As long as you die, you are invincible, but in 40K

How did this damn place attract an Arkworld ship?

The second thought is:

Oh no, it seems like I caused it.

For the Ark Eldar, ships and vehicles don’t really matter.

But population is extremely important.

Because the Ark Eldar can almost be said to be the faction with the longest soldier training cycle among the major forces in the entire galaxy.

Due to the existence of the Lady of Thirst, an Ark Eldar needs to hone his skills in the inefficient "Path System" for hundreds or even thousands of years before he can officially become a disciple. Otherwise, he is just a militia - why is it said to be inefficient?

This is because, after hundreds of years of training, this group of serious Eldar warriors are only at the same level as ordinary Space Marines, and are even occasionally beaten by mortals. For example, a large part of the commandos sent by Samhan to the Vigil Star were wiped out by a Storm Trooper... The list of the dead even included a Battlemaster.

It is really hard to imagine what they have been studying over the past few hundred years.

Well, since it takes so long to train a proper Eldar warrior, it means that once they are lost, it is roughly equivalent to a net loss.

Think about it, taking humans as an example, the longest-lived new generation of Space Marines is only at the level of Dante, about 1,600 years old, which is the level of a medium-aged Eldar warrior... If a certain regiment loses hundreds or thousands of such thousand-year-old veterans at one time, how long will it take to train a new batch?

The long soldier training cycle of the Eldar even forced the Dark Eldar to create fast-growing "test tube baby" soldiers to fill the gaps between the lower-level Cabal warriors who often suffered heavy losses.

It is not difficult to understand why the Samhan Ark World would directly send the world ship here.

Losing two or three warships is not a big deal, as long as the people come back. But now not only have the people lost contact, but even the soul stones are nowhere to be found. That's a big deal.

No matter what happened, these Eldar must not die without a trace...at least that's what Zhang Ge thought the Ark Eldar thought.

Well...if it becomes a big deal, it’s not necessarily a bad thing.

The armament accompanying a world ship is extremely powerful. In addition to a large number of warships, there are also a large number of elite Eldar warriors on the world ship itself, so the appearance of things like Kane fragments is not surprising.

"Be prepared to meet the enemy, they are likely coming for us."

Coming from a man in the uniform of an Astra Militarum colonel, this statement had a comical effect, as if an elephant had trekked across the continent just to eat an ant.

But since the person who said this was Zhang Ge, it was no longer a joke, because there would really be two warships and more than 200,000 elite soldiers with complex compositions who believed it.

However, it is obvious that Zhang Ge is not the only one who holds this idea.

Judge Beavis, who was still on the sound array communication, thought Zhang Ge was talking to him, so he responded in agreement:

"Yes, I think so too. These aliens clearly have ill intentions. I have already dispatched a second detachment to warn Vigilant Star, while the remaining fleet will remain here to temporarily block the alien attacks. I hope you can join us."

"Hmm... no, you're covering us. Do you see the size of that ship? Frankly, with the warships currently gathered here, if we were to engage in a space battle, they probably wouldn't be able to survive the first round of attacks, and wouldn't be able to delay the enemy at all."

Hearing this, Inquisitor Beavis immediately understood. He used a tone of "those who understand, understand", as if what he was about to do was not a serious military operation, but a foot bath at the foot massage parlor next door:

"you mean...?"

"Yes, that's what I mean."

That’s right, it’s those two words, the root of all tactics in the Warhammer world - boarding.

However, the difference from planet boarding is that this time the target is an Eldar Ark Ship.

"That's a feasible plan, but you can't go alone. I will lead a troop to go boarding with you."

ps: If nothing unexpected happens, there will be three updates until the seventh update is completed. At present, including this chapter, the progress is 3/7.

Chapter 276 Eldar Worldship

The choice of the boarding tactic is not without reason.

First of all, the Eldar did not seem to expect that there would be a human fleet squatting on the other side of the Webway, so the Ark's accompanying fleet did not immediately cross the Webway with the Ark itself.

Now is the time when the enemy is most vulnerable.

Secondly, on the Inquisition's side, because they had to be wary of Zhang Ge's fleet that could not be scanned, their combat ships had already completed combat preparations, and all combat systems including the void shield had already been fully charged.

Therefore, it is also the time when our side is the strongest.

Of course, the question is why not choose long-range attack?

It's very simple. Although the Ark ship itself is not highly armed, it is really too huge. The light bone armor may be equivalent to the total length of some small ships... With the current size of the fleet, even if the opponent does not fight back at all and just stands there and takes the beating, it will be difficult to sink it in a short time.

Boarding is different, as the Eldar's Ark has a literally hellish design:

Infinite loop.

This thing is made up of a part of the keel structure of the ship itself, and is used to store the souls of those dead Ark Eldar to prevent them from being devoured by Slaanesh. It is roughly equivalent to an artificial and uncomfortable "paradise" - and it is also an extremely amazing source of psychic power.

Once this thing is detonated, even if the entire ark is not destroyed, it will at least lose most of its energy supply.

However, since this thing is so important, will it be heavily guarded?

Nonsense, of course, it wouldn't be surprising even if he was guarding a bunch of Eldar Titans.

But isn’t this exactly what Zhang Ge is pursuing?

"So, what's the plan?"

Zhang Ge asked Judge Beavis.

To be honest, he hoped that the other party had no plan, and would just sail straight over. Unfortunately, Beavis was not that stupid.

He responded:

"The entire energy source of the Black Ship will be used to supply the Void Shield. At the same time, all the psychics escorted within will be burned to maintain the operation of the ship's 'Holy Shield'. In this way, we will have a huge shield."

"You intend to treat a battleship and its entire crew as disposable cannonballs?"

"No—I mean, more than that. All the combatants will be transferred to a frigate, and the remaining ships will meet an honorable sacrifice. Their bodies and all the ammunition they carry will turn into the Emperor's wrath, opening a passage deep into the enemy's ships that the enemy will not expect. Otherwise, it would be impossible for these combatants to break through the alien defenses."

6.

When I talked to him not long ago, I felt that he was quite normal, but I didn't expect that it was just an appearance.

But we have to admit that this is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity... maybe more than a thousand years, maybe even thousands of years, there may not be a time when the Ark Ship is so vulnerable.

Compared to a thousand-kilometer-long ancient elf creation, sacrificing these few people and ships is more than just a good deal, it can be said to be a huge profit.

"I hope your plan will make our sacrifice more honorable."

"Don't worry, you and I will return to the Golden Throne."

Well, if I could really die, then there would be no need for my soul to return.

Shortly after the conversation ended, the ships that were trying their best to stay away from the Eldar Ark to avoid being attracted by its gravitational field changed their direction and gradually gathered inward into a group.

Little by little, the distance between them gradually narrowed to a few hundred kilometers, and even a few hundred kilometers was just the beginning. Finally, when the distance between them was only a few kilometers and the details on the other party's ship could almost be seen with the naked eye, the formation change was barely over.

It was when the formation changed that Zhang Ge and his party had returned to the Valkyrie and were sailing parallel to the frigate protected by other ships in the center... In fact, there was not just one fighter plane sailing parallel to the frigate, but a large number of fighter plane formations were surrounding it.

The plan of using the battleship as a breakthrough weapon does not require the participation of the aircraft on board. After all, a little more weight does not make much difference, so Inquisitor Beavis chose to let the aircraft take off instead of staying in the hull and dying with their mother ship.

In this way, after switching to ground combat, they can at least block the enemy on the surface for a period of time.

"let's start."

This time it was not a private sound array, but Beavis's announcement to almost the entire fleet through global communications.

Those simple words announced not only the beginning of action, but also the end of the lives of the vast majority of people who could hear them.

However, none of the ships hesitated at all.

The assault began.

Under full acceleration, the tail flames of the ships shine like the light of stars, and the particle streams can even be ejected hundreds of kilometers away, like a light band that gradually changes color against the background of the dark universe.

The spearhead, which was wagered with the lives of tens of millions of people, flew like this, streaking with light and flames, and its body gradually approached the incomparably grand white creation.

Closer, and closer.

Until it seemed within reach.

The originally inconspicuous world ship has now turned into a huge wall that blocks the entire view in front. Even the entire fleet seems so small compared to it.

Everything is going according to plan.

But there is one thing that makes people feel uncomfortable, and this uncomfortable point is creeping into everyone's heart.

Why was there no interception?

Not only was there no intercepting fleet, but even the Ark itself did not retaliate.

It shouldn't be like this.

However, there is no turning back now - since the resistance of the vacuum of the universe is so small that it can be ignored, for a ship to "stop", it must go through a "deceleration stage" that is equal to the "acceleration stage" and "advance" in the opposite direction of the forward movement, so as to use its own thrust to offset the forward speed.

But they were now accelerating the whole time and were too close to the Ark, so they had lost the possibility of stopping on their own.

"Prepare for impact."

The moment this sound echoed in the channel, an abnormal sign appeared in front of the ships.

That thing... is very familiar, or rather, too familiar.

It's a subspace gate.

It is the subspace gate opened by the Ark ship.

At this moment, everyone understood why the Ark ship had not carried out any interception before.

But it's too late. As mentioned before, it's too late to slow down now.

In just a moment of thought, without even having time to maneuver, the entire fleet plunged into the dark subspace gate opened by the enemy.

Then turn your attention to the outside world.

It's already chaos.

There was silence in the channel for a moment.

A voice suddenly sounded again.

That was Zhang Ge's voice. He seemed unaffected by the surrounding environment and atmosphere, and remained as calm as when he first arrived at the fleet:

"We still have a chance."

Chapter 277: Concentrate the Void Shield in front of us and leave our fate to the universe

Almost without leaving any space, Zhang Ge continued at the end of the previous sentence.

"All ships, concentrate your void shield energy directly ahead and lock onto the shield's spatial coordinates."

Yes, Void Shield.

This technology erases the barrier between the subspace and the real universe.

In the real universe, it will attack into the subspace to achieve a defensive effect, but in the subspace, this effect will be completely reversed.

In a very short time, the captains of each ship who heard Zhang Ge's words had already thought of this, and their thoughts quickly continued to extend downwards.

Under normal circumstances, this action would be impossible.

Speed, direction.

First, the void shield intercepts "high-speed targets". In space warfare, the standard of high speed is relative to macro-cannon shells. In other words, even if the standard is adjusted to the lowest, no warship can reach that level of speed.

Secondly, the direction after entering the void shield is completely uncertain - after all, this thing is used as a shield. Isn't it a pure waste of energy to consider where the intercepted attack will fly after entering the subspace?

But it's different now.

In terms of speed, after a long period of acceleration, each ship has reached an extremely high speed, which can fully meet the interception standards of the void shield.

In terms of direction, as mentioned before, the Eldar world ships are extremely large, and this naturally brings with it extremely high mass - and a corresponding gravitational field.

Perhaps the Eldar living there could use anti-gravity technology to offset the negative effects of the gravitational field on themselves, but gravity itself would not disappear... In other words, when they approached the world ship, "in front" was a huge gravitational well.

Perhaps, although no one has ever practiced it, considering the impact of gravity wells on subspace navigation, perhaps after passing through the void shield, before being "dispersed" to the surroundings, they can be concentrated back to the location of the gravity well due to the effect of the gravity well.

But even so, even if everything were to go perfectly, it would still mean...

"Do as he says."