The Astartes Family's Notebook

Compared to the oppressive feeling brought by Tyrant, the gift that the subspace gave to Kars was rather underwhelming.

Chapter 15 The Horror of Titanium

Question: How many types of heavy cruisers does the Empire have?

A: There are two types: Luna-class cruisers and others.

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Steel Company One, Gou Company Two, Hardworking Company Three and Five, and the whole Company Four is full of sons.

Chatting with the ship captain can reveal a lot of gossip.

This is going to be fun.

The so-called battle royale game is nothing special. Eighteen centenarian Space Marine veterans, including Tyrant, bullied a greenhorn like Kaz, even resorting to despicable tactics like pretending to be friendly. Shameful! Shameful!

As a result, Katz was pinned to the ground with Tyrant's foot on his chest, and he had to continue to endure mental humiliation.

"Recruit Katz, before training even started, the simulated battle report informed you that the entire ship had fallen, and you were the only Astartes left in the company. So how stupid could you be to believe that the suddenly appearing friendly forces were messengers sent from the Victory Balance? So how ignorant could you be to believe that the Mark VI power armor had beacon teleportation capabilities? Idiot, only the Terminator armor can teleport!"

Kaz felt wronged. He only knew that the Fourth Company was reckless and brave, but he didn't know that this company was such a bunch of bastards.

Damn it, you demand rigor in murder mystery games and realism in TV dramas. Tyrant, you double standard dog, I'll get my revenge sooner or later!

Although Kaz mentally added another grudge against Tyrant, Tyrant found Kaz more agreeable.

The same thing happened to Tyrant when he was a recruit; he was also messed with by veterans.

At that time, Tyrant's choice was to go to the overload plasma furnace in the engine compartment and seek mutual destruction.

He got so into character that he smashed the engine compartment control panel and was severely punished afterwards.

At the time, Tyrant believed he had made the best choice.

Trading one new recruit for more than ten "chaotic traitors" is a sure way to break even.

As a result, the old company commander just spit on his face.

Imperial standard ships, regardless of size or model, share some common features.

In the space age, the term "bridge" has become a fixed term, rather than referring to the actual location on top of a warship.

The bridge is located in the compartment where the command system is integrated.

All ships, including the bridge which commands the ship, have a powerhouse containing the power plant and a main control room that controls the mechanical structures, including the stern propellers.

These three areas are the three most important key compartments of a ship.

The bridge is the brain, the engine room is the heart, and the main control room is the steel door. What does this mean? It means that your backside is just as important as your brain.

loyalty!

Katz got slapped by Tyrant.

This illustrates that paralyzing a starship is far easier than controlling or destroying it.

The old company commander pointed out the shortcomings of Tyrant's idea. He could have easily disabled the Pioneer Star and then waged guerrilla warfare against the veterans who were playing the role of Chaos traitors. The company wouldn't deliberately recruit new recruits; there was a timeout set. As long as Tyrant stalled for enough time, he would win.

You must trust your comrades!

I don't believe you for a second. Apart from Company Commander Motor Sich, there isn't a single good person in the Fourth Company.

You guys have tampered with my power armor, and you're still dragging things out? Do you think I'm stupid?

Kaz did not choose to die together with the enemy. In his view, training was training, and Tyrant and the others were not Chaos traitors.

So isn't the core objective of this training exercise to familiarize oneself with the ship's structure?

It's a lame joke that the empire's territory encompasses the galaxy, yet the shipyards that forge the world share the same blueprint for construction.

Once you're familiar with the internal structure of the Pioneer Star, you'll essentially be familiar with all the Empire's heavy cruisers of the same type.

Instead of being a joke, the Empire's heavy cruisers are divided into Luna-class cruisers, Luna-class cruiser modifications, Luna-class cruiser modifications that are invisible to the Mechanicus, and Luna-class cruiser modifications that the Mechanicus strongly protested and announced the termination of warranty and maintenance.

In the realm of heavy cruisers, the origin of all things is the Moon-class.

Once you are familiar with the construction of one Luna-class cruiser, you are familiar with the construction of thousands of Luna-class cruisers in the Empire.

However, things changed somewhat after M38.

For some unknown reason, the Mechanicus initiated technological innovations, resulting in the Empire developing two new types of heavy cruisers: the Ruler-class and the Tyrant-class, which were significantly different from the Luna-class.

The Imperial Navy and the Astartes Chapter's own fleets have always been at odds, so don't expect the Mechanicus to develop dedicated strike cruisers for the Space Marines. Therefore, the so-called strike cruisers are all modified versions of the Navy's existing ships.

Light strike cruisers are modified from light cruisers, while heavy strike cruisers are modified from heavy cruisers.

It's that simple and straightforward.

A combat barge can carry two to three companies of Space Marines, while a strike cruiser can only fit one company at most.

So why did the Fourth Company have the Pioneer Star when it already had the battle barge Victory Balance?

The answer is simple: the Pioneer Star was modified from the Tyrant-class destroyers, which were the least favored by the Navy.

The Tyrant-class heavy cruiser uses a brand-new overpressure plasma weapon system, which has a longer range than other cruisers of the same class.

What a wonderful thing this is! Long arms beat short arms, high arms beat low arms, and beats the dumbest [beep].

Furthermore, the Tyrant-class cruisers have a reasonable armor protection design, an advanced turret protection concept, and the ability to provide both long-range and close-range firepower of equal power.

A masterpiece, a masterpiece of imperial divine intervention!

How did the Tyrant-class end up being disliked by the Imperial Navy of all five star regions?

After mass production and deployment, the Imperial Navy discovered that the Tyrant-class's long-range firepower posed little threat to any ship larger than a frigate, and it would eventually have to revert to the traditional combat mode of "pushing the ship alongside," thus naturally falling out of favor.

If the quantity is not high enough, the research and development costs cannot be spread out, and the price will be high. Why not build more cheap and easy-to-use Moon-class or Dominator-class cruisers with clear positioning?

Kaz wasn't sure how the Wings of Desolation acquired the Pioneer Star, whose predecessor was the Tyrant-class cruiser, and he didn't need to delve into it.

The fact that the battle group commander was able to complete the modification shows that he had connections with the Mechanical Cult.

Even if it's dirty stuff from unclean hands, as long as the Mechanical Instruction acknowledges it, then the Pioneer Star is an Astartes Squadron strike cruiser enjoying a quality warranty.

Where can you find a rare, limited-edition Tyrant-level character that's unbeatable against weaker opponents, compared to the monotonous monthly-level characters?

Kaz didn't want to drag Pioneer Star into some kind of self-destruction game.

Therefore, interpersonal relationships and social skills are also an important component of combat effectiveness.

Most of the fleet officers and petty officers who followed Astartes were either failures or rejected participants in the New Blood Ceremony.

Even if they don't become Astartes, these outstanding individuals who carry the genes of superior humans are still an important human asset of the Chapter, possessing extremely high loyalty and initiative.

After being assigned to a company, the Astartes monks, in addition to having to complete the company's daily training plan, theoretically have one hour of free time to do as they please. They can choose to go to the arena to fight their combat brothers, go to the armory to engrave the Aquila Falcon Mark on the bombs, or do extra training for themselves.

Katz chose to chat with the company commander and the ship's commander.

The company commander and the ship's commander chatted, while Katz listened.

Naturally, Kaz started the reputation line for the captain of the Pioneer Star from the captain of the Victory Balance.

Tyrant hadn't expected that Katz would use off-site methods to bypass the veterans' tight security by going directly through the maintenance passage, and symbolically leave a training fragmentation grenade with the safety pin still on the control panel in the switchboard room, meaning that I had forced the Pioneer Star to stop.

Then, with the ship's commander's deliberate indulgence, Katz began to use the ship's internal monitoring system to engage in mobile warfare with Tyrant.

If you can locate my position, aren't you also allowed to check your movements?

Because Tyrant, as the examiner, did not declare Katz's behavior as cheating, Katz held this veteran of the Fourth Company in high regard.

It wasn't until a guy claiming to be a messenger from the Victory Balance joined the game with amusement that Kaz realized something.

Astartes must pay the price for its naiveté.

Sephiroth, it's all your fault! Why didn't you teach me this trick of pretending to be loyal?

Chapter 16 The Balance of Victory

Robote is invincible, Guy R. Mann is unparalleled, may the Lord of the Five Hundred Worlds be at the top every day.

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It's not the original of the Black Ultramarines. If you pronounce it in the accent of the 500th world of Altera, Robert Guilliman's name should be pronounced as Robert Guilliman.

Killieman should thank his biological father.

Even someone as powerful as Trump, even if he becomes the President of the United States, must still be referred to as Trump in the national media.

If the Emperor hadn't launched the Great Crusade, and the celestial language of Holy Terra hadn't replaced the rural accent of Alterama, this name would have remained with a Primarch for life.

That would be so much fun!

How did the reputation of a descendant of the God Emperor, a noble genetic prototype, gradually deteriorate to this state?

Because Guilliman wrote a book called the Astartes, a collection of toilet paper in a block format, which made possible what Horus could not do during the Great Rebellion.

The Primarch of the Coconut Buns Ultramarines split up the remaining eight loyal Space Marine Legions.

If you criticize Guilliman, you're a good brother to us loyalists; if you defend Guilliman, then you're either a Chaos spy or an Ultramariner.

No kidding, to non-Ultraman factions, Guilliman's health bar is red.

The Desolation Wings are not Blood Ravens. Although the current Chapter Master does not know who their Primarch is, the Chapter's higher-ups are not worried at all.

It doesn't matter if the battle leader doesn't know; it's enough that the noble Supreme Elder does.

When Holy Terra needs something from us, the Empire of Man truly displays the omnipresent oppressive power of the Galactic Empire.

Praise be to Makarius, praise be to Makarian's expedition.

It is extremely risky to rashly awaken an ancient Space Marine whose battle record dates back to the M37 era.

Therefore, after taking over, the Chapter Master of Desolace preferred to have the Highlord Council help check the records in the Holy Terra Archives rather than ask the Elders to get up and tell stories to the younger ones.

Upon investigation, the battle group leader seemed to have discovered something, or perhaps understood something.

Could it be that all the previous chapter leaders had this idea, which is why things got awkward?

The Desolation Wings' historical archives have been continuously maintained for two thousand years, yet why can't this long-established Space Marine Chapter find any trace of its Primarch in its records?

There is only one answer: in the M37 era, the Chapter was almost wiped out by a powerful enemy, and even the flagship of the Chapter Monastery was destroyed.

Records in the Holy Terra Archives show that the earliest verifiable record of the Desolation Wings is in M36.391, when the chapter participated in a war against the Orcish Green Tide in the Extreme Starfield.

The dozens of records that followed showed that the Desolate Wings fought a tough battle every few decades. At that time, the warband was always active in the eastern and central parts of the Extreme Starfield and rarely left the Extreme Starfield.

With verifiable records, loyalty is guaranteed.

Until M37.666, the last sighting report of the Desolation Wings came from the Misty Starfield. For two thousand years since then, the Imperium has not collected any more sighting reports of the Desolation Wings Chapter.

The Wastewing were once listed as a chapter suspected of being destroyed.

This also matches the warband's internal records.

According to the chapter's records, the Desolate Wings fought a formidable enemy and won a Pyrrhic victory, but fewer than ten of their brothers survived, and only three of them were physically intact.

This is a loss that is close to wiping out the entire group.

But a victory is a victory, even if it's a Pyrrhic one, even if it means losing everything. The surviving veterans of the warband still managed to recover some of the genetic seeds of the fallen.

As long as the genetic seed remains, the warband has hope.

Next, the Wings of Desolation faded from the Empire's sight, temporarily abandoning their duty to protect the beloved human Empire, and entered a long period of recuperation.

It wasn't until M39.555 that the Desolate Wings, having regained their combat capabilities, reappeared in the Pacific Starfield.

After that, the main area of ​​activity for the warband became the Pacific Starfield.

The Imperial records match the Warband's internal records, proving that the records have not been tampered with.

There is only one truth: when the Supreme Elder was put into the refrigerator, the successor commander forgot to ask (or dared not ask).

Not all sacred and fearless individuals are as kind and approachable as Bjorn, the one-handed man from Space Wolf.

After being buried in the sarcophagus, Astartes, whose body was already badly damaged, will be eroded by emptiness and nothingness, and his reason and humanity will slowly be lost.

Most of the elders buried in the Fearless Temple actively sought death.

There were also quite a few loyalists who, unable to endure such torment, succumbed to chaos and became fearless.

The Wasteland Wings were almost wiped out, not actually wiped out. From beginning to end, the entire warband fought for the Empire. They were all loyal martyrs.

The chapter's records clearly state that the last time the Grand Elder awoke was two thousand years ago. At that time, the veteran had an emotional breakdown and left a harsh statement while in a deep slumber: he could no longer bear it. If his next awakening was not his death, and if the chapter did not arrange a grand apocalyptic battle as his magnificent farewell, then he would throw himself into chaos!