Chapter 66, just a little bit
Gu Hang lied to Martins.
Not much, just a little bit.
Painting cakes cannot be considered a lie. If the Space Marines are willing to help him and the Raging Owl Star develops as he planned in the future, then he does not mind supporting a war group.
He never thought about letting the Phoenix work for him completely and completely.
The difference is huge.
Within the imperial system, the Planetary Governor and the Space Marine Chapter Master are not the same system at all, and there is nothing subordinate to them; but in terms of status, the latter is much higher than the former.
If this were the heyday of the Phoenix Chapter, then they would have dominated their home planet, and the Governor on the planet would really be a mortal steward, doing chores that the Space Marines were too lazy to do; his influence would be in a sector It is extremely powerful within the scope of the entire star region. Every governor will respectfully welcome the arrival of the chapter leader, and pray that when their world is threatened, they can get help from their nearest neighbors; within the entire star field, even though they are countless light years away, the Phoenix The reputation will also spread widely.
Once a large-scale war begins and only one chapter participates in the war, the chapter leader will in most cases become the highest military commander. Although the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Astra Militarum are not affiliated with the Chapter in name, they will fully respect the opinions of the Chapter Master and even obey the Chapter Master's command - of course, if there is a famous general with a great reputation, That situation may be different.
Although the phoenix is no longer the phoenix it was a hundred years ago, the organization of the war group is still there, and the identity of the leader of the war group is still there. It is impossible for Gu Hang to make a war group completely obey his orders.
Don't talk about him, even the head of the sector can't do it.
But forming allies for mutual benefit is enough.
You live in my house, drive my car, eat the meals I provide, and use the supplies I bring you. I also promise to rebuild the battle group for you in the future... In this case, I am in trouble, You're so free that you have nothing to do but shoot a couple of shots for me. Isn't that too much?
As long as this alliance is maintained, Gu Hang does not mind fulfilling his promise and rebuilding the battle group for them after a long time. Whether it is the supply of manpower and material resources, or finding ways to build or purchase starships for them.
As for where Gu Hang lied to them...
That's the third point he said before, 'replenish enough Space Marines'.
Gu Hang actually had an idea.
How to become a Space Marine? This is a very difficult thing.
A ‘gene seed’ is needed.
After being implanted with gene seeds, the chosen ones will undergo drastic human body modifications. After a year or two, the gene seeds will completely and meticulously change the entire body. In this way, he became a new recruit.
Then, after lengthy training, when the Chapter deems the recruit to have met the requirements, he or she is awarded the Power Armor, thus truly becoming a Space Marine.
It sounds easy, but in fact this process is extremely difficult.
After the gene seeds are implanted into the body, the drastic transformation is extremely difficult to survive.
Candidates who want to become space warriors are all selected from among hundreds of millions of people who are physically strong and determined, but despite this, most people cannot resist. Either the body collapses, or the will collapses. If one fails to hold on, it will lead to genetic collapse and death.
After getting over it, there is still the recruit training stage. Fortunately, this part is only harsh, and generally the mortality rate will not be too high. In this entire process, the most important things are two things: high-quality soldiers and gene seeds.
The source of troops is relatively easy to determine. Generally, a war group has an entire planet as a recruitment world, which is the so-called home planet. People from a planet can be used to select soldiers, and there is generally no need to worry about selecting the best from the best; even a ship-based battle group can go to certain planets to try to recruit soldiers. It is unrealistic to conduct large-scale selection on a global scale, but if hundreds of people want to be taken away for training, is there any governor who would object?
Even if Phoenix is now like a bear, he can just go to a world and tie up a few good seedlings. Most planets have no intention of hunting down a group of space warriors for a few people.
But even if the problem of soldier resources is solved, Phoenix cannot solve the latter problem, which is the problem of gene seeds.
How the Emperor once created the Space Marine gene-seed is no longer known, and no technology from what happened tens of thousands of years ago has survived. In the current era, Space Marines are mainly 'born' by the Space Marines themselves.
Each Space Marine can give birth to two gene seeds in his lifetime. The first one, five years after they become Space Marines, will mature in their bodies and can be removed and used to develop new recruits; the second one, matures after ten years, but cannot be removed, except after death. Can be extracted.
Theoretically, Space Marines can change from one to two, from two to four, from four to eight... exponential growth. But actually, it's impossible.
Space Marines are always fighting in the most dangerous battles. It is very common for corpses to be broken into pieces and cannot be recovered, and there is no time to collect the corpse. The second seed may not be recovered, only the first seed, the source is relatively different. Stablize.
Then, each war group must hand over 10% of the gene seeds to the empire within a certain period of time as genetic tax, which is used to test whether the war group’s gene seeds are pure, contaminated, and mutated. At the same time, the collected gene seeds are collected , will also serve as a seed bank for the Empire to create new Chapters.
In addition, gene seed implantation surgery has a high failure rate. Once it fails, the person dies and the species disappears.
Under the superposition of multiple factors, it is almost impossible for the Phoenix to change from 7 to 14 or 28.
What's worse is that the seven people who are now alive in the Phoenix are all veteran warriors for more than a hundred years, and the seeds have been harvested long ago. If you want to pick them again, you have to wait until they are dead.
In addition, there seems to be no pharmacist among them who is responsible for gene seed implantation surgery. They can only let Pastor Rizzo do this job. He can, but he is certainly not as reliable as a professional Chapter Apothecary. If the craftsmanship is not good enough, it may mean that the probability of the subject's successful awakening is further reduced.
Gu Hang said that there was no way to help Phoenix in this regard. Martins would not doubt it at all. It was just a passing topic.
No space warrior would expect a mortal to provide any help to the Phoenix in this regard.
But the reality is that Gu Hang has this ability.
In the [Event] panel, the event line [Phoenix Checkmate] has undergone new changes.
[Phoenix Dying: Gene Seed (repeating event, you can continue to choose)]
[The Phoenix Fighting Group came to the Raging Owl Star and reached a preliminary cooperation agreement with you. A governor who is seeking to control and develop the world, and a war group that is on the verge of death but determined to revive, are a good match. 】
[The most important thing for the Chapter's revival, the gene seeds, are nowhere to be found. If you had this ability, how would you choose? 】
[Pay 100 gift points and get a gene seed (Phoenix Chapter). 】
Looking at this system function, his happiness was secondary. Gu Hang felt more like a cold sweat on his back.
(End of chapter)