Warhammer: Beginning with Planetary Governors

Chapter 164 Ron: I bet Guilliman will faint in the toilet
Ron's answer was:

No need.

This choice was made based on the population situation of the planet Ers.

The characteristics of Little Sun do not allow him to carry out such cruel screening behavior.

Besides, the selection process of many warbands in the Empire is not very reasonable.

Their process of selecting newcomers can be summarized as follows:
The candidates are tortured half to death using a host of unnecessary and highly fatal abuses, and the surviving individuals are then selected for transformation.

The Dark Angels select strong teenagers from thousands of dangerous primitive worlds, who are evaluated through various competitions of strength, agility, and endurance.

Those who fail to pass the test at this stage due to physical discomfort or weak will will be euthanized.

Then, we will perform implant surgery on an open-air operating table on the top of the mountain without anesthesia. If you survive, you can join the battle group.

The Blood Angels would select thousands of candidates from their homeworld of Baal and hold a violent gaming competition on Baal's second planet, but only fifty winners would be chosen.

They were then taken to a monastery, where they took part in more tests and then had to lie in a coffin for a year.

The Wolf Priests of the Space Wolves are chosen from among the warring tribes of the wild.

They will be taken back to the Wolf Fang for training.

The recruits need to drink liquid containing the Wolf Spiral, and then, in extreme physical pain, they are thrown into an icy and snowy area thousands of miles away with temperatures dozens of degrees below zero.

Only those who can walk back can become rookies, and they may be attacked by werewolves along the way.

In short, the main theme is cruelty, and a lot of people die at once.

The only normal one is the blue canned Ultramarines.

They recruit candidates from the populations of the nine worlds of Ultramar.

Then those people were sent to military camps throughout Ultramar to receive intensive military training.

Some candidates will be sent to the tundra world to survive in the wilderness, some will need to go to the agricultural world to pick fruits from semi-activated vines, or be thrown into the mining world to dig huge amounts of ore.

Although these trials are cruel, they are not directly fatal.

It's more humane.

Therefore, the number of Extreme Warriors is also the largest.

Let me tell you another piece of data.

Today, the Empire has millions of planets and countless civilized worlds, but the number of Space Marines in each chapter is so scarce.

But during the Great Crusade, the Emperor was able to create twenty legions based on the genes of twenty primarchs using the populations of Holy Terra and the Moon alone.

Before that, he had also released 20 Thunder Warrior Legions and a full set of 10,000-man Guards in his Himalayan lair...

I just want to ask you if it is scary or not.

Ron guessed that the terrifying speed and number of troop explosions were due to the superb skills of the Emperor, the tough guy sent from heaven.

Another thing is that he didn't use so many complicated and deadly routines.

I guess he is like this:
This guy looks very fit and determined, let's take him to see if he can be transformed...

So in theory, a Chapter can mass-produce Space Marines.

In Ron's opinion, without transformation and the help of special external forces, there is really not much difference between people.

No matter how powerful a bicycle is, it is still a bicycle.

Could it be that in the Gene Warrior Academy, those who have been supplied with various nutritional medicines since childhood?

The young men have undergone physical training, learned various weapon combat skills, and participated in various actual combat training with humans and monsters.

Is it worse than those malnourished teenagers in Barr who need to glide on the wind for ten hours with the help of a few pieces of broken wood and canvas to get genetic testing?
Even if they cannot compare, the gap will be narrowed after genetic engineering.

Even if the gap does not narrow, it can be made up by numbers. Two can always beat one, right?

Otherwise, three or four will come.

The main point is that there are many people!
In Ron's expectation, among the 5 warrior students of the Genetic Warrior Academy, only the top % would have the opportunity to become space warriors.

Those who are eliminated will become storm troopers.

Make rational use of resources.

Of course, the number of members in the galactic chapters today is small, and the selection system for new recruits is rather strict.

More important is the limitations of the warband system.

Here we have to mention our Ultramarines Primarch and farming strategist Robert Guilliman.

After the Great Purge at the beginning of the 31st millennium, he used his amazing wisdom to write the famous "Codex Astartes".

Its content covers military organization, strategy, and tactics.

It sets out the moral conduct, tactical order, and tactical thinking of the Space Marines.

Of course, the main purpose of the Codex Astartes was to limit the size of the Legion to prevent another Horus Heresy from happening again.

According to the decrees in the Codex Astartes.

The Imperium's existing Space Marine Legions must be broken up and reorganized into smaller groups of 1000 each, called Chapters.

Moreover, the number of Space Marines in each Chapter must be limited to 1000.

In this way, the huge Space Marine Legion was divided into many small chapters, and the chapters had to obey, otherwise they would be regarded as traitors.

Eventually, the Traitor Legions retreated into the Eye of Terror, while the remaining Loyalist Space Marine Legions obeyed the Codex Astartes.

Consider it the Space Marines' only holy codex.

Ten thousand years have passed, and now it is the 41st millennium of the empire.

The Codex is still in use by the Space Marine Chapters.

This holy book has been in use for nearly ten thousand years without any revision or repair, and has become extremely old and rigid.

It can be said that it is completely inconsistent with the current situation in the galaxy.

It's even nicknamed toilet paper.

Because the existing number of Space Marines is simply unable to resist the increasing number of enemies coming from inside and outside the galaxy.

Even if the chapters wanted to expand the number of Space Marines, they could only do so secretly by stuffing in non-staff personnel under various pretexts.

But they are actually Space Marines.

But adding people secretly like this still cannot solve the problem.

Guilliman himself probably could not have imagined that the code he compiled would continue to be in effect for thousands of years without any changes.

He probably thought:

“To prevent large-scale Space Marine battles and adapt to the fragmented and miniaturized environment of the Empire’s enemies.

The huge and bloated legion organization must be split up.

This is a trial version, and it will be continuously improved based on actual conditions in the future..."

Unfortunately, before he could complete or explain it, he was killed by the Demon Primarch Fulgrim.

I have been lying there for ten thousand years and haven't woken up yet.

Ron guessed that when Guilliman woke up, he would probably ask about the situation of the Holy Scripture:

"The Holy Scripture has been revised to which edition now, are you still using the one I just published?

No way? "

Then she fainted in the toilet holding the toilet paper she had written on.

Of course, that was just Ron's imagination.

But what is certain is that when Guilliman wakes up, he will improve the content of the Codex.

Those Space Marine Chapters will be expanded accordingly to cope with the new situation.

So Ron didn't intend to follow the scriptures and limit the number of Space Marines in a regiment to 1000.

Rather, it’s about adding as many people as possible, the more the better.

Explode the troops and attack with endless legions!

In addition to the limitations of the Codex, there are more important reasons for the scarcity of Space Marines.

That's the amount of gene-seed.

Gene-seed is the most important genetic material for creating Space Marines and is also a precious resource on which each chapter relies for survival.

Many Chapters are running low on gene-seed right now.

There are many reasons why this is not enough:
For example, the Empire charges a high tithe on gene-seeds.

The battle was too intense and the casualties were too fast, resulting in the inability to recover the gene seeds in the soldiers' bodies.

The crude and rough transformation process leads to a high mortality rate among newcomers and causes waste.

Genetic defects lead to serious degeneration of genetic seeds.

Chaos energy causes gene seeds to mutate and so on.

These circumstances resulted in a shortage of gene seeds, to the point where the circulation of the Chapter's genes could not be maintained stably and reliably.

This makes it difficult for the regiment to expand its numbers.

Chapters were forced to acquire gene-seed in various ways.

Including but not limited to borrowing the seed tax previously paid from the empire, trading on the black market, etc.

Moreover, the gene seeds may be plundered by Chaos warbands at any time.

Those Chaos Space Marines are even more short of gene-seed.

These situations also make genetic seeds more precious.

Nowadays, gene seeds are becoming increasingly scarce within the empire, and it is almost difficult to obtain those precious gene seeds.

But if the gene seeds cannot be obtained, Ron's battle group formation is just a fantasy.

Fortunately, he inherited the Grant family's legacy and obtained a small batch of gene seeds.

After inspecting the situation of the warrior trainees, Ron left Zhongsi Academy.

Afterwards, he went to Moss's Institute of Biological Genetic Engineering:
"It's time to go check out those precious gene seeds..."

(End of this chapter)