Chapter 1980 The whole family was wiped out
The fact that Soshyan used thunder to "subdue" the Minotaur war group and warned the Terran envoys quickly spread throughout Sagan's senior officials, who had previously tried to use The nobles and bureaucrats who used their authority to restore their "losses" immediately realized who was really in charge here, and immediately changed the previously changed policies back at extremely fast speeds, and publicized the great achievements of the expeditionary force in a high-profile manner. And the great victory led by Soshyan.
It’s just that I didn’t hug his thigh and call him daddy - mainly because everyone knew that Astartes didn’t accept this trick, otherwise someone would definitely do it.
But things would not end there. Soshyan still started to make some "optimizations" on the rear.
The first is the problem of the Hoylander family. Not only did Soshyan catch their secret transactions with the Red Pirates, but after the unremitting efforts of the Inquisition during this period and even the sacrifice of some personnel, , and also found some questions about this ancient merchant family.
The most important one is Ernst Mare Hoyland. After a series of investigations by the Heretic Tribunal, they got a terrible fact. This old man lived under different names for a full four hundred and ninety years!
This also explains why the Hoyland family has been able to occupy the Maelstrom trade route for a long time. Their patriarch only changed his name. In fact, he has been the same person for nearly five centuries. And a non-transformed and non-psychic person would not be able to live that long under normal circumstances, no matter what life-extending means he uses.
The situation is obvious. Ernst Mare Hoyland either used illegal technology or even alien technology, or he was exposed to evil witchcraft.
But how to deal with this merchant family is quite tricky. They have 16 merchant cruisers, 3 "retired" battleships, as well as a large number of small ships and armed transport ships. Their fleet strength is in the entire The Maelstrom Area is one of the best, and after the expedition, the main members of the family basically stayed in their hometown, the Holy Point Star in the Kliman Drift Zone, and Ernst Mare Hoyland never left home. After hiding for several years, it is obvious that if there is any disturbance in the empire, they may flee or even join the Red Pirates. With their strong financial resources and connections, it will be difficult to hide any military or arrest actions by the empire from them.
Even the Inquisition has different opinions on this, but most of them prefer to wait until after the war.
But Soshyan was not willing to wait that long.
So a horrific incident broke out when no one expected it.
An Eldar fleet of unknown origin suddenly appeared and attacked the Holy Point. They approached the galaxy without being detected by any detection equipment, and used powerful battleships to destroy Hoy almost instantly. The Rand family deployed orbital defense facilities on the Holy Point, and then a large number of Eldar troops poured into the hive spire where the Merchant family was located, massacred the family's personnel and guards, and those people were simply unable to fight against the powerful, fast and heavy-weaponed Alien.
In less than an hour after the attack began, nearly one million people were killed. Members of the Hoyland family were killed regardless of gender, age or child, until only three children survived. Come down.
The once prominent Hoyland family was wiped out in this way!
When the surrounding imperial fleets and the judges of the Alien Tribunal hurriedly arrived, they saw only a large number of wreckage surrounding the planet and some of the battleships that had not been destroyed. Apart from the former large fleet of the Hoyland family, they were still operating outside. Of the seven merchant cruisers that defended their homeland, only three were left, and only one battleship was left. The others were all destroyed, and the Eldar had long since disappeared. When the Imperial troops cautiously entered the hive spire, they saw only corpses on the ground. The word "Revenge" was written in alien characters everywhere on the walls. There were almost no living people in the family territory, and the only ones moving were servitors. , the search team only found three surviving children in a small house, who were confirmed to be the last bloodline of the Hoyland family.
The planet’s defense forces did not react until three hours after the attack, but by the time they slowly ran to the scene, the Empire’s reinforcements had already arrived
Afterwards, the inquisitors of the Alien Tribunal discovered a huge secret space beneath the territory of the Hoyland family. It was filled with blasphemous demonic decorations and a large number of sacrifices. A large number of members of the Hoyland family Members of the Immediate Line lay dead here. It was obviously their last refuge, but it failed to protect them. The Eldar tore them apart with shurikens and blades.
In the depths of this space there is a huge altar surrounded by a large amount of blood. Ernst Mare Hoyland, the patriarch of the Hoyland family, was quartered by five horses, and his limbs and torso were cut into pieces by five pieces. The spear was nailed to the altar, and in his mouth was a letter he had written to Huron that had not yet been sent. The content was very shocking.
He has realized that Soshyan is beginning to prepare to deal with him, so he plans to transfer the family wealth and troops to the Bloody Skeleton Galaxy before the other party takes action. After that, he will serve the Red Pirates wholeheartedly and is willing to provide some secret information that he has collected at a high cost. , seems to be related to Soshyan, but the latter part has been destroyed.
When others took inventory of the Hoyland family's warehouse, they found that the Eldar only took away some items, mainly things related to the Eldar such as soul stones, and did not take away other property and treasures. , so most people think this is a revenge. The Hoyland family has angered the other party by engaging in illegal alien weapons trading for a long time, which eventually led to a bloody and cruel revenge. This kind of thing is not without precedent in the empire.
Most of the time, the Eldar are not the priority enemies of the Empire, and they rarely attack the Empire for no reason. Therefore, in order to reduce trouble, the Empire also prohibits all transactions and research related to Soul Stones.
The Hoylander family learned from the secret accounts they searched that they had been smuggling Eldar Soul Stones on a large scale since the Huron Rebellion, ranging from hundreds to thousands at a time, and where they were going. Even if they don’t know, you must know that the empire strictly prohibits the trading of this item, and even the Inquisition is not allowed to easily access it. So it is obvious that there is only one kind of "customer" who needs so many soul stones-Chaos traitors.
The Inquisition judged that the large number of soul stones smuggled by the Hoyland family must have flowed to the Red Pirates for use by their evil wizards. After all, soul stones are materials required for many forbidden chaos rituals. Also an important item to please the demons of Slaanesh.
After more in-depth investigation, the Inquisition discovered that Ernst Marley Hoyland had been in contact with Huron when he first became the Star Claw Chapter Master. Subsequently, they contributed a lot in the road of "becoming bigger and stronger". Also relying on the cooperation with Huron, the Hoyland family began to overwhelm the Claremont family and became the overlord of the trade routes in the Maelstrom region.
More updates tomorrow! ! ! !
(End of this chapter)