Chapter 66: Just a Little Cheating
Gu Hang deceived Martins.
It’s not much cheating, just a little bit.
Drawing promises cannot be considered deceiving. If the Space Marines are willing to help him and the future of the Wrathful Owl Star does develop as he planned, then he doesn't mind supporting a regiment.
He never thought of making the Phoenix serve him completely and thoroughly.
The difference is huge.
In the Imperial system, the Planetary Governor and the Space Marine Chapter Master are completely different systems and there is no question of subordination; but in terms of status, the latter is much higher than the former.
If it were the heyday of the Phoenix Chapter, they would dominate their home planet, and the governor on the planet would be just a mortal steward, doing the chores that the Space Marines were too lazy to do; his influence would be extremely strong within a star sector, and every governor in the entire sector would respectfully welcome the arrival of the chapter leader and pray that when their world was threatened, they would get help from their nearest neighbors; within the entire star field, even if they were separated by a distance of countless light years, the reputation of the Phoenix would spread widely.
Once a large-scale war breaks out and only one chapter participates, the chapter master will most likely become the highest military commander. Although the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Astra Militarum are not nominally affiliated with the chapter, they will fully respect the opinions of the chapter master and even follow his command - of course, if there is a famous general with a great reputation, the situation may be different.
Although the Phoenix is no longer the Phoenix of a hundred years ago, the organization of the regiment is still there, and the identity of the regiment leader is still there. It is impossible for Gu Hang to make a regiment completely obey him.
Not to mention him, even the sector heads can't do it.
But forming an alliance and achieving mutual benefit is enough.
You live in my house, drive my car, eat the food I provide, use the supplies I get for you, and I also promise to rebuild your regiment in the future... In this situation, I'm in trouble, and you have nothing to do, so you help me shoot a few shots. That's not too much, right?
As long as this alliance is maintained, Gu Hang doesn't mind fulfilling his promise after a long time and rebuilding the regiment for them, whether it is the supply of manpower and material resources, or finding ways to build or buy starships for them.
As for how Gu Hang had deceived them...
That is the third point he mentioned earlier, 'replenishing enough Space Marines'.
Gu Hang actually has a solution.
How do you become a Space Marine? It's a difficult thing.
Requires 'Gene Seed'.
After the gene seed is implanted, the selected person will undergo a drastic human transformation. After a year or two, the gene seed will completely and meticulously change the entire body. In this way, it will become a new soldier.
Then, after a long training, the Chapter deems the recruit has met the requirements and will grant him power armor, thus truly becoming a Space Marine.
It is easier said than done, but in reality this process is extremely difficult.
After the gene seed is implanted into the body, the drastic transformation is extremely difficult to endure.
Those who wanted to become space warriors were all selected from the billions of people, strong and determined, but despite this, most people could not make it. Either their bodies collapsed or their minds collapsed. If one of them failed, it would lead to genetic collapse and death.
After getting through it, there is still the recruit training phase. Fortunately, this part is just harsh, and generally does not result in a high mortality rate.
During this entire process, the two most important things are: high-quality soldiers and genetic seeds.
The source of soldiers is relatively easy to say. Generally, a war group has an entire planet as a recruiting world, the so-called mother planet. The people of a planet can be used to select soldiers, and the best of the best can be selected. Generally, there is no need to worry; even a ship-based war group can go to certain planets to try to recruit soldiers. It is not realistic to conduct large-scale selections on a global scale, but if you want to take hundreds of people away for training, will there be any governors who would object?
Even if the Phoenix is in its current state, it can just go to any world and kidnap a few good seedlings. Most planets don't have the energy to hunt down a group of Space Marines for a few people.
But even if the problem of manpower is solved, the Phoenix cannot solve the latter, that is, the problem of genetic seeds.
How the Emperor created the gene-seed of the Space Marines is no longer known, and no technology has survived from tens of thousands of years ago. In the current era, Space Marines are mainly "born" by the Space Marines themselves.
Each Space Marine can produce two gene seeds in his lifetime. The first one will mature in their body five years after they become a Space Marine and can be harvested to develop new soldiers; the second one will mature ten years later but cannot be harvested until after death.
Theoretically, one Space Marine can become two, two becomes four, four becomes eight... exponential growth. But in reality, it is impossible.
Space Marines are always fighting in the most dangerous battles. It is very common that their bodies are broken and cannot be found, or that there is no time to collect them. The second seed may not be collected, but the first seed has a relatively stable source.
Then, each chapter must hand over 10% of its gene seeds to the Empire within a certain period of time as genetic tax, which will be used to detect whether the chapter's gene seeds are pure, contaminated, or mutated. At the same time, the collected gene seeds will also be used as a seed bank for the Empire to create new chapters.
In addition, the implantation of gene seeds has a high failure rate. Once it fails, the person dies and the seed disappears.
With multiple factors superimposed, 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 still alive in the Phoenix are all veterans over a hundred years old, and the five-year seeds have been picked long ago. If you want to pick them again, you have to wait until they die.
In addition, it seems that there is no pharmacist among them who is responsible for performing gene seed implantation surgery, so they can only let Rizzo do this job. He can do it, but it is definitely not as reliable as a professional pharmacist of the chapter. If the skills are not good enough, it may mean that the probability of the recipient's successful awakening will be further reduced.
Gu Hang said that there was no way he could help the Phoenix in this regard, and Martins didn't doubt it at all. He just passed over the topic briefly.
No Space Marine would expect a mortal to be able 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 is about to die] has undergone new changes.
[Phoenix is dying: Gene seed (repeating event, can be selected continuously)]
[The Phoenix Warband has come to the Wrathful Owl Star and has reached a preliminary cooperation agreement with you. A governor who is seeking to control and develop the world and a warband that is dying but determined to revive are a good match.]
[The most important thing for the renaissance of the chapter, gene seed, is nowhere to be found. If you have this ability, what will you choose? ]
[Pay 100 points of grace and obtain a gene seed (Phoenix Regiment). ]
Looking at this system function, the feeling of happiness was secondary. What Gu Hang felt more was a cold sweat on his back.
(End of this chapter)
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