Warhammer 40 A New Hope

Although Demonic Avionics was only a small force in the Perseus region, its unique ships and mecha units made some old forces dare not underestimate it. But even such a force was declared defeated 72 hours after the war started.

The old forces headed by [Overlord] held an emergency meeting and invited powerful forces such as [Tachyon Technology], [Sindarin Power], and [Luddite Church] to discuss how to deal with the attack of this suddenly appearing fleet.

However, the convening of the meeting and the gathering of personnel were not smooth. Many high-ranking officials who came to attend the meeting were attacked by pirates and the madman of Lud's Left Path on their way to the meeting.

On the other hand, the Perseus Alliance and the Free Trade Alliance, which were also invited to attend the meeting, refused to participate and began to restrict the entry of merchant ships of some old forces including the Overlord.

Because of this, it took several weeks after the meeting was proposed for everyone to arrive, and even after everyone arrived, it did not go smoothly due to historical reasons.

[Tachyon Technology] has repeatedly defied the 'order' established by [Hegemony] and researched intelligent cores above the 'Alpha' level, while [Sindarin Power] is a political group that was formed due to the Hegemony's military intervention in the Andrada galaxy.

Apart from that, the people sent by the Light Council to attend the meeting were like statues. They themselves said that they were just there to listen and could not guarantee that they would do as required by the meeting - the problem of the Chaos Rift in their home galaxy had not been resolved yet.

As for the people of the Borken Foundation (Cthulhus Borken)... Look at their big eyes, which are like stars. How can they be normal people?

After a long time, this meeting finally came to a conclusion: the people of [Tachyon Technology] believed that such a large fleet would consume a huge amount of fuel to travel through hyperspace, which means that it would be difficult for them to get here from the [Demon Avionics] capital galaxy which is some distance away from the central star field. The hyperspace along the way is not peaceful, and even if they can arrive, they will inevitably suffer from fuel shortages and be trapped in a certain galaxy, and they will be in a dilemma of being unable to make another hyperspace jump.

There is a military planet belonging to the [Overlord] right at the edge of the central star field. If this force really wants to attack the many forces in the central star field, then it is definitely a galaxy that needs to be occupied. As long as it is not occupied, the fleet coming from distant stars will not be able to get supplies, nor can it be used as a springboard to attack them.

The people from [Tachyon Technology] made a very logical analysis, and representatives of many forces also thought it made sense. Just as they were preparing to discuss the size and number of fleets stationed in that galaxy and the distribution of post-war spoils, an officer from the Overlord rushed into the meeting room in a hurry.

Because they just received news that a fleet of an unknown force appeared in a galaxy within the Overlord's sphere of influence.

511. NieR: Automata - The Holy Grail War (Part )

In the original Code Geass world, Schneizel, the second prince of the Holy Britannian Empire, came to the world of Far Planet after completing his studies at the Chuzu Academy and began to realize his ambitions.

He was appointed the human empire's chief diplomat on this world and was assigned a small fleet at his disposal.

It turns out that this former prince from another world is indeed very resourceful. He implemented his plan before the human empire launched the attack.

His plan was very simple, which was to "form alliances and make alliances".

In ancient times, in order to resist the powerful Qin State, several other countries, under the leadership of Gongsun Yan, decided to unite to resist Qin, which was called "Hengzong".

The Qin State did not sit still and wait for death. Instead, it gave other countries blank checks to destroy their alliances, and finally divided them up one by one. This is called "lianheng".

In the Perseus star region, the three largest forces are [Tachyon Technology], [Hegemony] and [Sindarin Power]. Among them, [Hegemony] is the most powerful, and it is a force evolved from a legion, which allows them to have the largest number of ships and various time-tested weapons.

But even so, he did not dare to openly challenge all forces. After all, as the most powerful force, he would easily become the center of public criticism and be attacked by the crowd - although this would not stop him from meddling in the affairs of other forces.

In addition to these three powerful forces, there are also many neutral forces in this area, and these forces have more or less complaints against the three major forces.

What Schneizel has to do is to ensure that these small forces at least remain neutral when the human empire launches a full-scale attack. Of course, it would be even better if they could take advantage of the situation.

He took advantage of this and made it difficult for all actions of these major forces to go smoothly in the future. A promise made the [Perseus Alliance] and the [Free Trade Alliance] successfully choose to remain neutral at this time. The [Pirates] and [Lud's Left Path] he sent out to fan the flames in various regions also made these Perseus parasites choose to add insult to injury at this time and try to make a profit.

"The muddier the water, the easier it is to fish." With enemies so close at hand and the chaotic situation in the central star field, all major forces can only take care of the planets within their own range. They have no time to care about some neutral forces or ownerless galaxies.

This gave Schneizel another opportunity. As early as the beginning of the time travel, the Mechanicus began to study the stargate that was closed for some reason. With the help of the AI ​​of the ship "Hope", they have successfully activated the dormant stargate located in the galaxy where they traveled.

Although it is still impossible to unilaterally contact and activate other dormant star gates, and the activation process is relatively cumbersome (after all, it is not a formal activation), it can be inferred that after activating another star gate, the ship can directly cross hundreds of light years and arrive in another galaxy.

During the time when the major powers were holding meetings and arguing, Xunazeel's fleet, with a group of members of the Mechanicus, arrived at the area where the [Prism Port] was located and began to try to activate a dormant stargate in this area. After spending a lot of time, they successfully activated it.

One after another, the Empire's fleets sailed out from the activated star gates and gathered not far away. A sudden attack from within was about to begin.

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Neil World

"Um...so..."

"Wasn't there no one around before? Why did they suddenly start fighting?"

Zhang Yi knew that the battle between the androids and mechanical life forms in the NieR world today was completely meaningless. Both sides were fighting just to give themselves something to do.

The purpose of the androids is to collect combat data and hide the truth that humans have become extinct, so they launch the so-called "surface recapture war" again and again.

The thinking of mechanical life forms is even simpler: if the androids want to fight, then we fight; they want to occupy the ground, but I won’t let them get their wish.

Both sides have actually lost the reason to fight. Humans are gone, and aliens are gone too. These creatures that cannot be independent can only pretend that they are still useful.

This also explains why Zhang Yi and his companions were so calm when they first arrived in this world - it was not time for war yet.

In fact, neither side can leave the other. Killing the other side will only make them lose their goals and cause chaos, so the scale, intensity and frequency of the battles between the two sides are not high.

After sending the half-crippled Xgus to the Forge Planet where Zero was, Zhang Yi shared what he saw and background information about the NieR world. Zero then analyzed and calculated the frequency of battles between androids and mechanical life forms in the NieR world, the duration of the window period, and the start time of the next reincarnation.

Based on this, Zero speculated that the time they had been there should have been a window of time for both sides to recuperate. If nothing unexpected happened, it would still take some time before they could "go down to fight" again.

But obviously, something unexpected happened, and now both sides are in a mess.

"Kerr, what do you think?"

"If possible, we should first figure out what's going on." Kerr replied. "If you, Boss, hadn't made the wrong conclusion because you spent a day in Miss Zero's room, then it would still be some time before the two sides had another large-scale conflict."

"Are you sure you didn't misunderstand the conclusion because of Silent Zero's detachable tail?"

"No, why don't you have confidence in me?"

"Yes."

"I TM..."

boom!

A large mechanical life form with pile driver arms fell beside the two of them, and Wu Mo jumped off it.

"Who else?!"

DUANG——!

"What are you yelling about, you unlucky kid?" Zhang Yi moved bricks to calm Wu Mo down. "Shut up and stand over there!"

(Standing back beside Kerr obediently)

"Fal, can this thing be used?" Zhang Yi asked, pointing at the mechanical life form lying on the ground.

"Wu Mo almost sliced ​​him into pieces, what do you think, Boss?"

"This unfortunate child has no sense of propriety when it comes to fighting"... "

"We should not be at the edge of the battlefield yet, and the fight between the two sides should not have fully begun yet. Perhaps we can go a little further in and see?"

"This is the only way." Zhang Yi said. "Everyone, load your weapons. I don't think those round heads will welcome us."

The three Space Marines followed Zhang Yi and slowly walked towards the direction where the fighting was more intense. From time to time, they encountered some small and medium-sized mechanical life forms blocking their way.

Originally, these mechanical life forms were used by aliens to destroy humans, but humans became extinct before those aliens arrived on Earth. These self-evolving mechanical life forms, which were created to deal with humans, regarded Emil (a magical mechanical life form that looked a bit creepy) as their enemy, then the aliens who created them, and finally the artificial humans.

In other words, these mechanical life forms have never actually fought against humans, and they have never even seen humans - precisely because of this, they have no experience with various weapons against humans.

Bang bang bang!

[Pathfinder] The Space Marines opened fire with their bolters, knocking down the mechanical lifeforms that were running towards them. The fragile metal shells were pierced, revealing the complex circuits and the somewhat creepy internal head structure.

"These combat weapons seem to have never really played their intended role, right?" Zhang Yi broke off the head of a flying mechanical life form and said while looking at the round head. "They said they were used to fight against humans until humans became extinct, then against Emil, then against the aliens themselves, and finally because of a programming problem, they could only play house with the androids on this planet..."

“To be honest, I feel a little sad.”

"If you say so, then the Dragon Back World next to this world is even more tragic." Kerr said as he crushed the head of a mechanical life form. "Take the end of the world, for example. It keeps coming back, and it seems to be different every time."

"I personally feel that it is similar to the worldview of Dark Souls, with a dark background and fragmented narrative." Fal continued.

"The worlds you mentioned are just like a tea table, full of tragedies, and they are all different." Zhang Yi shrugged and said. "Fal, is there any result?"

"My detection of mechanical life forms must be done under the premise of isolating external signals, and the ones we are encountering at this stage are ordinary mechanical life forms that can be mass-produced." Fal responded. "They don't know much. I think the only thing they know is that they suddenly received an order recently to actively attack the location of the androids and the ground resistance forces in order to steal something."

"Can you tell me what it is exactly?"

"I don't know, but based on the information we have now, it seems that the thing is in the hands of the android resistance on the ground, and it seems that the androids in space have also been ordered to cleanse the resistance forces on the surface for some reason."

"Boss, did you play some weird MOD again?"

"If the android girls I met were dressed cooler than each other, or if 9S turned into a girl, I would accept it, but you said that I can't beat MOD in this completely out-of-control plot, then you are just talking nonsense."

"Besides, I've already said that I didn't buy this game in the first place. You know how expensive this game is. I borrowed it from a classmate."

"So, what kind of weird MOD did your classmate play?"

"How should I know?!"

Wu Mo, who was having a great time killing and had no part in the conversation with Zhang Yi and the others, suddenly raised his head and looked towards the top of an abandoned building. The next second, a slender figure fell from the sky.

DUANG!

The heavy blow brought by the power acceleration caused the concrete ground under Wu Mo's feet to sink directly. Then the figure flipped over, landed behind Wu Mo, turned around and slashed with a knife.

DUANG!

The weapons of both sides collided again. Wu Mo, who was larger and stronger, had the upper hand in this collision. The attacker flew out directly after the collision, but Wu Mo soon realized that something was wrong - the other party did it on purpose.

Yes, the opponent was deliberately knocked away by him. The figure used the power of his sword to fly towards the seemingly weakest person present, and at the same time an unknown energy began to spread.

Zhang Yi didn't know what that energy was, because the blade in the flying man's hand was getting closer and closer to him. He dodged the attack sideways and then hugged the attacker.

．．．What is this soft thing?

Time seemed to stop at this moment, and the other Pathfinder Space Marines just looked at Zhang Yi and the attacker he saved.

Click (camera sound)

"So, does her outfit have anything to do with the MOD you played?"

512. NieR: Automata - The Holy Grail War (Part )

The one who attacked Zhang Yi and others was A2, a previous generation combat robot, whose full name is Yoruha A-Type No. 2 (ヨルハA-Type No. 2), a specialized close combat robot that has been discontinued among artificial humans.

Because she discovered the truth about humans on the moon, she chose to defect. In order to keep this secret, the server on the moon issued a warrant for her.

A2 left the YoRHa unit and moved alone in this ruined world. His body, without care and maintenance, began to wear out. His humanoid outer skin began to fall off, revealing the black part of the machine.

After leaving the YoRHa unit, A2 was able to see the world from a different perspective and knew all the things hidden by the Lunar Council, but in fact, he didn't know what to do after leaving there and being out of the command system of the [Bunker].

Just like the androids and mechanical life forms who were engaged in meaningless battles, A2 chose to fight, using fighting to give meaning to his existence and eliminate his confusion.

Another battle between androids and machine life forms started prematurely for unknown reasons. A2 joined in, hunting down those machine life forms or androids who were once his compatriots.

An 'artificial man' who travels with a 'mechanical life form' becomes her next target, but...

The goal this time seems to be a little different

. . . . . .

Zhang Yi hugged the attacker, or to be more precise, he hugged the former YoRHa unit's android A2 who attacked them. Fal even took a photo for the occasion.

Zhang Yi was stunned by what he suddenly touched. Although it was not as big as Gorgon or Zero, the feel of it was quite novel.

call out--!

Zhang Yi let go of A2, dodged her side kick, and distanced himself from the cyborg whose body was covered with scars.

Then the two sides began to confront each other.

"...How does it feel?"

"Well... it's hard to say... No, what do you mean?!"

"I just want to ask how you feel."

Now that humans have become extinct, androids do not have feelings like shame that humans have, but she was still a little curious why the android did not continue to attack her when he was caught again.

However, considering that he was acting together with the mechanical lifeforms (who mistook the Space Marines for mechanical lifeforms and had round heads), A2 could understand his strange behavior.

"I have caught Wu Mo, you can deal with the problem with her alone." Kerr said at this time.

"Are you really planning on watching a play?"

“This is not to create opportunities for you.”

In A2's sight, the three tall mechanical life forms seemed to say something, then tacitly retreated a distance, isolating the short android.

A2 can be said to be the closest to humans among all the androids. She no longer lives for the orders of a certain person or a computer. After learning the truth, she betrayed the YoRHa unit and began to act alone.

But she is still some distance away from becoming a truly intelligent life form. For example, she still needs a goal, or a command, to keep her alive. Of course, they cannot understand things like shame.

The isolated small android was somewhat dissatisfied with the behavior of those tall mechanical life forms and seemed to be saying something, but A2 would not miss the opportunity to have his back turned to the enemy.

With a sudden kick on the ground, A2 shot out like a sharp arrow, attacking Zhang Yi, with the standard military knife in her hand pointing directly at Zhang Yi who had his back to her.

Although he had his back to A2, Zhang Yi could still feel the attack. Just as the saber was about to stab him, Zhang Yi stretched out his left hand and grabbed the blade.