Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 243 Evaluation Feedback and Liveliness in Silence

These two comments about Calvin are naturally mostly jokes and should not be taken too seriously.

Not to mention the former position of "Regent of the Empire", which has already been firmly established by Guilliman and the countless Smurfs in the five hundred worlds of Ultramar;
Simply speaking, he has not even been certified by the emperor, let alone the meritorious service made by the former, so why is Calvin qualified to touch that position?

Taking a ten thousand step back, is the position that seems to be one person under ten thousand people, and the commander-in-chief who decides all matters big and small in the empire, really as glamorous as it looks on the surface?

Not really, right?

Otherwise, those Primarchs back then.Before they all left the center of the imperial political arena, why didn't they see anyone interested in that position?
Even if it is not for their own ambitions, the Primarchs must at least consider themselves masters, and they must fight for their duties and missions and their different views on the future of the empire, right?
No, it's fine that Vulkan, the Lord of Fire Dragons, didn't fight because of his character.

What about Don?Lord of the Seventh Legion of the Emperor's Guardians other than the Praetorian Guard, Gene-Father of the Imperial Fist in defense of the Emperor's will and defense of Terra.

Donne didn't fight either, which is very intriguing.

Calvin had his own understanding of this point, and the powerful "Empire Regent" was never in his goal.

It seemed to him that each Primarch possessed some aspect of the Emperor's multiple excellences, which were also seen in their brothers;

And it is precisely these multiple characteristics that each of the Primarchs have, but in the end they constitute the overall ability that cannot be copied by each Primarch.

Such as Lorgar and Magnus, although they also have spiritual powers, other characteristics distinguish them;

The former also possesses operational capabilities second only to Guilliman, allowing the Word Bearers to have the number and war potential second only to the Ultramarines before their rebellion;
The latter is similar to Angron before the complete collapse, and is the number one Confucian general among all the Primarchs.

How about the two self-proclaimed Fenus and Perturabo?

Such similar but different cases are too numerous to enumerate among the 18 known Primarchs;
This is all decided by the Emperor based on the different responsibilities they have assumed during the era of the Great Crusade.

And Calvin also came to the final conclusion in occasional thinking:

The special post of Regent of the Empire must and can only be held by Guilliman.

Other Primarchs may be able to guarantee the basic functions of this position, but it is none other than Guilliman himself who wants to maximize the value of this position.

Calvin naturally had his own mission, a mission exclusive to him.

He knew that his birth was completely different from the previous 20 brothers in terms of the background of the times.

Then on him, after the Emperor placed the bet, the victory he hoped to see would naturally be different.

what is he?
Or to be more precise, what is the Gray Knight?
Is it just the secret weapon of the Inquisition Chamber?
Or is it the Imperium's desperate resistance to the gods and daemons of the Warp?

Or were they no more than reflections of some nostalgia the Emperor had for the Legion's time?

neither!
The true value of the Gray Knights is that they were made by the Emperor himself;
In that each of their souls is affirmed pure;
The reason is that they are the emperors who have realized that it is impossible for human beings to bypass the subspace and develop independently, and they are the last attempt to the fate of the human race!

They are not just the guardians of the empire in terms of demons!
Like those guards of the imperial guards who were personally trained by the emperor, they are also a template for the future human race, and naturally represent another direction of human evolution.

The difference between the two is that the former has been proven to fail, and there is no real opportunity for promotion;
This is why the Custodians, who hated the Astartes because of the Great Rebellion, have the opposite attitude towards the Gray Knights;
This is also the reason why they have complicated feelings for the Gray Knights as human templates created by the Emperor himself!

Calvin's eyes shouldn't just focus on this, the empire, a product that has been abandoned by the emperor in a certain sense, is doomed to fail.

How to lead the Gray Knights out of the predicament of extinction, and ensure the basic survival of human beings on the basis of expanding the number is his basic duty;
This, he has done now.

And pour more energy into the plate of the gray knight to explore, activate and fulfill the foundation left by the emperor on the gray knight;

It is his exclusive mission to open up another path for the ascension of the entire human race!
The position of "Regent" should be left to Guilliman.

Calvin believed that this elder brother, who also had great ambitions and had many backers, would one day return to the imperial stage.

The basic plate of the empire still needs his protection and operation. As for Calvin, he has his own way to go.

The above is the refutation of the second sentence of his evaluation in the work results of the pervasive agents of the Inquisition Chamber.

As for the evaluation of Calvin's "absolutely unlucky progress" in the first sentence, Calvin did not deny it.

Respecting the rules of the game and making good use of it is the foundation of the national culture of his previous life.

He has always been proud of this, and hopes that, like the country in his previous life, he will use his wisdom to comply with other people's rules, and finally win a victory that even the creators of the rules cannot deny.

The foresight of the veterans of the Council of the Grand Mentors echoes Calvin's point of view here.

The convergence of values ​​represented by the behavior styles of the two can be regarded as a great surprise in the eyes of both parties;

Consider the negative archetypes in history, those Primarchs who did not recognize the style of their Legion and the tragic fate of their Legion.

Whether it is the elders in the Grand Master Council or Calvin himself, they are all very grateful for each other's existence.

The Primarch who has never participated in the establishment of the legion, but can match the natural temperament of his own legion;
It has to be said that this is the luck of the Gray Knights, and also the great luck of the empire.

This is how they act, and the two sides of order are also vividly reflected.

In battle with demons, they burn up the filth like the fiercest fire;

And behind the patience of making full use of the rules within the system and fighting steadily, lies the calmness of never entrusting the situation to fate.

It was by no means lucky, Calvin looked at the two words on the parchment and smiled silently.

And with his real-time connection to the psychic network, all the gray knights saw this information for the first time.

This kind of alternative "reward" made these gray knights feel happy, and it also made other people around them feel a little clue.

But these eyes that hide doubts cannot prevent them from "communicating" happily.

That's what happened aboard the Wraith Redeemer, where quietness hides activity.

In the busy crowd of the high command, whenever more than two gray knights meet again, their eyes and spiritual power bypass the senses of those mortals. Under the seemingly serious silence, there is an extremely lively internal communication:
"Hey! Boss posted another post, have you read it?"

(End of this chapter)