Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

"Okay, I take back what I said before..." Calvin smiled and did not argue with these fanatical admirers of the Emperor.

With his current status and resources, if he wants to do something for these battle sisters, there is a better way that the other party cannot refuse.

In fact, this is exactly the case.

In the twentieth year after Calvin returned to Terra, after the proposal of the Imperial Church and the promotion of the Inquisition, the Terra Senate finally approved:

The three major battle sister orders with their headquarters in the Holy Monastery of Ophelia all received a precious quota for the establishment of branches.

At that time, the Bloody Rose Battle Sisters, which had recovered from the damage to the organization, received double favor from the Imperial Church and the Inquisition:

The Imperial Church rarely showed its generosity.

They promised to pay all the expenses of this new order during the establishment of the army, and guarantee their future recruitment and garrison world allocation.

The Inquisition was even more silent.

In a dark night that no one knew, a mechanical priest who claimed to be from Krieg walked down from the starport of their garrison world.

On behalf of the huge industrial consortium behind him, he signed a 300-year equipment supplement agreement with the Battle Sisters.

The price was one throne coin. Well, a very expensive price...

Of course, these are all later, and now Calvin, after finishing the conversation with the Battle Sisters, turned his inquiring eyes to the captains of the Ultramarines and the Imperial Fists.

The former, with the strong strength of the Ultramar 500 Worlds, is not short of industrial consumables such as weapons and equipment.

So from Stuart's highly emotional and politically savvy conversation, Calvin, on behalf of his Holy Hammer Order, expressed that he owed the Ultramarines a valuable favor.

And at the former's enthusiastic invitation, Calvin promised that if he had time, he would personally go to the Ultramar 500 Worlds to "see" the glory of Robert Guilliman, the Emperor's Son, the Imperial Regent, the Holy Primarch, and the Lord of the Thirteenth Legion.

As for whether the meeting between Calvin and the Ultramarines was really a simple visit and "pilgrimage" as they had agreed on the surface, only they themselves knew...

Turn your eyes to Hornthorn, the captain of the Imperial Fists.

Although Calvin had dealt with these Sons of Dorne more than once, he had made sufficient mental preparations before this conversation.

But when it came to contact with this group of "stone men", Calvin still lamented their stubbornness and seriously doubted whether the genes of the Empire's "Final Wall" were too strong.

Otherwise, why was every Son of Dorne he had met so introverted and not good at talking...

"We have nothing to say... Well, if we have to say, the conscription incident on Terra is even."

After saying this, the high-ranking commander of the Imperial Fists turned around and left in the astonishment of Calvin and Stuart.

"This..." Even if Stuart had a high emotional intelligence, he was at a loss for words by Hornthorn's operation.

He looked at Calvin for help, hoping that this "giant" who was not only rising in the imperial power system, but also about to have his own strong influence in the Astartes group, would not be offended by Hornthorn's frankness.

And as far as he knew, the current situation of the Imperial Fists was far from the ideal shown outside.

They suffered heavy losses in the "Beast War".

After the launch of the "Final High Wall Agreement", they won the war against the orcs with difficulty by concentrating the power of all the "Imperial Fists" war groups.

But as a price, the Imperial Fists' war group headquarters - that is, this direct force from the Seventh Legion in the Great Expedition era, has completely lost the last spark with the death of the last blood of the war group, the second captain Kurland.

Yes, this initial war group is no longer the war group left by Rogal Dorn.

Today's Imperial Fists is composed of the Astartes of the Paragon Fist with a shameful record of rebellion, and the gene seeds donated by other "Imperial Fists" Astartes war groups.

And their situation was not satisfactory. The coup led by Kurland could be said to be a helpless move due to the current situation.

Even if the final result was good, it still destroyed the original intention and painstaking efforts of Roboute Guilliman in compiling the Codex Astartes.

The fragile trust that the political center of the Empire had reestablished in the Astartes after thousands of years was trampled and shattered again in this coup.

For thousands of years since then, the mortal rulers headed by the Imperial Council of State have all looked at the Phalanx floating behind the moon with suspicion and fear at the beginning of their tenure.

Is the Imperial Fists guilty? Of course, the current Empire would not admit it.

Because without the sacrifice of the Imperial Fists, it is still unclear whether the Empire can still exist today.

Is the Imperial Fists innocent?

It was precisely because of their reckless and brutal "riot" that the Empire never thought of releasing the dangerous beast of the Astartes from the shackles of the Codex even in the face of a huge crisis in the next thousands of years.

The reason is simple, just because mortals know clearly that this beast is something they cannot control. Once released, there will be no chance to drive it back into the cage.

Warlord separatism is already the lightest consequence of this behavior. Under the leadership of the military government, the most likely outcome is the military government's complete destruction of the empire.

Can't let go...can't let go...

This is the most important entrustment given by rulers of all ages to their successors when they reach the end of their lives.

How innocent are the other Chapters of the Empire? What are the crimes of the billions of people in the empire?

The internal depletion of resources caused by this distrust, the failure of local wars caused by this distrust, the hundreds of millions of imperial soldiers who died, and the deaths of hundreds of millions of civilians, who should they turn to to collect debts?

Every time this time comes, someone will always make an entry in the Imperial Fists' ledger.

Perhaps it was a certain Imperial veteran who knew the danger of the war ahead, but did not dare to let the Astartes fight together;

Perhaps it was the leader of a certain Astartes Chapter who had lost sight of one thing because he only had less than a thousand troops in his hands, seeing countless people of the Empire in ruins.

Because of the information and intelligence advantages brought by their status, these high-ranking people have a deep understanding of where this nail that has been deeply engraved in the body of the empire since the Great Rebellion came from.

They also knew who it was that, after experiencing a precious millennium of life, had once again tore this wound that should have healed gradually with the passage of time into an inextricable knot.

Death is a big deal.

The dead Kurland is destined not to know and cannot continue to pay the price for this behavior. Perhaps if he were given another choice, as the son of Dorne, he would make the same choice. Who knows?

But living sins are hard to redeem!

Every failure in the empire's foreign wars due to these problems is a bad debt recorded by the mortal rulers on the Imperial Fist!

The humiliation and suspicion that every Astartes chapter suffered because they were not trusted was their increasing indifference towards the Imperial Fist. In the end, they saw this Imperial Fist having a bad relationship with the Black Templars within their own system. The ultimate reason for its decline and irrelevance!

But now, an opportunity was placed in front of Hornthorne, but he stubbornly refused to bend down to pick it up.

Because of the emergence of Calvin, the Imperial Senate was capable and confident for the first time, and had power equal to that of the Astartes Chapter.

And its leaders have enough goodwill towards the Imperial Fists to promote the opportunity for the Imperial Council and the Imperial Fists to reach a comprehensive reconciliation for the first time in thousands of years! Right in front of Hornthorne!

But he just refused to open his mouth!

Stewart is going crazy!

It’s true that the emperor is not in such a hurry that he is... anxious!

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