At such times, the dying Astartes would be placed inside a Sarcophagus.
The Sarcophagus was an elongated life-support device. Even if an Astartes had lost his limbs and much of his body, he could survive with the life-support systems inside after being placed within it.
The Sarcophagus was also an extremely advanced neural-interface device. Plugging it into a Dreadnought was like inserting a CPU into a computer, allowing the Dreadnought to operate.
A Dreadnought piloted by an Astartes could unleash an utterly terrifying level of combat power!
A Dreadnought could be simply understood as having the armor and firepower of a tank and the mobility of a motorcycle. They were the Astartes' battlefield killers!
If the ordinary Astartes encountered a problem they could not solve, they would call upon a Dreadnought to help them eliminate the enemy.
Yet now, the captain had received a distress signal from a Dreadnought. That was rather interesting.
Why would a Dreadnought, treasured by the Astartes and immensely powerful in its own right, send out a distress signal? Who could have wounded it badly enough to make it call for help?
Li Qinwu asked the captain, "What exactly happened?"
"My lord, this is what happened. During this time, we have been using the T'au Warp Engine to skip through the Warp, heading toward the coordinates you gave us.
On one occasion, we emerged from the Warp and were about to