Warhammer: The Worst Start There Is (40k)

Chapter 54: Orcish Warlords and Undead Reigns

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What Guilliman did was like a storm, sweeping across the entire human empire.

Countless people were shocked.

Those families and forces that wanted to test the Primarch were all kept silent.

No one dared to challenge the wrath of a Primarch, at least not openly.

The new punitive battalion will depart from the Natal galaxy and will be deployed to the most brutal battlefield in the empire.

Everyone in the punishment camp is a noble disciple who has been convicted of a crime. They must wash away the sins of their fathers in blood and fire.

The demise of the Natal galaxy's aristocracy and the purge of its bureaucracy did not cause any unrest.

Guilliman, who was well prepared, ordered Yashiri's team to take over the rule of the Natal galaxy and maintain the normal operation of the galaxy government.

After dealing with these, he set off.

The plan is to go to the Konor galaxy, join up with other loyalist forces, and then enter the next stage of the expedition.

The Konor system is an important industrial system in Ultramar and also a fringe system of the Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar.

The loyalists set out from Macragge, split into different routes, and finally gathered in the Konor system to complete the cleansing of non-human forces in the five hundred worlds of Ultramar and build a stable rear.

It is worth mentioning that Konor is also the name of Guilliman's adoptive father.

Compared to the unfortunate childhoods of other Primarchs, Guilliman was adopted by Connor, the planetary governor of Macragge, since he was a child.

Connor governed Macragge well.

His words and deeds such as advocating public welfare and actively promoting elite political reforms had a profound impact on the Primarch, and these ideas accompanied the Primarch throughout his life.

Guilliman was the only Primarch to grow up with both parents alive.

His father died in the rebellion after he came of age.

His mother lived a long time, was still alive during the Horus Heresy, and was almost killed by Curze during the founding of the Second Empire.

Fortunately, thanks to the loyalists' selfless sacrifice, his mother escaped and died of old age.

Thanks to the care given by his parents and a healthy family, Guilliman never lost faith in humanity and never thought of turning to Chaos.

He was severely injured several times by weapons with the evil power of Chaos, but he resisted and did not succumb to his own warp nature.

It is for this reason that Guilliman clearly realizes that positive human emotions, a good family and a healthy childhood are powerful weapons to resist the erosion of Chaos.

If people have nothing to remember and look forward to, and are in a hopeless hell, how can they resist plunging into chaos

In order to commemorate his father, Guilliman during the Great Crusade named important industrial planets after his adoptive father, as a reminder to himself not to forget his adoptive father's teachings.

Beyond the Konor galaxy is the Charadon star region.

It has been ravaged by green-skinned Orks and invaded by two resurgent Necron dynasties.

The Charadon Sector will be the site of Guilliman's next expedition.

The Charadon sector is also an important granary and arsenal.

The sector hosts mineral-rich planets, gleaming gas giants, and vast mineral-bearing asteroid belts.

With abundant raw material sources, it can meet a wide range of industrial requirements.

Unlike many similar star regions, which need to devote all their productivity to industry.

The Charadon Sector also hosts a number of agricultural worlds.

Its crop production is not only sufficient to feed its people, but also to export to other star regions.

More importantly, the star region has industrial production capabilities.

The Forge World Steel Sphere alone is capable of producing massive quantities of guns, tanks, fighter planes, and ammunition.

Not to mention other foundry worlds and industrial worlds.

Its powerful production capacity is crucial to Guilliman's next plan.

The only drawback is that the forces in the Charadon sector are not limited to humans.

Many alien forces are also mixed in, fighting each other endlessly, forcing warbands and a large number of imperial troops to be stationed in the Charadon star sector all year round.

The most terrifying of them is the orc warlord - the arsonist.

Orcs are a very special race and one of the most terrifying races in the galaxy.

The more of them there are, the smarter they are, and the stronger the warlord becomes.

During the Great Crusade, the Emperor was forced to take action himself and fight against the Ork Emperor. It was with the help of the nine Primarchs that the Victory of Ullanor was achieved.

Unfortunately, Horus rebelled and the Emperor was seriously injured.

The loyal primarchs either died or disappeared from the Imperium.

Humans gradually forgot the threat posed by the green-skinned orcs.

It was not until the 32nd millennium, when the orcs rose to power, that humans realized how terrifying they were.

The Imperial Fists Chapter, tasked with defending Terra, was annihilated in an encounter on a War Moon led by the Ork Warlord the Beast, including a massive naval fleet.

When the Ork battle moon came out, the Imperial fleet was directly crushed by the gravity tide, with no suspense at all.

Afterwards, the massive Battle Moon descended upon Terra, becoming the first hostile force to reach Terra after the Horus Heresy.

The High Lord was nearly driven to surrender.

Vulkan, the Primarch of the Salamanders, returns and leads the Imperial army into the Orcs' lair, Ullanor.

The Ork warlord Beast killed a Chapter Master-level Space Marine in seconds during the battle, and was killed along with Vorkan in the subsequent battle.

At that time, there were six powerful orc warlords, and Beast was just one of them.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the orc warlords are not united. They will only join forces in rare cases, otherwise the human empire will definitely find it difficult to withstand the orcs' attacks.

Unlike other races, the orcs wage war not for wealth or to build a new empire.

Orcs desire only one thing: to satisfy their insatiable desire for destruction in the most spectacular way possible.

This barbaric nature drives the orcs to engage in meaningless and endless crazy wars.

If there are no enemies, orcs will even attack each other for the pure joy of killing.

In this dark, desperate universe filled with nothing but war, the orcs are the only optimistic race.

Orc warlords, orc boys, and even fart spirits all get excited about war.

In order to ensure that the Charadon sector can contribute stably to the expedition, the Ork warlords are a threat that must be eliminated.

In addition to the Orks, the Necrons are also a threat.

The history of the Necrons stretches back 60 million years to the Age of Heaven, before Chaos rose and the gods arose.

The warp was quiet.

The ancient saints tirelessly spread life and nurtured those psychic races.

The Undead were not yet called this name, but rather the Necrontyr.

They were born on a planet that was flooded with stellar radiation, which caused them to be infected with a terrible curse and a short lifespan. The only way for them to travel across the stars is to use force fields to fall asleep.

Because they were jealous of the Ancient Saints' nearly eternal life, they started a war, but were beaten up by the Ancient Saints and imprisoned on their home planet.

In order to win the war, they turned to the ancient life forms that feed on stars, the star gods, forged bodies for them, and begged for help.

The Star God tricked the Necrontyr into transforming their flesh and blood bodies into metal bodies, devoured their flesh and blood and souls, leaving only cold logical data, and turned them into space undead.

With the help of the Star God, the Undead have acquired the most powerful technological capabilities in the Milky Way and can easily wipe out entire star systems.

The Necrons used the power of the C'tan to wipe out the Old Ones and most of the psionic races they created, then backstabbed the C'tan and blew them to pieces.

Due to the heavy losses, the Undead were unable to fight against the Eldar Empire, which had inherited the legacy of the Old Ones and was on the rise.

As a last resort, they can only fall into sleep and wait for an opportunity.

It wasn't that the Undead were unable to defeat the Eldar at the time, but that they themselves were on the brink of extinction.

They no longer have souls or bodies, only metal bodies and data logic.

In other words, the Undead no longer have the ability to produce offspring.

Even if it can be cultivated, it will only be a replica of their thinking.

Of course, other races can also be transformed, but it is hard to say whether they will still be Undead.

The Necrons can only sleep, waiting for the decline of the Eldar Empire and the prosperity of galactic life again, so as to find a way to reverse the curse of the Star God.

As time passed, the undead began to revive one after another.

The strength of these dynasties has not yet recovered to its peak, but the threat they pose cannot be underestimated.

"Orcs, Necrons." Guilliman frowned as he looked at the information about the Charadon sector in his hand. After solving the Konor system, it was time to activate the Primaris Space Marine card.