Oscar caught an unfamiliar term in Soshyan's words, so he boldly asked about it, and Soshyan also explained it to everyone in detail.
The so-called Defender fleet network is a defense plan that has been proposed very early but has not yet been implemented. Due to the short range of Defender fighters, it is difficult to cover the entire galaxy and can only defend key planets. Therefore, the construction of Defender fighters began At that time, Soshyan had a bold idea, which was to build a large number of air stations in the galaxy. These air stations were mainly based on asteroids with relatively fixed positions, and they were hollowed out to build hangars, command centers and other facilities. It doesn’t need to be too big. It can accommodate a thousand fighters at a time. The distance between them is almost half of the ultimate range of the Defender fighters. This can ensure that the range of action of the fleet is expanded, and the enemy can be blocked even at the edge of the galaxy. .
The only problem is that the amount of work is relatively large. According to the estimation of the Mechanical Sage, if this network is to be completed, the entire Neisen galaxy will require nearly 2,000 air stations.
After weighing the pros and cons, Soshyan further modified the plan, abandoning the method of using natural stars and switching to using "containers" as the airport!
Of course, this container is not a real transport container, but a code name. Its appearance does look very similar to a container. It is a huge rectangular parallelepiped. Its structure is so simple that it is almost crude. It is a storage warehouse, a launch platform, a supply station and a control center. There are no engines and almost no defensive weapons. Movement and deployment require towing by transport ships.
The disadvantages are almost all-round, but there is only one advantage -
It's cheap and easy to manufacture. With the industrial capabilities of Nessen Galaxy, it won't take long to produce a large number of them.
However, this plan has never been finalized, because Soshyan was also considering whether such a tight defense network was needed, but this attack made him determined.
"Also, have you noticed that the ship types of the guerrillas are very different from those of the empire?"
All the company commanders nodded after hearing this.
"Did you notice it? Does it have any profound meaning?"
"This is the ingenuity of the designer. The reason why it is designed in a flat shape is that it can be easily placed into the cabin of a large ship. Its width and weight have been carefully calculated, and it can be completely inserted into an Emperor-class battleship. The flight deck, and its bottom can be temporarily installed with a large anti-gravity plate, which means that it can actually be carried by the Emperor-class for subspace navigation, although it cannot carry a few ships."
When the surrounding company commanders heard this, they all marveled.
After that, Soshyan went to check out a battleship belonging to the Third Army captured in the last naval battle, the Retribution-class battleship Mystique.
The ship lost control after the bridge was completely destroyed. Later, for safety reasons, Luke had it towed to a satellite of Nathan 6, and then Elena controlled Avista to get close to it. a hulk and released the Holy Vulture.
The specific process, including how many holy vultures Elena released, was unknown even to Luke. Elena only said hello to him, and he didn't even know what a holy vulture was at that time.
About 10 hours later, Elena told Luke that the interior of the ship had been cleaned up, but it was best to wait until Soshyan came back to deal with it. At that time, Luke was in a hurry to go to the archdiocese for support, so he did not check it out.
So when Soshyan boarded this huge battleship, the first thing he felt was the cold.
Although there were many holes in the ship, most of the internal structure was intact. When the gate was opened, a chill hit the face, even colder than the void outside.
Walking all the way into the depths of the ship, in addition to the various blasphemous and twisted decorations that are essential to the Third Legion, there are all kinds of ugly and disgusting slaves, such as a girl whose body was forcibly sewn together and sharing three legs and five hands, and men and women with
Mortals of different types, young and old, were stitched together from the front and back to form an uncomfortable human centipede with a length of more than ten meters, all of which showed how deeply the army that once bore the name of the Emperor had fallen.
But these have all turned into corpses, frozen corpses that will shatter at the slightest touch.
The soldiers who followed Soshyan all the way were surprised by all this, and whispered about what killed them.
After walking for a long time, they saw the Chaos Space Marines for the first time. Several corpses wearing blasphemous armor were piled in the corner of a hellish torture chamber. They were like mice being chased by cats, huddled together with nowhere to escape.
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When Soshyan lifted their corpses to the front with his feet, he saw that the highly mutated heads showed a strange gray-brown color, their mouths were opened wide, as if they were screaming before death, and there was a deep slit on the front of the armor.
The scratches looked like they were made by some ferocious beast.
In addition, Soshyan also saw traces of burning on their armor, but it was only limited to a small area, as if something spontaneously ignited.
Looking at these corpses, a scene appeared in his mind. The symbols of worshiping the evil god on the Chaos Space Marines suddenly burned. At the same time, they began to scream in pain, and then ran as hard as they could, but something was chasing after them.
In the end, they escaped here, turned around and tried to resist, but were shot away. They could only huddle back to back and wave their weapons in vain.
Then they fell down, on top of each other...
The heat from their bodies was drained, their souls were eaten away, and even their gods could not save them...
"...This is the Holy Vulture..."
Soshyan nodded thoughtfully. He had never used this thing once. On the one hand, it was not needed, and on the other hand, Elena had said that they could not be deployed outside of Avesta, otherwise accidents would occur.
But he always remembered that sentence, the holy eagle was prepared by Xerxes for the "primarchs".
But as time went by, Soshyan gradually became suspicious of this sentence. With Xerxes's character, he should not secretly plot against his brother.
unless...
Unless he knew the Primarchs would rebel?
Then it would make sense if these holy eagles were prepared for the rebel primarchs.
etc--
Soshiyang suddenly remembered that there were nine holy eagles in total, and the original body of the rebellion also happened to be nine!
No, it is rumored that Alpha is the twin primarch...
Or maybe one of the Alphas didn't actually rebel...
If this is the case, then why didn't Xerxes stop it? And why didn't the Emperor use the Holy Vulture...
Did Xerxes never tell the emperor about this?
What's the reason?
Also, why can the Holy Vultures deal with the traitorous Primarch? And why do they need to be as numerous as the traitors?
Various questions came one after another, and suddenly Soshyan realized that Xerxes was by no means a simple victim, he seemed to be planning something...
Is everything just a disguise?
Would he know what he was thinking at this moment?