From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 606: The first person to enter into a marriage alliance.
Up to now, apart from the main universe, the territory of the human empire has expanded to seventeen parallel universes.

Among them, the "Zero-One" universe, that is, the world of "Edge of Tomorrow", can be regarded as the most successful example of colonization.

After nearly half a century of operation and development, this human civilization, which was once confined to the solar system, has undergone an amazing transformation under the governance of Primarch Governor Guilliman.

With the technical support of Atlas, human footprints in the "Zero-One" universe have spread throughout the Orion spiral arm.

Through large-scale terraforming projects, the Imperium of Man has transformed over five hundred Earth-like planets into habitable worlds.

Each colonized planet has standardized cities and towns, as well as corresponding villages, farmlands, etc., and the blue fortress of the Ultramarines Legion stands in its core area.

With the assistance of unmanned machinery and various types of intelligence, people living in the agricultural world do not need to farm and raise livestock day and night to ensure the supply of the 200 billion people in the "Zero-One" universe.

The number of 200 billion is already far larger than the size of the former United Earth Government (UEG) in the Halo universe.

In addition, the "Zero-One" universe, as the "home" of the Ultramarines, implemented the "Five-Decade Development Plan" long before the establishment of the Human Empire, making the universe not only completely self-sufficient, but also an important resource exporter for the Empire.

The weapons and equipment produced by its military factories account for 15% of the entire empire's output, making it truly the richest universe apart from the main universe.

The current Ultramarines, apart from auxiliary troops, engineers, pilots and various other "mortal" units, have as many as four million Astartes.
Four million Astartes in blue power armor are stationed at various key nodes, so that so far, there has been no large-scale Chaos invasion in the "Zero-One" universe.

Even though there are still mimic aliens and other civilizations and races hostile to humans in the "Zero-One" universe, they are unable to cause any waves in the face of the ruthless crushing of the Extreme Marines.

Moreover, the number of four million was the result of Guilliman's careful calculations, which ensured sufficient strategic deterrence while avoiding excessive consumption of resources.

Once each gene seed is confirmed to be suitable for surgery, they will be sent to the Tactical Academy on Earth Zero One for special training to learn how to fight in different environments.

Every October 1st, Guilliman would personally teach and train the most outstanding recruits.

At the same time, the breeding center for genetic seeds also adopts assembly line operations, but strict quality inspection procedures ensure that the mutation rate is always controlled below 0.0001%. In other words, there has never been any mutation from the beginning to the end, which leads to the waste of genetic seeds.

After all, among all the Primarchs, no one can compare to Guilliman in terms of management, and Guilliman's gene seed is also the most suitable for explosive military expansion.

Of particular note is the universe's administrative system.

Guilliman perfectly transplanted the management experience of these five hundred worlds and established a hierarchical governance model.

Each colonized galaxy is composed of a ruling council composed of three Ultramarines Captains, with mortal assistant officers to handle daily affairs.

This system not only ensures military control, but also gives full play to the administrative efficiency of ordinary bureaucrats.

The latest census shows that the literacy rate of the adult population in the "Zero-One" universe has reached 99.8%, and the citizen satisfaction index has set a record high among all the territories of the empire.

Secondly, there is the "Zero Two" universe, which is the "Avatar" universe, which was taken over by Sanguinius and served as the governor.

The "Zero-Two" universe has also gone through nearly half a century of development.

Initially, the human population of the "Zero-Two" Universe far exceeded that of the "Zero-One" Universe, but in terms of management ability of the two Primarchs, Guilliman was obviously better, resulting in the population of the "Zero-Two" Universe being "only" over 140 billion.

After all, Sanguinius's style of governance is in stark contrast to Guilliman's.

Although the initial population base is larger, this "archangel" focuses more on quality rather than quantity.

In the main colony, in the genetic temple called "Crown of Holy Blood", a large number of sophisticated screening instruments operate day and night. Only young people with a genetic fitness of 99.997% are eligible to be included in the Blood Angels Legion.

This meant that the number of Astartes of the Blood Angels was "only" maintained at a level of 500,000 elite soldiers, far less than that of the Ultramarines Legion.

However, the Blood Angels did show amazing individual quality.

According to test data, their muscle explosiveness is 18% higher than the average Astartes, and their nerve reaction speed is 0.07 seconds faster.

In a recent inter-legion exercise, a Blood Angel force of a hundred men managed to break through a simulated fortress manned by three hundred Ultramarines.

As the core hub of the Empire's "Zero Two" universe, Pandora has undergone the most sophisticated ecological transformation by the Engineering Department.

Several atmospheric processors with a diameter of five kilometers stand along the equator like silver giants. The purifying clouds they spew out neutralize Pandora's unique toxic gases day and night.

What truly changed the fate of this planet were those pure flowers shining with golden light.

These miraculous flowers, containing the Emperor's psychic energy, spread and grow along carefully planned ecological corridors, forming a psychic filter covering the entire planet.

They seem to have intelligence and can accurately identify all kinds of creatures.

Preserve the docile creatures, plants, and even microorganisms, while turning the aggressive species into harmless dust.

The transformed Pandora presents an amazingly harmonious scene. The exhaust gas from the industrial area becomes nutrients needed by the jungle after biological purification.

The latest ecological assessment shows that 83% of the planet's native ecosystems remain intact, and only 17% of truly threatening species have been eliminated, making it the most famous "garden world" in the human empire.

Then, the revival of the "Zero Three" universe ("Doom/The Movie") is the most shocking miracle.

When Atlas' reconnaissance force crossed the space gate for the first time, they were greeted by a devastated Earth.

The once prosperous human civilization has been reduced to a bloody slaughterhouse. The completely depraved and insane genetic mutants have imprisoned the last 500 million survivors in steel cages and conducted unspeakable torture experiments. The entire human civilization has been severely damaged.

If Atlas had not been involved, human civilization might have perished.

After Atlas eliminated all threats, it also implemented the "Human Civilization Reconstruction Plan" for the first time in the "Zero Three" universe, accumulating a lot of experience for the Emperor to establish the Human Empire.

After decades of reconstruction, this endangered human civilization has regained amazing vitality, and its population has skyrocketed to around 70 billion.

Not only Earth, but almost all colonies have large cities, and the quality of life of the people is no less than that of New Accra. Most importantly, in the key cities on Earth and the capitals of all colonies, there are Gothic spires and holographic scrolls recording the reconstruction process.

The latest census shows that 93% of adult citizens have achieved the imperial standard education level.

The number of Astartes of the Dark Angels is not much different from that of the Blood Angels, which is around 500,000.

In addition, after completing all the transformation operations, the Dark Angels' new recruits will be sent to the Trial Planet, where they will need to use melee weapons to deal with the ferocious beasts and even the exiled aliens living on the Trial Planet, and persist for thirty Earth days.

Although this rigorous training inevitably leads to a small number of casualties among the Dark Angels, this is truly "rare" among all the legions.

But it was this kind of training that created the empire's most elite close combat experts.

At last year's Legion Tournament, the Dark Angels took seventy-three of the top one hundred spots in the swordplay competition.

Among all the Astartes Legions of the Empire, the Dark Angels' individual combat capability is unrivaled in the world. It can be said that the Dark Angels are second to none in terms of individual martial power, and other legions dare not even claim to be first.

The holographic recorder in the training ground clearly showed that an ordinary Dark Angel could complete the full set of actions including sword drawing, charge, and beheading within 0.3 seconds, which was slightly faster than the Astartes of other legions.

Of course, this extraordinary combat power is closely related to the genetic characteristics of the local people in the "Zero Three" universe.

You have to know that the original survivors were enslaved and tortured by those mutants because of their firm beliefs and will, and their refusal to accept "depravity" and "madness".

Therefore, at the genetic level, the people of the "03" universe are indeed slightly better, and it is almost impossible for them to be corrupted by chaos. At the same time, they also have extremely strong physical fitness and firm will.

The local people are characterized by their willingness to die rather than surrender and their strong martial spirit.

And when these traits are passed down through gene seeds, they create the perfect warrior embryo.

However, the Dark Angels inherited Leon's "decisiveness in killing" and "bravery and good fighting skills" through their gene seeds.

To put it nicely, they are brave and good at fighting; to put it bluntly, they are easily "reckless" and "impulsive".

After all, if the problem can be solved by force, why should we proceed step by step?

This is why, despite the Dark Angels' overwhelming individual strength, their performance in large-scale wars is often inferior to that of the Ultramarines.

In particular, the various cases of the Dark Angels were collected by the Ultramarine Legion and used as teaching materials at the military academy on Earth Zero Three every year.

In the sand table simulations at the Military Academy, Ultramarines recruits will find that once they cooperate with the simulated companies and fleets of the Dark Angels, the Dark Angels will insist on charging in order to seize rare opportunities, resulting in the Dark Angels' losses, usually 18% more than that of the Ultramarines.

The archives of the Biology Department revealed a deeper reason:

The adapters of the "Zero Three" universe, after being implanted with the Leon's gene seeds, will make the Dark Angels' synaptic conduction speed faster, causing their adrenaline levels to soar to 2.3 times that of normal Astartes when the battle is fierce.

This physiological characteristic gives them unparalleled explosive power in close combat, but also relatively weakens their patience.

However, there are gains and losses. The Astartes are not truly perfect creations. The Astartes of each legion have their own characteristics.

Next, there are the "Zero Four" and "Zero Five" universes, with Horus as the governor, namely "Underworld" and "World War Z".

When Atlas' reconnaissance team crossed the space gate, they were greeted by two human civilizations on the verge of collapse.

The former was riddled with holes due to the erosion of quantum creatures, while the latter was caught in a wave of death composed of billions of zombies.

The human civilizations in these two universes were also on the verge of decline and extinction, but with the intervention of Atlas, all aspects of the two universes had already returned to the right track.

The Earth in "World War Z" was even a famous "blood training ground" before the establishment of the human empire.

After Atlas developed the vaccine, the infected people (zombies) no longer posed a threat to humans. So in order to allow the Astartes and the former ABCS (Atlas Emergency Countermeasures Force) to adapt to the blood and killing in advance, the current auxiliary army recruits are the most suitable to carry out the task of clearing out the infected.

The infected people raging around the world are controlled in many special training areas, which are strictly isolated.

The recruits undergo a trial lasting several days here.

During the day, the task is to clear out the zombies in the ruins of the city, and at night, the task is to conduct effective defense.

The monument in the training ground is engraved with the number of kills of the best graduates, and the record holder is a Shadow Moon Wolves recruit who purified 11409 infected people in a single mission.

The contribution of the "Underworld" universe is reflected in the technological level.

Bose-Einstein condensate has enabled Atlas to achieve a qualitative leap in quantum computing, superconducting materials and other fields.

The total population of the two universes is about 200 billion. At the same time, the number of Astartes of the Luna Wolves is about 2.7 million, second only to the Ultramarines.

In addition, Primarch Horus also paid great attention to the all-round development of the Luna Wolves. In terms of team combat, the Luna Wolves are equally matched with the Ultramarines.

Then, there are the "06" and "07" universes governed by Magnus and Dorn, which are the Terraria of "Pacific Rim" and "Magic World".

Although the humans in Pacific Rim are more "miserable" than those in other universes, before Atlas intervened, the number of survivors barely exceeded 200 million. As for the ecological environment of the Earth "06", only Antarctica was barely suitable for human habitation.

However, after the integration was completed, the total population of the Pacific Rim universe, although it is only about 20 billion, the per capita wealth is the highest among all universes, without a doubt.

Because the "Pacific Rim" universe taken over by Magnus perfectly inherited all the heavy industrial systems, and is also exporting high-end products to other universes, especially mechas such as Titan and Knight.

However, the number of Astartes in the Thousand Sons Legion has only grown and expanded to less than 100,000, making it impossible for them to compete head-on with other legions.

Fortunately, the Thousand Sons, who are good at using psychic powers, can make up for the lack of numbers. And under normal circumstances, the Thousand Sons do not need to serve as the "vanguard" and mostly provide assistance to other legions.

As for Dorn, his story is a bit more complicated than that of his other brothers. After all, Dorn is the first of all the Primarchs to have a marriage.
(End of this chapter)