Chapter 93 The Rust Belt
The candidates for the commander of the task force have been approved by the veterans on the bridge.
And they didn't seem to ask about my wishes at all.
Knowing that the situation was over, Calvin also gave up the struggle and simply waited to see what new surprises these old birds could come up with.
But the veterans had a thorough understanding of the new recruits' psychological defenses. They knew that everything must turn against itself when it reaches its extreme, so they did not cause any new trouble for Calvin.
The Grand Master and the Mechanical Archbishop, whose addiction to drama was satisfied, drafted the personnel of the task force with super high efficiency, and then confirmed his opinions to Calvin:
"Tariq and Golden will follow you. I will stay with Gavins and the other three. I will add two and a half strike teams to you, equipped with weapons in a ratio of one to one between Interceptors and Purifiers." . There are 15 people in three teams. Is there any problem?”
"No problem, but we need to get out of the subspace navigation state as soon as possible, otherwise we will deviate too far from the target, and I am not sure how long I will be delayed on the road.
"Then go get ready. The deck has received the order. You should be almost ready when you get there."
"Your will." After Calvin saluted, he turned and left the bridge, heading towards the flight deck where the landing craft was located.
When he arrived on the flight deck, the remaining fourteen people in the entire team had been notified and were waiting for him below the landing craft.
The members of the task force are as mentioned above:
A temporary command team was formed by Calvin, two terminators, a pharmacist and a flag officer;
The remaining ten people were divided into two teams, forming a standard melee team equipped with interceptors and a heavy fire support team equipped with purifiers.
Except for the lack of some heavy armored units such as the Holy Dreadnought, the entire team is exactly the standard configuration of a regular multi-purpose mission unit.
Do veterans make this mistake? of course not.
So on the delivery deck of the Supreme Decree, the full set of equipment of a huge Heavenly Punishment Dread Knight has been pulled to the cargo bay door of the Hummingbird landing craft.
The warning lights on the deck began to flash regularly.
Calvin knew that it was a sign that the Supreme Decree was about to leave the subspace navigation state.
The mechanical slaves have loaded all the equipment and supplies, and the mechanical priest is guiding their exit.
The number of people on the entire deck was decreasing rapidly and quietly. The crew leader in charge of logistics had already come to Calvin with a list of supplies in his hand, waiting for his confirmation and signature.
Calvin bent slightly, took off his helmet, and then reached out to take the data pad from the logistics team leader's hand.
While he quickly glanced at the supply list on the data board, he motioned with his eyes to Tarik beside him to check.
The other party was also familiar with the process and had already climbed into the Hummingbird's warehouse when Calvin found the data pad.
After a while, Tariq came out of the cabin after confirming the quantity and type of supplies with Calvin one by one.
After getting back the data pad with Calvin's electronic signature, the logistics team leader quickly walked to the standby channel next to the deck.
The deck had become completely silent, and in the large empty cabin, only the Gray Knights lined up in silence, waiting for Calvin's orders.
Seeing these soldiers focused on him, Calvin's instinct about his previous military career began to kick in.
He subconsciously prepared to give a pre-war speech and mobilization after coughing slightly.
But under the gaze of these Gray Knights, he quickly reacted.
Do the group of fighting machines in front of them, who have experienced countless wars and are more professional than professional soldiers, really need his speech? Is he here to be funny?
Calvin, who had nothing to say and was a little depressed, waved his hand:
"Get aboard!"
Then, amidst the slightly strange looks in the eyes of the Gray Knights, he took the first step towards the Hummingbird's transport hatch.
The Gray Knights didn't have any extra thoughts. They followed Calvin's figure and lined up into the Hummingbird's transport cabin.
"I'm so stupid, really. I only know that veterans in the barracks always trick new recruits, but I don't know that the Gray Knights are like this too. I rushed over as soon as I received the notice, and I didn't hesitate or think too much. They asked I just said so. When they asked who could go, I couldn’t get away. I was so stupid..."
In the transport boat cabin, the Gray Knights stood facing each other along both sides of the bulkhead, waiting for the locking clips above the cabin to lock.
Calvin, the first pick on the left, looked at Tarik across from him with dull eyes, and muttered some words that Tarik couldn't understand.
This time, only two members of the guard, Golden and Tariq, were accompanying him. The other four had to bear the important task of being the skeleton of the heavy armored force, so they could not all be assigned to Calvin.
That's right, the Gray Knights' combat philosophy has always been that people are more valuable than equipment.
The basis for being able to say such strong words is that as an Astartes battle group, they have a rich and arrogant equipment background that can be said to be rich and arrogant among their colleagues in the entire empire.
The Gray Knights have no shortage of power armor, so they don't have a recruit company.
Any Gray Knight recruit who has passed the test will receive a brand new Aegis-type power armor on the night of the orientation dinner.
And if he wants, he can even directly participate in the Terminator Power Armor training tutorial after his career as a recruit without any test or competition.
Yes, you read that right.
In other war groups, Terminator power armor is offered as a sacred object, and you have to apply for it if you touch it.
There is no threshold for the usage status of the Gray Knight, it only depends on whether the specific battlefield requirements are met.
There is no need to be a veteran, no need to serve for hundreds of years to join the most elite company.
The training course for the Gray Knight's Terminator power armor begins directly after the recruit period.
This also means that if necessary, the Gray Knights can bring out an all-Terminator lineup, including new recruits, to appear on the battlefield.
This kind of behavior is considered extravagant and criminal in the eyes of other chapters and even the Imperial Guard.
And the Gray Knights are indeed good at using this extreme fully armored lineup.
The psychic abilities possessed by all of them make the Terminator's own teleportation ability more precise and effective.
And with far more teleports than its counterparts, the Gray Knight's terminators have basically no chance of charging long distances on the battlefield.
This greatly reduces the likelihood that the Terminators' weakness in moving quickly will be exposed.
The Gray Knight makes full use of the teleportation advantages brought by his psychic powers, always tending to accurately teleport into the enemy's face to fight with the help of powerful psychic powers.
The most common tactic is to teleport into the face, and then use your size 120 metal soles to kiss the opponent's head.
If the enemy on the opposite side still has survivors under such a wave of raids, then the remaining people will be qualified to see the destructive power of the Nemesis Arms.
The Supreme Decree had already gone far, and left in a hurry after delivering the transport boat that Calvin and others were on.
It needs to regain as much of the time it has wasted here as possible.
There is not much spare time left for it, and it will not have time to think about anything else until the next Manzeville point arrives.
It was a different scene on Calvin's side. The Hummingbird they were riding on was quietly passing through the no-man's land on the outskirts of the galaxy.
The information received on the public channel between galaxies allows the pilot to know his position immediately.
This information was immediately sent to Calvin, the commander of this team.
"Rust Star Belt? Will someone in this place call the Inquisition for rescue?"
Calvin looked at the star map in his hand and felt a little confused.
The geographical location here is extremely special. It is at the intersection of the Sun Star Territory, the Hazy Star Territory and the Storm Star Territory.
Not to mention the countless imperial military forces accumulated by the empire in the Obscure Star Territory to resist the Dark Crusade and the Sun Star Territory as the core force of the empire's central region.
Even if we just talk about the Rust Star Belt, which is less than a month away from here, there are more than ten foundry worlds, large and small, hugging each other and entrenched in the center of the entire mining planet group.
Covered by the almost overflowing aura of martial virtue of this group of oil guys, it was hard for Calvin to imagine that any force would dare to take action here.
After all, when there are at least one Titan Legion, a dozen Titan Knights, and tens of millions of cybernetic legions living next door, and there are more than a dozen forge worlds providing logistical support for them, you may not be able to breathe. Consider whether excessive volume might wake the adults next door.
When your martial virtue reaches this point, the rules will change for you.
This powerful force is reflected in all aspects of the operation of the entire empire.
The easiest way to know this influence is to look at the imperial emblem in your hand.
You must know that the golden war eagle in the original imperial national emblem only had one head.
After the Emperor went to Mars and signed an agreement with the Adeptus Mechanicus on Mars, the Empire's war eagle became a double-headed eagle.
These two eagle heads that look proud of the galaxy are the fundamental symbols of the empire's force. One is all the armed forces of the empire, and the other is the Mechanicum they represent.
"What kind of person would send a signal for help to the passing Gray Knights here, regardless of distance?"
While Calvin was thinking about the background of this unusual mission, a black ship belonging to the Tribunal appeared from the end of their field of vision at an unknown time and sailed toward Calvin and others quietly and at high speed.