After getting the information he wanted, Soshyan immediately held a war meeting with core personnel.
In addition to him, Ustad, Luke, Thor, and Sevita, the participants also included Valier, the old subordinate of the Red Pirates, and Talos, who had an old grudge against the Red Pirates. Of course, there was also Sevita. tower.
Brother Said had just fallen into a deep sleep, so Soshyan did not intend to disturb him.
"Huron's goal is obvious. He wants to take back the Unbound Soul and the enchanted one. He will never give up until he achieves this goal."
Soshyan, who was standing at the long table, talked for a while.
"And the one who leaked this news was the traitor Sarpedon, or someone else among the traitors!"
Upon hearing the name, the expressionless Luke's eyelids raised slightly, but then immediately lowered them.
"After a period of time, there is no news from these scouts. No matter how slow Huron is, he will know what will happen. He will definitely go out personally. War is inevitable."
As he spoke, Soshyan turned his attention to Valier, who was sitting on a chair with his arms crossed.
The former Red Pirate Apothecary hasn't yet fully gained his trust, so he can't yet wear power armor and can only wear a robe.
His face was also expressionless.
"Before that, Valier, tell us about Huron's current strength... After all, you are familiar with them."
Valier stood up and responded in a calm voice:
"After the failure of the Barbuda War, Huron took the remaining soldiers and retreated to the demon world of New Barbuda. Although there were only more than two hundred soldiers left after the war, Huron relied on a huge fleet and a solid material foundation. It quickly absorbed a large number of Chaos warbands and expanded to the size before the war..."
According to Valier, there are currently more than 3,000 Red Pirates, as well as a large number of cultist servants. The two largest ones are called the Iron-Blooded Oath and the Nine Eyes, both of which are composed of renegade Astra Militarum. Well-equipped and powerful.
In order to gather as many powerful warriors as possible, Huron held a competition called "Skull Harvest" at all costs.
This competition is held on the surface of New Badab, with many alien mercenaries and Chaos warbands participating, and its format is also very simple - the warband leader or champion fights to the death until the three strongest are left.
These warriors will fight in a free arena until one wins.
The skull of the failed leader is presented to the Blackheart King and becomes a decoration on the peg of his throne. The winner will become the leader of all participating warbands, and will also receive the Blackheart King's recognition and a temporary fleet.
It was precisely with this generous incentive and generous reputation that Huron quickly gathered a large number of powerful Chaos Champions.
For example, Adnus, nicknamed 'Blood Forest', is a former Captain of the Mantis Warriors Chapter.
There is also Copras, nicknamed the 'Plague Sea Mad Maggot'. He was originally a squad leader of the Devotee Chapter, and later became a member of the Nurgle Rebels, and gained quite a reputation in the Eye of Terror.
In addition, there are also the wizard lord Garon Sulet, the war lord Onius Plaid and so on.
But the most terrifying thing about the Red Pirate is not its powerful warriors, but its fleet!
Before the outbreak of the Badab War, the Star Claws Chapter was famous for its fleet. It was stationed in the Maelstrom Sector for hundreds of years. In order to fight against the ubiquitous pirate harassment, Huron resolutely implemented the strategy of supporting war with war. Strategy.
He would try his best to seize any battleship that could be captured, no matter where it belonged before, even if the battleship was not powerful enough or had been used by heretics.
After seizing the battleships, Huron will form these large and small battleships into training formations to continuously compress the pirate activity space in the star area.
The advantage of this was that he solved the piracy problem that had plagued the Maelstrom Sector for thousands of years in a very short period of time, but the disadvantages were also obvious. The Star Claw destroyed the rules of the Codex Astartes, and its fleet It has expanded beyond control.
Before the rebellion, Star Claw conservatively estimated that it had more than a thousand warships of various types. Although the quality was not very high, many of them were armed transport ships and small warships, the number alone was already terrifying.
After the rebellion ended, although most of the battleships were destroyed and captured, Huron still retained a considerable part of its power, especially its main battleships.
The current Red Corsairs have more than three hundred battleships, including a battle barge of the Astartes Chapter, a small number of battleships, a bunch of cruisers, various frigates, and a large number of interceptors and bombers.
The most famous of these is a Ramirez-class star fort called the 'Hell's Iris'.
The Ramirez-class star fortress is a movable space fortress capable of subspace navigation. These magnificent creations have been serving the Human Empire since the early days of the Great Crusade in M30. Due to the Empire's supply of such giant space stations However, its role as an Imperial Navy fleet base and interstellar strategic point has become increasingly important in the past ten thousand years. The deployment of one of them alone is enough to advance the end of the long campaign by decades.
The designer of the Ramirez-class star fortress is believed to be the inscrutable Mechanicus sage Leian Ramirez, and its technology comes from the STC template recovered from the purification of "Rock Vision" Usanix. The Ramirez class is equipped with a variety of long guns and short guns to complete its mission, and can single-handedly repel an incoming fleet.
It is almost impossible to rely on battleships to join them, because most of the current starships cannot hold the huge number of soldiers who want to occupy the entire star fort.
Sometimes these starforts will be parked in orbit on a fortress world under orders to serve as permanent artillery batteries, or play an important role in guarding key star systems - such as Elioko, one of the famous watch fortresses of the Alien Hunter Deathwatch, located in Jericho Frontier in Ultramarine.
It is not uncommon for a Chapter Astartes to be given command of one of these for their merits, and it is not uncommon for it to be used as a mobile fortress monastery.
In the forge world of Chipra Monti, over the main base of the Imperial Army and Navy in the Obscure Star Region, there are always six to eight Ramirez-class star castles docked in orbit to form a defensive ring of iron walls.
Some of the star forts are used by the Adeptus Mechanicus as deep space research facilities, and projects that are not secretive enough in any world are carried out in them. An unknown number of Ramirez-class have flowed to the Inquisition, serving as the powerful force of their secret organization. base.
The star fort in Huron's hands was one of the rewards he received during his service in the Maelstrom.
In addition to the Star Fortress, the Red Corsairs also have a Overlord-class battlecruiser named Eagle Hook, and a battle barge named Destruction Ghost. This battle barge is said to have been taken from the Word Bearers and is now the Huron's flagship.
The main force of the cruiser sequence is three Executor-class large cruisers, Midnight Loneliness, Afterglow of Hope, Nightmare Dawn, and more than twenty Carnage-class cruisers and Vanguard-class strike cruisers.
As for all kinds of destroyers and frigates, the number is overwhelming.
It is also because of the size of this fleet that the Red Pirates have developed the tactical characteristics of advocating and proficient in jumping gangs and anti-jumping gangs. Their anti-ship combat capabilities are very powerful. When it comes to naval battles, in addition to the largest Black Legion among the Chaos Rebels, there are also some The organized Chaos Legion is almost invincible.
In addition to his own fleet and Astartes power, Huron can also mobilize huge mortal pirates and even alien pirate resources, which also allows his power to penetrate into any star region.
For example, if the Red Pirates' reconnaissance team invaded this time, if Talos hadn't discovered it in advance, Soshyan might not have been able to catch them.
"...I personally recommend not to fight the Black Heart King in the void. The chance of winning is slim."
After saying this, Valier sat back on the chair with an expressionless expression.
