As he spoke, he transmitted the current state of the dynasty to all the Overlords.
260 Overlords—compared to the 800 during its peak, the Kael'thas dynasty had now lost more than half its fighting strength.
Tens of thousands of Tomb worlds—only one-fifth of which were fully awakened, the rest still in hibernation.
Army Revival Progress:
Necron Warriors: 5% activated, but most are still in an inefficient state.
Destroyer Legions: Only 1% can be used now, the rest require further debugging.
Tomb fleets: Only a few tomb ships (such as Reapers and Scythes) have completed awakening.
Only 80 of the Crypt-class tomb ships have been activated, with the rest still needing to be activated according to protocol.
Larger capital warships like Death Engines have not yet been activated.
A large number of warships still need time for debugging and activation before they can be deployed to the battlefield, but their enemies are far more powerful than them.
So far, their reconnaissance equipment placed at the exits of the Tomb worlds has detected that House Yaeger has activated 120 Eternal-class titan warships and 1,200 Purge-class battleships.
The enemy's warship activation speed far exceeded theirs.
As members of the Infinite Empire, the necron Overlords were well aware that naval warfare at this time truly relied on warships.
Facing the large number of warships already activated by House Yaeger, and their frantic military development over the past 10,000 years, the necrons expressed some condemnation but were helpless.
The Overlords' data streams intertwined in the Royal Court, cold logic analyzing the current situation.
However, their fleet did not look weak, but House Yaeger's fleet was inherited from the Terran Dominion's most advanced and glorious era, and their warships were in no way inferior to the necrons'.
The Nightbringers, who were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, temporarily did not want to go to war with the Terran Dominion Empire; they still needed time, time to activate their own warships.
But the Imperium had already awakened, and it would be truly bad if they did nothing at this point.
A group of necron Overlords engaged in intense data stream exchanges and opinion discussions, finally reaching a conclusion.
Kyltaris—
Use this planet, and then mobilize a portion of necron units to launch an attack!
Use this planet to attract the attention of House Yaeger, and refuse to engage in space combat, instead fighting House Yaeger on the planet.
Since this planet was incorporated into the Segmentum Obscurus's rule by the Imperium of Man, it had become the primary planet for 26 surrounding star sectors.
This planet was home to a staggering 900 billion human inhabitants.
Its location was uniquely advantageous; all 26 surrounding star sectors needed to pass through here.
Its unique geographical location meant it had a sufficient human population.
At the same time, this could be used to prevent House Yaeger from directly blowing up the planet, forcing them to deploy ground forces to engage in attritional warfare on the surface.
Although House Yaeger's Iron Legion was indeed powerful, the necron army was not inferior.
Since both sides played with machines, neither would naturally fear the other.
Furthermore, Gauss weapons could directly eliminate the existence of matter, which led to battles between the two sides being purely loss-making.
They intended to use such small actions to force House Yaeger to engage them on the planet, temporarily rendering House Yaeger's superior navy useless.
This would buy enough time for their own Tomb fleet to revive.
The necron Overlords began to fully exchange opinions and conduct strategic simulations regarding this proposal. After a full five days of strategic simulations, the proposal was passed.
Djedekh Sobek was responsible for executing this tactic.
As for why it was him, the reason was simple: this planet was located at the exit of his Tomb world, and he could completely allow his troops to pour out from there.
When Djedekh Sobek's command was issued via the quantum data link, a dull mechanical roar emanated from deep within Keltaros's crust.
This Tomb world, dormant for ten millennia, began to awaken, its activation process deliberately controlled at the lowest power—like a venomous snake slowly uncoiling, avoiding alarming the raptors in the sky.
It was especially important to ensure that they were not discovered by House Yaeger's fleet, to evacuate the people here in advance, and then initiate orbital bombardment.
It was precisely because of this operation that the Imperial side did not detect any abnormalities and naturally did not report it further.
The consequence of not reporting was that although House Yaeger had once again become the governor of the Segmentum Obscurus, they did not receive this intelligence.
This situation resulted in the necrons encountering almost no obstacles in the early stages, with a large number of necron Warriors pouring out from the tomb exits and entering the planet.
At the same time, to strengthen ground combat forces, Immortals (necron unit) and Destroyers also began to be dispatched from the entrance. However, these necrons did not harm the humans on this planet.
They would never actively kill the humans on this planet.
Because they needed these humans, needed their existence, to prevent House Yaeger from directly using planet-destroying weapons.
If they were to kill all 900 billion humans, then when House Yaeger's space fleet arrived, they would face bombardment from the main cannons of titan warships.
In that case, the necrons' plan would fail; their plan to use ground combat to attract House Yaeger would essentially fail.
While the necrons were executing this plan, the Imperial expeditionary fleet had already begun a massacre of chaos forces and xenos civilizations in the Segmentum Obscurus.
It was precisely because the expeditionary fleet needed supplies that this planet was chosen by the Astra Militarum of the Segmentum Obscurus and was ultimately appointed as a central node planet.
The necrons truly picked a good planet. This planet had now received approval from the Astra Militarum, making it a node planet, leading to a further expansion of its population.
Coupled with the Imperium of Man's own planetary terraforming capabilities, they even managed to marginally terraform several surrounding planets to be habitable.
The Adeptus Mechanicus established an Adeptus Mechanicus Forge world here.
The Ecclesiarchy established a shrine world here, and the Adeptus Arbites established an Adeptus Arbites prison world here.
This further increased the population around this planet, and the necrons, upon seeing this, were overjoyed.
The more humans around Kyltaris, the simpler it would be for the necrons to achieve their planned objectives.
However, the massive increase in population also led to a further increase in the risk of the necrons being exposed.
As the number of Astra Militarum stationed at this transit node grew, the necrons were exposed with the arrival of the Cadia 119th Regiment and the Conscript 13th Guard Regiment.