Travel to Warhammer 40K with Grey Wind

This is the meat-grinder war of attrition that the Empire is best at, and it can be accomplished well without any help from outsiders. The most that can be done is that the casualties will be higher.

At the end of the war, the severely damaged Imperial fleet had begun to rotate to the fleet anchorage at the bottom of the Seeker, or to the starport of Faya for repairs. During this process, the officers on the warships unexpectedly discovered something strange:

Every technical priest assigned to repair the ship, as well as their technicians and servitors, seemed a little listless and seemed to be harboring some kind of resentment. Even the rituals of purifying and appeasing the machine spirits were, for the first time ever, a little slack.

This is incredible for the oil man.

They did not know the reason for the Tech-Priests' sulking, nor that the Tech-Magus who had assembled the L-Gate himself was rushing from the Emperor's Statue to see the artifact that had caused the Warp storm in Faya.

Only the crew of the reconnaissance plane responsible for monitoring the movements of the nano dragon were still terrified until it finally swung its tail and flew away as if it had had enough, and its huge body disappeared into the void along with the distortion of the curvature of space. Only then did they finally relax.

The crew used the communication system that had just been restored to send a request to the Seekers Base, hoping that the Flame of Repentance Chapter could send a Space Marine force to take over the wreckage of the Chaos ship floating in the orbit of a gas giant planet in Faya after the dragon left.

For they suspected that there might be a few surviving Chaos Astartes aboard the two largest Chaos flagships.

It is a good practice of the Mechanicus to salvage warships of unknown origin, repair them, clean them and then use them, but when it comes to filthy warships piloted by Chaos traitors, the Imperium has always had only one option: destruction.

But the embarrassing thing is that the Fire of Repentance Regiment is a little short of people now. To be precise, this thousand-man regiment has been reduced to less than 40 seriously injured soldiers who are being rescued, and this is the result of counting several dreadnought mechas.

Miraak, who was short of troops, had to mobilize more people, and finally the Grey Knights took over the task of clearing the Chaos ships.

Dimitri, who had been a model worker throughout the war and had been busy all over, led his Grey Knights team to the orbit of the gas giant planet called "Lake of Tears", but they were a little late.

When they arrived, the two Chaos flagships, the "Ark of Bliss" and the "Oracle of Truth", which had lost their power, had been captured by the gravity of the gas giant planet and were falling towards the liquid hydrogen ocean on the surface of the "Lake of Tears" planet.

Standing on the side of the ship and watching the spectacular scene of the giant ship sinking into the giant planet, Dimitri fell into deep thought.

With his psychic powers, he was able to sense that there were still faint signs of life in the two Chaos flagships, and several Chaos traitors from the Ultimates were still alive deep within the ships.

Reason told him that even if he allowed the two battleships to sink into the giant planet, the Chaos traitors inside would have no chance of survival.

But out of personal emotion, Dimitri actually wanted to jump directly onto the Chaos flagship and kill all the Fallen Astartes inside with his power spear... but that would be very dangerous.

The other team members had similar ideas. Just when the Grey Knights were in a dilemma, a magical scene appeared.

The "Ark of Elysium" and "Oracle of Truth" that were captured by the gravity of the giant planet suddenly stopped sinking when they were about to fall into the outer atmosphere. The destroyed engines were reignited, and the strong thrust supported the hull to break free from the constraints of gravity and return to space.

Dimitri felt his fist harden.

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In the eyes of Dimitri, who hated Chaos, these two large warships soaked in the power of Chaos were just two pieces of fetid filth that leaked from the Warp into the real universe, and the Chaos Astartes hiding in them were just maggots wriggling back and forth in the filth, their twisted flames of life standing out in the eyes of the Grey Knights like flickering candlelight in the darkness.

But suddenly, the annoying and stubborn candlelight went out.

The Chaos Astartes hiding deep in the battleship survived the Nanodragon's tachyon turbulence breath and avoided the Imperial encirclement after the battleship collapsed. They survived until Dimitri arrived after hearing the news, and they were not completely dead. But when the engine was restarted and the battleship was about to escape from the powerful gravity of the gas giant, they died.

The death of the most perfect people is so sudden and so easy, like a joke.

"What happened...?" Dimitri was puzzled and quickly alert. The weapon system of the ship under his feet had started to operate, ready to launch an attack at any time.

In order to get here quickly, the Grey Knights had taken a small high-speed strike boat. It was inevitable that they would be stretched to face two awakened Chaos flagships with the combat power of a few small speedboats. Dimitri stared at the filthy giant ship slowly rising from the giant planet, and immediately requested fleet support from the Seekers Base.

But then he received the order: "Ignore them and let the two ships go."

Dimitri was furious when his request for support was rejected. He denounced the commander's cowardice and the navy's timidity in the communication channel. The Chaos traitor's flagship has been restarted. No matter how heavy the losses of the Imperial Fleet are, it should take immediate action. Standing idly by would be the same crime as heresy.

Faced with Dimitri's accusations, the officers in the Seekers Base were speechless. They could only say over and over again that this was an order from their superiors and not their own will, and tried their best to make a pale defense for themselves.

Dimitri was about to curse again, but then an encrypted communication from the Flame of Repentance extinguished his anger.

After reading the information, Dimitri simply gave up all combat plans for the two Chaos flagships, led the Grey Knights team out of the orbit of the "Lake of Tears", and returned to the star base to recuperate.

The Grey Knights in the team complained about their captain's uncharacteristic cowardice. It took a long time for this misunderstanding to be resolved, because only Dimitri himself knew the content of the encrypted communication he received:

"The Star-Bombards want these two ships."

Although he still wanted to kill the Chaos traitors on the Ark of Elysium and the Oracle of Truth with his own hands, Dimitri felt that if they fell into the hands of the Star Bullet, they might experience something more painful than death, so he let it go.

After all, he had seen the memories shared by the Prophetess, and heard Miraak describe the scenes of the Star Bullet purifying Chaos pollution and killing demons.

The Empire's high-speed strike craft carried the Grey Knights back to the Seekers star base, and behind them, the huge warship had already escaped from the gas giant planet.

The evil of the warp wrapped around the ship's hull was dissipating due to some unknown terrifying force, and the cursed scars entangled in the steel were struggling and twisting, emitting painful screams. The severely damaged Ark of Bliss and Oracle of Truth were not completely destroyed by the nano dragon's tachyon breath because of the evil energy of the warp. As the influence of chaos faded, the two warships were on the verge of disintegration.

But after the influence of chaos faded, the two warships seemed to have been affected by something else. The disintegrated wreckage gathered together with the keel of the ship as the center, and kept floating through the space as if it was about to fall apart but not yet.

The Imperial fleet stationed in Falla did not make any attempt to stop this, and watched the two strange ships cross the asteroid belt and go to the edge of the Falla star gravity well galaxy, which is next to the Emperor's statue.

An operator in white who stayed at the left-hand outpost of the Emperor's Statue called up a simple operating interface from the system. It was so simple that the entire interface only had three lines of text.

【Terminal Exit-Faya】

[Stargate 01-Critical Base]

[Star Gate 02-Nirvana]

The text displayed on the left of "Critical Base" is in eye-catching fluorescent green, indicating that the star gate is connected to the Internet, while the font color of "Nirvana" is gray, indicating that the star gate is disconnected from the Internet due to a malfunction.

The operator pressed the parameter option of "Critical Base" and then watched the half-dead Ark of Bliss and Oracle of Truth enter the distorted spherical space-time in the L-Gate one after another. As the starlight dissipated, the two warships disappeared.

The L-Gate completed its first operation successfully.

After the war, Falla entered a recovery period. The Inquisitors, led by Bernadette, launched a large-scale purge in this small galaxy. All the navigators, whether loyal or corrupt, were in danger. Even the Astropaths, who had almost never been a traitor during the civil strife, were closely monitored and tortured.

Russell knew nothing about these cruel acts, which were traditional skills of the Inquisition.

After returning to his loyal Critical Base with two Chaos warships, he was first welcomed by the electromagnetic pulse that filled the entire galaxy.

Afterwards, Gray Wind, which had transformed from an L-Star Dragon back into the Gray Goo mothership, also came over. It nervously dispatched a small fighter jet and sent Russell back to its own ship as quickly as possible.

Then it devoted its energy to carrying out its main mission: using a large number of automatic machines to dismantle and recover the wreckage of the ship that had lost Russell's control.

Taking off the black robe of the Star Bomber, Russell sat in the core cabin of the Grey Goo mothership after a long absence. Together with Grey Wind, he watched the two warships that had been dismantled to the point where only their keels were left, and the L-Star Gate standing in the starry sky further away.

"I never thought that one day, I would rebuild the L-Gate in another universe."

There was a hint of emotion in Huifeng's voice.

This massive structure, which came from its creator, holds a very, very special meaning to Grey Wind.

It's really special.

"Humans in this universe have been trapped at the speed of light. You are doing a good thing by rebuilding the L-stargate network here," Russell comforted.

The sadness in Gray Wind's heart quickly dissipated, and he chuckled, "Marshal, if you really only wanted to do good things, you would have handed over a Stargate or a Slingshot to the Human Empire instead of an L-Stargate."

Russell did not comment.

His explanation was: Tolls have to be collected for building highways...

Grey Wind changed the subject cooperatively, and then asked, "Why do you want to recycle the warships contaminated by Chaos? Wouldn't it be better to directly manufacture new ones? Even if we want to understand the structure and related technology of the Imperial warships, we can also seek cooperation and exchange with the Mechanicus..."

"That would cause unnecessary doubts and trouble. Less trouble is worse than more." Russell replied: "There are two purposes for recovering the Chaos battleship. One is to collect some technological data of the Empire, and the other is..."

"What is it?" Gray Wind's appetite was whetted by him.

"Secondly, the keel of a large warship like this is usually made of a material called 'fine gold'."

Chapter 70 Feeding

Adamantium, literally translated as "indestructible metal", is, as the name suggests, the strongest material used by the human empire, possibly the only one.

Unlike the "gold" used to cast the armor of the Imperial Guards, there is no such thing as "good toughness" in adamantium. Its overly strong properties make it generally used to build the skeletons of large mechanical equipment such as Terminators, Titans, and space battleships.

Many times, even if a warship's armor is destroyed, its hull is collapsed, and the entire ship is completely scrapped, the shape of its core keel can still remain intact.

The Mechanicus usually salvages abandoned ships, repairs and cleans them, and then uses them again. They mainly salvage the refined golden keel, which is the core of the warship, and then repair or even rebuild the ship based on the keel.

Solidity, this simple yet extremely precious characteristic makes adamantium particularly favored by humans, but this also brings a trouble - many ancient adamantium creations containing precious technology cannot be dismantled, studied or re-modified by the current human empire because it is too solid.

Based on the adamantine keel, combined with advanced technologies such as zero-element armor made of neutron star materials and dark matter deflector shields, Russell is confident that he can design a new combat ship with even better performance.

But before that, we need to analyze the composition of refined gold and find a way to produce this material independently.

Now that the nanoplanet has been assimilated, Russell can use advanced equipment such as nanotransformers and replicator terminals to mass-produce any material that can be synthesized by physical means in this huge and efficient industrial base.

But it won’t work when it comes to some idealistic things, such as the Holy Shield that makes the Necrons of the Empire shake their heads...

After completing the dismantling of the two Chaos flagships, the Grey Goo mothership collected most of the ship wreckage into the hull, dragged two adamantine keels that could not be dismantled, and brought Russell to the sky above Planet No. 2 of the Critical Base.

In the years since Russell left, this originally ordinary and desolate planet has undergone striking changes that are visible to the naked eye. Even standing on the side of Gray Wind's ship, one can see it directly:

The bumpy surface of the planet has become flat, and a sticky web of hyphae has filled the valleys and depressions. The entire planet seems to be wrapped in a layer of light red spider webs, and the dark places in every corner have been transformed into a hotbed for the swarm of insects.

This is the result of Coronia's biological transformation of the planet over the years, but it is somewhat powerless in some higher places.

The pulsar in the center of the critical base radiates huge electromagnetic pulses every moment. Under such a strong energy impact, almost no living thing can reproduce and survive.

This planet also has no atmosphere. That is why Coroniai, which devoured the Solin protozoa and completed its self-evolution, was able to take root here with its incredible adaptability, and to a certain extent, absorb the radiation from the star and convert it into nutrients through its powerful mycelium mixed with algae genes.

Even if it were the Death-fearing Ones, they might not be able to withstand this start.

A small Gray Goo fighter plane took Russell to the planet's surface. Following the psychic signal sent by Coronie and approaching the planet's surface, Gray Wind drilled into a deep rift covered with hyphae.

This rift has obviously been artificially excavated and modified. The tunnels inside are winding and thick biological tissue coatings can be seen everywhere on the cave walls to isolate and absorb radiation. Tens of thousands of drill worms are still digging deeper and wider, and occasionally you can see huge sand pythons drilling through the rock layers.

It is obvious that some large-scale underground project is underway here.

The Gray Gu fighter plane disintegrated here and reorganized into the human-shaped Gray Wind, accompanying Russell to the end of the tunnel. There was a palace-like hidden cavity hidden deep underground in the rift. This was where Coronie's real body was located.

The biological fluorescent structures growing on the dome provided a very bright view, and the nest of the queen of the swarm was filled with a refreshing sweet fragrance that made people feel a little dizzy.

When Russell arrived in front of the palace, dense swarms of drill worms and protozoa stopped working at the same time, gathered on both sides of the "road", knelt down and crawled, behaving obediently and respectfully.

Deep inside the palace, Coroniai's huge body had already fallen to the ground.

Before Russell got close, it timidly exposed its head, which has the most important organs and is also the most vulnerable, to its master to show its obedience.

It used the onomatopoeia deep in its throat to simulate the most tender and charming voice that could stir the hearts of human males, and pleaded in a low voice:

Please have mercy on me, my master. Please give me some more time. Please give me another 50 Terran years... As long as I can complete the transformation of the core of this planet, I can create a strong enough biomagnetic field to resist the radiation of the pulsar and breed enough healthy children for you..."

Russell stopped Coronie from continuing speaking with a tingling scalp. He felt very embarrassed to see a large, inhuman insect speaking in a delicate human female voice in front of him.

"I'm not here to rush you. The environment here is indeed harsh. The fact that you can accomplish this has actually exceeded my expectations."

"Yes, master, thank you for your understanding." Coroniel then carefully and slowly raised his head, but only a little bit - he did not dare to look down at his master.

Russell squatted down in front of Coronie and touched the chitinous carapace on its head. "But 50 years is indeed a bit long. I need you to complete the transformation of the incubation planet as soon as possible. Of course, I will give you some help."

Coroniel prostrated himself on the ground, not daring to answer, because the place Russell touched was its psychic organ, a very sensitive and very deadly organ.

The reason why Coronie's transformation of Planet 2 was slow was the lack of biomass. Staying on the planet and relying on farming alone would indeed make obtaining biomass much slower than directly plundering other organisms.