The Astartes Family's Notebook

None of the aforementioned supernatural abilities are crucial; the greatest significance of the think tank to the battle group lies in making and receiving psionic phone calls.

The old gatekeeper is definitely the culprit.

Don't laugh, it's true, it's real.

The Empire's quantum communication technology works quite well within the star system. The communication delay from Holy Terra to Uranus is only one second, a level of technology that surpasses that of 99.9% of the other alien races in the Milky Way.

However, the quantum technology of the human empire cannot support the communication needs of a galactic empire.

On the night I graduated from high school, I sent a goodnight message to the girl I admired in my class. After attending your funeral, your great-grandson found your personal tablet lit up among your belongings.

You have a new text message ① Please check it.

Great-grandmother has passed away, so the insurance will not be renewed.

Material technology has its limits. Materials cross galaxies using subspace travel technology, and information crosses galaxies using subspace communication technology.

Psionic telephones are the most efficient communication technology.

It has countless advantages, but only one disadvantage.

It relies too much on the individual qualities of the psychic.

Why did the commander only receive news of the four companies' defection twenty years later?

It's reasonable for a company to go out to fight three times in a row, and to bring two think tanks with them.

It's reasonable for Wu Lian to take a think tank on a business trip to the Misty Starfield.

The remaining think tank has other missions and is not part of the fourth mission.

So the message was sent by the navigator, so a higher delay is reasonable.

Just like in a five-player League of Legends game, someone always has to lose a game of rock-paper-scissors and choose an oddball support.

Or perhaps it's like playing Mythic+ in WoW and not being able to assemble a team with one tank and one healer, so you have the Paladin switch to healer and the Retribution Paladin switch to tank.

If it's even remotely decent, that's good enough. YOU CAN YOU UP, NO CAN NO BB.

Purgatory Galaxy is a huge makeshift operation, the Empire is a huge makeshift operation, and the Astartes Chapter is relatively professional, but it's still just so-so.

The Imperial legitimate psionicist invited by Judge Odach is a rare and highly sought-after treasure.

According to the standards set by Holy Terra, psionicists in the human empire are divided into twenty-four levels.

The intermediate levels don't need to be emphasized. Just know that they are at opposite ends: on one side are the untouchable warp insulators and the even rarer negative psionic annihilators, and on the other side are Beta-level psionics, Beta+ level great psionics, Alpha-level psionics, and Alpha+ level psionics.

Of the twenty-four levels of psionic energy, aside from these six levels, the remaining eighteen are all consumables, so paying attention to them is pointless.

That's enough to know.

What is the most important thing for a psionicist?

talent?

faith?

Skill?

gender?

It is stable.

Stability is paramount; stability overrides everything.

An unstable psionicist is more frightening than an unstable plasma reactor.

It could explode at any time.

Once it explodes, it will tear open a rift connecting the subspace to the curtain of reality, and all sorts of subspace terrors will follow this rift into the material universe.

Why is this Baldwin so sought-after?

Because it's stable.

Although he is only a Beta-level psionicist who has just gained human rights, the master is exceptionally good at answering calls, has a fast response speed, a high accuracy rate in interpretation, and also has the unique skill of future vision. With his current connections, it is impossible for Odachi to borrow such a treasure from the star system government of the Pacific Star System. He must have gone through his teacher's connections.

After thinking for a moment, Motor Sich switched the communication frequency and created a small group chat with only him and Kaz, intending to share some personal insights.

While sending warp messages is the privilege of psionicists, receiving warp messages is theoretically something everyone can do.

Motor Sich once received a psionic call from the head of the warband's think tank on the battlefield, so he has the right to speak on the matter.

It's incredibly abstract.

Psychic communication is even worse than Nokia's early 2K technology. It can't send text or voice messages. What is projected onto the recipient's consciousness is a JPG or GIF image that has already been filtered and corrected by the recipient's brain.

The recipient needs to fully utilize their initiative to guess what the sender wants to express.

For example, a horse, a cloud, a desert, a heavy logging gun, or a street lamp along a dimly lit street.

No matter how you guess, you can figure this out. You're guaranteed a seat on the Black Ship that leads directly to the Starlight.

Katz always adhered to one principle: it's okay to stand out, but not to be a troublemaker; it's okay to be a "problem" child, but never to be a problem child.

It seems that his persistence was correct.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and a mischievous but well-behaved child is more lovable.

While other new recruits were still trying to integrate into the company, Kaz was already arm in arm with the veterans and listening to the company commander give him a private lecture.

However, other time travelers should not blindly follow suit.

If it weren't for Katz's strong military discipline, his enthusiasm and liveliness could be considered disrespectful, and the veterans' arm-in-arms might have been a way of taking him to blind spots in surveillance to learn manners.

Having finally found a working psionic telephone, Motor Sich sent more than twenty Star Messages to the warband leader in one go.

Master Baldwin truly lives up to his reputation as a gem of the Pacific Starfield; despite such intense hard work, not a drop of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Even after finishing his work on interstellar communications, he still had the energy to pull out the Emperor Tarot and give everyone a divination.

Odachi's eyes were starting to look strange.

No, buddy, shouldn't the transmission and interpretation of Star News be the responsibility of the Star Language Choir under the jurisdiction of the Star Language Court? The Space Marines' think tank is a privileged class, we can't and have no say in it. But Master Baldwin, you're so powerful, how can you just be a Beta-level psionicist?

There's an old saying about the three courts.

Alien Garden raises aliens, Heretic Garden produces heretics, and Demon Garden breeds demons.

As the most professionally qualified Inquisitor of the Holy Hammer Order among the three Inquisitions, Odach's knowledge and understanding of psionic energy even surpassed that of many Chapter Masters of the Astartes.

Therefore, Your Honor, acting on professional instinct, became suspicious of Master Baldwin.

But an invisible wind blew across the curtain of reality from subspace, smoothing out the ravines in the cerebral cortex.

Suspicion turned into admiration; heroes of the world are as numerous as carp crossing a river, and my teacher has truly treated me well.

Hehe, he believed it.

Even the surging waves of the highest heavens could not drown out the supreme being's hearty laughter.

Hehe, this is also part of the plan.

Chapter 21 Let's congratulate IG

Born cannon fodder, die a burden, love comes from the soldiers of the Astral Army.

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IG is short for the Astral Army, and PDF is short for Planetary Defense Force.

Although the story features Space Marines making timely appearances and turning the tide, the trillions of ordinary mortal soldiers are the true cornerstone of the Empire.

Compared to the other three star systems besides the Sun Star System, the Pacific Star System has a particularly high proportion of planets with traces of colonization and development within a single star system.

This is only natural, since ancient humans' interstellar colonization always followed the principle of leveling up by first overcoming the difficult challenges.

If you read "Taiping Starfield" a couple of times, you'll get a better feel for it.

A good name brings good fortune.

For ten thousand years, the Sun Starfield, where Holy Terra is located, has naturally been the core territory most tightly controlled by the human empire.

The Taiping Starfield has always played an important role as a reservoir.

Mortals cannot comprehend this; the Dark Forest is insufficient to describe the purgatory-like galaxy of today. Even if the human empire has the ability to survey and map the galaxy, it cannot conceal the fact that the millions of worlds under the emperor's rule are scattered islands in an endless ocean.

A million worlds, a million planets—and that's just the number listed in the Yellow Register.

As an inquisitor, and one who would inherit his teacher's mantle, Odachi knew that deception and cover-ups were the norm within the entire empire. Whether it was the Star Region Government, the Star District Government, the Mechanicus, or the Imperial State Religion, such acts of stealing and lying were commonplace.

Even with the most conservative estimate, not considering empires but only humanity, humans occupy at least 1.5 million planets.

Even if someone is slightly bolder and doubles their conservative estimate, they will still be categorized as a conservative.

This is the human empire, so vast that those who wish to save it or destroy it feel despair.

But the Milky Way alone contains 400 billion stars. With such a dazzling galaxy and such a vast array of stars, what difference does it make if humanity occupies only a few planets?

A drop in the ocean, truly deserving of the name.

Fun fact: The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, with four clearly defined and relatively symmetrical spiral arms inside.

The true strategic value of the Taiping Starfield lies in the fact that the main part of the Solar Starfield is located in the Orion Arm, and the Orion Arm branches out into a part near the Taiping Starfield.

This stands in stark contrast to the uninhabited deep space regions of the extreme star fields, which are hundreds of light-years away and contain not a single star.

Although interstellar travel heavily relies on the warp, the Imperial upper echelons are well aware of both its advantages and disadvantages.

The reason why the Pacific Starfield can serve as a reservoir for the Solar Starfield is that, even without relying on subspace travel, the Imperial Charter fleet can maintain smooth transportation by following the gravitational pull of the dense celestial bodies between the spiral arms.

It's important to understand that just because Imperial Navy and Astartes Chapter ships can perform warp jumps doesn't mean all Imperial ships are equipped with warp engines.

Instead of indulging in such daydreams, it's better to fantasize about the emperor rising from his golden throne and leading 800,000 royal guards to ram Khorne's ditch from beneath the net.

The ratio of Imperial ships capable of warp travel to those capable of sublight travel is roughly 9:1.

Nine ships capable of entering and exiting subspace are compared to ten thousand ships crawling at near-light speed.

Those who are good with numbers might jump up and object, saying, "No, no, even if you compare one to a thousand, one warship to a thousand civilian ships, that's too exaggerated! When Guilliman rose up and launched the Unyielding Expedition, the Empire didn't have such a strong transport capacity."

Yes, yes, my friend, the data is correct, statistics, isn't that interesting?

Since both spacecraft that travel within a star system and those that can travel between star systems are considered interstellar spacecraft, this statistic is correct.

Odachi's teacher carefully selected Nafar and Omidas II as the debut venues for his disciples to step onto the Galactic stage, precisely because the Charter Fleet and the Cult of Mechanics had given their endorsement and guarantee.

In fact, it doesn't matter which planet the Wings chooses, because the fate of the two planets has already been decided by the two heads of the Imperial Twin Eagle.

Nafal will be transformed into an agricultural world within fifty years to provide food for larger-scale military mobilizations; Omidas II will lose its name and become a newly discovered populated world "filled" with a large number of immigrants, enjoying five hundred years of special tax exemption; while Omidas I, which has become a dead world, will replace Omidas II as a mining world under the name of the Mechanicus.

What a brilliant plan! The Empire reclaimed three worlds at once, the Sector Government gained resources, the Mechanicus gained territory, the Charter fleet gained shipping routes, Astartes gained glory, the Inquisitors gained merit, and the rebels who had been waiting to die on the planets found a way out.

No one cared what the Astronauts who had once followed Macarius in battle thought, not even the veterans of the Fourth Company who had rebelled over similar incidents.

Are being forced to rebel by the judge the same as becoming a bandit king by taking initiative?

No, that's impossible.

Odachi's conditions were already the upper limit of the Empire's anthropomorphism, and he was still dragging his feet. He was no ordinary rebel, and we had to take decisive action.

The conquest of Nafar took only ten minutes.

Nine minutes of that time were given by the Inquisitors, on behalf of the Empire, to allow the planet's inhabitants time to think.

As the hands of the golden pocket watch in the judge's hand completed nine revolutions, the Pioneer Star, which had reached a planetary synchronous orbit, opened the armor plating on the lower, mid-section of its hull, revealing the bombardment cannons that represented the majesty of the Empire.

Katz only realized how misleading the CG short film was after boarding the ship.

The row of gun pods on the side of the Imperial warships is for use in close combat, which is an offensive tactic in the Imperial Navy's traditional tactics after "closing the ship close".

These short-range macro guns, although capable of firing ammunition of calibers over 1500, are not even considered minors in the macro gun family; they need to be held in the arms of their "mothers" when they are served.

Forty kilometers is hardly worthy of being called a firing range?

Compared to dedicated ground attack bombardments, the broadside cannon, including its mount, is roughly equivalent to three bombardment shells.

The Emperor's mercy has already been bestowed; silence means resistance. Now it is time for the Emperor's angel of death to display its majesty.

There is no medium for sound to travel in space, so it is a pity that we cannot feel the roar of the cannon firing. However, the red-hot projectiles hit the earth at an initial velocity of three times the speed of sound. The rebels' sparse laser anti-aircraft weapons were lucky enough to hit the projectiles, but they were powerless to shatter the Emperor's wrath. They could not even deflect the impact point slightly.

The projectile landed, its thick outer shell revealing a high-explosive charge that shared the same lineage as the Empire's enigmatic materials science.

With a deafening roar, the shockwave shattered the area within a 100-kilometer radius of the impact point into dust.

Immediately following this, the central high temperature of tens of thousands of degrees began its second impact.