Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 199 Arrival in Agrippina

With the subspace link severed, the dynasty entered a period of stable development once again. Using Malfurion as a springboard, the dynasty began to expand its influence into nearby star systems.

Clone soldiers also began to enter the Dynasty's fighting ranks as infantry regiments.

With the help of Kairax, Pavia once again began to refine the transplanted warp engine technology, ensuring that the Star Pioneer would no longer disintegrate during tactical warp jumps.

Karax himself also began using the Protoss's spirit bones to conduct initial experiments on the Purifiers.

As the survivors of Kolor brought news of the fall of the Kolor Ark and the strength of the dynasty back to other Ark worlds, the number of Eldar attacks on the expansion zone decreased.

The Eldar high command of Kolor died in the war, and most of those who escaped were civilians who were unaware of Gao Yi's methods for locating the Ark World.

This made the other Ark worlds hesitant to act, as they didn't know if their Arks would also be targeted if they took action against Gao Yi.

However, many reconnaissance teams from the Ark world still came to the expanded area, which kept Ian's Alien Inquisition extremely busy.

Meanwhile, the Dark Eldar's raids on the expansion area have decreased, and Victor, the overlord of Comoros, is mobilizing all available forces to besiege the Death Army led by Evelynn.

With the situation in the expanded region stable, Gao Yi once again turned his attention to the territory within the Empire.

As a large amount of technological weaponry from the Koror Eldar flowed into the Calicith Sector, news spread that the Montgomery Dynasty had destroyed an Eldar Ark world.

This was a major event that was enough to shock the entire empire.

Although the imperial high command, who knew the Eldar, didn't believe it, the massive amount of Eldar weapons, equipment, and warship wreckage couldn't be faked.

Through the exchange of these Eldar equipment, the dynasty began to acquire a large amount of assets in Sintira at prices that others could not refuse.

Even the Holy Mechanics used several crippled Eldar warships to pry open the gates to the Mechanics' forging world next to Malfurion.

A branch will be established in the world of casting under the guise of learning and exchange within the Holy Machine Religious Society.

Gao Yi was confident that the power of SCV and the Pure Mark was enough to tempt any mechanical priest.

Blood Ravens also stated that this feat was accomplished through their joint efforts with the Montgomery dynasty.

This allowed the matter to bypass other important intelligence, be prioritized and delivered to the Department of Military Affairs, and be sent back to Terra with extremely high priority.

When this matter reached Terra's Ministry of Military Affairs, the intelligence also caught the attention of the High Lords.

For the first time, the reputation of the Montgomery dynasty extended beyond the borders of the empire, reaching the very heart of the human empire.

It only briefly caught the attention of those high lords before being quickly forgotten.

After all, there was nothing more important in the Empire than Kadia at that moment.

Countless requests for help from planets kept coming in, and even the interstellar language of chaos conquering planets was causing the High Lords a great deal of trouble.

However, the low administrative efficiency still required the high lords to assess the extent of the situation and determine which imperial forces should be dispatched to provide support.

On the contrary, many Astartes chapters immediately dropped what they were doing and rushed to support Cardia after receiving the distress call from Cardia.

However, this intelligence, which was ignored by the High Lords, was immediately known to the Imperial Guard.

The Montgur dynasty, already on the watchlist, was immediately sent to Trajan thanks to the vast intelligence network secretly established by the Imperial Guard.

"How could this dynasty have developed to this extent in just over a decade... What exactly happened to it?"

An Ark world… could it really be conquered by a single dynasty and a warband? Is this self-proclaimed emperor, this living saint, truly a merchant-ron blessed by the emperor?

Trajan could only think of this one possibility; otherwise, why would the emperor have given a special order to the Imperial Guard for him?

When the Emperor informed them of the existence of the Montgomery dynasty, Trajan ordered that as much information about the Montgomery dynasty be gathered as possible.

The Montgomery dynasty was once so lowly that it didn't even rank among the wandering merchants. The imperial oracle received few more imperial revelations.

"Where is the Chosen Ones squad?"

"Commander, the warship carrying the Imperial Chosen Squad has been interfered with by the subspace near Cardia!"

However, through our intelligence network within the Ministry of Military Affairs, we learned that this dynasty had a Star Guardian force called the Rangers, which had arrived in Agrippina as part of the Calithis Sector's support for Cardia.

The squad asked us through the Star Speaker if we wanted to make direct contact with this team.

“Agrippina? The forging world of the Mechanicus? I remember that the Star Court’s intelligence reports that the nearby worlds are being ravaged by the Nurgle Plague, right? There are even reports of witnessing the Death Guard fleet.”

"Yes, the Emperor's people are struggling with this evil magic originating from an evil god, and the medical department is helpless against this plague."

Hearing this, Trajan also looked disgusted. The warband was created by the Emperor himself, yet the Emperor's sons betrayed him. It was these traitors who caused the Emperor to sit on the Golden Throne!

Trajan also wanted to lead the Royal Guard out of the palace and let them experience the emperor's wrath, but the duty to protect the divine emperor was more important.

Chaos recently launched a surprise attack on Terra, which shows that Terra is not so safe.

"What mission has this unit called the Rangers been assigned?"

"not yet."

"Have the Chosen Ones postpone their trip to Calicus and instead make contact with this Astral Army. I need more information. If that wandering merchant named Gao Yi is truly blessed by the Emperor, then he will cooperate with us."

"I'll do it right now!"

Meanwhile, Damon and his companions arrived in Agrippina with the support team from the Calissis sector.

Here, Damon parted ways with the wolves led by Harald.

The wolves, led by alpha wolf Logan, have reached the star sector near Cardia, and he must rejoin the pack.

Meanwhile, the two Cardia mechanized infantry regiments, ordered to return to Cardia, also assembled in Cardia as instructed.

Damon even used the barracks inside the warship to procure 2000 sets of combat suits for these Cardians.

"Commander Philip! Take care!"

"Thank you, Lord Damon! The equipment you provided will greatly reduce our casualties!"

Philip was impressed by Damon's generosity. During his stay in Cintira, he had witnessed just how expensive the equipment was, yet Damon gave it away for free without asking for anything in return.

After seeing off the soldiers of Kadia, Damon looked towards the outpost of the Sintira Slaughterers in the distance. These people were still in the mood to drink. He knew that Sintira had sent this team to do a perfunctory job. The Slaughterers, who were already the lowest level of the Astronautical Army, sent out the worst batch of people in the group.

Aside from decent equipment, they have virtually no combat power.

Whoever teams up with this group of Star Realm soldiers is doomed.

“Send a message to the lord, informing him that we have reached our destination and requesting his further instructions.”

The communication was sent back to Agathos, and Gao Yi also received the message at that time.

According to what Damon learned in Agrippina, the Agrippina Fortress Fleet throughout the entire galaxy is stationed in the Agrippina system.

The chaotic situation within the galaxy led the Navy to choose to hold Agrippina to prevent the loss of this important naval base.

After all, Agrippina provides a large amount of weaponry to the nearby star systems, and even the navy's shipyards are located here. This means that many other insignificant worlds have almost become hell and have been abandoned by the Empire, leaving the local garrisons to fight against the chaos on their own.

Increasingly intense subspace storms are disrupting intergalactic communication.

(End of this chapter)