From Skaven to God of War

Chapter 436: Crazy Rat Purists and Space Airborne Troops
A huge cube-shaped warship was hovering above the vast yellow sand planet.

This is the Comet-class 201 transport ship.

The comet represents the tonnage of this ship, 201 represents the time when it was finalized, the year 201 in the Rat Empire calendar, and the transport ship represents its specific model and purpose.

In fact, this type of transport ship is more appropriately called a landing ship than a transport ship. Its biggest feature is the three pairs of rotatable engines evenly distributed on both sides of the warship.

This special design brings huge constant thrust to this model. It is the only model of the Ratmen that can hover stably outside the planet's atmosphere and can exist as an airborne carrier.

The huge space on the ship is enough to accommodate a full forty magic tanks and a drop bay for ten thousand people, which is enough to support the deployment of a complete airborne regiment.

The airborne regiment is a special military organization, an extremely luxurious military organization.

To a certain extent, these ratmen troops following the expeditionary fleet are completely different from the Imperial Army who were simply trained for a few days and then thrown into the battlefield at will.

The complex fully enclosed steam psychic dual-powered armor requires a high platform to be successfully put on. It has its own life support system and is equipped with a small magic cannon, anti-psychic structure outer armor, one-piece composite outer armor, steam shotgun shells, and a flamethrower.

Such a set of power armor is equivalent to the total price of weapons in the hands of an Imperial Army of 10,000 men.

At this time, a total of one thousand sets of power armor were being assembled on this Comet-class transport ship.

Perhaps in this way you can understand why fleet commanders would rather wait for the subsequent deployment of the Imperial Army and watch those cheap cannon fodder being continuously replenished, even if it means wasting time and delaying the pace of the war.

This kind of expensive weapon has reached a level where even losing one set is enough to cause heartache.

What makes people even more cautious is that this complex power armor is a black box that cannot be repaired for the First Expeditionary Fleet.

Even though there were quite a few ratmen engineers on the First Expeditionary Fleet, they were unable to make such power armor in the absence of effective equipment and key blueprints.

If one breaks, one is lost.

There are only one thousand sets of such armor in the entire First Expeditionary Fleet, and now, almost all of them have been deployed here.

Qi took a fancy to a core oasis on this desert planet, but unfortunately, this huge oasis already had an owner, and on it there existed an indigenous city with a population of one million.

It is not an easy task to eat it, but if it can be eaten, it will lay the foundation for the future direction of this colonial war.

This is not the first time that Qi has participated in a colonial war. If he wants to completely kill these bugs that have been operating on the planet for a long time, the first thing he must do is to destroy their largest bug nest.

By catching them off guard and wiping out a large number of indigenous people and the largest number of manpower, this can greatly reduce their war potential and also cause them to feel the greatest fear and anxiety.

It just requires some risks.

Elite troops always have to be used. At the most critical moment, in this situation, Qi pulled out these power armors without hesitation.

They will be the first landing force to land on the selected core oasis.

This was also the first step for him to completely grasp the Yellow Sand Star in his hands. Qi named this planet the Yellow Sand Star. Of course, the natives and aborigines on that planet definitely had something to say.

In fact, this planet had its name many years ago, Enola, which means beautiful gem. It is much better than the simple and crude Yellow Sand Planet, but so what?

Qi did not intend to respect the culture of the natives of these planets. If they could repel them and make them return in disgrace, then they would be qualified to preserve the beautiful name of Enola.

Otherwise, this planet can only be named Huangsha Star, a crude name given in less than a minute.

In the Comet-class transport ship, a team of strong, silent, and elite ratmen are ready. They are the members of the airborne regiment who will wear these power armors and fall towards the planet below.

These are some specially modified ratmen. These power armors will bring great pressure to the wearers. In order to better provide them with suitable wearers, the introduction of transformation surgery has become a very normal thing.

The Ratman Empire also possesses some distorted technology, which is a very normal thing. After all, Qi was born as a temple guard, and he has also received the legacy of the long claws.

In fact, the two camps in the civil war, those temple priests, and the Ratman Empire, Qi, had extremely deep entanglements. At one point, it was a state of you in me and I in you. If it were not for this, I am afraid Qi would not accept supporting a group of new ratmen after destroying the temple priests.

This is an unavoidable compromise.

After all, to some extent, the current Ratman Empire is also the successor of the Ratman Church in the chaotic era. Not only do they possess the technology of flesh and blood distortion, but they have also accepted a group of temple guards from the Heretic Inquisition.

It's just that these guys are not active on the surface of the Ratman Empire, but hidden in the dark, and what they do is the same as before, devout faith, crazy judgment. To this extent, it is quite interesting that the Ratman Empire may be the orthodox successor of the Ratman sect in the wild era, even more orthodox than the group of temple priests who have abandoned their faith.

After all, there is still a force in the Ratman Empire that is always persevering in judging heretics.

These guys have considerable influence, and they are equally loyal to Qi, but what they do is not so bright. In the new era, they regard those who advocate the acceptance of other colonized races as heretics, and regard those ratmen who want to initiate large-scale genetic modification as heretics.

They are a group of thorough purists.

Acceptance-oriented rat-men bureaucrats and activists were often tortured and killed by them, and those crazy rat-men scientific lunatics were also often executed by them.

Of course, as the sharp blade in Qi's hands, they also had to suppress the new and novel ideas in the Ratman Empire and clean up the mess for those crazy Ratman engineers.

In their activities, these guys who were modified to be able to carry power armor also had some functions castrated, such as fertility.

These guys cannot reproduce with ordinary ratmen. They don't have that ability. This is a kind of pre-castration to prevent these modified genes from flowing into the ratmen's gene pool.

It's the price of bravery.

At this moment, these tall and brave ratmen climbed up the platform one after another and stepped into the bulky power armor with the back opened in front of them. After they were in position, steam was puffing, gears were turning, and the red electronic eyes on the helmets lit up, completing the donning.

These huge war weapons began to move in a small area. The ratmen engineers gathered around at this moment to make detailed adjustments and assemble the reverse thrust engines. With the nods of these noisy guys, the war preparations were completed. They began to prepare for the airborne landing.

The ejection port in the Comet-class transport ship was fixed, and the hatch slowly opened with the flashing of scarlet lights.

Qi's cold voice rang in the ears of every airborne soldier wearing power armor on the field.

"Kill them all!"

The war has begun.

Batch after batch of airborne soldiers were ejected like cannonballs from the comet-class transport ship that was calmly hovering in the outer space of the Yellow Sand Star, and fell towards the huge yellow planet below.

The terrifying speed brought scorching temperature and flames that enveloped the whole body.

However, these are not enough to give these armored warriors even a little more perception.

The one-piece composite armor blocked the terrifying temperature, and the life-support system inside the bulky armor allowed them to not be afraid of the thin oxygen. They just quietly hugged their arms, waiting for the moment of falling to the ground.

The core oasis designated as the target of attack by the flag, this area contains the few cities on the yellow sand planet Enola that have escaped the barbarism of the wasteland era and restored some of the appearance of the golden age of the gerbil civilization.

Enkos, this word represents progress in the language of the gerbils.

The city is one of only a few lighthouses on this wasteland planet.

Towering buildings, neat cities, a wide variety of goods, unlimited supply of electricity, all of this is almost unimaginable for those guys who have been struggling in the wasteland for five hundred years, and it is also the place they yearn for.

It's just a pity that after restoring its prosperity, this progressive city never thought of going further, and never thought of truly saving the gerbils from the wasteland.

Perhaps the survivors of the Golden Age who had just walked out of the shelter had thought about this and tried to save the world, but they failed, and failed completely.

Civilization and progress ultimately stopped in this city called Enkos, which was like a remnant of an old era contained in a miniature glass jar, telling the story of the former glory of the gerbil civilization.

But today, the situation seems to be changing. The group of rude rats will not cherish this precious and peculiar afterimage jar. On the contrary, the first thing they see is the threat that this city brings to them.

Good industrial capacity, a technological level that is enough to enter outer space to some extent, and a large population, all of which are particularly eye-catching, allowing it to successfully enter the first destruction sequence of the ratmen and become the first destruction target of the ratmen.

In fact, the people in power in this city, the most civilized and respectable city councilors on this wasteland planet, were the ones who discovered the arrival of the Rat People's First Expeditionary Fleet almost immediately.

They retained control of the satellite launches during the Golden Age.

The arrival of the rats made them very panicked for a time. The radicals issued a warning of the impending war and proposed to reorganize the space force.

But unfortunately, it was rejected. Next, these guys proposed to restart the Prism system out of spite.

This is a set of planetary defense measures built by the Gerbils at the end of the Golden Age to defend against possible falling meteorites and possible alien enemies.

The main part of this system is now sealed underground in Enkos.

But it was still rejected.

The reasons for the denial are well-founded. This year's fiscal budget has reached its bottom, and there is no money to be squeezed out to rebuild the so-called space force. Even if the space force really needs to be rebuilt, it is too late to do so now.

The reason for giving up on rebuilding the Prism system was that in the face of a huge energy gap, they had already deployed the large fusion reactors that powered the Prism system to power the city. If the Prism system were to be restarted, it would cause at least one-third of Engels' urban area to suffer a power outage. No one among them could bear such a responsibility, and the angry people would ask them to get out immediately.

This was not acceptable, and that was not acceptable either. These hawkish congressmen were so angry that they started cursing and shouting at each other during the meeting. The whole place was in chaos and at one point it even turned into a fight.

In the end, it was the city leader who spoke up and put an end to the chaotic situation.

The reconstruction of the Space Force and the restart of Prism were abandoned, but the nuclear satellite sealed in outer space was decided to be restarted.

At the same time, the city entered a state of emergency mobilization, preparing for subsequent actions to welcome these space visitors.

After all, no one can tell for sure what intentions these guys who suddenly arrive have, whether they are well-intentioned or malicious.

This city and these civilized people have not been completely swallowed up by comfort, at least they have made preparations.

At this time, in outer space, not far from the hovering comet transport ship, an abandoned satellite was quietly floating. At the same time, on the planet, the high-ranking gerbils in Enkos had entered the underground shelter and were nervously paying attention to the ratmen's every move.

But how to say it.

Not enough, far from enough.

The rats are even more unsportsmanlike than they thought.

Before the space drop group officially landed, another thing arrived earlier.

In the starry sky, in the center of the huge fleet, the huge flagship began to adjust its posture, the engine began to heat up, and brilliant dark blue particles began to gather in front of the battleship. The frigates surrounding the flagship began to evade. Now is the most vulnerable moment for this huge battleship that is like a mobile city.

The moving frigate created a huge loophole in the defense network built around it, and at the same time, it also meant that it had entered its most dangerous posture.

This is not a good sign. Such a sign can only mean one thing.

That is the super magic cannon carried on the flagship, the Destroyer, and it has entered the charging sequence.

(End of this chapter)