Warhammer 40k Origins Stellaris Civilization Simulator

"So, our tactics were ineffective."

Another overlord said in a low voice, with resentment in his voice.

Even the crazy Chief General Zandrak stopped chattering about the surrender of "those necrophiles on the other side".

The overlords remained silent, they were trapped in a dead end.

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Chapter 143 "Change Your Thinking"

The flames of war in the void still rage, the stalemate on the battlefield having raged for a long time. The Sotek Dynasty's Necron Fleet, like a legion of the dead awakened from the depths of the stars, with its immortality and cold rationality, has left a terrifying scar on the galactic battlefield.

However, facing the iron wall of the Federal Military State, their offensive was like a wave, but they could never destroy the huge rock.

Initially, they attempted to infiltrate the enemy's command system with elite Phase Assassins and Death Mark troops to eliminate the Federation's strategic core. However, this strategy proved to be futile.

The generals of the Federation have long surpassed individual existence in the traditional sense. Their spirits are linked by a network of thoughts, forming a terrifying collective intelligence.

Whenever a general falls, his experience, tactical awareness, and combat intuition will be instantly absorbed by all soldiers, and other commanders on the battlefield can immediately take over the tactical deployment.

Not only did the federal army not fall into chaos because of the decapitation operation, but it became more calm and efficient. Coupled with the counterattack of the federal super soldiers, the assassin team of the Sotek Dynasty was almost wiped out, and their efforts were in vain.

After accepting this fact with indifference, the Overlord generals quickly adjusted their tactics. Since assassination could not shake the foundation of the federal army, they would use more covert and far-reaching methods to sabotage it.

The Destroyer Lords were recalled. They were the most adept at information warfare in the Sotek Dynasty. They could manipulate electronic plagues, control battlefield machinery, and even invade the core systems of enemy warships and use them for their own purposes.

Accompanying them were the electronic technicians. These ancient mechanical wisdoms had woven an unbreakable information maze before the Undead Empire fell into hibernation. Although their power had decreased due to their long sleep, they were still enough to subdue the Federation's not-so-advanced computer system.

They believed that if they could seize the Federation's information network, they could tip the scales of the war.

The Necromancer's information and hacker war begins.

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Deep within the pitch-black void, an invisible battle quietly unfolds. The Destroyer Lords release electronic viruses to infiltrate the Federation's tactical terminals, while their electronics technicians use spy signals to try to break through the Federation's command network.

However, their attack only achieved results in the early stages. When the Federation reacted, Sotek's information offensive encountered unprecedented resistance.

The Federation's response is simple; they have several "computer" options.

Psychic Precognitive Interface. This technology, unique to the Federation's psychic system, relies on a powerful psychic to personally control the system, rather than using AI.

The Federation's psykers are not isolated individuals, but are deeply integrated into the combat network, their predictive abilities being used to detect battlefield threats and make battlefield decisions.

They can perceive every energy fluctuation and every signal transmission. Their predictions are more accurate than those of normal computer arrays, and because they can predict the future, they have unique advantages over ordinary tactical computers.

At the same time, the existence of intelligent combat computers based on synthetic personality matrices makes the Federation's defense mechanism even more difficult to penetrate. These tactical cores are not rigid traditional artificial intelligence.

Not only do they possess the ability to self-learn and strategize, they can also adjust their strategies in real time, and even reverse-track Necrons hacker attacks during their self-evolution. Coupled with the data encryption of their mysterious coding system, even Necrons technicians have no way of infiltrating.

However, this was not the most fatal thing. During the invasion, the electronic technicians of Zortec suddenly discovered a tactical computing system that they had never seen before.

They are not machines cast from metal, nor are they entities condensed from psychic energy, but rather a thoroughly biological intelligence.

The Federal Military State has actually created a "space combat biological brain", using the physiological structure of the Reverse Super Beast and the Space Leviathan as a basis to create a purely biological computing body.

They have no mechanical vulnerabilities and are not susceptible to electronic viruses. Although their computing power is insufficient, they are immune to all electronic tactics.

The Sotek overlords were stunned. They prided themselves on being the galaxy's foremost civilization in information manipulation, yet the Federation, with its comprehensive and inconceivable technological system, shattered their advantage. This wasn't just a technological overpowering force, but a clash of mindsets.

After analyzing the battle situation, the Overlord generals silently closed the holographic tactical map. Their second plan had completely failed.

But they won't stop.

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The legions of the undead are tireless. They have no fear, no emotions (at least the lower-level ones don't). They only calmly analyze and find new breakthroughs.

Since information warfare doesn't work, let's try a more direct approach - completely destroy the Federation's tactical network, leaving them defenseless.

With the opening of Zortec's Tomb Fortress production line, an even deadlier weapon has been unleashed: the Tomb Scarab Drone.

These tiny mechanical creatures are one of the most terrifying tactical tools of the Sotek Dynasty. They are nanoscale messengers of death, capable of devouring all matter and reducing warships, fortresses, and even planets to ruins.

Hundreds of trillions of tomb scarabs created countless swarms of micro-robots, which spread across the universe like a silent plague.

The Tomb Scarabs' attack quickly achieved initial success. They breached several frontier lines, gnawed at several Federation fortresses, and spread across the enemy warships like a black tide of death. However, the Federation's response was beyond Sotek's expectations.

Rather than rushing to use conventional weapons to expel them, they unleashed a counter-presence.

Another swarm of gray goo nano drones.

This was a truly microscopic war, with countless microscopic combatants battling in the vacuum, biting, splitting, devouring, and recombining each other. The Tomb Scarabs tried to destroy everything, but the Federation's nanodrones fought them in kind, surrounding, capturing, and destroying them.

They were now being mercilessly counterattacked by the Federation's Gray Goo cluster, with both sides locked in a tight fight, unable to make an inch of progress.

At the same time as this nano war, a destructive weapon was once again thrown into the battlefield: the antimatter void cloud appeared again.

As early as when the first antimatter annihilation cloud was released, the Undead had suffered from this Leviathan energy creature.

This is not an ordinary particle storm, nor a high-energy explosion, but an extremely terrifying antimatter annihilation weapon.

One after another, countless void clouds exploded in the scarab, annihilating it in an unstoppable manner and completely depriving the hive of its material basis.

The offensive of the Tomb Scarab was completely contained, and after just a few interstellar days, the entire swarm tactics were completely declared a failure.

The battlefield was once again at a stalemate.

The dominant generals of the Sotek Dynasty looked at the battle situation on the holographic projection and felt an unprecedented sense of oppression for the first time.

Each of their tactics had been cracked and suppressed by the Federation's diverse battlefield technologies, and it seemed they still hadn't given their all.

The Death Legion stood still on this scorched battlefield. The intergalactic war continued.

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Chapter 144: The clash of decisive weapons.

On the endless battlefield between the stars, the bells of war have been ringing for too long.

The scales of time and space became blurred in this epic war, and even light years were no longer a standard for measuring the scale of the battlefield.

The warships of the Sotek Dynasty attacked the defense lines of the Federal Military State like a tide, wave after wave. They fought in the name of Imotekh, and attacked those who were still alive with the will of the cold metal dead.

But even if they were immortal, even if their armies once swept across the galaxy in distant times, they were helpless in the face of the Federation's countless fortresses forged of steel and will. Their offensive could never shake the endless defensive array.

Storm King Imotekh's patience has been completely exhausted. He is stepping up efforts to deal with other internal and external enemies before arriving at the front line to lead the army in person.

But before that, the former conqueror of the galaxy, the emperor who commanded countless undead, authorized the overlords to use the most terrible weapons to tear apart the foundation of the federation.

Under the command of King Sotek, Orikan the Scryer was summoned to the War Council. Orikan, a necromancer known as the "Chief Scryer," possessed terrifying technological capabilities capable of warping reality, and it was rumored that he even attempted to replace the C'tan.

He can accurately "predict" the future that has never happened, and can also look back at the past that has been buried in history. His power goes beyond simple time manipulation. In his hands, the past, present, and future are nothing more than doors that can be opened and closed at will.

When Orikan entered the core of the Sotec Dynasty's warship, his will was projected into the boundless flow of time, and he began to weave a shocking time storm.

What he had to do was not to simply distort the time of the battlefield, to speed it up or slow it down, a trick that even the Tau could do, but to directly make the fortresses of the Federal Military State go back to the past before they were built.

As long as these endless interstellar fortresses are regressed to their original form, the Sotek fleet will be able to advance straight into the Federation, tearing through the defenses of the Federation and allowing the glory of Imotekh to reign over the galaxy again.

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The universe began to tremble, the tides of time surged, and the warriors of Sotek felt the power of the intersection of past and future. Countless fortresses began to blur, their forms seeming to gradually dissipate. The outlines of some warships also became blurred, as if about to be swallowed by time itself.

However, just as Orikan was about to complete his reshaping of time, an unshakable barrier appeared before him.

The Omega Array, the Federation's ultimate time defense system, suddenly activated, locking the Federation's existence at the current point in time, making it impossible for Orikan to change the status quo no matter how he modified the timeline.

No matter how he tried to rewrite the past, the Omega Array could anchor everything in the Federation to the present, rendering all time manipulation ineffective. The past changed, so what? We existed in the present, and the concept of time continuity had no effect on the Federation.

Orikan was filled with rage. For the first time, he found himself unable to shake a civilization that was lagging behind the living. He was a master of timecraft among the dead, and the Federation possessed the same technology, leaving him helpless.

The anger of failure spread throughout the Undead Fleet, and the Storm King once again summoned his generals to a royal meeting. This time, under the Storm King's order, they decided to abandon all conspiracies and make a breakthrough in the purest way of war.

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The Undead's trump card began to be deployed.

World Engines, the most terrifying war tools of the Sotek Dynasty. These huge metal planet warships move slowly in the void like stars. Each World Engine is a stellar-level destructive machine that can destroy an entire galaxy with its own energy.

When they were released into the battlefield, the entire galaxy seemed to feel the oppression.

The Federation's interstellar fortresses began to collapse under the impact of the world engine, and the main guns of many fortress crown worlds were destroyed. The Sotek legions felt a slight joy, as if they saw the dawn of victory.

The federal response, however, was devastating.

The Wrathful Moon Colossus, the experimental super battleship hidden deep in the interstellar space by the Federation for debugging, finally appeared on the battlefield.

These warships are larger than planets, and their main guns contain enough energy to destroy entire celestial bodies.

When the Angry Moon Colossus slowly adjusted the muzzle of its gun in the distance, the Overlord on the World Engine just noticed something was wrong, and the next second, the Earth-shattering Star bombing system of the Angry Moon Colossus was activated.

A devastating stream of thermal energy was launched, its heat dissolving the metal shell of the Crown World and detonating the planet's energy core. Finally, a relatively "small" shock wave blew it apart.

These world engines, once the ravages of planets on countless interstellar battlefields, were now ripped apart by a force they could not withstand. Endless cracks and massive amounts of energy spread across their metallic surfaces, and finally, in a celestial explosion, they were shattered by the Wrathful Moon Colossus.

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The fall of the World Engine made the Sotek generals extremely angry. They realized that they had to use the last resort and use the fragments of the Star God.

The Catan Star Gods, these terrifying beings that once ruled the galaxy, are now only broken fragments. But even the remaining power is enough to distort reality and overturn the situation of war.

With the arrival of the Star God's fragments, the entire battlefield was covered by indescribable laws. Reality was torn and reshaped around them. The Federation's fleet began to suffer incomprehensible attacks. Time was disordered, space was folded, black holes were created, and the laws of physics were changed. Some warships were even directly transformed into nothingness by the power of the Star God.

But just as the C'tan Fragments were about to gain a tactical advantage, the Federation's fleet began to behave differently.

Their warships transformed in the light, and the power of Zelo's enchantment led by the psychics covered every warship. All the gun barrels ignited an unprecedented psychic flame, the "burning fire of the gods" that had been proven to be reliable against star gods.

Anger gathered, flames rose, all the ship's guns fired at once, and countless divine fires intertwined into a celestial-level firestorm, spreading across the universe.

The fragments of the Star God wailed in the firestorm. They were once invincible gods, but now they were burning, being dissolved, and being destroyed. They curled up in extreme pain and eventually lost all their fighting ability.

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At this moment, the Undead finally realized that they were facing an unprecedented apocalyptic battle. There was no shortcut in the fight against the Federation, and the enemy could not be solved by any single "artifact" or hero.

Just as the undead felt despair and the tide of battle seemed to be turning, a towering figure descended upon the battlefield. Imotekh, the Storm King, personally piloted his flagship to the forefront. He took in the scene before him—the C'tan consumed by the Burning God's Fire, the Wrathful Moon Colossus destroying the World Engine—and his rage erupted like a storm.

He finally realized the secret of the Federation: these space dragons were the reincarnations of the Old Ones he hated in ancient times. Who else could it be?

Anger overcame all strategies, and Storm King Imotekh tore apart all tactical plans and codes of honor. He no longer tried to find skills or fight gloriously. He required all Undead Dynasties to act according to standard advanced tactical protocols, and those who violated would surely die.

He vowed to use the purest, most modern frontal combat impact to destroy the enemy's protective shell.

The final chapter of the war is about to begin.

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Chapter 145: An army of chicken-thieves and dog-thieves.

So, on the other side of the boundless galaxy, light and fire intertwined, the roar of artillery fire shook the interstellar space, the gravitational storm rolled the fragments of the battlefield, and a war sweeping the universe was reaching its feverish climax.

The war between Storm King Imotekh and the Federal Military State is no longer a simple military conflict, but has turned into an extreme collision of two wills in the new and old eras.

The enraged Undead Dynasty mobilized the World Engine and Star God Fragments in an attempt to crush the Federation's interstellar fortress; while the Federation countered with the Wrathful Moon Colossus and the Burning God's Fire, abruptly turning the tide of the battle.

The entire star field witnessed this extraordinary battle, even the slow-moving Empire was alarmed. But during the most violent stage of this war, another ancient race quietly lurked in the shadows, avoiding the wrath of the Federation.

The war between the Federation and the Storm King was so intense that they had no time to care about the third party who actually started it all.

Or perhaps this third party is just going along with the flow. In any case, the two galactic hegemonies will not tolerate each other's existence.

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The Eldar are one of the oldest races in the starry sea. Their former glory has become a memory, their empire has long since declined, and now, their civilization stands on the brink of destruction.

They believe that in the misty universe, there is a glimmer of hope, a sacred fire that can save their race from destruction.

But the problem is that this flame of hope belongs to the Federation.

When the war between the Federation and the Undead Dynasty broke out, the Eldar's Holy Fire Expeditionary Corps had quietly sneaked into the Federation.

They hid in the shadows, avoiding the Federation's powerful defense system, avoiding those battleships with comprehensive numerical superiority, and the Citadel cannons with the range of the entire galaxy, and traveled through the empty spaces between many galaxies.

They were almost there, but as they advanced into the heart of the Confederacy, some Eldar warriors began to waver. They saw images of the battlefield through interstellar communications.

They saw the collapse of the world engine, the divine punishment of the wrathful moon colossus, and the burning fire of the gods devouring the fragments of the star god.

Among these Eldar there are many young warriors, ethnic groups born after the Great Fall. They have never seen such a terrible war, which has exceeded their cognition and exceeded the limits of what they think their civilization can withstand.

They were afraid.