Warhammer 40k: Lust of Light.

Chapter 10 Shadow Moon Wolf
  At this moment, a company from the Space Marines was staying on Naiwei.

These Astartes have been wandering in the warp for more than eighteen years, which is not a long number.

Since the beginning of the Iron Man Rebellion, the warp has become increasingly unstable, and the endless warp storms have begun to disrupt the expansion and development of the empire.

Subspace is a place of chaos that can accommodate both matter and spirit, an indescribable realm of chaos in time and space.

Its chaotic nature of time and space has been exploited by many civilizations for voyages across the stars.

The Milky Way is too big. A star region is as big as a cube of starry sky with a side length of 200 light years. It is impossible for the Imperial fleet to fly slowly across it.

All navigation is completed by subspace engines.

The subspace engine will bring the warship into the subspace, using the subspace to shorten the space and time gap to the destination.

But the disadvantages are obvious. After all, the subspace is the domain of the Chaos Gods. The four main gods and a large number of secondary gods are there to spy on these little bugs that come in and out of their sight.

It is possible to be temporarily or even permanently lost in the Warp.

Therefore, special psykers such as navigators appear. Unfortunately, these psykers cannot guarantee the absolute stability and safety of navigation.

Gavirloken, the captain of the 10th company of the Luna Wolves Legion, was the highest officer among everyone present.

At this moment, they stayed on the surface of Naiwei, which has a complete ecosystem, roasting sweet potatoes around the stove.

The Astra Militarum and some mortal servants who were sailing in the warp with the Luna Wolves were in very bad condition at the moment.

In the subspace, people will hear many whispers. These unintelligible voices will cause extremely terrible harm to mortals who are not strong-willed enough, and even cause special attacks to psykers.

Even individual Luna Wolves had partial body mutations.

This company commander has short blond hair and a face full of scars. He looks like a weather-beaten company commander. On the surface, he looks quite calm, even though he is extremely panicked on the inside.

His appearance is very different from the other Luna Wolves around him.

Nearly every Space Marine Legion is genetically flawed, and the Luna Wolves are no exception.

After undergoing Astartes transformation surgery as teenagers, Luna Wolves Space Marines grow more and more like their primarchs.

Loken does not have this flaw, but he is not rejected by the brothers around him. His ability to become the captain of the tenth company of the Luna Wolves Legion also shows that he has unusual personal charm and military qualities.

Next to Loken was a Naxian official being held hostage by many Astartes.

Now, he was sitting next to the fire with numb scalp, watching Loken eating roasted sweet potatoes without saying a word or peeling them off.

"Dear Emperor Angel, I have told you what I know twenty-one times. Really, I really don't know anything else."

This Naixing official especially hated himself for talking too much.

He had followed the governor to greet these pale cans the day before yesterday. Unexpectedly, the company commander who was leading the company, who had an even paler complexion, pinned him here because he talked too much and almost strangled him to death.

That sentence is...

"Another group of people who have lost their material providers..."

Before he could finish his words, he was surrounded by Space Marines with loaded bolters, and then he was pitifully carried to Loken.

He then told the story over and over of the known material providers.

All the material providers who participated in the war had the same appearance. They gave all the legions a kind of warmth that should not have been there. They gave guidance and guidance to these space warriors who were fighting on the front line again and again.

them……

They will sacrifice themselves at the most desperate moment to allow every Astartes to evacuate as many as possible.

This almost made Loken and his battle brothers' blood race and their hearts beat wildly with excitement.

Because they have experienced this firsthand!
  Nineteen years ago, their material provider came to them. At first, everyone did not pay much attention to this quartermaster.

But over time, the material provider gradually changed them.

There was even a conflict between them.

The following events began to make them have a great change in their view of the material provider.

They specially dispatched several Astartes to guard their material providers, which were the company's weapons, medical and food guarantee.

But when they were locked in a bitter battle on a brutal battlefield, he persuaded the Astartes who were protecting him to rush into the battlefield together.

The 10th Company should have lost 80% of its personnel in that battle, but in the end only seven people died.

He shuttled among the dying and injured, not even sparing the Astra Militarum.

When they felt the power in their bodies again, the hot air on the planet, and the warmth of the food delivered by the material provider, they began to be impressed.

They had only been with him for more than three months, but the vivid memories of him were engraved deep in their minds.

"Mu Weilixing..."

There were Astartes who thought back to that planet, the one drowned by the sea of ​​heresy.

They were ready to sacrifice. The scale of that battle was too large for a company to deal with. It was a hunting ground specifically targeted at them.

At that time, the material provider stood up, and his body radiated a dim light. The aliens and the ugly monsters around them that would return to the battlefield after death screamed and screamed outside the light, and crawled on the ground.

then……

They saw a nightmare they never wanted to experience again in their lives. The body of the material provider began to be ignited by some kind of light and turned into a plasma state.

In a calm and gentle "goodbye", everyone in the entire 10th Company scattered on the planet, including battleships and even various heavy firepower, were wrapped in multiple subspace vortexes that appeared at the same time, and left the planet.

When Loken and many brothers looked back, they only saw the dim light extinguished, and the last plasma state disappeared in the wind.

Half a month later, they went to the next planet. Everyone vented their anger in that battle, and they felt a little more confused.

This led to what happened to them when they entered the subspace after their victory, so that they became lost and lost contact with the Empire for more than ten years.

In the battleship, there is a large amount of food that they once made for them in their lost glory, which is placed in a food insurance warehouse. These sweet potatoes are what he left behind. Lorcan and his brothers like this sweet starchy potato very much. .

The Astartes who took off their helmets and ate sweet potatoes were collectively silent.

Their material providers are probably the same as those of other legions.

He made the same choice for every company in every legion.

In the eyes of those people, he turned into plasma and finally died out on a certain planet.

The silence was interrupted by an unpleasant guy.

"Everyone...the Emperor's Angels!"

Salic still resisted saying the words "Wisdom Emperor".

"Governor Naixing."

Loken stood up, his attitude was condescending.

Salic had no grievances and any Astartes deserved the respect of the governors.

"Dear angels, I have just received a document from the Empire. It is an order from the great Emperor."

Salic followed suit.

The eyes of Loken and many loyal Luna Wolves lit up.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor, is there any new combat mission that requires the Luna Wolves?"

"Angels, in fact, this mission is not explicitly assigned to you. This is actually my request, a request from an ordinary imperial governor who is loyal to the empire and the emperor."

Salic's words made many Astartes lose interest.

Some Astartes even felt that their index finger had not been close to the trigger for a long time.

Salic spoke faster.

"That's it. The empire issued an order for me to sign a peace agreement on behalf of the empire with a hive world called Liting in this sector."

Salic deliberately did not explain the matter clearly and in detail.

"What do you mean?"

Loken's attention was drawn again, and he picked out the details in Salic's words.

Belonging to the Empire, why should we sign a peace agreement with the Empire?
  "Dear company commander, that world will declare its independence with the approval of the empire."

Salic lowered his head and stretched out his neck, aiming for the Astartes.

Loken stood up suddenly, startling the officials next to him. The other Astartes began to think that bolt guns were too cheap for this nonsense governor.

When Loken came to him, Salic took out the document with double security marks.

Loken used the method of the Luna Wolf to decipher the third layer of anti-counterfeiting marks.

Finally, he raised his right hand, signaling the Astartes behind him to put down their weapons against the Governor.

"it is true."

Loken never expressed his emotions and anger in words, and his calm tone did not represent his true inner state.

The other Astartes were so shocked that they looked at their brothers from left to right, looking at each other in confusion. They were confirming whether they heard correctly and whether this was some kind of hallucination caused by the sequelae of the subspace trek.

Loken stuffed the hot sweet potato in his hand into his mouth.

"What do we need to do?"

Wearing power armor, he stood in front of Salic, feeling oppressive, as if he could punch the young ruler to death in the next second.

"I think we should strive harder for the interests of the empire. The content of the peace agreement is not detailed. I think you can lend me a little bit of strength to make this world called Liting, even after independence, Also shrouded in the glory of the empire.”

Salic was hiding something, and the document he handed to Loken was missing one piece.

The less important one made it clear - this document came from Malcador, and was personally ordered by the Emperor, and required respect for Li Ting.

In fact, this document may have been originally a document, but it was interfered with by some special force when it arrived at Naixing.

"We will."

Loken's eyes are still calm, but the Luna Wolf warriors who are familiar with him all know that their company commander is becoming more and more dangerous to the enemy!

(End of this chapter)