Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 382 The Importance of Communication Channels

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after a while.

"A man sent by a member of the war council has made contact with Theseus."

"He had only one request, which was to come see us."

"And he also said he would refuse to talk about anything until he met us."

Qin Xia said to Angron, who was sitting on the other side of the desk.

"Then let's meet. We are heading back to Nuceria from Pompeii 1, so we can meet on the way," said Angron.

Qin Xia glanced out the porthole.

The fleet is replenishing around the forging engine. This is the last replenishment. After the replenishment is completed and they set out on the journey again, they will be able to return directly to Greater Nuceria.

Meeting along the way is indeed a good choice, but Qin Xia has some other ideas.

"I will stay in the star system with the White Knight when we pass by Pompeii I." Qin Xia closed his eyes, as if thinking hard. "I have a feeling that Pompeii I and Dawn Star will be the top priorities. You still have the affairs of the Legion to deal with, and I can stay in Pompeii I."

Angron thought about it and nodded in agreement.

Then the Principal continued to look down at the documents on the desk.

The document was also provided by Theseus, and the source of the document was clearly marked, which meant it was purchased.

The price of purchasing this document was a biological neural implant technology provided by Quadrant. Because Qin Xia wanted to make a deal with the Mechanicus, he turned to Quadrant.

Quadrant simply took out a technology he mastered and successfully exchanged it for the document.

Just like what Theseus had seen in the tavern before, there were photos of meetings between various Mechanicus personnel and members of the Imperial War Council, recordings of meetings, and some specific decisions discussed and made by the War Council.

“Sometimes I find it hard to believe.” Angron turned the page of the document and looked at the report documents from some of the more technologically advanced planets in Nuceria. “In some places, our people and the Mechanicus’s modified warriors fought bloody battles, but on Dawn there is a place where all forces can sit down and trade information fairly.”

"If there is such a demand, there will be such a place." Qin Xia said, "Obviously, the owner of the tavern on Dawn is not an ordinary person, but an information broker. The document sent by Theseus said that the owner speaks standard High Gothic, so he should be from Terra."

“From Terra?” Angron frowned. “But if that guy really was from Terra, he would have been under Malcador’s surveillance long ago. How could he be an information broker?”

Qin Xia shrugged. "They were sent by Malcador. The reason is very simple. Malcador has other considerations. He doesn't want to make a big fuss, so he created a place to exchange information, a secret communication channel, to prevent a real fight from happening."

Angron pondered for half a second, quickly figured out the twists and turns here, and then asked his adoptive father: "Speaking of which, how do you know so much about intelligence?"

"Oh, it's just experience." Qin Xia smiled mysteriously, "I am a person... Let me be very modest. Apart from the tedious management affairs and the formulation of war strategies and tactics, there is nothing I am not good at."

"Indeed." Angron nodded in agreement.

Qin Xia suddenly put his legs that were resting on the desk on the floor, with his left leg stacked on top of his right leg, and gently applied force on his right leg while supporting the floor.

The entire office chair rotates.

Qin Xia was half lying on his office chair, looking up at the ceiling, entering a state of deep thought.

"The Mechanicus is eyeing our ancient technology. They've wanted to do this for a long time, but they didn't make any big moves until we found the Forge Engine."

"Those Mechanicus people will really do anything for technology."

“That’s their motivation.”

Angron listened to Qin Xia's speculation silently. He also thought so.

The only thing that causes trouble for Nuceria now is that it uses superhumans to manage mortals. This is not the Imperial truth and goes against the Emperor's original intention.

But this conflict of ideas is obviously just an excuse that will be exploited.

The Mechanicus also has its own ideological pursuits and persistence, that is, the belief in the God of All Machines and the obsession with technology. They will really do anything for this idea.

Why did the Mechanicus originate from Mars but spread throughout the human empire?
The reason is that when the Warp Storm was raging, those fanatical followers of the Mechanicus dared to shout the name of the God of Machines and brave the Warp Storm to carry out a life-threatening exploration where the chances of survival were only a decimal point.

"As for the Imperial War Council."

Qin Xia stopped turning the chair with his legs and suddenly stopped to look at the intelligence document he had purchased.

"It shows that the Mechanicus found members of the Imperial War Council, as well as some others whose names are unknown but belong to the forces of Chancellor Malcador."

"We discussed the War Council when your brother Guilliman visited us before. It will be abandoned by Malcador and replaced by a new body, the Imperial Senate."

"The War Council does not want to be replaced. They hope to prove the necessity of their existence through something, so they will find something to do. This is also the reason why they can be persuaded by the Mechanicus."

"And the Imperial Parliament needs a chance to replace the War Council. They also need to prove that they have the ability and qualifications to replace it, so they will also find something to do."

Qin Xia looked at Angron who nodded, and pressed his index finger on the photo in the intelligence document.

Photographs were taken of Magos, priests of the Mechanicum, meeting with those not part of the War Council and Malcador.

"When everyone on Terra was ready to find something to do, the Mechanicus seized the opportunity keenly. They wanted technology, and the War Council and the Senate wanted to replace each other, so they reached an agreement and seized this opportunity."

"Just as the transcript of the decision-making document in the intelligence file shows, they were able to reach a consensus in less than a month and were ready to take action on the dispute near Dawn Star... When they all wanted to do something, their efficiency was so high that it surprised me."

After Qin Xia finished speaking, he fell into deep thought again.

Angron looked at the intelligence document about the decision of the Imperial high-ranking officials, that is, the use of Dawnstar as bait and a starting point. Kiel, the current commander of the World Eaters and the first commander, felt that the intelligence was false and pure nonsense.

If there is an organization that really wants to replace the War Council, the War Council will go crazy and fight against that organization instead of working together to do something against Nuceria.

Not to mention the cooperation between the Mechanicus and the War Council... After the Emperor signed the Olympus Accords and confirmed the Mechanicus as an ally of the Empire, the Mechanicus did some things to show that they were "extremely loyal allies" rather than "subordinates with ulterior motives."

If the War Committee wanted to mobilize war supplies, it needed the approval of Mars. After the envoy sent by the War Committee arrived, Mars killed the envoy in the name of insulting the God of All Machines, making the envoy a sacrifice for them to demonstrate their own status.

Kiel, who came from a family of Terran military aristocrats, was well aware of these things, so he believed that such cooperation was simply impossible.

But Angron and Qin Xia still believed that the information was true.

“Yesterday they were enemies, but today they are working together.” Angron sighed. “In the face of common needs, their old and new hatreds will only prevent them from helping each other get what they want in their temporary cooperation… I am really not surprised at their cooperation.”

"The other thing is..."

Angron paused before looking into his adoptive father's eyes and continuing.

"Even we want to achieve something through this conflict."

After hearing what Angron said, Qin Xia nodded in agreement.

What Angron was referring to was what Qin Xia had said many times, about the possibility of Astartes joining the future Imperial Parliament.

"That's right. A seat on the Astartes Council." Qin Xia nodded, "We must take the initiative to intervene in the mess on Dawn Star."

According to the original development route, after the Imperial Parliament replaced the War Council, there was no seat for Space Marines in the parliament. Only the Lord Commander of the Imperial Guard, Valdo, who did not participate in parliamentary affairs, could have a place to sit and remain silent.

Qin Xia wanted the Astartes to join the Imperial Parliament, even if only one Astartes could join.

This persistence is not because Qin Xia thinks about things from the perspective of superhuman interests.

After arriving in the 30th millennium and reviewing the Horus Heresy countless times at night, Qin Xia believed that among the various factors that led to the rebellion getting out of control, there was one that was very critical.

That is the lack of communication channels between the Space Marines and the Empire.

None of the Primarchs had this ability to communicate, because in the later stages of the Great Crusade the Emperor simply withdrew from the Great Crusade to build the Webway, and ignored everyone.

There were many loyalists among the rebel legions, and some rebel legions even had a rebellion rate not much higher than the Dark Angels. But the loyalists seemed to be unable to do anything until things got out of control and Horus' army was approaching. The Empire still didn't know which Primarchs had participated in the rebellion, and Malcador was still speculating with Dorn, who was guarding the palace, about who had rebelled and who hadn't...

The lack of information led to a slow response by the empire.

The loyalists in the rebel army are not a bunch of idiots. In fact, they have already discovered that something very wrong has happened in the army.

As the saying goes, three feet of ice does not freeze in one day.

The loyalists did not think that the Legion was still fine when their fighting brothers in the Legion began to slaughter mortals and ravage them with all kinds of means that broke the limits of imagination, and when the Primarch began to grow wings on his back and turn into a snake, until one day the Primarch shouted "The false emperor must die" and then exclaimed "Damn it, the Legion has rebelled!"

Some loyalists had already noticed the problem.

But there was no way, they could not see the Emperor, nor any powerful people except their increasingly corrupted battle-brothers and primarchs.

With the exception of the Imperial Guard Dorn and his descendants who had not left Terra for a long time, the Space Marines of other legions were not even sure whether they would be allowed to enter the solar system.

As for reporting to the members of the Mortal Council... they would probably just think: "How can your other legions still enter the Solar System? The Astartes seem to be a little neglected."

No right to speak in parliament.

There is no opportunity to communicate what you see to management.

In the end, they could only watch the Legion gradually fall into depravity...

Some particularly fierce loyalists would probably directly confront the Primarch with their swords, while those loyalists who did not want to see the corruption of the Legion and the Primarch, but also did not want to confront the Primarch with their swords, could only choose between falling together with him or falling with curses.

"We must fight for an Astartes seat." Qin Xia emphasized after thinking for a while, "We must. So we also want to achieve something through conflict, you are right."

Angron nodded slowly.

"Sometimes I wonder if we can stay out of this kind of shit. Kick those bugs away, screw the empire." Qin Xia's tone was full of helplessness, "But I also wonder if one of our legions can be stronger than several legions combined, if we can create our own webway, if that's possible..."

Before he finished speaking, Qin Xia fell silent.

Qin Xia has already told Angron many things, such as the Chaos Gods, the Warp, and what the Emperor is busy with every day.

They even spent their free time together discussing the possibility of kicking out the empire and doing things on their own.

So Angron could also understand what Qin Xia said at this time.

No matter how many discussions they had, Qin Xia believed that if they wanted to prevent mankind from facing the situation that would occur ten thousand years from now, they could only choose the Emperor and his cause, as well as the empire that the Emperor created to accomplish his cause.

"Go to Pompeii I, Father."

Angron stared at Qin Xia.

"Do what you want, get what you want, and don't worry. I will take care of all the affairs of Nukeria and the Legion."

"In the past, I made all the decisions regarding the Legion and the many worlds of Nuceria, and you supported me. Now I support you, and I will give you the same unconditional support that you do."

Hearing this, Qin Xia took a few deep breaths, suppressed his emotions, smiled confidently as usual, and nodded.

(End of this chapter)