Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 201 The Voice of the Emperor
Upon entering the urban area, Damon saw many civilians and soldiers.

Even in this relatively safe area, the situation is not optimistic.

Lorissa's food reserves are running low, most people look pale and emaciated, and corpses can be seen lying on the ground from time to time in the city. Once these corpses are found, the patrolling soldiers will immediately burn them.

The bodies of those who died from the Nurgle plague were covered in pustules, which, if left unchecked, would either turn them into zombies or Nurgle hives.

This forces both the planetary defense forces and the legal department to dedicate significant resources to maintaining internal stability.

While sitting in the troop carrier, Damon suddenly saw the faithless people mentioned earlier.

"Wake up, my brethren! Rise to the voice of the Emperor! The traitors of the Empire are leading Lorisa toward destruction!"

Listen to the Emperor's voice: it is these state religions that have distorted the Emperor's will, trapping him on the golden throne to suffer for us!

"What's going on? How did these guys get through the blockade? Guards, arrest him! Quickly!"

Franz was clearly shocked by the presence of these faithless individuals in the city!
The soldiers in the escort team immediately walked towards the other party and tried to stop them, but the next second, the other party detonated the explosives on their body. The huge explosion destroyed everything around them and buried several guards.

As the explosion rang out, a large number of rioters rushed out from the surrounding buildings.

They even had weapons made to imperial standards.

They did not harm other civilians, targeting only the Imperial Guard, and charged toward a nearby state church, shouting accusations against the church.

The pastor and believers in the church did not sit idly by and wait for their fate.

A fierce battle immediately broke out between the two sides.

Both sides are extreme believers, calling each other heretics who have distorted the Emperor's will. During the battle, they both shouted the Emperor's name, making the battle seem particularly divisive. Who is the real traitor?

Damon initially thought this mob were also Chaos cultists, but he couldn't sense any Chaos power from them.
"Sir! It's those heretics! Drive! Get out of here!"

Franz screamed in terror, urging the driver to hurry up and find more reinforcements.

However, the mob had already set its sights on the convoy that Damon and his group were traveling in.

The automatic guns fired in rapid succession, violently striking the armor plating.

Some people even came towards the convoy with explosives strapped to their bodies.

The accompanying Lorisa planetary defense forces were caught off guard by this sudden attack.

Corpses were left on the ground.

Driven by their extreme fanaticism and fearlessness, they broke through the defenses formed by the guards.

Although Damon was curious about these unusual mobs, and as someone who did not believe in the emperor, he was not particularly angry about the destruction of the church, he had no choice but to retaliate at this point.

Rangers disembarked from the troop carriers, and Damon and two Night Guards joined the battle.

A mob with only one weapon, no armor, and no training was utterly powerless against well-trained rangers and superhuman Night Guards.

The mob's attack was immediately contained.

Franz cautiously peeked out. He had seen the emperor's angels before, but the mortals before him seemed even more ferocious than the Astartes.

The attack came and went quickly; Damon had already subdued the ringleaders, and some of the mob began to disperse out of fear.

After confirming that it was safe, Franz also got out of the troop carrier.

"Commander Damon! Why haven't you killed him yet?!"

Damon ignored Franz and looked at the people he had subdued, then examined the bodies of the other mob.

Although these people also showed signs of emaciation due to long-term food and malnutrition, they were distinctly different from others.

The refugees who should have been in the outer areas suffering from the disease were surprisingly showing no signs of infection in this group.

"Why haven't you contracted any diseases?" Upon hearing Damon's question, the other person laughed.

"Why! Of course it's because of our piety. The God-King protects us. Only by constantly spurring ourselves on can we be free from the erosion of disease!"

Only we can protect the people of this planet from disease.

We are saving the world!

Damon ripped off the other man's tattered shirt, revealing countless shocking wounds covering his body, some of which had not yet healed and scabbed over.

This wasn't caused by others, but rather by their own actions.

The flogging they spoke of was not merely verbal, but a physical punishment inflicted upon their bodies.

And surprisingly, no mutations were found in these people.

There was absolutely no trace of the corruption of chaos, as if they had truly received the emperor's protection.

"Where did you get your weapons? And how did you get past the blockade?"

Damon didn't believe these civilians could have access to so many standard-issue weapons.

These weapons can't be made by simply rubbing them by hand.

When confronted by Damon, the other party remained silent, seemingly accepting his impending death with equanimity.

But before Damon could delve deeper, Franz immediately spoke up.

"Please allow me to execute these rioters immediately! So they don't incite other people!"

"Leave this man to me; I need to get more information out of him!"

"But...this is against the law, the state religion will not allow you to do this!"

"Franz, I want you to understand that neither the State Church nor your governor has the right to order the Astronauts to do anything, not to mention that your governor is dead."

This is war! To quell the current chaos in Lorissa, all existing forces and resources must be integrated into our forces!

Franz was stunned... Wait a minute! Wasn't this supposed to be helping us?
Franz wanted to argue, but after thinking about the warships in orbit and the fighting strength of Damon and the others, he chose to keep quiet. He wasn't the governor... there was no need to risk his life to argue with these Star Guardians.

Moreover, the Star Guardians before them were the only force they could rely on.

Damon had no intention of being controlled by the local forces in Lorissa when he arrived here.

Following Gao Yi's instructions, saving humanity on the planet and preventing the spread of chaos was one thing, but also "taking over the mountain as king" was another.

A total of 20 fully armed Rangers and their attached logistics units began to land in the landing zone and take over the original defenses of the garrison.

The priests accompanying the army also began to take control of the still-operating factory area, and the SCV immediately began repairing various damaged facilities.

Most importantly, the large amount of supplies brought by Damon began to stabilize the situation on Lorisa.

The food produced by the warship's ecological cycle system, as well as starch blocks processed from mushrooms.

It gave hope to ordinary people who had been teetering on the brink of starvation.

However, the most serious problem was the pervasive plague.

Conventional treatments cannot completely cure these viruses that carry the evil of the subspace.

These viruses continue to ravage people's bodies. The presence of medics can slow down the spread of the plague, but it is only a temporary solution.

The true terror of a plague lies in its ability to penetrate every nook and cranny.

The fleet began targeted bombardment of the completely occupied areas, while the Rangers began their assault on the Nurgle walkers and the Nurgle cultists they had spawned.

(End of this chapter)