Just when the Punitive Expedition fleet once again began to ride the waves of Warp, what was inside Prospero Star System of Ultima Segmentum was already in chaos.
The huge Imperial Navy and thousands of Ultramarines from Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar have been fighting here for nearly three months.
"Calgar-sama."
A Sword Bearer veteran of Honour Guard gestured to Calgar who was standing on Bridge.
"How is the situation on the ground?"
Sword Bearer The veteran shook his head.
"Warp interference is too powerful, and we have not received any more information so far."
Calgar's Power Fist knocked hard on the long table in front of him.
The Holographic Projection above flashed for a while and then suddenly went off.
The Chapter servant on the side silently added a record.
This is already the seventeenth time in recent times that the maintenance tactical briefing table has been registered.
I hope Tech-Priest, who is responsible for maintenance, will not embarrass himself due to this.
This kind of integrated mechanical device can carry out Holographic Projection tables. They are usually very sturdy and have many technological devices.
But there has been too much bad news recently.
five months ago.
Calgar received the message.
A large number of Chaos Traitors from Iron Warriors are gathering somewhere towards Ultima Segmentum.
For this reason, he ordered a large number of Ultramarines and other sub-regiments to strengthen their defense.
But even so, there are still two Ultramarines sub-groups Roaring Gryphon and Aurora Chapter that have been hit hard.
Among them, one Battle Barge of Roaring Gryphon and three Company on it were blown up by a fleet of Iron Warriors Traitors that suddenly appeared.
Although the griffins launched the Boarding Action battle without fear of death, they faced Iron Warriors Traitors who were several times their own.
Their resistance lasted only a few hours before they were completely eliminated.
The number of people on the other side even exceeds the total number of Roaring Gryphon Chapter, and they even have equipment support that far exceeds theirs.
And Aurora Chapter is even more tragic.
They are the Ultramarines Legion Fourth Legion--the independent Chapter after the split of Dawn Goddess.
Good at Armored Formations combat.
But when facing Iron Warriors Traitors, they were Imperial World cleaning up and dealing with a Daemon invasion and large-scale rebellion set off by Cultists.
Two armored companies were surprised by the sudden appearance of Iron Warriors.
The Armored Formations they were so proud of was beaten to pieces by the opponent's firepower.
After the enemy severely damaged the ground troops, they even disabled the ships in orbit.
If the other party didn't seem to have a more important mission, and then captured a large number of Imperium Mortals and then hurriedly boarded the ship and left, these Company would probably have been destroyed.
And this kind of thing has happened to many Imperial World.
The Iron Warriorss went around to attack Imperial World, arresting a large number of people and grabbing supplies, and even attacked several Imperium's warehouse worlds, and then began to leave in a hurry.
It was the abnormal performance of Iron Warriors that made Ultramarines people pay attention to Prospero, which had become abandoned Star System.
Calgar personally led a fleet to track a fleet of Iron Warriors, trying to figure out what these Chaos Traitors were going to do.
But when they came to Prospero, the dense orbital defense platforms all over Star System fiercely greeted Calgar who were following them.
More than half of the fleet sustained various types of damage.
However, they still found some key information.
Prospero There is one more Planet among Star System.
What's even more troublesome is that the Tech-Priests used their equipment to identify the status of the Planet from a distance.
The amazing Chaos power surges crazily on Planet.
The power of blasphemy is even spreading to the surrounding Planet who have become Dead Planet.
There shouldn't be anything on the surface of Planet that was bombed by Exterminatus, but under the pollution of Warp's power, weird Psychic Power plants and weird creatures have taken root on its surface.
In order to avoid irreparable losses, Calgar had to let the fleet retreat first, and then immediately ordered the mobilization of troops and fleets.
No matter what these Traitors are planning, he will not let them act.
In addition, Calgar also ordered the release of many investigators. They were secretly released to the surface to explore what was on the Planet, which was full of Chaos's power.
However, no message was returned from multiple batches of personnel placements.
Even the communication didn't get any reply.
For this reason Calgar feels a little bad.
Among the last batch of droppers, Calgar even saw a somewhat miraculous warrior.
Malum·Caedo.
He is a veteran of Wardens Company, a soldier with legendary record.
After several waves of Scout Company teams failed to send back any messages, he took the initiative to ask to go down with him to have a look.
Based on his legendary experience, Calgar agreed.
But Ultramarines people don't know what this Planet, which is protected layer by layer by Iron Warriors, actually means.
Before the six Terran Month, these Iron Warriors, led by Warsmith, came here in response to the order of Perturabo, and began to fortify the Desolate Planet around here.
The Thousand Sonss began to arrange a large number of Chaos Artifacts around them under the orders of Magnus.
Both groups of Traitors are racing against time to prepare and cautiously wait for the upcoming Men of Iron Fleet.
Magnus released a large number of Chaos Sorcery and tried to lay a large number of traps on the route of Men of Iron among Warp to slow down the opponent's sailing speed.
However, I didn't expect that these traps were not triggered at all.
The destruction caused by the battle between Iax and his party and the Fortress left behind by Old Ones completely confused the surrounding Time Stream.
What was originally a few days' trip took them nearly eight months without being noticed.
This long time has even caused Ultramarines among Realspace to fight with the enemy.
Thousand Sons and Iron Warriors did not expect that the enemy who had been waiting for a long time did not show up in the end. Instead, they started a war with Calgar and Ultramarines.
Thanks to sufficient time and Chaos Traitors's characteristic of not taking others for granted.
After tens of billions of Imperium civilians who were captured as Slaves died, their fortifications and Fortress groups had taken shape.
An astonishing number of orbital defense platforms and the thick Void Shield became the first barrier.
In the past three months, Calgar has tried its best to attack the opponent, but still failed to achieve any results.
He didn't know that the one commanding the battle was not just Traitors, but Primarch Perturabo of Iron Warriors.
With the ability of a Primarch, he could almost easily penetrate Calgar's various tactical deployments and plans.
Magnus, on the other hand, still stays on Planet of the Sorcerers and constantly tries to predict some news to increase the winning rate of future battles.
As for the reconnaissance troops who infiltrated Planet of the Sorcerers, most of them were almost captured by Ahriman's team.
Only one Wardens veteran disappeared in the melee.
Ahriman lost more than ten Rubric Marines.
Even a Lord of Change summoned in advance was banished by this heroic Ultramarines.
The shoulder armor of that Ultramarines marked him as a First Company Marines, and the unique helmet painting represented his status as a veteran. But the method of pulling out the head made the corners of the eyes twitch, as if he could see another Ultramarines that Thousand Sonss hated.
If there was no definite news that the person named Titus was still playing with Orks's head in another location, Ahriman would have doubted whether the other party had been promoted to the first company.