We arrived at Pythos right on ti, finding the Black Legion and an Ork Waagh struggling to push through a Tyranid splinter fleet of over a million bioships, covering the entire star system with their Silence.
Perfect cover for my ships, as psykers would be unlikely to detect us.
For so reason, the Orks seed willing to obey the Chaos Champion hurling their Roks and Kroozers in close lee with the Tyranids, giving Abaddon a clear path towards the planet.
"Launch the corvettes and starfighters! Battlecruisers target the Orks only. Battleships engage the Chaos fleet from maximum range, and pick off the escorts first!" I ordered in a second, while sending engagents vectors for our Heavy Cruisers to fire their Nova Cannons at the largest blobs of Tyranid bioships.
Our fleet gently separated into three elents engaging different targets.
Soon enough, the Orks abandoned their march towards the planet and began turning, to engage the swift battlecruisers attacking them from behind.
I tried not to use the tesseract yet, not until I learned what the Chaos fleet would do.
Every minute, a couple of Chaos frigates or destroyers exploded under the barrage of lance batteries, while a couple of Chaos cruisers received a Vortex missile each, splitting their engines apart.
However, Abaddon had brought six battleships and 38 cruisers, plus over 500 escorts, which made his fleet the most dangerous enemy. Tyranid flyers and bioships trying to attack the Chaos forces were brutally repelled and demolished, swarms of Hell fighters and bombers unleashing hell on the poor bugs and scoring thousands of kills with ease.
With a new order, our cruisers changed target and prid the Nova Cannons for volu saturation.
"I hope you won't miss..." I whispered as 30 Nova shells detonated right in the midst of the Chaos fighter swarms, obliterating thousands of Demon engines and their Tyranid enemies as well.
"Vox ssage from Chaos Fleet, Captain." the vox officer said in surprise.
Heh, it wasn't ti to exchange stories, was it?
"Teleportarium rooms, target any open vox channels with lta warheads." I demanded on a whim.
Soon enough, a dozen capital ships had their bridges explode and burn, including a Chaos battleship.
"We let our weapons speak, right?" I asked rhetorically as the Tyranids began turning to engage us as well.
Now it was ti to run. New vectors were sent to my fleet, and we switched course for a clearer path, while laying plasma and Nova mines in our wake.
The Ork fleet conveniently intersected the Tyranid swarms chasing us, while Abaddon decided to ignore revenge for now and head towards s, pushing our lines back again.
"Watch out! There are hundreds of Chaos Sorcerers on that Cruiser!" Rose shouted and pointed at a descending Chaos ship, heading directly for Atika at terminal velocity.
Sadly, there was little that I could do, except teleport munitions in its path. Damn ship was enveloped in a potent Warp field that prevented my tesseract from grabbing onto it.
A Vortex missile managed to deviate the ship and burn out its armored prow, making it crash so 50 kiloters off into the deep jungles.
I let out a deep breath I forgot I was holding, that was too close and almost obliterated my Titans.
anwhile, the Drop-cruisers continued launching drop-pods as did the Chaos fleet. Nobody was willing to back down from this fight.
Then Ork Roks began crushing through the Chaos escorts and landed on the Death World as well, disgorging millions of heavily ard Boyz and ks, while the Ork Escorts fought desperately, or maybe joyously with the Chaos escorts.
Overall, it was kind of what I expected from this fight, and I only needed to let Abaddon make any mistake. Even a tiny one.
Which is when just above the big fight, more ships began to appear. And then even more.
Everyone was ignoring the damn Silence I worked so hard to produce.
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