Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Let me tell you a cold joke: In the 40K era, who was the only person in the entire empire who didn’t think the God-Emperor was a god? It's the Emperor.

Coincidentally, the same thing happened to this Gray Knight army founded in the 31st millennium.

Who among the people in the entire empire who has the right to know about the existence of this force thinks that the Gray Knights are not Gray Knights? Coincidentally, it was also them.

The old emperor knew his own family affairs, and becoming a god was just a choice for him, but this choice was not in line with his vision.

But the Gray Knights have to suffer by themselves. There is no "like it or not" option for the facts before them.

They are really not Gray Knights. In other words, it is not the Gray Knight as originally thought.

Can a Chapter without a Primarch be called a Chapter? Can a war group without a complete transformation process be called a war group? Maybe someone will say:

"Without the Primarch, wouldn't it be the same if there was a source of gene seeds?"

"There is no complete transformation process. Isn't it the same as becoming an Astartes step by step and then accepting the Emperor's genetic transformation?"

Is it really the same? Is there really no difference? Others don't know it, but the Gray Knights know it all.

What is the meaning of Primarch? What is the significance of his existence to a war group or legion, or even to the entire empire?

A wise leader? Or an invincible commander? None, or to be more precise, these are not their original and most essential meanings.

In the past history of the empire, people gave the Primarchs too much legendary color. These external pomp and splendors obscured the eyes of Imperial scholars from exploring the true meaning of the Primarchs.

Let us put aside these overly personal, political, and dispensable military implications:

A Primarch, what is his significance? The answer is actually very simple, he is a stabilizer, nothing more.

An individual being created by diluting the Emperor's own genes, which could not be sustained by mortals.

And this life stood out from the mortals through its own individual evolution, and established a stable node in the distant evolutionary journey between mortals and the emperor.

And through this node, he can maintain a lower limit, a lower limit for stable and mass-produced extraordinary warriors.

Even if this lower limit is a product that is weaker than the Primarch, it is still enough to be accepted by the empire.

This is the "gene seed". And when the first batch of gene seeds cultivated from the original body were sent to the culture base on Mars after heavy protection, they began to replicate and spread in batches.

In the eyes of the Emperor, the Primarch's mission had actually been largely completed.

The remaining so-called leaders and commanders are just the icing on the cake. Or to put it more harshly, it’s just recycling.

Wouldn't a legion without the Primarch be able to fight during the Great Crusade?

Or was it that before the return of the Primarch, the legions who had followed the Emperor himself across the galaxy had no commanders of their own? Or is it a mature war system?

The answer is of course no.

Even the combat system of the Dark Angels, as the founding legion, had matured long before the return of Lion King Ryan.

The so-called "Six Wings" that the Angels' Primarch integrated after his return were nothing more than a different name for the "Heavenly Army" system that the legions had already evolved and perfected before his return.

But please do not ignore the significance of the Primarchs. A complete transformation that can be achieved through one-time surgery may seem natural in the eyes of the descendants of the Legion.

But in the eyes of the Gray Knights, this has become an elusive luxury. What the Gray Knights lack is this node.

Don’t the Gray Knights want to expand? Or is it that the Codex Astartes, which is not looked down upon by any of the founding war groups, can bind these mysterious war groups that are directly connected to the Emperor along with the Custodes?

What's more, the source of this "Holy Scripture" comes from an unknown founder of the Second Empire?

Terra on top! The wind in the Himalayas in the Imperial Palace area is warmer than this joke!

Look at the Imperial Guards who are also brothers. In the eight thousand years since 31K, they have suffered heavy losses in the Webway War and have already quietly restored the huge scale they were known as the "Ten Thousand Soldiers" at their peak.

Hidden behind this terrifying appearance is an even more terrifying fact: the Custodes send out an unknown number of guard troops every year, and there are more veterans than the number of Legion service members spread across the galaxy.

However, the number of imperial troops on duty in the palace area has never decreased.

Are retired Imperial Guards not Imperial Guards? Okay, there are a little too many bad jokes today.

At best, they decided to take off their golden armor, put on their black robes, and start running around the galaxy for the empire after they confirmed that they were no longer making progress.

Does it look familiar? Yes, I did the same thing before I played the game and left Novice Village.

Under this operating model, only the Emperor himself has the right to know the true size of the Imperial Army.

The little secret, the Second Reich, was nothing compared to the big secret that everyone knew but no one dared to ask.

The Gray Knights knew this very well and were so jealous that their eyes were red, but it was no use.

The Emperor had a chance to solve this problem for them, but considering that the Emperor himself was in danger when he established this force;

Chancellor Malcador had a chance to solve the problem, but he himself was still ahead of the Emperor;

Dora Kaul on Mars, ugh! It's Belissa Cawl, the Great Mechanical Sage, who also has a chance to solve this problem.

But unfortunately, from the time he accepted Guilliman's support and started the Primaris Space Marine project at 32K, he knew nothing about the existence of the Gray Knights in the 8,000 years before and after.

Therefore, the Gray Knights can only hope to recruit troops all over the galaxy and cooperate with those war groups under the influence of the Inquisition.

It is hoped that with the massive supply of military samples, enough excellent samples can be screened out, and through several generations of optimization, even hundreds of generations of optimization.

There must always be a sample that can successfully cross the dividing line between gods and humans, right?

But no, before Calvin, in eight long millennia, among hundreds of millions of samples, not a single Gray Knight could achieve the hidden condition in the final test.

There is no one who can really stand up and provide a stable node for the continuation of the entire legion like other primarchs, standing between humans and gods.

Even if there is one? Just one, just one is fine.

Then after being baptized by the blood of the emperor, this person who has gained a leap in life level can also use his own seeds to save the entire battle group the last step of the selection process.

Just this step, how many outstanding seeds have died in the past 8,000 years!

So the entire Gray Knights can only repeat the process of raising Gu, investing so many excellent seeds every year, but harvesting very little.

It is in this context that from initial hope, to luck, to despair. The Gray Knights gradually stopped mentioning this topic.

The seniors died one after another, and their souls returned to the throne. In the past 8,000 years, the Chapter has never been at full strength, and it has never been able to have enough manpower for rotation and rest.

The Gray Knights, who lived on the verge of structural collapse every day, shelved this matter that everyone knew about. Avoid talking about it.

Today in the 39th millennium, only when the great mentors take over the post from their predecessors will seniors bring up this topic to them.

Aidan's expectations for Calvin are very high, but no matter how high they are, they are not extravagant hopes. Subconsciously, he had no idea that this problem could be solved during his lifetime.

But now, everything has changed with Calvin's words.

Calvin's words made him see a beautiful dream, and this dream was only separated from reality by a trial of membership.

"We have a real Gray Knight!"

I'm so short! ! ! Why am I so short! ! ! But I updated it twice! Hahaha!