Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 312 Journey to the Underworld Galaxy
Meanwhile, the fleets that had returned from the Battle of Comoros were resting.

Gao Yi has once again organized a fleet and is preparing to head towards the Hades Galaxy.

Knowing the fate of the Hades Galaxy, Gao Yi clearly understood that with the Hades Galaxy's current strength, it could only hold out for a few days at most against Leviathan, the largest insectoid hive fleet that humanity had ever encountered.

Although the Empire is no longer threatened by the Eye of Fear, it is not incapable of being torn in two.

However, the vast warp shadow cast by the Leviathan swarm still prevented most Imperial naval fleets from conducting warp travel to support the Hades system.

Leaving aside whether conventional navigation could reach the Hades system in time, the Diamond Shield, originally intended to defend against foreign invasion, has instead become an obstacle to Imperial support.

This special ring, filled with icy asteroids and influenced by subspace, will subject any fleet that enters it to unnaturally low temperatures; any fleet that attempts to force its way through will be frozen solid.

Currently, only Gao Yi's fleet in the entire empire is capable of using the warp drive to bypass the warp shadows and the Diamond Shield and directly enter the Hades system on a large scale.

At this moment, Gao Yi once again boarded the Star Pioneer, and a fleet belonging to the Montgomery Dynasty was once again organized.

However, this time, Gao Yi only brought three or more combat ships, including the Star Pioneer, to the fleet.

Gao Yi did not intend to fight the Tyranid swarm in the void. The number of Leviathan's biological fleet was simply too enormous. With an endless array of Zerg hive biological ships, Gao Yi felt that he could not achieve victory in the void with the fleet he currently possessed.

The chances of winning by relying on the fleet are too small. Even if a large number of Terran ships can be destroyed, the losses will be particularly heavy. Gao Yi is worried that he will lose all the warships he has accumulated over the years.

Therefore, this fleet consists of one hundred easily produced interstellar Gorgon warships, all of which possess tactical warp capabilities.

The Yamato Cannon is also capable of damaging Tyrannosaurus Rex's flesh and blood armor.

Most importantly, the Gorgon possesses sufficient mobility.

In the void, these Terran ships are much faster than the Imperial's regular ships.

Gorgons can use tactical warp to hold off a sufficient number of Terran bio-ships.

Large warships don't have much of an advantage against these Terran ships. If they are outnumbered and the Terran, who also possess giant biological warships, entangles their tentacles around them, they will have no chance of escape.

An endless number of Tyranids will rush into the fleet through the torn gap, killing all the humans inside and plundering the biomass.

In addition to these Gorgons, Gao Yi also temporarily requisitioned all 50 of the dynasty's largest giant transport ships.

These transport ships were no smaller than heavy cruisers and were specially modified to meet the needs of the Montgomery dynasty's enormous trade system.

Meanwhile, these massive transport ships, in addition to carrying two million Rangers, also contained a large stockpile of ammunition, combat suits, and various other interstellar artifacts.

There were even relocated military camps, heavy factories, and starports.

With the threat from Comoros gone, Gao Yi can free up more ground troops.

If there were enough weapons, equipment, and ammunition, the Hades system would have more resistance forces and would not have been so easily conquered by Tyran.

The collapse of most of the Hades Galaxy was caused by running out of ammunition and food.

Gao Yi cannot send hundreds of millions of Astral Army troops directly to Hades like the Empire does, but the Hades system itself has a sufficient population.

These supplies can be used to arm the ground troops above.

These soldiers and supplies occupied half of the transport ship, while the other half carried a large number of hatched tunnel worms, worker bees, and larvae.

Large quantities of flesh and blood that had not yet been harvested and converted into biomass by the Zerg were also loaded onto these transport ships to ensure that the Zerg would have sufficient biomass upon arrival in the Hades system. With the help of the tunnel worms and this biomass, the Zerg population could be expanded as quickly as possible. In addition to the regular Rangers, the Blood Ravens also abandoned their warships, as their warships were unable to reach the Hades system.

Aside from leaving a small number of warband members to guard these warships, the rest boarded Gao Yi's warship.

Norris also gathered most of the existing ghosts to go with him; their presence could help Gao Yi eliminate the node creatures or cerebrates in the Tyranids.

“Artanis, you and your Protoss will wait patiently in Argasus. I need you to join the battle with Feralus and his Iron Hand at the crucial moment. Only your Spear of Adun has the chance to destroy the Terran Mothership as quickly as possible.”

Just like in the game, although the Terran warships are very strong, their morale collapses the fastest once the mothership, which is the central node of the organisms, is destroyed. Once it collapses, these Terran bio-ships will follow their biological instincts and flee on their own.

Each hive tentacle contains more than one mothership, but one of them will inevitably have a Norn mothership that controls the entire hive tentacle.

Gao Yi needs to find the mothership, have the Spear of Adun warp into the battlefield, and then completely destroy it.

Without leadership, even with its numerical advantage, Tyron will no longer be a threat.

"My lord, I think you can take the Templars with you; they can protect you."

"Don't worry, aren't there some new compatriots going with me?"

Artanis looked behind Gao Yi, where there was nothing there, and a hunched Protoss with dark skin slowly revealed himself.

Artanis, I am very pleased that you have become an excellent leader for the Protoss.

"Zeratul, I am also very happy that you are back by my side."

This person is Zeratul, another legendary figure in interstellar space, awakened by Viktor's soul.

It wasn't just Zeratul; there were hundreds of Dark Templar transformed from Eldar nobles and Trueborn.

Gao Yi had thought that the number of Dark Spirit Clan True Children eliminated this time would be enough, but it turned out that the number of Dark Spirit Clan True Children was even less than that of the Ark Spirit Clan.

The Dark Eldar, who are more adept at playing games, are even less enthusiastic about completing reproduction in this traditional way.

As Dark Templars, unlike the traditional Protoss, they have taken a different path. They can distort light to hide their bodies, and their use of psionic energy is more brutal. They have abandoned defense and put all their attribute points into attack power and speed.

They will also come with Norris's ghost to behead Tyrion.

"You two stop with the sentimental small talk. You'll have the chance to fight side by side in the future."

With all personnel in place, the warship led by Gao Yi set sail once again.

Meanwhile, within the Hades star system...

Everyone was extremely nervous.

Tyrannosaurus's biological fleet has already closed in on the Diamond Shield.

In just a few days, they will follow the attraction of the biomass to break through the ring and completely enter the Hades Galaxy.

It must be said that Gao Yi set off at the right time. If it had been any later, they might have encountered Tyrannosaurus directly within the star system, which would have caused huge problems with the transportation of war supplies.

(End of this chapter)