Chapter 91 On the General Outline of the Imperial Alliance’s T’au Combat Tactics
When the soldiers of the Skadi Fourth Regiment recalled the historic meeting between the Skadi First Battle Group and the Tau main company, they all used one word to describe this event in unison.
A chicken talks to a duck.
The gap between Gothic and Tau Empire languages cannot be said to be non-existent, it can only be said that they are completely different. It is difficult enough for the two troops to ensure that there are no friendly casualties and unified command. It can even be said that only the Imperial Guard in human history can do both. Completely different cultures understand each other and go to war.
But the premise is always the same belief. Now Alan Bair looks at the well-equipped Fire Caste in front of him, wearing the commander's combat uniform, using the Tau Unity Blade to gesture to his belly, and he can probably guess what's going on...
Alan Bayer thought casually..."Think about how the Ministry of Military Affairs handles this matter..."
"Staff, is there any good idea?"
The staff officer replied. "The regimental commander, the officer department recommends that soldiers perform ceremonial actions such as complimenting each other's hats or shaking hands."
"Hat?" Alan Bayer frowned, took off his bulletproof helmet, and said with friendly gestures. "You drop, the best way, big drops are good!"
"I, the Emperor, also like you very much. You think of the Greater Good, and it will be great."
"Come on, wear the colorful hat instead!"
The Fire Caste commander looked at the humans in front of him with their teeth and claws flexing. As an honorary warrior of the Tau Empire, he understood the words "Emperor", "Greater Good", "Da Da", and so on.
"Qi Di, the emperor obeys, the best way is better, Da Di is better."
Alan Bayer cursed. "I have such a bad temper!" He rolled up his sleeves. If the staff hadn't stopped him quickly, the commander on the opposite side would have had his head cut off by the Catachan knife!
The Fire Caste commander was so frightened by the sudden turn of events that he quickly raised his gun and prepared to shoot. At this moment, the communication device of his battle suit turned on, making that beeping sound.
He turned on the loudspeaker of his battle suit, and the paralyzed Gothic voice of a senior Water Clan official came out.
"Fellow Imperial Guardsmen, I appreciate your trust in the Tau Empire, even though you have no responsibility to protect this world."
Alan Beyer straightened his messy military uniform and coughed. "I understand that you and I should have the same idea, but there is no electromagnetic interference in this world. Why did it take so long to reply? Your Fire Caste elite almost got hacked to death by me."
The announcer continued to answer. It has to be said that Titanium's equipment just doesn't have the sizzling sound of the Empire, but if it is really used in extreme battlefields, such as in the case of subspace interference, the Empire's equipment is probably more reliable.
"Sorry, I am making a breakthrough with your Catachan sergeant and about a hundred fire warriors. The city has been completely occupied. If the soldiers here were not soldiers on the battleship, we would probably die of betrayal."
"The Genestealers are not very powerful in combat, but the sudden attack and betrayal as well as the Fire Warriors with the same equipment level caught us off guard. They are too deadly for the Tau."
Alan Bair agreed in his heart. After all, the Titanium can be said to be the intelligent race with the shortest average lifespan in the Warhammer universe. For gene stealers, it is simply the best choice for quick birth and death.
Humans reach sexual maturity in 18 years, while Titanium only takes less than 10 years, about eight years. If you don't care about the host body, Titanium may only need six years to reproduce, and normal Titanium members live and die very quickly, with a lifespan of only 40 years. They are completely inferior to humans, and of course the lower class hive dwellers probably won't live that long.
If it weren't for the Titan's abnormal control over fertility and various medical equipment and even the Kroot's awareness that prevented those gene stealers from being infected on a large scale, the Tau might really have encountered his lifelong enemy.
But how could titanium become infected on such a large scale under such strict conditions?
In the words of Jurassic Park, life always finds a way...
The problem is that if the citizens with records in Titanium and the fourth-generation gene stealers whose DNA is almost the same escape from this world, it will be no less than a biological crisis for Titanium. As long as the fourth-generation gene stealers are properly arranged to have a marriage within the clan. , if you find an opportunity to control people from other clans, you will be out of control...
"Although I don't like helping aliens, I have to admit that there are many imperial worlds in this galaxy, and today's Falakxia is also beautiful."
"No matter what, remember, this world belongs to the empire." Alan Bayer still emphasized this matter.
And he said. "I need you to be the translator. No matter what, if you want us to work together to clean up, we at least need to be able to communicate with each other, right?"
The senior official of the Water Clan replied. "I will always open this channel. As a translator, this is also my job."
Ailan Baier was not polite and came right away. "We have been on the road for almost three hours. Now we are hungry. Let's eat first."
After saying this, after a long time, the senior official of the Shui clan answered. "Okay, he agreed."
I have to say that this is a good start. In fact, it's not even meal time yet, but the soldiers sit down and rely on food to communicate to increase the level of tacit understanding. The only problem is that the soldiers of the Fourth Skadi Regiment cannot be said to be weak in their hatred of aliens. , I can only say that I wish I could give it a few extermination orders.
When the Tau soldiers were just sitting next to their armored vehicles, they saw the veterans of the Fourth Skadi Regiment holding starch cubes in one hand and throwing them into their mouths, while holding a wrench in the other and starting to dismantle their soldiers. The drone, that poor thing, kept broadcasting threat alerts, but the soldiers of Skadi's Fourth Regiment couldn't understand them at all.
After the Tau Fire Caste warriors saw their individual soldier rations taken away from their hands, they stood up angrily, and then several empty heat ray weapons and explosive assault muskets made them sit down quietly.
Looking at the "happy" scene, the Fire Clan commander asked over the communicator again and again, is it really okay to cooperate with humans?
But they had no choice. This time the infection was different from usual, and they did not prepare for a rainy day. However, senior officials of the Water clan have always wondered why there are gene stealers who can break through strict genetic control and medical inspections and have been lurking until now. And why do they So we are obsessed with the version of the fourth-stage gene stealer that can be hidden but has the worst combat effectiveness?
In the intricate legacy pipelines of the empire in this world, the fat and terrifying patriarch is feeling the constant flow of psychic information from the Great Devourer and is frightened. It is a strangely long blue four-handed monster, but if any Tau people see it, If you see him, you will definitely obey him, even if that thing is a monster.
For the Genestealers, an aether hybrid is the key to turning Tau's hell into paradise.
And its "mother" is an ether who worships force. She can't stand the loneliness brought by her high-power ether position and arranged marriage, so she leads a part of the ether bodyguard into a space hulk for exploration and liberation. inner desires.
But by chance, the ether got separated from the guards due to the complex environment of the hulk, and was finally controlled, giving birth to it in the ether palace of this world.
And it is born as a "premature infant", born from the intersection of two "ethers".
This newly born hybrid used his spiritual power and control over titanium as quickly as possible to change the understanding of those titans, making them feel that the ether had given birth to a stillborn fetus. Even with unparalleled medical technology and a powerful gene pool, it would inevitably not happen. Such a situation occurs.
When the stillborn fetus was buried with the grandest ceremony, it used its sharp front paws to crawl out of its grave. However, the conditions for the birth of all this were extremely harsh. Regardless of the gender of the ether, it happened to start arranging the time for its marriage. , or the singleness of the ether, or even the intricate channels of this world.
All this shaped it, the poison that poisoned the Tau, whether it was the Fire Caste or the battle suit, as long as his Titanium was found, it was impossible to kill it, as long as the person who discovered it was still Titanium...
Now it almost controls the world, and it wants to control more of the world as a gene stealer, Ether, and continue to use its own instincts...
But it doesn't know that it has the right time, place and people, but it has encountered its lifelong enemy, human beings.
On the distant ground, Alan Bayer looked at the soldiers who were communicating cordially, and couldn't help but feel that he had seen the prosperous relationship between races in the future, that is, the relationship between humans and titanium as slaves, and they can only cut off their heads and make them into machines. Servant, only aliens can be trusted reluctantly!
Alan Bair bit off the starch block in his hand, and the look of gnashing teeth made the Fire Warrior's body tremble. As the elites of the Tau Empire, they had seen the battle videos brought by the senior officials of the Water Caste. Now, they are not like this at this close distance. A group of human-looking monster opponents.
Forged in the furnace called war, the monsters of Skadi's Fourth Regiment!
Even if the Fire Caste can rely on the learning machine to learn hundreds of years of experience, even if their weapons and equipment are good and can be compared with the elites of the empire, after all, they have never really accepted the terrible war, the kind of facing a being dozens of times more powerful than themselves. We come face to face with your fears.
The fourth group of Skadi has experienced it, and some people have even experienced it twice!
Such a gap cannot be made up by the so-called learning machine. Tactical tacit understanding, the relationship between teammates, the courage to face the terrible enemy, the ability to break the rules and adapt to changes, a powerful commander and the confidence to live to death, and the melt And the armor-breaking ability brought by explosive weapons brings the Fire Clan elites to the same level as them.
This dinner party completely made the Fire Caste realize that the human troops in front of them were completely different from those they had encountered before, and the Skadi Fourth Regiment also realized that the Soldier Bees seemed to be becoming more and more disloyal?
"Boss, the machine soul of this thing can talk?!" the second lieutenant yelled.
Alan Bair pushed him away. "Stop making such a fuss, it will embarrass the empire."
Other soldiers also said. "Ti's rations taste good, but a bit bland." Then he gulped down those titanium's nutritionally balanced and exquisitely flavored things prepared for elites with the seasonings synthesized by Imperial Industries.
If it's broken, are they good at making things? Alan Bayer thought like this and saw soldiers from the engineering unit approaching the Hammerhead Shark fire support vehicle with wrenches and cutters.
"That's enough, gather! Now we all set off to the planetary capital of this world. We will join up with the remaining soldiers of the Skadi Fourth Regiment, and then together we will protect the starport of this world."
"Before the weird weather in this world ends, and before the Bordero can carry out a light spear attack, we must protect this place. Any alien escaping from this world is our mistake!"
"Remember, this galaxy still has the world of the Empire. Those gene stealers are smooth sailing in the hive. If they leave, the loyalists of the empire will be persecuted even more, and they are also beacons to guide bugs. We must Make a break with them.”
"If necessary, I request that the starport be destroyed, because the gene stealers will attract insects. Even if the fourth Skadi regiment is completely destroyed, I have to ensure that other imperial worlds will not be discovered by those alien fleets. ”
All the members of Skadi's Fourth Regiment gathered just a few seconds after the shouting. The old look they had before was gone. They are the hammer of the empire, the roar of the emperor, and the largest military organization in the universe. .
Whether it's the alien's mistakes, their own food, the Adeptus Mechanicus or something else, as long as there are aliens, heretics, and alien species in front of them, the Emperor's Coins will continue to fight.
And this kind of will can be spread across races, as long as they still have conscience and goodwill, as long as they are still an intelligent race with art and emotions...
If the Fire Warriors' feelings for Skadi's Fourth Regiment were fear and helplessness before, it has now turned into real recognition. They don't need the Blade of Unity, but they are united because their Blade of Unity is alive.
The Fire Caste commander looked at Alan Bair and praised a human without reservation for the first time in the language of his own race through his communicator.
"If he fights for the Greater Good, there will be no enemies for Titanium in this universe."
"But he may be my enemy. I'm not sure I can defeat him, because that kind of unity and that kind of will are not inferior to our flames."
A senior official of the Water Clan answered through the communicator. "Although we feel that the empire's emperor's beliefs are barbaric, stupid, and reckless, I still have to admit that the light emitted by the human race is bright enough to rival any noble thing we have ever seen."
"But we must also realize that humans will not be the best diplomatic partners. When our etiquette overlaps, war will break out."
"I don't know what this great race has experienced, but I hope that the titanium will not repeat the same mistakes, but if... one day the light of ether does not shine in this universe, I can't imagine our fate. Maybe we will worship the emperor like Crazy worship of our former honor.”
The two Tau were completely silent, but if Alan Bair could hear their conversation, he would only speak.
The Emperor's light will always shine.
I have laid so much groundwork for this thief, I have to kill him properly. (Pre-Imperial World, Aether, Humanity.)
(End of chapter)