Standard Terran Calendar, 41
Extreme star field, Demeter star field, Pandora star system, Pain star
In a sense, Pai Shang is actually a world of death.
Although it has a long history, the Ministry of Interior has no way of verifying its past history. They only know that this planet has been baptized by war during the Horus Heresy, but there are countless worlds that have suffered the same fate. The star became an insignificant, forgotten world with only a little value.
It was not until three thousand years after the Horus Heresy that the first colonists set foot on this world.
Most of the planet's surface is dense jungle, and the many lizard-like creatures that live there will happily eat anything that moves. Large predators with the same characteristics also live in the ocean.
Because of the ever-present dangers in the lowlands and oceans, human settlers on Pisces live in mountaintop mining colonies. Locals call these underground explorer's fortresses, where industrious people carefully mine the barren soil of the planet's mountains. of precious ores.
There are hundreds of such fortresses scattered across the planet, most of which have a population of no more than a thousand people.
The only major city on the planet is the hive port of Attica, which sits on the shores of the planet's largest ocean and is ringed on the land side by the aptly named Death Swamp.
Attica is a small spiral tower city. The main residential area is located in the upper dome structure, overlooking the surrounding swamps. The transportation between it and various underground explorer fortresses is carried out by a simple floating spacecraft. Called an air barge.
Due to its low value, the defense of Pai Mao is naturally not much better. There are only three garrison points in Attica, housing hundreds of soldiers from the 183rd Catachan Regiment, as well as an Astropathic Tower and a basic orbit. A defensive grid, a naval supply depot, a small Advocate keep, and a number of other dusty offices subordinate to the administration, but these offices are rarely manned.
It is not surprising that there is a quota for the Death Star. This is the arrangement of the secondary star sector. Therefore, maintaining operation in this state is a difficult job. The people living here also try to keep a low profile and do not provoke anyone. Those monsters and monsters from outside the world.
But recently, Pai Shangxing has seemed a little unusual.
Although no one could tell where the abnormality occurred, the air began to become duller, the animals in the jungle were restless, and even the sea became rough.
But only those who live on the highest level of the dome know that the real change comes from the dark void——
Ardisac Delgado, the Governor of the Death Star, ran along the corridor, his heart pounding.
The stress had been squeezing through his body for weeks, and he hadn't had a good night's sleep in a long time, always suffering from insomnia.
When he took a rare pause in his rush, he would cover his face with his hands and feel himself shaking.
The Governor walked to the sliding door and pressed the code.
The door opened and he entered the coordination room. There were already dozens of people there, more than the designed capacity.
They were yelling, looking like they were about to fight, and some were pushing each other on the table.
Adisak pushed them away and looked for his assistant Ur Dar.
He walked towards them, weaving around groups of frightened and angry people, and Ur smiled tiredly as he saw him coming.
"You are back, my lord."
Adisak nodded, noticing the smell of sweat coming from the other man's body, but it wasn't his fault - they'd been trapped in this unventilated room for a long time.
Astropath Sherazade Farley also nodded perfunctorily. She was not the type who was good at words.
The Governor looked at her with concern.
"What did you find?"
Astropath shook his head.
"All nodes in the system are shut down, just like ours."
Her voice kept shaking, mostly from exhaustion, but others might mistake it for fear.
"This is wrong, it shouldn't be like this."
Adisark will not easily allow problems to arise on this planet. The governor of Paihua Star is not a family system, but an electoral system. However, he has grown up in this world all his life, and he has devoted his life to ensuring that the products of Paihua Star can be sold in the best quality. Survive, transport and trade with maximum efficiency.
He controls the power of life and death on the entire planet, and has exercised this power more than once, but all to maintain the stability of Xingqiu.
The smooth running of the colony was his whole life.
"The Governor is right, not all Astropath nodes should be extinguished."
The Justice of the Ministry of Justice walked over, his black trench coat looking greasy in the dim light.
"Then you can try to find it yourself."
Facing the strange voice, the Astropath retorted mercilessly:
"See if there are any nodes still running."
"Everyone calm down, we have to work together now."
Governor Adisak tried to calm down.
"So, up to now, this is what I know about the situation. The internal communication of the galaxy is malfunctioning. The orbital network is malfunctioning. The galactic patrol fleet is missing. There may be something else running in the subspace node in the void, but there is also It would take hours to find out.”
"Attica's main scanning array is still operational."
Gordon Drake, the head of the Mechanicum of the Pavilion, came over dragging his metal quadrupeds.
He viewed the set of problems as technical and took a tinge of pleasure in its inscrutability.
"Maybe it's an electromagnetic storm from the star."
"Electromagnetic pulse burst? Not likely, it doesn't explain everything, like the Astropaths."
Astropath Director Sherazade still remembered what she saw in the ancient steel astropath tower south of the main defense station. She vomited for a long time and discovered that there was something worse than the blade that was caught in the automatic threshing machine. Worse way to die.
The three apprentices in the Astropathic Tower were all dead, and their corpses were evenly spread on the walls, as if they had been run over by a Leman Russ.
"The last messages we received were a few oral transcripts recorded on automatic typewriters. Most of them were standard astrological babbles, but then everything went wrong. I couldn't understand anything. One of them started drawing. Draw, draw something... all scary."
The person in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs seemed increasingly impatient.
"Word got out that Attica had two million inhabitants, and once they started to panic—"
"No one is panicking."
Adisak said firmly, and turned to look at the defense chief of the hive.
"Where is Colonel Stryker?"
"Recently, there have been cultist riots in several explorer fortresses. He led a team out to suppress them. According to the news sent back, it is over. Now he is on his way back. He will surely arrive soon."
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