40 Thousand Reasons Chapter 176: Rich

The one constant in 40k? It can always get worse. And it will.

Fending off the Tyranid assault should have worked, even when hamstrung by the very people we were trying to defend.

The fleet did its job, massacring Tyranids by the billion, while the ground troops fought valiantly to protect the Western Periter, the area found between the capital and the nearest mountains.

We had stone walls ten ters high, with Titans and Knights firing in support, then attack drones and Interceptors in the air, plus corvettes and Drop-cruisers proving low orbit fire support.

In places, the wall was ten ter thick as well, to allow tanks to provide heavy weapon fire in support of the artillery. Ard Sentinels and Tarantula turrets, even the less-impressive maned ? Well, surely Trazyn would be anable to reverse-engineer them for . And I bet he did not have a Grey Knight in his collection either.

Humanity might have lost this world, but I will make sure we ca ahead for it. The Grey Knights foolishly kept their anti-chaos weapons as a tight secret, when all the Imperium could use them and withstand Chaos with so degree of success.

Even if only the Forge Worlds and the Astartes Chapters had psycannons it would be great, but the Adepta Sororitas had a million tis more available troops.

Soon enough, the last Greater Demon was shredded and sent back to Warp in tiny pieces by the Tyranids, and I got to burn yet another world. Not before I collected the Tyranid bio-titans I wanted, plus my well-deserved share of tallic asteroids and everything of value I could steal.

My stores of torpedoes and Nova Shells were empty once again, and I had billions of people to resettle or convert into productive servitors for my own Forge Worlds.

And even better, this Cardinal World had nine trillion thrones in its treasure vaults, a sum so imnse it would be hard to spend.

Nobody could sell nine thousand torpedo destroyers or several battleships. Oh well. I guess I could increase the children suport program in my empire, plus purchase anything nice. I was rich!