"Armin, can you determine their location?"
Soshyan now fired at where the Eldar might be, and now at the Spiders that came too close.
Elsewhere, a swarm of human-skinned spiders are swooping down on another hunting subterranean lizard, and paying a heavy price - six spiders torn to shreds by claws and fangs before overwhelming numbers finally take effect.
These once tamed beasts don't seem very obedient.
"I will, sir."
Armin paused after making his promise, poking his head out from behind his shield, only to pull it back immediately.
A single molecular disk flew directly past the original position of his head.
"Sir, they are constantly moving and it is difficult to determine their detailed location!"
"We can't be suppressed here forever, their numbers will increase!"
At this time, Soshyan suddenly felt a brief tremor from the ground under his heels, followed by a faint rumble, as if something collapsed or opened.
Sol also lowered his head slightly, and he also noticed something strange.
"Something's coming."
He spoke softly without turning on the communicator, so that only Soshyan, who was nearest, could hear.
"What?"
"These Eldar are just scouts. From the conversation with them just now, I roughly judge that they have encountered a group of very powerful enemies and expelled them from this world, so this time they are ready to retake them after recuperating. home.”
"Then we can't sit still and wait for death. We must return to the ground and notify the Astra Militarum in nearby sectors."
"But...does the powerful enemy that expelled them before still exist?"
Soshiyang was stunned for a moment, as if he noticed something. He turned his head and saw that the man whose head was blown off was still lying on the ground. The first human-skin spider to arrive had already begun to enjoy a delicious meal of human flesh.
But the next second, the human-skin spider was shot to pieces with a laser beam.
Accompanied by the unique sound of heavy metal objects trampling on masonry, a red bright spot the size of a fist first emerged from the darkness, followed by a mottled red metal shell, iron-gray exposed joints, and an arc half buried in the torso. shaped head.
This metal structure is as tall as two people. The heavy laser cannon on its left shoulder is still emitting waste heat, and the automatic bolt guns on both arms are also raised.
Da da da--
The violent metal storm swept through the human-skin spiders and smashed them into balls of blood mist.
The sudden attacker disturbed these underground monsters. They howled and turned to the new enemy, trying to overwhelm each other with numbers.
Then, the darkness flashed through spots of light, like brilliant meteors, but burned out scorching roads among the groups of monsters. In just a few seconds, hundreds of monsters were wiped out.
One after another, those metal structures continued to come out of the darkness, forming a tight line of fire, destroying the monsters at an extremely long distance.
After paying an extremely terrible price, those underground monsters finally understood that they had encountered a tough enemy, an enemy that could not be defeated by numbers.
So after howling loudly, they turned around and fled into the darkness when they came, without any nostalgia.
The entire square suddenly became quiet, the gunshots and roars disappeared, leaving only the low hum of the server.
"This is something from the Mechanicus..."
Soshyan carefully watched the metal structures behind the bunker. Although he had never seen such robots, he knew the standards of the Mechanicum on those robots.
But Sol next to him was even more surprised than him for the first time.
"Cybernitika Omnic Legion?"
Soshyan was a little unfamiliar with the name when he first heard it. After a brief reminder from Saul, he immediately recalled the information he had seen in the Legion Archives.
As early as the end of the Age of Strife, it was already the most terrifying and powerful among the legions of the Mechanicus. According to the sacred duty given to it by the red decision of Mars, it bears the heavy burden of using combat robots in wars and A terrible mission.
In addition, those terrifying battle robots need to be developed, multiplied, and maintained.
These decisions were a milestone in the doctrinal laws created by the Mechanicum at the time of the Age of Strife, permanently banning the creation of evil soulless intelligences known as "silicos" and declaring that any such residual intelligence, as well as any Sages and mortals who serve such intelligences or attempt to create them are punished with death.
However, these resolutions also allowed the survival and creation of "low-level and just" artificial life deemed sacred, so these mechanical beasts and their relatives, these intelligent machines designed for war and killing - combat robots , and was handed over to the newly created Cybertronica Legion.
The Adeptus Mechanicus understands the power these supreme killing machines possess when brought together - they have toppled empire after empire during the Dark Ages.
Therefore, from the very beginning, the Adeptus Mechanicus decreed that the Cybernetic Legions should be broken up into numerous, self-sufficient small independent units called "groups".
Such a plan effectively restricted the scale of military power that any great sage in the legion could command.
Generally speaking, the destructive power of a group comes from 30 to 100 battle robot squads, each squad is responsible for 3-5 sacred war machines.
Each group is managed by a high-ranking priest of the Adeptus Mechanicus, and the secret knowledge of cybernetic technology is also in their hands.
Under them, there are a number of senior sages who will personally lead the war machines on the battlefield, the guards who swear to serve these sages, and the group's own data craftsmen, slave workers and servitors to take care of the group. A variety of needs on and off the battlefield.
Groups also control their own supply networks, mobile workshops, transports, field vehicles, orbital landing vehicles, and in some cases even their own spaceships.
But on the other hand, the Cybertronica Legion is strictly prohibited from building its own forges and cathedrals, so they must rely on the Mechanicum's Great Mechanicus and the Forge World to provide allegiance, supplies, and funding networks in order to survive and thrive.
When the Emperor came to Mars, the Cybertronica Legion [should serve the Empire] served on the battlefield, and naturally became part of the alliance treaty between the Mechanicus and the Emperor.
Therefore, the duties of many groups have changed from defenders of the Forge World and servants of the large Mechanicus sects to dervish-like Great Crusade combat groups, fighting on many battlefields that humans cannot imagine, and to many, many people. Served his master.
Due to their strong adaptability and outstanding fighting prowess, groups of the Cybertronic Legion were highly valued during the Great Crusade, and fought with many Legions of Astartes (especially the Thousand Sons and Iron Hands), Rogue Traders, Houses of Knights, and The Imperial Army fought side by side.
However, many others regard them as ancient terrors of the long night, and therefore hate, fear, and even avoid them.
Although most of the time, the combat droids of the Cybertronic Legion were difficult to produce and maintain, the arcane knowledge possessed by the Legion's Magi and the Legion's outstanding record ensured that before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, all parts of the Imperium of Man were safe. There are thousands of active Legion groups in the battlefront.
When the Horus Heresy began, the independence of the many groups of the Cybernetic Legions meant that, in general, the Legions would not completely fall to the side of the Loyalists or the Rebels, but would tend to follow and serve each of them. Long time master.
Other groups, mindful of their oaths of loyalty to the Emperor, or fearful of the galaxy's drift toward disorder, view the traitors as despicable traitors who should be destroyed, while others harbor ambitions to break away from the Crimson Resolution and will fight against them. The war waged by Shuai is seen as an opportunity to pursue a technology that has long been taboo.
After the Heresy was ended, the Cybertronic Legions that had not defected to the rebels re-swore allegiance to the Empire, but were bound by a stricter oath of loyalty than the Chapter Astartes.
Except for Mars, they are almost impossible to find.
Soshyan never thought that he would meet him here.
