About one star sector away from the Bracato galaxy, there is a small forge world called Ekvolia. It is a relatively recent forge world, probably a group of explorers from Mars during the M37 period.
The fleet came to this world and discovered good mineral resources and some lost ancient human relics, so the sages who explored the fleet simply settled down and tried to dig out something from the ground that would make them famous.
But it is a pity that the sage did not find anything until his death. Instead, after more than a thousand years of development, the exploration fleet formed a large-scale forging world on the planet. Subsequent sages were still tinkering with those ruins.
They didn't find much useful information from it, and they didn't even know why this human settlement was destroyed. After that, this world became one of the foundry worlds registered by Mars, but it was the penultimate level, mainly
The products are mainly civilian products, as well as some low-level military products, such as light weapons and armored vehicles.
After Ulanhuda settled in the Brakato system, I don’t know what methods Bangura used. In less than ten years, the two forging worlds actually started to flirt with each other and had some contact. Although
Although he knew that Ulan Huda was "in the wrong way", he couldn't resist the fact that Ulan Huda had a lot of technical reserves and a good academic atmosphere. The foundry director of Ekvolia was extremely welcoming to the visiting sage Ulan Huda. Although both parties
There is no formal correspondence, but there have been some secret transactions.
But recently Ekwaria has been in big trouble!
Huge limestone pits began to appear under the Coke Oven City, Ekvolia's third largest city. Large-scale secret tunnels appeared one after another under each foundry in the city, or entire pieces of the earth's crust disappeared, and countless mutated
The multi-limbed monsters poured out of their underground lairs. They first tore apart the Skitarii who had been ordered to isolate the pit, and then began to attack civilians.
Many foundries and workshops fell, and then the entire Mechanical City. The Genestealer sect, which had obtained weapons and supplies, expanded rapidly and began to spread around.
The foundry director of Ekvolia hurriedly dispatched the Skitarii to suppress it, and even used orbital bombing, but still failed to extinguish the alien disaster, and even the director of orbital bombing did not dare to attack those important facilities.
The Genestealers continue to survive under the Mechanicum's trap. Although their expansion has been curbed, it is difficult to eliminate them.
Moreover, the Tech-Priests of Ekvolia also discovered that the activities of the Genestealers seemed to rarely use their huge network of craters after leaving the underground, even at the risk of air raids and bombings.
ground.
The priests speculate that there may be something underground stopping the Genestealers' activities. This may be good news, but it may also be bad news.
In any case, it is difficult for Ekvolia's power alone to solve the problem in a short time, and if the turmoil continues, their production will be fatally hit, but the Ministry of Military Affairs turns a blind eye to their request for help.
The generals of the realm army responded directly - Are all your skitarii dead?
In desperation, they could only turn to their old friends for help, but Bangura thought further and more.
If only Ulan Huda's troops came to help, the other party would definitely just express gratitude or provide some resource compensation, which would be far from what he wanted.
Bangura wants to control, or rather puppet, the Forge World and let it accept Ulan Huda's new teachings. This dispatch of troops to assist is a good opportunity for expansion. If Soshyan can participate, it will be enough to exert enough influence.
Force the opponent to surrender.
Soshyan also agreed with this, and the White Templar and his new auxiliary army also need to practice and find out the problems.
So he gathered his troops and waited for the transport fleet of the Nessen 4 to arrive before swearing to go on the expedition.
But before that, he arranged for a reconnaissance team of the Eldar to conduct a reconnaissance near that area through the webway. The Ekvolia system is located in the dark border area of the Storm Star Territory, adjacent to the nearest Imperial Administrative Star.
The area is the Orpheus Sector, and they also sent a request for assistance to the Astra Militarum in the Orpheus Sector but were ruthlessly rejected - this was not only because of the Empire's usual push-back style, but more importantly,
Ekvolia's products are mainly sold to the Orpheus Sector, and their asking prices are relatively high. After all, there are not many forging worlds in the Dark Frontier, and it is completely a seller's market. This also makes the sector go up to
Everyone from the governor down to the common people hated Ekwaria.
After the Eldar reconnaissance team confirmed that there were no problems around that galaxy, the joint force composed of the White Templars and the Ulanhuda Skitarii set out from the galaxy——
"Did you see it? Brothers and sisters, we must open this passage, otherwise our blood relatives in Cui Fanke City will be strangled to death by the mechanical slave owners. No matter how threatening there is ahead, those terrorist threats lurking underground cannot be stopped.
Our steps are for the black limbs and for our loved ones!"
The Bishop of the Black Limb Order, Zane Keating, and many hybrid creatures gathered in an empty underground space. This was originally the platform of the Forge World's underground rail station. Below him, the eyes of many new gene stealers flashed.
In the flames of passion, the followers of this sect are basically the deformed products of the Forge World's underground slave laborers and the genestealer strains. They are very adapted to the environment of the underground world.
The blood-stained walls of the platform are littered with remnants of the Skitarii and Mechanicus, some of which have been retained by the cultists in a very bad taste.
The skeletons of these stubborn resisters are symbolically hung on hooks in every corner and engraved with the unique inscriptions of the genestealers. This serves as a threat to the invaders and an encouragement to the devout faith of the family members.
Thousands of sect believers have gathered here, and they are about to embark on a dark road - passing through complex underground rail transportation channels to reach another city, which was originally an easy task for them.
But not long ago, some terror deep underground seemed to have awakened. The sects that were still gathering strength and waiting for the uprising suffered heavy casualties as soon as they came into contact. What was even worse was that they didn't even know what it was, so they had no choice but to get up early.
In a sense, it can be said to be an escape. Although the effect was equally good, a considerable amount of space on the ground was quickly occupied and many weapons and equipment were seized. However, it did not deal a fatal blow to the forging world. The foundry director was still on his machine.
He directs the encirclement and suppression of sects in the city, and he also has a considerable number of foundries that can continue to produce skitarii and equipment.