Warhammer: Empire Reboot

“Let’s give it a try,” Lawson said. “How many gene seed banks do you have left?”

Dante quickly replied: "There are about 12,000 pure genetic seeds, and another hundred thousand or so that are contaminated to varying degrees."

"Take me to see it!"

Dante reacted almost immediately.

If Lawson could eliminate the defect at the genetic seed level...

That would be of great significance.

Red thirst is a physiological genetic defect.

It causes recruits to develop bloodthirsty mutations when the gene seed is implanted, resulting in an extremely high mortality rate.

The Blood Angels suffer far greater losses during recruit training than other chapters because many recruits mutate and die during the implantation process.

There are already few qualified soldiers, and more than half of them are still out of control in their coffins.

If the genetic seed is optimized, the success rate of implantation in new recruits will be greatly improved.

The fundamental reason why the Blood Angels' various chapters are chronically understaffed is the insufficient production of new recruits.

Only a small percentage of the candidates who enlist each year survive the implantation process.

The purer the genetic seed, the higher the success rate, and the greater the total number of Holy Blood Angels can be.

Dante said without hesitation: "Let's go!"

The foundation sequence on Baal is in place.

The light screen unfolded, and the two of them traversed thousands of light-years in a single step.

Baal, the home planet of the Holy Blood Angels.

Dante led Rosen through the many corridors of the Baal Abbey, deeper into the underground.

The gene seed bank is located at the very bottom.

The heavy alloy door slowly opened with Dante's unlocking privileges, and cold air rushed out from the cracks.

The warehouse maintains a sterile environment with constant temperature and humidity, and the lights are turned down to the lowest setting.

As Lawson walked in, the first thing he saw was a neatly arranged row of low-temperature storage cabinets.

Each storage cabinet is an extremely precise life support device, with the internal temperature precisely controlled at minus 170 degrees Celsius.

The cabinet exterior is engraved with the blood droplet emblem of the Holy Blood Angel and batch numbers, some of which are so worn that they need to be carefully deciphered.

Dante walked to the nearest row of storage cabinets and pressed the observation window on the outer wall.

The transparent observation panel lit up, revealing a gene seed suspended inside.

It is about the size of a thumb, dark red, and covered with a fine biological membrane. Inside, an incredibly complex genetic structure is faintly visible.

This is the foundation of Astartes.

Every Space Marine is born from a genetic seed.

Once the seed is implanted into the candidate's body, it will take root, spread, and modify the host's organs and nervous system, eventually transforming an ordinary human teenager into a war machine that surpasses human limits.

The quality of the seeds directly determines the physical qualities, genetic stability, and special abilities of the Astartes.

High-quality seeds result in a high success rate of modification, producing stronger and more stable warriors.

Inferior seeds have a high mutation rate during the modification process, resulting in a high mortality rate among candidates. Even if successful implantation, various genetic degeneration and mental abnormalities may occur subsequently.

The Blood Angels' gene seeds belong to the most outstanding group; the genetic blueprint of Saint Gilles grants them strength, speed, and combat instincts that surpass most warbands.

But at the same time, they are also the most dangerous group.

The roots of red thirst and black rage are etched in the seed.

Lawson stared thoughtfully at the dark red gene seed.

His swarm intelligence retrieved all known genetic seed-related data in the background.

Besides the Blood Angels, he also possesses hundreds of thousands of gene seeds from different chapters, captured and recovered from various battlefields, stolen from Huron's Maelstrom Treasury, and extracted from the remains of destroyed Chaos chapters.

These seeds belong to dozens of different genetic lineages.

Imperial Fist, Dark Angel, Iron Hand, White Scar, and many other smaller chapters whose names I don't know.

Every seed is a genetic blueprint.

Ten thousand years of use and replication have caused many blueprints to deviate and degrade to varying degrees, but the core framework remains intact.

Based on these blueprints, Caul was able to develop the Prototype Space Marines, an upgraded version of the Astartes that was higher, stronger, and more durable.

As Lawson looked at the seeds in the sealed container, an idea took shape in his mind.

What Caul has done, he may well be able to do as well.

Kaul relied on the bioengineering technology accumulated by the Mechanics Church over thousands of years and the genetic blueprint left by the emperors.

Lawson lacked Kaul's technical expertise, but he possessed something Kaul lacked: the parallel computing power of billions of nodes in swarm intelligence, the ability to intervene at the soul level, and the precise manipulation of the soul imprint of gene seeds by mental entropy reversal.

If he can optimize the gene seed, he can further enhance it while retaining the original gene framework.

What kind of warriors will emerge from a better genetic seed combined with a synergistic system of foundational sequences and swarm intelligence?

Lawson gave the swarm intelligence a command in his mind.

A gene seed research project team was established.

Collect all available data, including publicly available technical information on the Primitive Space Marines of Caul, comparative analysis of the genetic seeds of various chapters, and known fragments of the Imperial Primitive Genetic Blueprint.

Long-term projects, no timeline set, continuously progressing.

After the instruction was given, he turned his attention back to what was in front of him.

Do the work of the Holy Blood Angels first.

“Open all the sealed cabinets,” Lawson said.

Dante glanced at him, then walked to the main control panel in the center of the warehouse.

His permissions allow him to unlock the entire warehouse at once.

The sealing rings of the storage cabinet popped open one by one.

Cold air poured out from thousands of cabinets simultaneously, forming a thin layer of white mist in the warehouse.

Twelve thousand pure gene seeds floated in their respective low-temperature fields, their dark red bodies gleaming faintly under the cold light.

A field of spiritual energy unfolds.

Countless extremely fine golden threads simultaneously pierced through the outer shell of each sealed cabinet, reaching the genetic seeds inside.

Mental entropy reversal is initiated.

Golden light seeped into the seed's biomembrane, penetrated the cell wall, and reached the very bottom of the gene chain.

Lawson's perception penetrated deeper into the seed as the golden fire spread.

He "saw" it.

The genetic blueprint of Saint Gillespie.

It is exquisite, more exquisite than any artificial bioengineering that Lawson has ever seen.

Each gene chain was designed by the Emperor himself, encoding strength, speed, reaction, regeneration, and fighting instincts that surpass human limits.

This is a masterpiece created at the height of the Creator's power.

But deep within the blueprint lies a crack.

Saint Gilles' final emotions as he died during the Horus Rebellion—his grief over Horus's betrayal, his despair at the impending fall of the emperor, and his anger at the fate of humanity—were etched into the very depths of his soul through his genetic seed at the moment of his death.

This is the origin of Black Fury.

Kaul spent centuries trying to fix it at the genetic level, but failed.

Because he's modifying genes, but the problem lies in his soul.

Lawson's mental entropy reversed precisely located that scar.

Lawson's psionic threads were simultaneously manipulating twelve thousand gene seeds.

A faint golden light permeated the warehouse.

Dante stood aside, watching the twelve thousand sealed cabinets simultaneously glow with golden light.

He was unusually nervous.

Fifteen minutes later, the purification of the last pure gene seed was completed.

"The first batch is finished."

Lawson turned toward the depths of the warehouse.

There is another area there, much larger than the pure seed area.

Hundreds of thousands of sealed containers are arranged in a deeper underground space, with red warning labels affixed to the outer shell of each container.

The contaminated genetic seeds came from various battlefields.

Some were recovered from the corruption of Chaos, others were rescued from the battlefields after the Tyranid invasion, and some had been interfered with by the biosignals of the Tyranid gene-stealers. Some were recovered from areas covered by Orcish WAAAGH fields, where Orcish fungal spores had seeped into the seed's outer membrane.

According to Imperial standard procedures, these seeds should be destroyed.

Implanting contaminated gene seeds into candidates could lead to unpredictable mutations, madness, or death.

Dante preserved them, sealing them in the deepest part of the storeroom, clinging to a sliver of hope that they might one day be restored.

Today, it seems he has finally waited for...

Lawson walked to the entrance of the contaminated area.

Dante unlocks the permissions again.

Hundreds of thousands of sealed storage containers popped open simultaneously.

A mixture of cold air and a faint stench of decay wafted out.

Some of the seeds in the cabinets had changed color, turning from a healthy dark red to grayish-green or dark purple.

Lawson's psychic field unfolded once more.