Chapter 80 Cybernetic Legion
“Armin, can you determine their location?”
Soshyan opened fire at the possible location of the Eldar for a while, and then turned to Shoot the Spider that rushes too close.
On the other hand, a group of human-skin spiders were pounced on another hunting underground lizard, and paid a heavy price - six spiders were killed by claws and sharp points before the overwhelming numbers finally took effect. The teeth were torn to pieces.
These once domesticated beasts don’t seem very obedient.
"I will, sir."
After Armin made his promise, he paused and poked his head out from behind his shield, only to pull it back immediately.
A single molecular disk flew directly past the original position of his head.
"Sir, they have been moving, it is difficult to determine the detailed location!"
"We cannot be suppressed here all the time, their number will become more and more!"
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At this time, Soshyan suddenly felt a brief tremor from the ground under his heels, followed by a faint rumble, as if something collapsed or opened.
Saul also lowered his head slightly, and he also noticed something strange.
"Something is coming."
He spoke softly without turning on the communicator, so that only Soshyan, who was closest, could hear it.
“What?”
"These Eldar are just scouts. From the conversation with them just now, I roughly judge that they have encountered a group of very powerful enemies and expelled them from this world, so this time they are ready to retake them after recuperating. "Then we can't sit still and wait for death. We must return to the ground to inform the Astra Militarum in the nearby star area."
"But...will the powerful enemy who expelled them before still be there?" It exists.”
Soshiyang was stunned for a moment, and seemed to notice something. He turned his head and saw that the man whose head was blown off was still lying on the ground, and a human skin spider was the first to arrive. , has begun to enjoy a delicious meal of human flesh.
But the next second, the human-skin spider was shot to pieces with a laser beam.
Accompanied by the unique sound of heavy metal objects trampling on bricks and stones, a red bright spot the size of a fist first emerged from the darkness, followed by a mottled red metal shell, iron-gray exposed joints, and an arc half buried in the torso. shaped head.
This metal structure is two people tall. The heavy laser cannon on the left shoulder is still emitting waste heat, and the automatic bolt guns on both arms are also raised.
Da da da da—
The violent metal storm swept through the human skin spiders, beating them into balls of blood mist.
The sudden attacker disturbed these underground monsters. They howled and turned to new enemies, trying to overwhelm each other with numbers.
Then, the darkness flashed through spots of light, like brilliant meteors, but burned out scorching roads among the groups of monsters. In just a few seconds, hundreds of monsters were wiped out.
One after another, those metal structures continued to come out of the darkness, forming a tight line of fire, destroying the monsters at an extremely long distance.
After paying a terrible price, those underground monsters finally understood that they had encountered a tough enemy, an enemy that could not be defeated by numbers.
So after a long roar, they turned around and fled into the darkness when they came, without any nostalgia.
The entire square suddenly became quiet, the gunshots and roars disappeared, leaving only the low hum of the server. "This is something from the Mechanicus..."
Soshyan carefully watched the metal structures behind the bunker. Although he had never seen such robots, he knew the standards of the Mechanicus on those robots.
But Sol next to him was even more surprised than him for the first time.
"Cybernitika Omnic Legion?"
Soshyan was a little unfamiliar with the name when he first heard it. After Thor gave a brief reminder, he immediately recalled it. Information I saw in the legion archives.
As early as the end of the Age of Strife, it was already the most terrifying and powerful among the legions of the Mechanicus. According to the sacred duty given to it by the red decision of Mars, it bears the heavy burden of using combat robots in wars and A terrible mission.
In addition, those terrifying battle robots need to be developed, multiplied, and maintained.
These decisions are a milestone in the doctrinal law created by the Mechanicum at its founding in the Age of Strife, permanently banning the creation of evil soulless intelligences known as silicos and declaring that any such Residual-like intelligence, as well as any sage or mortal who serves such intelligence or attempts to create such intelligence, is subject to death.
However, these resolutions also allowed the survival and creation of "low-level and just" artificial life that was considered sacred, so these mechanical beasts and their relatives, these were designed for war and killing. The intelligent machine, the combat robot, was handed over to the newly created Cybertronica Legion.
The Adeptus Mechanicus understands the power these supreme killing machines possess when brought together - they have toppled empire after empire during the Dark Ages.
Therefore, from the very beginning, the Adeptus Mechanicus decreed that the Cybertronica Legion should be broken up into numerous, self-sufficient, small independent units called "groups".
Such a plan effectively limits the scale of military power that any great sage in the legion can command.
Generally speaking, the destructive power of a group comes from 30 to 100 battle robot squads, each squad is responsible for 3-5 sacred war machines.
Each group is managed by a high-ranking priest of the Adeptus Mechanicus, and the secret knowledge of intelligent control technology is also in their hands.
Below them are a number of senior sages who will lead war machines on the battlefield, guards who swear to serve these sages, as well as the group's own data craftsmen, slave workers and Servants take care of the group's various needs on and off the battlefield.
Groups also control their own supply networks, mobile workshops, transports, field vehicles, orbital landing vehicles, and in some cases even their own spaceships.
But on the other hand, the Cybertronica Legion is strictly prohibited from building their own forges and cathedrals, so they must rely on the Mechanicum's Great Mechanicus and the Forge World to provide allegiance, supplies, and funding networks To survive and thrive.
When the Emperor came to Mars, the Cybertronica Legion [should serve the Empire] served on the battlefield, and naturally became part of the alliance treaty between the Mechanicum and the Emperor.
As a result, the responsibilities of many groups have changed from defenders of the Forge World and servants of large Mechanicum sects to dervish-like Great Crusade combat groups, fighting on many battlefields that humans cannot imagine. He has served many masters.
Due to their strong adaptability and outstanding fighting prowess, groups of Cybernetic Legions were highly valued during the Great Crusade, and competed with many Legions of Astartes (especially the Thousand Sons and Iron Hands), Rogue Traders, knight families, and the Imperial Army fought side by side.
However, many others view them as ancient terrors of the long night, and therefore hate, fear, or even avoid them.
Although most of the time, the combat droids of the Cyberitica Legion are difficult to produce and maintain, the arcane knowledge possessed by the Legion's Magi and the Legion's outstanding record ensure that when the Horus Heresy breaks out At present, there are thousands of active legion groups on various fronts in the Human Empire.
When the Horus Heresy began, the independence of the many groups of the Cybertronic Legion determined that, in general, the Legion would not completely fall to the side of the Loyalists or the Rebels, but would often They will each follow their long-serving masters.
Other groups, mindful of their oaths of loyalty to the Emperor, or fearful of the galaxy's drift toward disorder, view the traitors as despicable traitors who should be destroyed, while others are intent on breaking free from the Red Red Army. Resolutely determined, the Warmaster sees the war as an opportunity to pursue a technology that has long been taboo.
After the Great Heresy was ended, the Cybertronic Legion, which had not defected to the rebels, re-swore allegiance to the Empire, but was bound by a stricter oath of loyalty than the Chapter Astartes.
Except for Mars, they are almost impossible to find.
Soshiyang never thought that he would meet him here.
(End of this chapter)