Chapter 58 Gravity Siphon

Vlahos sat in the captain's chair on the bridge.

He looked at the scene outside the window with a serious look.

Without the need for auspicious instruments or various radar readings, Vlahos could see with his naked eyes through the transparent bridge window the huge monster that occupied most of the bridge window's field of vision.

"Sir, there's a call request from the Dagger," said the attendant standing nearby.

"Connect."

Vlahos said without turning his head.

A half-body holographic image appeared on the instrument nearby.

It was Ogedei, wearing bone-white power armor and no helmet.

Ogedei asked, "Vlahos, what is that?"

Vlahos shook his head slightly and said:

"I don't know. I wanted to ask you something."

"The Warp Engine of the Dagger has failed. My navigator told me that the Warp energy in this star region is very active. I'm afraid we can't make a jump."

Vlahos nodded. "The same goes for the Sotharan."

Ogedei asked, "What do you think?"

Vlahos said: "There is no doubt that this must be another conspiracy of the traitors, but I have not figured out how they are going to carry out their conspiracy yet."

Outside the porthole, a huge mechanical metal structure quietly stood in front of the Sothalan cruiser and the Dagger frigate.

Two space battleships several kilometers long were like two small melon seeds in front of an ugly big potato in front of this metal structure.

This structure is approximately an irregular ellipsoid, crooked and bumpy. If you look closely with a telescope, you will find that it is made up of countless wreckages of spacecraft and ships of various models and styles.

On the large screens on the bridge of the Sothalan, the technical crew had displayed the detailed surface images of the huge metal structure that they had scanned and analyzed for analysis by everyone in the bridge.

The only sounds in the bridge were the busy rustling of the servitors and crew members. Everyone was observing the pictures, and no one spoke.

Sitting in the captain's chair, Vlahos scanned the detailed pictures one by one with a serious look.

"Oh my god, that's..." A technical priest stationed on the ship pointed excitedly at a pattern symbol on the surface of the metal structure's shell and said,

"That's a symbol of the Dark Ages. I recognize that symbol. It appeared in the historical materials introducing the Iron Man Rebellion!"

The technical priest lifted up the dark red hood on his head, revealing a face covered by a metal mask and a breathing tube, and turned to shout at Vlahos:

"My lord, that is a spaceship from the Dark Ages. It must contain technology from the Dark Ages. We need to land on it and explore it, my lord!"

Vlahos shook his head slightly.

He is not a technical priest of the Mechanicus, and the Sotharan is not a scientific research vessel of the Mechanicus. It is a warship belonging to the Space Marine Legion.

As the supreme commander here, he needs to consider the priority of tactical objectives, more intelligence, the soldiers' tolerance for casualties and other factors, instead of letting the lunatics of the Mechanicus follow their own ideas.

"Sir, I remember now. As far as I know, that is the so-called space wreck that once appeared in the Koprulu sector."

A mortal staff officer suddenly said.

"Space hulk..." Vlahos muttered under his breath.

He had heard of this term before, a mixture of warp debris floating in the warp, appearing and disappearing mysteriously in the real physical universe.

This thing is erratic and extremely difficult to defend against. The aliens that come along with space wrecks often bring huge disasters to the local planet.

But the thing in front of him was too big, far exceeding the size of a "ship", it was simply an asteroid.

The Extreme Marines on the Sothalan suffered heavy casualties on the planet Loswell 7, and the teams were incomplete. Taking this into consideration, Vlahos was very hesitant about the suddenly appearing space wreck.

"Vlahos." The holographic projection of Ogedei flickered vaguely on the device. He said meaningfully,

"At our current speed, by the time we reach the solar system, the war will have been over."

Ogedei's words strengthened Vlahos's belief. No matter what was on this group of wrecked space ships, ancient technology, alien creations or something else, at this point in time, nothing was more important than the war on Terra, and everything had to take priority over heading to the solar system.

"I command."

Vlahos said in a deep voice.

"Bow lance, charge and standby, aim at this space hulk, and fire three rounds at full power."

"receive."

The technical priests and artillery officers received the order and operated on the control console, accurately transmitting the firing instructions to the bow light spear group.

A pair of void-severing light spears fixed to the bow of the Moon-class cruiser began to charge.

Vlahos then said:

"Turn left forty-five degrees, broadside macro-cannon array, load, high-explosive bomb, one round, after loading, fire in sequence."

"receive."

The artillery officers in charge of the macro artillery array received orders again and continued their busy operations.

The engine nozzle at the rear of the battleship spewed out blazing flames, pushing the cruiser to slowly turn and move. Huge shells weighing thousands of tons were stuffed into the barrels of the side macro cannons. This row of torpedo-type macro cannon arrays were ready to fire.

Vlahos gave a series of orders at a rapid pace.

Although he had followed Ogedei's advice, Vlahos decided to launch a tentative attack before leaving to see what level this group of space hulks was capable of.

Will it fall apart in a salvo of fire from the Sotharan?

There is no need to aim at all, you can hit the huge target with your eyes closed.

When everything was ready, the thick beam of energy gathered by the Light Lance burst out instantly, hitting the tattered and worn hulk of the space hulk directly.

All three beams penetrated the outer shell without any suspense, and then disappeared into the dark interior without a trace.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"…

There was no sound in space, but the vibration and loud noise from the macro cannon firing still reached the feet of everyone on the bridge.

Huge high-explosive shells blasted balls of flames on the hull of the space wreck. When the flames dissipated, only dark pits were left.

It's really useless.

The Moon-class cruiser is a conventional cruiser and is not equipped with the Nova Cannon that is only equipped on heavy cruisers and battleships. Otherwise, Vlahos would like to try out the power of the Nova Cannon.

"Sublight engines, full speed ahead."

Vlahos gave the order reluctantly.

If you can't afford to offend, just go around. Subspace jump is no longer usable, can't I just drive away slowly?

Blazing white flames spurted out from the tails of both warships, and they turned around and started moving in the same direction.

Just then, suddenly.

The huge metal structure moved.

A huge standard circular pit suddenly appeared in the middle of the space ship.

The deep pit looked very abrupt on the irregularly shaped space hulk, making the entire metal structure narrower in the middle, turning it from an ugly big potato into a twisted big potato.

An invisible ripple emanated from the deep pit and vibrated in the space.

The inertial system on the cruiser failed for a moment, then recovered immediately. Everyone on the bridge was thrown off balance by the shaking ship.

He quickly steadied himself, and the technical priest shouted,

"Sir, look!"

The mechanical tentacle under the dark red robe pointed at the screen, which showed that the output power of the sub-light speed engine was gradually increasing and had reached the maximum power.

However, the battleship's speed on the speedometer was gradually decreasing!

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Until it dropped to zero, the entire battleship had come to a complete stop.

The engine nozzle at the rear is still outputting at full capacity.

But the battleship did not move at all.

Outside the porthole, some small meteorites suspended in space were slowly moving backwards.

"It's pulling us!" said an Ultramarines officer in horror.

"It's a gravity siphon, sir!" the tech-priest said hastily, "The instrument detected that a huge gravity field comparable to a neutron star suddenly appeared on this space wreck. We are being pulled closer to it by its gravity!"

Vlahos's face darkened instantly.

The traitors who colluded with Chaos had made preparations by allowing a space wreck to appear here.

"Turn and find the track of this gravity field, or get out of it directly!"

Vlahos shouted the order.

After some operations, the technical crew member responded anxiously:

"Report to the commander, the steering rudder is out of order!"

"It's useless. This is a vector-direction gravity, which is different from the normal gravity field of the planet. We can't form an orbit around it." said the technical priest.

Everyone on the bridge couldn't help but start talking, and someone suggested using full firepower again to see if they could destroy the deep pit.

Some people objected that the battleship was now facing the deep pit with its stern and the steering function had failed.

Upon hearing this, Vlahos's eyes turned dark. He took a deep breath and calmed down. At a moment when the entire bridge was in a state of panic, the man said in a resounding voice:

"Space Marines, assemble!"

"yes!"

The Ultramarines squad leaders on the bridge responded instantly.

They stood up and began to mobilize their respective teams to gather on the boarding deck.

Vlahos stood up from the captain's chair and said:

"Since we can't escape the pull of gravity, let's just land on it. No matter what tricks the enemy is playing, we will just destroy their equipment!"

There is nothing that can't be solved by joining forces once.

If so, launch another boarding attempt.

Vlahos quickly ordered,

"Select the Terminators from each squad separately and form a spearhead assault squad. The first batch will board the ship using the boarding torpedoes."

"receive!"

"All Space Marines, change to boarding shields, carry double armor-piercing grenades, and change bolters to bolt pistols, plasma pistols, and melta guns."

"receive!"

After a series of dazzling orders were issued, Vlahos turned to the Tech-Priest and asked, "At the current speed, how long will it take for the Sotharan's hull to come into contact with the space hulk?"

"We are still quite far away now. If the suction force remains the same, we are expected to be sucked together with the space hulk in about forty minutes, sir," the technical priest replied.

"Forty minutes... is enough," Vlahos said.

After thinking for a moment, he turned to the Tech-Priest and said calmly,

"If the boarding team still cannot solve the problem when the battleship and the space wreck collide, then activate the emergency plan and detonate the battleship's plasma reactor."

Self-destruct, and perish together with the Chaos traitors.

The technical priest was stunned when he heard this, then he slowly said, "I understand, sir."

Vlahos slowly sat back in the captain's chair, looking straight ahead calmly.

In this battle, he will command from the bridge, and he has already made up his mind to fight to the death with the enemy.

At this time, the holographic projection that had been extinguished lit up again, and the figure of Ogedei appeared on the device.

"Vlahos, are you ready to join the team?"

Faced with the same situation on the Dagger, Ogedei had already guessed Vlahos's choice.

Vlahos nodded.

Ogedei also nodded and said,

"I am sending four Space Marines to join your boarding team. I have only one request: they can only obey the command of Captain Qingshan."

Vlahos said, "Okay... Wait a minute, I remember Qingshan was a sergeant, how come he became a captain?"

Ogedei said, "Just now, I decided to promote him to captain."

Well... Vlahos had nothing to say. This was an internal matter of the White Scars. It was up to Ogedei to give out military ranks however he wanted. It was none of his business.

When the war comes, awarding ranks is a small matter. The key is that with the addition of four new forces, the chances of winning are somewhat increased.

Including Fu Qinghai, there were only seven Space Marines on the Dagger, and four of them coming at once was already the best of the best.

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PS: Thanks to the three book friends, Glasses Who Can Draw, The Silent King, and Book Friend 20170217120417988, for their tips. Wow, I got tips on the first day of signing as a newbie. I just can't do it. I won't say much. Let me show you three how to slide on my knees in the snow.

　This is an important plot. It took me too much time to come up with the idea. It only took me an hour to type. I posted it right after I finished writing one chapter.

(End of this chapter)