The Astartes Family's Notebook

A wonderful misunderstanding, a misplaced admiration.

Not wearing power armor, Motor Sich was dressed in a simple gray-brown monk's robe, and the young Inquisitor was genuinely curious about where this strong Imperial superman had his communication devices embedded in his body.

It wasn't that the angels were disrespectful to the Emperor; staring into Mad Sich's eyes was indeed impolite, but Odach really cared.

There are no traces of data flow in the eyes, so it must be a brain-computer interface. I really want to know which world-class manufacturer produced this high-end product, and which great biological sage crafted it. The skull is perfectly natural, with no signs of modification, the scalp is tight, and the hair is in good condition.

But asking directly would expose the fact that I'm spying on the chapter's secrets...

I really want to know how to ask a question that is polite, elegant, and impeccable. Come out, my amazing wisdom!

Chapter 34 Landing Operation

Souls bound by gravity only pollute the earth after death. — Char Aznable

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The great father of the Red Three had no idea that his casual remark had revealed the truth about warp corruption.

The source of the calamities in the warp is the extreme emotions accumulated by billions of living beings.

If no unusual subspace energy response is observed, the recovery operation of Omidas II will still be subject to significant considerations regarding operational costs, requiring a two-pronged approach that combines political and military efforts.

Since it concerns chaotic corruption, cost is no longer a factor to consider.

Katz is not a god, and his training on Frankish III did not include anything related to chaos.

In this respect, he was no different from the other ten friends; they were all complete newbies.

So just listen to the company commander.

The company commander's tactical arrangements were very detailed, and his tactical ideas were very straightforward.

If we do not kill, hatred will never end.

If one does not kill, what difference is there between the strong and the weak?

Do not kill, for all sentient beings are karmic burdens.

Do not kill, for life is but a fleeting dream, an illusion, an emptiness.

Do not kill living beings, for they are afraid of the impermanence of the ebb and flow of life.

Do not kill, for youth is but a fleeting moment.

If one does not kill, one will not be able to find liberation from suffering.

If one does not kill, all actions will be devoid of the joy of life.

Although that wasn't what Company Commander Motor Sich actually said, Katz, who was multitasking, couldn't help but translate his leader's intention into a famous quote from the Yellow-Eyebrowed Ancestor.

The Astartes' rock-solid mental fortitude is not entirely innate.

Truly cruel and bloodthirsty children rarely pass the selection trials for loyalist Space Marines; they are the kind of promising talents favored by the Chaos Warbands of Khorne.

For loyal chapters recognized by the Empire, you can be ruthless and bloodthirsty, but you can't be both.

Cruelty shows decisiveness; even at a young age, she understands the importance of leaving no future troubles.

A bloodthirsty nature indicates a strong drive for advancement and a profound understanding of the true essence of ruling a human empire.

Very good. From Grandpa Wang at the village entrance to the planetary legal department, your infamy is known to everyone. The Punishment Legion needs a promising talent like you.

For the human empires trapped in the hellish galaxy, cruelty and bloodlust have transformed from psychological ailments of ancient Terra into criteria for judging pillars of society.

The only thing that's unacceptable is cruelty and bloodlust; such a person is likely a born death worshipper.

Of the Empire's followers of the Death Cult, one-third believed in the Emperor, one-third believed in Khorne, and one-third believed in both.

The ingredients are too complex and difficult to identify, so the military won't accept them.

Mindset can be distorted, cognition can be recreated. Katz has lived almost as long as he did in his previous life, and he has long since become desensitized to killing.

Do you really think that recruits at Frankenstein III spend their days running drills, attending classes, and doing physical training?

If the empire doesn't even treat its own people as human beings, how could it possibly regard alien races as human beings?

At first, they were bizarre and unrelated to humanoid creatures, then they gradually transitioned to cats and dogs, and then gradually became anthropomorphic. After the alien remnants dismembered by the recruits filled half the warehouse, a hive noble collector bought most of the hard skeletons.

Don't ask where the edible parts went, Sephiroth deserves to die!

From alien races to human criminals, from severe phobia of feces to sucking brains when in doubt, Sephiroth succumbed to the fear of execution brought about by the company's mutiny. He frantically stimulated the recruits' spirits, attempting to incite them to desert or rebel, and to justify the execution of these teenagers.

But Sephiroth miscalculated. He was just a supplementary pharmacist in the company, not a child psychology expert. He didn't understand the term "naive and cruel" used to describe a child, nor did he understand the subtle competitive psychology in a herd mentality.

Sephiroth failed to detect Kars's most serious psychological problems at the beginning, and after Kars completed his psychological adjustment to the New World, he was unable to kill any of the recruits using reasonable and normal means.

This leads to an absurd fact.

Although Kars and his crew hated Sephiroth, they quickly integrated into the company because of Sephiroth's extreme torture.

After all, Tyrant and Ingus both agreed that this batch of recruits was the best quality new recruits they had seen in all their years of service.

Murdering two new recruits is a serious crime.

Exceeding the target is commendable.

Sephiroth escaped death and was sent to the Deathwatch as a Black Shield, precisely because of the recruits who most wanted him dead.

This damn universe really knows what dark humor is.

A single city with three billion people seems like a lot, but it's actually not a small number either. However, it's not actually that difficult to manage.

The traitorous Astragalus Army naturally occupied the prime locations at the top and middle of the hive, leaving the civilian immigrants to pick and choose what the rebels had left behind.

Power will not be absent; human nature will naturally fill the void.

In just one generation, Omidas, a predominantly immigrant community, is not enough to build a stable hub of local culture.

Therefore, by slightly altering the steps of the action plan, it is not impossible for one hundred people to intimidate three billion.

Originally, it should have been Inquisitor Odachi who contacted the remnants of the Astragalus Army who had a strong desire to return to the Empire to control the upper levels of the hive, and then pushed back towards the lower hive in a counter-current.

From beginning to end, Nafar Groups 1 to 130 were merely plastic tokens on the gambling table, clever little tools used for psychological pressure.

However, given the chaotic nature of the situation, the so-called surrender or defection is no longer credible.

Motor Sich's plan was to directly sever the elevator passage between the top and middle nests, then seize control of the nest capital's gate, let the Nafar people in, and use the naturally stable identity of the Nafar 1 to 130 regiments as a barrier to block the transportation links between the middle and lower nests.

In this way, the Astartes would no longer be forced into a tactical disadvantage due to their extreme numerical inferiority.

With their efforts focused on breaching the top nest and taking control of all the generals' heads, Inquisitor Odachi naturally had the methods and means to divide and deal with the rebellious Astral Legion in the middle nest.

Trust is very expensive. Once the first Astral Legion surrenders, all alliances are meaningless. The Astartes will make an example of them, and the problem will be solved.

As for the Astronauts, who are trying to hold out and wait for things to change, they are no longer ordinary rebels and must be dealt with decisively.

Veterans who are eligible to wear the Terminator armor have already changed into it.

However, Company Commander Motor Sich did not choose to deploy all the Terminators at once in the operation against the hive.

This is basic military common sense: reserves are always useful.

Moreover, not all Terminator Armors have teleportation capabilities.

There are various methods of teleportation using psychic magic, but scientific teleportation methods are very expensive.

Ten Terminators were left as reserves, and the entire company boarded the Thunderhawk and Stormhawk gunships, escorted by the Imperial Navy's Lightning and Thunder fighters, to carry out the landing operation.

Katz felt a little disappointed that he didn't have the chance to experience Astartes' iconic drop pod.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. The Fourth Company has a sufficient number of Thunderhawk gunboats, and even two Stormhawks, while the Omidas Nest's anti-aircraft firepower is only present in the top part of the nest, so there is obviously no need to use the method of smashing the airship to drop the cargo hold.

It wasn't until Katz personally experienced the Thunderhawk gunship that he realized he had once again suffered at the hands of the Cloud Hammer.

The vehicle that Tytus, who was born hundreds of years later, was traveling in when the Deathwatch Black Shield crashed was not a Thunderhawk gunship, but a Valkyrie armed transport plane.

The standard equipment of the Empire is generally referred to as such, but there are actually many modified and variant models.

The spaceship is cramped for six Space Marines because it has a sling-mounted modification in its midsection that can carry two Leman Russ or one Land Raider, and these vehicles can accommodate six more.

Even without additional payload capacity, the Thunderhawk can easily carry twelve fully armed Space Marines at once.

Therefore, the effective crew capacity of all Thunderhawk gunboat models is actually the same according to the design standards.

After borrowing Judge Odach's Stormhawk, the Fourth Company only needed to deploy three Stormhawks and three Thunderhawks to meet the company's mobility requirements, including the twenty-one Terminators.

Following the Horus Rebellion, the Legion lost access to atmospheric combat vehicles.

Lightning Attack Aircraft, Thunder Fighter, Marauder Bomber, Valkyrie Armed Transport, and Vulture Gunship (a variant of the Valkyrie Armed Transport) are the main types of atmospheric combat aircraft of the Imperial Naval Air Force, nicknamed "Head 5".

Although some industrialized worlds have other, more advanced aircraft production lines, none can compare with the Imperial Naval Air Force's No. 5 in terms of existing numbers, deployment range, or reputation.

Equipment really is a key factor in combat power.

Full of curiosity, Baby Kaz has already seen the Lightning Attack Aircraft and the Thunder Fighter, and he wants to see the other models in person.

Chapter 35 This is also part of the plan.

If you use their spear to attack their shield, which one will prevail?

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Now I understand why the squadron leader ordered the entire company to have an extra meal before carrying out a combat mission.

When three billion was just ten numbers on a data board, Katz felt nothing of the sort; it was nothing special.

When Omidas was just a pimple on the planet's face, Kaz was confident and ignored it.

Once inside, Kaz understood why the Xenomorphs who knew about the Empire called the Hive a man-eating den.

Indeed, the one who understands you best is always your enemy.

appropriate.

This made it even clearer why Astartes died from the bayonets of mortal soldiers.

Because the battle group was poor, the company was short-lived, the battle group had not accumulated enough resources and foundation.

Kaz's talent is comparable to Tyrant's, but the extent to which his talent is realized is far less than Tyrant's.

It's hard to imagine what kind of effort Tyrant put in to have the steel-like body he has today.

In that fight, Tyrant didn't use water, he used the sea.

Kaz's twenty years of cultivation were exhausted in just three days of fighting, and he began to consume the solidified fat in his body, which was like bulletproof armor plates.

Hunger followed.

Astartes can fight for a week without food or water, but this hunger can only be overcome by willpower.

Fighting, moving from place to place like a forced march, fighting again, and then continuing on the way.

This is all the work that the four Astartes have done in the past three days.

The rebels have collapsed.

The Astartes used their superhuman endurance to directly crush the fighting will of the mortal soldiers.

A three-thousand-strong astral army, surrounded by five Astartes warriors, could only hold out for ten minutes if they were considered elite among the rebels.

If it weren't for the need to conserve ammunition, the battle could have been compressed to as little as five minutes.

After all, when Astartes is sprinting at full speed while wearing power armor, it only takes four seconds to cover 100 meters without using any additional propulsion aids.

It truly is swift as the wind, literally.

Moreover, during this process, the Space Marines can move and shoot within a distance of 300 meters with 100% accuracy.

Aside from defective recruits, new recruits who successfully complete the nineteen Astartes modifications do not require routine shooting training.

The genetically enhanced body is so outrageous that even an uncalibrated explosive gun, after firing just two shots, can ensure that even a new recruit can hit a fixed target within a 400-meter radius in a windless environment.

This level of shooting ability is not a skill for Astartes, but a talent; anyone with hands can do it.

What kind of shooting training does Astartes have?

Sudden stop firing, cross-medium firing, dual cross-medium firing, unconventional posture probability hit firing, unassisted precision aiming firing in complex environments, stable fire suppression in continuous firing, and even inspiration firing.

Let's break it down one by one.

In games like CS/CF, "sudden stop shooting" is summed up in one word: "dry stop." It requires the Astartes to abruptly stop while running at a speed of at least 80 kilometers per hour, and without using magnetic boots for magnetic attachment, take a maximum of two steps to hit a target within the red zone at a distance of 200 meters.

Cross-medium shooting is easy to understand. It involves calculating the deflection of the ballistic trajectory by different media such as water, walls, and bunkers to achieve a hit. It mainly relies on mental calculation and accumulated experience.