Looking at the incompetent and furious Huron's projection that finally dissipated, Soshyan sneered, turned around and scanned the warriors from various battle groups who were looking at him, withdrew his gaze, and walked to the command throne.
"Dietrian, turn on the global broadcast. I want every ship in the fleet to hear my voice. If possible, let the Red Pirates hear my voice."
"As commanded."
When the two servo skulls lifted the audio device in front of Soshyan, he took a deep breath, looked at the red pirate fleet that had been lined up on the display, and opened his mouth and said slowly:
"Warriors, loyal servants, believers, and servants of Omnisiah, no matter what position you are in or what status you have, please listen carefully to my words at this moment. It has been 6 years since I received the expedition in 962.
It has been nearly 6 solar years since I was appointed Commander. During these 6 years, I have met countless brave and great men and women, and I have also seen countless unknown people sacrifice their lives to let others live better. Although
I know that these words of mine cannot cover what you have done. Someone once asked me, why did the empire launch this expedition? I answered him, in order to survive. The person asked again, if it is to survive, then hide in a safe place.
Wouldn't it be better if we were in a better place? I told him that this is our responsibility! The empire is a great country, no matter how old and tired it is, but it can stagger through these ten thousand years, it is every mortal,
Martyrs are what our ancestors paid for with their blood. If we survive under its shadow, we must protect it! So we have to go on an expedition to protect it from those massacres, plunderers, and devil worshipers! This is also to protect each of us.
people!"
Along with the radio waves, Soshyan's voice echoed in every ship in the empire——
The Space Marines stood at their posts, weapons clenched in their hands, motionless.
The operators in the gun emplacement put their hands on the operating table and looked at the small loudspeaker intently.
The technical priests are still busy at their posts, meticulous and leisurely.
The nuns stood in front of the shrine, holding rosary beads in their hands, and said the final pre-battle prayers under the leadership of Velez.
On the dark lower deck, emergency repair workers held their tools and gathered around the weak transmitter. The dirty faces looked like sculptures in the dim light.
The slave workers dragged heavy objects through the passage with difficulty, occasionally raising their heads, then lowering them immediately to continue their work.
"Some people say that they are just pirates, irrelevant and no threat. No, I have seen too many cruel and twisted atrocities. They skinned people alive in traps and threw children into fire pits. What is even more ironic is that they did this
All of them are the guardians who claimed to protect those who were slaughtered in the past! For such depraved enemies, we should be fighting with incomparable hatred in space, on land, and in subspace! This is our response to you
The recognition of noble beliefs is also what the citizens of the empire have for their own troops! Now the enemies are lined up in front of us waiting to die. Yes, there are many of them, but this is just to conceal the cowardice in their hearts. There is no "brave" in their thoughts.
" word, so we need not fear them! Is there any doubt that we can and will defeat the fallen? Six years of countless glorious victories have proven that the enemy is not as panicked as some panicked defeatists thought.
As powerful as it is described, the devil is not as scary as people describe it! Who can deny that the great army of the empire has repeatedly beaten the red pirates who used to show off their power and fled in panic? Under the powerful blow of the imperial expeditionary force,
These hyena-like predators have long been on the verge of collapse. They are like a crumbling house. No matter how huge it looks, it only takes one kick to knock it down! Warriors, loyal servants, believers, Omni
Servers of Saiyan, I sincerely invite you to witness this great victory. It is precisely because of your fearless courage and unyielding fighting spirit that the great human empire can stand firm! Fight! Use our cannons, torpedoes and
The fighter plane tells those traitors that today they will shed the last drop of blood for their past deeds! For the Emperor, for the Empire, and for humanity!!!"
Just as Soshyan's speech ended, the Red Pirate fleet was the first to react. Several plundering ships at the edge of the fleet suddenly turned their bows and accelerated in the opposite direction. It was obvious that they were about to escape.
This made Huron furious, but now he couldn't just watch the other party escape just because a few boats disrupted the formation.
There is no doubt that the morale of the Red Pirates suffered a serious blow.
Then the fleets of both sides approached each other slowly and cautiously like actors.
Judging from the comparison of strength, although a part of the fleet was deployed to attack Tu'shan, Huron's current strength is still not weak. In addition to his flagship battle barge Destruction Ghost, his fleet also includes the Retribution-class battleship Desperate Prayer.
4 battleships in total, including the Betrayer-class battleship Torment, the Havocbringer-class battleship Absolution and Sacrifice (these two battleships Huron snatched from the Word Bearers in the past and have been hidden and sealed in New Badab)
, as well as another 2 battle barges, 17 heavy/large cruisers, and more than 150 small and medium-sized battleships of various types.
In addition, there is an extremely huge hulk in their fleet. This hulk is called the Death Pole. It is the second surprise left to Soshyan by Huron in addition to the Blackstone Fortress. It is also the one he used with a huge
Compared to the support the secret exchanged from that mysterious sponsor, the interior of the Savage Crucible is almost "clean", except for some things that "should be there", of course.
This ancient hulk is larger than the Savage Crucible, more than 120 kilometers in length, and its exterior is even more twisted. Part of the hull has mutated into wrinkled flesh or crystal wrapped in flames, and it has also sprouted wriggling hands.
, a big mouth full of sharp teeth, and part of it turned into a giant maggot with weird structures and strange biological turrets. There were even bat wings, and pyramids were built out of brass and loose bones. Each of those pyramids looked like
The huge battleship is full of demons who are eager to board the enemy ship and brutally kill all the opponents in front of them. The reason why they can exist stably in the physical universe is because this huge hulk provides them with a steady stream of evil.
Energy - Another special feature of the Death Map compared to the Savage Crucible is that it has a subspace portal inside.
Huron's consideration is that if these can be used to defeat Soshyan, the later the Blackstone Fortress appears, the better. This will delay the time for him to trade with that existence, and then he will have room to maneuver to find a way to keep this big treasure -