Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 99 02.0099: ‘Risk Assessment’

The Feast of Sanguinius is one of the most important festivals in the human empire, second only to the Feast of the Emperor’s Ascension. The festival is held on December 25th every year to commemorate the heroic act of Sanguinius who died for the Emperor.

Every year on the Feast of Sanguinius, busy imperial people can get a seven-day holiday, of which the first three days are spent singing, praying, and blessing in the church.

In the 41st millennium of the empire, the religious atmosphere has reached the peak of human civilization.

Not only is there a dedicated state religion world, there are hundreds of thousands of religious buildings in the upper nest of the Abyss Harbor Light, and there are thousands of them in the Vegas area alone. From the tall and magnificent cathedrals that soar into the sky to the small chapels that are the only spiritual comfort in the underground world.

More and more intelligence indicates that the Khorne cultists will create a large-scale panic on the day of the Feast of Sanguinius. It is said that the hungry can be corrupted by just feeding them a bite of human flesh. They emerge from the lower nest at an alarming rate, just like cockroaches that cannot be killed.

Even though the Ministry of the Interior temporarily recruited the Star Corps stationed in the starport to be transferred to other world war zones to participate in the alert, it still seemed to be insufficient in manpower.

The bureaucrats wastefully deployed most of the defense forces in the Upper Nest and the Throne Area to protect the planet's appearance and their safety.

The Fleet Military Intelligence Command expressed the Navy's concerns.

With the request of Afir, the captain of the Second Company of the Blood Angels, to mediate, the Navy, the Military Affairs Department, the Law Department and the representatives of the Holy Rose Battle Sisters held a private meeting on the defense of the Middle Nest area. Horatio attended the meeting as a representative of the Imperial Navy's Hell Vanguard.

It was a large Roman theater-style conference hall filled with thousands of people, but for the bloated bureaucracy of the Empire, this was not a lot.

Everyone sat down according to their organizational departments, and from a bird's eye view, red, silver, blue, green and black blocks were formed.

"The Festival of Sanguinius is a festival that the people of the Empire hold full of hope for the future. As the sons of Sanguinius, how can we fail the expectations of the citizens of the Empire and let them suffer from the invasion of the Scarlet Cultists on such a festival? All the battle brothers of the Second Company swear to protect them, even if they sacrifice their lives for it." Captain Afir said passionately.

This is the beautiful vision of the sons of Sanguinius, but the vast hive planet of Abyss Port is destined to make it impossible for them to realize their wishes.

"Although the ceremony of the Upper Nest Church is the most magnificent, it is not the most crowded. The religious buildings in the Middle Nest are the places where the most citizens of the Empire attend. Once the Khorne cultists want to launch a terrorist attack, choosing the Middle Nest is cheaper and more heads will be obtained." Brigadier General Edward spoke after Major General Hood announced the increasingly dangerous situation.

"Except for the troops that the Ministry of the Interior has already arranged in the Upper Nest, how many people can each department send to the Middle Nest? The Imperial Navy, including the Coastal Infantry (a planetary defense force under the Navy), can only gather 330,000 armed forces at most. We also have to be vigilant against threats from the void, and there are only so many people." Venuska Kataria, the Lord of the Gothic Fleet, asked in a low voice.

"The Imperial Guard can still gather 1.68 million. We have deployed more than 10 million troops in the Upper Nest, and there are only so many scattered troops to be reorganized."

"The Holy Rose Battle Sisters can send another 30,000 battle sisters."

"The Ministry of Justice has 50,000 marshals left, including those who are still being trained at the Zhongsi Academy."

"If you divide it up, a monastery in the Middle Nest can only be assigned a few soldiers as a defense force, while an average of 20,000 people guard a church in the Upper Nest." Lord Admiral Kataria smiled mockingly at the bureaucrats.

"That's it. They also took away quite a lot of elite troops for the grand parade." The general of the Military Affairs Department rarely talked to the admiral.

"This is all our trump cards. Does anyone have a better way to assign personnel?" Lord Admiral Katalia continued to ask.

There was silence below for a long time.

"Start with the Imperial Navy! If you have anything to say, just say it directly. You don't need to take any responsibility for this decision." Lord Admiral Katalia asked the navy to take the lead.

'No need to take responsibility' did arouse a whisper of discussion, and some people put forward different opinions.

"Anything else?"

Horatio looked around and when no one wanted to speak again, he slowly stood up: "I think we can use the existing intelligence network to prioritize the threat of terrorist attacks. Based on the previous experience of combating cultists, we have counted the frequency charts of all attacks."

Horatio used the neural plug to release the holographic image that the Fleet Military Intelligence Command had compiled and produced overnight.

"Although it has happened all over the world, the Vegas area adjacent to the Throne Area is a high-incidence area of ​​attacks. And according to our intelligence network, the Scarlet Cultists have made a large-scale transfer. Through clues and screening, we speculate that the direction of the main migration should be below the Vegas area.

Therefore, we need to conduct a preliminary screening of each church, assess the risk level, arrange human resources according to different risks, and reserve air transport mobile forces on standby at the airport for reinforcement at any time."

"I think this idea is feasible." Major General Hood said: "We have a large number of Avis landing craft and Valkyrie fighters. If something really happens, the vehicles can quickly transport a group of troops there."

After everyone made suggestions, the meeting held a general vote. The risk assessment and mobile defense theory proposed by Horatio may not be the best, but it is indeed the most feasible one at the moment. Many theories seem perfect, but after calculating the required manpower, they are not enough.

"Then implement the plan proposed by Sergeant Horatio Cochrane. I hope that each department will perform its duties. We don't have much time left. The meeting is adjourned."

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The next few days were extremely tiring.

The Fleet Military Intelligence Command was crowded with people. Faced with heavy intelligence pressure, the Navy Department temporarily dispatched 50 naval officers, 300 civil servants from the Ministry of the Interior, and 1,000 scribes.

Even so, it was still a drop in the bucket. Coma, sudden death and death from overwork continued to occur, and bodies were carried out of the Navy Department every day.

Some people abused stimulants, causing madness, hurting people, and destroying intelligence. Some numbers even added up to a string of 9s.

But the situation is not optimistic. The sacrifice at this moment will be exchanged for the survival of more lives.

Moreover, it is said that an inquisitor is on his way to Abyss Port.

On the eve of Saint Gilles Festival, the imperial officials of Abyss Port finally completed this risk assessment plan. It may not be completely reliable, but everyone has done their best.

Horatio and a lieutenant of the Astra Militarum jointly serve as the garrison officers of the Cathedral of the Goddess. If one of them dies, the other must take over the command of all the garrisons.

They will defend the "Saint Arabella Cathedral of the Goddess" in the G-8 block of Vegas Midnest together with 30 Hell Snipers, 50 Battle Sisters, 200 Astra Militarum soldiers, 5 Blood Angels, 5 Arbitrators and 20 "Holy Sepulchre Guardian" Crusaders serving and guarding the church.

The place is a holy place, and it is said that some of the holy bones of the founder of the Holy Rose Sisters, Arabella, are buried.

The church has three rotating statues, the Emperor, St. Arabella, and St. Gilles. On weekdays, only the statue of Sister St. Arabella is displayed. When the Feast of St. Gilles and the Feast of the Emperor's Ascension are held, the mechanism will be controlled to switch the statues.

Horatio investigated the flow of people and importance here and determined it to be a high-risk area. Moreover, G is the 8th in High Gothic, and 8 is the holy number of Khorne. It is too dangerous no matter how you think about it.

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