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Chapter 105: Increasing New Recruits (Part )

The fundamental reason why Space Marines possess powerful physical qualities far beyond those of ordinary people is the nineteen genetic modification technologies they have undergone, as well as the corresponding psychological hypnosis suggestions and cruel training.

Psychological hypnosis and cruel training are only to stimulate the potential of these super soldiers, allowing them to learn how to control the normal functioning of the biochemically modified organs in their bodies, so that they can exert their powerful combat effectiveness.

The nineteen genetic modification surgeries actually implant nineteen different artificial organs into the bodies of the modified recruits, and Dora Kaur's Primaris modification adds three additional organs, making the Space Marines even stronger, more powerful, and more powerful!

The artificial organs required for a total of twenty-two transformation operations were all cultivated from gene seeds.

Typically, the Bio-Magist or Chapter Apothecary and Chaplain responsible for performing the modification surgery will cultivate all artificial organs from the genetic material preserved in the gene-seed.

One gene seed and one set of organs, not too many, but the more unlucky chapters might be short of one or two.

Then, depending on the different cultures of each regiment, the duration of the surgical transformation will also be different. Some may be completed in one or two years, while some may take ten years to complete the entire implantation surgery.

Of course, the Blood Angels' Blood Coffin is different from that of other chapters. Their gene seeds are placed in the Blood Chalice together with the blood of the Primarch and drunk together, instead of cutting open the recruits' stomachs and stuffing them with various artificial organs.

Because gene seed is so important, it becomes the most important lifeline of a regiment.

Even if all members of a chapter are killed in battle, as long as there are pharmacists and gene seeds, there is still hope to rebuild the chapter.

But if the chapter's gene-seed is lost, even if the chapter still has manpower, it will be hopelessly trapped in the crisis of decline or even extinction.

There is only one way to produce such an important gene seed, that is, one of the twenty-two transformation operations is called the gene storage gland. After it is implanted into the recruit's body, it will collect the recruit's genetic material. After the recruit completes all the transformation operations and matures, this gene storage gland will also collect the genetic information of all artificial organs and can be harvested.

A Space Marine has two glands in total, one of which can be removed after the recruit completes the transformation. This is usually paid as a tenth of the chapter's gene-seed tax and collected by the Mechanicus.

When a regiment suffers heavy casualties and needs large-scale reinforcements, it can apply to the empire to use the seeds submitted to expand the army.

At the same time, these handed-in seeds have another very important function, which is for the Mechanicus to check whether the regiment has corruption, mutation, or other genetic problems.

The other storage gland that remains in the recruit's body will not be recovered by the chapter's chaplains until the Space Marine dies in battle. This is usually the gene seed mainly used by the chapter to replenish recruits.

The biggest difference between the two is that the gene storage gland harvested after death will preserve the Space Marine's combat experience and part of his memory, and the recruits implanted with it will inherit these memories recorded in the genes.

This is also the most important inheritance and the most precious wealth of the regiment.

But this also brings a problem, not too big or too small, that is, if the regiment wants to expand its army, it is often limited by the number of gene seeds and cannot expand on a large scale.

Like the Ultramarines during the Great Crusade, a sudden increase of 40 troops after the Battle of Calth was unimaginable for the Space Marine chapters in the K era.

This is why Chen Xi asked Shi Dong if he had enough gene seeds. Even if he had enough physiques, without gene seeds, he couldn't expand his army. "We use physiques to rapidly cultivate gene seeds. Although we're still in the process of cultivating them, according to the calculations of the Sage of Oregana, we should have enough," Shi Dong explained to Chen Xi.

When Chen Xi heard this, he immediately understood what Shi Dong was planning to do.

To put it simply, after the body is cultivated, it is directly transformed. After the transformation is completed, both seeds are picked off and then the new body is implanted.

By repeating this process, a large amount of gene seeds can be obtained in a short period of time.

At first glance it sounds about the same, but there are currently thirty-three Primaris Astartes on Shi Dong's side, and the first batch of gene seeds harvested only has thirty-three.

If we calculate based on the fact that only one gene seed is harvested after implantation, even if the blood coffin can produce a new batch of soldiers a year, they can only expand the army by 330 people in ten years.

But if the latter method is used, and all gene seeds are used to repeatedly produce new gene seeds, there will be 33792 gene seeds after ten years.

Chen Xi asked Shi Dong, and he said he did not intend to use such an extreme method to cultivate genetic seeds, but he also did not intend to use traditional methods to cultivate new recruits.

Instead, they planned to use half of the gene seeds to breed new soldiers and half of the gene seeds to breed new gene seeds.

That way, there would be enough gene seeds and enough recruits.

Although the quality of the recruits may be slightly lower, the recruits trained in this way only have slightly lower initial quality. After training and actual combat tests, there will not be a clear gap in strength between them and orthodox Space Marines.

In this way, after ten years there would be a considerable stock of Primaris Space Marines and gene-seed.

All that is left is for the production of weapons and equipment to keep up, and Chen Xi's troop explosion will be almost unlimited.

Thirty years later, when the great rift opens, I am afraid that Chen Xi will also be able to overwhelm the enemy with his vast number of blue sons and grandsons.

Of course, this is pure wishful thinking. There is indeed no problem with the number of gene seeds and Primaris Space Marines, but producing enough power armor and grenade launchers to equip so many people is not a simple task.

Even if Chen Xi could develop the entire Rostov sub-sector, the production capacity would be insufficient to support such a large Space Marine Corps.

Not to mention that these Primaris Space Marines don't just need power armor and bolters. Things like chainswords, power swords, storm shields, various vehicles, and strike cruisers used to transport Space Marines are the real big deal.

According to Chen Xi's estimation, if he could develop the Rostov sub-sector within thirty years, he would be able to support two to three thousand space marines, but he really couldn't afford more than that.

"Let's train them like this for now. Also, the production of weapons and equipment must keep up, so as to avoid the embarrassment of having no weapons and equipment after training new recruits." Chen Xi instructed Shi Dong.

(End of this chapter)