Chapter 735: Interfering with the entire empire?
The psionic order comes in bulk.
On paper, the Psionic Order is a powerful organization. They have the authority to manage all psykers throughout the Empire, and organize psionic regiments to provide all necessary psionic support to various other Imperial organizations, from the military to the Inquisition to civil institutions.
However, this matter was only realized when the Psychic Order was first established, and later it became a dead letter.
For a long time, the power of psychic energy was a taboo within the empire and could not be mastered. Those with psychic awakenings were severely persecuted, mainly by the Inquisition. Most psykers will be imprisoned or simply executed.
Later, the imperial prime minister who followed the emperor to establish the human empire and was called the Immortal believed that although psychic energy was a dangerous, it was still a power that could be mastered. He personally established the Psychic Order, and used the Psychic Order to cultivate and master the psionic power of the entire empire.
At that stage, the Psychic Order performed its duties powerfully, cultivating a large number of psykers and sending them to various units. The psionic experts of the Inquisition, the psionic troops of the Astra Militarum, the navigators and cogitators of the Navy, and even the think tanks of the Space Marine Chapters will also communicate with the psionic orders of the Empire.
It was an extremely glorious era for the Psychic Order.
The Psychic Order controls a large number of psionic academies to screen people and train psykers. After training, all parties ask the Psychic Order to send people there. The Chief Grand Master is directly under the leadership of the Imperial Chancellor and is a very important member of the Supreme Council. He wields extraordinary power that the mortals of the Empire can control.
Psykers assigned abroad are under the dual leadership of the Psionic Order and their own unit, according to the college they are from and their rank in the Psionic Order. With a single word from the Grand Master of the order, all the psychic power of a certain army can be drawn out, or additionally assigned to a certain team.
At the same time, the Psychic Order also has its own directly affiliated troops, which mainly focus on psionic power, but there are also a large number of professional anti-psionic units. Use psionic energy to counter psionic energy, or assist the Mechanicum in developing anti-psionic weapons and equipment, and deploy elite soldiers to form a legion.
Such a psychic order is certainly worthy of the status of a high lord.
But the good times did not last long. The imperial prime minister, who was supposedly an immortal, passed away in the era after the emperor ascended, and died in a huge civil strife. Without his support, the Psychic Order lacked its most fundamental political power.
Of course, that's not all it is.
But in the following time, their basic base was continuously eroded.
The core problem lies in the dual leadership of psykers.
It stands to reason that any psyker in any unit must be under the jurisdiction of the Psychic Order. However, the first thing is that the Tribunal quit.
There are so many confidential matters in our Tribunal, and many of them are related to various supernatural forces. Psionics are needed to deal with those matters, but how can we let you lead the Psychic Order? Wouldn't that be a leak?
In fact, you psykers, who listen to the ravings of the subspace every day, may one day become corrupted or explode. The harm is huge and must be supervised.
With the Inquisition as the main force, the Psychic Order was constantly challenged and suppressed in the long years that followed.
Other imperial forces also have good motives and do not want their teams of psykers to be controlled by the Psionic Order.
After all, if there are two lines of jurisdiction, how can you feel comfortable with one line of jurisdiction?
The Astra Militarum does not want the psionic troops to be suddenly transferred away by the order one day; the Navy cannot accept the pilots and cogitators being removed from their ships. In such a mysterious place as the Assassin Court, the psionic assassins they cultivated are not at all Just never let the Psychic Order get involved.
Of course, the Psychic Order will not relax its power, and has been fighting with all parties for a long time, and even continues to this day.
However, the outcome of the struggle was obviously not very good.
The main reason is that in this matter, the Psychic Order is almost against everyone.
If that was all, it would only be a leg cut off.
They also have a large number of psychic academies. As long as they can control the training and distribution of psychics, they still have considerable say.
But at this point, they are also continually being disenfranchised.
Psykers are useful to everyone, so why would they want to be choked by an order?
The training of psychics is not a patent, it must be cultivated from the psychic academy. This was done forcibly in the past mainly for the sake of better control. The empire had relevant mandatory administrative orders.
Administrative orders can be overturned and changed.
Each family began to cultivate specific psychics on their own and according to their own needs.
For this purpose, openings are constantly being made to the past psychic system.
If there are too many holes, the rules themselves will become riddled with holes.
Then came the financial budget cuts received by the Psychic Order. Gradually, Psychic Colleges could not open as many schools and were forced to close one by one. Each school had its own dedicated psionic troops and anti-psionic experts. The Psychic Order Due to budget problems, the troops directly under its own authority are gradually withering away...
As of now, there are still some psionic colleges, but their proportion in the cultivation of psykers in the empire as a whole is already very low; there are still some direct forces, but the strength is really not enough to support the psionic cultivators to come to the table.
The Psychic Order is now becoming more and more like a club-like place where Empire psykers come together to communicate and learn. Without strong enough actual power, it is naturally difficult to obtain a particularly strong political status.
The Chief Grand Instructor theoretically still has the qualifications to enter the Vocational High Council, but in the past one or two thousand years, the Psychic Order has not been seen among the high lords.
This is the present situation of the Psychic Order.
They are certainly not content with this.
Otherwise, there would be no such thing as finding Gu Hang.
But it was also because they were unwilling to give up and wanted to maintain the posture of a powerful central institution of the empire that Salikhovich made some subsequent comments about them.
They remain aloof, as if the Psychic Order has never declined, and work hard to maintain their dignity; but they are often very soft-bodied, and as long as there is the slightest chance that they can get involved with them, they will stick to it and show off. own value.
How could others let such an easy-to-use target go?
All kinds of dirty things, just drag this group of spiritual cultivators to come over.
If an important person is missing, then the Psychic Order will send a consultant to see if it is related to psionic energy. It is a credit to find the person. You are just a consultant. What other benefits do you want? If the person is not found, then you will bear the blame;
There's a war, so the psionic cultivator should send out some direct psionic troops. No? You have to send more or less out, otherwise even the remaining budget will be deducted from you later.
These are still relatively extra things. Once a psychic disaster occurs somewhere, you won't run away, you'll just be waiting to take the blame.
It's like a trash can where all bad things can be thrown into it, desolate, at the mercy of others, and depressed...
sad. That is to say, the foundation is quite strong. Within the empire, and in Holy Terra, there are also some psionic academies that serve as the foundation to forcefully continue to live.
However, if this trend continues, the ultimate outcome of the Psychic Society may be inevitable collapse in the foreseeable future.
After listening to this, Gu Hang recalled that one of the paths Gallardo had arranged for him was to come and become the leader of the Psychic Order.
At that time, he was still thinking that the Psychic Cult was a top force after all, so why did Gu Hang, an outsider, become its leader?
I didn't expect it to be that simple.
There is no need to fight for it at all, people will eagerly give it to you with both hands!
However, if you want to push the Chief Grand Instructor to the position of high lord, it is not a matter of helping others, but it is extremely difficult.
Of course, Gu Hang didn't think Gallardo was talking nonsense at that time. In fact, Gu Hang could guess how this was going to work: it was just to 'sell' his military exploits in the Iron Armor War.
That won't work.
Turning back to the matter at hand, Gu Hang asked: "So, do you have any suggestions? My ambassador."
In the gradual narration just now, Salikhovich has actually stated his preferred position: "I suggest staying away from them, Your Excellency the Governor, it will become unfortunate if you get too close to them."
After a moment of pause, he continued to add the reason: "The Psychic Order now only has a name and a framework. If you want to lead them to recovery, you will not only have to invest a lot of resources, but also face many difficulties. The worst thing is that as long as it becomes more and more If things get better, the greater the resistance you will encounter, the more powerful the Psychic Society will be, and it will inevitably have conflicts of interest with many parties, which will be very detrimental to your cause.”
Gu Hang asked: "What if I only want his name and framework?"
After all, it was given for free.
As long as Gu Hang nods, he can get the so-called 'chief mentor' title at almost no cost.
Needless to say, it is a top-level title and can be entered into the High Lords Council.
To take a step back, there are still three pounds of nails in a broken ship. The remaining strength of the Psychic Order is still more or less. It can still get tens of billions of dollars from the empire every year, and sometimes it can reach tens of billions; in the central position of the empire, Carrying a trash can can help you gain a lot of connections...
"No, that's unrealistic." Salikhovich said, "Let's not talk about other factors. There are also big problems within the Psychic Order. They invited you to be the chief master because they hope you will lead They are revived. If you delay in making key moves, it will be difficult for them to continue to comply with your will. At that time, not only will they not be able to help you, but they may actually hinder you.”
Gu Hang touched his chin and agreed with Salihovich's statement.
But, in between conversations, he also had his own thoughts.
"What if I go to build a spiritual order?"
"Huh?" Salikhovich was a little confused.
Haven't we talked about it?
"Isn't giving up the power of the Psionic Order over the psykers of the entire empire the biggest conflict between the Psionic Order and other imperial factions?"
Salikhovich is also a very smart person. He reacted immediately: "You mean... focus on building the Psychic Academy and the troops directly under the Order?"
"Yes." Gu Hang said, "In the future, the Psychic Religion will be transformed into a training base for Psychics. The existing Psychic Academy is a good foundation, and they also have enough talents. As long as the resources can keep up, Psychic The academy can expand rapidly and increase its efforts in cultivating psykers. It can either accept commissions from other imperial factions for training, or it can be trained by itself and then transferred to direct psionic troops and anti-psionic troops."
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"The Psychic Order is one of the highest-level independent institutions in the empire. I remember that its directly affiliated troops do not need anyone's consent. As long as the chief master's orders are given, they can be executed anywhere in the entire empire. They only need to deal with the generals. The task that the instructor is responsible for, right?”
Salikhovich nodded: "Yes."
"Does that mean that I have the power to intervene in any affairs of the entire empire?"
Salihovich calmly reminded: "I'm afraid it's not that simple. Putting aside the power and the negative impact of excessive interference, even from a legal perspective, the power of the Psychic Order to handle affairs in various parts of the empire is limited to the Psychic In terms of performance, although the actions do not need approval from others and are only responsible to the Grand Master, the Grand Master must also have a justified reason.”
"Ah, that's a problem." The smile on Gu Hang's face grew stronger and stronger, "In this world, everything can be related to psychic energy, right?"
"...As long as you think about it, indeed."
A governor who cannot even be described as an Alpha level, a professional psychic agency, what can't they create that is related to psychic powers?
In other words, is there anything in this universe that cannot be related to subspace?
However, Salihovich is still worried.
"Will the Psychic Order agree? They have clung to their glory for thousands of years and dream of returning to the heyday of the era when all the psykers in the empire were united in the Psychic Order. If they give up this claim, they may It is difficult to accept that you will face great resistance if you want to move forward with this matter.”
Gu Hang suppressed his smile: "That is the task of Master Dou. Why should I directly become this evil person? I hope he can clear away the old stubbornness in the Psychic Order and hand over a clean order to In my hand.”
"Let's postpone the matter of joining the Psychic Order as the Grand Master for now. However, before Dou Zhao left, he said that he wanted me to go to the Psychic Order to communicate?"
"Promise him, is three days of preparation time enough?"
"I will clean his house and provide him with some help."
At this point, Gu Hang waved his hand and canceled the mental blindness to the monitor.
Gu Hang was as honest as possible on weekdays. But when there is something sensitive in the conversation, it’s better not to let them hear it.
These monitors with counter-psionic means have no idea who they are monitoring.
As long as Gu Hang thinks about it, what they can hear and see is what Gu Hang wants them to hear and see.
It's nothing more than using it as little as possible and with a lower intensity to avoid being noticed.
(End of chapter)