Chapter 3001 Super Bug Swarm
On the bridge of the Eternal Loyalty, Talos was paying attention to the rapidly deteriorating situation of the entire galaxy through the huge main holographic sphere on the ship.
He thinks that he has never been a master of naval warfare. Perhaps his former superior Fan Zhuode was. Anyway, in the tens of thousands of years he has served, he has never shown any talent for large-scale command.
But now he has to shoulder the responsibility. Maximilian, the captain of the Astral Knights, is just a warrior, and Arash, the chapter leader of the White Templars, can hardly be called an excellent commander. , As for the other chapter leaders
The situation in this battle is very serious. The survival of the 11th Legion is left to outsiders, and Talos cannot explain it to Soshyan.
Yes, at least in Talos' view, the situation has truly reached a critical point of life and death.
No one knows when, where, or by what means such a large hive fleet suddenly appeared. By the time the peripheral detection equipment discovered it, they were already at the edge of the galaxy, and at The reconnaissance fleet patrolling more distant areas reported nothing, and they didn't even know what happened.
According to the Mechanic Priests, the secret of the movement of the Hive Fleet seems to have been cracked. It stands to reason that as long as a narwhal is found rushing against the ship, the trajectory of the Hive can be deduced, and the change in the gravitational field is also an omen. .
But an accident happened this time. There was no movement trajectory of the narwhale insect ship, and there was no change in the gravitational field. The hive fleet almost touched Westeros in a "stealth" way. The edge of the galaxy.
What's worse is their horrific number.
"All fleets, prepare to attack the tendril fleet heading towards Planet 4."
In addition to Talos, there are several figures standing around the central holographic ball in the tactical center, responsible for monitoring each element of the galaxy's defense. On the one hand, the main ones are Bahram, Lothar, Maximili, Oscar and other company commanders.
And Talos's instructions were mainly issued by Bahram. Now the other party was the nominal commander-in-chief of the fleet. The person who replaced Soshyan was Talos's arrangement against all objections.
During Soshyan's absence, the legion's decision was voted on by the Archon Council, but Ustad among the five was absent. Before leaving, Soshyan asked Mark to take Talos's opinion as the basis. Lord, Arash also expressed respect for Talos's opinion, so Bahram was pushed to the position of fleet commander as captain of the tenth company despite his efforts to refuse.
Nearly three standard Terran days have passed since the discovery of the Tyranids to the launch of the invasion. At least the theory of the Mechanicus Priests was not completely unexpected. After the Tyranids entered the range of the galaxy's gravitational field, their speed suddenly increased. Sluggishly, coupled with the large-scale minefields that the empire had deployed in advance, the biological ship moved towards the target at almost a "crawling" speed, which was Westeros 2, 3, and 4 planets.
At this time, there are still nearly 1.5 billion refugees and 3.2 billion local residents in the galaxy that have not been evacuated. Such a huge population is almost a super delicacy for the Tyranids, so the action mode of the Tyranid fleet is also very simple. The entire fleet is Spread out completely, as if a big mouth wants to swallow the entire galaxy in one bite, so even though their speed is very slow, they still bring a sense of oppression that is almost desperate.
From the perspective of humans, the Tyranid fleet formed a huge arc formation. The entire fleet is more than 250 million kilometers long. If it is an ordinary fleet, it would dare to stretch itself that long. Seeking death, yet they are Tyranids.
At this moment, the tactical panel of the Eternal Loyalty was blurred by the maddening number of ships, and the number of enemies far exceeded the limit it could display.
“This is the first time in my life that I have witnessed such a thing.” Talos, who wanted to take a look at the so-called Tyranids, also lamented his good luck. Not long after he arrived, he encountered a wave of big enemies. of.
"How many are there? One hundred thousand? Three hundred thousand? Five hundred thousand?"
The whole person was leaning on his chain saw halberd. Talos stared at the crazy numbers on the tactical instrument and couldn't help but let out a cry from his soul. Tortured, but no one could answer his questions.
Just by "walking" through the minefield, tens of thousands of Tyranid biological ships were blown to pieces. The vast area at the edge of the galaxy was filled with broken carapace fragments and huge pieces of frozen meat. Bodily fluids floated in a debris ring of bioship corpses.
But for every biological ship destroyed, twenty came to replace it.
What’s worse is that the dead fleets are being reabsorbed and used. The tentacles extended by the huge biological ships wrap around the same kind of fragments, ruthlessly pulling the fragments towards the bloody mouth. They eat all Things, bones, flesh, and even metal fragments of void mines, and then these recovery ships will provide the digested materials to the mother ship through tentacles like umbilical cords.
The Hive Mothership was the thing that shocked Talos the most. They were even bigger than the Queen of Glory.
It is like some kind of insect that has been magnified countless times, wrapped in ancient yellowish crust-like chitin, and even fragments of asteroids. These miscellaneous things are secreted by body fluids Sticks together and is as hard as any armor.
According to Bahram and others, the Adeptus Mechanicus had always guessed that a hive fleet would only have one mothership, but what really happened was beyond their expectations.
At least based on the scan results, there are more than fifteen insect nest motherships in this huge hive fleet, or biological ships of this level!
Fifteen ships!
What is this concept? According to the alien judge who came to Westeros, from the first encounter with the Tyranids to the present, the empire has not encountered so many hive motherships in the hundreds of years!
If one of the Empire's Hive Motherships represents a tentacle fleet, then it is equivalent to saying that there are at least fifteen tentacle fleets gathered in the Westeros galaxy now!
You must know that the hive motherships not only represent command nodes, they are extremely powerful battleships themselves. Although they do not have active defense systems such as energy shields, they rely on their unparalleled size and petrified The chitinous shell can still sail through the most powerful gunfire of Imperial ships with almost no impact.
Excluding the countless small biological ships, these fifteen super large biological ships are enough for the Suffering Alliance who stayed here to drink a pot. However, according to the speculation of the mechanical priests, these ten One of the five hive ships must be the real "mothership", and the others are just guardians or nodes - but their theory has no evidence to prove it, and they can't give any confirmation plan.
“My lord!”
Suddenly, a communications officer ran near the tactical instrument and saluted Bahram.
"This is an encrypted communication from the Inquisition, you need to connect in person!"