The Astartes Family's Notebook

In short, it was a privilege granted by imperial power, allowing for execution before approval, whether it was legitimate or not.

If Astartes was the Embroidered Uniform Guard, then the judges were the Eastern Depot, Western Depot, Inner Depot, Ministry of Justice, and Imperial Horse Administration all in one.

If you're asking what the Imperial Guard is if Astartes was the Embroidered Uniform Guard, the emperor's personal guard, then you've come to the right person.

The Imperial Guards were the emperor's own sons.

Kids have so many questions, it's never going to end, is it? If the Imperial Guard is the Emperor's own son, then what is the Primarch?

The original was an adopted wild child, no doubt about it.

As a victim and a relative of the victim, Katz naturally listened to the case closure report.

After listening to it all, the convoluted and absurd case wasn't worth delving into. What really mattered was the judge's mask. Kaz thought about it for a long time and finally figured it out.

Isn't this the design of Master Yi from Project Origin?

Okay, Kars wasn't distracted. Although the Great Rift hadn't unfolded yet, the Primitive Space Marines hadn't surfaced, and the Space Marines hadn't yet developed the ability to think multitask, even those who would later be considered the "tears of the Firstborn" could, with a little training, learn the ability to multitask or even triple.

The only difference is that one is a passive skill that is innate, while the other is a skill that requires active practice.

Kars, a habitual offender who can get distracted even while scrubbing himself in the hydroponic pod, mastered the ability to multitask ten years ago and is now practicing the ultimate technique of multitasking.

Why skip multitasking?

Because playing Dou Dizhu (a card game) is nowhere near as fun as playing mahjong.

In the world of Warhammer, don't get hung up on the issue of names.

Kars has already disregarded the name of his perfect being, so how could he possibly have any emotional reaction to the fact that his own chapter's instructor is Sephiroth?

The nine instructors were indeed cobbled together from the three warbands, but it wasn't a three-on-three system. The Oathkeepers warband sent five people, and the Black Knights sent three. Look at our Desolation Wings, what a disgrace!

And Katz guessed one thing wrong.

It's common for instructors to be inhuman; after all, Astartes has been outside the realm of normal human beings since the time they were recruits.

However, it was Sephiroth who requested that these new recruits be treated so inhumanely; the instructors of the other two chapters actually felt it was excessive.

But they're not new recruits in our own faction, so what can we say? Saying too much will only annoy people, so why bother?

Just don't kill them.

Why does Sephiroth hate his own chapter's new recruits so much?

He threw himself into Chaos?

Don't try to guess what the Warhammer fanatics are thinking.

Sephiroth considered himself a loyalist.

As a sergeant in the Fourth Company of the Wasteland Wings, he was able to carry out recruit training missions independently, and the high command had no doubt about his loyalty.

However, the idea that loyalty can ruin everything while guarding the borders is a characteristic of the Warhammer world, and one has to experience it.

Sephiroth did not defect, but the Fourth Company Commander betrayed the Empire.

All I can say is that the Desolation Wings chapter is something else. In a typical chapter, if the company commander leads the way as a traitor, either everyone will respond and the entire company will defect, or no one will respond and he will be killed by his comrades and reported as a death in the line of duty, or the majority will unite and let the minority die before the minority defectes.

The bizarre situation of the Desolate Wings Fourth Company, where half of them betrayed the company commander and the other half refused to compromise, resulting in a 50/50 split between the traitors and the loyalists, left even the seasoned judge deeply shocked.

Most importantly, excluding Sephiroth who was on official business, the Fourth Company's fighting brothers who participated in this internal strife were exactly half and half, no more and no less.

This chaotic internal strife within the company, which seemed to be shrouded in mystery, tormented Sephiroth for nineteen years.

Because covering things up was an imperial tradition, Astartes was no exception.

The reason he was sent to train the new recruits was because the thirteen gene seeds were recovered from the fallen comrades of the Fourth Company.

Sephiroth was still unable to find out which side, the loyalists or the rebels, had won in the Fourth Company.

With the day approaching for the chapter to pick up the new recruits, Sephiroth, a company sergeant, had no experience in handling such a major matter involving the chapter's expulsion.

Unfortunately, the traitorous fourth company commander managed to contact Sephiroth, saying he wanted to take the new recruits away.

Unable to balance his feelings for his company commander with his loyalty to the warband, Sephiroth decides to kill him to silence him.

If all these new recruits die, then the fourth company commander will have no reason to come to Frankish III, and the fact that there is a traitor in the battle group will not be exposed.

By replacing election with execution, the dilemma is resolved.

Wonderful.

So what's the deal with this judge named Odachi?

Generally speaking, if the Inquisitors find dirt on the Astartes Chapter, either the Chapter Master compromises and does some dirty work for the Inquisitors so everyone can pretend nothing happened; or the Inquisitors use the dirt to destroy the Chapter, with the Atonement Expedition being the least of their worries, and excommunication is an outright punishment, and being removed from the Empire is not uncommon; or if the Chapter cannot resolve the issue, they will eliminate the person who raised the issue, physically eliminating the Inquisitors.

However, as a human empire with a feudal imperial system as its political system, human relationships and social customs are everywhere.

At this moment, the commander of the Desolate Wings battle group was leading two companies of combat comrades in a coordinated operation with the second company commander of the White Scars battle group.

It was ten years before the regimental commander finally received news of the trouble that had occurred in the Fourth Company from the think tank.

Good heavens, this is happening every single day.

The battalion commander had no choice but to tell the Second Company Commander of White Scar about it.

The Empire has over a thousand Astartes Chapters, but currently only nine remain as loyal mother chapters, a mere fraction of the total, highlighting their low quality.

What the Wings of Desolation couldn't solve was no big problem for the White Scars.

The second company commander made a psionic phone call to the battle group commander. The white scar didn't even go through the Holy Terra connections; he simply contacted the Grand Inquisition, who was stationed in the Pacific Starfield, and the problem was solved.

Why?

For the Astartes, surrendering to Chaos is an absolute red line, a matter that cannot be compromised. As for betrayal, the Astartes should not pry into their affairs. Do they even know what special operations or infiltration into the enemy means?

As a powerful intelligence agency, the court investigated the reasons for the Fourth Company Commander's defection.

I thought it was something serious, but it turns out he just suffered a grievance and got the cold shoulder from some scoundrel from the Rebellious Cult.

So the high master of the Holy Hammer Order arranged for his disciple to take action and give the fourth company commander a direct answer.

The fourth company commander looked at the stupid judge's head and immediately confessed.

But since things have come to this point, punishment is acceptable, but guilt is absolutely unacceptable.

The Grand Instructor has no pride; he patted his chest and guaranteed to White Scar's battle commander that as long as he didn't betray the cause, he would protect him.

So the fourth company commander of the Wasteland Wings willingly went to Deathwatch for further training, and everyone pretended nothing had happened.

The four-member alliance, which had been divided, reconciled, and everyone tacitly pretended that nothing had happened. Only Sephiroth, one of the people involved, was unaware that the matter had been settled and had created such a big mess.

If it weren't for the fact that Desolate Wings understood human relationships and shared some of the profits from Frankis III with Odachi, and that the Inquisitor hadn't come to claim his own benefits at the right time, Kaz and his thirteen companions would have been thoroughly ruined.

Two lives have already been lost, and the instructors of the Oathkeepers and Black Knights chapters can no longer hide it. But in any organization—no, in any warband—everyone has their share of troubles. The Grand Instructor of the Pacific Starfield personally stepped in to settle things, so how could the two warbands, which are permanently stationed in the Pacific Starfield, not give him face?

Once the recruits are convinced of the situation, the whole incident will be resolved satisfactorily.

As for Adal and Ittis, they died in vain.

Intentionally killing a fellow member of the combat team is a serious crime, theoretically punishable by death, with the death penalty being the minimum for white phosphorus.

However, in order to conceal the truth about the company's defection, Sephiroth's murder plan was as convoluted and bizarre as Detective Conan's. Even if he confessed, he could not produce any substantial evidence to reconstruct the crime.

So the final punishment was to send him to Deathwatch to keep his old company commander company.

Funny, isn't it? It's pretty funny. This is the Warhammer world, a gathering place for madmen.

But Katz couldn't laugh, because he was the one involved.

Should we hold them accountable?

Four loyalist Space Marine chapters were involved, and the High Inquisitor of the Holy Hammer Order killed an Inquisitor of the Rebellion Order in the process.

What could Kaz and his recruits do but shout and then get shot after returning to the battle group because their left foot stepped into the combat barge first?

I suddenly feel a little envious of Adal and Etris, envious that they don't have to worry about this kind of mess.

May your souls rest in peace on the golden throne.

Chapter 6 Invincible Second Company Commander, We Respect You!

Even the most noble lord-general cannot order a Space Marine captain to do something he does not want to do, because everyone knows that the ranks of the Astartes are purely for fun.

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Another useless unsolved mystery has been solved.

The two companies that followed the battle group leader and assisted the White Scars Battle Group in combat were the First Company and the Third Company.

The new fourth company commander who came to pick up Katz and his men was beaming with joy.

How could he not be happy? Mada Sich was originally just an ordinary second company commander, but he was forcibly assigned to the fourth company by the regimental commander. How could he not be happy? Two times two equals four, what a blessing that must be!

The battle group has its own promotion system.

Generally speaking, when the position of company commander of the fourth company becomes vacant, either the adjutant of the first, second, third, or fifth company is demoted, or the company commander of the sixth, seventh, eighth, or ninth company is promoted. If the adjutant of the fourth company itself, or the company champion who has received commendations and is qualified to wear a gold crown, can be favored by the regimental commander, then he can be promoted on the spot.

The problem is that the current Desolation Wings is not an ordinary warband.

The first and third companies were fighting alongside the regimental commander, while the fifth company was on official business in the Misty Starfield, where they were constantly engaged in combat. The sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth companies combined couldn't even muster a hundred men. What could the regimental commander do? He could only draw men from the second company.

Although the matter in the Fourth Company was settled thanks to Bai Ba's influence, which company adjutant would dare to take on this mess when two groups that had been enemies for twenty years suddenly shook hands and made peace?

For the sake of the development and stability of the battle group, the second company commander directly beat his two company adjutants in the training ground until the company clerk didn't even recognize them.

He no longer cared who would act as his Second Company Commander, Motor Sich, because he wasn't really confident about the mess left in the Fourth Company.

Because the Desolation Wings is merely a scripture-based chapter that superficially follows the Astartes Codex, and the Fourth Company is the most unique company within the Desolation Wings Chapter.

If not handled properly, it could lead to serious problems.

This secret has been passed down for over two thousand years, and every battalion commander and company commander has the obligation to ensure that the secret is not spread or lost.

That means the Fourth Company and the other fighting brothers were not born to the same father.

In layman's terms, the Desolation Wings' gene seed can be traced back to two Primarchs: one in the Fourth Company and one in each of the other companies.

The original truth is now lost to history, and even the current warband leader dares not delve into it.

The secret will not be spread; the organizational structure of the Astartes can guarantee this.

Information shouldn't be lost, stop joking, okay? There are plenty of chapters like the Blood Ravens who can't find their fathers, and quite a few who mistake their enemies for their fathers.

The lack of crucial information made the three insiders feel uneasy.

If the gene seed of the Fourth Company is a loyalist of the traitorous legion, that would be fine.

What if the Fourth Company is the guardian, and we are the descendants of traitors? That would be the end of the world!

Don't say anything that's detrimental to unity. We're all brothers in arms, why differentiate between you and me?

Don't think that Motor Sich is just creating a small circle based on bloodline theory. Astartes is such an idealistic thing. Not only does the Primarch have a mystical influence on the offspring of the genes, but there is also a passive attribute of natural affinity and doubled favorability between combat brothers of the same gene seed.

It's not that genetic seeds determine everything; the loyalist legions have produced many traitors, and the rebel legions also have quite a few loyalists.

Before the incident, Motor Sich wouldn't have been in such a predicament.

However, the rebellion of the Fourth Company was not a sudden, isolated incident, but rather the camel being broken by the last straw.

The reason why the Fourth Company is called the Fourth Company is because it has been the Fourth Company for two thousand years.

The other chapters have the strongest company, but the Desolation Wings have two theoretically strongest companies: the First Company and the Fourth Company.

The squad leader was not a narrow-minded person. The fourth company had all the treatment that the first company should have: thirty sets of Terminator armor, two centurion suits, a combat barge and a heavy strike cruiser.

Sincerity must be reciprocated with sincerity. If the corps commander hadn't shown such great favor, why would the former fourth company commander have been willing to go to the death to guard the battlefield?

The reason they were forced to rebel by the judges was that the Fourth Company was extremely angry about the current state of the Empire and the Pacific Starfield.

Eight Space Marine chapters were the first to respond to the call to the Makarius Expedition, not including the Desolation Wings.

However, in the fifth year of this expedition, the Fourth Company joined the expedition.

The gains from the Frankish III can be said to have been earned through four consecutive efforts.

However, the Fourth Company secured far more than just a third of the gains from the Frankish III; it also won a homeworld for the Chapter.

That's right, before Makarius launched his expedition, the Wastewings were a ship-based battle group.

In the Empire, aside from a few chapters tasked with special missions that require them to cruise the stars, ship-based chapters are basically synonymous with poor chapters.

Is it not unusual for Astartes to have a home planet, given that it's a landmass?

Approving conscription on a planet only requires permission from the sub-sector government. Under the four-tiered management system of star region-sector-sub-sector-galaxy, few sub-sector governments dare to disregard the authority of an Astartes Chapter over conscription.