Warhammer 40k Origins Stellaris Civilization Simulator

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Inside the Imperial warships, fierce battles broke out in various compartments. Those battle-seasoned Space Marines were forced to face a powerful enemy they had never seen before: the genetic warriors of the Helka Federation.

They were not brutal, mindless killers, but calm, precise hunters. The Space Marines' sturdy ceramite power armor was of little use to them. The Federation's disruptor weapons could accurately destroy energy shields and physical armor resistance. When the battle turned to hand-to-hand combat, their strength, speed, and accuracy made the Imperial warriors despair.

Inside dozens of Imperial warships, the Space Marines were gradually suppressed, and the communication channels were filled with fragmented calls for help and feedback of combat data.

Many of the Ultramarines' successor chapters, including the Avenging Sons, Black Archons, Brass Archons, Doom Eagles, and countless lesser-known chapters, were completely annihilated in this catastrophe, just like the story of the Imperial Fists.

Many Imperial ship commanders could not even comprehend the enemy they were facing, as everything happened so quickly. The Helka Federation's gene warriors broke through the ship's defenses, advancing rapidly between compartments, and disintegrated the Imperial battle formations like ghosts.

This led to a serious crisis for the Imperial Expeditionary Force, which was unable to prevent an effective response when the Federation troops quietly approached the Imperial formation and opened the safety of their weapons.

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The situation on the space battlefield took a sharp turn for the worse. The Helka Federation's few warships, whose size was despised by the Empire, and their "whispering escort ships" displayed astonishing combat effectiveness.

These warships are completely different from the heavily armored warships and space-based artillery cathedrals commonly seen in the empire. They have strange shapes, like bows or crescents, are extremely maneuverable, and are equipped with high-intensity evasion systems and long-range weapons with ultra-high precision and power.

Before the Imperial Fleet could fully analyze the specific structure and combat data of these warships, they had already begun to tear through the Empire's defenses.

The Empire's battlecruisers, destroyers and frigates were destroyed one after another. The Whispering escort ships combined tactical maneuvers with precise firepower, instantly causing huge casualties to the Empire and almost destroying the Empire's flagship, causing the Empire's fleet cluster to fall into serious chaos.

The Tau fleet took the opportunity to join the battle and used their signature carrier-based aircraft tactics to support the Helka Federation. The Empire's warships suffered heavy damage again under the pressure.

The Empire's battleship formation eventually began to disintegrate and fell into a complete disadvantage. Some captains even shouted retreat on the tactical communication channel, causing the Imperial Navy's commander-in-chief to curse these cowards for their incompetence.

What made the Imperial forces feel slightly relieved was that in the core area of the battlefield, the Mechanical Ark of the Mechanicus was still putting up a stubborn resistance.

Unlike other Imperial warships, the Mechanicum's vessels carried a large number of "Machine Souls," or prohibited AI. These AI combat units engaged in a thrilling battle with the Helka Confederation's gene-warriors. Combined with the use of treasures from the Archmagos' secret arsenal, they ultimately successfully repelled the Confederacy's assault and forced the gene-warriors to temporarily withdraw.

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However, it turned out that the Mechanicus had no intention of continuing to fight for their allies. In their view, this battle had lost its meaning.

The technological level displayed by the Helka Federation and the Tau exceeded the Mechanicus's calculations and expectations, resulting in heavy losses for the Mechanical Ark, and the expeditionary force could no longer advance further. This made the Mechanicus's top leaders decide to adjust their strategy and preserve their strength.

Therefore, they decisively ordered the Mechanical Ark Fleet to retreat at full speed. The sudden withdrawal of the Mechanical Ark directly led to a huge gap in the Imperial Fleet's battle line.

This gap became a fatal blow to the Imperial Fleet. The Helka Federation and the Tau support ships quickly seized this flaw and immediately launched a general attack.

Their warships surrounded the Imperial fleet from multiple directions, cutting off its complete formation and making it impossible for the various parts of the fleet to fight in coordination. Without the support of the Mechanicus and facing the high-tech weapons of the Federation, the Imperial warships could only struggle helplessly in the dark universe.

Eventually, the Imperial Fleet's lines completely collapsed. The Space Marines' warships were besieged and destroyed one after another, and the army units on board were either annihilated or surrendered by the Helka Federation's gene warriors within the enemy ships.

The tactical channel was filled with the desperate cries of captains and the weak requests for peace from some personnel. The Empire's warships were destroyed one after another in the powerless counterattack, or hijacked by gene warriors, and some disloyal people surrendered when there was no other way.

Over a dozen Space Marine Chapters were completely annihilated in this battle, their names erased from Imperial history, and even their gene-seed could not be recovered.

During the final stages of the campaign, only a handful of Imperial fleets managed to escape, desperately initiating emergency warp jump procedures, knowing that the Confederacy's warp disruptors would leave them lost.

The Imperial attack fleets, once unrivalled upon the battlefield, now fled like stray dogs.

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In the end, the Helka Federation's fleet hovered among the wreckage of the battlefield, and the crescent-shaped Whisper escort ship's bow flickered, illuminating the wreckage of the warship floating in the void.

The battle was over, a resounding victory for the Federation, one of the four arrows threatening its star domain had been destroyed.

The military leaders of the Helka Federation watched all this quietly from the bridge of their flagship. Their eyes held neither ecstasy nor sarcasm, only a completely rational assessment and reflection of the battle situation.

To them, this was just another ordinary victory for the Federation, and only a partial one at that. It would take more time to completely drive out the Empire's forces, and the current urgency meant that even if the Empire was completely defeated, they would still have to deploy to three other battlefields, where heavy tasks awaited them.

However, one conclusion is certain: the Empire's expedition has failed and has lost a lot of strength. In the future, they will face the Federation's fierce retaliation.

But the Empire is always like that, so they're probably used to it.

Next, focus on the Zerg.

116

Chapter 116 The Great Devourer Attacks.

As early as when clearing out the Genestealers, the Federation knew about the existence of a biological swarm civilization called the Tyranids and formulated relevant combat plans.

When the Tyranids' fleet, the real creator of the Genestealers, suddenly appeared in the border star field of the Helka Federation, the Changyuan defense system at the border of the Federation immediately declared the highest crisis level.

The Tyranids, as an alien species that feeds on biomass and possesses advanced biotechnology and Gestalt thinking, are mortal enemies of any civilization with free will.

This is a threat that must be eradicated completely, without compromise, and must be dealt with with utmost vigilance.

Thus, in the southwest corner of the federal territory, the dark abyss of the universe was lit up by endless flames of war.

The Helka Federation's fleet relies on the space Changyuan defense system, spanning between galaxies, filling the gaps between star fortresses and fortress planets, and preparing to meet the frenzy of the Tyranid swarm.

Although this place is still not the core of the Changyuan defense battle, it is a Shura battlefield where life and death struggles occur.

The Tyranids' warships utilize a warp-like navigation system. While they are still limited to sublight travel at the edge of a planetary system, they can traverse interstellar space at much higher speeds thanks to a small, harmless vessel called a "Narwhal."

The gravitational warp created by the narwhal worm ship during its voyage is also a dangerous weapon. The huge energy distortion it causes will cause serious celestial disasters in the destination star field, but the Federation has its own ways to deal with it.

After receiving reports of strange gravitational disasters, the Federation adjusted the gravity of the relevant galaxies through cosmic creation technology, optimized the stability of stars, and stabilized the interaction forces of planets.

Now the entire area is like a precisely controlled machine. Every gravity well and every gravity fluctuation is a barrier carefully constructed by the Federation to fight against the Zerg.

All of this has only one purpose: to prevent the Tyranid swarm from using their warp drives to tear apart space and disrupt the normal operation of the fortress galaxies carefully built by the Federation.

When the Tyranid Swarm's advance fleet came like a tide, the Federation's legions did not send out their most elite warriors, did not release the Ultra Beasts, and did not mobilize the Mecha Gods.

On the contrary, countless intelligent human legions and artificial intelligence ships emerged on the battlefield, their tactical logic reprogrammed and set to the most extreme quantitative tactics: fighting quantity with quantity, and fighting endless swarms of insects with endless warships.

For a moment, the entire war zone turned into a meat grinder of steel and flesh. The cruelty far exceeded all the romantic space knight fantasies of the Eastern Front Imperial Army. This is what war should look like in the current era.

The first wave of the war came like a storm. The vanguard of the Tyranids swarm streaked across the dark star field like countless comets, their diverse biological warships launching an offensive in a mixed formation.

Hive Ships are deep-sea behemoths that roam the endless void, always appearing at the core of the Hive Fleet. Although these behemoths vary in form, they all possess rock-hard biological armor and a dense array of biological weapons covering their bodies.

Their bodies are incredibly large, yet they are essentially giant organisms composed of millions of biochemical organs. Each hive mothership is a vast biochemical factory, capable of incubating tens of thousands of Tyranid creatures. In addition, it can replicate and modify genetic samples to create combat creatures that can perfectly adapt to new environments.

Tyranid cruisers are a collective term for immature Hive Mothers and their overgrown escort vessels. They possess a highly aggressive nature, swarming upon the massive Hive Mothers when threatened, tearing the opposing warships to shreds with their fangs and claws. Tyranid cruisers rarely stray far from a Hive Mother, theoretically deriving nourishment from it.

The Kraken is a dangerous destroyer equipped with a variety of bizarre and deadly biological weapons, including giant beaks called "Kraken Horns" and massive acid sprayers called "Death Ablators." While these monsters cannot threaten entire planets, they are dedicated to launching crazy attacks on transport ships, space stations, space cities, or space observation posts.

Tyranid Drones are the lowest-level Tyranid space combat unit. They are equivalent to frigates, but are weaker than ordinary frigates.

The numerical values of these Tyranid bio-ships themselves are not outstanding compared to real metal and steel, but their number and proliferation capacity are quite astonishing. Their scale is no less than a thousand and is constantly increasing with the gathering of more tentacle fleets.

Countless biological war beasts leaped in the void, as if they were life forms that did not belong to this universe. They relied on each other's psychic cluster networks to communicate, adjust tactics, and weave a living web of destruction in the starry sky.

The psychic resonances of countless Tyranid creatures cast a strange psychic influence called the Warp Shadow, which not only blocks psychic communication, but its pressure also causes mental damage to the psionic species themselves.

For this purpose, the federal defense forces activated the quantum communication system and used sedation treatment to soothe the adverse symptoms of the psychics. Those with serious symptoms could receive a small amount of Zelo or apply for a thought stamp.

As for the Genestealers? They were all dead long ago, and those who survived were completely disconnected. Not a single guide of the Hive Mind remained.

Obviously, the Zerg's three early interference methods: gravitational disasters, warp shadows and gene stealers have completely failed. This cunning collective consciousness must face the well-organized and well-rested federal forces.

The Helka Federation's intelligent Ai fleet has no fear and no hesitation. They have no captain's command and do not need the coordination of the crew. Their computing cores are connected to each other, and the data of all warships are shared instantly.

As the Tyranid bio-ships poured out spores and organic plasma, the Federation's intelligent ships immediately adjusted their defense frequencies, rearranging their energy shields to adapt to the wavelength of the Zerg's weapons.

The intensity of the battle reached its limit the moment the two sides met.

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The tempo of the war quickened with the passage of time, and the destruction on the front lines reached a horrifying level.

The Federation's industrial production capacity was pushed to the limit. Warships were sent to the battlefield in an endless stream, like data terminal consumer products on an assembly line, in seconds. The hulls roared in space and then plunged into the Zerg swarm like a torrent of steel.

Each ship has a life cycle of only a few days, or even shorter, and before they are destroyed, their only mission is to pour out firepower and stop the advance of the Zerg swarm.

The Federation's aircraft carriers, carrier-based aircraft, advanced railguns, armored torpedoes, and quantum missiles, along with the ships, poured down like rain on the sea of insects.

The Zerg's attack was equally violent.

Commanding the battle on the front lines are several Norn Queens. Rather than the usual competition for survival upon meeting, these node creatures work together, their will transcending all else, and the actions of every insect beast are an extension of their thoughts.

They adjusted their swarm's adaptability, each collision, each death, a new analysis of the enemy. In just a few hours, the Tyranid swarm had completed its tactical adaptation. Their exoskeletons began to re-evolve against the Federation fleet's weaponry, and the biological warships' armor became denser, capable of withstanding the main firepower of the Federation's artificial intelligence fleet.

After the Federation replaced its disintegration weapons, the Zerg fleet began to increase its total mass again, relying on thick and redundant organizational structures to deal with disintegration energy beams that had unlimited armor-piercing capabilities but could hardly cause sufficient hull damage.

Finally, the Federation loaded the planetary-level Red Lotus Beam, a super weapon that could create a light-year-long destructive energy flow, clearing out enemy forces in a galaxy in an instant.

This temporarily delayed the Tyranid swarm, but these creatures displayed a tactical awareness that could even be described as "superb," using skirmish line tactics to perfection. Through scattered but continuous offensives, they avoided the concentrated damage of large-scale heavy artillery.

The logic of this war has transcended traditional combat, entering a frenzied standoff. There's no contest of skill or glory; each side waits for the other to exhaust its strength. This is a tug-of-war of destruction.

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As the war entered its climax, the Tyranids realized the power of the Federation, but they did not want to give up their actions.

Normally, the Tyranid swarm would cunningly choose to retreat when the losses from predation outweighed the gains, but this time, they were unusually resolute.

Because the Hive Mind absorbed a huge amount of essence from a small number of Federation organisms, this aroused the greed of the Great Devourer. It mobilized more tentacles and prohibited the node creatures from considering the option of retreat.

The mothership-class Zerg creatures were destroyed one after another, but the Zerg did not care, and the battlefield entered a more intense fight.

Every second, countless ships were reduced to wreckage, and every second, countless insect swarms were reduced to ashes in the sea of fire. However, the situation remained unresolved for both sides.

The Helka Federation's industrial torrent continued to operate, and the fierce fighting on the front lines had no impact on production activities in the rear sector. The Tyranids' biological battle groups continued to produce on-site, constantly upgrading their weaponry through adaptive evolution. The power of both sides continued to grow, and the struggle between them showed no sign of easing.

In the depths of this battlefield, everything was torn apart, the stars trembled in the flames of war, the void was obscured by warships, and the laws of the universe seemed to be gradually eroded by this vast war.

This is not a battle that can be won through tactics, it is a war to see who can last until the end.

Whoever's resources are exhausted first, whose industry collapses first, and whose life reaches its limit first will meet its end on this battlefield.

In this war, there are no heroes, only endless destruction.

117

Chapter 117: Your Majesty, do you still remember Archimonde? How did he die?

For a long time, the Helka Federation and the Tyranid Swarm have been engaged in a protracted war of attrition in the war zone of Changyuan in space.

Countless intelligent warships and combat machines were continuously deployed on the battlefield to fight against the never-ending swarm of insects.

This war is no longer a simple military confrontation, but a competition between the survival methods of two civilizations, and the pinnacle contest between industrial machines and biological evolution in the universe.

However, the offense and defense of both sides could not break the balance, and the battle became stalemate.

At this time, the Tyranid Hive Mind decided to make a change. It no longer relied solely on numerical superiority, but chose a more cunning strategy.

It deployed the essence-enhanced Likart warriors onto the ground battlefield of the fortress planet, which was firmly protected by the planetary shield.

Since orbital bombing and spore mines were clearly ineffective, and conducting ground combat under orbital artillery support was foolish, the implementation of the special warfare plan was a matter of course.

Licarts, these specialized combat creatures bred from the depths of the Tyranid gene pool, are completely different from ordinary Zerg. They lack the massive size, toughness, and numbers of these creatures. Instead, they are specifically bred to be assassins and stalkers. Every aspect of their body tissues has been specially engineered, endowing them with powerful anti-detection capabilities. Each one is a highly autonomous node creature.

The intelligent combat computers of ordinary land-based defense systems were simply unable to capture their actions that suppressed all psychic and physical reactions. They moved quietly in the darkness of the battlefield like ghosts, avoiding the close surveillance of the Federal Intelligent Corps.

All of this is to get to the point: to attack the command center of the Helka Federation's intelligent army.

On the Changyuan defense line, the Federation's command center was hidden under the protection of thousands of layers of defensive barriers. The Tyranid Hive Mind understood that it could not directly defeat these defenses with force, as the losses would be too heavy, but it could use these most elite biological warriors to launch a precise strike.

The Licat warriors traversed the battlefield in biological shuttles that also had stealth arrays, avoiding the Federation's front lines, which were heavily armed with various deadly weapons, and infiltrating the intelligent fleet's defense network through its weak points.

They silently entered the core area of the Federation and gradually infiltrated the command center. However, although the Helka Federation's combat computers may not be able to fully detect Likart's whereabouts, the Federation is not just composed of robots.

When the Licart warriors suddenly launched a surprise attack at the command center, the genetic warriors and mechanical combat army that were silent in the dark, and the defenders of the command center instantly launched a fierce counterattack.

The Helka Federation's genetic warriors, with their superior nervous systems and artificial intelligence working in tandem, possess combat instincts that surpass even the limits of biological computation. Their perceptions are incredibly sharp, capable of detecting even the faintest biological reactions of the Tyranid warriors lurking in the darkness. Their potent fighting power far surpasses that of the Likarts.

At the same time, the Federation's mechanical combat army also took action. These combat machines were cold tools of war, and under the command of genetic warriors, they relied on their numbers and firepower to encircle and annihilate the enemy.

Licart, a specialized assassin species that the Tyranids highly trusted, suffered a devastating blow before he could successfully contact any Federation commander.

The Federation fighters' combat response was incredibly fast, plasma weapons tearing through the biomass carapace, and high-energy fragmentation beams engulfed the Tyranids' elite assassins like a raging wave.

After just a few minutes, all the infiltrating Licat warriors were wiped out, without even a single intact body left.

The Hive Mind's plan had failed.

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The death of the node creatures aroused tremendous anger in the consciousness network of the hive mind.

These Licart warriors were not ordinary combat creatures, but elite troops carefully trained by the Great Devourer with its own essence. Their deaths triggered violent fluctuations in the Great Devourer's psychic shadow.

The enraged Great Devourer sent out a stronger psychic call, its rage penetrating the universe and turning into a terrifying summoning signal.

More Tyranid Kraken fleets responded immediately. More than thousands of battleships appeared from the depths of the void and rushed towards the space Changyuan with the momentum of destroying the world.

The Federation commanders quickly noticed this change. Their enemy numbers were rapidly increasing, and the battlefield situation had undergone a dramatic change. The Tyranid swarm was no longer simply consuming their forces, but had begun to launch a full-scale offensive.