Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Chapter 32 Beautiful Dreams
Tell a cold joke: In the age of 40K, who is the only person in the entire empire who does not think that the God Emperor is a god?It's the Emperor.

Coincidentally, the same thing happened to the Gray Knights, which was founded in the 31st millennium.

Who in all the Empire who has a right to know of the existence of this force thinks that the Gray Knights are not Gray Knights?Coincidentally, they are also themselves.

The emperor knows his own family affairs, and becoming a god is just a choice for him, but this choice does not match his vision.

But the Gray Knights have a hard time and can only eat it by themselves. The facts before them do not have a "like it or not" option.

They're really not Gray Knights.Or rather, not the Gray Knight as originally thought.

Can a warband without a primarch still be called a warband?Can a battle group without a complete transformation process be called a battle group?Maybe someone will say:
"Without the Primarch, isn't the source of the Gene Seed the same?"

"There is no complete transformation process, isn't it the same to become an Astartes step by step and then accept the emperor's genetic transformation?"

Is it really the same?Is there really no difference?Others don't know it, but the Gray Knights know it all.

What is the meaning of Primarch?What is the meaning of his existence for a battle group or legion, or even the entire empire?
Is it a wise leader?Or the invincible commander?None, or to be more precise, these are not their original and most essential meanings.

In the history of the empire in the past, people endowed the Primarchs with too many legends, and these external glitz obscured the eyes of imperial scholars who explored the true meaning of the Primarchs.

Let us put aside these too strong personal colors, political factors and dispensable military significance:

A Primarch, what is his significance?The answer is actually very simple, he is a stabilizer, nothing more.

An individual being created by diluting the Emperor's own genetics which could not be inherited by mortals.

And this life stands out from mortals through the individual evolution of self, and establishes a stable node in the distant evolutionary journey between mortals and emperors.

And through this node, he can maintain a lower limit, a lower limit for a stable, mass-produced extraordinary fighter.

Even if this lower limit is a product that is weaker than the Primarch, it is enough to be accepted by the empire.

This is the "gene seed".And when the first batch of gene seeds cultivated from the original body were heavily protected and sent to the training base on Mars, they began to replicate and spread in batches.

In the eyes of the Emperor, the mission of the Primarch has actually been largely completed.

The remaining so-called leaders and commanders are just icing on the cake.Or to put it more harshly, it's just waste utilization.

Wouldn't a Legion without a Primarch fight during the Great Crusade?

Or did the Legions who had traveled the galaxy with the Emperor himself have no commanders of their own before the return of the Primarch?Or a mature war system?
The answer is of course no.

Even the combat system of the Dark Angels, the start-up legion, had matured long before Lion King Ryan returned.

The so-called "Six Wings" integrated by the Primarch of the Angels after his return is nothing more than the "Heavenly Army" system that the legions have evolved and perfected before his return, nothing more than a different name.

But please don't ignore the significance of the Primarchs. A complete transformation that can be achieved through a one-time operation may be taken for granted in the eyes of the descendants of the Legion.

But in the eyes of the gray knights, this has become an unattainable luxury.What the Gray Knights lack is this node.

Don't the Gray Knights want to expand?Or is it that the "Astarte Codex", which is not in the eyes of a mere start-up battle group, can bind these mysterious battle groups that are directly related to the emperor with the imperial army?
What's more, the source of this "Holy Code" comes from an unknown founder of the Second Empire?

Here comes Tyra!The wind on the Himalayas in the palace area is warmer than this joke!
Take a look at the Forbidden Army, which is also a brotherly army. In the eight thousand years since 31K, they suffered heavy losses in the Internet Road War, and they have already quietly recovered the huge scale known as the "Ten Thousand Brothers" at their peak.

And hidden behind this terrifying appearance is an even more terrifying fact: the Custodian Army sends out an unknown number of guard troops every year, and more veterans than the Legion serve, all over the galaxy.

However, the number of forbidden soldiers on duty in the palace area has never decreased.

The retired Imperial Army is not the Imperial Army?Well, today's bad jokes are a bit too much.

At best, they decided to take off the golden armor after confirming that they would no longer make progress, put on black robes and start running across the galaxy for the empire.

Does it look familiar?Yes, I did the same thing before I left Novice Village after playing the game.

Under such an operation mode, the true size of the Forbidden Army, I am afraid that only the Emperor himself has the right to know.

The little secret, the Second Reich, are nothing compared to this big secret that everyone knows but no one dares to ask.

The Gray Knights knew this well, and were so jealous that their eyes were red, but it didn't help.

The Emperor had the opportunity to solve this problem for them, but consider that the Emperor himself was in danger when he built this army;

Vizier Malcador had a chance to settle the matter, but he himself was ahead of the Emperor;
Dora Kaur on Mars, ah bah!It was Belisa Call, the Magi-Mage, who also had a chance to solve this problem.

But it is a pity that since he received the support of Guilliman and started the Primaris Space Warrior project in 32K, he knew nothing about the existence of the Gray Knight in the 8 years before and after.

Therefore, the Gray Knights can only hope that they can recruit troops all over the galaxy and those cooperative wargroups under the influence of the Inquisition.

It is hoped that under the massive supply of military samples, enough excellent samples can be screened out, and through several generations of optimization, even hundreds of generations of optimization.

It is always necessary to produce a sample that can successfully cross the dividing line between God and man, right?

But no, before Calvin, in the 8 long millennia, among hundreds of millions of samples, none of the gray knights could meet the hidden condition in the final test.

No one can really stand up and provide a stable node between man and god for the continuation of the entire legion like other Primarchs.

Even if there is one?Just one, just one.

Then, after being baptized by the emperor's blood, the person whose life level has jumped can also use his own seeds to save the entire battle group from the final screening process.

Just at this step, how many excellent seeds have died in the past 8 years!

Therefore, the entire Gray Knight can only repeat the process of raising Gu, investing so many excellent seeds every year, but harvesting very little.

It is against this background, from initial hope, to fluke, to despair.The Gray Knights gradually dropped the subject.

The predecessors died one after another, and their souls returned to the throne.In the past 8 years, the war group has never been fully staffed once, and there has never been a time when it has enough manpower for rotation and rest.

The Gray Knights, who live daily on the brink of structural collapse, put aside what everyone knew.Avoid talking about it.

Today in the 39th millennium, it is only when the great masters take over the position from their predecessors that seniors will bring up this topic to them.

Aidan's expectations of Calvin are very high, but even the highest expectations are not extravagant.Subconsciously, he didn't have any idea that this problem could be solved in the time he was alive.

But now, everything has changed with Calvin's words.

Calvin's words made him see a beautiful dream, and this dream was only separated from reality by a trial of membership.

"We have real gray knights!"

　I'm so short! ! !Why am I so short! ! !But I double updated!Hahaha!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)