Chapter 2914 Hive Fleet Cerberus
As for Malakin’s words, the biological sage made a sound of agreement.
“The description of Chapter Master Malakin is very accurate. Yes, the killer. All its designs are centered around this function. It is precisely because of the discovery of this creature that we have an understanding of Tyranid. The collective consciousness has a deeper understanding.”
“Indeed, this means that the collective consciousness of Tyranids knows how to distinguish the level of opponents, and even evolves highly professional biological weapons to carry out assassination and beheading missions. This is too scary."
Andal changed the subject.
"How was such a creature killed? In my memory, no one seems to have reported the discovery of this thing."
"It was probably destroyed accidentally when covered by long-range fire."
This explanation It was actually a bit far-fetched, but Andal didn't delve deeper and just glanced at Soshyan.
“So when you fight, you must pay more attention to this kind of creature. Tyranids will not make just one. I guess it intends to use this weapon against human commanders.”
Soshiyang nodded when he heard this, and then stretched out his hand.
"Thank you very much for your efforts, sage, and the other mechanical priests. We will not disturb your work any more."
After shaking hands with the other party, just when Soshyan was about to take people away, the biological sage Stopped him.
“Captain Soshyan, there is one more thing.”
“What?”
“It can be concluded that this insect nest is from the empire. According to past practice, the new unrecorded insect nest needs to be given a code name. I think there is no one more qualified than you.”
In fact, this kind of thing is usually done by the Alien Tribunal, but since the other party said so, Soshyan also felt that he was running back and forth and racking his brains to compete with the insect nest. There was really no one better than him. Qualifies to name his opponent.
After thinking for a moment, Soshyan said a name.
"Then this Hive Fleet will be named Cerberus." Upon hearing the name, Seth nodded.
“The three-headed vicious dog from the brimstone hell, a very apt name. Now we have cut off two heads of this vicious dog.”
Soshyan smiled slightly.
"If we don't think of anything, its severed head will still grow back."
Not long after the meeting ended, the fleet arrived in Vis, the Archdiocese of St. Casperon. The Tello system is the closest system to the war zone. Refugees evacuated from the Winocchi system, the Longobardi system and the San Trigo system will first be transported here and then transferred to other systems in the parish, so When the fleet arrived, the airport here had already been occupied by transport ships. Not only that, even the only three habitable planets were now overcrowded, with simple refugee camps everywhere.
So all kinds of overwhelming problems rushed towards Soshiyang at the first time, such as hunger, disease, and public security. The local primitive feudal administrative system could not withstand such an impact and fell into complete paralysis from the beginning. state, some people even took the opportunity to make a fortune from the war, hoarding food, driving up prices, trying to squeeze the last promethium coin out of the hands of refugees, and there was even a large-scale buying and selling of people, even though each person had a fixed amount of subsistence. The rations were standard, but less than half of them might actually fall into the hands of the refugees. Less than five days after arriving in the system, Soshiyan saw a shocking corruption case, and even a battle group responsible for the allocation of supplies. High-level servants were involved, involving more than 8,400 tons of relief food. They colluded with each other to deceive the superiors and subordinates, and used forged personnel lists and false reports of losses to embezzle a large amount of food, medicine, and clothing that were already extremely tight. Emergency supplies such as daily necessities have led to hundreds of thousands of deaths that should not have occurred.
But this is even good, at least there is a more spacious environment on the planet, and the refugees who are forced to crowd into the transport ship are even worse. Not only do they have to endure the dirty air, What's more, they have to endure the sanitation conditions that are about to collapse, coupled with the severe shortage of supplies, many people have to take risks and commit crimes in order to survive. There are also many women who have to sell their bodies and become prostitutes in order to obtain survival supplies to feed their relatives, and the darkness The environment and poor public security further aroused the hostility and anger in people's hearts. Riots occurred from time to time, but captains often chose to suppress them severely. Some captains even claimed that they used more bullets than food. In order to survive, young refugees have to form groups and form gangs. What's worse is that some cult groups have begun to appear in them.
The people of the Archdiocese are devout and fragile. When they face the deepest darkness and despair and find that their faith is completely useless, it is very easy to turn to other things.
As for why such a chaotic situation is caused, of course one of the reasons is that the galaxy has a low level of development and almost no environmental modification capabilities. Many planets are uninhabitable because of their relatively harsh environments, and it is impossible to build orbital settlements. , Satellite City is something I don’t even think about.
Considering that the number of refugees gathered in this system has reached 2.4 billion, even an industrially developed hive city cannot accommodate such a huge population in a short period of time, although the transport fleet is non-stop at all times. to transport refugees to further rear areas as arranged, but due to the greatly reduced habitable world in the archdiocese, communication problems, and the speed of decision-making, only 13 million people can be transported out every month .
Crowding is one of the root causes of the problem. The second is that the archdiocese has always had a relatively backward administrative system and industrial capabilities. Priests are often in a hurry when facing emergencies.
In this situation, Soshiyang had no good solution. He could only do it himself, quickly and resolutely establishing order with an iron fist. All refugee camps were managed militarically, with families as units, and ten households as one. Ten Jia is a security guard. If there are two adult males or above in a family, one person will be a security guard. They will conduct military training in their spare time, and perform orderly patrols, stand guard and other tasks of maintaining public order. The first priority will be given to the Chief A and the Chief Security Officer. People with certain military experience should be appointed, followed by those who have held administrative positions, thirdly by those with wealth, status and reputation, and finally by the policyholders themselves.
As for those homeless men, women, old and young, young children enter orphanages under unified management, young adults are incorporated into faith guards, receive complete military training as militiamen or hold other positions, and the elderly or disabled are taken care of by the church. Arrange work.
Coupled with this is a strict co-sitting system, where each household jointly provides insurance and shares the guarantee.
This temporary system was recommended to Soshyan by Andal. He told Soshyan that this armor-protecting system was very popular in the Achilles War Zone. Its main advantages are that it can save a lot of military investment, and it can Establishing a tight security network, although this also greatly limits personal freedom, and it is difficult to avoid severe oppression and slavery, freedom is the most useless thing for the empire, and within the empire, Oppression and slavery have long been the norm.