Warhammer 40 A New Hope

457. The Beginning of the Second Great Expedition

After a few months, the insect plague in the Star Forge World sector was completely suppressed, and the hungry hive fleet had left the area.

This battle not only did not bring any benefits to the Zerg Fleet, but also caused a lot of losses. All the benefits that they had previously gained from this star field were lost.

Some of the other Hive Fleets that had gathered here because of the message sent by the Hive Fleet before lost their direction due to the departure of the former, while others were intercepted by the Imperial and Necrons fleets halfway.

The only remaining Dark Eldar were sent out of the Warp, handed over to the human fleet in the real universe, and then sent to the Star Forge World where Evelyne was. After all, if they were sent directly to [Nuwenus], who knows what kind of fun these people who always do heavy-tasting impats will get into.

After solving the problem in the Star Forge World sector, the Human Empire returned the Eldar God of Death, Inijed, as promised - he was returned to the Eldar with serious injuries, and the whole story was explained (with reservations). After their own inspection and confirmation, they also thanked the Human Empire for its help.

But on the other hand, the "rumor" that was originally circulated only within the Human Empire has somehow also appeared in the Eldar Empire - Guilliman is very crazy.

The problems with the Eldar and the Zerg have come to a temporary end, and the Empire has returned to a period of stable development in order to meet possible challenges in the future.

Chaos became quiet again (relatively speaking) because of the loss of its own gods. The Necrons established the second alien embassy since the [Golden Age] on a planet in the Ultramarine, which symbolized that the human empire began to take the first step to accept aliens again.

The Eldar are number one, but in some ways, they still haven't been able to communicate or trade normally with humans.

The Necrons are different. They all reason with you and keep their word.

The chaos on the northern front was completely settled, and after several chapters were left behind to stabilize the situation, the Primarchs who had been away returned to their respective home planets to deal with backlogs of affairs, receive new equipment, and train new recruits.

Of course, there is also a rare gathering of the original members over the years.

The appearance of Zhang Yi greatly changed the situation in the empire. He accomplished a feat that had never been accomplished before (sealing five subspace gods), and brought good changes and progress to the declining empire.

The fallen Primarch returned, the Emperor stepped down from the throne and walked with his children, and humanity saw hope again.

This is a rare change, but they still have a lot to do to make it last.

"...I feel like a pathogen."

Another Primarch dinner, at this stage all the Primarchs who were willing to return to the Human Empire gathered together - including Lorgar and Magnus.

Among them there is a special person, Magnus

Although both Lorgar and Magnus still have certain connections with Chaos, Lorgar did not give his soul to any evil god, but Magnus is different. His soul is still in the hands of Tzeentch.

Even though Tzeentch has been imprisoned at this stage, there are still many demons who have the ability to influence or even control Magnus through this.

Therefore, although Magnus was present at the dinner, O'Neill and others took a series of measures to cut off his connection with the subspace to prevent possible problems - similar to putting chemical protective clothing on pathogens.

"Why Lorga..."

"I'm different from you, brother. I believed in the essence of Chaos, not a certain evil god. My soul is still in my body."

"...So when can you get my soul back?"

"You'll have to ask Guilliman and Lion."

"... (Looks at Lion, gets glared at, then looks at Guilliman)..."

"I promise you, brother. Your matter is also on my schedule, but it's at a later time."

"...I'm used to it."

A whole herbivorous dragon captured from Monster Hunter World was served on the table, followed by a whole edible parasite and a cosmic steamed bun.

"Is this still pork?" Zhang Yi said, looking at the huge steamed buns in front of him. "Gro beast? Or Ant Bull?"

"I don't think that human is capable of handling the Ant Bull."

"I'm afraid that the little chef's hands will be shaking for several days again."

"We helped him deal with a few people from the 'dark culinary world'. This is considered as payment."

"You better just deal with a few..."

"Cough cough."

At this time, Guilliman coughed a few times and signaled everyone to be quiet.

"This is not just an ordinary dinner..."

"Are you going to announce your relationship with that alien?"

Dorn, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said something that completely disrupted what Guilliman had originally intended to say.

"It's better to give the bride a step at the wedding, otherwise the height difference will be very obvious." Fulgrim said as he elegantly cut the dragon steak in front of him. "Don't ask me how I know (Fulgrim has three wives/political marriage)."

"Fugen, I didn't..."

"Remember to call me when you are hung by your father. I will definitely take my offspring to see it." Chagatai, who likes to watch the fun, interrupted Guilliman and said, "It will be very interesting."

"Jaghatai."

"You'd better say whatever you want to say after you finish eating, Guilliman," O'Neill said. "Otherwise you may lose your appetite."

"...Yes, father."

Guilliman's topic was temporarily put aside, and the Primarchs began to enjoy this Primarch dinner with the most attendees so far.

"That dark green killer is still running around out there?" (Magnus)

"I heard that at the end, he killed one-tenth of the demons in the original Tau territory, and the rest either killed each other or ran away." (Fugen)

"Have you any news of Angron?" (Dorn)

"Not yet. There is no news about Angron so far, and Khorne's people are also looking for him." (Lorgar)

"What's going on with the Eldar?" (Vulkan)

"It's not bad. Evelyne has controlled the Dark Eldar we rescued, and the Avatar of Death has been sent to its temple. It is recovering now, and...wait, Vulkan, don't you hate the Eldar?"

The Primarchs chatted with each other, just as they had done during the Great Crusade, except with a few less people.

"Your plans are about to move on, right, Guilliman?"

After a while, O'Neill spoke again and brought up the original purpose of this gathering.

"Yes." Guilliman signaled the servants to remove their tableware and said, "After this period of busy work, the situation in the human empire has basically stabilized..."

"The previously chaotic northern front has been pacified by Ryan and others, and the vicinity of the Solar Star Region has also stabilized. A large-scale census, research and use of new technologies, and social transformation..."

"You have a busy schedule, Guilliman." (Leman Russ)

"The first stage has passed, or it has achieved its goal. We can start the second stage." Guilliman ignored the wolf king's words and continued, "Begin a large-scale expedition and development of another world."

"The construction and development of the XCOM world has also completed a phase, as have the Ringworld and Lelouch world. These places can feed back to our world to a certain extent."

"The first batch of standard weapons and equipment built by the dwarves has also been delivered, and there are also spare troops and ships at this stage."

"So, what to do?"

"Start with the simple stuff. Choose a suitable alien world to conduct a large-scale expedition and obtain various resources or technologies that can accelerate our current development."

"There aren't many people available at this stage, so I say let's start with something simple. Do you have any ideas?"

Guilliman looked at Zhang Yi, and the others followed his gaze.

"Let me confirm first. At this stage, the human empire has everything, but it also lacks everything, right?"

"Population, various technologies, basic materials, weapons and equipment, ships..."

"That's right. Although various new technologies have greatly improved productivity and new policies have liberated a large number of workers, we still lack a lot of things at the current stage of the development speed of the human empire."

"You should know that some of the big plans require a lot of manpower and resources."

"You also said that there are not many troops and ships available right now, and you want to get a wave of people, resources, and technology. In this way, you have denied many options for the world you can go to."

"In the future, we will also need to help the Lizardmen prepare for a possible Chaos invasion, retake and re-plan the various rights that we had previously given to the Mechanicus out of necessity, and possibly engage in large-scale battles on other worlds." Guilliman responded. "So the forces that can be mobilized at this stage, even if we include the Custodes and Pathfinders, are not many."

"That's why I'll let you see if there's a simple world that can satisfy our current conditions."

"Your feeling is the same as saying that people under 20 need 30 years of experience in the industry." Zhang Yi complained. "What about the alien population? Let's try to relax the restrictions?"

"You know, it's OK in other worlds, but in this world, using alien labor might cause trouble, for reasons you know."

"It seems so. Let me think about it. There should be several suitable worlds..."

"Either we risk our lives to go to some worlds to dig for technological relics, or we try to go to some worlds that are close to collapse to rescue people, or..."

"It seems that there is a world that has both, but..."

"Some of them are ridiculously large, and they are targeting humans... The troops are targeting all carbon-based life forms, and they are also in that world..."

"Let me think about it...energy, population, technology, the world is on the brink of destruction, but it can't be too outrageous..."

"Not counting those crazy people, the population is not small. There should be at least two or three hive worlds, but..."

"To be on the safe side, it would be best to call in some Necrons."

458. Titan Space Station

Dead Space World

In this world, human beings' deep space exploration mainly relies on three technologies: "oscillation point" superluminal travel technology, gravitational field manipulation technology and the engineering application of this technology - planetary splitting technology. These three technologies are all practical and useful of the grand unified field theory and tachyon theory.

When using the "oscillation point" superluminal travel technology, the space in front of the target will be tortuous, and the spacecraft will enter a space called "oscillation space". The spacecraft itself will also be covered by a special stance so that it will not be damaged in this special space, and more obvious redshift and blueshift phenomena can be seen in this space.

Gravitational field technology allows individuals to control gravity and perform actions such as telekinesis. This technology is used on spacecraft to create planetary cracking ships that can break up planets. It can drag huge chunks of land from the surface of a planet into space for cracking and smelting.

But all these technologies are no match for what comes next - the Divine Seal.

This unidentified creature, which is similar to the human double helix gene, has a dark surface and unknown red text. It can provide a steady supply of energy and can be easily replicated.

A huge, copied red divine seal can supply 25% of the electricity of a huge space station, which is far more than the energy output of the solar array (the solar array here gathers energy together and can be used as a powerful beam weapon. In this case, the energy output of the replica divine seal is still far better).

Under such circumstances, humans flocked to the Divine Seal, even though it had all kinds of problems, such as turning humans into monsters, resurrecting corpses, and driving people crazy... None of these could stop humans' thirst for the Divine Seal.

Humans created protective shields to isolate the influence of the divine seals, copied them in large numbers, and placed them openly in densely populated cities.

They believed that they had complete control over this magical creation, even though they did not know where the endless supply of energy came from, nor did they know why the divine seal could turn entities into monsters or affect people's thinking.

This also sowed the seeds for the subsequent destruction of mankind...

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Titan Space Station

This is a human space settlement near Saturn in the world of "Dead Space". This space settlement is built on a huge asteroid and has a permanent population of two million.

These are not the main points. The main point is that this huge space living station with a huge population is powered by the largest red divine seal currently replicated by humans, which accounts for 25% of the energy supply.

Although as mentioned before, humans have created a protective shield that can isolate the influence of the Divine Seal (at least they think so), so the humans in this world began to try to manufacture the Divine Seal on a large scale to supplement the energy that is becoming increasingly scarce due to the depletion of the earth's resources.

However, after humans dug out the Black Seal, the template of the Red Seal that is now being copied, from the Yucatan Peninsula on Earth, a group of people began to worship the Seal and formed the 'Unification Church', believing that this magical creation of an unknown existence could allow humans to further evolve.

Even though humans did not understand what this alien creation was, they still began to blindly worship it.

This was also the beginning of a series of tragedies in the following years. These crazy believers wanted to destroy the protective shield of the 'binding' divine seal, thereby causing mutations and mental effects on the corpses, and eventually causing them to initiate the aggregation phenomenon - a phenomenon in which a large number of life forms are gathered into a giant life form. They believed that this was a kind of evolution.

The crazy believers of the Seal in the Titan Space Station destroyed the protective shield of the giant red Seal, which caused a large number of corpses produced during this period to be transformed into zombies. Not only that, they wanted to go further.

In order to achieve this goal, they need to find the engineer who created this mysterious thing, the so-called protagonist Isaac Clark.

If nothing unexpected happens, then the next story is about the strongest engineer in history, who alone kills his way through the Titan space station full of zombies, destroys the seal of God, and saves the world.

Yes, if nothing unexpected happens...

. . . . . .

The giant red divine seal that originally supplied energy to the entire space station has now become a nightmare that puts the entire space in danger.

The zombies killed everywhere, turning living humans into corpse fragments, and then under the influence of the red divine seal, turning the corpses or corpse fragments into new zombie monsters.

The space station's limited security facilities are unable to stop the tidal wave of monsters, not to mention the existence of some ridiculously large zombies or those with special abilities. Besides, the prime minister of this space station has transferred most of the military forces to the administrative district to guard against possible zombie attacks and to silence witnesses.

Be it the crazy members of the Unification Church or the government personnel, they either have no time or do not care about the lives of these ordinary people at all. Their actions undoubtedly disregard the lives of others. In the absence of ships, the residents of these space stations are either killed by zombies, or go crazy under the influence of the Divine Seal and then commit suicide.

But now the emergence of a third-party force has given these poor ordinary people a glimmer of chance to survive.

As a white portal appeared in the Titan Space Station, metal skeletons flashing bright green light and tall armored giants appeared in the space station. They began to help the residents of the space station retreat and intercept the twisted and mutated zombies.

Sizzle－－!

The green Gaussian beam hit the hideous and twisted corpse monster in front of it, and the moment it touched it, it turned it into elementary particles and disappeared completely, without even a single cell left.

Theoretically, these corpses that have been mutated and resurrected because of the Divine Seal have no life or self-awareness. They are just puppets of the Divine Seal - that is to say, as long as the Divine Seal exists, as long as these affected corpses still have a cell, they can be reborn again under the influence of the Divine Seal and become man-eating monsters.

Just like what Zhang Yi often heard: You can't kill a dead person.

But sorry, there are similar existences in the Warhammer world (Orks), so both the Necrons and the Human Empire have rich experience in dealing with these monsters - to ensure that not a single cell is left.

Through Zhang Yi's portal, the Necrons and the human empire's troops arrived at one of the living areas of the Titan space station, where they built a defense line and rescued the normal humans who were still alive.