Travel to Warhammer 40K with Gray Wind.

Chapter 71 Conscription
Koroniai tried hard to resist the desire to crawl out of the cave to eat Bao's leaves, and answered Gray Wind's question in a low voice:

"...I'm very hungry. Every time I smell it, the smell of Bao, the feeling of hunger will become stronger. It's a desire on the genetic level, urging me to swallow it, as if it can be slightly relieved, that eternal hunger..."

Gray Wind blinked, not quite understanding Coronial's answer, she had never felt hungry before.

This is actually a very dangerous signal. It is impossible that only the Koroniai Hive Fleet is hungry for Bao’s body. The eternally echoing hunger signal comes from the Great Devourer, from the hive will above all swarms.

One day in the future, the endless sea of ​​insects covering the sky and the sun will eventually submerge Faya, and the shadow of the Great Devourer will surely surround the Milky Way and extinguish the starry sky... Russell knows this well.

But that was a long, long time later. As far as he knew, the main force of the "Leviathan" Hive Fleet would not start approaching Terra until the 42nd millennium.

More than 2000 years is always enough.

In addition to Bao as the staple food, Russell also brought Koroniai some snacks that he didn't like very much, that is, the corpses of the perfect warriors and the remaining limbs burned by the Son of Change.

These dirty flesh and blood tainted by chaos would probably be disgusting to eat, but the gene-seed sequences inside were still intact, and it would do no harm for Russell to let Coroniai collect some data about the space warriors.

After finishing these, Russell stepped on the Gray Gu fighter and left Planet 2, but left the Gray Gu mothership in the orbit of this planet, it has other tasks.

Russell's help to Coroniai was not limited to providing biomass and genetic data. After the assimilation of the nanoplanet and the construction of the L-star gate were completed one after another, Gray Wind, who was freed up, was finally able to carry out some additional infrastructure construction on Planet 2.

For example, the stellar pulsation that is the most troublesome for Koroniai can be solved by building a planetary shield generator at the north and south poles of the planet.

This thing is much easier to use than the atmosphere.

At the same time, the two fine gold keels of the Ark of Bliss and the Oracle of Truth have also been sent to the nano-planet in the innermost ring of the critical base galaxy.

In addition to letting the planet-scale nano-robot cluster analyze the composition and structure of pure gold, Russell mainly intends to use these two ready-made keels as the basis to build two brand new battleships of his own. He once promised to take Gray Wind to Espernes after the L-star gate is opened. It is impossible to let Gray Wind itself go.

There are many things to do, but fortunately Russell does not have to do it himself. With the help of automatic machinery, he only needs to arrange the tasks one by one in an orderly manner, and then wait for the results. This is the joy of farming.

But some things still need to be handled by Russell himself... such as tariffs.

After leaving the critical base galaxy and returning to Falla, all kinds of complicated news were delivered to the governor's desk through various channels.

For example, the great purge initiated by the Inquisition, the factional disputes within the Adeptus Mechanicum, and the investigation of the whereabouts of the Chaos battleship by the Ministry of Justice... Among the many incidents, there are only two that Russell really cares about.

First of all, after the warp space storm dissipated, Falla finally received the star language from Nirvana and learned about the situation there.

Under the leadership of the prophetess, the forces of chaos that invaded the core galaxy have been repulsed.Nirvana's star gate is undergoing emergency repairs, and it will be restarted in about 2 years at the earliest, and it is optimistically estimated that it will only take less than 1 year.

The existence of the L-star gate was originally top secret, but there is no impenetrable wall in the world. After the actual construction of the star gate begins, there will always be a few vague information spreading from various channels.Therefore, those who knew the inside story of this project were no longer limited to the few people who attended the meeting of the prophets.

And if there were still people who doubted the authenticity and reliability of the L-star gate and took a wait-and-see attitude.Well, after experiencing two consecutive chaos attacks, anyone with a discerning eye can see the tricks in it.

The old-school aristocrats in the core galaxy and the high-level traders in the major star regions have started their own actions. They know too well what unrestricted traffic means.

Especially the ship toll tax that will inevitably be collected after the L-Stargate network is completed, that is, customs duties.Under the absolute size of the empire, even the slightest fluctuation in taxes and fees will bring astronomical wealth, and this is exactly the topic that nobles and business guilds need to discuss with Russell.

Just thinking about it gives me a headache.

The other thing is, the rebuilding of the Penitent Fire Chapter.

This tragic battle group has suffered heavy losses in successive battles. The home planet was destroyed and the institutional system was destroyed. Now there are less than 40 people left in the thousand-member battle group, and a few of them have died of serious injuries and need to enter Fearless.

In other words, if a small battle group has fought to this level, it will basically be considered annihilated, and the remaining remnants will generally be merged into the mother group or other brother sub-groups.

But thanks to the excellent gene-seed stability of the Dark Angels and the important strategic position of Falla, the Repenting Fire group, which has kept a large stock of gene-seeds, can get the full support of the Mechanic Order, and even ask for support from the mother group. It is not difficult to rebuild the organization.

The only problem that gave Miraak a headache was the source of troops.

The cultivation of Astartes monks is a long process, which generally requires rigorous screening and cruel training starting from adolescence, and only the best of them can be qualified to implant gene seeds and perform a series of follow-up transformation operations
Even after all the transformation operations are completed, a recruit will generally not be awarded power armor immediately. Instead, he needs to serve as a scout and other auxiliary arms in the battle group, and after a period of qualifications, he can get the honor of wearing ceramic steel power armor and turning into a can.

Such perverted recruitment standards doomed the Astartes to not recruit quickly, and the blow suffered by the Penitent Fire Chapter was even more devastating.

Not only the official combatants, but even the recruits who hadn't put on their armor, and the candidate teenagers who hadn't implanted their gene seeds, almost all died in the fierce bloody battles.

The fire source of repentance itself was completely cut off.

As a battle group stationed in Falla, under such circumstances, they should recruit teenagers with sufficient qualifications from Falla to select recruits from them, but there is a problem.

——Under the publicity of the state religion, the selfless achievements of the great living saint governor are well known throughout Falla, and the name of the saint chosen by the emperor is passed down from nobles to commoners.

The young generation grew up listening to Russell's deeds from birth, and regarded him as a hero, an idol... and the savior of Falla.

Conscription in such a place with an extremely strong personality cult atmosphere, even if the recruit training process of Astartes includes mental training items such as spiritual hypnosis, it is still impossible to truly avoid the influence of Russell's personal prestige on the internal thoughts of the Confessions of Fire.

Because they are not recruiting on a small scale, but rebuilding the organization from scratch when the entire battle group is almost wiped out.

A battle group has a standard establishment of 1000 people. After reconstruction, less than 40 of them are original members. The other 900 people are all born and raised here. They are Falla teenagers who have deeply respected the planetary governor since childhood...

This is already worthy of the vigilance of any imperial official.

Especially Milak, who knew about the relationship between Russell and the star bomber, felt even more disturbed.

(End of this chapter)