Warhammer: Angron Training Manual

Chapter 349 Accidental Injury
"I once wondered what kind of person the Primarch of the XII Legion was... I didn't expect..."

Qin Xia spoke after watching Qin Xia and Angron teleport away together.

Chagatai nodded to indicate that he had not expected it either.

The bloodlust that the XII Legion had shown, coupled with the fact that the legion would be more or less similar in style to its primarch, led Jaghatai to imagine, before Angron returned, that the primarch of the XII Legion must be a man born with a desire for bloodshed.

But Angron seemed quite calm. He had heard before about the strict new rules that this brother had formulated after his return to curb the cruel acts of the Twelfth Legion. It was obvious that Angron did not conform to the original style of the Twelfth Legion.

"Think about what kind of man my brother Sanguinius is, and then think about some of the rumors about his legion...so it's not surprising that the Primarch's style is completely different from the legion." Chagatai said.

"Do you think that the rumors that the people in the Angel Legion's base disappeared for no reason and that they like to eat people and drink blood are true?" asked the Lord of Qiexue.

Chagatai neither nodded nor shook his head, but remained silent.

But as someone who had fought alongside Chagatai during the Chogoris period, the Lord of the Keshig believed that Chagatai's silence was the "silence of the wise", which often represented acquiescence.

However, the Fifth Legion has fought side by side with the First Legion many times, but has rarely cooperated with the descendants of angels. Whether those rumors are true or false depends entirely on one's imagination, and there is no substantial basis.

"My twelfth brother does not act out of any rational sense of justice or goodness."

Jaghatai returned to Angron.

"Considering his talent, he is more emotional. How he treats people or things depends on his considerations, which are mostly emotional and a little rational."

"If the 12th Legion is the Second Legion, my 12th brother is my second brother. With his pure rationality and noble moral sense at the rational level, he would choose to manage the legion by bloodbath rather than discipline."

"His empathy will allow him to empathize with both those who are considered good people in the public's perception and those who are considered evil people. He needs to be indoctrinated with the concepts of what is good and what is evil, or even learn to become evil, so as to curb his sympathy for those who are defined as evil people, so that he will not be unable to wield the knife because of his sympathy for the enemy."

Chagatai combined the conclusions he had drawn from observing Angron's words, actions and expressions just now, as well as some of the hearsay he had heard about the 12th Legion and Angron that he believed to be highly authentic, and his judgment was not about Angron himself, but about the man who had the same name as his Lord of the Kexue.

"So it is conceivable that Angron needed to be educated, and his guide, his adoptive father, instilled in Angron the concept of good and evil. At the same time, under his influence, Angron did not become unable to swing a sword against the enemy. The one who shares your name is obviously a person with unique moral concepts."

"First, we can be sure that our two legions will not have any conflicts in philosophy. Secondly, in the upcoming war against the Randan aliens, we don't have to worry about Angron not being able to give ruthless orders when something happens."

After making some judgment, Chagatai looked at Qin Xia.

"That's why I agreed to go with my brother just now. We don't have to worry about my brother dragging us down. We can just be at ease with them."

Hearing this, Qin Xia bowed with the etiquette of Qiao Gaolis, knowing what was going on.

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After all the warships detached from the starport, the two fleets gathered at Mandeville Point, gradually entered the subspace, and began sailing again.

Just like before, the mutant creature that would raid ships in the subspace appeared again, and once again dog-paddled through the Geller Field and landed on the hull of the ship like a real-world creature, and then entered the interior of the ship in a way that was completely unknown to people.

Fortunately, not only were all the warships of the 12th Legion prepared to deal with the situation, but the White Scars Legion was also prepared as it was not the first time they had encountered such a situation.

The mutated creatures that had weak combat power and disappeared inexplicably after death were quickly cleared out and did not cause much impact on the voyage.

The fleet continued to move along the pre-planned route in the warp as usual.

After a period of voyage, the huge fleet consisting of two legions, with the forging engine as the core of the formation, jumped out of the subspace and entered the real universe.

The White Scars Legion's reconnaissance warships had been waiting here for a long time. When they saw the combined fleet consisting of their own legion and friendly forces, they immediately sailed over and merged directly into it.

The process was very quick and natural.

The cruiser used as a reconnaissance ship entered the fleet, first stayed on the periphery, then slowly slowed down and stopped.

After stopping, two cruisers came out from the White Scars Legion, with all weapons pointed at the cruisers, and then some transport planes flew back and forth between them.

This is an inspection operation.

While navigating the Warp, Jaghatai and Angron exchanged some military intelligence about the Randan.

Military intelligence indicates that Ran Dan's ships can be disguised as ships of any legion. Therefore, when any ship leaves the team to perform a mission alone, or after a battle, the number of ships in the entire fleet must be counted.

Each ship's weapons were aimed at friendly ships, which were then communicated over long distances and boarded for inspection.

The inspection is completed after going through a set of procedures, and you can then continue doing the previous things.

Just like it is now.

The cruiser, which had left the team due to a reconnaissance mission, returned to the team after obtaining important information about Ran Dan. After undergoing a set of detailed and meticulous inspections, it restarted and headed towards the Blade Storm Legion flagship located on the left side of the casting engine.

All the White Scars warships that were in the cruiser's path made way.

This was a very normal thing. A warship was sent out as a scout ship, and then contacted the Primarch after returning. Perhaps because there was something on it that had to be handed over to the Primarch, it began to approach the flagship.

The other warships also gave way following Chagatai's personal order.

However, when this cruiser that had just returned to the team was coming from the front of the Bladestorm and was about to approach its own legion's flagship, the parts of the outer shell of the cast engine facing the cruiser began to flash rows and rows of dense red dots.

The next second, dense beams of light were emitted from the outer shell.

The cruiser's void shield was attacked by light beams, but it was not like being bombarded by light beams raining down on you in the rain. All the light beams falling on the void shield converged together and converged to one point.

The void shield quickly sounded an alarm to the crew members inside, and the estimated time they could hold out was decreasing. As dense beams of light bombarded the void shield, the flashing red light shone into the command deck of the Steadfast Resolution, which was located to the side of the Bladestorm.

Angron, who was waiting for the navigator to re-plan the subspace route plan for the two legions to use together, was suddenly startled and rushed to the porthole, while ordering the crew: "Contact the engineer in the forge engine immediately!"

Red light illuminates the command deck.

The light produced when the void shield was hit was mixed with the red light produced by the dense light beams.

The nearby White Scars warships had already pointed their weapons at the casting engines that suddenly attacked their friendly forces, but did not open fire immediately. The White Scars crew members on each warship were stunned and quickly reported the situation to Chagatai.

It happened too suddenly, just like a person was walking in the park and suddenly a UFO landed from the sky and tried to take the person away.

Before the engineer's contact screen appeared, Chagatai's face appeared on the communication panel.

"Why attack friendly forces?" Chagatai asked calmly.

He already knew that Angron must have ordered to contact the controller of the giant ship that attacked the friendly forces. He only needed to ask the reason, and then decide what kind of orders to give to his own legion fleet based on whether the XII Legion's forging engine attacked the friendly forces because his brothers had not yet completely controlled the forging engine, or whether the controller in the giant ship suddenly rebelled.

At this time, a new screen pops up on the other side of the communication panel.

The engineer in the casting engine was standing in a dock, his face covered in oil, holding a dirty box in his hands, and looking at Angron at the other end of the portable communication device with a puzzled look.

"Stop the Forge Engines from attacking my brother's ships!" Angron ordered immediately. "Will the weapons on the Forge Engines suddenly go out of control and attack friendly forces?!"

The engineer was stunned for a moment, then walked to the control panel beside him and adjusted something. He checked the situation outside and found that the casting engine was indeed attacking friendly warships.

"Shut down the ship's defenses!" The engineer gave the order to the air, then corrected it, "No, just cut off the energy system's power supply to the weapons!"

[You made a decision that was a million times wiser than Kodiko's.]

In just a few words, the cruiser's void shield was overloaded. Chagatai turned around and gave a few orders, and then a frigate closest to the attacked cruiser immediately rose up to help the cruiser block the incoming beam.

The light spots on the cast engine casing almost disappeared, but light spots reappeared on the casing facing the cruiser that was not completely blocked by the frigate, and then the light beams began to attack the exposed part.

However, the energy core soon cut off the power supply to the weapon system.

Friendly warships are safe for now.

Angron breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Jaghatai, who was also relieved, on the communication panel, gave him an apologetic look, and then looked at the engineer: "Please explain."

"I don't know..." The engineer slapped his head and looked around in confusion. "When you gave me the information of other legion ships before, I input the information into the weapon center. The White Scars' warships also sailed with us before, and entered the colonial ship port for supplies, and they were not attacked..."

Angron also wondered.

“Forget it, let’s just treat it as an accident.” Chagatai sighed helplessly, and then gave Angron a piece of advice, “Don’t trust too much in something you don’t have complete control over.”

“I’m sorry.” Angron nodded.

Chagatai turned off the communication and looked at the captain in another window on the communication panel, who was in the cruiser that had just returned to the team: "Crisis resolved."

"Yes." The captain turned and ordered, "Keep approaching."

The cruiser started moving again, and the thruster at the rear that was hit by the light beam began to flash, but after a flash, the light disappeared and the cruiser stood still, obviously because the thruster was paralyzed.

At this time, the communication between the two Primarchs was still not interrupted.

Chagatai turned his head and glanced through the porthole at the cruiser that was accidentally damaged by friendly forces, frowned, and turned back to look at Angron.

Angron also thought of something.

The two Primarchs' eyes locked for a moment, realizing each other's thoughts.

"What is the probability that the forging engine fire control system will accidentally injure friendly forces?" Angron asked the engineer on the communication panel.

"The probability is close to zero, that's right." The engineer looked at the data board in his hand that showed the overall status of the forging engine. "But after all, so many years have passed, and there are still those incompetent clones of Kodiko doing random maintenance on this ship, so I think there is still a possibility of accidental injury."

Chagatai also heard the engineer's words in the communication box next to him, and looked at Angron again.

Angron asked the question that Chagatai wanted to ask: "If it were you, would you trust the ancient ship's IFF system more, or the inspection process just now? Knowing that the enemy has the means to disguise the ship."

"I trust the equipment." The engineer said bluntly, "Back then, the Eldar ships often used camouflage to pretend to be friendly ships, and then blended into the fleet to make a big move. As a result, a kind of engagement rules were created at that time, which stipulated that if the IFF system did not consider a friendly ship to be a friendly ship, it would be allowed to open fire, even if it was really a friendly ship that was killed... that's it."

Angron got the response and looked towards Jaghatai.

Chagatai recalled the various reports from the inspection process just now. There was nothing strange about them, otherwise he would not have ordered the cruiser that had just returned to the team to sail towards the flagship.

But more than 20 years have passed since the first Randan War. The Randan aliens' ship camouflage method brought heavy damage to the Imperial Fleet back then. Although strict inspection procedures were later adopted to prevent Randan alien ships from sneaking in, what if their technology has been innovated again after more than 20 years...

As Chagatai was thinking, the cruiser outside the porthole repaired its propulsion device and approached the flagship again.

Finally, Chagatai made a judgment and turned to give orders to the people on the command deck of the Blade Storm.

"Attack that cruiser!"

(End of this chapter)