Chapter 891 Pain Star
Standard Terra Calendar, 953.M41
Ultimate Star Field, Demeter Sector, Pandora Galaxy, Pain Star
Some kind of In a sense, Pai Shang is actually a world of death.
Although it has a long history, the Ministry of Interior has no way of verifying its past history. They only know that this planet was baptized by war during the Horus Heresy, but there are other worlds that have suffered the same fate. It is uncountable, so Pai Mingxing has become an insignificant, forgotten world with only a little value.
It was not until three thousand years after the Horus Heresy that the first colonists set foot on this world.
Most of the surface of the planet is dense jungle. The numerous lizard-like creatures native to this period will gladly eat anything that moves. Large predators with the same characteristics also live in the ocean.
Due to the ever-present dangers in the lowlands and oceans, the human settlers on Piedmont all live in mining colonies on the top of the mountain. The locals call these underground explorer's fortresses, where industrious people carefully mine Precious minerals from the barren lands of the planet's mountains.
There are hundreds of such fortresses scattered across the planet, most of which have a population of no more than a thousand people.
The only important city on the planet is the hive port of Attica, situated on the shores of the planet's largest ocean, surrounded on the land side by the aptly named Death Swamp.
Attica is a small rotating city. The main residential area is located in the upper dome structure, overlooking the surrounding swamps. The transportation between it and various underground explorer fortresses is carried out by a simple floating spacecraft. Called an air barge.
Due to its low value, the defense of Pai Mao is not much better. There are only three garrison points in Attica, housing hundreds of soldiers from the 183rd Catachan Regiment, and an Astropath. towers, a rudimentary orbital defense grid, a naval supply depot, a small Advocate garrison, and a number of other dusty offices subordinate to the Administration, but these offices are rarely manned.
This quota for arranging the Death Star is not surprising. This is the arrangement of the secondary sector. Therefore, maintaining operation in this state is a difficult job. People living here also try to keep a low profile. , instead of casually provoking those monsters and monsters from outside the world.
But recently, Pai Shangxing seems a little unusual.
Although no one could tell where the abnormality occurred, the air began to become duller, the animals in the jungle were restless, and even the sea became rough.
But only those who live on the highest floor of the dome know that the real changes come from the dark void——
Adisac Delgado, the governor of Paisha Star, ran along the corridor, his heart pounding.
For weeks, pressure has been squeezing through his body, and he hasn't had a good night's sleep in a long time, always suffering from insomnia.
When he rarely paused in his rush, he would cover his face with his hands and feel himself shaking.
The Governor walked to the sliding door and pressed the code.
The door opened and he entered the coordination room. There were already dozens of people there, more than the designed capacity.
They were yelling, looking like they were going to fight, and some were pushing each other on the table.
Adisak pushed them away and looked for his assistant Ur Dar.
He walked towards them, bypassing groups of frightened and angry people. Ur saw him coming and smiled tiredly.
“You are back, my lord.”
Adisak nodded, noticing the smell of sweat coming from the other man's body, but it wasn't his fault - they'd been trapped in this unventilated room for a long time.
The Astropath Sherazade Farley also nodded perfunctorily. She was not the type who was good at words.
The Governor looked at her with concern.
"What did you find?"
The Astropath shook his head.
"All nodes in the system are shut down, just like ours." Her voice was shaking, mostly from exhaustion, but others might mistake it for fear.
“This is wrong, it shouldn’t be like this.”
Adisark will not easily allow problems to arise on this planet. The governor of Paihua Planet is not a family, but a Electoral system, but he has been raised in this world his entire life, and he has dedicated his life to ensuring that the products of the Calamity Star can survive, transport and trade with maximum efficiency.
He controls the power of life and death on the entire planet, and has exercised this power more than once, but all to maintain the stability of Xingqiu.
The smooth running of the colony was his whole life.
"The Governor is right, not all Astropath nodes should be extinguished."
The Justice of the Ministry of Justice walked over, his black windbreaker under the dim light Appears greasy.
"Then you can try to find it yourself."
Faced with the strange voice, the Astropath retorted mercilessly:
"See if there are any nodes that are still running."
"Everyone calm down, we have to work together now."
Governor Adisak tried to calm down.
“So, here’s what I know about the situation so far, inter-galactic communications, malfunction, orbital network, malfunction, galactic patrol fleet, missing, subspace nodes in the void, what else may be Things are working, but it will take hours to find out."
"Attica's main scanning array is still working."
Gordon Drake, the head of the Mechanicum of the Pavilion, came over dragging his metal quadrupeds.
He regarded this series of problems as technical problems and took a slight pleasure in its inscrutability.
"Perhaps an electromagnetic storm from the star."
"Electromagnetic pulse burst? Unlikely, it can't explain everything, such as Astropaths."
Astropaths Director Sherazade still remembered what she saw in the ancient steel astrology tower south of the main defense station. She vomited for a long time and discovered that there was something worse than being caught in the blade of the automatic threshing machine. way of death.
The three apprentices in the Astropathic Tower were all dead, and their corpses were evenly spread on the walls, as if they had been run over by a Leman Russ.
“The last messages we received were just a few oral transcripts recorded on automatic typewriters, most of which were standard astral babbles, but then everything went wrong and I couldn’t read anything. Understand, one of them started to draw, draw something, everything was terrible.”
But the person in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs seemed more and more impatient.
“Word got out that Attica had two million inhabitants, and once they started to panic—”
“No one was panicking.”
Adisak said firmly, and turned to look at the defense chief of the hive.
"Where is Colonel Stryker?"
"Cultist riots have occurred in several explorer fortresses recently. He led a team out to suppress them. According to the news sent back, it has ended. , I am already rushing back, and I will arrive soon.”
(End of this chapter)