Warhammer 40: Gods Of Mortals

Chapter 88 Engineering Miracle
Less than a month after the start of the war, the enemies of the upper nest had been crushed, but the war still hadn't stopped.

The enemies who had fled during the war before could not leave the hive capital. They could only hide in the huge sewers of the upper hive. After witnessing or hearing that all their comrades who chose to stand firm were executed, they realized that they could not be captured, so they chose to fight guerrillas in the sewers.

However, in the sewers, there are not only the enemy troops who broke up and hid in the sewers before.

In the sewers itself, there are some families who lost in the power struggle in the upper nest, and these upper nest families are unwilling to go to the next nest, so they have multiplied in these sewer networks to this day.

There are also some very few upper nesters who did not trust the stinger and did not leave. They brought their servants and family members to gather in the sewers to fight guerrillas until now.

Fierce exchanges of fire often erupt between the three parties.

Then the Praetorians and other troops of the First Army would appear from time to time somewhere in the sewers to participate in the battle.

It is not an easy task to clean up the sewer completely, because there is not only one sewer, but a new sewer network has been built after the original sewer network has been in disrepair for thousands of years. There are a large number of old sewers and even connected to the giant metal pipe above the lower nest.

Everyone focused their eyes on the sewers of the upper hive, completely oblivious to the newly arrived enemies outside the hive world.

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In space outside Tyrone's hive, a Lunar cruiser slowly moved around the planet.

This battleship was attacked by ground weapons during the previous orbital air raid on Tyrone [-], and there were some damages on the hull, but these damages are not a problem at all. If the captain of the cruiser is willing, they can still air raid Tyrone Hive.

Inside the bridge, the captain sat on the golden throne and watched the planet outside. The huge hive was clearly visible on the surface of the planet, and apart from this hive, the rest of the planet was either desert or glaciers.

"We can't get in touch with the field marshal." A crew member in charge of communication walked up to the captain and reported.

"He'd better get in touch with me within three minutes." The captain said, staring at the planet, "otherwise I'll throw all the army on board."

The crew nodded silently, turned and left to continue trying to contact Stinger.

At this time, the people on the boat didn't know that the stinger had been turned into a chaos egg by his servants, and was blown to pieces.

The cruiser was simply fulfilling a mission it was not supposed to perform, which was to transport the Stinger's army to Tyrone's Hive from the Governor.

Time goes by.

There was no reply from the Stinger until half a day later, and the crew in charge of communication had to return to the captain to report the results to him.

When walking around the captain, the crew found that he was staring at the space outside the porthole, so they followed his gaze, and then reacted exactly like the captain.

At this time, the cruiser had already flown to the dark side of the planet, and a black satellite was floating in the orbit of the planet.

"There's a satellite in the void." The captain murmured, "I'm a hive, why didn't I know there was a second satellite in the orbit of Tyrone [-]?"

"Perhaps...that's not a satellite?" said the crew.

The captain watched silently.

That satellite looked extremely huge, but compared to the other satellite in the planet's orbit, it still seemed a little smaller, and the surface of the satellite was not dust, but shimmering metal under the light of the star.

At this moment, not only the captain and the crew in charge of communications were watching the satellite, but others on the bridge and on the hull were also watching the satellite.

They soon realized that this was not a naturally formed planet, but an engineering marvel.

It even looks a little sacred, as if a certain god used its own might to create this miracle, so that mortals can look up at this miracle of engineering and worship on the planet.

The fact that the second small satellite in planetary orbit was an engineered creation was a sure thing, but no one could guess what its specific purpose was.

Maybe it's a space station, an orbital fortress, maybe something else...

"Fire it," the captain ordered suddenly.

"Why did you destroy it?"

"It didn't look threatening."

Everyone on the bridge questioned the order.

In their eyes, the artificial satellite is just a "monument", like a treasure discovered from archaeological activities. It is exciting just to exist, and it can belong to anyone.

"Attack it." The captain repeated his order. "We may not be able to destroy it, but it is our duty to test it out and see what it is."

This time, many people were still reluctant, but considering the captain's prestige on the cruiser and their identities, they still chose to carry out the order.

Soon the battleship began to turn so that the macro gun on the side could be aimed at the satellite, and while turning, the torpedo tube at the bow first fired two torpedoes with plasma warheads.

While the torpedo was flying at high speed, the people behind each macro gun on the side began to manually load and calibrate the macro gun, and all the guns were fired until the preparation was completed and the side of the battleship was aligned with the satellite.

The captain got up and walked to the porthole, watching the satellite and the two torpedoes flying towards the satellite together with other subordinates in the bridge.

The torpedo quickly came to the front of the satellite, but the flight path of one of them suddenly became chaotic, and disappeared in place after turning three times, as if it had evaporated.

"What the hell?" The captain couldn't believe what he saw.

Before they figured out the situation, another torpedo flew to the surface of the satellite, and then detonated at a position more than ten kilometers away from the surface of the satellite.

The impact of the plasma warhead detonation reveals part of the energy shield covering the entire satellite.

That is obviously not the defensive effect of the void shield.

Soon the attack launched by the macro gun also flew near the satellite. Like a torpedo, two of the shells were disturbed in their flight path and then disappeared out of thin air.

The captain felt that besides the energy shield, there seemed to be a defense system taking effect on the satellite, but the effectiveness and stability of this defense system were really poor, and there was little difference between having it and not having it.

After being attacked, the satellite responded.

It rotated from forward rotation to reverse rotation, so as to align its ostensible weapon system with the target more quickly.

The heavy artillery on the surface of the satellite was aimed at the cruiser, and then the satellite stopped rotating, and a larger and larger crimson energy sphere appeared in the barrel of the heavy artillery.

This thing looks small, but considering the distance, you can know how huge it is.

"Turn, turn and evacuate!" the captain roared and ordered.

(End of this chapter)