Chapter 892 ‘Death’ Colonel Stryker
Hearing the name of the Catachan, the Astropath director frowned.
“There’s nothing we can do with those Catachan barbarians.”
Shelazade’s words were cold, but it wasn’t that she underestimated Colonel Stryker and his soldiers; Everything recently gave her a terrible premonition.
It wasn't just physical, for months she had nightmares and a really bad feeling in her stomach, and it all started when she first received a video from a recent episode. A long-distance distress signal sent from space.
All these signals were muttering that the Star Torch was missing, which was ridiculous, but fragments of the message kept coming.
Then the transport ship that was supposed to arrive on time never showed up again.
Nothing like this has ever happened to the planet of Pain since recorded history began - more than five thousand standard years.
And in the past month, unknown lights have begun to appear in the night sky. First they flickered like shooting stars, and then there were strange green and purple ripples, which made people unable to sleep. Somehow, they could even penetrate the barrier. With the blinds closed, the situation began to look very much like the universe folding itself in around itself.
"Okay, let's all go back to our respective posts. That's the end of today's meeting. We don't need any formalities anymore. Secretary, once Colonel Stryker returns, inform me immediately that I need to talk to him. Let’s talk alone.”
Everyone started to take action, but only the Astropath representative still seemed indifferent and indifferent.
"What can you get from him, Governor, he is just a soldier."
Adisak turned around.
“Don’t you think we’ll be facing a battle soon?”
The Astropath didn’t respond, just shook his head.
"Madam, the perseverance and bravery of Catachan soldiers are rarely matched in the empire. I believe in them and I believe that Attica can survive this disaster."
"I hope so."
------------- What happened was that his deputy, Dax the Hedgehog, rode with him on a rickety floating barge through the death jungles and death swamps that covered the planet.
As usual, the window was blurred by the endless wind.
From the appearance, there is no doubt that Colonel Stryker is a standard Catachan man, with a rock-hard face, muscles swollen like an Astartes, and a long slit on his face. The scars, combined with the powerful facial hair, make it possible to see the cruel death jungle of Catachan at a glance.
But Stryker only felt hot, and his armpits and leather jacket were dirty. This world was not properly defended. Their survival all depended on the quick response of the system's naval power. All that was needed was to keep the Astropaths happy, maintain a basic defense team, buy some time if something went wrong, and keep the communications station staffed.
The worst thing that has ever happened in the thousands of years since the colony of Paidu began to operate was some alien raid about a thousand years ago, and now that is just a legend, a story they can eat in the mess hall Old news for fun.
But when Stryker heard that he was going to be sent here, he almost thought he was exiled. Although the climate and terrain here were almost the same as those of his not-so-warm and pleasant hometown, if he only Why join the army when you want to stay at home?
He just wants to fuck something hard! Kill some powerful things! Fuck the alien bitch hard! Instead of waiting for death in a marginal world where the emperor's grandpa can't take a hot lick even after he poops.
“We should try to contact the Navy.”
When the tattered floating barge was stumbling forward in the wind, Dax suddenly said:
"They might be able to explain it all."
Strike shook his head.
"I don't think this will work."
"We should give it a try. They should be coming according to the schedule." "They won't come, hedgehog. I'm afraid there aren't any navies out there, at least this time. Star area."
Dax glanced at it in confusion.
"The throne is above, well, I'm not sure that's it."
By now, Attica was looming in the clouds, the command center's lights flashing in the wind, and it looked remarkably sturdy—heavy guardrails dotted the scaffolding of the main communications tower.
The large landing field is located to the east of it, and the hangar where the floating barge is parked is only a few hundred meters adjacent to it. Everything looks old and broken, just like this forgotten world.
The barge flew to the other side of the tarmac, then shuddered to a stop.
As the door of the barge opened, strong men with explosive muscles, red ribbons on their heads, camouflage all over their bodies and camouflage jackets lazily walked out of the barge.
Although their postures were very relaxed, they all carried some trophies on their bodies, such as blood-stained ears and fingers.
Just a hundred people had just suppressed a cultist rebellion, killing more than seven hundred people, without any casualties.
As soon as Stryker got off the boat, he saw the governor's secretary waiting for him in the wind, with several assistants standing beside him, all wrapped in layers of thermal clothing.
After seeing Stryker, the secretary came over.
"The Governor has been trying to contact you!"
she shouted against the roar of the wind.
"Is there any bad news again? Well, it doesn't matter anymore."
"The Governor asked you to see him."
"I haven't put any perfume on my body yet."
Stryker didn't seem to be joking at all. He said this because when he first came to the planet, the Governor once hinted that he had a strange smell. After that, he almost never talked to that Governor again. Been alone together.
The secretary didn't know what to say, but at least Stryker understood the importance and went with him to see the governor.
Seeing Stryker again, Adisak's mood was a bit complicated.
After spending so many years together, he knew that Stryker deserved a higher power than this. Although he didn’t know the whole story, the colonel must have offended someone in power somewhere. If To be fair, he should have been serving in the Astra Militarum, commanding a capable force.
It is currently unclear how Adisak ended up on the planet Pain, but given his personality it seems unlikely that he would volunteer for this position.
Nonetheless, he shouldered the responsibility well.
Strike's predecessor was a drunkard and a thug who was killed in a brawl involving dozens of his men.
Ever since Stryker came to replace him, things had calmed down in the barracks. The soldiers no longer drank endlessly and their posture straightened.
Another point of Stryker is that he used local equipment to make a lot of temporary equipment, because Paidu has not been to the Ministry of Military Affairs for nearly fifty years to replenish supplies, and even the Office of the Ministry of Military Affairs is empty all year round. , but the Catachan regiment has to perform training missions frequently, but staying in the wild for more than an hour may erode the sparse and excellent equipment they have. Therefore, Stryker had to use local resources to build equipment.
The secretary took Stryker to a building on the uppermost floor of the Attica Dome. As they walked, Stryker heard the dull banging sound of heavy equipment being moved. He guessed That was the sound of a large battery trying to activate.
(End of this chapter)