Several human city-states that were urgently mobilized have washed away their religious overtones in the past, and have been replaced by various war fortresses, armories, barracks, and headquarters. Sober and cold industrial buildings are emerging from the desert city-states. Rising from the ground, the poverty of the indigenous people in the past has been completely wiped out by the powerful transformation of the 17th Legion. The Gothic style from the human empire has left traces on this uncivilized ancient land.
Nowadays, the vast majority of the natives have joined the mortal auxiliaries of the Seventeenth Legion under the preaching of the Word Bearers missionaries-there are also thousands of Astartes recruits, just because of this mobilization Time is too tight, and most of the qualified candidates have not even been able to complete many transformation surgeries. Although the Primarch of the Twelfth Legion has tried his best to assist the Word Bearers' Apothecary Department, an Aspen Tate is by no means a product that can be quickly mass-produced through an assembly line like other industrial creations of the empire.
Strong fighting spirit, strong determination, and loyalty that is not afraid of death. These are the basic qualities that a qualified Astartes candidate should have. For example, in major hive worlds and fortress worlds, there are naturally countless such excellent sources of soldiers, but for an ancient religious world like Colchis In terms of it, it is really too reluctant - those children who struggle to grow up in the desert do not even fully understand the existence of the human empire most of the time, and their knowledge of the human empire is limited to the sky. The sung of the descending saint, Lorca.
Therefore, although thousands of Colchis participated in the arming of the war fortress every day under the influence of those burly and tall Astartes missionaries, in fact, they had no idea of the truth of the Empire, and even the entire empire. Little else is known, which makes the number of conscripts chosen as Astartes extremely rare.
And this situation is definitely a bad start for the difficulties and setbacks Colchis will face next.
And the worse situation is by no means only present on Colchis - in the passage of several light-years of this planet, even more unspeakable tense confrontations are taking place.
The expedition fleet of the First Legion that arrived across the sea of stars remained silent, as if waiting for something.
Even the communications initiated by the Word Bearers fleet in orbit, they did not reply. They just launched an encirclement and suppression formation against Colchis like a herd of beasts waiting for hunting, as if they were prepared for something to escape.
Mysterious and powerful, these are synonymous with the Dark Angel. Even after the tragic but poorly recorded Randan War, these dark and burly warriors also enjoyed a high reputation in the Human Empire - the once strongest legion, the Emperor's Angel of Death, these names all symbolized What will their appearance symbolize?
Even in the Word Bearers fleet in space, which was still unaware of the current situation, most of the people began to feel a little uneasy.
Ever since it was discovered that the large-scale space-time stasis position was lifted, extremely strict confidentiality measures have been implemented throughout the 17th Legion. Regarding the enemy situation and specific situation they will face next, I am afraid only the two Primarchs know .
Therefore, in the eyes of the vast majority of the Word Bearers Astartes, Colchis is currently engaged in a massive war mobilization, just as the primarchs of other legions will conduct recruitment and mobilization on their home planet. After the leader carried out a large-scale split and reorganization, it was naturally necessary to replenish the source of troops for the parent regiment.
However, in fact, the Word Bearers will recruit troops from the worlds they have conquered - the matter of returning to the home planet has a strange religious color similar to a 'Holy Land Tour'.
Of course, some time ago, they themselves had destroyed a 'holy place' with their own hands.
The arrival of the Dark Angels made these Word Bearers warriors even more worried: first, their Primarchs were monitored by the Primarchs of the Twelfth Legion, and after returning to their home planet, they were surrounded and suppressed by the Dark Angels' fleet. They were surrounded by formations and could not even communicate with the First Legion. Anyone would think of the 'rebellion' incident some time ago.
Even Lorgar, who knew the truth, was worried - after all, compared to the many Word Bearers warriors who were still in the dark, knowing the truth, he was obviously more worried about the potential conflict between the Dark Angels and the Word Bearers. If the angels bombed Colchis without any communication, then the two legions might have an unexplained blood feud.
Destiny is always so bad, and fate is always so bad. In the combination of many coincidences and emergencies, as long as you are not careful, you will fall into a vortex of contradictions that will never be recovered.
It can be said that if the Dark Angels had not received the astrological communication from Elaine, then they would have shown no mercy to the many extermination weapons they had prepared to use.
As time passed by, the tense atmosphere began to spread throughout the army.
The weapon energy readings from the Dark Angel fleet are not false, and the truth that has been concealed for a long time cannot deceive those extraordinary angels of death - this is the home planet of the Word Bearers, not some war-torn frontline battlefield, and the Word Bearers and the Dark The relationship between angels is also very ordinary, and there is no need for such a large fleet to conduct 'diplomacy'.
Although the commanding officers at all levels in the legion did not react in any way, the quietly opened void shield also symbolized some uneasiness in their hearts: the uneasiness of a possible head-on confrontation with the First Legion.
The two legions remained silent like the dead space, both sides waiting for some "unwanted sights".
Until a dazzling fire from a Dark Angel aircraft broke through the atmosphere, breaking the deadlock.
The rain of fire did not fall, destruction and conflict did not come.
In Lorgar's increasingly uneasy mind, Colchis did not suffer the fate of a perfect city.
The jet-black Stormbird, still carrying a blazing temperature, landed on the tarmac of the City of Gray Flowers under the nervous gazes of many Astartes warriors. The exquisite glyphs symbolizing the First Legion also rose with blazing air.
This former holy city has now been transformed into an industrial forest made of steel. In the suburbs filled with poisonous gas and radiation, the tenacious rose flowers can no longer be seen, just as no matter how determined the soul is, it is difficult to withstand the ravages of suffering. .
In the sight of Elaine and Lorgar, several Astartes wearing pitch black power armor slowly walked out of them, as simple and rigorous as the knights of Ancient Terra surrounding the nobles, and like the pride of lions waiting for the Lion King. .
And their leader is naturally the Lion of Caliban - Lion El'Jonson.
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