As the Xindari Triumvirate's destroyers sailed toward the Virus, more than ten thousand Space Marines had already assembled in the various converted Airlock Chambers.
Company Commander Heracles commanded the squad leaders under him. Each squad leader oversaw several three-man combat teams.
There were more than a thousand combat teams aboard this ship, ready to bring fear and death to these Alien Species.
The only ordinary human aboard was a technician sent by the Human Federation.
He hid in the reactor room, keeping the Antimatter Reactor company while controlling the entire ship.
Three destroyers approached the enormous Virus.
The technician pressed a button on his tablet.
A Boarding Harpoon shot from every hatch. Each harpoon's tip carried a thruster that dragged its cable toward the destroyers.
The harpoon tips continuously emitted energy fields similar to those of a Disruptor. Enveloped in those fields, the Boarding Harpoons pierced the destroyers' Shields before striking their armor dead-on.
Before the Xindari aliens could react, a dense mass of cables suddenly shot from the hull of the cruiser Virus, piercing their Shields and burying themselves in the destroyers' hulls.
The sharp harpoon tips sank into the armor, then released energy fields that anchored the cables firmly in place.
Countless cables pulled taut at once, holding the three destroyers fast.
It was time!
"For the Grand Marshal-long live the Empire!!!"
"Board them-slaughter them!"
Heracles took one last breath of pure oxygen and held it in his lungs. Letting out a deafening battle cry, he leaped forward and smashed through the floor-to-ceiling viewport at the bow.
Out in space, he activated the thrusters in his backpack, propelled himself a considerable distance, and successfully caught hold of a thick Boarding Harpoon cable.
Every Space Marine had a Mechanical Claw mounted on his wrist. His claw clamped firmly around