Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords! - Chapter 439

A little incident on the bridge did not disrupt the sailing plan.

A transport fleet full of expeditionary forces, trailing a blue plasma trail, set sail from the orbital structure in the sky of Cathay, heading towards the distant frontline battle zone.

Amid cheers from the crew, the Epic also made her first actual sailing.

The crew members were full of excitement and nervousness, and slowly started the warship according to the training practices.

Through the connection and communication with the machine spirit, Captain Horatio has understood all the functions carried on this battleship.

In order to deal with the threat of the Tau, the priests of Voss specially upgraded these warships before leaving.

They provided experimental nuclear deflagration torpedoes.

This kind of torpedo is fierce and extremely unstable.

But it is said that as long as it can penetrate the hull, it can set off a terrible catastrophic explosion inside the enemy ship and cause continuous fires.

The Epic was also assigned several additional heat source seekers, which can steer the torpedoes.

Track the enemy’s tail flame signal and completely destroy the engine when hit.

This is a good choice for attack ships who want to save torpedoes and achieve maximum containment results with minimum consumption. Especially in the process of counter-pursuit, it can play a great role in chasing the enemy.

Of course, the Epic needs to turn down the engine power to the point where the tail flame is invisible when the torpedo is launched. Otherwise, after the torpedo is fired, it may turn back and hit its own aircraft engine.

In addition, there are several sets of torpedo wires up to 500 kilometers long.

Using this cable guidance, the Helios torpedo without a seeker can also perform certain steering operations, just like a wire-controlled missile, which is the most reliable guidance method.

The attack ship’s preset towed fortune teller has also been officially installed. It allows the attack ship to drag out a long pulling line, with a ‘divineer’ detector towed at the end of the line.

In this way, when active radiation wave detection has to be used, the “divination division” detector can be activated to mislead the enemy ship to attack the towed “divination division” detector as a target, thereby maximizing the radiation control and stealth of the attacking ship.

As the fleet full of soldiers and supplies sailed into the battle area, everyone’s hearts were filled with excitement and tension.

This area of ​​space is known as the “Dark Area”, and there are a large number of wreckage of various warships floating in the void.

Those parts that Horatio could recognize include those of the Imperial Navy, the Ultramar Guard Fleet (Ultramar has its own local fleet), and many battle wreckage of the Tau and their servants.

The Gothic Fleet was not the first fleet to participate in the Second Damocles Gulf Expedition. Before Cato Sicarius visited Abyss Harbor, Ultramar’s fleet was already here with the Tau Expansion Fleet. There was a big fight.

Nowadays, the frontline control areas are so intertwined that even the Ultramarines and their sub-groups, which are famous for planning battle situations, are unable to map the current battle situation in real time.

The Tau expansion fleet, protected by the Guardian regular fleet, was like a greedy hyena, gnawing and devouring the territory of the empire.

Their water caste ambassadors are extremely threatening to the empire. With the help of human traitors, they will run to all directions in the star sea, approaching people ranging from planet governors to enemy nest poor people. They will use different sugar-coated strategies to promise All kinds of favorable conditions made the other party willingly give up resistance and become a member of the Tau Empire.

This resulted in many Tau fleets leaping forward without warning on the front lines. Often those Imperial worlds that had not wavered were still holding on, but as a result, the worlds behind them rebelled and were cut off from supplies.

For these worlds that have been cut off from supplies, the Tau will once again send Water Caste ambassadors to persuade them to surrender. If the planetary governors still abide by their duties, then the Tau will send the Fire Warriors to conduct “three negotiations” with them.

This caused the Empire’s Far Eastern territory to fall much faster than any other part of the Empire.

It also raised the Tau from a little-known civilization to a visible threat.

The intelligence received by the empire’s logistics fleets often cannot keep up with the ever-changing battle fronts. This results in many fleets still transporting supplies and troops to fallen worlds. As a result, they are all captured when they arrive at their destinations, and they are all in vain. Provided supplies to the enemy.

“This is the Imperial Navy Epic, the Ultramar escort fleet. Please turn off all radiation wave sources on the ship.”

As the highest-ranking imperial naval officer in this convoy, Horatio became the supreme commander without hesitation. At this time, he issued radiation control orders to the Ultramar local fleet.

“Sir, if the active search radar is turned off, we will not be able to detect the safety around the fleet!” –

An officer of the local defense fleet frowned and said. It could be seen from his uniform that he commanded an Ultramar-style unclassified escort. “I know, but when you turn on the active bird radar, , is like shining a bright light in a dark forest. This strong light can help you find your enemies, and it will also announce to the surrounding beasts, “There is prey here.”

Don’t worry too much, just leave the peripheral reconnaissance to the Imperial Navy. “

The officers of the Ultramar defense fleet looked at each other and discussed in their own channels. After a while, the radiation wave source in front of Horatio disappeared.

Horatio then communicated with a strike cruiser carrying the “Doomsday Eagles”, a sub-group of the Ultramarines.

The strike cruiser and the two escorting Gladius escorts then also carried out radiation control in compliance with the Imperial Navy’s strategic intentions.

“From now on, we will sail in silence, control communication signals, and use the standard flag language of the Imperial Navy.”

Horatio asked the flag officer to send out a flag language.

Soon, all the warships in the surrounding area carried out further radiation control, from active avian radar detection waves,

to long, medium and short wave communications, all of which were prohibited from use.

Wired communication was used inside the ship, and holographic flag language was used externally.

The signal waves on the feedback screen of the passive wave frequency detector in front of Horatio finally disappeared.

The entire fleet sailed towards the front line as if it was invisible.

But Horatio knew very well that doing so could only prevent the Titanium from actively looking for the door.

But it could not prevent the Titanium’s air-to-surface radar from searching for the movements of this huge fleet.

For this reason, he prepared a second layer of protection.

The six attack ships surrounded the outer periphery of the escorted fleet at a certain distance.

“Turn on the passive radar wave receiving device.” Horatio issued a new order to the attack squadron.

The team led by Henry Harvey wore monitoring headphones and listened attentively to whether there were any radiation signal wave sources around.

While listening attentively, they wrote and drew on the ship operation diagram with a feather pen, marking the direction, wave frequency, wavelength, amplitude and other clues of the detected signal source.

In this way, they could distinguish whether the signal source was an imperial ship or an enemy ship.

During the time when the time was blurred during the subspace voyage.

With the help of Father Lati, Horatio collected and counted all the radiation wave frequency characteristics that might appear around Ultramar.

And compiled them into a book for officers and warrant officers to screen and distinguish.

He also used the method of two characters + numbers to refer to the war zone like the star zone, and based on his own “Void Commander” (primary) skill range, he reasonably expanded it.

It was divided into multiple cubic spaces of 5000×5000×5000 kilometers and distributed to all attack squadrons,

and unified the dedicated coordinate area internally.

The usage of this new coordinate area is: when an attack ship reports that an enemy trade fleet has been found in the AN94 area and a wolf pack attack is needed, it can send an encrypted signal to other attack ships: ‘An enemy trade fleet has been found in the AN94 area. ‘

Even if the Tau intercept and decipher this message.

They don’t know which area the Imperial Navy refers to as “AN94”.

And other attack ships of the Imperial Navy can quickly filter by characters on the holographic icon and find the AN94 area.

“Captain Fasha, Lieutenant Veronica, please organize the air force to take off immediately and spread the peripheral alert area. In case of any situation, wireless communication is allowed. My ship cannot receive it back.”

“Received.”