Travel to Warhammer 40K with Grey Wind

Fortunately, the first L-star gate is now open to navigation, and Russell can now obtain biomass from Faya, which has been transformed into the planet Gaia, at any time and send it here as food for the queen insect. It is still affordable to raise a Coronie.

While the man and the bug were talking, the Gray Goo mothership had already sent all the wreckage of the two Chaos flagships and two Platinum Dragon Skeletons to the nano planet in the innermost ring of the Critical Base System.

It then returned to the orbit of Planet 2 where Coronia was located, and transported the large amount of "cargo" loaded in the cabin to the surface of the planet.

When the large amount of branches, leaves, roots and other biological tissues that were trimmed from the jungle covering Faya were dumped by the gray wind into the mycelium-covered rift valley, Russell clearly felt the fluctuations of Coronia's consciousness in front of him.

tick-

A drop of sticky digestive fluid dripped from the corner of Coronie's mouth onto the ground.

Coroniel quickly covered his mouth with all six claws to hide his gaffe, but the deep desire from his soul could not be hidden from his master who had a spiritual connection with him.

The moment the queen insect felt the nutrients, her heart was filled with a hungry desire, and even her thoughts became restless.

Because those branches and leaves come from "Bao".

Gray Wind, who was standing behind Russell, folded his arms and looked at the excited Coronie with some curiosity: "Why do you like Bao so much?"

Maybe it’s because Bao has a “delicious” quality…

Tick, tick - digestive juice kept dripping down Coronie's claws.

Chapter 71 Recruitment

Koronie tried hard to resist the urge to crawl out of the cave and eat the branches and leaves of Bao, and answered Gray Wind's question in a low voice:

I am very hungry. Every time I smell it, the smell of Bao, the feeling of hunger becomes stronger. It is a desire at the genetic level, urging me to devour it, as if this can slightly relieve the eternal hunger..."

Gray Wind blinked, not quite understanding Coronie's answer. She had never felt hungry before.

This was actually a very dangerous signal. It was impossible that the Coroniai Zerg fleet was the only one that was greedy for Bao's body. The eternally echoing hunger signal came from the Great Devourer, from the Zerg will above all the Zerg swarms.

One day in the future, the endless sea of ​​insects covering the sky will eventually submerge Faya, and the shadow of the Great Devourer will inevitably surround the Milky Way and extinguish the starry sky... Russell knows this very well.

But that was a long, long time in the future. As far as he knew, the main force of the "Leviathan" Hive Fleet would not begin to approach Terra until the 42nd millennium.

More than two thousand years is always enough.

In addition to Bao as the staple food, Russell also brought some snacks for Coroniae that it didn't like very much, namely the corpses of the Perfect Warriors and the burnt remains of the Son of Change.

These filthy flesh and blood contaminated by Chaos would probably be disgusting to eat, but the gene seed sequence inside was still intact. It would not hurt for Russell to let Coroniai collect some data about Space Marines.

After doing this, Russell boarded the Gray Goo fighter and left Planet 2, but left the Gray Goo mothership in the orbit of the planet as it had other missions.

Russell's help to Coronia was not limited to providing biomass and genetic data. After the assimilation of the nanoplanet and the construction of the L-gate were completed, Grey Wind was finally able to carry out some additional infrastructure construction on Planet No. 2.

For example, the stellar pulses that give Coronia the most headaches can be solved by building a planetary shield generator at the north and south poles of the planet.

This thing is much more useful than the atmosphere.

At the same time, the two adamantine dragon bones of the Ark of Bliss and the Oracle of Truth have also been sent to the nano planet in the innermost ring of the Critical Base System.

In addition to having a planet-scale cluster of nanorobots analyze the composition and structure of the adamantium, Russell mainly planned to use these two ready-made keels as the basis to build two new warships of his own. He had promised to take Grey Wind to Espionage after the L-Stargate was opened, but it was impossible for Grey Wind to go there himself.

There are many things to do, but fortunately Russell doesn't have to do them himself. With the help of automatic machines, he only needs to arrange the tasks in an orderly manner and then wait for the results. This is the fun of farming.

But there are some things that Russell still needs to handle personally...such as tariffs.

After leaving the Critical Base System and returning to Faya, a variety of complicated information was delivered to the Governor's desk through various channels.

For example, the purge launched by the Inquisition, the factional struggles within the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Ministry of Justice's investigation into the whereabouts of Chaos warships... Among many events, Russell only really cared about two.

First, after the subspace storm dissipated, Faya finally received the star message from Nirvana and learned about the situation there.

Under the leadership of the prophetess, the Chaos forces that invaded the core galaxy have been repelled. The star gate of Nirvana is under emergency repair and will be able to be restarted in about 2 years at the latest, and in less than 1 year if it is optimistic.

The existence of the L-Gate was originally a top secret, but there is no such thing as a wall that is impenetrable. After the actual construction of the gate began, there were always fragments of vague information that spread from various channels. As a result, the people who knew the inside story of this project were no longer limited to the few people who attended the Prophet's Conference.

If some people doubted the authenticity and reliability of the L-Stargate and took a wait-and-see attitude before, then after experiencing two consecutive Chaos invasions, everyone with a discerning eye could see the trick.

The old-school nobles in the core galaxies and the top brass of the trading guilds in the major star regions have all begun to take action. They know all too well what unrestricted transportation means.

Especially the ship tolls, or tariffs, that will inevitably be collected after the L-Stargate network is built. Given the sheer size of the empire, even the slightest fluctuation in taxes and fees will bring astronomical wealth, and this is exactly what the nobles and guilds need to discuss with Russell.

It gives me a headache just thinking about it.

Another thing is the reconstruction of the Flame of Repentance Regiment.

This tragic regiment suffered heavy losses in a series of battles. Its home planet was destroyed and its organization collapsed. Now there are less than 40 people left in the regiment that used to have a thousand people. Several of them are seriously injured and need to be transformed into Dreadnoughts.

If a normal small regiment were to fight to this extent, it would basically be wiped out, and the remaining remnants would generally be incorporated into the parent regiment or other brother regiments.

However, thanks to the Dark Angels' remarkable gene-seed stability and Faya's important strategic position, the Flame of Penance Chapter, which retains a large stock of gene-seed, can receive strong support from the Adeptus Mechanicus and can even request support from the parent chapter, so rebuilding its organization is not difficult.

The only problem that gave Mirak a headache was the source of soldiers.

The training of Astartes is a long process, which usually requires strict screening and cruel training from adolescence. Only the best among them can be qualified to implant gene seeds and undergo a series of subsequent transformation operations.

Even after all the transformation operations are completed, a recruit will generally not be awarded power armor immediately. Instead, he needs to serve as a scout or other auxiliary soldier in the regiment and spend a period of time to gain experience before he can get the honor of wearing ceramic steel power armor and becoming a can.

Such abnormal recruitment standards meant that the Astartes' replenishment speed was slow, and the blow suffered by the Flame of Penance Chapter was even more devastating.

Not only the regular combatants, but even the new recruits who had not yet put on armor, and the candidate boys who had not yet implanted their gene seeds, were almost all killed in the fierce and bloody battles.

The Fire of Repentance’s own source of troops was completely cut off.

As a regiment stationed in Faya, under such circumstances they should recruit qualified young people from Faya and select new recruits from them, but there is a problem here.

——Under the promotion of the state religion, the selfless achievements of the great living saint governor are known to every household in the whole of Falla. From nobles to common people, everyone recites the name of the saint chosen by the emperor.

The young generation has grown up hearing about Russell's deeds and regards him as a hero, an idol... and the savior of Falla.

Recruiting soldiers in a place with such a strong atmosphere of personal worship, even though the Astartes' new recruits' training process includes mental hypnosis and other mental training programs, it is impossible to truly avoid the influence of Russell's personal prestige on the internal thoughts of the Fire of Penance Chapter.

Because they were not replenishing their forces on a small scale, but rebuilding their organization from scratch when almost the entire regiment was wiped out.

A standard regiment has 1000 members. After the reconstruction, there are less than 40 original members. The other 900-plus are Farya teenagers who were born and raised here and have a deep respect for the planetary governor since childhood...

This is enough to make any imperial official wary.

Miraak, who knew the relationship between Russell and the Star Bullet, was especially worried.

Chapter 72 Truth

It is difficult to say with what attitude the Star-Ballist is providing assistance to the Empire. They know very little about this existence, and humans are always on guard against things they don't know.

Combined with the news from Bernatita about the Star Bullet's desire to obtain legal conscription rights throughout the Far East, Mirak even suspected in his heart that the Star Bullet might have intended to bring the Fire of Repentance into its control from the beginning. However, there was no evidence, not even the most far-fetched one.

He also thought about forcibly circumventing the regulations and recruiting new soldiers from the fleet's "Sons of the Void" instead of from the Faya, but that would be too obvious and would likely cause dissatisfaction among the Star-Ballists. His attitude was crucial, as many factions close to the Star-Ballists had already emerged within the empire.

Some people in the upper echelons of the state religion privately believe that the Star-Bomber could be an incarnation of the Emperor, or a lost Holy Primarch... This is also a traditional skill of this group of charlatans.

When the Emperor first sat on the Golden Throne, the state religion had not yet become the official religion of the Empire, and its name was still "The Temple of the Emperor of Savior". During the period of rapid expansion of the galaxy with crazy missionary work, the priests were accustomed to forcibly interpreting the indigenous gods believed by the natives of many of the Empire's worlds as one of the incarnations of the Emperor, and used both perverse logic and physics to force the local residents to believe in the Emperor.

Now they did the same to the Star Bullet and the Nano Dragons he summoned.

Many people in the Adeptus Mechanicus were fascinated by his seemingly endless advanced technology, and they were willing to go through fire and water for knowledge and technology. Even in the Inquisition, there were some radical Inquisitors who tried to seek cooperation with Russell, such as Bernatita.

After going around in circles and thinking it over again and again, Miraak found that he actually had no choice.

In the end, he still chose to recruit soldiers in Faya, but made some minor changes to the selection criteria and mental transformation stage of the recruits, so as to minimize the impact of Russell's personal prestige on the regiment's recruits.

At least I am still here, the fearless veterans are still here, and the soul of the regiment is still here.

That was all Miraak could do.

After he made the decision, the recruitment process for the Flame of Penance Chapter had already begun, and the Imperial Guards stationed in various cities in Falla began to select qualified young people from the local population according to strict standards.

The appropriate age group for Space Marine transformation surgery is generally years old, among which the remaining nobles of Falla are the most active. All those who have male heirs of appropriate age in their families are vying to try to get priority in selection through connections and bribery.

These remnants of the nobility who remained after Russell's purge were in urgent need of ways to maintain their status, and letting their children become the Emperor's angels was obviously one of the best options.

Mirak had no opinion on this. Rather, he was very happy to see the nobles who had old grudges against Russell become the fresh blood of the regiment. Of course, he would not use public power for personal gain or open any backdoors. The selection and training of nobles and civilians would be equally strict.

Russell did not make any comment on the nobles' little moves, because when the conscription began, he had already left the Governor's Mansion in the Northern Continent and went to the Southern Continent accompanied by Grey Wind.

The once barren continent with a harsh environment has become full of vitality under Bao's transformation. Lush forests and beautiful wetlands have replaced the bumpy mines and endless deserts.

No one could ignore such a noticeable change, but out of tacit understanding with the Star-Ballers, no one raised any opinions or questions about Russell's afforestation in the southern continent.

He was, after all, the Governor of Falla.

This time, Gray Wind did not transform into a fighter plane. Russell and it rode on a high-speed fighter converted from a "Swordtail" interceptor, flew over the endless green forest, and plunged into an inconspicuous mountain range that was already covered with green.

This dense rock mountain with a low presence was once the location of a black prison for serious criminals due to its harsh environment. The state religion was happy to send diehard believers in the imperial truth to this place of death.

But what is now presented to Russell is not the case.

Gray Wind flew the Swordtail Interceptor through the dense forest and slowly landed under the mountain.

The barren mountain itself is not very large, but its interior has long been completely hollowed out, supported and reinforced by a large amount of plastic concrete and metal frames, and the underground space has been expanded to be very spacious. It contains a whole set of highly automated self-circulating ecosystems, and there is no sense of closure under the abundant artificial light. There are residential areas, production areas, scientific research areas, and even entertainment areas, with all kinds of living facilities, and many areas are under construction.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a small underground city.

This is why the black prison, which has never been reported to be expanded, can forcibly hold a large number of prisoners far beyond its capacity.

It had actually been expanded a long time ago, but no one knew about it.

The autonomous machines at the entrance of the underground city did not stop Russell and Gray Wind at all. They respectfully pulled the Swordtail Interceptor that landed at the entrance onto the apron and welcomed them in.

As soon as they entered the underground city, two teams of bionic servants in neat orange work clothes stopped their work, stood on both sides of the road paved with imitation brick patterns, bowed to Russell and Gray Wind:

"leader."

After this group of bionic servants, the next person who came to Russell was a man wearing a long white windbreaker with half of his jaw replaced with mechanical components.

There is a subtle contrast between his gentle temperament and rough appearance. He is the leader of the Truth Sect of the Empire of Falla.

He was persecuted by the state religion because of ideological conflicts and should have met the end of his life in the religious trial, but at the moment of life and death, he was protected and supported by the new Governor of Falla.

Now, he is the scientific research director of this underground city.

The scientific research director does not look very well now, his cheeks are thin and his eye sockets are sunken, as if he has not slept well for many days.

He forced himself to cheer up in front of Russell and bowed slightly: "You are here."

"You don't seem to be in a good mental state." Russell looked at him with a half-smile: "Does my research torment you so much?"

"It's more than just torture..."

The head of scientific research smiled bitterly: "Over the past decade, as the study of psychic theory has become more and more in-depth, our original understanding of this world has also been gradually overturned. I seem to no longer recognize the universe I live in."

As staunch supporters of the Imperial Truth, they have always advocated rationality, believing that everything in the world can be explained by science, and are opposed to all things related to the mysticism and supernatural powers.