Chapter 598, new second group
When Gu Hang got the report from Huanyue Star, he just glanced at it, and then signed to say that he had read it and agreed to the next policy.
The reason for the relatively casual attitude is not because the matter of Raging Flame and the New Age Torch is not important.
On the contrary, they are quite important.
Gu Hang had long wanted to get rid of that guy Paulitos. He caused a lot of trouble for Gu Hang and the alliance.
If Paulitos had just honestly found a place to fight a decisive battle with the Alliance, there wouldn't have been so many things and the war wouldn't have been delayed for so long.
After killing them, there is no big hidden danger. There are finally no large-scale or threatening enemy forces within the Proud Claw Star Territory.
For the Phoenix Chapter, the Alliance helped them complete one-third of their revenge.
The surrender of the New Age Torch also brought benefits.
Gu Hang actually didn't care much about those two hundred space warriors.
Putting aside their level of skill, who would dare to believe that they had betrayed twice and were slaves with three surnames?
No matter how arrogant Gu Hang is, he is not willing to put Wang Mengsong and the more than 200 New Age Torches he brought with him in any key position. They have proven that they cannot handle the pressure. They can switch sides twice in order to survive in a crisis, and there will be a third time.
But the New Age Torch itself is still relatively important.
Ever since he found out that there was an upper limit on the number of Phoenix seeds he could redeem, Gu Hang had to consider recruiting more battle groups to obtain more gene seeds and create more space warriors.
After the New World Torch surrendered, Gu Hang saw a new gene seed exchange option on the battle group-related interface.
This is their greatest value.
The new redeemable gene seed is not called the ‘New Age Torch’ gene seed, but the ‘Secondary Unlimited Gene Seed’.
The parent group of the New Age Torch Chapter is the Infinite Chapter. This matter is clearly recorded. During the founding of the Faroese army, the newly built battle groups were basically built with the gene seeds of the Infinite Battle Group.
Not surprising at all.
The Infinite Legion had the largest number of people during the legion era. Their gene seed fitness is the first among all start-up legions, which means that the success rate of gene seed implantation is the highest. Coupled with the fact that their legion has been good at management since the legion era, it is quite normal for them to have the largest number of people.
If there are more people, then when the war group is split from the legion, there will be more war groups separated; the more gene seed taxes will be paid; when the army is subsequently established, there will be more new war groups using the seeds of the Infinite Soldiers; The more people there are, the more gene seed taxes you pay...
The positive cycle has reached the present day, with unlimited battle groups, blue helmets and blue armor, and many children and grandchildren.
But why a ‘secondary’ seed?
Logically speaking, shouldn’t the Infinite Legion’s gene seeds be one of the most stable? Why is it still degenerating?
After thinking for a moment, and combining some of his knowledge about the Space Marine gene seeds and the situation of the Phoenix, he came up with a rough guess.
The gene seeds of Space Marines will undergo some 'changes' over the long years and countless inheritances. The stability of some gene seeds is relatively low, so the range of changes may be large.
This also involves a characteristic of gene seeds: Gene seeds that mature in the fifth year are not counted. The seed picked by the Space Marine when he dies, which has followed him for his whole life, will carry part of the host's 'information'.
That's some combat experience and skills.
When it is implanted into a new person, it cannot make him or her become a mature warrior immediately, but it can greatly speed up the process. The information contained in the gene seeds will become something similar to biological instinct, allowing new warriors to inherit it.
Space Marines grow rapidly and often inherit the fighting styles of many of their previous masters.
For example, Phoenix is a relatively ancient battle group with thousands of years of history, which means that they have undergone similar changes and transformations for thousands of years since they inherited the original Phoenix gene. In addition, Phoenix's gene seeds are not famous for their stability. It is normal that there will be some differences between the gene seeds and the Phoenix mother group.
In addition, Phoenix has some unknown experiences in its past history...
Therefore, their current gene seeds cannot be said to be completely different from those of Phoenix, but the differences are relatively large.
This is what Gu Hang can see in his system panel. The gene seeds he redeemed are called 'Phoenix Seeds', not 'Phoenix Seeds'.
Gu Hang suspected that the blood shark would be in a similar situation.
But they haven't appeared in Gu Hang's battle group list yet, and they can't redeem their gene seeds, so they can only wait for verification in the future.
As for the New Age Torches, they are a different story.
The New Age Torch has not been established for a long time, only three hundred years. So far, the latest generation of their war group has only been updated to the fifth generation; there are even a large proportion of second and third generation members in the war group.
This is obviously not enough to support a particularly large change in the group's gene seeds, not to mention that they are a sub-group of a genetically stable group like the Infinite Warriors. Their gene seeds are still the same as when the army was founded.
As for why it is secondary, it is also easy to understand.
In theory, each war group should hand over one-tenth of the newly generated gene seeds to the empire as gene seed taxes, which will be kept by the Mechanicus for safekeeping. After inspection, they will be sealed in the gene seed bank.
In this case, what seeds will each war group pay?
There are only quantitative requirements, and naturally the seeds with the least activity must be handed over, and they must be the new seeds that are produced in a five-year period. Those old warriors and elites who recovered them when they sacrificed themselves, as well as those with particularly good activity, must keep them for themselves.
These generally ineffective gene seeds were stored in cold storage for who knows how many years after they were sent to Mars.
The Adeptus Mechanicus is certainly not bad at preserving gene seeds. However, time is the best killer. No matter how good the preservation technology is, after hundreds or thousands of years of storage, the activity will inevitably decrease.
The biggest impact of the reduction in gene seed activity is that it will lead to a reduction in the success rate of implantation surgery;
The second, relatively invisible impact is that the superhuman organs that will grow out after a successful operation will have their respective strengths weakened to varying degrees.
This kind of problem can be gradually solved and improved over a relatively long period of time, after the war group has experienced brutal battles again and again, accumulated enough veterans, and passed on their genetic seeds.
But... no matter how long it took for the New Age Torch to be established, nor what they have done over the past few hundred years, it is not enough to support them in cultivating and re-optimizing their own seeds.
When it fell into Gu Hang's hands, it became the 'inferior infinite warrior gene seed'.
However, he soon stopped worrying about this issue.
The next best thing is the next best thing, that's a Space Marine too.
It's not like Gu Hang doesn't have a way to make up for it. Through the training interface, he can raise the level of the Space Marines to a higher level.
If they are both veterans, champions, etc., the differences brought about by gene seeds will be reduced to the point where they can be ignored. Wait... Thinking of this, Gu Hang realized another problem: not every space warrior has the potential to be trained to become a champion.
Even for the Phoenix, all members can only be trained to become veterans; 30% can be trained to become non-commissioned officers; 10-15% can be trained to the level of company champions.
Will waiting for seeds affect the potential of the Space Marines that will be cultivated?
Maybe it's really possible.
Thinking of this, and looking at the dazzling word 'inferior', Gu Hang couldn't help but cursed, no wonder the New World Torch stretched his hips, because of his bloodline!
After being depressed for a while, Gu Hang calmed down and continued to think about the future.
The quality of the gene seeds is a foregone conclusion and cannot be changed. But how to deal with it was still a question that made him hesitate.
Excluding Wang Mengsong and others who are still alive, the total number of inferior infinite seeds that Gu Hang can redeem is about 1,800.
Including the two hundred surrendered New World Torches who were still alive, the total number came to two thousand.
Together, they pose a complex question: How will Gu Hang use this profit?
To break it down, there are actually three issues: captives, seeds, and the name of the ‘Torch of the New World’.
Let’s talk about the ‘New Age Torch’ first.
Gu Hang wanted to keep this battle group name.
Of course, the newly trained space warriors can be treated according to the 'shadow war group' established by Gu Hang with a thousand phoenix seeds. However, the Shadow Legion can only do dirty work and operate in secret, which is not very convenient.
With one more battle group to his name, Gu Hang has a thousand more groups that can operate openly.
As for their betrayal, this also needs to be dealt with, otherwise the empire will not be able to survive.
The solution is the Atonement Crusade.
As the commander of the southern front, Gu Hang teamed up with the Flash Tribunal, which had a good relationship with him and had been active in the Eastern Space Territory for a long time, to issue the verdict of the Hundred Years Atonement Expedition to the New World Torch.
This is slightly problematic.
Gu Hang will not talk about it for now. The most important thing is that the Flash Tribunal is a bit... too small. They theoretically have this power, but they are too weak to deserve it.
But the alliance now seems to be strong enough.
As long as there are no problems with the process, it will be fine. The alliance will solve the problem of strength.
Under the condition of the Atonement Crusade, the New Age Torch must unconditionally accept help and instructions from all imperial forces.
Then of course it is an alliance.
Even if this war is over now, the New Age Torch's combat missions for the next hundred years will be occupied by the Alliance. Other imperial forces are coming to send out missions... Sorry, I have some ready-made ones on hand, and I want to fight for the alliance.
In fact, not only the New Age Torch, but also Angry Flame Gu Hang also planned to deal with it this way.
He will claim that the Wrathful Flames have also surrendered - regardless of whether they actually have.
Then sentenced to two hundred years of expiation.
Then, just go back and get the seeds from other battle groups and fill them into this angry flame.
In this way, after adding the 'New Age Torch' and 'Rage Flame', Gu Hang now has two thousand more space warriors who can act openly.
In fact, this still didn't take up Gu Hang's estimated four thousand gene seeds.
Let’s talk about the prisoners.
There were more than two hundred people, Gu Hang thought for a while, but still did not kill them all.
Although it was said to be an unconditional surrender, Gu Hang had not promised them anything. But after all, after they negotiated the surrender, they acted as bait in accordance with the alliance's requirements, and barely stayed on guard for fifteen minutes as required.
Although the battle was not pretty at all, Gu Hang was still not prepared to burn bridges.
He will give Wang Mengsong two choices: Otherwise, all members will retire, and the alliance will plan some 'territory' for them in a wild and undeveloped world behind. They will be given the status of alliance citizens and then go out to open up wasteland, just like ordinary farmers.
There are quite a few worlds like that, especially in the northeastern part of the Dragon Eagle Star Territory, those worlds that were once occupied by greenskins.
It is impossible for the Alliance to issue an extermination order to cleanse every world that is full of greenskins. So far, the Alliance has only eliminated all the interstellar navigation capabilities of the Iron-toothed Greenskins, and through orbital bombing, it has destroyed all conspicuous garbage cities, which has affected the industrial potential of the Greenskins.
There are still hundreds of millions of greenskins alive in many worlds.
No matter what, it’s not enough. Otherwise, if we create a green boss, build a hidden garbage city underground or in the hills, and build some green ships to launch into the sky... maybe the Iron Teeth Green Tide will start again.
Even now, when the Alliance is about to go on an expedition, there is still a small fleet led by a cruiser cruising in the area once occupied by the greenskins. They regularly clean out prominent targets on every greenskin planet.
The Alliance has also placed colonies on these planets.
Occupy an area, collect resources, immigrate, continue to grow, and then fight outside... This may be a century-old plan. Only through people's war can the entire planet be truly cleaned up.
But fortunately, since the greenskins themselves don't have a boss, they fight each other even more fiercely. For them, the difference between looking for trouble with Xiami and attacking the green-skinned tribe next door is not that big.
The greenskins, who are in a state of disunity, have no concept of racial war being more important than anything else.
All veterans of the New World Torch can retire and go to these planets. If you die, then you have yourself to blame. The immigrants of the Alliance can find a way to survive, but the Space Marines can't survive even without power armor? That's purely your own problem.
By the way, it can also bring some help to the Alliance's immigration and colonization of these worlds... I hope so.
Those who choose to retire will be completely scattered around the planet, and then they can do whatever they have to do.
If Wang Mengsong and the others were unwilling, Gu Hang also gave them a second option: enter the punishment camp, or call the death company. That way you can continue to be a Space Marine, but you will always face the most brutal battles, and the priority of getting supplies is also the lowest. In a death company, one is not allowed to decide to retreat or transfer without receiving an order.
(End of chapter)