Although the technical access on Forge World Lucius has not completely ended, new threads are already being allocated on Iax.
Within the scope of Imperium Sanctus, follow the instructions of Guilliman to strengthen the Imperium troops and assist in guarding the perimeter of Nachmund Gauntlet and Eye of Terror. One Heavy Assault Cruiser and one Mechanicus Weaver were separated from the Mechanicus Fleet. Industrial Ship formed a two-ship formation.
The two ships broke away from the standard fleet to which they belonged and began to return to Holy Terra.
At the same time, a battle in another location is attracting Iax.
On the far eastern border, closest to the end of the Great Rift, countless artillery fires are being fired throughout the Aberrus system.
Ablurus Star System is located between Eastern Fringe (Eastern Fringe), Imperium Nihilus on the edge of Great Rift, the Grendl stars and Hadex Anomaly (Hadex Anomaly, one of the entrances to Warp).
Although Orks's Green Tide was quickly extinguished by Men of Iron in an unimaginable way.
However, the damage to the entire Far East border defense line cannot be erased.
Hundreds of Imperial World suffered different damages, and more than a dozen serious worlds almost fell into complete paralysis.
After the terrifying Green Tide was forcibly extinguished, most of the Men of Iron fleet began to disperse again and the entire Milky Way began to put out fires everywhere.
Due to the problem of the number of troops, Heart of the Forge left behind by Iax led a group of ships here to search for traces of the Tyranids troops mentioned by Guilliman before.
However, the message delivery of Imperium is too slow.
Since the broken body of Tyranids was seen near Ghoul Stars before, Heart of the Forge and its subordinate fleet have been walking north along the Imperium Far East defense line.
After a long time, Iax found the Tyranid creature mentioned by Guilliman through the information reported by Guardian-class.
This Tyranid Swarm is not the first time it appears, but is the tentacle of Kraken Hive, an acquaintance of Imperium.
Although Imperium has repelled Kraken Hive once, these creatures Xenos always have a way to find the weak points of Imperium's defense and suddenly rush into Imperium's territory.
After using Guardian-class Iax to simply observe the number of Tyranids that broke in here, Heart of the Forge, which was already on its way north, re-synchronized Quantum Data during the interval of returning to Realspace to adjust its course.
The fleet immediately turned around and began heading south quickly.
This is not only Iax for the execution of the agreement, but more importantly, he needs those Tyranids Insects that are rich in Minerals.
Heart of the Forge and his fleet have conducted short-distance explorations from the border of Imperium to the void beyond Milky Way more than once.
However, the number of insect swarms found is extremely limited, and Insectss often start to run away when they see these Mechanicus Fleets.
The materials harvested in each battle were often not enough to build two assault ships, which forced Iax to give up this method.
And Ablurus Star System is now in chaos.
Tens of millions of Tyranid creature rushed into Grendl Stars (Grendl Stars) with the support of Bio-fleet and Hive Tendril.
This is the watch area of the Iron Hands subgroup--Steel Lords.
Steel Lords is a standard Codex group. For three thousand years, Steel Lords Chapter has been responsible for monitoring and isolating a Xenos race named Barghesi.
These Xenos are extremely evil and huge in number. Steel Lords has been waiting for Imperium to gather an expedition fleet with sufficient strength to destroy them.
In the long watch war, the Steel Lordss suffered a lot.
These Ferrus Manus's Progeny once had to kill their brothers because one of their brothers was infected by a strange local Mutants plague that could not be cured.
Later, in M41.997, he lost his battle carrier during the Valedor defensive battle.
He even participated in the war with T'au and many other battles against Barghesi Xenos.
But even so, Imperium's investment in power here can still be called meager.
However, Tyranid Swarm pays more attention to this piece of Star Region than Imperium.
According to the report of Chapter at the Ablurus Star System monitoring station (HEDHAN Scry-station), if this Kraken tentacle absorbs the biomass of Barghesi Xenos, there is a high probability that it will bring heavy disaster to Imperium and even directly threaten the entire Eastern Fringe.
Ablurus Star System is the key place to defend Grendl Stars. Steel Lords sent three Company without hesitation to assist the local Astra Militarum troops.
This key Star System has several Imperial Worlds, among which there are Catachan Jungle Fighters, Valhallan Ice Warriors, Vostroyan Firstborn, Truskan Snowhounds and local Planetary Defense Force on each Planet.
In addition, there are Sisters of Battle Crimson Chalice Crimson Chalice and two Knight House (House Curtana House Curtana and House Borgius House Borgius) stationed here.
But even so, the Steel Lordss still sent out a distress signal.
Before Tyranids launched a large-scale invasion, they had already had many encounters with various insect swarm advance forces here.
The Kraken Hive insect swarm is different from the Leviathan insect nest in that they evolve very quickly.
Perhaps due to the Segmentum Pacificus war, Tyranids's attack on Steel Lords Chapter was extremely targeted.
Steel Lords are trapped in desperate battles with more and more terrifying biological war beasts.
Steel Lordss vaguely feel that Tyranids seems to regard them as a low-end version of Men of Iron. They are using them to test new tactics and constantly enhance Tyranid Beast's terrifying acid and various biological weapons.
Knowing clearly that they could not resist the swarm of insects on their own, the Steel Lordss had to ask for help from other Chapter brothers.
And just after Steel Lordss sent out a signal for help, they quickly received a response from nearby Chapters.
Three loyal Space Marine Chapters responded to Steel Lordss' request for help.
What is unexpected is that the first one to respond was Lamenters, followed by Raven Knights Chapter and Scythes of the Emperor Chapter who had just been reborn by Primaris Warriors.
These Chapter originally came nearby in response to Imperium's defense against Orks's invasion. However, because their speed was too slow compared to Men of Iron, the Orks war had almost ended by the time they arrived.
Just when they were planning their next step and preparing to leave, they unexpectedly received a request for help from Steel Lords.
Lamenters were once severely damaged by Kraken Hive, and Scythes of the Emperor was completely destroyed by Tyranids Homeworld Sotha, in the entire Chapter, only one warrior of Company survived. After receiving the supplement of Primaris, all the surviving warriors of Chapter gradually died in the battle.
However, Cawl has already regarded Sotha as one of its experimental targets to test how to restore Planet that was completely drained by Tyranid creature.
And Scythes of the Emperor has been completely rebuilt after the Primaris display and supplement.
As for Raven Knights Chapter, this Chapter is almost completely shrouded in mystery. The Steel Lordss only know that they are probably a sub-group of Raven Guard. Some people have seen them walking in the shadows, but they behaved extremely superstitiously and fanatical.