Chapter 418: Destroyed Starport and War Mobilization

The First Expeditionary Fleet began to mobilize. The commander of this fleet was none other than a familiar guy, Qi.

Under that cold order, he began to mobilize the huge First Expeditionary Fleet of the Ratman Empire.

This was not a complicated mobilization. Not long ago, the First Expeditionary Fleet had just completed maintenance in the Fortress Star Port and loaded various weapons and supplies.

If those things had not happened, the First Expeditionary Fleet should have already been heading towards the unknown star region. In fact, they had already gone quite some distance.

Unlike Qi, Qi looked much younger, which came from the cryogenic hibernation device on the Ratman warship and the life essence that was still flowing in the upper echelons of the Ratman Empire when Qi had not completely broken up with those temple priests.

But if you look closely into his eyes, you can see the indelible fatigue and silence.

Not all rat people are prepared for longevity.

Besides, the overall lifespan of rat people has never been long enough.

But in fact, this problem is not particularly difficult to overcome. For the big figures in the Ratman Empire, they have a unique advantage in facing the erosion of time.

That is the burning fire of desire.

As long as the fire of desire is not extinguished, the rat man will continue to climb forward and will never give up. However, if all desires are exhausted, then this rat man is no different from being dead.

Qi simply waved his arms and uttered a simple sentence "Forward." As the commander of the Ratman's first expeditionary fleet, countless ratmen immediately began to get busy.

This order was quickly passed down. The Ratman flagship was like a mountain, a city that could travel freely in the stars. Millions of Ratmen lived on this battleship.

It cannot compare to those overly concentrated and bloated rat-men super-cities, but this is already the largest battleship plan that the rat-men can currently offer. If it is a little bigger, the rat-men will not be able to push it into the subspace.

The Skaven flagship, the Expedition, has a complete set of large-scale battleship maintenance workshops, capable of simultaneously producing small and medium-sized Skaven battleships. It is also equipped with the Skaven Empire's largest magic cannon, the Destroyer, and its only strategic anti-star weapon, the Soul Scream.

It has subsidiaries, twenty large supply ships, one hundred and twenty large frigates, a small reconnaissance fleet, mining ships, medium-sized exploration ships, and four attack fleets.

Only when all these messy things are added together can they be considered a complete ratman expedition fleet.

It looks quite formal, but in fact, this is the first time that the Skaven have used such a structure, and the first time that they have put their own flagship into battle.

The Ratmen's technology for such a super-large flagship is not perfect, and it lacks the most important link, which is a super-large energy shield.

This is a critical technology, not only used to resist enemy attacks when war breaks out, but also to protect warships from bombardment by star dust and high-energy particles floating in the universe and ensure the safety of subspace navigation.

The ratmen's technology in this area is not mature. In fact, their shield technology is still the psychic deflection shield imitated from the psychic reconnaissance ship, or perhaps it can be put another way, the magic shield.

During the two hundred years of development, the ratmen have changed this technology beyond recognition, but it is only at the super-large level that those extremely irritable ratmen engineers are stumped.

It’s not that the shield cannot be produced, but that the soul engine, mana engine, and the ratmen’s engine technology have reached a bottleneck, and simply increasing the power is no longer feasible.

After the power of the soul engine has been increased to a certain limit, it will no longer output soul energy stably, but will directly tear open the road to the subspace. At the same time, the magic engine also encountered the same problem. In an extremely violent cycle of enlarging the furnace, adding more fuel, adding a larger furnace, and adding more fuel, the ratmen engineers successfully encountered a material bottleneck. Any materials or structures they currently know are not sufficient to withstand such a violent magic reaction.

Thus, a technical bottleneck was born.

But what is surprising is that even in the face of such a bottleneck, when the technology was not yet mature, these Ratmen engineers still managed to forcefully manufacture this Ratmen flagship.

The size of the soul engine is at its upper limit, and there is also an extra-large external deflection shield that is supported by 120 large frigates.

One hundred and twenty large frigates were arranged in fixed positions, using medium-sized deflection shields to forcibly nest into a large deflection shield that was barely able to operate.

It was still the simple strategy of using great force to make bricks fly, but what was amazing was that the group of ratmen engineers actually built these ratmen flagships.

Currently, the Ratman Empire has a total of two and a half such flagships, and two Ratman warship groups built around such flagships. This structure has never actually participated in a battle, and no one knows what specific effect it can produce.

But the rat engineers were confident in their work.

Now, the opportunity has come.

These warships were built for conquest and development, and they were the main force in suppressing the rebellion this time.

After those idiots at the starport killed all the Imperial Guards sent by Qi, they were directly identified as rebels. To deal with those rat bureaucrats who were in collusion with the temple priests, it required investigation, but to deal with a group of rebels, it was much simpler and only required to quell the rebellion.

Well, actually, there is no difference between the two. Those idiots have been thinking wrongly about one thing, that is, Qi has always intended to wipe them out completely, and has never intended to compromise, tolerate or give them a chance.

Just kill them all, kill them all.

In the eerie silence of the star port, this group of self-righteous idiots waited for the news of the return of the First Expeditionary Fleet.

The anxiety and panic were interrupted by the terrifying artillery fire that streaked across the dark starry sky.

Obviously, they did not expect such an outcome. A cosmic war broke out outside the fortress star, the capital of the Ratman Empire.

The horrific shocks, the aftermath of the war that could be easily seen even on the planet, lasted for many days.

Those greedy guys certainly won't surrender voluntarily, but the despairing thing is that now, even if they really want to rebel, they have to defeat the returning First Fleet of the Ratman Expedition.

Relying on the fortifications on the star port, they struggled for many days. During these days, both these stupid guys and the Ratman First Expeditionary Fleet led by Qi were very wise and did not approach the fortress star.

Compared to the emptiness of the Shenqi Star, this Fortress Star is just like its name, an extremely solid fortress. The Ratman flagship Expedition, commanded by its flag, is currently madly slaughtering the warships of the starport patrol fleet with its Destroyer magic cannon. Almost none of those large warships that are constantly taking off from the starport can withstand a single shot from it.

It can be said that it stole the limelight, but there are twelve such expensive destructive weapons on the Fortress Star.

The counter-insurgency war came to the tenth day. Amid the wreckage of warships floating in the sky and the star port that had been reduced to ruins, the counter-insurgency ended very neatly.

The First Expeditionary Fleet led by Qi used almost all means except for the Soul Scream carried by the flagship, and completely defeated the Starport Patrol Fleet in an almost crushing manner. This new type of ratman fleet demonstrated its strength.

But the price to pay is also not small.

The drifting wreckage and the almost completely destroyed star port are no small matters. You know, the star port itself is an important trade and transit node. Its destruction will cause many things to lose control, and will also make the fortress star, which is the center of the Ratman Empire, have to experience the pain of shortages of various materials for quite a long time.

This was already a considerable price to pay, and it did not have to be so extreme. Even if it was to remove the captain of the star port patrol fleet, it would not be worthwhile to fight a war that would be so detrimental to oneself.

But Qi still did it.

Strictly speaking, this most explosive purge war with almost no compromise is just a prelude and warm-up, as well as a warning.

The entanglement between the bureaucrats in the Ratman Empire and the temple priests is too deep. Even if he, the emperor, really wants to push for that war, he will face great resistance.

This is an unavoidable situation. The best time to deal with those corrupt termites and vampires is before they recover, and now.

The last time these guys were so weak was when the Ratman Empire was just established. At that time, Qi had the idea of ​​dealing with these guys, but it was still uncertain whether the gods would leave.

In the glory of the great gods, no one in the Ratman Empire can completely sweep these guys into the trash.

Then the next best and most suitable opportunity is now.

In fact, Qi felt that if the great God was still watching over the rat people, then these guys probably wouldn't have fallen so completely.

The loyal guys are all dead.

But now, the great god has shifted his gaze, and the rat people can no longer rely on that great figure. Therefore, everything in the future, no matter how it develops, should not be left to them to decide, as they are a group of bugs that are still rotting after losing their glory.

This is a thorough cleanup, a deterrent, and also a warning to the wavering rat bureaucrats in the Rat Empire.

Even if he wanted to rebuild the starport of the Fortress Star, Qi would not allow the possibility of this important node being affected by those temple priests.

At the same time, he was also telling all those wavering rat bureaucrats, telling this group of guys that any wavering, not firm enough guys, they are likely to be sent to the gallows, killed, and liquidated.

The time has come to take sides; their emperor is not yet so old as to be incompetent.

The ratmen warriors who landed on the wreckage of the starport found an interesting guy, the captain of the starport patrol fleet. He did not die with the disintegration of warships in the universe and the failure of the starport patrol fleet.

On the contrary, he huddled in a safe house in the wreckage of the starport, shivering with the life essence that filled the room.

It was a pity that he was caught. When the hot blowtorch cut open the heavy metal door of the safe house, the guy yelled loudly with a distorted face.

He raised the magic bomb in his hand and roared loudly in a sharp voice.

"Get away from me, get away from me, if you come any closer, I will destroy everything here!

I still have bargaining chips! I still have bargaining chips. Even the emperor would be tempted by these life essences! This is my bargaining chip!
Don't come over here, get out of here, get out of here, I want Qi to come see me, I want to talk to Qi!"

Talking nonsense in a frenzy was effective. For a moment, the ratmen warriors who gathered here really didn't know what they should do.

Not long after, with repeated reports, Qi's figure appeared in front of this frantic guy, which made him even more frantic.

"Qi! You damned fellow, don't think you have won. I want to see the emperor, I want to see Qi. The life essence here can buy anything, everything!"

Amid the sharp shout, a sneer appeared on Qi's face.

At the same time, a cold voice appeared on the field.

"kill him."

This voice was only transmitted through the terminal on Qi's body, but it made this frantic guy quiet down all of a sudden. The expression on his face froze, and turned into a weird state of crying and laughing.

He knelt down.

"Great Emperor!"

But Qi no longer wanted to watch this farce, so he waved his hand and waved to the ratman warrior on the side.

"kill him!"

The moment he turned around, the ratman warrior raised the steam gun in his hand, simply pulled the trigger, and the sharp steel spike easily pierced the chest of the frenzied guy.

The guy fell to the ground in an unbelievable trance. It was obvious that he didn't expect that he would really die. His face suddenly distorted at this moment.

He activated the magic bomb in his hand and let out a final loud and sharp roar.

"You will regret this, you will all regret this!"

The scorching explosion engulfed everything in the area, including the safe house that was filled with life essence.

This is not a small amount of money.

At least, at least, it is enough for a ratman to live another two hundred years. In the Ratman Empire, there are many guys who are willing to give everything for these life essences.

But now, these things have been swallowed up by the explosion, and probably nothing will be left.

(End of this chapter)