From Terra to Terra, the Star Emperor's Holiday

In the human empire, the best way to expand influence to the grassroots is to subtly change their living conditions, and the Forge World is the starting point of this plan and a cover to conceal the truth.

Without a forging world as an excuse to dispel some people's suspicions about the source of the equipment, Si Ye would not be able to reasonably use the Star Sea Empire's huge production capacity directly.

After all, the Inquisitors of the Human Empire are really good at suspecting everything that might be problematic. Once Si Ye shows abilities that far exceed the concept of the Rogue Merchant Dynasty, sooner or later all kinds of Inquisitors will come knocking on his door.

Don't think that Usadel is easy to talk to. That's only because this inquisitor has extensive knowledge of the marginal expansion area and is more understanding of human nature.

If you really encounter a young and naive judge who sticks to dogma, it would be a pity to kill him, but it would be annoying if you don't kill him.

"I have no objection to that."

Usadr responded decisively. The Inquisition would not waste its energy on such a struggle for internal political interests within the empire.

Even if the various forces finally quarreled over the border forging world, in Usadel's mind it would be more practical to hang a few more heretics and kill a few more demons.

"The Carcharodon Squadron has no objection either."

Tiberus' voice was a little low.

Although he was thrilled to witness the Emperor's Manifestation, the lack of glory in battle left the powerful Astartes feeling uneasy.

"..."

"..."

The communication channel fell silent.

Tiberus wanted to wait until the Inquisitor left so that he could inquire in more detail about the new mission that the Emperor had given to the Carcharodon Chapter. After all, military expansion was a confusing term.

How much to expand and how to expand, in order to avoid mistakes, Tiberus felt it necessary to ask Si Ye for detailed information.

Usadel was also waiting for the Carcharodon Regiment to leave. He wanted to observe Si Ye closely and ask for some information about the Emperor's Revelation.

Both the Inquisitor and Astartes wanted to have a conversation with Si Ye, and both believed that the content to be discussed was extremely confidential and should not be known by a third party.

Under such circumstances, Usadel and Tiberus began to stare at each other, both hoping that the other would leave first.

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A piece of astropathic message was received by the astropath who had been on standby, successfully breaking the awkward deadlock.

"The Velo system has been invaded by aliens. The Imperial Navy has been severely damaged and urgently needs support..."

After reading the deciphered Star Language, Usadel's face changed drastically and his breathing became rapid.

"The Velo system is of vital importance... Lord Nyx, Lord Tiberus, please lend us your assistance."

It's no wonder that Usadel was so shocked. Although the Velo Galaxy is just an ordinary galaxy, judging from the star map, the Velo Galaxy is an important transportation hub in the marginal expansion area.

If the Velo system falls, the entire peripheral expansion zone will be temporarily separated from the human empire and become an isolated boat. This is a very dangerous and serious situation.

"Support is naturally necessary, but the border forge world still needs to be defended, and my fleet is too large, and it will take time to make a warp jump."

It's not that warp jumps take time. The Star Empire's warships don't use psychic jump engines or other super-light methods to go through the warp at all.

If they really set out together, they would be exposed in a minute. Although this exposure could actually be blamed on ancient technology, Si Ye was too lazy to waste his breath on it.

Let Usadel and the Carcharodon Regiment go first, and Si Ye will follow.

"Captain Tiberus, you and Inquisitor Usadel will go ahead and provide support. I will streamline the fleet and will be here soon."

Si Ye's reasons were reasonable.

With its defense system destroyed and leaderless, the Forge World really needs to be defended.

And without the assistance of stargates, it does take extra time for a giant fleet to move through the subspace.

Taking the lead is indeed a good choice.

"Then we will set off first... Captain Tiberus, how are you doing..."

Usadel commanded the battleship to Mandeville Point and began to warm up the warp engine and Geller force field.

"You can always..."

With the sound of bombs being loaded, the battle barge and moon-class cruiser quickly disappeared into the subspace rift.

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Chapter 330 Velo Galaxy

Velo Galaxy

An extremely ordinary galaxy, with dim stars, four barren planets that are difficult to develop, and the outermost galaxy's meteorite belt. This is all there is to this ordinary galaxy.

Since mineral deposits on barren planets are often difficult to develop, the district government did not pay too much attention to this galaxy at first, until a subspace storm blew.

The warp is full of twists and turns, and it is often extremely difficult to find a stable warp route in such chaos and disorder. However, in this warp storm, a very stable warp route was discovered in the Velo system. To this day, the warp route of the Velo system is still an important waterway connecting the edge expansion area to the territory of the human empire.

The marginal expansion zone still has certain economic value for the human empire, so in order to protect the stability of this subspace route, the Imperial Military Affairs Department had no choice but to bite the bullet and build a large number of fortifications on Roni-1, the largest planet in the Velo system, and stationed the Astra Militarum and the naval fleet there, turning it into a fortress world.

In the vast universe, galaxies like the Velo Galaxy, which have nothing but subspace routes, are very unpopular.

After all, the Chaos traitors need to plunder supplies and people, the Warp Demons need blood and souls, and the Tyranids need biomass. Attacking the steel and concrete fortresses of the Velo system can easily lead to a ridiculous situation where the losses are disproportionate to the gains.

But there is one kind of alien that never cares about issues like profit and loss when they are having fun.

The huge firepower of the fortress world makes their blood boil, and the naval fleets wandering in the star field make their hearts surge, and there are usually only two options in their minds: waaaagh and waaaagh even bigger!

That's right, a group of Orcs who appeared out of nowhere, like children fighting, launched an unprecedented waaagh against the Fortress World on the grounds that the Fortress World blocked their waterway!

Unlike the one in the Ragtomo galaxy, which was just a small fight brought together by an orc warboss, the orcs who attacked the Velo galaxy were led by a larger, stronger and more powerful warlord.

From the number to the equipment, to the physique of the orc boys, with the assistance of the huge waaagh force field, the orcs led by the warlord [Black Fang] have a combat power that far exceeds the capacity of the regular garrison forces of the Velo galaxy, so a distress signal was sent out.

On the 11th day of the battle, the Velo Galaxy's naval fleet was accidentally severely damaged by the endless Ork warships. The loss of orbital air supremacy caused a rain of crushing capsules and Ork boulders to fall from the sky.

Although the ground air defense firepower group of the Fortress World destroyed a large number of airdrop targets, the orcs' boulders were made entirely of asteroids tied to a bunch of booster engines. The air defense firepower could not completely destroy the orcs' boulders. The broken and scattered boulders fell everywhere, and the surviving orc boys inside rushed out howling with weapons in their hands.

The battle entered the second stage, ground mincing.

Relying on the complex bunkers and fortresses, the orcs' heavy weapons can hardly threaten the human empire troops in the fortress world, but the loss of orbital air supremacy allows the orcs to unscrupulously throw huge stone airdrop troops into the fortress world.

This thing, which is both an airdrop pod and a powerful orbital bombardment weapon, caused great suffering to the Astra Militarum, and the damage and impact caused by the falling boulders also caused loopholes in the defense lines between the core nodes of several important fortresses.

As the naval fleet was unable to regain air superiority in a short period of time, the Astra Militarum had to abandon part of its outer defense lines and withdraw its manpower to the more vulnerable fortress areas.

"Abominable alien!"

The Velo System Navy Commander slammed the table in front of him.

There were too many orcs. At the beginning of the battle, the Imperial Navy was already at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, but relying on fixed defense nodes within the galaxy and pre-deployed air mines, they were able to barely maintain the situation by using kite-flying tactics.

But after the garrison navy fleet was severely damaged and orbital air supremacy was lost, the situation in the galaxy took a sharp turn for the worse. The orc fleet cunningly occupied the outer periphery of the fortress world's low-Earth orbit, maintaining a state where it would not encounter anti-aircraft fire attacks from the fortress world, but could airdrop orc troops down without restraint.

The purpose of the orc warlord giving such an order was very simple, forcing the Imperial Navy fleet to fight them head-on like a man, instead of continuing to rely on the range advantage to fly kites.

The already severely damaged Garrison Navy Fleet was naturally no match for the Orc Fleet, but if the Orcs were allowed to continue airdropping troops, the Fortress World with its supply routes cut off would soon fall into an extremely passive situation. The commander of the Garrison Navy was caught in a dilemma.

"This is the Weepers Chapter. I am Chapter Master Malakin Foros, and I am bringing five companies of the Chapter to support us."

"Carcharodon Chapter Tiberus, the nine companies of the Chapter are ready for battle."

Good news, reinforcements are coming.

Bad news, not much effect.

The arrival of two powerful interstellar regiments is undoubtedly good news, but the current situation in the Velo system makes it difficult for space warriors to perform well.

Although battle barges are more powerful than many battleships in the human empire fleet, they are still not enough in the face of the overwhelming number of orc fleets.

"I'm sorry, but these orc aliens are a bit cunning. Their alien fleet is massive, and if we jump right into battle, our chances of success are slim."

The Inquisition's Moon-class cruiser followed the battle barge out of Mandeville Point. Usadel surveyed the battle situation in the galaxy with a heavy heart.

"If we were to board and behead someone, would that be feasible..."

When in doubt, turn to beheading. Beheading is indeed a very effective measure against Orcs.

But at the same time, the larger the herd, the more powerful the warboss leading it. For an Orc battle group of this size, even in a head-on battle, it would take the lives of many Space Marines to successfully behead the warboss. And the difficulty of boarding the Orc warship group, finding the enemy warboss in the surging Orc tide and beheading him would increase exponentially.

"The naval fleet has already suffered heavy losses, making it difficult to provide cover for the Space Marines to board in a head-on confrontation."

There are generally two types of boarding between warships, namely boarding torpedoes that carry vehicles and personnel, and torpedoes that simply carry beacons to induce signal transmission from the transmission deck.

The former is likely to be blocked by the void shield or destroyed by the close defense firepower of the battleship. The latter is limited by the distance of the teleportation deck and often requires fighting in the extremely close distance of the battleship to be used stably.

The remaining Imperial Navy in the Velo galaxy could neither provide fire cover for the boarding torpedoes nor have enough warships to engage in close combat with the Ork fleet.

"Then please provide a small amount of cover fire. I will first send people to stabilize the front line of the fortress world."

As the intensity of the Orc warships' airdrops grew stronger, the situation for the garrison troops on the fortress world of Roni-1 became increasingly difficult, and they urgently needed reinforcements.

The Lamenters' style of doing things also made it unacceptable for them to sit on the sidelines and wait for reinforcements, so Chapter Master Malakin Foros planned to risk sending the battle barges to the back of the planet and airdrop the chapter companies and equipment to relieve the pressure on ground defense.

"The white shark will be along too."

Knowing that the Dynasty Fleet of Rogue Traders would come to support him, Tiberus was not worried about the temporary disadvantage of the fleet battle in space.

Since it is impossible to board and decapitate the huge group of Orc warships, then preserving the Ronnie-1 fortress world becomes the second most important option. Otherwise, once the Orcs completely capture the fortress world, when the Human Empire wants to wipe out the Orcs, those fortresses and ravines that defend against aliens will become the Orcs' help.

"Support should arrive soon... Commander, please harass the Ork fleet as much as possible to provide cover for the Space Marines' airborne landing."

"support?"

Listening to Usadel's words, the naval commander smiled bitterly.

The peripheral expansion zone is already located in an extremely remote location, and it is completely unknown how long it will take for the surrounding star regions to receive the distress signal and how long it will take for them to arrive.

But there is really no other way now. Letting the Space Marines strengthen the ground defense force while he leads the remaining navy to continue harassing is indeed the best solution. The navy commander thought about it and agreed.

"I understand. I will provide cover for your airborne operations and will also try my best to harass the Ork fleet, but orbital air supremacy will be difficult to regain. Please pay more attention to your heads."

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Chapter 331 The Fearless Elder

After a brief contact with the Astra Militarum on the ground, the Space Marines finalized the airborne location. Except for the company that needed to garrison the battle barge, the four companies of the Lamenters and the seven companies of the Sharknado were all in combat readiness.

Based on the intelligence given on the ground, the Astartes, who learned that the Greenskin Legion had a large number of armored units, began to prepare the various armor stocks of their own regiment, and at the same time asked the technical sergeants to begin awakening the ancient dreadnoughts that were dormant in the regiment.