Chapter 813, I have 45 war groups
Ten chapters surrendered on the western and southern fronts, and three chapters surrendered on the northern front, totaling thirteen chapters. This will bring Gu Hang 26,000 exchange quotas for Space Marine seeds.
The Alliance itself already has 17 chapters.
Among them, the Phoenix, Blood Shark, Spear of the Dragon King, New World Torch, Domination Barrier, Sky Herald, Law Knights, Light Crown, and Gnawers, a total of 9 chapters, are chapters established by non-alliance, that is, the existing chapters that can provide a place for Gu Hang.
The first four are self-explanatory; the three in the middle, the Ruling Bulwark, the Sky Herald, and the Law Knights, were all obtained when the Alliance renewed the tax treaty with the Empire more than 30 years ago. Ruling Bulwark and Sky Herald both use the gene seed of the Infinite Warriors, while the Law Knights use the gene seed of the Golden Knights.
Although they are inferior seeds, the proportion of Space Marines that come out of them is slightly lower than that of good seeds, except for company champions and model warriors. However, after a large proportion of veterans are trained, the comprehensive combat strength of these chapters is definitely stronger than that of ordinary native chapters without system support.
The two regiments, the Light Corona and the Gnawers, originated from two regiments with their home planets in the Eastern Universe that had retreated in the early years.
In addition, there are seven chapters, including Yellow Springs Gull, Ghost Shark, Dragon Queen Shield, Fury Flame, Star Ring Blade, Eagle Vanguard, and Holy Shield Guard, which are expanded based on the gene seeds of the original chapters. According to the regulations of the Empire, the Space Marine Chapter has a limit of only 1,000 people, and the Chapter Interface gave Gu Hang 2,000 exchange quotas. If Gu Hang does not want to break through the scale of the chapter openly, he can break through in terms of quantity.
In the past, he was still secretive. For example, Huangquanou was a skin of a missing regiment; Fury was a new regiment created with the seeds of the New World Torch after the Fury was destroyed.
But when the scarlet scar appeared and the empire was torn into two, Gu Hang didn't even bother to act.
He directly used his identity as a high lord and carried out the "Dark Side Army Building" in the name of the Dark Side Expedition. Not only were the quotas for the three empires established, but he also used the seeds of the Blood Shark and the Dragon King's Spear to build a new war group.
The Ghost Shark was established by Blood Shark; the Shield of Dragon Queen was established by Spear of Dragon King; the Bastion of Domination, Sky Herald, and Law Knights established the three regiments of Star Ring Blade, Eagle Vanguard, and Holy Shield Guard respectively.
Gu Hang had not used the extra gene seeds of the two warbands, the Light Crown and the Gnawers, which were recovered from the Eastern Universe. After the two warbands surrendered, Gu Hang first asked them to hand over all their gene seed stocks, and then gradually replenished them with new blood within a few years.
At first, when they were asked to hand over all their gene seeds, they were very reluctant. After all, this thing was the lifeblood of a chapter's development.
The Empire's gene-seed tax takes away 10% of the newly produced seeds, and many warbands try to escape this. On the one hand, they can say that they are fighting outside, or use some captured seeds from traitor warbands to make up the number - if they use this method, they will take some risks. After all, among the two major goals of the Empire's gene-seed tax collection, in addition to using it to establish new warbands, another more high-sounding statement is to use gene-seeds to check whether the genes of the warband are still pure. And using the seeds of the rebel warbands, it is easy to get some mutated seeds, which will cause some trouble.
Some chapters are not afraid of trouble, while some chapters are more cautious and will check the spoils carefully. As long as the seeds are not contaminated and are of the same lineage as their own chapter, they will ensure that no problems are found in the genetic tax submitted.
Of course, more war groups still choose to honestly hand in the seeds, even if this 10% tax is very uncomfortable.
And now, the alliance wants all the seeds.
Even if the Alliance guarantees that these seeds will be fed back to them in a more efficient way, with a higher success rate and better quality of recruits, so that the future development of the regiment will be better... but who knows if you are lying to us?
It is definitely best to keep things like genetic seeds in your own hands.
But what can we do?
They have all surrendered. Under the tyranny of the alliance, is there any room for resistance?
In the end, no matter how unwilling you are, you have to hand over everything honestly.
Gu Hang knew the dissatisfaction in the hearts of these regiments.
But don't care.
If they accept everything honestly, that would be the best. However, it doesn't matter if they are dissatisfied. Anyway, they have joined the Dark Side Expedition, and the Alliance Command will not deliberately pit them, but as long as it is a war, there will inevitably be losses in manpower. The new recruits are all Alliance members. The new blood who have received the Alliance's loyalty training will gradually replace the old warriors of the regiment.
There might not be any big changes in the short term. After all, these new bloods will be excluded, treated coldly, and not trusted after joining the battle group. However, their outstanding strength level will inevitably improve gradually after enough time. These new bloods, except for their loyalty to the alliance, will not be any different from the veterans.
If it takes a little longer, all the blood will be exchanged, and it may not even need to reach this stage. As long as the proportion of alliance people in the leadership of the regiment begins to prevail, the nature of the entire regiment will change.
Gu Hang would call it a 'gentle cleansing', or a blood transfusion.
This is how they dealt with the two chapters, the Corona of Light and the Gnawers. As for the thirteen newly recovered Space Marine chapters, this "blood transfusion plan" can also be reused as an open conspiracy.
There are a total of fifteen new seed places for the newly recovered regiments, and Gu Hang plans to use them all up in one go in the near future.
This will be called the Second Dark Founding, and it will be much larger than the first.
After this army formation, the Alliance will have a total of 45 warbands under its command.
That is a total of 45,000 Space Marines at full strength!
In the ten thousand years of the Imperium's history, since the Emperor ascended and left, has the Imperium ever had so many Space Marines and Chapters fighting under one banner?
Gu Hang had never seen this in any written records. Perhaps, something similar had happened in some lost, unrecorded historical event.
Even if we push the timeline back to the beginning of the Empire, during the so-called Great Crusade, the Space Marines were still operating as Legions, and were not divided into Chapters. At that time, there were a total of 18 Chapters in the entire Empire, and their numbers varied, but each Chapter had a minimum of tens of thousands and a maximum of hundreds of thousands.
Judging from the scale of the power the Alliance now holds, it can perhaps be said that the Alliance now has a force at the level of a Space Marine Legion.
Of course, there are still big differences in practice.
At that time, each legion had a unified command and a unified warband culture. Each warband had a son of God who commanded the entire warband. As a whole, they often led a large number of imperial mortal legions - at that time, the mortal army was basically the auxiliary army of each warband.
They would lead the expedition in an entire direction with their fleet and army. Only when they encountered a strong enemy would they have a certain chance to join forces to fight.
Now, although the 45,000 Space Marines of the Alliance are all under the banner of the Alliance, there are many dissidents who are dissatisfied and forced to surrender. Just to mention their own attributes, because they have never cooperated before, the culture and combat habits of each regiment are very different, so it is quite difficult to force them to unite and cooperate in combat.
Moreover, they also have their own independent command systems and independent inheritance systems. It is indeed unreasonable to force them to cooperate.
This situation always needs to be resolved.
Gu Hang planned to establish a special interstellar warrior management agency under the 'Imperial Dark Side Control Committee' after the second dark side army was established.
Each warband can send people to this management organization to manage all warbands in a unified manner. Their responsibility is to fully communicate with the alliance to ensure that under the unified charter, the warband's logistics supply, new blood recruitment, combat trends, warband leader and other key warband high-level changes can be fully guaranteed.
However, it is worth mentioning that although a group of space warriors at the legion level were united for unified management and operations, in fact, Gu Hang emphasized to each regiment that their independence would be guaranteed.
He had no intention of rebuilding the Space Marine Legion.
This point must be emphasized.
The Space Marine Code is a code that has been in force in the Empire for 10,000 years and is specifically for managing Space Marines. Its greatest purpose is to prevent the large-scale gathering of Space Marines, a super-powerful force. The reappearance of the Legion is itself a key precaution. The Legion was split up because of the civil war that almost led to the destruction of the Empire, which made the Empire reflect on its mistakes.
The loyalist Space Marine leadership also fully recognizes this regulation.
If Gu Hang wanted to challenge the "Holy Scripture", he would be wasting his own prestige and doing something stupid.
Not only will the current Space Marines under his command have a huge negative reaction, but it will also become much more difficult to persuade other chapters to join the Dark Side Crusade when they encounter them in the future.
Moreover, this statement was not meant to fool people. Gu Hang himself had no intention of rebuilding the legion.
If the 45,000 Space Marines could truly achieve internal unity and form a proper legion, their strength and influence would be enormous.
Even Gu Hang would worry about the possibility of rebellion.
Although, every new Space Marine will be trained at Zhongsi Academy, will consume grace points in Gu Hang's system, and go through political commissar training.
However, the training of the political commissar only greatly improves loyalty, which is a shortcut, but it does not really "lock loyalty". Over time, there is a low probability that the mentality will change. Not to mention, if you encounter a particularly strong Chaos Corruption, even if you are really brainwashed, it may still cause distorted changes.
Although the probability is very low, even if there is only a one in ten thousand chance, we should try our best to eliminate it.
If this really happened, the damage to the alliance would be too great. Even if Gu Hang personally went to quell the situation, it would still be a huge loss.
Even without considering the issue of rebellion, the political and military influence of a legion is too great, which will cause a major imbalance in the political environment of the alliance.
These are not what Gu Hang wants to see.
The current thousand-man regiment system is also good. Most Dark Crusade battles do not require so many Space Marines. Often, a company is considered a large number. There are very few battles that require the entire regiment to participate, let alone assembling all of them.
Their independent fighting habits, styles and command systems usually do not become a big problem.
And if there really was a battle that required a large-scale assembly, Gu Hang would probably have to go down personally and calm the situation.
In this case, there is no need to worry about any major problems.
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Speaking of the second dark side army building, there is also a small episode.
Among the warbands in the Eastern Universe that chose to join the Alliance, there was one with the most special situation, that is, the "Unforgotten Oath" warband. They were the same as the other two warbands in the Eastern Universe on the surface. When the Sword of Light was destroyed, they seemed to be shocked and surrendered like the other two warbands, and handed over their gene seeds. The Alliance issued a command to them to participate in the expedition, and they went.
No further comments.
However, in Gu Hang's system interface, the name "Unforgettable Oath" cannot be seen.
(End of this chapter)
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