Extreme star field, Demeter star field, Pandora galaxy, Banishing star
In a sense, Pai Shang is actually a world of death.
Although it has a long history, the Ministry of Interior has no way of verifying its past history. They only know that this planet has been baptized by war during the Horus Heresy, but there are countless worlds that have suffered the same fate.
The star has become an insignificant, forgotten world with only a little value.
It was not until three thousand years after the Horus Heresy that the first colonists set foot on this world.
Most of the surface of the planet is dense jungle, and the many lizard-like creatures that live there will happily eat anything that moves. Large predators with the same characteristics also live in the ocean.
Because of the ever-present dangers in the lowlands and oceans, the human settlers on Permalink all live in mountaintop mining colonies. Locals call these underground explorer's fortresses, where industrious people carefully mine the barren soil of the planet's mountains.
of precious minerals.
There are hundreds of such fortresses scattered across the planet, most of which have a population of no more than a thousand people.
The only important city on the planet is the hive port of Attica, which sits on the shores of the planet's largest ocean and is surrounded on the land side by the aptly named Death Swamp.
Attica is a small spiral tower city. The main residential area is located in the upper dome structure, overlooking the surrounding swamps. The transportation between it and various underground explorer fortresses is carried out by a simple floating spacecraft.
It's called an air barge.
Due to its low value, the defense of Pai Mao is naturally not much better. There are only three garrison points in Attica, housing hundreds of soldiers from the 183rd Catachan Regiment, as well as an Astropathic Tower and a basic orbit.
A defensive grid, a naval supply depot, a small Advocate keep, and a number of other dusty offices subordinate to the administration, but these offices are rarely manned.
It is not surprising that this quota is imposed on the Death Star. This is the arrangement of the secondary star sector. Therefore, maintaining operation in this state is a difficult job. The people living here also try to keep a low profile and do not provoke anyone.
Those monsters and monsters from outside the world.
But recently, the Pai Shang star seems to be a little unusual.
Although no one could tell where the abnormality occurred, the air began to become duller, the animals in the jungle were restless, and even the sea became rough.
But only those who live on the highest level of the dome know that the real change comes from the dark void——
Ardisac Delgado, the Governor of the Death Star, ran along the corridor, his heart pounding.
For weeks, stress had been squeezing his body, and he hadn't had a good night's sleep in a long time, always suffering from insomnia.
When he rarely paused in a hurry, he would cover his face with his hands and feel himself shaking.
The Governor walked to the sliding door and pressed the code.
The door opened and he entered the coordination room. There were already dozens of people there, more than the designed capacity.
They were yelling, looking like they were about to fight, and some were pushing each other on the table.
Adisak pushed them away and looked for his assistant Ur Dar.
He walked toward them, bypassing groups of frightened and angry people. Ur saw him coming and smiled tiredly.
"You are back, my lord."
Adisak nodded, noticing the smell of sweat coming from the other person's body, but it wasn't his fault - they had been trapped in this unventilated room for a long time.
Astropath Sherazade Farley also nodded perfunctorily, she was not the type who was good at words.
The Governor looked at her with concern.
"What did you find?"
Astropath shook his head.
"All nodes in the galaxy are shut down, just like ours."
Her voice kept shaking, mostly from exhaustion, but others might mistake it for fear.
"This is wrong, it shouldn't be like this."
Adisark will not easily allow problems to arise on this planet. The governor of Paihua Star is not a family system, but an electoral system. However, he has grown up in this world all his life and has devoted his life to ensuring that the products of Paihua Planet can be sold in the best quality.
Survive, transport and trade with maximum efficiency.
He controls the power of life and death on the entire planet, and has exercised this power more than once, but all in order to maintain the stability of Xingqiu.
The smooth running of the colony was his entire life.
"The Governor is right, not all Astropath nodes should be extinguished."
The Justice of the Ministry of Justice walked over, his black trench coat looking greasy in the dim light.
"Then you can try to find it yourself."
Facing the strange voice, the Astropath retorted mercilessly:
"See if there are any nodes still running."
"Everyone calm down, we have to work together now."
Governor Adisak tried to calm down.
"So, up to now, this is what I know about the situation. The internal communication of the galaxy has failed, the orbital network has failed, the galaxy patrol fleet has disappeared, and there may be something else running in the subspace node in the void, but there is also
It would take hours to find out."
"Attica's main scanning array is still operational."
Gordon Drake, the head of the Mechanicum of Perimeter, dragged his metal quadrupeds over.
He regarded this series of problems as technical problems and took a slight pleasure in its inscrutability.
"Maybe it's an electromagnetic storm from the star."
"Electromagnetic pulse burst? Not likely. It doesn't explain everything, like astropaths."
Astropath Director Sherazade still remembered what she saw in the ancient steel astropath tower south of the main defense station. She vomited for a long time and discovered that there was something worse than the blade that was caught in the automatic threshing machine.
Worse way to die.
The three apprentices in the Astropathic Tower were all dead, and their corpses were evenly spread on the walls, as if they had been run over by a Leman Russ.
"The last messages we received were a few oral transcripts recorded on automatic typewriters. Most of them were standard astrological babbles, but then everything went wrong. I couldn't understand anything. One of them started drawing.
Draw, draw some things... they're all scary."
The person in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs seemed increasingly impatient.
"The word got out that Attica had two million inhabitants, and once they started to panic—"
"No one is panicking."
Adisak said firmly, and turned to look at the defense chief of the hive.
"Where is Colonel Stryker?"
"Recently, there have been cultist riots in several explorer fortresses. He led a team out to suppress them. According to the news sent back, it has ended. Now he is rushing back. He must be there soon."