Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords! - Chapter 440

“Captain, is there anything I can do for you?”

Ever since he was taken over by his brother, David Betty had always seemed glum on the boat, losing his previous liveliness.

After all, he had passed the lieutenant officer examination basically three times during the same period, but he had to rely on favors to get a chance to be exempted from the written examination.

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However, since it was wartime, in line with the commanding style of “let’s use it if there are people on board, even if it’s a dog on the ship, you have to hold the rudder before leaving”, Captain Horatio planned to find some work for this descendant of his ancestor’s close comrade-in-arms.

“Of course, sir. Mr. Collingwood is responsible for the instructions at this time, but the signal flag needs to be commanded by someone. Do you understand the flag language?”

“Of course, but naval regulations stipulate that one must at least reach the rank of second lieutenant to be in charge of flag signals.”

“You are just providing assistance to Collingwood. I believe you can do it. Just show it to Lieutenant Collingwood before sending out the flag.”

“Thank you for your trust, Captain.” The young man shrugged his head and saluted.

“What’s going on between you and your brother? I remember that you were a prep school student like Archie, but your father seemed to have died in the line of duty.”

“Well – as you know, I am the second child in the family. My eldest brother is the heir to the title, and he will one day become a hereditary general. He has looked down on me since he was a child, and he always finds reasons to criticize me for no reason. Belittling my efforts and constantly lecturing me that I was not a qualified successor to the Ravensburger family.

One time I broke out and said to him, you ignore your success because you are the eldest son of the Ravensberg family, not that you are any better than me. Then he got angry and beat me up.

Then, our father was ambushed and killed by the ship Terminus at the front of the Eye of Terror. My elder brother inherited everything from the Ravensburg family. However, after inheriting the title, he did not let me go. The torture intensified, and finally I was thrown into the Abridar Tadashi Academy.

And he relied on his father’s inheritance to become the captain of the Retribution-class battleship. “

“Your family is really complicated.” Horatio looked at the young man in front of him with sympathetic eyes.

Not all children born with a silver spoon in their mouths have an easy life; some have a very tortured life.

But it’s not worth regretting. After all, if the head of the Ravensberg family hadn’t spoken in person, how would this kid have the chance to board any battleship he wanted?

However, for Horatio, the famous Ravensburger family owed him a favor, and as a descendant of Speyer, it was a sure profit.

But, is Colonel Craig really someone who keeps his word?

Judging from David Betty’s description, it seems that he is utilitarian and good at speculation. I am afraid it is not appropriate to get too involved with this person. After all, everyone is just using each other.

But it’s enough to be able to use it.

As the four Fury fighters took off together, the effective detection radius of the attack aircraft was once again expanded several times.

In order to carry out electronic countermeasures against the Tau, the Skyhawk Squadron’s fighters are arranged in groups of two to perform take-off alert missions.

One is the pilot and the other is the weapons and electronics operator. The two pilots can alternately fly the aircraft to ensure energy and rest on long-distance routes.

Due to strict control over communication radiation, the chatty Veronica can no longer use the radio to chat with her colleagues.

However, she got on Fasha’s fighter plane and served as the operator. She could chat with Fasha all the time. It was not boring, but Anya Fasha had to endure the chatter in her ears while maintaining enough concentration to drive. The fighter jets were on alert, causing her to moan secretly.

“It’s amazing. Although we turned off all active detection systems, during nearly a week of sailing, we didn’t even encounter a single attack from the Tau Empire’s break-up fleet. It’s incredible!”

The commander of Ultramar’s local defense fleet, who was responsible for the escort, stood on the bridge, looking out the window at the safe and sound transport fleet, which was like a stationary transport fleet, muttering in disbelief.

“Send a flag to the Imperial Navy Epic and thank them for their hard work in escorting us. If we continue like this, it will only take three days at most before we can reach the war zone planet.”

The high-power signal light was turned on, and the flickering light illuminated a corner in the dark void, looking extremely shining. “Captain, the ‘Shield of Ultramar’ issued a light message, ‘Thanks to the escort of the Imperial Navy, we can be so successful. Arriving safely at the target location. ‘”

“Damn it! I told you, use holographic semaphores for external communications! They violated the blackout!

Seeing the millions of watts of the bridge searchlights shining regularly under the operator’s control,

Horatio was startled instead, with cold sweat breaking out on his back.

“Intensify surveillance of surrounding areas immediately!”

“Captain! We detected a 3-micron wave frequency signal!”

Harvey held the earphones and looked at Horatio solemnly: “It has been identified that this is the short-wave communication signal of the Tau Empire!”

Horatio stared out the window into the darkness.

“The entire fleet! Immediately execute Level 2 combat alert!”

As the flag symbolizing the second-level combat alert was played, each ship was busy and began to enter a state of combat readiness.

“Reduce the speed and open the shadow field.”

The six attack ships were changed from the original super speed to 2/3 speed to ensure that the shadow field can operate normally.

“The shadow field is activated.”

With a strange buzzing sound, the entire battleship entered a state of stealth due to spectral refraction.

From the outside, it seems like nothing exists here, as if it is indeed an empty universe.

But in fact, this is the perspective effect created by the shadow field simulating the surrounding scene, so that the observer can only see a “transparent” illusion. The magical Eldar technology.

The micron signal wave was gradually successfully located by the Imperial battleship with radiation monitoring.

Then, the signal source on the screen differentiated into two other signal sources.

This does not look like the release of the carrier aircraft. The extra signal source is a single wave frequency, not a messy squadron wave frequency.

Horatio looked at the signal source positioning on the spectrum receiver, thinking.

His pupils shrank suddenly.

[Tai Empire mother and daughter ship!]

Horatio remembered that some Tau ships could use gravity grappling hooks and adopt a “parasitic” method to carry multiple small ships to sail.

After encountering the enemy, the mother ship put down the daughter ship and fought together.

He thought quickly in his mind.

First of all, the opponent is unlikely to be a merchant class. The merchant class has weak firepower and slow speed. The speed will not be so fast, and it will not take the initiative to find trouble with the Imperial fleet.

But it should not be a Tau Empire battleship either.

The Protector Fleet’s large warships are already scarce, and now that the battle is going on at the front, how could they possibly spare a single ship to penetrate the enemy’s rear?

All possibilities were ruled out, and only one possibility remained: the other party was an “Emissary” class light cruiser.

As the name implies, the Envoy class was created to meet the “gunboat diplomacy” of the Tau Empire, and was the first main ship of these aliens.

It has a large production capacity and can carry two small warships. It is the vanguard of the Tau expansion, usually used as an “armed diplomatic ship” to escort the Water Clan ambassadors to their destinations safely, to conduct bribery transactions or force intimidation.

Because it is suitable for single-ship cruising and can carry two small attack ships, the “Emissary” class light cruiser also constitutes the main force of the Tau Empire’s raiding fleet.

[No mistake, it is probably her. ]

“Turn left, let’s see who is coming, pay attention, our opponents are much larger than us, everyone is on high alert!”