Warhammer 40 A New Hope

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The Covenant communications ship is usually located at the rear of the entire Covenant fleet, used to contact the front-line ship forces and transmit various information and instructions from the rear.

Basically, no one would come to target or capture such a ship, because there would usually not be only one ship involved in this process, and other ships could also serve as its role. Moreover, once it was attacked, it would soon be known to other ships of the Covenant - attacking it would be very dangerous and the gains would be small.

Therefore, no one would have thought that such a ship would be the beginning of the split of the entire huge Star Alliance.

A message with audio quietly spread throughout the Covenant's communication network. That was exactly what the San'Shyum prophets wanted to cover up, the truth they wanted to cover up, and why humans could not join the Covenant like the previous races - they were the ones chosen by the Forerunners.

The Covenant fleet that was originally converging stopped and fell silent almost at the same time, and then questioning voices resounded throughout the communication channel.

The Sangheili, one of the original members of the Covenant, began to question the San'Shyuum prophets they believed in and respected, asking them whether the information they received was true.

They asked to go to the City of High Charity to meet the Monk of Prejudice, the AI ​​of the Dreadnaught ship that provided energy for the entire city.

The three prophets who concealed all this information would naturally not agree to their request. If they said now that the Covenant was on the brink of splitting, then once the Sangheili boarded the City of High Charity and confirmed that their previous words were all lies, the entire Covenant would immediately split, their ruling status would end, and the City of High Charity would be taken away.

As a result of their doing so, a war that split the Covenant began.

548. The Emperor's Expedition

When the Sangheili and San'Shyuum were already traveling in space and searching for the remains of the Forerunners, humans were still playing in the mud on Earth. So in terms of history, technology and all aspects, the Covenant had an absolute advantage over the UNSC human government.

The Star Alliance gradually grew stronger, bringing one race after another under its command, unearthing one Forerunner ruin after another, and occupying one planet after another.

But it can be said that before this, the Covenant had never really fought a life-and-death war. On the one hand, they had no need to do so, and on the other hand, the other races would not choose to fight to the death with the powerful Covenant - they were uncomfortable living and were looking for death?

The Human-Covenant War, which was started because of the words of the Prejudiced Monk, was the first time that there was no peace for the Covenant, only a war of life and death (as long as the San'Shyuum prophet did not give up his identity as a prophet, there would be no peace), and in their history, this level of war was extremely rare.

Relying on the advantages in technology and manpower, the Covenant's attack was advancing by leaps and bounds, but tactically the Covenant was at a disadvantage. Even though they had advantages in numbers and technology, they were still beaten badly by the UNSC in the ground war. The reason why they were able to advance all the way was entirely due to the advantage of their ships.

Perhaps it has something to do with their social structure, or maybe it's because they have integrated multiple races without properly handling the relationships between them, or maybe they simply don't take humans seriously. Even though they have suffered many defeats in ground wars, the Covenant has not come up with a corresponding strategy in a timely manner.

After being psychologically traumatized by the Master Chief and other Spartan warriors many times, the Covenant began to form Spartan Hunters to target the Spartan warriors; after many attacks failed due to loyal but incompetent superiors, the Covenant did not take it seriously; even though they suffered many failures due to their fanaticism for the Forerunner relics, they did not change much.

This also led to the final failure of the Covenant, and now the emergence of the Human Empire has accelerated this process.

A huge empire began to fall apart because of a piece of news. The San'Shyuim prophets began to recall all fleets and troops loyal to them, and took back High Charity and several key planets. The Sangheili people who valued glory and felt they were deceived demanded an explanation from the prophet they were loyal to before. They needed to know whether what they had believed in and been loyal to was really a scam and a joke.

The originally precarious battle of Reach ended temporarily with a whimper, and the Covenant no longer had the extra energy to attack humans.

The humans of the UNSC got a precious opportunity to rest, but for the Human Empire, their mission had just begun.

On the other hand, another expeditionary force led by the former emperor of mankind, O'Neill, is about to begin their mission.

Attack a broken shining world in the ring world.

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Shining World

This is a high-level planet with extremely high technology and extremely advanced society and culture. Unlike the ancient shining world that disappeared and degraded due to various reasons, it is an extremely complete collection of planets. As the source of the development of ancient technology, it is also the source of the expansion of the outside world. It often attracts space travelers from other planets to settle here or conduct technical exchanges. It can serve as a route node for a large star area.

The closer to the center of the Milky Way, the denser the planets are and the easier it is to communicate between them, while the opposite is true in the edge areas of the Milky Way.

A small team from a security company from the Glittering World can pose a threat to a Space Marine. The medical kits in the Glittering World have even reached the point of "flesh on bones", and the prostheses made in the Glittering World have powerful functions even though they cannot be seen as a whole.

According to Zhang Yi and others, the value of an intact shining world is no less than that of a planet controlled and developed by humans in the golden age, and may even be more valuable.

But at the same time, this also means that in the Glittering World, there will be a huge number of technological creations that are comparable to those of the Golden Age.

O'Neill attached great importance to this and had long ago begun to prepare a plan to capture an entire Flickering World (with Guilliman also involved). Without the help of Zhang Yi's ability - Zhang Yi could not take into account all the enemies, and the Empire's troops could not leave the portal and stop fighting.

After a series of events and a lot of preparation, the plan is about to begin.

[Broken Star] A shattered shining world is their goal.

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In the Glittering World, which has stopped expanding and building for unknown reasons, damaged and unfinished urban clusters and river-like roads can be seen from space.

There are orbital defense facilities built around the entire planet, patrolling unmanned fleets, and drones that constantly travel back and forth between various factories and mining planets.

"Highly intelligent." O'Neill said from the bridge, looking at the images obtained by the reconnaissance team. "The entire galaxy is supplying that planet."

"This is just an incomplete shining world. The mines and factories located on various planets and asteroid belts are also incomplete."

"Just like the human empire in its golden age, but this world is lucky."

"There are no greenskins, no Tyranids, and no beaten-to-shit Warp."

At this point, O'Neill fell silent. Guilliman walked into the bridge and came to his side.

"According to the intelligence we have collected, this incomplete shining world was attacked by several warlords in the surrounding area a long time ago. Their goal was to occupy and control this shining world that was under construction at the time, so that they could become the true emperor of this star region." Guilliman said. "They succeeded, and they also failed..."

"Their attack almost destroyed the entire automated orbital defense system of this shining world at that time, controlled or blew up multiple automated factories, and once hit the ground. But then, they were no longer able to go deeper."

"The battle became a meat grinder from that moment on. The warlords kept sending people up to try to change the stalemate, but they could not make any progress."

"The battle ended with a certain warlord's secret forces severely damaging the main computer that controlled the entire Flash world, and almost all other warlords were wiped out." Guilliman said. "No one succeeded, no one controlled the world, and no one became the emperor."

"It sounds like a cautionary tale or a fable," O'Neill said. "Let our mechanical forces attack and test the waters, while Curze, Corax, and Omega prepare to infiltrate with their forces."

"What I want is a complete shining world, not the ruins after the war. Every house, every road, and every creation on this planet is extremely valuable."

"Relying on absolute military force to crush is always the worst option."

"I understand, Father."

A few hours later, automatic and semi-automatic ships controlled by the Mechanicus and a small number of the Penitent Army appeared in the detection range of this shining world. The automatic patrol fleet near the planet began to gather and the warning was issued.

"We have received a warning from the other side to withdraw from their control."

"Ignore it and keep going."

The orbital defense facilities, still bearing some scars and signs of damage, began to operate, aiming in the direction of the fleet line. At the same time, several automatic factories located behind them were also started and began to produce more ships.

After three warnings, the Imperial forces still ignored the attack and continued to advance. A heavy rail gun opened fire after warming up.

Click—boom!

The energy shield of a Firestorm frigate was overloaded after a flash, and a clear orange line streaked across its side, destroying a large string of armor plates and secondary guns.

"The Adik is under attack, the energy shield is overloaded, and the left side armor is damaged by 60%!"

"Everyone speed up! Reload the torpedoes!"

This shooting did not stop the charge of the Imperial Suicide Squadron, but instead made them speed up. The turret that almost destroyed an Imperial frigate just now seemed to have malfunctioned and was unable to quickly fire the second shot.

After reaching the appropriate distance, the fleet fired all of its torpedoes forward. In response, a large number of interceptors were released. Tiny laser beams and flames from torpedoes being destroyed appeared from time to time in the dark space.

【High energy detected...】

Squeak--click!

The largest automatic patrol ship guarding this shining world had just issued an alarm and was trying to make an evasive move, when an Imperial semi-automatic cruiser, which was originally some distance away from them, suddenly appeared in front of it and rammed into its hull.

The Glittering World ship, which was obviously smaller than the Empire's semi-automatic cruiser, was pushed all the way and then crashed directly into the orbital turret behind it. The sound of metal twisting and breaking was heard.

Obviously, this kind of attack method had never been seen in the database of these automatic patrol ships, so they fell into a brief downtime after witnessing this scene, which also gave the attacking forces an opportunity, and they began to attack the defensive ships within the design range in various ways.

The attacking force gained the upper hand, and it seemed that they alone could take down this part of the automatic guard fleet, but more automatic ships were rushing here from other directions. At the same time, the disposable unmanned ships produced in the factory in the rear also began to be put into battle at this time.

Those powerful armed platforms that had been slow to start up for various reasons were also started at this time.

call out!call out!call out!

As orange lines appeared in space, the shields of the huge imperial ships were overloaded, the hulls were pierced, and flames of explosions appeared.

"This is just an incompletely damaged Glittering World. I dare not imagine how powerful the firepower and armaments of a complete Glittering World will be." Omega, who was on a stealth phase ship, looked at the Empire's semi-automatic cruiser that was almost destroyed in an instant and said, "Have you confirmed the gap in their defense line?"

"It's basically confirmed, but it will take some time to confirm."

"Where are Curze and Corax?"

"Communications are silent, but it should still be on track."

"...I may not be so sure..."

549. Infiltration (Part )

The team led by Omega successfully avoided the defense facilities and patrol forces of this shining world in a large stealth phase carrier-based aircraft and successfully reached the ground.

But when they walked out of the cabin, what came into view was a large flat wasteland, and the unfinished city cluster they had seen in orbit was in the distance.

Almost identical Alpha Legion Space Marines stepped onto the land and looked around.

"We still haven't received any information about the other two forces." An Alpha Space Marine said. "We are still in communication silence."

"According to the plan, we will enter the city from this direction and reach the main control center of the entire planet." Omega said. "Be prepared, the enemy this time is not simple."

． ． ． On the other side ． ． ．

Unlike the Raven Guard and Alpha who maintained their operations in secret, the Night Lords forces led by Curze took a more aggressive approach to landing - they directly boarded experimental stealth Space Marine landing capsules and fell to the ground from high altitude orbit.

Not to mention how big it was, a huge iron block fell from orbit with almost no deceleration, and it was hard to tell how the Mechanicus could make it invisible when it fell vertically. However, with the help of several decoy landing capsules, the team led by Curze did successfully land.

But on the other hand, they also attracted a lot of automatic patrol machines on the ground to go in their direction.

The mechanical race has better equipment, neater formations, more tactical tactics, and of course more numbers.

Compared to the landed [Midnight Lords] Space Marine squad, the number of enemies was undoubtedly huge, but soon these machines without souls and thoughts discovered a problem - they could not find the enemy.

When they received the information and rushed to the target location, all they could see were fragments of the Mechanical Clan, and no trace of the enemy.

Then the cycle repeats itself. After the automatic patrol machines patrolling nearby receive new information and go to encircle and suppress the [Midnight Lords] Space Marines, they still can only see a pile of mechanical parts when they arrive at their destination.

If they were human, they would have already started to feel fear, but they are emotionless machines. They only have to repeat this process over and over again, heading to the target location, reporting their findings, and then continuing their mission.

The damaged main control core and database made it impossible for them to formulate reasonable strategies to deal with the current situation in a timely manner. They could only be consumed, destroyed and annihilated continuously.

On the other hand, the automatic patrol machines that found the situation not right and tried to find and intercept the [Raven Guard] were caught in a situation of 'nothing'.

Unlike Curze's somewhat irritable and high-profile landing and handling methods, the [Raven Guards] led by Corax were conducting true stealth operations.

They bypassed the outermost enemies, entered the abandoned urban area surrounding the main city of the Glittering World, and gradually approached the magnificent city.

"We found some survivors." A Raven Guard Space Marine suddenly reported on the communicator.

At the junction of the unfinished abandoned urban area and the completed urban area, a Raven Guard Space Marine found a person who looked like a poor person.

Some ancient shining worlds, they once had extremely glorious moments, with various high-tech prostheses, mature genetic modification technology, and safe and reliable automatic machinery.

But there is still inequality in this world. Even if there is just a little distribution, everyone can live a good life - but some people don't want to.

On one hand, there are increasingly advanced and sci-fi technologies and creations, and on the other hand, there is an ever-widening gap between the rich and the poor. Under such circumstances, wars that affected the entire planet broke out in some ancient shining worlds.

Some ancient shining worlds were destroyed in this way, and everything on and around them no longer existed, leaving only ruins, destroyed large machines, and relics left in some places.

After that, a group of people who escaped from the ancient shining world established a new order, new goals and a new shining world after several twists and turns.

The reasons for the destruction of the ancient shining world have been kept in mind by some leaders of the new shining world. They use different means to prevent such things from happening again. For example, in this attacked shining world, they use an absolutely fair, just and loyal supercomputer to coordinate the overall situation to prevent the past situation from happening again.

Putting aside the question of whether it is good or bad to leave everything to the super AI, whether it will do something harmful to humanity in the future, because the previous war destroyed this precious super AI, resulting in it being able to only maintain and control the facilities in the constructed areas and unable to continue to implement the previous construction agreement.

Large areas that were flattened for construction were left abandoned, and the mountains of construction materials could not be refined and utilized to the greatest extent possible and could only be piled there.

After the planet suffered such a great disaster, it was not that no one tried to repair everything and allow the original plan to go on, but after several failures, this attempt was stopped for various reasons - because maintaining this state would allow a very small number of people to legally enjoy the resources that should have been supplied to everyone.

Yes, those who have already moved into the city can enjoy the resources that should have been given to everyone else, and enjoy everything luxuriously, although there are still many people trapped outside the city who are poorly clothed and hungry. But this is the decision of the "absolutely fair and loyal computer", isn't it? What can I do if it breaks down? I can't do anything~

"The previous war and the attempted restoration have killed most of the original leaders, and coupled with their deliberate cleanup, this shining world has been operating like this." Corax said as he looked at the information he had obtained. "It seems that not all worlds are beautiful. Here is an example."

At one time, a high wall separated two worlds. Inside the wall was a luxurious life of feasting and revelry, while outside the wall was a life of hunger and cold, an "animal"-like life without recognition or explanation.

Yes, because of problems with the main control AI, the remaining residents who were unable to enter the city before were considered to be wild humanoid animals of unknown origin - because they had no registration information and their DNA was not entered into the database.

The Imperial fleet's tentative attack alerted the main control center of this shining world, which closed the city's entrances, activated various fixed defense weapons, and increased automatic patrol forces.

But even so, the Raven Guard Space Marine squad led by Corax found a breakthrough in the high wall and sneaked into the city (after all, this city was built for humans and it is impossible to be perfect, not to mention that this is a damaged shining world).

Clarks and his companions who had infiltrated the city saw an "old friend" - [Tianxi Security] shortly after entering the city.

As a Shining World security company with small bases in many marginal worlds, it has a relatively large branch in this damaged Shining World.

And in order to control the main control center of this city, [Tianzhou Security] located here accepted the commission and assisted it in defending the city, and [Tianzhou Security] naturally would not let go of this opportunity.

Besides, having stayed in this damaged shining world for so long, they knew very well how strong the defense of this world was. Even if it was damaged, it could not be captured by the fleets of ordinary marginal world warlords (so their business usually came from protecting the rich in the city and running around).

Having said that, the people from [Tianzhou Security] still did enough superficial work. A large number of security forces were sent to various key locations in the city, and automatic and semi-automatic mechas also began patrolling the streets.

Ordinary people in the city were ordered not to go out, and the entire city was on alert, but this was not a big problem for the [Raven Guard] who were masters of stealth.

They managed to enter the city's underground drainage system, evading patrolling robots, and confirmed the route to the target location while trying to contact the other two forces.