Warhammer 40: Starting as a Rogue Trader

Chapter 315 The Infiltrated Defense Force
"You mean the dungeons have been almost completely taken over by gene stealers?"

"Perhaps. Even if they didn't, they've already been almost completely infiltrated. Without a sufficient number, how could the Tyranid tentacles possibly head towards the Hades system? It was they who guided the tentacles. Once we fight against countless Tyranid creatures, they will pour out of the dungeons to assist their master."

Upon hearing Gao Yi's words, Mellen felt a chill run down his spine. He knew that gene stealers existed on this planet, but he hadn't expected the impact to have reached this level.
Since he arrived on this planet, these gene stealers have hardly carried out any large-scale operations, with only gang-related riots being suspected of having their involvement.

"Besides the governor's underground city, the lower nest and the bottom nest of this planet must have been infiltrated as well, and even their people may appear in the upper nest. However, this lower nest and the bottom nest, which have a population of 350 million, are too big for us to identify. So all we can do is capture the cunning chieftain among them."

"If we can kill him, the trouble we encounter later will be much less!"

Gao Yi shared his thoughts.

“I will send troops to assist you. I have a unit called the Droste City Elite, which consists of my most elite young men, including an entire company of Oglin. They will be of great use in this kind of terrain.”

"Do you expect Oglin to infiltrate? Too many people will only alert them and even cause them to revolt prematurely. Our defenses are not yet fully completed, and the distribution and familiarization with the equipment are not yet finished. This is not the time to start a civil war. Don't worry, Mellen, my men will take care of these guys."

Ghosts, the Dark Templar will enter the dungeon to find that cunning chieftain. If they can capture or kill him, Kerrigan can invade his Swarm will and seize control of the cunning chieftain on this planet!
Gao Yi looked at the star map before him again, focusing his attention on Tartarus, the location of the magnificent prism, one of the purposes of this trip.

This gas giant planet, barren and inhabited by only tens of thousands of humans, was not enough to attract a large-scale attack from the Tyranid tentacles.

What Gao Yi cared about most was another world of death, Pertaro.
Beneath what appears to be a barren and worthless planet lies a space necromantic dynasty. Once the Tyranids invade this place, it will trigger an early warning signal that will fully awaken this dynasty, and the warning signal will also attract an even larger necromantic dynasty.
Meanwhile, the Vostochny 1635th Panzer Regiment above Isox also received orders from Melen.

Commander Demeting was looking at the orders that had been sent from inside his Imperial Poison Blade.

Above the planet's orbit, 20 massive Montgomery Dynasty transport ships have been docked.

They will travel to Asford aboard these transport ships.
"Someone will be taking over our defense of Isoxx?!"

Demetrius opened the hatch of the Emperor Poison Blade and saw soldiers in combat uniforms and priests using engineering machinery to transport huge containers to the surface.

"Rely on these infantry?! This planet is completely indefensible. This is just sending them to their deaths! I haven't even seen any of their heavy armored vehicles."

Demetrius inwardly grumbled at the incomprehensible order given by Mellen, but he had no choice but to obey.
But after the Vostonia Firstborn Sons led all the workers onto a transport ship and left Isox.

These metal boxes opened on their own one by one, and swarms of worker bees poured out and immediately began to mutate into hatcheries. The tunnel worms began to operate, and a large number of queen worms crawled out from them.

They went in all directions, spreading fungal carpets along the way. These carpets began to absorb the planet's radiation and the energy needed by the isotopes in the refinery to be converted into Zerg.

The large number of larvae brought over directly began to hatch using the biomass brought over earlier.

Worker bees not only began to transform into production structures, but also into large numbers of fixed-fire spine reptiles and spore reptiles.

If Demetrine were to look towards Isox from the void at this moment, he would see the entire planet turning into a dark purple ocean centered on their departed camp at a visible speed.
The Zerg have already established themselves on this planet, preparing for a major war with the Terran. It will come down to whether the Terran can devour the Zerg faster or the creep can plunder them faster.

After delivering supplies and recruits, the transport ship returned to Agathos to pick up more supplies.

Meanwhile, the hundred Gorgons, with the Star Pioneer as their flagship, advanced toward the vicinity of the Fortress Ring.

Together with the Imperial Navy, they need to rely on the Fortress Lord's Ring to deal with the intruding Terran bio-ships as much as possible to alleviate the pressure on the subsequent war.

Meanwhile, atop Asford, Gao Yi, along with Norris, Zeratul, and Kerrigan, had arrived at the governor's palace with their respective troops.

After Norris used his mind control abilities to subdue several of the governor's former stewards, they located a gate made of adamantite and various alloys at great expense. The location was sufficiently concealed, and the gate itself was exceptionally sturdy. Before the widespread fall of Asford, this place was indeed considered safe.

"Merlen, is there a way to open it?"

Mellen shook his head helplessly.

"I searched through all the officials who had served under the governor, but none of them knew how to open it. According to them, all the entrances could only be opened from the inside. Heaven knows how much material the governor spent and how many years building this underground city."

There are virtually no hidden entrances, and the life support facilities and supplies inside are enough to sustain the governor for over a decade!

"I understand. You continue setting up the defenses. I'll handle things here."

After Mellen left, Norris and Zeratul both appeared beside Gao Yi.

Zeratul unleashed his dark green psionic blade, attempting to pierce the metal door before him, but found it to have little effect.

This door is ridiculously thick.
Norris also tried firing locking rounds at the gate to disable its mechanical structure and open it, but that also failed.

"My lord, we may be unable to open this gate."

Seeing that the two were helpless, Gao Yi stepped forward and placed his hand on the steel gate. The mechanical power began to transform into the magic steel nerve plexus, which then permeated the metal gate.

Gao Yi has already seized control of the machine soul within it.

"This ability is really useful... Regular Imperial machines won't be able to stop me at all from now on..."

However, Gao Yi did not open it rashly... Controlling the machine spirit also allowed Gao Yi to see the situation on the other side of the door.

He used his own abilities to disable all the early warning systems near the gate.

"Kerrigan, there's a small force over there at the door. Take care of them for me!"

And Kerrigan's eyes began to glow with psionic energy.

Nearly a hundred etheric leaping insects emerged from the wall to the side.

The Ether Jumper then transformed into a void state and directly passed through the physical form of the gate.

Inside the gate, a planetary defense force of one hundred people is responsible for the defense of this gate.

"Trick, are we really going to have to stay here for more than ten years?"

"Palin, don't be so pessimistic. By the great four-armed God-Emperor, didn't you hear what the leader said? The angels will descend soon, and the day of ascension will arrive. When that time comes, we will open the gates and welcome the divine messengers. Don't say it will be more than ten years, I estimate it will be enough in another ten days."

The governor here had no idea that his troops had long been infiltrated by cunning individuals, and even those tasked with important duties such as guarding the gates were actually followers of these cunning spies.

After years of manipulation by cunning individuals, many key positions have actually been filled by these same cunning people.

(End of this chapter)