Chapter 514: Divide the troops, Colonis
Calvin's guess was correct. The hive world of Colonis was currently in a state of war.
In the void of the Algodon galaxy, the wreckage of the human empire's warships is floating and sinking along with the outer planetary meteorite belt.
But around the galaxy capital Colonis, which is located in the third orbit of the star, the originally bustling star port and the heavily guarded galaxy defense system are now broken and silent after the war.
But fortunately there is still life here. At least Calvin saw enough souls on the ground of Coronis from the feedback from subspace.
"Life signal!" Calvin immediately ordered the battleship, but was embarrassed to find that the detection array of Lava Blood could not support such a powerful function.
But fortunately, the Silver Dawn is right behind him, and at this moment, Sir Sutherland and Admiral Tabers have similar thoughts to Calvin.
The reactor of the Glory Queen-class battleship was once again boosted by one percent of power.
As the final destination of this huge energy, the detection array composed of many complex devices on the Silver Dawn began to release it in the direction of Colonis after converting the energy into multi-dimensional fluctuations.
"Thank God!"
In the video conference that had just been completed, Imperial Navy Commodore Georgi Kob, who had been accompanying the fleet, let out a loud sigh.
And just five minutes before the meeting was temporarily convened, the fleet was continuously feeding back surrounding information to the command level according to the functions of their respective detection arrays.
This of course includes the previous Silver Dawn.
As the flagship with its main focus on Colonis, the intelligence brought by the Silver Dawn excited everyone present!
Colonis is still fighting, and the Imperial troops there are still resisting!
Even from the perspective of the fleet, on the ground battlefield of the entire Colonis Hive World, the imperial army was not only not as embarrassed as expected, but actually had a clear advantage!
"Orcs!" Sir Sutherland's voice was low, but the commanders on the communication channel could hear the anger in it.
On the continental plate of Colonis, humans still occupy all nests and major transportation hubs, but anyone can know the fate of the people there from the smoke hovering over the fallen secondary cities.
"Prepare to fight in the atmosphere!
Weapons units and airborne troops are on standby! When the fighter group gets in touch with the ground, I want to see the effect of the orbital strike after the first wave of fighter planes bomb! "
"No!" Tabers's voice successfully attracted everyone's attention, and Sir Sutherland, who had just given the order, frowned and looked at his feet.
This was the first time he had cooperated with Tabos, but this was the first time that the fleet admiral, who was sitting on the command deck at his feet, refused his order without hesitation.
"That's not their style!" Tabers explained.
Everyone turned their attention to little Calvin, who finally chose to respect him.
Talos secretly looked at the original body behind him, but Calvin showed no reaction.
"Explain it." Little Calvin took a deep breath and said to Tabers. The atmosphere of the meeting finally eased from the stiffness.
"Here...here...and here." Tabos pointed his finger at the servo in front of him.
The remains of the Koronis orbital defense system appeared in front of everyone during his operation.
"Have you seen the traces on these star forts and weapon base stations?" Tabers asked, pointing to a star fort and the supporting weapon base stations around it.
And where his finger pointed, a long and narrow puncture appeared on the broken armor.
"The ablation traces of energy weapons, let's say..." Cobb showed the qualifications of a naval general, and little Calvin finally reacted to this information.
“That means the traces and after-effects on these defense systems are not caused by kinetic energy weapons strikes.
They are almost all penetrated by energy weapons and then explode from the inside out? "
"I'm afraid so..." Tabos nodded, finally reaching agreement with his commander.
This is not the fighting style that orcs are good at, at least not what orcs at this stage are good at.
They are much more direct when doing this work. Live weapons and the collision angle of battleships are the choices that best suit their aesthetics.
"Then where did they come from?"
"here……"
Faced with Calvin Jr.'s problem, Tabers enlarged a meteorite in the orbit of Colonis.
On this "miniature celestial body" covered with ice crystals and metal oxides, he saw some metal pipelines that were twisted and shapeless after being hit by energy weapons.
Well, even without a blow, this thing that could barely be understood as a plasma engine nozzle was beyond Little Calvin's bottom line.
He could hardly imagine how terrifying it would be if he were allowed to use this thing to travel across galaxies...
"They were driven or lured here and then deliberately sunk here."
Tabers continued to speak, and after his reminder, everyone discovered more similar "meteorites" around Colonis.
"A good trick..." Little Calvin said angrily.
He could already imagine the scene of being attacked here, and the enemies hidden behind attracted these orcs here, and then they launched a long-planned raid on Colonis.
"The Eldar..." Calvin muttered in a low voice, and Talos turned around after hearing the sound.
This is in line with the two people’s inherent impressions of the Eldar:
He likes to play conspiracies, but he doesn’t want to end up personally...
The purpose of this behavior is also quite clear, which is to contain the empire's support force.
This is a conspiracy, and it is also a problem that must be solved by the empire.
"Leave it to me." Talos finally began to speak in the video conference after getting permission from Calvin.
The enemy here is his old enemy, and as a recruiting world of the Astra Militarum, the current war situation in Koronis is far from the time when the battle group-level units need to end.
A light cruiser and two or three full death watches are almost the optimal solution to the current situation.
As long as Calvin agrees, Talos can easily obtain all the command rights of the local garrison.
"I agree in principle, well, I suggest that a Tindalos army be deployed here..." Little Calvin said with some reluctance.
In the current war, sending friendly troops to the battlefield first is not in line with little Calvin's style, but it is indeed the best suggestion at the moment.
And here he also has a little "selfishness":
If these Death Watch are stranded by their mission, then shouldn’t it be time for the Primarch who ran away from home to come back...
And it was precisely out of compensation for this "selfishness" that he subconsciously decided to leave a directly affiliated corps here, leaving a core force that Talos could trust.
"Second!" Tabers said.
+ seconded! +Discussions within the Gray Knights battle group are equally effective.
"Second the motion!" Commodore Cobb knew that this was tantamount to determination, so he became the atmosphere group with peace of mind.
As long as he is not on the front line of the war, everything will not be a problem.
The remaining commanders did not object, and the task officially fell into Talos's hands.
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