This is our Warhammer journey

Chapter 221 No War on Terra

After briefly reviewing the internal affairs of Astorgius, the Dawn led the fleet, avoiding the tides of the warp, and headed along the ancient route toward the destination from which the distress signal had been sent.

Along the way, the Dawn Fleet also relocated the nearly two billion pilgrims redundant in the Cardinal World—in reality, the Empire's current colonists—to thirteen colony planets that met the criteria of the Wings of Dawn in the 'Sector Survey' program.

The so-called colonized planets are actually those barbaric or feudal worlds that are not capable of raising themselves to the average level of an empire.

Empires, or rather, the Dark Ages of technology where barbarians gradually became the mainstream, saw human expansion become less sophisticated.

Due to development costs and the fact that the workload in the Throne World is always overloaded, these backward worlds with low strategic importance and no irreplaceable resources have little chance of development.

The input and output were completely disproportionate, and the planets were basically left to develop on their own. The various forces of the Empire that were active abroad would occasionally go to Darwin to capture some 'talents' in combat, but they rarely had any interaction with these worlds.

After a thorough investigation, Romulus discovered that the Dawn Sector, which was technically a wealthy sector, contained nearly a thousand Imperial worlds, but the Empires actually used very few of them.

So, adhering to the principle that one should take good care of one's own home.

With the addition of various technical personnel, a civil service system combining Astartes and mortals was established. Pioneer teams, based on the overflow population from key planets, took control of these planets and began to interfere extensively in their development.

"Sir, these are documents from Terra."

An accompanying Ministry of the Interior official respectfully handed over the report.

"Thank you."

Romulus took it and placed it in the secondary area.

The Ministry of the Interior official also turned around immediately after bowing, his fingers beginning to work intently on the connectors welded to his shoulder blades, which then extended to the desk in front of him.

This Ministry of the Interior official was responsible for observing the development of various planets. As a former advisor to the Dawn Sector Governor, he was also able to provide the Dawnwing with essential information, including the composition of the ruling class on each planet and the distribution of planetary resources.

The staff member returned to his office with his usual steps.

Before him, the documents calculated by Astartes had once again piled up like a mountain.

Next, all he needs to do is enter this data, submit it to the Primarchic Council, then make a copy, have it reviewed by the Primarchic, and send it to Terra.

*Sizzle*
The nerve-nourishing medicine was injected into the brain, driving away fatigue. The aide glanced at Yu Liang out of the corner of his eye.

'You've prepared too much again.'

He thought to himself, then bent down and focused intently on his work.

He needs to complete this data work as soon as possible, after which he needs to sit in on the original ruling group meeting and provide written recommendations afterward.

The staff members were constantly working out contingency plans in their minds.

The ruling group of the Primarch is not lacking in mortals.

The Wings of Dawn acknowledged that Astartes possessed superior hardware compared to ordinary humans, enabling them to assume greater responsibilities, but did not thereby exclude mortals from the political system.

After all, it's clear from the commanders on various battlefields that, in terms of strategic vision, mortals are not necessarily inferior to Astartes; it's just that the sheer volume of calculations in the Imperial administrative system is too much for them to handle.

Therefore, after Astartes joined the ruling system, lengthy calculations were handled by specialists, and ordinary officials were able to better utilize their strategic abilities.

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An unusual friction sound came from the pen tip, and at the same moment, the servo skull ejected the pen tip, which was soaked in the Dawn Holy Oil, and welded it to the servo skull.

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Their gaze shifted from the remaining two-thirds of the reserves, and after a two-second pause, the staff continued their work.

Compared to his heavy workload in the past, he is now under a lot of pressure.

'These high lords are really out of ideas.'

On the other side, after Romulus finished dealing with the colonial development documents, he picked up the documents from the High Lord.

It was just a formulaic reply, completely devoid of any substance.

Romulus wasn't too bothered by the various administrative organizations of the Empire settling in the colonies within the star system.

Although the leaders are always up to no good, those grassroots civil servants are all top talents who have gone through the 40k mandatory screening process, which can greatly reduce the management costs for Dawnwing when building governments on various planets.

In any case, Romulus was not afraid that the Empire's influence within the sector would become too great, leading to unbearable tax increases for the colonies.

Use those who want to get things done, get rid of those who are just holding back, and the positions will be freed up for others to be promoted.

As a result, the High Lord, after a few months of initial enthusiasm, went silent. 'But that's understandable; Terra is probably in turmoil from top to bottom right now.'

Romulus marked it as read and shook his head helplessly.

On the High Lords' side, although it was initially agreed that positions such as the Imperial Guard, the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Justice, and the Court of Justice would have the authority to conduct investigations, they clearly don't have time to care about that now.

After many people turned against heresy because of the anti-corruption campaign, Ramses, the "big mouth," mentioned to Navaradaren that Terra had a large number of skull artifacts, in order to satirize the inaction of the Custodians.

In a timeline where they do not exist, as the Great Rift tears the galaxy apart, Guilliman awakens and returns to Terra. Eighty-eight Khorne Demon armies, led by eight Archdemons, set foot on the land of the Terra Throne world, staining the Terra sky blood red.

How did you get on there?

Terra contains a skull artifact capable of summoning eight Khorne archdemons, which was brought into Terra disguised as a sacred relic of the state religion.
Although it is still more than two hundred years before the Great Rift unfolds, those who know understand that Rome was not built in a day, nor were the sacrifices gathered in a day.

This is the Throne World, after all. Although there were many chaotic battles during the unification war, and there are still relics chosen by the four gods, they are all under the control of the Imperial Guard Shadow Prison Shield Guard Corps.

This massive influx of chaotic creations into the populace
Don't you want the Throne World anymore?
At first, the Terra Guard was quite confused after being scolded by Navaradalen. Since they had nothing to do at the palace anyway, they decided to investigate.

And it turns out there is.

It was initially the members of the Blood Game who discovered something amiss inside the Moon State Religion Pilgrimage Fleet; an anomaly was found during the investigation of a crystal coffin and the artifacts inside it.

The subsequent Tzeentch invasion even resulted in the loss of one member of the Imperial Guard, who were now without the assistance of the Sisters of Silence.

This immediately alarmed the Terran Guardians, who began to utilize all available technological means to screen the Throne World for potential Chaos contamination.

The results are not limited to the floating population.

They unearthed a bunch of Genestealers, numerous Chaos Faith cults, and scattered Eldar, among other external threats, from the bottom nest.

The Imperial Guard also discovered a considerable number of Chaos Artifacts among the upper-class nobles and officials who believed in the state religion.

Especially the artifacts of Khorne.

In human empires that worship death, relics made of human bones and corpses are not uncommon, which gave the Khorne cultists an opportunity, since the second brother also liked skulls.

Trajan was furious. He called the Grey Knights to berate them for dereliction of duty, recalled the Silent Sisters who had disappeared after the War of the Beasts, and questioned the various high lords.

The Highlords themselves were also confused; no one expected that just because of a single sentence from the Primarch, Terra would actually uncover so many problems.

This is the center of power, yet they sit on a volcano about to erupt without realizing it.

Even the Mars Forging General turned his attention inside and discovered a bunch of extraordinary people.

As a result of a few jokes from someone, almost the entire highest authority in the empire, from top to bottom, focused their energy on the purification of Terra at the same time.

The Throne world has been in complete chaos lately, with countless deaths and injuries. The Martian Mechanical Church is also taking this opportunity to purge its internal 'technological heretics'.

Thanks to the assistance of the Imperial Guards, it was discovered in advance, and sorting things out shouldn't be a problem.

Romulus thought optimistically, then put down the documents and asked the captain, who was focused on maneuvering the ship.

"Captain Aurora, how much longer until we reach our destination?"

"There are two more standard Terra times."

With the navigator's assistance, Aurora controlled the ships, guiding the fleet along the intended path and avoiding the etheric reefs and chaotic creations.

Such an operation is not particularly strenuous, after all, since serving the four Primarchs, stable warp travel has been the norm.

However, the excessive calmness made her realize something was amiss.

"Sir, the navigator reports that as we get closer, the influence of the subspace of the real universe outside the same region is rapidly diminishing. We may need to jump into the real universe ahead of schedule and rely on the physics engine to enter the interior of the galaxy to prevent unexpected situations from occurring."

After communicating with the navigator, Aurora reported.

"Okay, I'll do as you say."

Romulus nodded and began to ponder what exactly this planet contained.

It can dispel the influence of the subspace and stabilize reality.
It’s so hard to guess.

(End of this chapter)