The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Ten minutes later, Kirk walked out of the Law Enforcement Department's fortress. A gray SUV was parked on the roadside. Seeing him, a burly man in a vest got out of the car and opened the door.

"Boss, we were about to die waiting for you."

Suddenly, he noticed the wounds on Kirk's face and immediately said angrily:

"Damn it! Did those black-skinned dogs torture you, Boss? I'll organize the brothers to teach him a lesson next time he's on patrol!"

Kirk just smiled and straightened his clothes.

"It's nothing, just meeting a friend. He's very polite."

"Uh, is that so?"

Kirk got into the car, then flipped open his left eyelid in the mirror, carefully removed something almost the size of a grain of sand with tweezers, and handed it to a man in the front row who looked like a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus with a lot of equipment on his head.

"Why so fast?"

A large man in sunglasses and a bulletproof vest in the passenger seat turned his head and said:

"Boss, the Grand Master intervened."

Kirk immediately showed a surprised expression.

"It was the Grand Master?"

"Yes, and the Grand Master also summoned all the regional executives of the Sagan system for a meeting, in about 36 hours."

"Then hurry back, I need to wash up and prepare."

"Yes."

Before the car window went up, Kirk turned to look at the Law Enforcement Department's fortress. Gabriel was also staring from the high wall. The two briefly made eye contact, eventually disappearing behind Kirk's bland smile and the rising car window.

After returning to his luxurious mansion and preparing for an hour, Kirk boarded his private jet and headed to his private ship at the fastest speed, heading to Sagan II's trade port.

It was a huge void port, a vast creation filled with desperate hope and futile dreams, constantly filled with merchants, mercenaries, wanderers, missionaries, gang members, and other temporary residents, along with officials and attendants from the Department of Internal Affairs and members of the Adeptus Mechanicus, all of whom fed on the lucrative trade wealth of the Maelstrom Warp Route.

This spaceport was originally established by the Imperial Navy in 35M, created to facilitate the Navy's military operations deep into the Maelstrom in the centuries that followed, creating a forward base. As the Maelstrom Warp Route gradually stabilized, the Sagan system became increasingly important as the gateway from the Maelstrom to the Sol System.

Therefore, the military port's original role as a base for Imperial military operations was gradually forgotten, and more and more non-military personnel began to arrive, making it a famous trading hub.

Merchants and mercenaries began to clamor in the space station's abandoned corridors, strange travelers traded exotic goods from across the warp, while arrogant civil servants, fat merchants, and various other personnel crowded the spaceport, from overbearing administrative officials to cunning Inquisitorial acolytes.

Although the Sagan system has several large spaceports, Sagan II's spaceport, due to its predecessor being a military port, was originally designed to accommodate battlecruisers and other large ships, making it the second largest spaceport in the Sagan system, second only to the main star's spaceport in terms of Maelstrom throughput. In the thousands of years of peace that followed, the spaceport was continuously expanded, with entire new modules and battlements installed on the space station, the original segments being completely covered by new buildings, the original space station almost entirely covered by layers of new construction.

So today, when viewed from a distance, Sagan II's spaceport looks like a small Imperial hive city, with Gothic spires and arched cathedral towers, the huge Aquila symbol symbolizing loyalty to the Emperor, with countless ports extending from the sides, spider-like docking devices ready to anchor ships to their berths, in addition to various small ships coming and going to transport personnel and cargo between ships and the spaceport.

The various deep ravines on the space station illustrate the lengthening of various buildings over thousands of years, some of which are small ships spliced onto it, carrying out continuous construction and external maintenance, servitors wandering around this vast metal behemoth like flies.

The lower part of the spaceport is mainly repair docks, where damaged ships can be renovated and repaired. These giant docks also have enclosed dry docks that can be used to repair large ships. In addition, there are various complex and mysterious arrays and detectors on the keel of the spaceport, as well as lance batteries, weapon arrays, torpedo launchers, and void shield generators running through the entire port area.

In addition to these static defense facilities, several squadrons of fully armed ships are stationed near the spaceport, all belonging to the Law Enforcement Department's anti-smuggling and patrol fleets. Occasionally, ships from the Navy's battle fleets will also patrol the roaming port regularly. In addition, there are countless merchant ships, giant transport ships, and small ships that come and go like swarms of insects, some carrying raw fuel gas extracted from giant gas planets, and some bringing various rare ores and flora and fauna from the farther reaches of the galaxy.

Especially after the Crusade was launched, the Sagan system also became the logistics hub of the Crusade, and therefore became even busier than before, and like a huge piece of fresh meat attracting countless greedy scavengers.

Since the launch of the Crusade, the throughput of Sagan II's spaceport has increased by more than 200%, once forming a serious channel blockage, and the soaring prices of some commodities due to the Crusade ban have made smuggling more profitable. Many legitimate merchants also began to trade secretly with smugglers behind the curtain, while mercenaries and bodyguards would look for business here.

Therefore, it is not only a transit station, but also a huge market, where all kinds of strange creations from all corners of the galaxy are traded, including xenos wines, addictive substances from hive worlds, or beasts from some dangerous worlds, even slaves with special talents or functions, and xenos products and handicrafts strictly prohibited by Imperial law.

These transactions never cease, whether in the artificially lit day or the dim night.

By the time the Crusade was nearing its end, Sagan II's spaceport already had more than 5 million permanent residents and 3 million non-permanent residents, most of whom lived in the port, while some chose to live on their ships, naturally including the gang organizations unique to the Imperium.

In fact, just for the dominance of the underground black market around Sagan II, there have been several armed gang conflicts involving more than a thousand people. Although the Law Enforcement Department has specifically deployed a law enforcement fortress here, most law enforcement officers are indifferent to these, and some law enforcement officers themselves are involved in it, in order to fill their personal accounts.

It is for these reasons that Sagan II's spaceport is also jokingly called by merchants - Black Gold Port.