The Astartes Family's Notebook

Because commanders are hard to find among ordinary people, but the Astartes Chapter has plenty.

For example, Motor Sich is the best choice in my opinion.

While the Starfield Government cannot directly intervene, it can still coordinate the mobilization of the Starbound Army.

Therefore, all the Star Guard colonels who retired in the last twenty years have been temporarily rehired.

Imperial military officers of the rank of colonel or above who have retired in the last forty years must return to their respective sector military departments within three hundred standard Terra days to perform unpaid voluntary labor, or their pensions will be suspended.

Moreover, war is the best way to resolve internal conflicts. Some people who were just occupying positions without doing their jobs were kicked out of the Starfield Headquarters by the Military Affairs Department with early retirement benefits, so that these "professional talents" could go to the front lines to shine and make money, making room for young people.

For a time, the vibrant and thriving scene of the entire Pacific Starfield made it seem as if one had traveled back to the Great Expedition era.

only......

What does "household contract responsibility system" mean?

Without any unified arrangements or overall planning, Leothus casually circled one galaxy after another on the star map, marking the difficulty of conquering each galaxy and the reward price.

Those who know, this is a large-scale war project of the Empire; those who don't, are you setting up a quest wall in the Adventurers' Guild?

"What can I do? I'm desperate too. Why don't you take command of this battle, Company Commander Motor Sich?"

Thanks for the invitation, but no thanks.

This isn't a question of ability or incompetence; it's a question of exhausting Astartes.

Once you're given the title of Commander-in-Chief of a campaign, your backside is practically welded to your desk. Who could stand that?

Motor Sich is a highly accomplished monk who has long since seen through these worldly vanities. You're not offering enough, and you still want to extort me? Dream on.

So after careful selection, as the local strongman of the Pacific region, Motor Sich quickly locked onto a star system.

"This is it."

"you sure?"

"I'm sure."

"Once a move is made, there's no going back?"

"Draw up a written agreement!"

“Alright, I’ll give you another 100 million Throne Coins as start-up capital. You must set off within three days.”

"no problem."

The mission appears to be arduous, difficult, and with little reward. Judging from the data in the Empire's database, this star system seems like a tough nut to crack. Leotus sincerely admires Motor Sich for volunteering for such a challenging mission, and once the contract is signed, he is ruthless and disregards family ties.

However, Motor Sich knew that there was an alternative solution to this difficult task, and that the hidden benefits were enormous.

For thousands of years, the Wings of the Wasteland have been deeply rooted in the Pacific Starfield. While their footprints may not have covered every single imperial world, they have certainly covered at least three-quarters of it.

Therefore, when calling a meeting between Yesf and Sixth Company Commander Nuvas, Madashich explained his considerations.

"Look, the Alevid Galaxy."

"Modál Sich brothers, are you sure the Alevid you chose is the Alevid I know?"

Nuvas looked incredulous.

Although Yesfe had spent many years in the Pacific Starfield, he had never heard of this Alevid, so he could only watch the show calmly.

"That's right, it's that Alived."

"Motor Sich, that's a planet with a planetary shield. The Empire only provides 300,000 Astral Army soldiers. We Astartes only have two companies at most. How are we going to take on this tough nut? Even if we call up the entire Second Company and the Fifth Company comes back, we still won't have enough troops."

Nuvas, being a local, knew what was important and what wasn't.

However, a sinister smile appeared on Motor Sich's usually composed face.

“Nuvas, if I remember correctly, it’s been nineteen years since I became a sergeant in the company, and you just finished basic training and were assigned to the company, right?”

"Yes, that's right."

"So you know what? Before I was promoted to sergeant, I went on an infiltration mission to this star system."

When the topic turned to their personal past, Yesfe and Nuvas became animated.

"The most troublesome thing for Alevia is the star system's main planet, Alevia. It was a planet conquered during the Great Crusade, but later lost again. Alevia's planetary defenses are quite comprehensive and complex, making it very difficult for us to break through on our own. However, they later terraformed two other planets in the system. That is the breakthrough point."

"What do you mean?"

Nuvas had no idea what Motor Sich meant.

Do you know how Markarius's expeditionary force forced Alevid to surrender?

"do not know."

Because he missed the Makarian Expedition, Madsich extensively reviewed detailed battle reports about the expedition and conducted numerous post-event deductions and analyses.

"At that time, the Fifth Army first captured the other two worlds in the star system with overwhelming superiority, and then surrounded the planet with hundreds of warships without attacking, directly forcing Alevid to lower the planetary shield and surrender through sheer force."

The two listeners nodded, signaling Madasic to stop keeping them in suspense and continue.

"The Empire's closed war report only mentioned that because they surrendered voluntarily, the leaders of Alevia were not purged. But I asked someone to use their connections to find out what happened next."

Motor Sich laughed again, but this time his laughter was tinged with sadness.

"How dare those arrogant and fierce soldiers? They actually drove the local nobles of Alevia directly to a newly developed planet in the star system that was mainly responsible for agricultural production, and made them farm. Meanwhile, the expeditionary force confiscated all the assets of the main planet and embezzled them."

This empire...

Nuvas and Yesfe were speechless.

"And the solution I'm talking about lies here. Because of the mission, I've come into contact with these people, these locals who were driven out of Alevia. Relying solely on our forces and the troops supported by the Empire is naturally not enough to reclaim the star system, but what if we add these people? What do you think?"

"But the Motor Sich brothers, I've done the math, that was ninety years ago. The people you contacted back then..."

Nuvas thought about it and realized the problem.

"Nuvas, you're really not as good as the Fourth Company in this aspect. I'll suggest to the battalion commander that you come to the Fourth Company as a company commander to get some experience."

"Uh, no way, I don't get along well with the brothers in the Fourth Company."

"Hey, hey, I'm an outsider. Is it really okay for you to talk about these family matters in front of me?" Yesford was speechless.

“You’ve forgotten, I am an Astartes, we are the Emperor’s angels. Even if Alevia hadn’t returned to the Empire at the time, a favor from an Astartes would be remembered by the family. Besides, what does it matter if all those who knew back then are dead? As long as I dare to mention it, there will always be someone who dares to admit it.”

That said it all, and Jessford understood.

The inhumane behavior of the Makarian Expeditionary Force thoroughly offended the local faction in Alevia. While the expedition was in full swing, those locals could only grit their teeth and accept it, choosing survival over material possessions.

However, it would have been abnormal if the local faction hadn't expressed their opinions after the infighting among the seven leaders.

Viewing the Alevid Galaxy as a whole is indeed a tough nut to crack.

However, a closer analysis reveals that the forces within a galaxy are not monolithic.

The fact that the Empire cannot spare enough troops to tackle this tough challenge does not mean that the Astartes Chapter is incapable.

The mission that Motor Sich received from Leothers was to regain complete control of the galaxy.

In other words, the fourth company commander of the Desolation Wings not only represented the Astartes Chapter at this time, but also had the temporary endorsement of Holy Terra.

With this kind of background, one is already qualified to make wishes for official positions from planetary-level nobles and officials.

On one side is official seal, on the other is gun barrel; on one side is ruin and exile, on the other is extravagance and debauchery.

If we follow Motor Sich's line of thinking, there's great potential in this.

The Astartes may not have a good way to bypass Alevia's defense system, but that doesn't mean the planet's former inhabitants didn't.

The more I think about it, the more reliable and promising it seems!

Chapter 144 Band of Brothers

After we leave, they will build schools and hospitals for you and raise your wages. This is not because they have a change of heart or because they have become good people, but because we were here.

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The False Necessary Evil, the Church of a Certain Long-Haired Old Witch.

The true, necessary evil of the Warhammer universe, the human empire.

No matter how much you condemn the human empire's unbelievable anthropomorphism, you cannot deny the fact that humanity exists, lives with dignity, and even becomes the overlord of the galaxy precisely because of this human empire, which is cruel to outsiders and harsh to its own people.

In Guterra's science fiction novels, it is repeatedly emphasized that one should not reply and should hide oneself, because the universe follows the Dark Forest Theory.

In the Warhammer universe, although from a heroic historical perspective, the history of the Empire is a history of suffering for all living beings, the Empire has not told its people that over the past ten thousand years, the number of alien civilizations destroyed by her hand is as vast as the ocean.

The Alevis' perception of the empire was complex.

Those tall, weathered sculptures serve as evidence that Alevia was part of the empire during the Great Expedition.

The truth is impossible to verify, and it doesn't matter which side Alevia took during the Horus Rebellion.

Importantly, the Aleviathans discovered that they could live well independently of the imperial system.

Without having to pay taxes or wage wars, the Alevia can live for themselves under the protection of a planet-level energy shield.

But the Empire launched another expedition, and the army under Macarius once again carried the Empire's double-headed eagle banner into the Alevid system. Only then did the Alevis realize that they had never truly separated from the Empire.

Like that majestic imperial statue, the emperor has always been there, and the empire has always existed.

Faced with absolute power, any resistance seems futile.

So the Alevia surrendered, placing their fate in the hands of the conquerors.

The expeditionary force had no time to concern itself with the fate of a single planet. The immense achievements of the Makarian Expedition spurred all Imperial soldiers to move forward, forward, and onward. In the face of this unparalleled feat, the fate of the Aleviathans was insignificant.

So, the reason for banishing the surrendered dignitaries and officials to agricultural worlds within the galaxy was to make them easier to keep under close surveillance.

Stop joking, the arrogant and fierce generals under Makarius's command don't have such far-reaching ideas at all.

This is an insult.

Those who dare to defy the empire's heavenly soldiers and generals are meant to let you meat-eaters experience what it means to earn your own living and what labor reform means.

Because the planet Alevia is highly developed, its resource production alone is no longer sufficient to meet local demand. As a result, millions of the wealthy and powerful have been exiled to agricultural worlds within the galaxy to farm, while tens of millions of middle-class people have been transported to mining worlds to mine.

The expeditionary force needs to eat meat. Ordinary people don't have much money, so they rob you rich people.

So when Saint Macarius died, the army, engulfed in internal strife, was surprised to find that, just as before, the conservatives who were now living behind closed doors were the very same conquerors who had once opened the gates of Alevia.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

The remnants of the expeditionary force began to treat the people of Alevia with kindness, not because these military leaders had suddenly realized the error of their ways, but because they were afraid.

They feared that the Empire would once again assemble a punitive force and treat them as they had done before.

Therefore, when the Astartes fleet sailed out of the Mandeville point in the Alevid system, no system defense fleet launched an attack.

The Grand Inquisitor Leothers widely issued a call to arms, hoping that the remnants of the expeditionary force would set things right. The military leaders of Alevia were naturally aware of this as well.

It's just that the days when you don't have to pay tithes are really great.

Even military leaders who secretly wished to return to the empire held the idea of ​​delaying for as long as possible, hoping to gain as much as they could. They figured they could just surrender at the deadline set by the ultimatum.

Those who wanted to grow bigger and stronger and create new glories were even more afraid that internal strife would weaken the planet's overall defenses, so they locked their fleets firmly in the starport of Alevia, fully demonstrating what it means to have a fleet.

With two Lunar-class cruisers, nine frigates, and at least seventeen destroyers of various types, the Alevid system fleet is powerful enough to rival some severely damaged sector fleets, based solely on its paper strength.

This is also the fundamental reason why other, more powerful imperial forces are unwilling to take on this job.

If this galactic defense force manages to hold Mandeville Point firmly, then Motor Sich will have to consider jumping to Proxima Centauri and then speeding over from the real universe.

However, considering the time cost, the fourth company commander abandoned this idea.

Although Leothus did not possess outstanding military talent, he was too old. As his body aged, the experience and lessons he had accumulated over the years also endowed him with a seasoned approach to things and a shrewd eye for people.

"Don't take on a job you're not qualified for"—this saying applies to judges as well as to Astartes.

Leothus no longer cared about personal gain or loss; this war would be his last as an inquisitor.

Therefore, despite having control over astronomical amounts of public assets, the Grand Judge had no intention of embezzling a single penny.

Under the reward, there must be a brave man.

The Throne agents lurking in Alevia reported that the star system defense fleet has been docked at the planet's orbital shipyard recently and has not deployed any forces at Mandeville Point.

Although Leothos has always had a good personal reputation, the reality is that the Alevid system's defense fleet is indeed capable of severely damaging or even annihilating the Astartes fleet, which has just emerged from its warp travel state.

Therefore, while deciding to undertake a military adventure, Motor Sich also made corresponding arrangements.

Astartes has only one universal tactic: boarding.