Chapter 900, Blood Angels' Request for Help
The training item of [Blessed Son] can directly utilize 5,000 Glory Seeds to create 5,000 elite warriors whose average strength level is slightly weaker than the company champion.
Then, they were given regular Space Marine training. As long as they could get a sergeant level, they would be at the level of a company champion; if they got a sergeant major level, or what is called a model level of training, they would be at the top of the company champions.
With the training items of the company champion added in, he will definitely be a master among the company champions, and may not be far from becoming the regiment champion.
The glory-level gene seeds can achieve a 20% company championship ratio.
That means about 1,000 company champions? Or half-step regiment champions?
But in addition to these, Gu Hang has two other means of strengthening.
Gu Hang has decided to make use of the technology of the Primaris Space Marines - to secretly build a regiment.
So, Gu Hang planned to transform these 5,000 seeds of glory who had been trained by the Sons of Blessing using the original casting technology, and then secretly form a group.
To establish a new group, it is not necessary to do it in the training center of the Saints' mother planet - the True Word Star.
With the addition of Primaris technology, the thousand men that were already close to becoming Chapter Champions would probably be even closer, right?
Even though it's still a little short, Gu Hang still has another means of strengthening: hero enlightenment.
With some more inspiration, and if you raise your level a little bit, as long as you raise it by one or two levels, or at most three or four levels, you can definitely reach the level of the regiment champion, right?
Although the Blessed Son plan had just begun to be implemented, Gu Hang was still able to make some estimates based on his previous ideas.
Among these five thousand blessed sons, the weakest is close to the level of a company champion; more than three thousand can be trained to become upper-middle level company champions; one thousand can reach the limit close to the level of a chapter champion, and among them, 300 can be trained easily.
Moreover, if there are some people among them whose heroes are relatively rare, they can raise their levels to LV7 or above after a longer period of time and with more experience, and they may be able to break through to the level of the God-chosen champion.
If we are optimistic, there may be ten or twenty such candidates.
If you compare this number, you will know how terrifying it is.
In the Battle of Omgeria, although the Alliance did not have all its combat power, it was also the elite of the Western Front Expeditionary Force. Gu Hang personally went into battle and racked his brains to gather a lineup of four God Chosen and more than 20 battle group champions to encircle and kill the Bone Crusher King.
The siege was successful.
Once the legion page is opened, with the seeds of glory and the special training items of the blessed sons, you can produce ten to twenty God's chosen ones and three hundred regiment champions!
It directly raised the height of cutting-edge combat power up a lot!
Gu Hang believes that this is the biggest benefit after the legion system page is opened.
However, although the benefits are great, the costs are also quite high.
The cost of conventional resources is not low.
After all, it is such an elite unit, so the equipment must be good, right?
Power Armor not only uses the majestic type, but also the fine version? That would require high-level Mechanicus members or engineers to make it by hand, with low output and slow speed.
The best Terminator Power Armor in the Alliance right now is the Iron Cavalry model. Should we have more of them? Should we also make a refined version?
Matching mortal troops, matching warships and vehicles?
The cost of creating the Blessed Sons in this way may be several times that of the same number of conventional warbands.
But that's still just a small portion.
In terms of cost, it is mainly reflected in the expenditure of grace points.
Gu Hang estimated that if he wanted to train all 5,000 blessed sons according to the highest standards he had previously envisioned, it would require about 55 million points of grace!
On average, a Blessed Child would cost him 11,000 points.
The new blood for the Space Marines is screened from tens of thousands of mortal boys, from T5 soldiers to T1 level round by round, and a single-digit number of candidates are screened out. The vast majority of them cannot be trained to T1 level and stop at T2. It is an inevitable loss of additional grace points - although they can also be added to various troops as elite soldiers, and various troops are still very welcome.
Then you have to do the implant surgery and exchange for accelerated growth.
The training path for this part of regular Space Marines is one thousand grace points each.
The exchange price of Glory Seeds is two thousand each.
I used the Space Marine-exclusive training to redeem points along the way, from veteran-sergeant-model-company champion, and lost 3,000 points.
Special training items for the blessed son, five thousand each.
This is how a Blessed Son Space Marine's 10,000 boons are spent.
This number made Gu Hang feel a little hesitant - if it was only used to build five elite battle groups, it would be too luxurious and expensive.
So many grace points can be used to cultivate talents, stabilize society, strengthen political rule, exchange for factories and schools, develop the economy...
But if the improvement of cutting-edge combat power is also taken into consideration, Gu Hang will not hesitate at all.
Build! Build hard!
When we encounter a single powerful enemy again, the Sons of Blessing can be dispatched to solve the problem well!
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There are more than one founding group whose home planet is on the dark side of the empire, the Saints.
Oh, actually strictly speaking, the Saints are not on the dark side of the Empire either.
The home planet of the Saints is actually located in the Holy Territory of the Empire. It is only because of the Seven Star Corridor that they went to the dark side to fight and maintain the stability of the corridor.
On the dark side of the empire, especially in the Eastern Universe, there are actually two home planets of founding groups.
The first is the Phoenix Regiment.
This is an old acquaintance. Not only is it the original regiment of the alliance, the mother regiment of the Phoenix, but they also fought side by side with the alliance during the Iron Armor War. Gu Hang also saved the life of Phoenix Lord Su Lie and their entire regiment.
The relationship between the two sides can be said to be quite good. After Su Lie was pushed forward to be the representative of the Space Marines and became one of the High Lords, he has always been in the Imperial Supreme Council and provided a lot of political support to Gu Hang.
However, his chapter suffered heavy losses during the Ironclad War, and Phoenix was a chapter with a relatively large problem of replenishment.
The gene seed compatibility is almost the worst, and the means of operation are also average. In other words, Phoenix has always had a reliable leader who cherishes the lives of his soldiers. But they happened to encounter the Iron Armor War, and there were only more than 200 people left...
This situation makes it very difficult for them to recruit new members.
Although the Queen of Glory battleship was saved, the regiment lost too many conventional warships.
Such a huge loss can no longer be compensated by their home planet, the Shenniao Star.
Su Lie also chose to work hard to establish connections and contact other chapters in order to obtain the status of a representative of the Space Marines because he hoped to use the power of the Empire to restore the vitality of the chapter faster.
Before the Cataclysm, Su Lie and the main force of the chapter were stationed near Holy Terra, licking their wounds and recuperating with the help of the Mechanicus and the supplies he managed to obtain.
There are only fifty Phoenix warriors left in the Divine Bird to guard the mother planet.
The Phoenix's home planet is located in the Ningshou Universe, and has now been recaptured by the Alliance. The fifty Phoenix warriors have no objection to the Alliance, but they obviously cannot represent the battle group, let alone get the system to recognize anything.
Gu Hang was too lazy to let these fifty soldiers do anything, so just continue to guard your home planet...
And in the eastern border of the empire, there is another start-up group, which we have also encountered.
Shortly after the Battle of the Seven Star Corridor ended, while the Alliance was gradually taking over the Mersiphat Star Field, the Southern Front Expeditionary Force received a request for assistance from the Blood Angels when they reached the Hades Star Field in the Hexiang Universe.
The home planet of the Blood Angels and the birthplace of the Son of God, the Archangel, is the planet Tianzhu, located in the Hexiang Universe and the Hades Star Region.
With the name "God", it seems like a religious world - in fact, it is. On this planet, the belief in the Emperor, the state religion, and the former archangel is indeed quite popular, so it is not a big problem to be considered a religious world.
But the biggest feature of this planet is its harsh natural environment.
The sky is filled with red sand and the toxic sunlight brings deadly radiation. People on the planet must regularly inject anti-radiation agents and wear anti-radiation clothing in order to survive.
The land on the planet is extremely barren and lacks water.
Various mutated wild monsters are rampant in the desert.
But it was in such a harsh environment that the most virtuous son of God in the historical legends of the empire, Saint Gerard, who was called the Archangel, was born.
Later, it nurtured generation after generation of Blood Angels.
However, a powerful Zerg fleet invaded the Hades galaxy and headed straight for the Blood Angels' home planet.
Generally speaking, people think that although the Void Zerg are very scary and have high intelligence, their intelligence is mainly reflected in their rapid learning of prey, evolving appropriate tactics, and having a strong hive mind. However, generally speaking, they are mainly driven by the feeding instinct and should not have too obvious strategic thinking.
Just eat some.
However, this hive fleet is different.
After they appeared, their target was very clear, which was to target the Blood Angels.
In order to advance quickly and capture their targets as soon as possible, even if they conquered some planets, their plunder and devouring of the planets themselves was different from the normal situation where they would eat up everything. They just made some supplements, plundered what they could eat and digest quickly, and hurried on their way.
This smells like revenge.
The Blood Angels once had a glorious victory over the Zerg.
This new group of Zerg seemed to be here for revenge.
After realizing this, the Blood Angels launched arduous blocking operations, fighting several battles with the Zerg in multiple star regions.
From the overall situation, we basically lost everything.
The scale of this hive fleet was too large. Even if the Blood Angels summoned some sub-groups and integrated the local Imperial Astra Militarum, Navy, and Planetary Defense Force, they were still unable to resist it.
But they didn't expect to win in one fell swoop.
The main goal of intercepting along the way is to slow down the speed of the Zerg fleet and buy time for the rear.
From this perspective, their goal has been achieved.
With the time they had fought hard to gain, the Blood Angels did two things.
The first is to create a vast extinct area by evacuating people or even directly issuing extermination orders without evacuating them.
As the swarm passed through the wastelands of dozens of worlds, it could not get any supplies or eat any biomass.
Even on those planets that were originally responsible for blocking the Zerg, once the war goes against their will, the extinction weapons that had been delivered to the surface in advance would be actively detonated by humans.
If you can't stop them, you'll perish together with the swarm.
By the way, all the biomass on the planet can also be burned, leaving the insects with nothing to eat.
Of course, Extinction Order weapons are actually quite rare, and the quantities that the Blood Angels collected in such a hurry were not enough to be used everywhere.
Therefore, it is only used in the most prosperous and most populous parts of the world.
This decision was made in a very cold-blooded way, but it was also an inevitable move made out of desperation.
Of course, hundreds of millions, even billions, or tens of billions of people died in those worlds that had launched the extermination order. But in reality, when the hive invasion could not be stopped, the people of these imperial worlds had no chance of survival. The only difference was whether they would be buried in the belly of the worms, transformed into biomass and add bricks and tiles to the Zerg army, or die a quick and clean death under the extermination order.
As for buying time, the second effort made by the Blood Angels was to call for reinforcements as much as possible.
The main groups that came here were the Blood Angels' sub-groups scattered all over the place.
Under the natural mission of protecting the mother planet, a large number of sub-clusters accepted the call of the mother group.
Among them, there are even some who have tense relations with the parent group.
Even some of the chapters that had been judged as traitors by the Empire responded to the call and came.
The most famous of these is the chapter called the Blood Knights - after being convicted of traitors, they were called 'Blood Drinkers' on wanted posters.
This involves the major flaws contained in the gene seed of the Blood Angels. All the descendants of the Blood Angels, under the influence of the gene seed, are usually handsome in appearance and gentle and noble in character.
These wonderful qualities come from their noble Son of God.
But in fact, the Blood Angels are born with a "thirst for blood". When the battle is fierce, the rage and bloodthirst in their hearts will put them at risk of losing control. Only by drinking the blood of the enemy, or even their own people, can this madness be alleviated.
This style made the entire Blood Angel Legion be called the 'Vampire Legion' in the past - which is not a good name.
But when the Son of God appeared and led the entire legion, he reversed the situation, set an example, led the legion, learned to be patient and restrain desires, and changed the name of the legion to be named after angels.
Under his leadership, the ethos of the entire legion was indeed completely changed.
However, after the fall of the Son of God, the curse of bloodthirst fell once again.
Most of the Blood Angels have been walking on this path of restraint and endurance. They also gain strength based on this. Some of the brothers in the regiment who have fallen into complete madness due to the uncontrollable bloodthirst curse will be incorporated into the Death Company. Usually, they are strictly guarded. In important battles, they will be treated as disposable consumables and thrown into the most dangerous battles with the lowest survival rate in order to have a glorious ending.
But some Blood Angels chapters no longer restrained themselves, and embarked on a darker path, indulging their blood thirst.
The Blood Knights are such a group.
In battle after battle, although they have made outstanding achievements, they always drink the blood of mortals in battle, both civilians and friendly forces.
They always caused a large number of friendly casualties, and this behavior was evil and heretical no matter how you looked at it. They eventually angered Holy Terra and were declared traitors.
But even if they were declared traitors, they actually did not betray. They would always come uninvited to support the battles of the human empire, and beat the enemies of humanity - and eat the blood and flesh of their allies after the battle.
They were also very open about it.
They believe that humans are the Emperor's lambs, and they, the Space Marines, are the sheepdogs who work for the Emperor and manage the lambs. Is it a sin to eat some "meat" while working hard and fighting the enemies of mankind?
As the parent group, the Blood Angels know the whole story of the Blood Knights as traitors.
They are not on the same path. The Blood Angels have always called on all the chapters to uphold the traditions of the chapter, adhere to the teachings of the Son of God, restrain themselves and return to propriety. Only those who can resist the desires in their hearts are qualified descendants of angels. For those chapters with particularly serious genetic defects, they are always generous in giving the greatest help. However, the Blood Knights have completely gone on the path of betraying the Son of God, which is unacceptable.
This is also the reason why, as the parent group, they also support the judgment of the Blood Knights as traitors.
As the Chapter Master, the supreme commander of the Defense of Primeval, a legendary hero of the Empire, and with a recorded lifespan of 1,500 years, Dante was a staunch pragmatist.
At this critical moment, he no longer considered the different paths, morals, and qualities of different chapters.
The strength of one or two more regiments is very important.
Especially those Blood Angels who have completely embarked on the path of madness. They possess even more terrifying combat power than ordinary Blood Angels.
This is the force that needs to be borrowed.
Before the final defense of Primus began, the Blood Angels had recruited more than thirty chapters, totaling 21,000 descendants of the Blood Angels, to participate in this war.
The outcome of the war was extremely tragic.
Seven regiments were completely destroyed, eleven regiments were almost wiped out, leaving only a few small soldiers, and the remaining regiments were generally reduced to only one or two companies of troops.
Of the 21,000 descendants of the Blood Angels, only about 5,000 survived in the end.
Even the legendary hero Dante was seriously injured in the bloody battle and fell into a coma.
And the Alliance is the battlefield that arrived at this time.
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