Within House Yaeger's home star system, 9,000 battleships began to lift off directly from asteroids and various structures, then completed their assembly.
3,000 Glorious gloriana-class battleships and 6,000 Emperor-class battleships—what an immense force this was!
These battleships, to be honest, were already relatively old; they were manufactured when House Yaeger was still the governor of the Segmentum Obscurus.
The appearance of the Dominion fleet would provoke a necron reaction, but at that time, House Yaeger was also the governor of the Segmentum Obscurus, so they had to protect the security of the Segmentum Obscurus.
Therefore, to ensure that the necrons were not attracted, and also to protect the security of the Segmentum Obscurus, House Yaeger prepared such a fleet.
To build this fleet, House Yaeger spent a full year manufacturing all these battleships, bringing them off the production line.
The total number of battleships produced in the same batch was 7,000 emperor-class battleships and 3,600 Glorious gloriana-class battleships.
However, in the second year, the patriarch of House Yaeger made another decision: House Yaeger would no longer serve as the Sector Governor of the Segmentum Obscurus.
This led to these battleships being immediately put into storage by House Yaeger as soon as they were produced.
And they remained in storage until now, as the losses of the merchant fleet were truly minimal.
Nearly 10,000 years had passed, and the total losses of the merchant fleet amounted to only 20 emperor-class battleships and two Glorious gloriana-class battleships.
The last time a Glorious gloriana-class battleship was lost was during the Gothic War, damaged by the daemon of the Warp.
When 9,000 battleships floated in the starry cosmos, such a spectacular sight was enough to render everyone speechless.
At the same time, as the flagships for these 9,000 battleships, House Yaeger also brought out 17 phalanx-class vessels.
These seventeen phalanx-class ships were built by House Yaeger during the Great Crusade.
They were originally intended to be given to each Primarch so that they would all have their own flagship, but they were never delivered.
When these phalanx-class ships were completed, it was precisely the time of the Great Pilgrimage.
The Imperium was already in turmoil; how could House Yaeger possibly hand these battleships over to the various Primarchs?
It was for this reason that none of these battleships were ever delivered.
And now, these battleships were finally put to use, truly confirming that old saying:
"Our fleet blots out the sky, no matter how many suns are in the heavens!"
This saying became a tangible reality.
When 9,000 battleships appeared in the deep cosmos, the radiance of the stars themselves lost their original brilliance.
Immediately after, this fleet began to activate their Warp drives.
White light began to gather around them, and simultaneously, under Zeke's command, his Terran Dominion fleet also began preparing for Warp jump.
The battle plan was very simple: first, House Yaeger's Imperium of Man Iron Men fleet would act as the vanguard, directly thrusting into the vicinity of Cadia.
These battleships would attract the attention of the chaos daemon, engaging them in battle. Then, within a maximum of one day, the Terran Dominion's fleet would also arrive at the battlefield.
While the attention of these daemon was drawn by these 'meat shield' battleships, the Terran Dominion's battleships would fire with full force upon the chaos daemon.
This was the operational plan, a straightforward and unpretentious one.
However, it could be described as brute force; when so many battleships attacked together, no matter how powerful the chaos daemon were, they were bound to struggle.
After all, while other technologies of the Imperium of Man might not be top-tier, their Void Shield technology was truly excellent, and moreover, these were all battleships.
The battle on Cadia was exceptionally fierce at this time. Abaddon once again dispatched his Black Legion, accompanied by a large number of chaos daemon, to launch an attack on the planet Cadia.
His goal was very simple: to do his utmost to destroy Cadia, then destroy the blackstone pylons, allowing the Chaos Gods to intervene personally.
These chaos daemon fleets had to be dealt with, even if it was Tzeentch's scheme.
Because whenever Abaddon looked at these chaos daemon fleets, he felt a deep-seated fear.
As the warmaster of chaos, he believed his fear was not unfounded.
However, his Black Legion was clearly no match for that force, so he could only place his hopes on Tzeentch.
He would use all his strength to shatter the blackstone pylons on Cadia.
This would grant Tzeentch, having achieved sufficient change, enough divine power to intervene in the real universe and annihilate this chaos daemon fleet.
To achieve this objective, Abaddon was even fully armored at this moment.
He was prepared that if the attack did not go smoothly, he would personally lead the charge to destroy the blackstone pylons.
Moreover, because his Blackstone Fortress had disappeared, he had specifically sought out the Red Corsairs to reclaim the Blackstone Fortress.
If... if his plan failed, then he would disregard all martial ethics and directly smash the Blackstone Fortress into Cadia.
Even if it meant losing a Blackstone Fortress, he was determined to utterly pulverize Cadia.
It was hard to describe Abaddon's state of mind at this moment.
Perhaps, from a certain perspective, he was indeed fighting for this universe; this matter could only be blamed on Tzeentch.
The warriors on Cadia now faced the full might of the attacks from chaos and the Black Legion. The Black Legion committed over 160,000 chaos Space Marines to this assault.
"And more than 2,000 chaos corrupted titans, along with some chaos Dreadnoughts, were also thrown into this battle."
In addition, a large number of auxiliary forces, cultists, and chaos daemons appeared, forming a massive offensive tide.
They crashed against the Cadia soldiers' defenses, and the Cadia soldiers, who had already endured two consecutive strikes, could no longer withstand it.
Though the High Castellan, protected by the Custodes, still valiantly commanded the battle, he could not change the overall situation.
Even with 100 of the 101 Custodes having already joined the fray, it was still the same.
chaos daemon surged forward like a sea; even with the formidable combat power of the Custodes, they could not fully block these daemon.
Collapse was underway.
The laser guns in the hands of the Cadia soldiers continuously fired at the chaos forces charging towards them.
But how could laser guns have any effective impact on the chaos Space Marines?
Not only that, but the chaos titans relentlessly used the turbo-lasers in their hands to eliminate the last vestiges of resistance from the Cadia soldiers.
In the face of the massive chaos offensive, the resistance of the Cadia soldiers seemed utterly meaningless... their defeat appeared imminent, as ordinary mortals found it incredibly difficult to make a difference in a war of this magnitude.