Warhammer 40K: Return of the Men of Iron
Chapter 691

Abyss-class Star Fortresses

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In addition to the huge fleet, the remaining construction surplus was turned into thirty-five large Star Fortress.

This giant facility named Abyss-class Star Fortress looks like a flattened sixteen-sided pyramid.

The overall diagonal length reaches 550 kilometers.

It is more than two hundred kilometers thick.

It looks somewhat similar to Ramillies-class Star Fortress.

These Abyss-class Star Fortress have passive Warp drives. They can be towed by ships and move forward in Warp.

It's not that it's technically impossible for Star Fortress to move by itself. These are the requirements put forward by Trajann Valoris and Guilliman after discussion.

After all, the inability to move on its own means that if something goes wrong, the damage will not spread easily.

The entire Star Fortress adopts a modular design, using sixteen independent combat blocks divided into upper and lower layers to surround the central command center.

Each block has an independent energy supply and can provide connections for ships.

The huge Spatial Anchor stationary system can prevent it from being affected by the gravity of surrounding stars.

Each combat block of Star Fortress is equipped with a Laser array composed of two hundred giant Lances and a large number of small ion pulse air defense arrays.

The power of these Lances is even comparable to the Lance weapons carried on the Emperor’s Dream, with the huge power of one Cruiser.

There is also a huge gravitational collapse cannon at the central axis where every four battle blocks meet.

This weapon can launch microscopic Black Hole directly into space, continuously distorting the target's space structure and producing large-scale gravitational tearing.

Although these micro-Black Holes don't last long, their destructive power is unquestionable.

In addition to long-range strike weapons, these Star Fortress are also equipped with large Phase Shield that are somewhat similar to Necrons.

Also features phase interference Force Field and energy refraction housing.

When the shield is penetrated, its thick Alloy shell can still refract part of the Beam Weapon to reduce the damage to the Star Fortress itself.

The phase interference Force Field can produce a wide range of signal interference, causing the enemy's target locking efficiency to decrease exponentially.

These Abyss-class Star Fortress have strong independent operation capabilities and can maintain operation for a long time without additional supplies.

It is also equipped with a four-dimensional expansion dock.

This unique semi-folding space technology allows Star Fortress to unfold a giant Starport that is more than sixty kilometers long and twelve kilometers wide.

The adaptive docking interface can support Imperial Ships of various sizes.

The internal space of these Star Fortress is equally amazing, and the huge internal structure can store a large amount of materials and personnel.

When fully loaded, it can even supply two Imperial Navy fleets at the same time.

In order to deal with the endless bizarre Boarding Action tactics, these Abyss-class Star Fortress not only have dense defense arrays inside.

These combat blocks also have the ability to detach from the main body.

If an area suffers from a large number of enemy Boarding Action battles, Star Fortress can even detach the entire battle block from the main body.

To ensure that its core area will not be invaded.

Afterwards, you only need to clear the enemies in the combat area again, and then you can reconnect it back to the main structure and continue to use it.

Since Adeptus Custodes could not muster such a large manpower, Trajann Valoris finally gave up most of the compensation. The one hundred Executioner-class Battleship alone was enough for them to spend a lot of time digesting it.

And Guilliman simply assigned all these Star Fortress to Departmento Munitorum and Inquisition.

Departmento Munitorum placed the obtained Star Fortress at some important transportation hubs of Imperium to free up some Imperial Navy and reduce the pressure on defense.

Inquisition directly transferred the assigned Star Fortress to Deathwatch.

Some important Watch Fortresss on the edge of Milky Way were replaced.

Defense capabilities are greatly enhanced.

After the delivery of the battleship and Starport, Heart of the Forge and the other Titan Ship soon left Segmentum Solar.

Adeptus Mechanicus began to visit the new Necromunda frequently.

Soon Imperium discovered that Men of Iron's activities within the entire Milky Way range began to slow down on a large scale, and many Mechanicus Fleet began to disappear.

Occasionally, Imperial Fleet can encounter fragmented Men of Iron Fleet and a large number of Necrons wreckage among Milky Way.

During this period, Grey Knights Grand Master Diego, who had followed Men of Iron back from Warp, disappeared again during a mission.

Thirty members of Grey Knights Sword Brotherhood also disappeared with him.

No one knows where they went, but Grey Knights Librarian analyzed the Psychic Power text messages left by Diego, and guessed that Grand Master might have gotten lost in Warp again.

Grey Knights can only sigh but are helpless about Grand Master's experience.

Although I don't know what Men of Iron is busy with, Imperium's pressure has been relieved now.

The newly arrived Star Fortress and fleet have greatly enhanced the power of Imperium.

Huron who escaped from Maelstrom to Imperium Nihilus and his Red Corsairs were divided by Star Fortress.

Space Wolves, led by Russ, is chasing Dante and Blood Angels around.

The once powerful Huron Blackheart once again had to lead the fleet to flee towards the edge of Milky Way.

As the power of Chaos continues to invade, Huron's changes are becoming more and more serious. He has lost his original intention and even abandoned his former ideals.

When the gloomy Huron even began to do large-scale transactions with Drukhari and other Xenos, some Astartes who rebelled because of Huron's ideals chose to break away from Red Corsairs and became mercenaries.

Vulkan is still busy leading Progenys to fight everywhere in Imperium Sanctus.

Four Gods has intensified its efforts to confuse the public, resulting in various Chaos Calamity emerging one after another.

It has been more than a year since Jaghatai disappeared with his troops. Dark Angels and Lion El'Jonson also disappeared at about the same time.

Guilliman, after a long absence, mobilized some of Imperium's troops and began to march towards Ultima Segmentum.

The issue with T'au needs to be addressed.

In the past, the situation of Imperium was so bad that Imperium temporarily allowed the development of these Xenos, but now is obviously the best time to clean up these Xenos.

And in the vast Milky Way, there are still wars going on that are far beyond imagination.

In fact, the information obtained by Iax from Omnissiah's Key is very messy. In addition to valuable technical information, it also contains a large amount of other key information.

Where does Tyranids come from and how big is its scale?

The specific location of each Dynasty World of Necrons as well as its location and technological status.

And most importantly, where did the compatriots Men of Gold, Men of Stone, and Men of Iron who left once went?

However, there are some problems with the way Iax bypasses Hope and directly accesses Omnissiah's Key.

These questions only receive partial information rather than complete answers.

Especially about Necrons and Tyranids.

These two races are too ancient, and the data given by Omnissiah's Key is very detailed. If Iax had not been cut off quickly enough, it would not have been the seven Titan Ships that were paralyzed at that time, but all the Men of Iron units in the entire Milky Way.

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