Kepler 9's Warning - Part 1: Kepler 9's Silent Abyss
During the reign of Emperor Valerian Mengsk of the Tyranid Empire, the Empire's Edge System Development Department dispatched an advance survey team composed of four elite soldiers and scientists to board the Icarus transport plane and land on the edge planet code-named Kepler 9.
In the official propaganda of the empire, this planet is a "livable paradise" with suitable air, pure water and comfortable temperature. However, when the team landed, they were greeted by an extremely strange silence: there was no wind at all on the entire planet, no metabolic reactions of microorganisms could be detected in the atmosphere, and there were not even any traces of life activity. It was like an ashes in absolute silence.
During the subsequent in-depth investigation, the team discovered the ruins of a scientific research outpost that the empire had lost contact with a few years ago. The exterior walls of the ruins appeared to be torn apart from the inside by strong acid and giant claws, and the surface of the ruins was covered with low-temperature and beating dark purple slime and mesh-like mycelium. Field scientist Li Jing was shocked to find a regular physical signal by extracting geology: a biological electromagnetic pulse that occurs every 12 seconds from deep underground.
It turns out that Kepler 9 is not a dead world, but a secret area where "psionic energy transmitters" and "secondary brain worm" control experiments were conducted during the old Federation period. With the departure of the Queen of Blades and the division of the swarm, the zerg here fell into a deep dormancy. The team's landing, the roar of the spacecraft's engine, and Li Jing's own weak spiritual energy completely awakened the entire sleeping main hive world.
