Warhammer begins in 2026

In M24, human civilization ascended to the pinnacle of the galaxy, firmly establishing itself as the galactic superpower. Its foreign policy was clearly structured: permanent non-aggression pacts were signed with the Ordered Xenomorphs, the Wotan Dwarves, and other neutral Xenomorph races, establishing interstellar trade routes across star sectors, facilitating the two-way flow of rare Xenomorph materials and human industrial creations, with interstellar trade routes operating day and night; for warlike Xenomorphs like the Orcs and interstellar raiders—inherently bloodthirsty and incompatible with communication—humanity deployed mass-produced Ironclad fleets for proactive extermination, but abandoned the extreme genocide policies of later human empires. After defeating the enemy's main forces and destroying their raiding strongholds, resource-poor isolated star systems were directly designated, confining the remaining Xenomorph populations and permanently restricting their activities.

At this moment, the internal and external environment of human civilization is unprecedentedly stable, interplanetary trade is extremely prosperous, the stability of the subspace is at an all-time high, the subspace routes are unobstructed all day long, and ships can travel stably across thousands of light-years without relying on star torches for navigation or psionic navigators. There are almost no accidents such as ships losing contact or subspace turbulence swallowing up fleets.

Taking advantage of the relaxed regulations and free flow of technical data during the Golden Age, Huang Feng roamed the major core forging worlds and abandoned ancient ruins of humanity, quietly amassing a massive amount of complete STC templates. She also collected a large number of retired, scrapped, and sealed Golden Age active starships. Instead of using the ships' original autonomous AI, she personally disassembled all the starship AI cores and sealed them one by one inside the modified Legion's eagle banner. Relying on a double psionic barrier as a safety net: Neos's unchanging primordial psionic energy anchored the underlying protection, combined with Huang Feng's all-encompassing group psionic suppression to construct the outer barrier, as long as their psionic energy did not completely dissipate, the Chaos Gods and low-level demons in the warp could never infiltrate and corrupt the internal AI.

All ships are uniformly stored in an independent spatial technology storage dimension modified by Huang Feng using psionic energy. The interior is time-stopped and sterile, preventing hull corrosion and component aging and damage. The stored ships cover the entire fleet, completing the fleet's complete combat system.

Frigates/Light Cruisers (Scout and Escort Types): These ships range in size from several hundred to two thousand meters, with the entire vessel covered in both optical and gravity stealth coatings, emphasizing high maneuverability and maneuverability. Standard equipment includes rapid-fire split-throw cannons and swarm interceptor drones. Their primary functions are routine patrols of waterways, clearing out interstellar alien pirates, and identifying ambush points for the main fleet. They are the foundational units for interstellar security.

Standard Cruiser (Fleet Backbone): 3-8 km in length, the absolute mainstay of the fleet during the Golden Age. The hull is equipped with multi-mounted gravity collapse guns and photon macro gun arrays. The hull houses enclosed Iron Man fighter hangars and landing craft. A single ship can independently suppress an entire small, mixed alien fleet even when detached from the main fleet. The Prometheus-class cruisers mass-produced during the Imperial Expeditions were essentially scaled-down versions with half of their advanced technology removed and energy circuits simplified.

Battleship (Fleet Flagship): 10–25 km in length, equipped with a five-layered stacked void energy shield, and multiple planetary nova cannons and interstellar vortex torpedo silos embedded in the keel core. A single ship's firepower is sufficient to independently complete tasks such as planetary surface purification and crustal demolition. The later Imperial Glory Queen-class battleships all derived their technology from the remnants of these battleships from the Golden Age.

Small, high-speed suicide ships: These are miniature ships, around 100 meters in length, with no shields or redundant living quarters, designed to maximize acceleration through extreme weight compression. The interior is filled with artificially cultivated nano-devouring swarms. Upon impact with an enemy ship, the outer shell automatically disintegrates, and the swarm instantly spreads, indiscriminately decomposing metal hulls and all organic life. They are specifically designed to counter large enemy starship swarms.

The Celestial-Tier Iron Man Command Mothership: A colossal starship spanning tens of kilometers, a strategic creation of the Golden Age. Each ship carries an integrated fleet AI, and its interior houses a small, mobile STC (Strategic Control Center) factory. During combat, it can repair damaged ships, mass-produce escort vessels, and Iron Man infantry on-site without returning to its home planet. It is also equipped with a secondary stellar disturbance weapon, capable of briefly distorting stellar coronal radiation to incinerate all enemy ships and colonies within a three-light-year radius.

For the highest-risk top-tier mothership AI, Huang Feng individually bound a unique legion eagle banner to each AI core, and permanently and deeply bound the underlying permissions of the eagle banner to Neos' soul. This means that if the Chaos Demon wants to corrupt the AI, it must first break through the barrier of Neos' soul essence, which is equivalent to providing all strategic AIs with an inescapable double insurance.

The Sun Eater Star Harvester: A ring-shaped, colossal space structure, its diameter far exceeding that of a gas giant. It normally orbits a star, extracting fusion energy from its core layer by layer. When fully operational, it can gradually extinguish the star's core and freeze the surfaces of all planets in the entire star system. During the Iron Man Rebellion, it was humanity's ultimate weapon, used to isolate the rebel fleet's energy and destroy hostile colony clusters. Huang Feng stockpiled a total of 27 units. Each harvester's main control center was equipped with a unique eagle banner, and Neos completed a long-distance, permanent mental and psionic link binding, allowing for remote start-up and shutdown at any time.

Huang Feng initiated a complete contingency plan at the beginning of M25, traversing the galaxy over several centuries. Having witnessed all the tragedies that followed, including the Iron Man rebellion, the Great Warp Storm, and the Old Night of Strife, she harbored an extremely strong conviction: the collapse of civilizations that her predecessors were powerless to change, this time she was determined to lead everyone out of the abyss that humanity was destined to fall into, and overcome all predetermined calamities.

After millennia of exploration, Huang Feng has thoroughly grasped the underlying logic of her collective psionic energy: her psionic energy can not only connect with the spirits of intelligent beings but also draw upon interstellar free-floating psionic energy. To this end, she has deployed millions of hidden psionic star arrays in the Milky Way's spiral arms, void stargates, and weak points in subspace. These arrays continuously extract the free-floating spiritual energy dissipated from the daily activities of humanity throughout the galaxy, transforming it into a suppressive force across the entire subspace. However, the distance is currently too great for Huang Feng to activate the psionic star arrays.

Over the past ten thousand years, Huang Feng has never stopped collecting raw materials for forging the Eagle Banner. She has ventured deep into the ruins of extinct ancient civilizations, meteorite-rich star regions, and stable mineral belts on the edge of the subspace, gathering rare materials such as psionic-affinity metals, void sturdiness, and soul-bearing ores. Now, with the subspace's emotional aggregation at an extremely low level and the evil god's power not yet inflated to madness, it is the best window of opportunity to forge the Eagle Banner and bind the psionic link. Adhering to the principle of preparing as many as possible, she is infinitely expanding her Eagle Banner reserves.

All of this has only one ultimate goal: to eliminate the hidden dangers of chaos within the galaxy, make up for the shortcomings of humanity's strategic military capabilities, improve safe interstellar routes, accelerate Neos's subsequent great expedition to unify humanity, and complete the establishment of the network.