The Emperor’s Angel of Death

As a series of special exercise scenarios unfolded under Szohyang's command, the entire front line was thrown into chaos. Soon, two tactical squads were declared completely annihilated. At the same time, they received news that a massive number of enemies were launching a counterattack along the invasion route.

The command headquarters, after the initial confusion, quickly made a judgment, ordering the front-line troops to rapidly retreat back to the occupied area where defensive installations had already been deployed.

In the sky, through the command vehicle's prioritized data processing, the Stormhawk Interceptors quickly organized over a dozen hunting squadrons, prioritizing the hunting of the enemy's Hellions, ensuring air superiority. Afterwards, the Stormclaw and Stormraven Gunships were all equipped with anti-personnel and light armor weaponry, delivering devastating blows to the enemy's offensive spearheads, creating over a dozen paths of death, and shattering the enemy's vanguard in a short period.

As for the enemy's super-heavy armor, it was dealt with by the Knight Houses, which had been deployed in the rear, waiting for orders. However, the enemy's reinforcements meant that the front-line offensive needed to be reorganized.

The exercise continued until the night was as dark as ink, and the battle continued. It wasn't until the early hours of the next day that the full-scale combat exercise, which lasted a full day and night, came to an end.

"I don't care about the actual results of the exercise. The results are not the goal of this exercise. What I care about is the joint awareness of the front-line commanders and their ability to use tactical thinking."

On a flat open space on the training ground, Stormhawk Interceptors and Stormclaw Gunships, along with many vehicles, were neatly parked on one side. The warriors were arranged in neat rows, helmets tucked under their armpits, gazing slightly upwards at the person on the podium, motionless.

"As a relatively small armed force, the Adeptus Astartes Chapter needs more than just superhuman bodies and equipment to roam the vast battlefields of the galaxy. Even the Codex Astartes emphasizes a flexible tactical style. And if we are talking about a Legion-level organization, we need even more flexible and varied command thinking. What we are conducting is a new organizational form, using existing forces and equipment to develop the most suitable and efficient combat style for us. If the equipment is updated, but the concept is still the traditional model, that's not called change."

Szohyang's eyes were like torches as he scanned the company commanders standing at the front of the formation.

"Similarly, this exercise is also a training session for myself. I have also gained a deeper understanding of the personality and combat style of each company commander. I have seen everyone's calmness and unity when encountering unexpected situations, which is good, but still insufficient. In the future, such exercises will be conducted on a larger scale. I hope everyone can digest the results of this exercise well. Perhaps we will have to use them in actual combat soon."

Afterwards, Szohyang praised the outstanding warriors and commanders in the exercise and announced the next exercise plan. The target was no longer Chaos Heretics, but the Tyranid Hive Fleets. These were completely different enemies, and the environment and tactics would also be completely different.

In the following days, Szohyang personally went down to each company to communicate privately with the company commanders and even the warriors. On the one hand, he wanted to understand some of their true thoughts, and on the other hand, he wanted to better integrate himself into the structure of the White Templars.

In addition to military affairs, Szohyang also had new arrangements regarding the internal affairs of the star system.

"The immigration work has basically been completed. In the Brakato System, Behddad is the location of the Royal Court, while Ramdong, Dorosh, and Pasargad have their own social ecosystems. The remaining five, Yazd, Ahvaz, Shilat, Kermanshah, and Shush, are societies entirely composed of extra-system immigrants. They come from different planets, and most of them come from the Maelstrom and the Neson System. How can we integrate them and make them easier to manage?"

On the empty bridge of the Avesta, Szohyang sat on the throne, his right hand resting on the head of a sacred vulture, his brow furrowed as if he was thinking. In front of him, the Ever-Changing Cogitator stood motionless.

After a moment, the other party emitted a monotonous mechanical sound.

"What other requirements?"

"Also, be able to manage them precisely, down to the individual, and also manage them strictly, to ensure that they can carry out industrial and commercial activities according to plan, but not too strictly, not treating them like livestock raised in captivity. It must also be easy to mobilize and organize, and be able to quickly transform them into soldiers."

After a moment, the Ever-Changing Cogitator's emotionless voice rang out.

"Social model has been constructed—"

Subsequently, a holographic panel descended from above the bridge, and Szohyang frowned even more.

"Don't give me some strange society where everyone is numbered and prison-like management is implemented again. Your social model is more and more strange. If no one else could discuss this matter, I wouldn't have come to you."

"This time, reliable."

The Ever-Changing Cogitator rarely said a very human-like sentence, and then a list of tables and even pictures appeared on the holographic screen.

Szohyang stared intently for a moment, then murmured:

"This is a semi-militarized socio-economic system that completely combines residents, the army, production organizations, construction organizations, and commercial organizations. It looks like a farmer-soldier system of some feudal societies, where the military is integrated with the people, but the details"

"Every adult citizen is considered a soldier, and every world is regarded as a legion. The legion is subordinate to the structure of division-brigade-regiment-battalion. This is both a military organization and an administrative organization. The battalion is the most basic administrative unit, analogous to the current administrative regions of villages or towns in the human world. The battalion commander is the village chief or the town mayor. At the regimental level, there are departments such as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, industry and mining, energy, transportation, construction, commerce, culture, education, and health. Adult citizens need to conduct regular military gatherings and training in addition to their life and work, and their descendants will begin to receive basic military training in schools from an early age. Of course, in order to ensure the loyalty and integrity of those military and administrative officials who are both, you need to arrange roles similar to the commissars of the Astra Militarum to serve as their deputies, and constantly change their positions and residences. In addition, I suggest that the legion commanders of the planets be served by your company commanders, which can increase the control over the entire structure."

Szohyang listened to the introduction while carefully looking at the detailed designs and systems on the holographic screen, and even detailed legal provisions, accurate to how to punish littering

It must be said that super AI is indeed powerful. Condensing the wisdom of mankind for ten thousand years, it can create extremely complex social models with just Szohyang's few words. Szohyang really wants to say—socioeconomics no longer exists!

Of course, Szohyang is also very curious about how outrageous its understanding of "society" is, not some "brain-controlled utopia" that controls all residents with some kind of mind controller, or a "silent ideal country" that prohibits language communication and can only use sign language…

"It looks like some kind of variant of a fortress world, but it's not so excessively militarized, which is okay, at least it's much better than those outrageous societies you had before."

"But there is still one condition missing."

"What?"

"Faith, or spiritual support, what do you plan to choose? My suggestion is personal worship, using propaganda to guide those residents to believe that you are the greatest savior of the current human empire, even that you are the incarnation of the god on the throne, which can to a certain extent stimulate their enthusiasm for work and military training."

"It's really incredibly ironic to hear the word faith from the mouths of you mechanical minds."

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