The Astartes Family's Notebook

That's right, that old scoundrel, the Warband Leader, is the only sun in my heart, Kars.

Chapter 482 No right to speak without investigation

True hegemonic education: showing no pity for the weak, and no fear of the strong.

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After making two turns, the "Blood Duck" destroyer broke away from the formation and headed to the "designated" maintenance dock for "maintenance".

Only Astartes, who has worked away from home for many years, can truly understand the value of a local's expertise.

Back in the Pacific Starfield, Kars finally had a real opportunity to use his skills.

It's just cleaning up the mess, no need to make such a fuss. Glory and connections are useful.

Similarly, as a battlecruiser and a carrier-specialized ship, the Imperial Icon's solo voyage was a high-risk operation. So where should it find an escort fleet?

Look for the Imperial Navy.

Although the Wings of the Wasteland have been recuperating for a century, their intelligence work has not been neglected. In particular, with the dust settled on the border free trade zone, the gentry and state religion officials who stood behind the Wings of the Wasteland have seen their investments pay off. How could they possibly make things difficult for the God of Wealth over trivial matters that are not of principle?

Find a sector that hasn't experienced war in the last hundred years or so to have a polite chat with, and Katz can easily "requisition" a naval fleet of this size, consisting of two Luna-class cruisers, five frigates, and eleven destroyers.

The reformed veterans had seen this kind of overwhelming power before. Damn it, those damned imperial dogs and bigwigs!

No, the big dog is my brother Samar!

Wang Wang Wang! ! !

You won't get it for free, you won't get it for free.

The Wings of Desolation believe in doing things legitimately and openly; they would never easily leave anyone with a handle against them.

I'll just stop by the neighboring sector to quell a rebellion, and go through the motions.

With the total number of Astartes in the human empire drastically reduced, even a company of Astartes is an astonishing number.

The unrest, involving unpaid wages, tithes, and cultist riots, was originally a simple matter that could have been easily resolved by either compromise or suppression. However, the conflict was dragged into a major problem by the Sub-Star District government's infighting over wanting both sides.

More than twenty Astral Army Class A regiments and over 400,000 line-filling troops were deployed, but not a ripple was made.

It's affecting trade shipping.

So Kars came, bringing with him the 8th Company's fighters.

What the Astral Army can't resolve doesn't mean the Astartes can't.

Are we going to die?

An entire company of Astartes, parachuted into the rebel positions in airdrop pods.

Qiong En was in a state of excitement almost the entire time.

Airdrop capsule! Orbital airdrop! Awesome!

The issue of the tithe should be resolved by the Cixing District government itself.

The rebellious Astronautical Army can actually be saved.

Because unpaid wages are actually quite rare in the empire.

Don't make your Ministry of Military Affairs and Ministry of Justice laugh. The Empire lacks everything, but it has never lacked Throne Coins. If your local governor's office can't come up with a few hundred million Throne Coins, just borrow from the neighboring star system. We are the Taiping Star Region, where interstellar financial services are very developed.

Because of the huge incident involving the hundreds of millions of dollars in resettlement fees for the Star Guardians, the planetary governor himself has effectively lost his political life. Whether he can pass on his position to his descendants will depend on his background and whether he has relatives to help him.

So Katz's idea was simple: first, use overwhelming force to crush the rebels' will to resist, then use money to quell public opinion, and finally deal with the cultists.

Several hundred million Throne Coins—Katz never struggled with such a small sum during the Kaz Wars. What's wrong with this current Planet Governor?

"Lord Kaz, the rebellious Astral Army and the cultists are showing signs of joining forces. To act rashly..."

"I ask you, is it easier to identify rebels or to indiscriminately suppress them?"

It's easy to take everything in one go; it's much more troublesome to identify and screen them.

However, the Star Guard generals in charge of surface warfare dared not say such a thing.

If we could take them all down in one fell swoop, it wouldn't turn into a messy war. We don't have that kind of capability, okay?

War is a continuation of politics. No one cares what grievances the rebellious Star Guardians suffered, not even Kars. A rebellion is a rebellion, regardless of the reason.

But faced with the harsh reality, it was already a miracle that Astartes was willing to take on this mess; who would dare to say anything more?

Kaz made no attempt to hide his impatience; after saying another word, Grandpa turned and left.

As a result, upon hearing that Astartes was going to offer amnesty, the rebel Star Guardians immediately submitted.

Based on the simplistic assumption that the Ministry of Military Affairs' offer of amnesty was a ploy to lure us in and kill us, while the Astartes lords could kill us directly without needing to be tricked, then this offer of amnesty was probably genuine.

Kaz grew angrier the more he thought about it. In the Misty Starfield and the Extreme Starfield, he had desperately sought amnesty but to no avail. Upon returning to the warband, his first battle was against amnesty.

unlucky......

But the results were outstanding.

Indeed, cultists have infiltrated the ranks, attempting to use Kaz's plan to reorganize the rebels to infiltrate areas under Imperial control and create greater chaos.

However, the combat brothers of the Eighth Company need to learn from the Blood Duck faction recruits who have experienced three Terran Zerg campaigns.

When it came to selecting ordinary soldiers, these "new recruits" were all incredibly experienced.

There's no way around it; the Astartes are just that kind of creature driven by experience.

Even without Katz's guidance, Jon could rattle off the rules of discipline clearly, outlining them one by one.

At this point, Draven seemed to understand why Kaz had brought the Tech Sergeant with him.

No, you don't understand, this poor kid has violent tendencies...

Qiong En got along quite well with the technical sergeant of the Eighth Company, not because of any tacit understanding between engineering students, but because this unlucky kid Qiong En didn't care about "technical authorities" at all. When Silver Skull arranged for him to study in the Forging World, he even thought he would become a vehicle driver in the future, and had no idea what a technical sergeant actually did.

But having more skills is never a bad thing. With Qiong En by his side, the Astral Legion's oily guys are going to suffer.

Dogmatic, huh? Superficial compliance, huh? Forbid modification, huh? You're a follower of Omnisaiah, and I'll believe in Omnisaiah too.

Draven, in particular, is not as open-minded and insightful as Katz. The hardships they endured on Frankish Third Company are not something the new recruits of the Eighth Company can escape.

To put it simply, the Leman Rustank is a skill that no Astartes in the Eighth Company can't master.

The fact that the Astral Army's infantry-tank coordination is a complete mess doesn't mean the Astartes can't do it.

The Eighth Company of the Wasteland Wings can even be considered one of the few frontal assault companies among the loyalist factions of the Empire.

Decapitation strikes are a last resort; if you can just run someone over head-on with treadmills, why bother with that?

Can power armor provide protection as strong as the armor plates of a main battle tank?

A radical revision of the strategic plan made this level of warfare a piece of cake for Astartes.

In a sense, Katz was just playing around.

According to normal procedure, Kars led the team to the hive controlled by the cultists and beheaded the leader. The rest could be left to the Astral Army, and the Eighth Company could leave immediately.

However, the company needed time to gel, and the Astartes were eager for war, so the Karz gave his brothers a war.

Without even resorting to orbital bombardment, Katz simply used the resources at hand to wage a flawless campaign to quell the rebellion.

"As expected of Astartes, the commander of the Wasteland Wings Chapter, he lives up to his reputation."

If you had spent less time scheming and plotting and focused your energy on pure military matters, the war wouldn't have been so difficult.

Kaz knew that once he left, those rebels would most likely end up being sent to the training grounds to receive their rewards without armor, so he directly brought the matter up.

“I have to go fight in other places. It won’t look good for your reputation if you kill these people. If you pool your money and make some travel expenses, I’ll take them with me. It will look good for yourselves.”

The Star Guardian officers who came to quell the rebellion discussed it and realized that this seemed to be the case.

Let's put together a few.

Then, Kaz led his 100,000 fully equipped Astral Army soldiers away.

No one is truly a fool. The rebellious Star Guardians also knew that their fate wouldn't be good. If they could exchange this method for a decent future for their families, that was enough.

As the fleet continued its advance towards the world of Sabat, Kaz constantly gathered the latest intelligence, and he was genuinely not optimistic about the current state of the Empire.

The situation in the Sabat world has remained neither good nor bad for thousands of years. The empire has gotten used to it, and even the Pacific Starfield hasn't noticed anything amiss.

In terms of territory alone, it's only a third of a star sector.

The problem is that the Sabat world is right next to the Rust Belt.

The Rust Belt is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Storm Starfield. Don't the officials in Baka know that revitalizing the Rust Belt is of great significance to the Storm Starfield?

I can't do it.

We must instill a geographical concept in these time-traveling gentlemen who are exploring new territories on the map.

The Solar Star Region is the absolute political, economic, military, and geographical center of the human empire, but on the empire's geomantic map, it is located to the left of the center of the Milky Way.

Although the Galactic Heart region was assigned to the Limit Starfield in terms of administrative planning, it is essentially the same as the Limit Starfield being the largest of the Empire's "six" major starfields after the removal of the Galactic Heart region.

Apart from the Pacific Sector, the other sectors of the Empire share long borders with the Galactic Center.

The Rust Belt is located precisely on the border between the Storm Starfield and the Galactic Center.

At the height of the empire's power, the two-digit number of casting worlds and the three-digit number of supporting industrial worlds in the Rust Belt constituted the most powerful frontline industrial base for humanity's exploration of the center of the Milky Way.

However, after the empire declined, it took ten thousand years to repair the rust belt damaged during the Great Rebellion alone.

Hey bro, stop touching me. Either sing or fight. What else can you do besides smear my saliva on me?

The oil makers in the Rust Belt aren't actually opposed to serving the Empire, but the Empire simply doesn't have the resources to revitalize the old industrial base and make the Rust Belt great again.

Why does Desolation Wings know so much?

"Because the oil vendors in the Rust Belt really will sell anything."

"Draven, explain in detail."

"Do you still remember when the Fifth Company Commander went on official business to the Misty Starfield?"

"Where did Big D go?"

"They took the route of the Dark Raven Guards and went to Ash Claws to discuss buying a ship."

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Lord Saladin, are you really going to take such a risky approach? Ash Claws is a slide that we in Astartes can't touch.

Ash Claws is no secret to the veteran Astartes Chapter, because this chapter... its legion is too large.

From the Imperial Navy Headquarters to the Inquisition and then to Sepmundi, all the Imperial powers that were qualified to know of its existence were well aware that the Ash Claws, with a conservative estimate of four to eight thousand people, were the mountain kings of the northern part of the Misty Starfield.

Although these Terran veterans, who were separated from the Nineteenth Legion by King Corax, were effectively independent warlords, it is interesting that their independence was legally justified.

Similar to the Eternal Crusade of the Black Orcs, Korax used the "Crusader" strategy when "exiling" Ash Claws.

As long as the Ash Claws do not publicly declare that the expedition mission entrusted to them by the Father of Genesis has ended, then even if the Ash Claws have 500,000 Astartes, the Empire has no excuse to interfere.

By neither plundering the empire nor openly rebelling, it effectively built a northern barrier for Sepmundi.

Where else can you find a second warlord of this caliber?

So, as a loyalist faction, everyone should just pretend nothing happened.

However, the Dark Raven Guard, as the mother group of the Raven King lineage, has never forgotten its poor relatives in the north.

The Misty Starfield is not a habitable place, and the Ash Claws are not living a prosperous life.

Although Ash Claws disliked Raven Guards, Raven Guards would introduce business to their relatives whenever they had the chance.

What kind of business?

Ship!

The Raven King effectively banished these Terran legion descendants, but he did not mistreat them.

Ash Claws possessed thousands of major warships from the Great Crusade, but most were in a state of scrapping and mothballing due to their inability to maintain them.

Furthermore, the Ash Claws, the mountain kings of the north, still retain the habits from the Legion era; they even have their own shipyard.

If they don't accept orders from the Empire, are they going to build ships for the Xenomorphs and Chaos?

Stop joking. The Ash Claws are only against Holy Terra, not against the Human Empire.

However, the problems remain significant, or rather, the obstacles are substantial.