Перевод "Domain Region – Maddam Constellation"

Domain Region – Maddam Constellation

With church bells ringing long before the Elder warships arrived in the

Domain Region, the people of Xerah were ready for the worst.

Led by the divinely inspired charge of House Steward Pomik Haromi,

planetary defences were manned to full capacity for the first time in

decades. Under the guidance of Paladins, citizens fortified their homes

with weapons and supplies; streets, causeways, and transit platforms were

all blockaded; tanks, artillery pieces, combat MTACs, assault aircraft,

and anti-aircraft weapons were removed from armouries and assigned to

hastily called-up reserves. These were a war-loving people; their devotion

to God and to their legendary queen made them all but invincible in both

heart and spirit. Nowhere else in Amarr did people act with such courage

or conviction; nowhere else was Chamberlain Karsoth’s irrelevance more

evident than here.

On the nineteenth minute of the Elders’ strike, Pomik was contacted

directly by Grand Admiral Sundara. He reiterated what the House

Steward knew already from Sarum’s warning: to hide the heathens from

the skies. Slaves were rushed underground and sealed inside reinforced

structures at a panicked pace; use any means necessary, the House Steward

warned. Get them off the streets, get them out of the open, give them masks to

breathe in, he proclaimed. Short of those measures, execute them. You’ll

understand why soon enough.

No sooner had the people of Xerah complied when the first Insorumdelivering

drones appeared over the city; the Paladins immediately filled

the air with laser fire to shoot them down. But Pomik screamed for them

to stop.

‘Don’t hit them!’ he pleaded. ‘Let them explode . . . let the infidels fill

the sky with Insorum. Let them fill our lungs with it! Let them think our

slaves are free!’

Grand Admiral Sundara was already charging at full speed when they

arrived.

A thousand Minmatar ships, led by their cursed Ragnorak flagship,

warped into the space above Mekhios, not fifty kilometres from the hulls