Chapter 6: The Imperial Frontier: Imperial Space Station

The apron of the space station was completely dark. All the lights, landing indicators, and even the display lights on the hatches were all off. There was no sound at all, only a chilling silence.

This place was like the dark universe outside the light of the Emperor's sacred star torch. Everything was shrouded in a cold silence, and everything was floating in this dead silence.

But gradually, a little bit of light began to illuminate this dark world, from a little bit of dim blue light, until it turned into a scorching beam shining like the sun.

The Thunderhawk gunship slowly moved from the take-off exit to the apron. The vector jet spewed flames, and all the darkness was lit up by the flames. The jet gradually moved down with a rumble, and slowly let the Thunderhawk land on the apron.

The hatch of the gunboat opened with a bang, and a huge figure stepped out, followed by the second one. Four Death Watch Astartes stepped out. They all wore helmets belonging to their own regiments, but all of them were painted black. Bright headlights shone from them, instantly clearing the remaining darkness.

The Astartes monks, holding explosives and melee weapons, surrounded the deck of the Thunder. Vito also walked out from the cabin. He wore a closed helmet and his magnetic shoes drove a little fluorescent lightning with every step.

The Inquisitor stepped down from the Thunderhawk and looked around. It was obvious that the gravity system and life support system here had been disconnected or destroyed.

Vito nodded slightly to Ragnar. The Space Wolf held a chain saw axe and strode towards a half-closed internal entrance hatch. Ragnar tore the door open directly, threw the door leaf to float behind him, and strode into the corridor, looking around with blue eye glasses.

"Everything is safe, brothers." The communicator in his helmet said, and then he took two more steps inside, and then the remaining visitors followed his footsteps.

The Space Marines walked in the corridor, they surrounded Vito in the middle, like a huge wall blocking all possible design positions, heavy footsteps stepped on the dead corridor of the space station, except for the vibration of the iron boots, there was no movement, and it was dead silent as if it had been abandoned for a long time.

Bell passed by a billboard with a notice posted on it. "It looks busy here, at least before we came."

"This kind of space station usually has hundreds of people on board. Even if it was attacked here, we should see at least one body." Lancelot said, pushing away a broken table in front of him. The broken fragments gently hit the wall, and then slowly floated to other places.

"I agree with him, Vito, there was obviously a firefight here." Ragnar said, turning his head and illuminating the wall on one side with the headlight on his head. There were clearly several bullet holes on it.

Vito stopped, and the four Space Marines also stopped. They stood behind and beside Vito, and looked at the bullet holes on the wall with him.

"Solid bullet gun, not explosive bullet." Lancelot quickly concluded, and Olaf tilted his head and looked to one side of the corridor, "Someone is running and fighting here, maybe the guards are trying to fight back against the invaders?" "If so, then both sides definitely don't mind dying with the enemy."

Ragnar's voice sounded at the other end, and everyone followed the voice. Before they got to the front, they saw the huge gap in the cabin wall. A big hole was torn in the corridor of the entire space station, directly exposed to the universe.

Vito squatted down and gently ran his fingers across the fragments on the cabin wall. He looked at the powder on his fingers.

"The rockets were fired hastily and very unwisely. I guess many people were killed by the explosion instead of being sucked into the universe."

"But we didn't see any bodies. Do you think the invaders took the bodies away? Or did they do it on purpose?" Olaf said in surprise, "But what enemy would do this? The perverted blood of the Dark Eldar?"

"No, those perverts like living people, not corpses." Ragnar said, patting the bulkhead with his palm, "and we didn't see any traces of Eldar weapons. Their fancy things can easily leave traces."

"You're right, Ragnar, it's not the Eldar." Vito stood up, but Olaf looked confused, "I can't think of what enemy it would be, Inquisitor. Besides, what value does this space have that is worth the invaders' trouble?"

"I don't know, but I think we can find the answer in the command tower." Vito said, leading the way to the dark corridor, and the four Space Marines followed closely.

It didn't take them long to find the command tower. All the Empire's space stations were built according to a template standard. Even if the exterior looks very different, the internal structure is roughly the same. Once you've been to one space station, you probably know the rest.

Vito and the four Death Watch have been to many space stations, many of which are not pleasant. It takes a lot of time to shoot and hack people.

But it's much easier here. They successfully came to the command tower. It's also empty here. A giant semi-arc glass wall is located in the front. The Empire Golden Eagle hangs on the dome, and under the tall dome are countless mechanical teaching instruments.

Like many places in this space station, there are traces of conflict everywhere. Vito walked to the stationmaster's position. There was a bullet hole on the back of the chair and dried blood on the leather chair.

Not only that, almost the entire operating platform was destroyed. The perpetrators used firearms and blunt objects to violently destroy the dials. Every instrument and fortune teller was destroyed.

"Bell, check if there is any surviving data. I guess these idiots don't understand the operating principles of the machine." Vito just said it, but in fact, Bell had already started doing this.

He used the multifunctional tool table on his arm to cut open a data terminal, and after some fumbling, he pulled out a black hard drive. "Obviously, these idiots thought that destroying the mechanical dials would destroy them. All heretics have the same virtue." sex."

"Wow, don't let the Adeptus Mechanicus know about it, or those guys will have another attack." Ragnar said with a smile, watching Bell plug the interface into the hard drive, the Ultramarine stood up, and checked other things in the helmet. data on.

"This space station detected an ominous sign a month ago. According to the data, there was a mutation in the stars at an undetermined distance." "That kind of mutation?"

Vito asked, Bell was silent for a moment, and quickly gave the answer, "Some constellations have disappeared, or can no longer be observed. The technicians of the space station thought it was a subspace storm and reported it to the station commander. "

"Is there anything else?" "The webmaster agreed and asked the astropath to send an alarm to the main star during the window period of a few days, and then the record was disconnected."

Vito frowned slightly, walked to the command podium and looked down. Every instrument was destroyed, "It seems that the intruders tried to prevent them from issuing a warning, and succeeded."

"In addition to the request for help sent by the Astropath, maybe it was due to the subspace storm, but it was received by us." Lancelot said and rubbed the dashboard, but the thing didn't respond at all.

"Guys, I think you will like this news." Bell said and walked towards the crowd. "A shuttle of the space station left the station. According to the last record, it should be after the exchange of fire."

Olaf took a step forward, "It means that this was a rebellion in the space station. The traitors massacred the entire space station, and then the traitors have now escaped on the shuttle."

"But do they need to take away the body?" Lancelot asked, and Vito shook his head, "This question is not important for the time being, and we have no way to answer it."

"How do we find them?" Ragna asked immediately, obviously impatient. Bell was silent for a moment. "The data shows that the shuttle's fuel is very limited. It seems that most of the fuel was used by an Imperial Navy ship passing by. The ship is gone and the remaining shuttles are short of fuel."

"Can you calculate where they are going?" Vito stepped forward and asked, Bell's white helmet nodded slightly, "According to calculations, the maximum fuel of the shuttle can be used by the escapees to reach the nearest imperial planet, the agricultural world Owen -4.”

Vito walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling glass, looked at the distant stars, and then activated the communicator, "Cole, we have discovered something. Set the coordinates to go to Owen-4."

Vito stopped as he spoke, turned his head and looked at the punctured station chair, "Don't let anyone find us."

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