The Astartes Family's Notebook

"What country?"

"The human empire."

Which empire?

The first resupply planet that Katz arrived on was a wild world called Sepmundi, which had not collected tithes for six hundred years.

Katz wasn't sure if it was an oversight by the Star District government or if some past merit in this world had earned him a tax exemption.

No matter what kind of trivial matter it is, it has a sense of being taken for granted in the human empire, and such things are not worth making a fuss about.

But the Astartes dared to refuse the governor's office's request for supplies; they must be tired of living.

Kaz didn't want to cause trouble, but replenishing the crew was a serious matter, and he couldn't let it go.

The Ishimura was, after all, a standard Imperial destroyer. Although the mid-deck had been taken over by warp evil, the basic maintenance and upkeep of the ship still required human intervention on the lower decks.

The captain was constantly communicating with the boatswains and opinion leaders on the lower decks. Although the Imperial warriors on the lower decks were plotting an "uprising," Lord Kaz's food was truly delicious.

Let's get to work first; we can't just starve to death.

A bizarre and fantastical shipboard ecosystem: crew members, sailors, the extra-space security squadron, the bridge crew, Astartes, and Ark Eldar passengers—each doing their own thing on the magical Stone Village, together forming this fragmented home.

As a result, when Kaz was ready to teach the planetary authorities a lesson, he discovered that apart from the hundreds of demon hosts, he couldn't even muster a decent number of armed sailors to put on a show.

This is quite awkward.

Especially since this planet hasn't built an orbital elevator tower yet, and doesn't even have Thunderhawk gunships, Kaz, who can only make do with the Averus, can't even figure out how to deliver ground attack forces.

How do those Chaos Warbands that come to the real universe to plunder solve this problem?

Kaz suddenly regretted it. Back in the days of the Stick of Truth, in order to maintain his aloof persona, he never talked about such mundane matters with the other Chaos Cans.

Ah, insight into the ways of the world is knowledge, and mastery of human relationships is literature; you only realize how little you know when you need to use it, and your pants will feel tight when you desperately need to pee.

Since that's the case, let's use Astartes' traditional trick and pretend to be Tang to fool them for now.

Since the Governor's Office knew nothing about Astartes' combat capabilities, Kars decided to play the fool and admit defeat for now.

Hey, I'm here for free trade. Take a look and see if there's anything you want. My Shicun ship has plenty of good stuff.

Warp evil spirits are untrustworthy, and Kaz isn't sure if the demon hosts have used any tricks on the treasures he's confiscated. He doesn't want to risk spreading things corrupted by Chaos to the innocent Empire world because of him, which would be a sin.

Therefore, the ship full of supplies, especially the high-value and valuable supplies, was purely for show; Katz had no intention of distributing them.

However, the wealthy local tycoons who came to inspect the goods were tempted by greed.

Such a huge ship, so many wonderful things, such immense wealth...

Hehe, the Celestial Venerable couldn't resist any longer.

Ah, so this ship is the famous Ishimura!

Such precious resources should belong to the virtuous. Brothers, let's kill someone and seize the ship!

The methods and power of the destructive force are beyond the comprehension of mortals, and reversing cause and effect is merely a matter of lifting a finger for the Celestial Venerable.

It was clearly Kars who caused all this trouble after emerging from the Eye of Fear, but with the help of the Lord of Change, the Ishimura inexplicably became a folk legend in the Misty Starfield "since ancient times".

It's made to look like the One Piece.

In this way, the crew issue was also resolved.

The warp spirits had another feast.

Katz led his gang to the governor's mansion's treasury and ransacked it, but ultimately did not kill anyone.

Making a quick buck is a small matter, but killing the governor and the bureaucratic management could plunge the entire planet into anarchic turmoil and a humanitarian catastrophe, which would be terrible.

Even the worst order is better than no order at all.

As a result, the veteran crew members on the lower decks were satisfied, and the unfortunate newcomers perfectly satisfied their sense of superiority.

Arriving cautiously and leaving inexplicably, Kaz failed to find the Imperial Charter fleet and the wandering merchant ronin he sought, but the Ishimura's reputation spread throughout the Misty Starfield.

It was a mysterious warship that could amass wealth on its own; it was said that whoever found it would gain unimaginable riches.

Do you think this rumor is true?

hiss......

It seems to be true. Katz has amassed quite a lot of high-value assets over the two matches.

As for where the rumors came from, and who told them...

Hehe, just tell me if the rumors are true or not.

He was planning to sneak into the village, avoiding any gunfire, and secretly contact Deathwatch to have the mother group send someone to pick him up.

Why did it inexplicably start speeding down an unforeseen path again?

Kars isn't interested in becoming the Pirate King.

However, the Celestial Venerable is magnanimous and does not hold a grudge against little Kaz for being ungrateful.

Prophecy is not omnipotent; fate has its own weight. If the pursuers of the Usvi Ark want to accurately predict Katz's route, they must perform divination under the increasingly heavy karmic retribution of the Ishimura, which greatly reduces both accuracy and timeliness.

No, we won't have enough manpower after splitting up the troops. We need to find reinforcements and bring in cannon fodder.

Or, we could try contacting some suckers in Comoros.

In the second year after Katz set sail, the local Death Watch investigation team finally arrived at the starport that had been raided by the Adarin to conduct an on-site investigation.

The Adaling tribe, these bean sprouts, pull off something big every now and then; Deathwatch is used to it.

The smoke of battle has cleared, and the starport is being rebuilt. The Deathwatch squad learned that not only were Eldar raiders involved in the riots, but also that numerous traces of Chaos Astartes had been discovered.

So, the cat hissed.

Fallen angels, it is the aura of fallen angels.

Hiss, hiss, this must be reported! They must be made to repent!

Kars didn't realize that in the Warhammer universe, what good is being in a band and being able to fight?

In this world, you need both ability and connections.

The dragon returns to the sea, and the mountain does not need to attract people; the Death Watcher, whom he has been longing for, is plotting a large-scale operation to wipe out the fallen angels after infiltrating Black Heart Cat and giving him information.

Chapter 437 Malan Blossoms Twenty-One

Those born to be good may simply be struggling to overcome the evil thoughts in their hearts.

Everyone calls me a war hero, but I'm just a soldier who doesn't want to die.

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Staying at home is wonderful, but going out is difficult.

Once the local bullies of the Taiping Starfield leave their territory, they can only cower.

Although the Pacific Starfield officially pays tithes to the Starfield Government for over 100,000 Imperial Worlds, the Wasteland Wings Chapter could not possibly visit them all, even after thousands of years of dedicated work.

However, the sages of the sect have indeed traversed all the important core worlds and node planets.

Katz is a true beneficiary of this intangible cultural heritage and this valuable transmission of experience.

If they were to get lost in the Pacific Starfield, a casual stroll would allow Commander Ka to determine where to go next and what to do if he wanted to contact the organization.

Being a local tyrant isn't just about lording it over others; being a local isn't easy. The gang has set up thousands of gathering points throughout the Taiping Starfield, and the company commanders and adjutants need to know this long list by heart.

Not to mention those black shops and enclaves not on the Imperial Star Map. When Katz was working on the border development zone project, the warband leader Saladin sent envoys several times to deliver messages, asking the "honest and upright" Eighth Company Commander to give certain gang members special favors.

Don't think that the Astartes Chapter is being disrespectful by doing this; all the veteran chapters do it, they just keep quiet about it without saying a word.

Holy Terra is full of scoundrels, and most of the people in Hydrafur are scoundrels. If your sect doesn't cultivate some reliable people of its own, who will speak up for you when trouble comes your way?

As the old saying goes, a regional military governor should act like one. If you can't even unite your subordinates, how can you expect to protect the empire? Stop with your self-pity.

Therefore, Kars kept a very low profile in the unfamiliar and hazy star field.

The Taiping Starfield is just full of gods, but the Menglong Starfield is even more numerous and divine. Even a seasoned and knowledgeable old paperhanger like Ka Zhongtang is finding it hard to keep up.

Because the real-world shipping routes in the hazy star field are very underdeveloped, it can be basically understood that subspace shipping routes are like rail transport, while real-world shipping routes are like road transport, only solving the problem of the last few kilometers.

Therefore, the various sub-stellar regions of the Hazy Starfield are basically in a state of self-contained self-contained territory.

There are countless empires that have not been in contact with the outside world for hundreds of years.

Ah, tithes? Don't they rebel against that?

In the Pacific Sector, tithes are generally paid once every hundred years. Important industrial worlds may have to pay once every fifty years, while in the wild worlds, even if it's just a symbolic tax, as long as the travel expenses aren't too outrageous, Hidrafar still requires the governments of each sector/subsector to make their presence felt.

The first step to effective rule is to let the ruled know who the master is who is robbing them, and which way the master's castle gates face.

Kaz, who was used to the way things were done in the Pacific Starfield, really looked down on these bureaucrats in the Misty Starfield.

That's too rough. Compared to Sidraf, Sepmundi is far too sloppy in his work.

No wonder Seppmundi is pulling in with Sidrafo to develop the border zone; he's being forced into it.

Subspace storms on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; cosmic ray bursts on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays; civil servants have a day off on Sundays...

We're always dealing with problems like the wind and rain when we ask you to collect a tithe. With this kind of logistics environment, how do you expect to build a good Hazy Starfield?

You're going to eat shit.

The Imperial Navy's patrol fleet encountered no enemy along the way, while Katz ruthlessly slaughtered dozens of waves of various space pirates.

That's absolutely outrageous!

It turns out there are so many alien races within the empire's borders.

Didn't they say that the empire had already wiped out the enemy during the Great Expedition?

"Hey, Boss, don't be angry. During the Great Crusade, our Astartes Legion only wiped out the alien races that were capable of resisting. The galaxy is so vast, how could we possibly kill them all? Maybe some aliens only took a few thousand years to go from the Stone Age to the level of interstellar exploration."

Troys, are you a prophet too?

Titanium is amazing!

With the help of the Celestial Venerable, the legend of the Ishimura spread rapidly. Just like that famous case of survivorship bias, counting the bullet holes on the returning fighter planes, the pirate groups in the Misty Starfield would not think there was anything wrong with encountering the legendary ship Ishimura. It was their own unique luck.

Qiong En has already started complaining that the battle is boring.

This young man is really talented. I don't know what the commanders and company commanders of the Silver Skull were thinking. He's a great young man, with the potential to be an elite sergeant. He might even be able to reach the threshold of the company champion. Why did they send him to study as a technical sergeant?

Kaz is an old teacher, and the three fallen angels are just bored. The four black-armored seniors are training a newbie like him. How fortunate they are!

Even Ysera, when she was bored, would spar with Kaz and the others. Qiong En, who was so young but already quite old, had his eyes opened on the Stone Village.

The gang leader is really fierce.

The warriors of the Aidaling tribe are truly powerful.

In fact, Qiong En's cognitive bias is quite outrageous.

The Eldar of the Ark are indeed hero units, but the difference between different Eldar can sometimes be greater than the difference between an Astartes and a Primarch.

The prestige of Atansar's Ark is such that those who don't know it haven't even heard of it, but those who do know it are certain that the Eldar's Ark blocked the Eye of Terror, and who dares to disagree?

Ysera was tricked out by Atansar's prophet, only wanting to leave the last spark for the Ark world.

This kind of chosen one is not someone an ordinary Astartes could easily fool.

Only someone like Kars, who is not a normal human, could put up a fight.

Trois had already tried it; on a real battlefield, if his brothers in arms were to assist him, he could think of several ways to trade his life for this female spirit's.

However, in a direct confrontation, he was no match for Ysera.

The difference in the attribute panels is too great.

On the contrary, it was Khaz, a chosen brute who made up for some of his technical shortcomings through hard work, who fought the Eldar of Atanza to a standstill.

That's the feeling, that's the feeling! This stinging sensation even through the power armor skin—the battle is exhilarating!

When sparring with Troys, Katz held back. They were both Astartes, so there was no need to go all out on them the moment they met.

But when sparring with the Adalin, well, swords have no eyes, and it's only natural for training accidents to happen, right?

In other words, these bean sprouts weren't up to any good either, otherwise the fragile peace between humans and bean sprouts would have been destroyed long ago.

Ysera could have disembarked much earlier. There were virgin worlds of the Eldar nearby, and other Ark worlds would naturally spawn randomly where the Eldar were. It would be much easier for her to contact her fellow Eldar than for Kars to contact the Mother Group.

However, they haven't figured out what the familiar aura they sensed from Kars is all about, so Atansar's warrior remains aboard the Ishimura and has no plans to leave for the time being.