Guilliman, wearing azure power armor, arrived at the command deck, followed closely by the Honor Guard in Iron Terminator armor.
The huge steel body brought a huge sense of oppression. Everyone on the command deck felt as if their hearts were gripped by fear and it was difficult for them to breathe.
The Glory Guards are all elite veterans of the Ultramarines, each of them has an amazing combat record, and they are wearing Terminator armor that is heavier and larger than ordinary Space Marine armor. Standing there, the sense of oppression is extreme.
It takes great courage for an ordinary person to stand in front of the members of the Glory Guard and speak.
"What's the situation? Breh." Guilliman looked at the captain sitting in the command seat and asked.
"They are gathering on Planet No. 2 in the Sara Galaxy. Judging from the emblems and features of the battleships, the information we received is not false. The enemy is indeed Death Guard, and the fleet has been spread out. Comparing the strength of the enemy and us, we can easily win."
Death Guard, Plague Spreaders, Cursed Betrayer, Eternal Enemy of the Empire, Unforgiven.
The Death Guard once belonged to the Fourteenth Legion of the Empire, led by Primarch Mortarion, and made indelible contributions to the Empire's Great Crusade and the unification of mankind.
At the end of the Great Crusade, Mortarion led the Death Guard to participate in the Horus Heresy, openly betrayed the loyalists in the Yintari system, and joined other traitorous legions to massacre the loyalists, committing an unforgivable crime.
Later, when Mortarion was leading the fleet to travel through the Warp, he was betrayed by the traitor Typhons, who killed the navigator and destroyed the ship's Geller field, trapping the fleet in the Warp and severely training them at the hands of the Chaos God.
The evil god Nurgle used his superb means to tame Mortarion, who hated witchcraft and extremely hated chaos, and made him his little boy.
Mortarion was originally a Primarch who was extremely resistant to sorcery and chaos.
However, he was trapped in the Warp, tortured by the plague and forced to surrender to Nurgle, one of the Chaos Gods, who represented plague, death and rebirth, and became one of the Primarchs of the Ascended Demons.
It can be said that he is the original template that was tamed into obedience by the annoying weird uncle.
The fleet then took part in the Battle of Terra, using the plague to break the defenses of the Imperial Palace, causing massive deaths. After Horus's defeat, it split into multiple chapters and fled to the Eye of Terror and the edge of the Empire.
Guilliman sorted out the information about the Death Guard in his mind before looking at Captain Brecher again and asking.
"I have no doubts about the outcome of the victory, I just want to ask what the situation is like on the surface?"
"There is no feedback. All the information we sent was intercepted. No matter whether it was electromagnetic or astropathic, nothing was recovered. I guess the enemy has controlled the communication. If it's worse, the astropaths on the surface have either been contaminated or killed."
Captain Brech's tone was somewhat heavy, and his only remaining eye revealed anger.
It was another planetary massacre, with tens of billions of human lives being harvested by the evil god.
May the Holy Emperor have mercy on these poor souls and welcome their souls into his arms.
"Perhaps there is still hope, otherwise these remnants of Chaos would not still be staying here." Guilliman looked in the direction of the control console. Amid the humming sound of machinery, the strategic instrument carefully maintained by the Mechanicus was running. A series of data symbols and light beams formed a tactical projection, clearly showing the situation in the Sara system and the strength of the plague ships.
At this time, all the plague ships were in orbit around the second planet in the Sara system.
"I hope so." Breh nodded.
"Attack. No matter what, we must destroy them. If there are still survivors, we will save them. If there are no survivors, then we will avenge them."
"Understood, sir."
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The fleet, led by the Macragge's Glory, was advancing rapidly, and the planet Sara II was becoming larger and larger in sight.
It is a green planet with glaciers at the poles.
The whole planet is grassland and woodland, with only scattered deserts dotted in it. It is a planet that is extremely suitable for humans and has high colonization value.
There are six giant hive cities on the planet, one of which is of an astonishing scale. According to observed data, it covers an area of more than 26 million square kilometers.
The planet's predicted population is at least 50 billion, making it extremely valuable to the empire.
Seeing the arrival of the Imperial Fleet, the Plague Fleet also responded. They deployed their lines and tried to intercept the Imperial ships.
Guilliman watched the changes on the battlefield. The enemy had a total of three fleets, and there was a serious lack of coordination between them.
Mutual distrust is a weakness of Chaos, they usually fight in warbands, resist unified command, and do not trust other warbands.
When the distance was less than three million kilometers, the two sides moved from the exploratory stage to an intense close-range combat.
Imperial ships fired batches of torpedoes and missiles, distributed in a wide fan-shaped pattern to form crisscrossing lines, and also fired tons of anti-ship shells to cut into the opponent's maneuvering space.
Battles in space are more complex and changeable. The combat distance of millions of kilometers makes weapons such as torpedoes, missiles, and artillery shells have a certain lag, making it difficult to hit moving ships.
Directing such a battle requires a huge amount of computing power to calculate the movements of enemies in battle and variables on the battlefield.
Guilliman examined the battlefield solemnly, not missing any tiny variables.
Before the time travel, he thought that torpedoes and missiles would be useless in future space battlefields, and that energy weapons such as light spears should be used.
It was not until I witnessed the fleet in action that I realized my previous thoughts were so stupid.
Each weapon has its own advantages. The missile can track automatically and can hit any position of the enemy ship at will.
The light spear is fast, but it goes straight forward. It has great power and speed, but it is easy to block.
Not to mention the great power of physical weapons such as torpedoes and shells, their slow speed, which has been criticized by people, can sometimes become an advantage. It will increase the enemy's calculation workload, and the enemy will not dare to maneuver easily for fear of a direct collision.
There is a high probability that stationary torpedoes and mines will not trigger the void shield. Once they hit it, the consequences will naturally be very tragic.
A distance of millions of kilometers is a close combat for space battles. Light spears and giant shells are constantly fired, and the space between the two sides quickly turns into a deadly bush intertwined with light spears and shells.
The void shields on Macragge's Glory would occasionally light up, ripples and waves in the powerful beams of energy.
The dissipated energy of the energy weapons caused the void shield generators on the Macragge's Glory to emit feedback noise from time to time, and some even emitted crackling sparks.
The Plague Marines knew who their greatest threat was, and despite little coordination, they prioritized the Macragge's Glory.
Faced with the enemy's concentrated fire, the Glory of Macragge did not retreat at all, and gave an equally tough counterattack, unleashing artillery fire at the enemy that was enough to easily raze the city to the ground.
A plague ship's void shield was overloaded, and a successful torpedo hit the ship's head, causing it to spin, followed by a series of attacks.
The huge hull was pierced by torpedoes, missiles, and light spears. The plasma energy pile that was hit exploded. A huge flame engulfed the plague ship, which slowly disintegrated in silent explosions and burned fiercely in space.
The building-like remains flew out from the exploded battleship and accidentally hit the warship next to it, causing the opponent's void shield to overload. It was then blown into wreckage by a salvo of macrocannons from a cruiser of the Empire.
Relying on the firepower of Macragge's Glory, the Imperial fleet was like a sharp sword, piercing into the heart of the enemy.
The advantage is being rapidly expanded, and the balance of victory in the war is rapidly sliding towards humanity.
"Their behavior is abnormal. Logically, they should run away." Fikris, who was standing nearby, shook his head. "In the past, when the traitors realized that they could not win, they would often choose to flee."
"Perhaps these idiots have been frightened silly." Bleher showed a hint of mockery. His greatest joy was to destroy the enemy's warships one by one with his own hands, letting the corpses of those Chaos traitors float in the space and turn into frozen bodies.
A dead traitor is a traitor worthy of recognition.
Guilliman withdrew his gaze from the strategic projection and shook his head. "I don't think this matter is that simple. Try to find out the surface conditions of Sara II. Perhaps the problem lies on the surface of the planet. With the information from above, we may know what is going on."
Although he is a time traveler, he inherited the power and all the memories of his predecessor. In a way, it is more like a fusion.
The Primarch-level strategy and wisdom made him feel that it was a bit abnormal for the Plague Warriors to be so fearless and fearless.
They are not allying themselves with Khorne, and Nurgle never supports mindless death.
Only a reckless man like Khorne would do such a thing as sending it without thinking, just for the sake of chopping.