Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

An unexpected reunion makes Calvin unexpectedly start to face the concept of "eternal life in the cloud" that Constantine has been working hard for and practicing.

This concept was now brought to life by Constantine in front of Calvin.

Under the emotion that made him feel something in his heart, he couldn't help but have some unprecedented deep thoughts about the relationship between his soul and the universe.

Humanity's imagination about immortality has been engraved in the instinct of every life together with the instinct of racial continuation as early as the age of eating hair and drinking blood.

As a special being in soul, Calvin has experienced reincarnation once with the help of the Emperor, the Lord of Humanity in this universe.

He had no interest in exploring this direction in the past because the biggest regret in his life had been satisfied by the Emperor;

Now he wants to explore this unknown territory. Naturally, because of his expectations for the fate of the human race, he has more thirst for power.

There is always something to change. If you don’t change yourself, you won’t be able to achieve your unattainable ideal;

If you don't change yourself, you can only struggle in endless wars to no avail, watching the dark fate of mankind coming...

He said this to himself late at night on the eve of the war.

The concept of "Immortals" is nothing new to the Empire. Even the Emperor himself and Volkan, the Fire Dragon Lord who is also a Primarch, are clearly identified as "Immortals" in the Empire's internal data.

For the purpose of understanding the history of the empire, in the library deep underground in Titan, Calvin also read the resumes of the emperor and the legendary heroes who surrounded the emperor in the early days of the empire.

Their existence is so special that they can be reborn again after experiencing complete death;

The manifestation of this power in physical recovery is not surprising under the empire's genetic technology;

How they anchor their souls at a certain moment so that they can recover after their physical form is destroyed is what Calvin is concerned about.

Perhaps they were as special as Calvin, an outsider on a spiritual level?

For a moment, Calvin thought this, but then he denied it.

Although he has not experienced the complete destruction of his physical form now, he has had a vague premonition about himself since he completed his unification on the timeline:

Ordinary physical destruction may not pose an imagined threat to him. Even if the power here is as strong as a broken star, it can only destroy his physical body.

As for the nature of his soul, it is far beyond what this power can affect.

But this is not enough, far from it.

In Calvin's eyes, only his own detachment had little impact on the fate of the entire human race despite the threat of the Chaos Gods.

The transcendence of individuals seems so inadequate to the darkness facing the entire race and does not contribute to the overall situation.

The Emperor must have felt the same way.

Otherwise, there would be no research on the legacy of the ancient saints, and there would be no grand plan for the overall upgrading of the human race into a psychic race.

But how to change it?

When the problem moves to specific implementation, this is another level of problem.

Calvin looked at the city in his soul and remained silent for a long time;

Galvan has collected too many souls in his past missions fighting various warp daemons.

It was the existence of these souls that allowed him to think differently about the nature of souls during his occasional breaks.

After those Gray Knights who died in battle appeared in his soul, he had a vague direction for the future.

The appearance of Constantine was not just a surprise that fate gave him to reunite with an old friend;

He is like a bronze bell. When Calvin was gradually overwhelmed by the mundane war, he once again used the voice of his existence to ring Calvin's thinking about the future.

Calvin's current focus was, of course, still on the Orpheus war.

But after experiencing this unexpected reunion, when he returned to Terra after the war here, he had more questions and expectations for his fateful reunion with the Emperor.

The bells of war were eventually tolled unstoppably.

When Orpheus, the heavy crossbow, completed its final charge under Calvin's guidance.

The battle against the orcs in the Hassan sector has finally begun.

Imperial Calendar 755.M39, coordinates of Storm Star Region-Orps Sector-Orpus Sector/Hasan Sector.

Half a year had passed since Calvin returned to Orpheus.

This grand battle, in which the Empire alone invested more than 20 million troops, more than 5,000 Astartes, and even the appearance of the Titan Legion, finally began a year after involving billions of people in the entire Storm Star Territory.

The war plan did not cause much controversy among the senior generals of the headquarters.

In view of the narrow geographical environment and industrial layout of the Hassan Sector, all senior officials involved in this war understand that this is a hard battle with no shortcuts.

Many fortress worlds that had been easily lost due to centuries of defense deterioration have now become chasms marked with scarlet symbols on the battle schedule.

As for the orcs on the other side of the war, Calvin led the technical staff from the Alien Tribunal to conduct a thorough science popularization of all the generals participating in the war.

It must be accomplished in one battle!

In this battle, the first battle must be the decisive battle!

In the eyes of the Inquisition, the orcs are a race purely for the purpose of war, and their immeasurable reproduction rate has been repeatedly emphasized;

And once the war is delayed, as time goes on:

On the imperial side, it is a minor matter that the military is tired and the soldiers are exhausted;

After a long delay, the opponent resurrected and regained its combat power;

This is what Calvin and others are most worried about!

Hicks - Palmer - Bowen - Worster - Priestley...

A long and narrow offensive route map was repeatedly marked on the holographic main screen of the command hall by Calvin during the meeting on the eve of the war.

These first four galaxies are already the best attack paths found by the empire after countless deductions and reverse deductions;

Only if the distance between these planets is not too far can we maintain an acceptable logistical supply line for the empire's subsequent battles under the first wave of thunderous strikes from the empire regardless of the cost.

As for the ultimate goal of this battle, the galaxy called Priestley is right in the center of the Hassan sector.

As a not-rich star region, it was chosen as the capital, and it had extremely clear strategic significance in the eyes of Calvin and others.

Whether from south to north or from north to south.

Calvin repeatedly measured the galaxies in the two directions closest to it, and the distances between them were hundreds of thousands of astronomical units.

This is a place in Calvin's past life that is geopolitically similar to Australia.

Whether the two sides of the war are starting from Asia or the Americas, this will be a battleground for military strategists!

The strategic significance brought by its huge galaxy-level territory will cause any party that loses it to have its entire large fleet assembly and logistical support scale back thousands of kilometers! (In this case, that means hundreds of thousands of astronomical units.)

what does that mean? This means that once this place is lost, the loser's strategic deterrence and control range will be completely pushed away from the center of the star area, and the balance of victory and defeat will tilt sharply towards the person who owns this place!

This is only the literal spatial value of the land. The agricultural output brought by its huge territory brings self-sustainability, which is enough to support the garrison with most of the food supplies;

The industrial world under its jurisdiction can also complete the local manufacturing of most small arms with the support of local minerals;

Even some of the heavy equipment and facilities needed for the maintenance of the Grand Fleet can be completed locally after Orps delivers the core components!

A strategic treasure worth a thousand dollars! It's a pity that it's in the hands of the enemy now...

Calvin stood motionless looking at the label of this galaxy for five whole days and nights;

In the eyes of him and other Orps legion leaders:

Whether they can maintain momentum after the first battle begins and capture this place before the orcs have time to react will determine the outcome of most of the entire war.

This is the meaning of the first and decisive battle... It is also the battle that he and the entire Orps cannot afford to lose...

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