From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

The Blood Angels fleet appeared almost "out of thin air" at the rear end of the Federation Expeditionary Fleet.

Of course, the pilots actually did not realize that the Blood Angels fleet had ship-based optical camouflage.

The Federal Expeditionary Fleet's detection methods were simply unable to lock and detect.

When the expedition fleet was anchored in low-Earth orbit and released mobile infantry to the surface, and was in the most relaxed state, the 1st Fleet of the Blood Angels and the flagship of the Primarch's direct fleet chose to cancel the stealth mode.

Followed by.

The scene presented on the pilot's helmet screen was the Blood Angels' 1st Company Fleet, which was led by a New Era aircraft carrier, supplemented by two Valiant-class super-heavy cruisers, two Phoenix-class support boats, and a total of sixteen Paris-class, Fedus-class and Selune-class frigates.

Secondly, it was the flagship of the Primarch's fleet, a ten-kilometer-long dreadnought-class battleship.

Red Tears.

! ! ! !

The two pilots in charge of driving the Viking landing craft were stunned when they saw on the screen that the blade-shaped Blood and Tears was ten kilometers long.

A ten-kilometer-class battleship? !

Even the Federation's latest Athena-class transport ship is no longer than two kilometers.

this.

Is this really "nothing to worry about" as the federal top brass said? !

The two pilots also received an order from Captain Roger Young on their communication channel:

"Attention all landing craft!! Our intelligence agency made a serious mistake in judging the enemy's strength. Wait for the mobile infantry to be transported. Hiss! Hiss!"

However, before the captain finished his order, the communication channel was filled with harsh noise.

It was obvious that the Blood Angels fleet had released interference bands, directly destroying their communication system.

At the same time, this also directly proves that the Blood Angels fleet's method is to suppress their expeditionary fleet.

After all, the most important thing in war is communication, and if the communication is unilaterally cut off by the enemy, it is equivalent to "leaving the door wide open", making it impossible to prevent an effective counterattack.

However, without orders from their superiors and with the sudden appearance of the Blood Angels fleet, should they continue with their original battle plan?

The two pilots looked at each other, undecided for a moment.

However, they had already begun to break through the atmosphere, and seeing that the other landing craft had not changed their flight trajectory, the two pilots focused on controlling them and breaking through the atmosphere.

It didn't take long.

Nearly three hundred escorting F-76 Thunder attack aircraft and more than two thousand six hundred DR-4 Viking landing craft successfully broke into the atmosphere and advanced towards the New Hope capital city on the surface.

The Federation Expeditionary Fleet was busy turning its "ships" around, preparing to engage in battle with the Blood Angels Fleet, which only had twenty-two ships but was much larger than theirs.

Unfortunately.

How could the Blood Angels give the expeditionary fleet time to react?

After confirming that the mobile infantry had entered the atmosphere, the Blood Angels launched a round of "low-intensity" artillery fire.

Plasma and Gauss secondary guns hit the rear engines of the federal ships in succession, directly bringing the expeditionary fleet to a standstill.

Without engines, what would the expedition fleet use to fight the Blood Angels?

Realizing that the situation was extremely passive, the expeditionary fleet released a large number of carrier-based aircraft to launch a suicidal charge towards the Blood Angels fleet.

There is no need for excessive speculation to know that the top leaders of the expeditionary fleet want to rely on the tactical and strategic nuclear bombs carried by carrier-based aircraft to make a final Jedi counterattack.

But how could the Blood Angels, who had sensed the expeditionary fleet's intentions, allow the Federation's carrier-based aircraft formation to get close?

The Red Tear, which had been on standby since its debut, immediately released an alternative hard light beam.

Whoosh—whoosh—!!

Dozens of blue-green light beams were emitted, and after leaving the muzzle of the Red Tear's secondary guns, they immediately dispersed and twisted, turning into thousands of small light beams, and accurately locked onto every carrier-based aircraft in the carrier-based aircraft formation.

Boom—boom—! !

The sparks generated by the silent explosion directly lit up the dark space in low-Earth orbit.

Although the Red Tear's secondary gun beam had reduced its power to 30% and was still locked onto the carrier-based aircraft's tail engine, no federal pilot could withstand this round of secondary gun salvos.

no way.

Carrier-based aircraft are not warships, and the cascading explosion caused by the engine being destroyed does not give the pilot time and space to react and escape.

The Empire is indeed doing its best to reduce the casualties caused by the human "civil war", especially those among grassroots soldiers.

However, it is impossible for the Blood Angels to watch carrier-based aircraft carrying tactical and strategic nuclear bombs approach their fleet in a swaggering manner in order to reduce Federation casualties.

Even the Sojourner-class Red Tear can release an energy barrier that covers the entire fleet, and every warship of the Empire has been equipped with energy shield generation devices since the integration of the Halo universe.

However, being "ridden in the face" by a fleet of carrier-based aircraft is ultimately unbearable.

After the Federation's carrier-based aircraft formation was "taken away" by the Red Tear, it slowly approached the expeditionary fleet that was in a state of suspension.

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At this moment in the bridge of Roger Young;

"Captain Dratiel! All four of our main engines have shut down! The backup energy can only keep the battleship running for two hours!"

"The main force of the mobile infantry has entered the atmosphere, but we have lost contact with them and cannot communicate with other warships in real time!"

"Captain! We have detected the enemy fleet releasing a large number of carrier-based aircraft!"

I could only hear the crew members hurriedly reporting the current situation verbally to the female captain named Dratiel.

Dratiel, who was sitting in the main seat, had a frown on his face and was saying things like "Damn it! There's something wrong with the intelligence! Who the hell said the other party isn't a concern?!"

Then, she gave the order to Carmen Ibanez and Xander Barrow, who were in charge of driving the entire battleship:

"Activate backup energy and turn the ship around within two minutes!"

Then, he ordered the gunners: "After our ship completes the turn, immediately lock onto the enemy's carrier-based aircraft group. Do not let the enemy's carrier-based aircraft get close to our fleet!"

"Yes! Captain!"

After receiving the order, the crew members began to make the Roger Young launch a counterattack against the Blood Angels in the shortest possible time.

Carmen and Sander, who were in charge of operating the warship, immediately consumed the reserve energy and allowed the Roger Young to quickly change its angle.

The view from the bridge portholes, as they operated, gradually shifted from the initial New Hope Colony to their own warships anchored not far away.

Finally, they were able to face their approaching Blood Angels fleet, as well as a large number of carrier-based aircraft formations consisting of Thunders, Thunder Hawks, Ghosts, White-legged Falcons and a large number of drones.

However, when they were able to see the Blood Angels with their naked eyes—

"Captain! W-what is that??!!"

A crew member looked extremely shocked. He stood up, raised his hand, and pointed out of the porthole with trembling eyes.

Everyone looked in the direction that the crew member pointed, and vaguely saw a faint "golden light spot" approaching the position of their federal fleet at an extremely fast speed.

The crew member used the control panel to enlarge the view through the porthole and focus on the "golden light spot".

This time, everyone finally saw what it was.

The Primarch of the Blood Angels, Sanguinius, is wearing gorgeous golden armor and helmet, holding an Imperial Spear burning with golden flames, and has white wings behind his back.

! ! ! !

Dratiel, Carmen, Sander and others were all extremely shocked when they saw the appearance of Saint-Gilius.

Is that still human?

Why are there a pair of angel-like wings behind?

And why can the spear in the hand of the "angel" still burn with golden flames in the space environment? ?

If the human empire was simply crushing the world with technology, they might not be too surprised.

But the emergence of "supernatural creatures" like Sanguinius has overturned their cognition.

The most important thing is that Saint-Gilius's appearance really resembles the angels recorded in myths and legends, which makes Delatir and others instantly feel that "God is on the side of the enemy."

A moment of surprise.

Dratiel said quickly: "Gunner! Lock on that humanoid target, and the enemy carrier-based aircraft will fire at the same time!"

"Yes!"

The gunner reacted quickly and used the control panel in front of him to lock onto Sanguinius and dozens of Thunder Assault Boats and Thunder Eagle Gunboats.

Boom—boom—boom—! !

In an instant, the sound caused by the ship's artillery fire was transmitted to everyone's ears through the vibration of the ship's hull.

However, the Roger Young's artillery barrage could not pose any effective threat to Sanguinius, Thunder and Thunder Eagle.

The artillery fire was easily dodged.

Only a close-in defense artillery array could have an impact on it, but it would not be able to break through the energy shields of Thunder and Thunder Eagle in a short period of time.

After all, Thunder and Thunder Eagle are responsible for the "hard" boarding.

It has a solid structure, thick armor, and guaranteed mobility. It is also equipped with a replaceable energy shield generator that is easy to repair and maintain.

The Federation ships in the "Star Fleet" universe are really helpless against it.

Moreover, Sanguinius was too lazy to care what the top brass of the Federation Fleet would think, and immediately rushed towards the Roger Young, which was the first to launch a counterattack against him and the Blood Angels, with a Thunderhawk gunboat carrying the Glory Guard.

Immediately after

Ri~Swoosh——————! ! !

The Thunder Gunboat's twin-barreled melta cannons burst out an extremely hot and high-energy "beam of light", which successfully pierced through the belly of the Roger Young's hull and melted a gap.

See this.

Sanguinius suddenly increased his flying speed, passed through the gap first and rushed into the hangar of the Roger Young.

Then came the Thunderhawk gunboat with its wings folded.

And when the Thunder Eagle rushed into the hangar, it also released a gel-like "air bag" to temporarily block the melted gap and prevent oxygen leakage caused by internal and external air pressure.

Boom boom!

The noise of the Thunderhawk gunboat "ramping around" in the hangar could be noticed even if one was on the bridge.

So without the communication officer's report, Delatir knew that the Roger Young had been forcibly boarded, and she immediately ordered:

"Let the security team and the mobile infantry on standby rush to the hangar to drive out and annihilate the foreign invaders!"

"Yes! Captain!"

The communications officer quickly notified the combat units on the Roger Young.

"captain."

But at this moment, Carmen stood up in a daze, looking out the porthole with a confused look and said:

"Is it necessary to continue fighting this battle?"

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Hearing this, Delatir turned his gaze back to the porthole.

Looking out through the sealed porthole, the first thing that caught my eye was the overwhelming Red Tear, which was already approaching the entire expedition fleet.

The expeditionary fleet's main guns, secondary guns and missiles were unable to penetrate the energy shield that emitted a cyan-blue glow.

All attacks are in vain.

On the other hand, after the Red Tear's secondary guns reduced their power to 10%, they once again accurately destroyed the main and secondary guns of the expeditionary fleet.

In an instant, the expeditionary fleet was completely reduced to powerless "lambs", waiting to be slaughtered.

In addition, countless Thunder assault boats and Thunder Eagle gunboats successfully boarded all the expeditionary ships under the cover of the Blood Angels fleet and carrier-based aircraft formations.

This means that the subsequent battles will be mainly concentrated inside each ship.

"Is it necessary to continue fighting?"

Knowing that defeat was inevitable, Dratiel seemed a little depressed, but he quickly regained his composure, stood up and left the captain's seat, and took out a pistol from the coded weapons box beside him.

He loaded the gun, closed the safety, and said loudly:

"Of course we will continue to fight! Inform all personnel on this ship to arm themselves. We will fight the invaders to the last moment!

Even if we lose, we should lose standing up, not kneeling down to them!!”

"Yes!!"

The morale of the crowd, which was originally low, rose again after seeing the captain was ready to rush to the front line.

The federation as a whole may have experienced no major changes for too long, leading to the breeding of corruption and an explosion of various bad practices and unfair treatments.

However, the basic spirit of the federal army, "not fearing war" and "uniting strength to protect peace", has always existed.

Today, people like Dratiel still believe that the Human Empire is a major threat to peace and stability, as the top leaders of the Federation have publicized.

So they would rather sacrifice themselves and fight to the last moment.

As for the main force of mobile infantry that had been deployed by the expeditionary fleet long ago, there was no way of knowing what the expeditionary fleet had encountered.

After all, communications were unilaterally blocked, and even the expeditionary fleet was unable to communicate with each warship in real time, so they had to fight on their own.

at the same time.

Inside the hangar of the Roger Young

"Cough, cough, cough!"

"what happened?"

"Didn't two things just rush in?!"

"There! There!"

The violent explosion and air turbulence caused by the forced boarding made the ground crew and logistics personnel who fell on the deck dizzy and dazed got up again.

Boom, boom.

However, as soon as these ground and logistics personnel turned their eyes to the Thunder Hawk gunship that had already stopped, they heard the unique sound of magnetic boots stepping on the floor.

Moreover, they also saw more than a dozen Blood Angels Honor Guards, Blood Guards wearing exclusive power armor, and the Blood Angels' Primarchs -

Sanguinius.