Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

A frightening (Nicholas' perspective) and hidden witty dialogue finally came to an end temporarily under Calvin's compromise.

He also did some self-reflection afterward, wondering how much of his anger at that time was really out of justice, and how much of it was selfish anger.

The answer he got surprised himself:

As far as his current short-term goals are concerned, the Custodian's stranglehold on his power has not affected these plans.

To be precise, his goal was never on Terra's small political arena;

Intrigues and intrigues with mortals are not in his plan.

As for long-term goals?

Sorry, Calvin himself doesn't really have a long-term plan.

The recovery of the legion, in his opinion, is just a remedy for the chaos attack;
And under the vast territory of the empire, even if the size of the Gray Knights reaches the legion formation of the Great Expedition era, they are just another form of firefighting team.

How much is 10 people?Calvin scoffed at that.

Under the background that the dark gods of the subspace master the ultra-regular weapon of the subspace storm, whether it is the efficiency of troop projection or the isolation and shielding of the empire's support forces, it is a difficult problem for the empire to solve.

Don't say that these 10 people are just a planned existence. Even if one day there are [-] gray knights serving, can they be considered a threat in the eyes of the gods?

Don't forget how the Imperial Fists lost their core heritage.

What the orcs can do, the evil gods can't?
Under a deliberate subspace storm, sending a large number of prepared demon legions in advance is enough to plunge a legion into a place of eternal doom.

Don't think that the Primarch will be safe with the Legion guard.

How did Mortarion fall?
When Horus was assassinated, how many legions were there beside him?

More than one?

Calvin was not ignorant of these details, which have been buried in the dust of history.

However, after the trial court repeatedly reviewed the situation of the year, they still had a vague understanding of the misfortune suffered by some people.

This is the gap in mobility at the strategic level, and it is also the one-way transparency of the fog of war at the strategic level!

Humanity must emerge from the shadow of the Warp, or there can be no hopeful future at all.

Humanity must have another development path other than the webway. Even if the road ahead is full of difficulties and obstacles, it is better than waiting for the final extinction of the race in the stagnation of constant rigidity and corruption.

And all of this, is Calvin capable of planning it?

How can he take on such a mission in his past and present lives, which are less than 200 years old?

It should be noted that the combined education he received in the two lifetimes is nothing more than the four characters of "defending the family and the country".

Even if his origin and essence are so special, it cannot make up for the overall strategic perspective he lacks in planning the fate of the entire race in the long run.

Everything will eventually return to the original starting point of the human empire - the emperor.

The returning fleet finally set sail within a month of the arrival of the imperial guards.

Along with them, there is also the mechanical ark fleet of Reza Forge World.

Their huge size has become the actual main force of this fleet.

And the spoils bounded by the gravitational claws of several large warships behind the fleet—the orc battle moon became an even more impressive behemoth.

Calvin no longer asked about the specific matters of the fleet, and most of his energy was in the training hall of the Angel of Discipline.

The exploration of the gray knight's combat mode is now Calvin's greatest concern;
The next important task is the selection of political officers within the war regiment.

For the time being, there is not much obvious progress in the former. After all, they are limited by their scale, and they have been working for thousands of years on the position of special forces secretly armed by the Inquisition Chamber.

The existing armaments and tactics of the battle group are all based on the planning and setting of the specialization route.

Even internal data and feedback from tactical thinking are all accumulated in the direction of specialization.

The reconstruction of the tactical system is a painful rebirth in the army of any era.

Calvin did not expect to see promising progress in a short period of time.

The existing legion mode is a very good start. The light infantry combat path that Calvin was familiar with in his previous life was almost taken to the extreme by the Gray Knights in the legion mode.

But that's all, Calvin has seen the upper limit of this tactic.

The premise of light infantry combat is that there is a space between the enemy and ourselves on the battlefield that can jump vertically and horizontally;
But in wars against the gods, and especially against Nurgle, numbers have always been the enemy's advantage.

Not all battlefields have the conditions for the use of light infantry tactics;

It can even be said that most battlefields come to the end, and the fight is still absolute firepower density and injury-bearing ability.

If the Gray Knights don't want to suffer heavy losses on this kind of battlefield, then their armaments must not be limited to light armored units.

They need a full range of close-to-medium, medium-to-long range tactical equipment;
They need a three-dimensional strike capability from light to heavy, from ground to air!

Only in this way can they cope with mission environments other than decapitation strikes;
Only in this way can they step out of the existing tactical positioning and face a broader universe, thus taking on more responsibilities.

This is the result of many discussions between him and his staff and mechanical priest Constantine.

After careful consideration, the latter decided to send a permanent technical team to participate in the troop building work in the Titan II Fortress Group.

Representatives of Mars also received related news in later days.

As the central force of the Mechanicus, they cannot sit back and watch their competitors erode and win over their allies.

It is an unacceptable reality for the armed sequence of such an important ally to be replaced by the Reza Forge World from the technical standard level.

But they can't stop it simply and rudely.

Today's Gray Knight is different from the past. With Calvin, the head of the Tribunal sitting in charge, Mars has to consider the price of a complete fall with Calvin, the current high lord.

The attitude always becomes flexible in the face of strength, and Mars is no exception in this regard.

In response, Mars' technical representative suggested to Calvin in a later meeting:

In the gray knight's tactical exploration, after putting forward specific equipment requirements, they can compare and refer to the technical solutions given by the two companies within a certain period of time before making the final choice.

As for this kind of benign competition, Calvin said he was happy to see it succeed.

In the days that followed, he took out some existing orders and placed them in front of two representatives of the foundry world.

Among them, the garrison equipment of the Titan No. [-] fortress group has attracted great attention from the two families.

A competition for the production orders of the Gray Knights equipment quietly started while the fleet was on its way back.

It's not just a matter of equipment for hundreds of Astartes:
In the eyes of the two great foundry worlds, this is the first order that Calvin, the representative of the Gray Knights, placed.

And the ownership of this order not only represents the future equipment tendency of these gray knights, but also a competition for the attitude of Calvin himself, the upstart of the empire.

Under the supervision of Constantine, the vice-supervisor of foundry, Reza World obviously has a faster response speed.

Reza's representatives threw out their usual tactic—technical licensing—after several meetings of confrontation.

This no-nonsense nuclear-bomb-grade technology proliferation treaty has successfully cornered the representatives of Mars as soon as it came into play.

The representative of the Mars foundry world left the meeting angrily. This pure exchange of technology for standards was almost unprofitable in his eyes.

This was beyond his purview, and he could only respond with a higher level of authorization from Mars.

A small-scale bidding came to an end, and Reza Forge World, the landlord of the Storm Star Region, temporarily won;

But both Constantine and the technical priest of Mars knew that this competition was a game between two forces;
And against the background that the two major forces have been fighting openly and secretly for nearly ten thousand years, the battle here is just the beginning.