Not long after the Death Whisper returned, the Tyrant's Claw broke away from the subspace and passed the New Badab outer marking ring and outpost.
It sent complete and correct berthing instructions to the Sentinel battleship and Hell's Eye. Hell's Eye then released the fire lock and signaled that the cruiser could pass.
During this period, several outposts also raised security questions, but only received the most rude response - no one dared to offend the third company commander, who was famous for his cruelty. Once he felt that his dignity was insulted, he would do anything.
Gotta come out.
This is the consensus of all Red Pirates, so these questions are just routine.
At this moment, the alarm sounded inside the Star Castle.
A red warning light on a polished brass console began to flash.
The officer on duty in the control hall was confused, but responded quickly because this was a high-level alarm.
He pressed an ivory-embedded button to get specific information, and a line of gleaming green text flashed across the glass screen.
[Abnormal disturbance in subspace, unidentified target appears]
At this time, the scanning array officer sent the results.
The officers in charge of the shift have served on the Hell Eye for thirty years and are well-trained and disciplined.
At this moment he understood that any answers, corrections and explanations were secondary matters, that they were not urgent, and that not even informing the Astartes about this was a priority.
He knew the procedures very well and responded according to the training he had received.
The officer activated the communication system and deck protection measures, his hands skillfully and dexterously flying on the buttons, putting the Starfort into combat readiness, and began to systematically close the hatches at the front and rear of the company deck, and block the passages between the decks.
and elevator.
Within ten seconds of the alarm sounding, the officer on duty had already begun to order the deck to be surrounded and blocked, and troops were deployed at all entrances and exits.
His response was textbook.
Thirty-five seconds later, the Star Castle has completed its alert
Kelkus also heard that the combat readiness state was activated. He immediately left his personal weapon room, summoned the soldiers of his company, and went to the officer on duty to check the situation.
After seeing the data, he frowned.
"What's going on? Isn't this Nasir Watke's ship? Why is there no answer?"
His words were drowned out by the sound of another siren.
One after another, one after another, the sounds of alarm bells, alarm bells and sirens intertwine into a din.
Proximity Alert——
Collision warning -
Off course reminder——
Detector Array——
Passive scanning -
Something was rushing towards them, something was plunging into the dense but well-organized pile of battleships in the planet's orbit, something was sweeping across the upper orbit without permission or authorization.
The officer on duty forgot what he was doing for a moment.
He looked at the main screen, as did Kelkus, and so did the staff at the control center.
The Tyrant's Claw began to accelerate.
It activated the main engine of physical space, launched the main sustained thrust in a place where it should be able to keep gliding by relying solely on steering jets, and then activated the void shield to make itself even more unstoppable. It fired itself as a bullet at the new
Badab.
The screams of the crew could still be heard, but no one was listening.
Main sustained propulsion is an engine state used for strong acceleration. It is the maximum output power that allows the warship to reach the speed limit of physical space and make the jump to subspace.
This kind of acceleration method will only be used when the starship leaves the planet and heads for a node about half the distance away from the galaxy radius.
But there is absolutely no such long approach distance here.
The Tyrant's Claw is actually already within the orbit of New Badab, and it is impossible for it to reach its ultimate power or speed.
Even so, it was still advancing at about 40% of the limit speed of physical space when it approached the edge of the atmosphere.
Its speed is so fast that no physical means can stop it.
Only scanning systems and sensors can detect it. This visitor, as fast and violent as a shock wave, makes those instruments roar.
But the roar of the instruments was as meaningless as the screams of the crew.
At this time, Kelkus had already reacted, and he immediately yelled:
"Sink it! Activate the weapon array immediately! Notify all warships to evacuate orbit!!!"
In addition to the interior of the star fort, there are at least four cruisers and hundreds of small battleships staying in orbit.
But at this moment, a burst of data impact killed the Mechanicus priest who was performing the central operation.
"emergency!"
The deaths of the forty-six data technicians in the meditation well were as fast as a storm. Key parts of their brain structures were burst or scorched in the turbulent data flow. Synapses were burned like wrong wiring. The prefrontal lobes began to bleed internally.
Not only them, but the men and women who were connected to the system in the bulletproof glass cabin twitched, and the massive data hit their brains like a heavy hammer.
They remain standing even in death.
"In the end what happened!"
Kelkus helped him down the spiral staircase in the shaft lined with meditators, pushed aside the unconscious servitor, and found the only technical priest who was still alive.
Even though he was about to die, his body was covered in blood, and the interface at the back of his head was obviously burnt.
"Dead code."
He made his final report in a hoarse binary voice.
"Large-scale data impact, overload trauma, system chaos, and architecture collapse."
"Waste code!? How is that possible! How did they enter-"
Suddenly, the figure wearing the Terminator flashed in Kelkus's mind. The figure seemed to have just left the center not long ago.
"Damn it! These eight legion wild dogs!"
Just when the command center of the Star Fortress was paralyzed by a large number of waste codes, the Tyrant's Claw had penetrated the New Badab's orbit like a missile and plunged into the rows of cargo ships and warships parked in the high-rise orbit.
It's like a bolter fired into the heretic's heart.
Under the blessing of high speed, it uses the bow void shield to sweep aside small targets or completely annihilate them. Small ships such as cargo ships, barges, ferry boats and maintenance ships instantly disintegrate, bursting out with blazing blue sparks.
The surface of the void shield flashes.
The chaos created by Tyrant's Claw swept like huge waves in orbit, causing other ships to roll and crash into each other, pushing them against the hulls of larger ships.
It then arrived at the New Badab dock.
Huron not only used plunder to increase the number of his warships, but also modified them. This dock is the main repair and modification point of the Red Pirates.
This behemoth carries countless docks, supports, suspended workshops, residences, warehouses and berthing platforms, with a diameter of about three hundred kilometers.
The Tyrant dragged the wreckage along the way and hit it, bursting with light.
The void shield moving at close to the speed of light collides with the physical matter and annihilates each other.
The cruiser first vaporized the side clearing dock, tearing apart the superstructure of the huge berthing bracket and a certain destroyer living there.
The battleship was cut into two pieces, its engine suddenly exploded, and thousands of lives disappeared in a rapidly expanding mass of heat and light.
The two workshop modules adjacent to the cleaning dock were incinerated by the explosion, killing tens of thousands of workers and engineers in a snap, and tore apart the superstructure of the brake warehouse, causing it to tip to both sides and berth.
The frigate inside therefore collided with a tugboat.
The hulls of both battleships immediately suffered catastrophic damage.
But the Tyrant's Claw was still moving, and its devastating trajectory triggered a series of explosions inside the dock.
Residences and warehouses were shattered, docks collapsed one by one, and cranes bent and broke.
The warships began to evacuate desperately, and many collisions occurred during the evacuation process.
The two pirate warships crushed and tore each other during the collision. The hulls were torn apart, and the gas inside the ship spurted out from the damaged parts of the hull. Those spray-like airflows were filled with tumbling corpses as tiny as particles.
The Tyrant's Claw is still moving, but its void shield has failed, and now it is just a solid metal missile.
It annihilated two more slipways and the ships parked within them, and crashed through the data engine core located in the center of the dock structure.
All data engines were destroyed instantly, automatic systems suddenly failed, and 30,000 people died.
The impact had basically obliterated the Tyrant's Claw's hull, which was not protected by the void shield. Its structure began to collapse, but it still maintained a very high physical space speed and delivered billions of tons of force.
Finally, the Tyrant's Claw collided with the Hell Eye's void shield fiercely. At the moment of disintegration, large pieces of debris penetrated the void shield and splashed on the surface of the star fort, burning like meteors and scattered in all directions.
This whole disaster happened in ten seconds.
It made no sound, just a flash of light in the stillness of space.
Observers, whether on nearby ships or on the planet's surface, could only see a dazzling light, like the explosion of a supernova, followed by a cascading, spreading, raging flame that swallowed up the sky.
Just when the red pirates were knocked into confusion, the disturbance in the subspace reached its extreme.
The Unbound Soul, with the shining Eagle emblem embedded in the bow of the ship, cut through the deep void rift like a spear and broke into the star domain of New Badab.
The wrath of the Golden Throne has once again descended on the traitors!