Chapter 1218 Leaked news
While waiting for news from afar, Soshiyang did not devote himself wholeheartedly to the affairs of the battle group. In fact, he let the company commanders discuss and resolve many matters themselves. Most of his time is spent on self-improvement.
These days, he often conducts tactical drills with Mazhar, Joel and other chapter leaders, and has also conducted several large-scale war drills, because since the Battle of the Death Star, Soshyan has deeply felt that he Inadequate in large-scale battle command, the command training he received in the past was basically at the company level. Battles involving millions of people are still difficulties that he needs to overcome.
In addition, the other thing that worries Soshyan the most is the battle group's fleet.
When the Battle of Pandora was launched, the battle group had a total of 7 capital ships, including the flagship Unbound Soul, the large cruiser [Eternal Loyalty], the battle barge [Soulbringer], and the strike cruiser [Starfire] , the moon-class cruisers [Absolute Force], [Reason], and [Golden Wind], but in the second Battle of Pandora, Reason was sunk, and Golden Wind suffered heavy damage and needed to squat in the dock for at least a year. It can only be used after half a year, and due to Lothar's tactics of sacrificing small battleships, only 3 of the 10 destroyers and frigates before departure finally survived.
A Massacre-class cruiser [The Great Huron] was also captured in the previous battle. It was later renamed [Atonement] and was also being repaired in the dock. The [Unrepentant] captured at the same time was handed over to the White Temple. side.
In addition, after the war, a Vanguard-class strike cruiser was obtained from the Navy, named [Pandora], but Soshyan still remembered that Mars owed him two strike cruisers, so he asked Astropath urged, but the other party said that the ship was already on its way.
After waiting for a month, Mars indeed sent two strike cruisers.
But Soshyan was not happy. Instead, he was a little strange. Logically speaking, there were still almost five years left before the delivery date. Why was Mars so active in sending the ship?
Facing his question, the technical priest in charge of the transportation hesitated and couldn't answer, but Soshyan had a bad premonition in his heart.
Mars
I am afraid that Mars sent these two ships just along the way. It is very likely that they have received the information from Mechanical Ark and sent a fleet to compete with Reza.
Realizing that his guess might be correct, Soshyan immediately went to the Trace of Victory to check the detection records there - as a large star fort, the Trace of Victory has a sensor capable of detecting subspace disturbances in the star sector. Very large scanning device.
Looking at the results, it turned out that things were exactly as I imagined. A fleet marked as Mars was divided into two at the edge of the star sector, one headed for the Nessen system, which were these two strike cruisers, and the other One group quickly left the star area and went to unknown destination.
Thinking about Mars' possible fate, Soshiyang was not only not nervous, but also secretly happy in his heart.
In the current situation, the muddier the water, the better it is for him. Let the people of the Mechanicus make trouble first, and only when the trouble gets bigger will he have a reason to step in and clean up the mess.
And now there is no reply from Reza. Soshiyang is convinced that the great sage is going to break his promise.
But originally he had no more expectations for the Mechanicus.
You are unkind, so don’t blame me for being unjust.
Putting this aside in advance, Soshyan immediately received two strike cruisers and named them Dawnguard and Primordial Strike respectively.
At the same time, Soshyan ordered some small warships from the surrounding forge worlds. After all, frigates and destroyers were also very important in a fleet. A fleet composed solely of large ships would be very cumbersome in actual use.
Seeing that the Astral Knights suddenly had three more strike cruisers, Joel's eyes were straightened. He couldn't understand when the battleships became weeds on the roadside. He wanted to have them.
The Blood Knight now only has one strike cruiser left, and it is still being repaired in the dock of the Scar of Victory. It has not been able to run for half a year.
Just when the Astral Knights were contacting surroundings to order warships, representatives of Zhao Akada suddenly came to him, and then they met and asked Soshiyang whether they wanted to work together to excavate a ruined ship, which contained Holding a Mechanical Ark. Soshyan was dumbfounded at the time and quickly asked the other party how he knew the news.
As a result, the answer given by the other party left him speechless.
Intelligence black market——
Soshiyan can only say that Reza’s confidentiality work is far less sophisticated than theirs in the plasma field. A matter that should have been very confidential is now being exposed. Everyone knows.
As soon as the representative of Zhao Akada saw Soshiyang's attitude, he realized that the other party had known about it for a long time, so he proposed cooperation very simply.
But Soshyan is concerned about how many people or forces still know about this matter?
Then he used all the available information to inquire about the matter, and the results he obtained were not satisfactory.
Looking at the current situation, most of the forge worlds in the Storm Star Territory know about it, and among the forge worlds outside the Star Territory, only Lucius and Phaethon seem to know about this, and their fleets have already appeared in to other locations in the Storm Star Territory.
Soshiyang has to face this situation squarely. If it is just a conflict between Mars and Reza, then he can sit back and watch the fight, but if he is involved in several or even a dozen forging worlds, then As the guardians of the Empire, the Space Marines must intervene immediately to prevent large-scale intra-Imperial struggles from spreading to other innocent worlds.
However, fortunately, the specific location of the hulk has not been exposed yet, so the various forging worlds are relatively restrained and are only observing in secret, and they obviously also take into account that this may attract other institutions from the empire. Attention, such as the Adeptus Astartes——
Zhao Akada came to Soshiyan hoping to use his influence in the star field to increase the right to speak in this competition.
Soshiyang did not reply to the other party, but just said that this matter still needs to be "taken into consideration". The specific situation will not be discussed until the hulk appears, and Zhao Akada itself is a relatively weak forging world. During this turmoil, I also had the mentality of taking advantage of it and not forcing it if I didn’t have the chance.
While Soshyan was actively preparing for this operation, he suddenly received a very unexpected news -
Talos fell.
During a training session for new recruits, he suddenly fell into a coma without warning. This scared the people around him so much that they quickly called for Valier.
After seeing Talos's condition, Valier told everyone that nothing was wrong, but then he found Soshyan, and after much hesitation, told Soshyan something about Talos's body. .
After hearing that Talos might not die soon due to a problem with his gene seed, Soshyan was shocked.
I don’t know since when, he has become accustomed to having this person around him who he should have denounced as a "heretic" in the past. Whether it is with the war group or the legion, he is used to asking questions about the tower. Ross's opinion, even in the most tense battle, he can trust the opponent with his back completely.
By Astartes standards, their relationship can be called -
brothers.
(End of this chapter)