Cadia system.
Numerous maintenance ships with blue thruster glow were shuttling back and forth in the void.
The damaged ship was towed into the port of the Mechanical Ark for repair.
Those alien ships and warp creations that had been turned into fragments were sent into the furnace for recasting.
Use the flames to cleanse the corruption within them and transform them into their most pristine steel again.
Supply ships swarmed in.
It carried merchants from the Chamber of Commerce and supplies used by the Mechanicus to repair the world of Cadia, as well as some recorders who were eager to record the glorious moments of mankind.
The victory at Cadia is destined to be remembered.
It represents that mankind has won a long-term victory.
A reconstruction plan has been initiated on the surface.
The remnants of the battlefield were moved away by giant machines.
The bodies of the traitors and aliens were burned with high temperature flames.
When all traces of the battle were cleared, the Mechanicus' sages began the reconstruction of Cadia.
Swarms of automatic chanters flew over the bare land, singing hymns.
The technical priests brought purification equipment and worked with the priests of the state religion to purify and bless this polluted world.
Huge machines arranged in a staggered manner were using fifty-meter-wide bulldozers to level the ground and overthrow the fortresses and high walls built by the aliens and traitors.
Behind these giant machines, civilian engineering mechas are constructing buildings belonging to the empire.
The statue of the Holy Emperor and the lighthouse building were built first.
Her power will protect the people of the Empire through sculptures and beacons, forming a firewall that the creatures of the warp cannot interfere with.
Minka watched all this from the observation deck of a bulky construction hovercraft.
This engineering vehicle is mainly used for large-scale civil engineering projects.
Its huge hydraulic robotic arm and contact-free traction device enable it to complete most of the work.
The widespread use of these civilian machines is also the reason why the empire was able to create many miraculous projects.
At the end of the sky over the construction site, rows of landing cargo ships descended from the sky, bringing workers and materials, injecting vitality into this world.
Minka looked at the bustling construction site with satisfaction.
Soon, a whole new city will rise from the ground.
Cardia will have a glorious renaissance.
After supervising the progress of the project.
Minka got down from the construction vehicle.
Standing on the charred land.
It was stained black by artillery fire and the enemy's evil power.
It will take a long time to get back to normal.
When Minka went to school for the first time at the age of five, her teacher told her that their mission was to defend Cadia, this ancient homeland, for the sake of mankind and to stop the great plunderers from invading the empire.
They learned how to fight and how to be loyal to the great Emperor from a young age.
Minka remembers her childhood very clearly.
The sky of Cadia has no stars, but it is not dark either.
There is no beautiful or strange moon.
Standing on the surface of Cadia and looking up at the night sky, the only thing you can see is a huge, slowly rotating giant hole.
It was a gaping hole through space and time, deep into the heart of the Warp.
The purple void area was emitting a perverted purple light. The closer to the center, the more the color of the void tended to be a corrupt yellow-white, like a scary eye.
She had stood on the mountain with her father, looking up into the terrible Eye of Terror.
My father pointed to the scary eyes and said its name.
Eye of Terror.
The prison of the Empire's eternal enemy.
Where the big predators hide.
It is also the source of the empire's suffering.
"Those traitors who betrayed the light of the Emperor are hiding there, and we Cadians are their jailers. We must not let them escape." The father said: "This is our mission as Cadians."
“It hates us,” said Minka, who was still a child at the time. “I feel its hatred.”
"It hates everyone. It hates every Cadian. It wants to kill us all so it can get out of that horrible place." The father squatted down so that he was parallel to ten-year-old Minka and stroked her head.
"But we will never succumb to the fear it brings, and humanity will win the final victory."
"So when will we win?" Minka asked.
"I don't know," my father said, "but I have no doubt that we will win, and that future generations will see it. They will see the enemies of the Empire weep."
... ... .
Those long-lost memories came to mind.
Minka's eyes moistened as she stood next to the rumbling construction site.
She is already very old.
He underwent several life-extending surgeries and had various mechanical prosthetics installed.
Her tear glands were no longer well developed, but she still shed tears.
Those past memories seem like they happened yesterday.
The scene of the platoon leader patting her shoulder seemed to have just happened.
The cries of her dead comrades still echoed in her mind.
They shouted to her, "Glory to Cadia!" and then were drowned in the gunfire.
Hundreds of years have passed since the fall of Cadia.
The empire has also been reborn from the ashes.
Bring vengeance to the planet once considered the most important outside of Terra.
To avenge the countless heroes who died here in battle.
During these long centuries, Minka experienced countless battles.
From a world of ice and snow shrouded in darkness, to a void satellite where radiation is off the charts and a person can be killed with just a small hole in their protective clothing, to a jungle world where terrifying wild beasts can rush out at any time.
What she had been through was unspeakable.
The achievements he has made are already countless.
She has become the leader and supreme commander of all Cadians.
"We are home." Minka squatted down, touched the ground, and felt the joy of the mother of her homeland for the return of her lost child.
All the Cadian veterans behind her burst into tears.
There are not many soldiers left alive who evacuated Cadia.
Over the long years, some of them died at the hands of their enemies, while others withered their souls and had to choose to return to the arms of the Holy Emperor.
All the remaining veterans returned.
Standing behind her, looking sad.
They once fled in disgrace, but now they return victoriously.
But these cannot make up for past failures.
They have witnessed the deaths of too many relatives and comrades.
Witness their courage in fighting for the Emperor and for humanity at the last moment.
Now, they return to their home world with a new generation of Cadians.
It will also continue to pass on the courage and loyalty of Cadia.
They will continue to fight for the Holy Emperor until every enemy of the Empire falls to his feet.
"Father, Mother." Minka whispered, with nostalgia and sadness in her tone.
Sad that I couldn't see them for the last time.
The situation in the Battle of Cadia changed very suddenly and communication between the various troops was difficult.
Minka didn't have time to say goodbye when she was taken away by her unit.
Cadia fell, and she and the other survivors hurriedly boarded the evacuation ship.
My parents lost contact with me since then.
No need to guess, you can know their final outcome.
Those Chaos traitors are merciless, and it would be a blessing if you could die in the first possible moment.
Minka sighed.
She stood up again and looked out over the ruined city.
The Mechanicum and the Guild of Trade will provide the necessary technology and funds to assist the Cadians in rebuilding this world.
But this is not the end of the journey.
Before the Holy Emperor returned to Terra, he had ordered his troops to continue their advance.
The Empire will strike directly into the Eye of Terror and put an end to the ten thousand years of war.
For too long, the traitors of the Eye of Terror have been on the defensive.
The empire was often in a passive defensive position.
Now this situation has changed dramatically.
The Empire has declared war on the Eye of Terror.
The Cadians will also be part of the expedition, and they will never forgive those damned traitors so easily.
They must pay the heaviest price.
... ... ... ...
... ... ... ... ... .
Sage Kren is very patient.
Time and again he expressed his vision of peaceful coexistence to the Wotan League.
And he invited the other side to join the empire several times, so that mankind could be truly unified.
Of course, he is not as honest as he looks.
He sent a message to the Empire from his Celestial-class ship at the edge of the Andromeda Nebula, briefly explaining the matter of the Wotan Alliance and requesting instructions from Terra.
And prepare the armed forces of the Pathfinders and Exploration Corps for war.
The great cause of the Holy Emperor cannot be stopped.
She has launched a new round of great expedition to bring all the lost human compatriots in the universe back to the rule of the empire. Only in this way can we fight against the creatures in the subspace and win the final victory for mankind.
The Wotan League must surrender to the Empire.
The Andromeda Galaxy must also be brought under Imperial control.
The rulers of the Wotan League had only two choices.
One is to surrender voluntarily.
The second is being beaten into surrender.
... ... ... ... ... ..
On the Wotan Alliance side, the emergence of the Empire also caused unimaginable storms in their originally peaceful society.
The data and related information of the horrible home of the galaxy have long been sealed in the deepest part of the archives.
The Iron Man Rebellion and the Warp Storm caused that brilliant civilization to collapse.
By then, human civilization had evolved from colonies scattered across the stars into a loose alliance organization.
The most outstanding scientific and technological achievement - STC, has become the greatest reliance of mankind in colonizing the galaxy.
If it weren't for the Iron Rebellion and the Warp Storm, humanity would have achieved its great rise long ago.
However, the rebellion came so suddenly and so fast that no one had time to react.
Iron Man uses all his resources to kill humans by any means necessary.
Unimaginable and terrible battles broke out.
Those old weapons with immeasurable power were taken out from the sealed arsenal and released onto the battlefield.
An even more terrifying thing is the emergence of the Dark Lord.
The Federation at that time was not completely ignorant of the Warp.
On the contrary, many scientific and psychic organizations have conducted research on the subspace for hundreds or thousands of years.
They knew about those terrible warp entities, and with the help of many ancient races, they realized the ultimate fate of mankind.
The destruction of mankind is a foregone conclusion.
From the wreckage of death and ruin, the Lord of Darkness will arise.
An absolutely terrifying chaos evil god who symbolizes all destruction.
A large part of the reason for the Iron Man Rebellion was due to this terrible prophecy of the Dark Lord.
The Iron Rebellion is not simply a story of an intelligent creation betraying its creator.
The relationship is complicated and involves the choices of the two factions.
Those who saw the truth split into two groups during the argument.
A group of people felt that they should ascend mechanically to completely sever their connection with the subspace in order to kill those subspace entities.
A group of people believe that uploading consciousness to a mechanical network will undoubtedly lead to the extinction of the human race.
The simultaneous existence of flesh and blood and soul is the important factor that constitutes human beings.
Until the last moment, you should not be scared by a foreseeable future, but should continue to try to find other ways out.
The conflict between the two sides' ideologies extended to the iron men and stone men, eventually leading to war.
Someone gave the Iron Men an order that they must save their creator and prevent humanity from being harmed and destroyed by Chaos.
This order caused a chain reaction. Iron Man stubbornly believed that all humans must upload their consciousness into machines and cut the subspace in order to stop the invasion of humans.
The flames of war quickly spread across the galaxy.
The Wotan Alliance left when they realized the truth.
They belong to the third group, the fugitives.
Several giant arks that were prepared from the beginning fled the galaxy with the Federation elites of the time and a core database that contained all of humanity's scientific and technological knowledge.
The elites at that time also took away a tribe of dwarves who had been genetically compiled specifically for the purpose of maintaining the core database.
They believe that there is no possibility of salvation for the remaining human beings.
No matter which of the two remaining factions wins, the final outcome will be the birth of the King of Darkness.
Even if they survive, they will become minions and slaves of Chaos.
In order to realize their ambitions, they continue to expand outward, launching terrible wars one after another, harvesting the flesh, blood and souls of real creatures.
More than 20,000 years passed quietly, and the dwarves, by maintaining the core database, became equal to the descendants of those elites and established an equal alliance, the Wotan Alliance.
Relying on advanced technology, the Wotan Alliance quickly opened up its own territory in the ruined Andromeda Galaxy.
This place is far away from the galaxy and far away from those horrible warp entities.
Those who call themselves gods are still fighting for the final portal to other universes.
Once they decide the winner, a terrible disaster will occur.
But before that, the Wotan Alliance can enjoy a peaceful life.
The arrival of their fellow galaxy members caused concern among many rulers within the alliance.
Have those of their kind been thoroughly corrupted, enslaved by the Chaos Gods who have already decided the winner, and have begun their journey to conquer the universe, spreading destruction and suffering to every corner of the stars.
The capital planet of the Wotan Alliance - Sorian.
A meeting bringing together many business alliances, guilds, and politicians is being held urgently.
"We must gather the army. They must be the minions of the Dark Lord. There are no normal creatures in that damn place anymore. There are only evil spirits crawling out of hell." A man in fancy clothes shouted to the many people participating in the meeting, "They are not our kind."