The Astartes Family's Notebook

However, the accident still happened.

"what's the situation?"

Despite not encountering any interference during its subspace travel, the Nameless Ship did not actually emerge from the Mandeville point of the star system; instead, it was in the void.

Fortunately, after comparing the surrounding stars, it was found that the deviation was only about half a light-year.

"Forget it, there's no need to delve into it. That's how subspace travel works; accidents of this magnitude are considered benign."

What a benign accident! Obi-Wan Kenobi, you really know how to talk.

"Lord Kaz, Lord Obi-Wan, the ship has detected a weak distress signal."

The ship captain's sudden interruption gave Kaz a jolt of energy.

This must be a trap set by the forces of chaos!

"All personnel, don your armor and prepare for battle."

Chapter 495 Swift Rescue

Kaz had also considered the differences between warbands and war clubs.

Core values?

Organizational structure?

It's preschool education!

Wait a minute, wait a minute, didn't we agree to be in the tactical group forever and never graduate? What happened to Ikkyu-ni!

Someone, insert the standard grade II steel bar into the quick-drying cement in preparation for the land reclamation operation.

Although our loyalist Astartes truly advocates a lifelong learning community college where you never graduate, this preschool education is in a broad sense, specifically referring to the personality development during the period before one's values ​​are formed.

This is precisely what the Chaos Warband, especially the new generation of Chaos Astartes born from the original family environment of the Eye of Fear, is most lacking.

Hehe, the Empire wins ten thousand victories, Chaos loses ten thousand defeats, the first victory is won at the starting line...

Astartes are all giant babies, all of them are, don't question it.

They must be forced to take away their thinking time with rigorous training and their divergent thinking must be restrained with ascetic management. Only in the long run can they become loyal fanatics.

So, is it necessarily true that it has always been correct since ancient times?

Hard to say.

A truly righteous empire wouldn't have so many traitors.

This kind of critical thinking is very common in the Chaos Warband, especially in the more complex Chaos Warband.

During that period, the Kaz Chaos Gang listened to quite a few debates like this. Although they mostly ended with a meeting in an octagonal cage, Kaz, a transmigrator who seemed to be an old popsicle from Ancient Terra, was very glad that he had read Zhuangzi.

Otherwise, it's really easy to get caught up in it.

When I first read Zhuangzi, I was amazed by the magnificent and romantic "Free and Easy Wandering". Then I raised the banner of liberalism to show my personal will, which showed a great ambition of being the only one in the world.

Then they were brutally beaten down by the exam-oriented education system.

Please analyze what emotions the author conveyed through the eerie light in the eyes of the Kunkun when it transformed into a Peng.

Stop kidding me. How could such a grand topic be fully expressed in less than a year? But there's only so much time in the exam. I'm going to analyze your nonsense.

If you're so capable, why don't you let Zhuangzi solve the problem himself?

However, if you haven't fully understood the book, don't blame the ancients for their witty remarks. What Zhuangzi truly wanted to express, fearing that later generations wouldn't understand, was already condensed in the chapter "Autumn Floods" of the Zhuangzi.

Zi Feiyu, know the joy of fish?

You are not me, how can you know that I do not know the joy of fish?

Upon first reading, the character "杠" (gang) was considered a celestial being.

However, after turning forty, I was once trapped by rules and regulations, feeling so wronged that I wanted to cry but couldn't. Suddenly, I realized that Zhuangzi had told everyone thousands of years ago that logic has its limits.

If Holy Terra is indeed the ancient Earth, then the Iron Rebellion was destined to happen.

Why?

Because logic is a deductive tool, and definition is the basic premise of logical deduction, but reality often does not follow logic.

Especially when dealing with abstract areas like aesthetics and emotions that cannot be precisely defined, the boundaries of logic cannot cover all the facts.

Similarly, mathematics is a tool discipline, and even though the human empire has reached its forty-first millennium, the foundation of the mathematical edifice is still shaky.

That can't be right. Didn't humanity in the Golden Age already possess mathematical weapons?

Then explain subspace, you invincible math genius.

Logically speaking, Huizi's statement was clearly more logical, and Zhuangzi was just being argumentative. However, Zhuangzi precisely used his own logic to refute Huizi's logic, telling others that logic is defined and has boundaries.

As for what lies beyond the boundary, figure that out for yourself.

The Emperor's power is truly amazing. Kars's complex thinking only took 618 microseconds of real time. He truly deserves to be a master in the field of life alchemy.

Aboard the Thunderhawk gunboat, the pilot carefully led the Astartes closer to the Imperial standard frigate that was constantly sending out faint distress signals.

The signal was too weak. If it weren't for this inexplicable, benign warp travel accident that the Obi-Wan brothers mentioned, it might not have been discovered by anyone even a thousand years later.

The human empire values ​​size above all else; big means good, big means strong. In other movies and TV shows, the Imperial Navy's destroyers would be the real main battleships, the kind that get close-ups from multiple cameras during the final battle.

However, once a frigate completely loses power and gradually cools down, causing its infrared signature to become blurred, what difference is there between a multi-million-ton iron lump and a meteorite? The Infernal Galaxy has never lacked such things.

The frigate's electrical system has been completely paralyzed, and even the core plasma furnace has lost all heat.

Based on this alone, it can be concluded that the shipwreck occurred at least two hundred years ago.

Hmm, is this something from the War of the Successors?

Never mind, it's not important. Katz stopped associating with the topic and simply refocused his attention on the exploration itself.

The Astartes are very similar to the Witcher. Their superhuman senses give them extraordinary logical reasoning abilities. From those subtle clues, the Astartes, including Kars, can easily deduce a lot of useful information.

However, piecing together this information did not yield a complete story.

Something feels off.

Not in line with common sense.

When Saladin led the expedition, he took into full consideration the skill composition of the members. In order to ensure the health of the twenty-one battle-hardened Palicoes, Kaz and his companions brought along a trainee apothecary.

So here's the question: what about the technical sergeant?

Hahahaha, when the sky falls, the tall ones are the first to be crushed, and Kaz is that tall one.

With a miserable expression, Katz was dismantling the control panel wiring on the bridge when he realized with despair that without disconnecting the unnecessary circuits, the power of that small power bank was simply not enough to power the ship's huge and redundant systems.

Back in the Fourth Company, the veterans would have told Katz to get lost and go away, not to get in the way. Unfortunately for Katz, he was the only Astartes in this expedition who had passed the electrician's exam.

They were all veterans over 100 years old, and they had already begun to understand human relationships. They also knew that the Eighth Company Commander had a bad temper when he was working hard, so after leaving one of them to guard him, the others chose to go out and "relax".

"Lord Kaz, why don't you have the maintenance crew send someone over?"

"I'm almost done, what were you doing all this time?"

Sigh, making conversation for no reason, serves him right.

"Lord Kars, there has been an important discovery. Lord Obi-Wan requests your presence."

Even after the exploration team made a discovery, Katz still hadn't managed to restart the data link to the frigate's command throne.

Kaz stood up, looked around, left the scattered parts and power bank where they were, and gestured to his three brothers to leave together, as there was no need to leave anyone to guard this place.

While the Empire's standard warships may undergo minor structural adjustments during subsequent upgrades and repairs, their overall structure remains largely the same. The Desolation Wings are an old Russian ship; the chapter has handled hundreds of frigates over the years. With a little reverse thinking, they discovered the so-called "non-existent compartments" that had been disguised.

"This is......"

Good heavens, there were more than twenty power armors lying neatly on the ground.

Oh no, I mean the old Astartes.

"Judging from the paint job, it's the Brass Skull Battle Group."

Yes, blue background with gold frame, skull emblem, it looks like a brass skull, but these Astartes don't completely follow the Astartes Codex, and it's impossible to tell from the details how many sets they are.

The Empire's XX Skull chapter alone has three chapters like that, and each one is quite bizarre. The Silver Skull, the former employer of that unfortunate kid Choun, is relatively normal in terms of style.

There's also the Steel Skull Chapter. Just from the name, it doesn't seem like much. At most, you might suspect it's related to the Mechanicus. But the chapter's emblem makes you wonder if they're just Enstadts in power armor. It's too green-skinned, but it's barely acceptable.

The Brass Skull Group, wow, the famous Brass Skull Group, brass and skull, must be a fanatic's hobby.

In fact, when many Chaos Astartes in the Eye of Fear first heard about the Brass Skull Chapter, their first reaction was that the World Eater Legion was splitting up again.

However, Kaz had just come from the world of Sabart, and his intelligence database had been updated. He knew that the only things that accompanied Saint Sabart throughout the entire expedition were the white scars and their brass skulls.

While waiting for the apothecary to check on his condition, Kaz chatted with his other combat buddies for a while, explaining what he knew about the Brass Skull Chapter's past.

Fun fact: In the production field, the so-called "three no's principle" means not to harm yourself, not to harm others, and not to be harmed by others.

The ironclad rule on the battlefield, "Don't touch the remains of fallen Astartes," is a concrete manifestation of the three no's principle.

The Astartes are all ruthless characters. What if they have mines hidden in their crotches? What if the Chaos traitors have set up booby traps on corpses? What if the old man is still alive?

After all, of the twenty-two power armors, fourteen had obvious combat damage, and the other eight looked relatively intact.

When the second Thunderhawk gunboat brought the pharmacist aboard, he was examined using specialized equipment.

"Lord Kars, Lord Obi-Wan, this person's meninges are still functioning normally, and there are faint signs of life."

There really are survivors!

That's a good thing, at least Katz and the others don't have to go through the trouble of reconstructing the crime scene.

"The four of you take him back for initial treatment to see if he can be awakened normally."

"Yes, sir." X4

Suan meninges, a magnificent yet utterly useless imperial masterpiece.

This superhuman organ may have other functions, but its main purpose is to save Astartes' life under extreme conditions.

Privately, everyone is speculating that the Imperial Fist's aggressive tactics are likely due to Suan's meningeal failure.

How should I put it? As the Grand General of Terra, the Imperial Fist holds a political position above all the Astartes Chapters of the Empire.

Standing in the center of the stage means being under the spotlight and inevitably being scrutinized by others.

Suan's meninges and salivary glands were malfunctioning among the nineteen superhuman organs in the Fist of the Empire. This was something that the Astartes Chapter, with even a little bit of influence, knew. The descendants of Dorne never kept it a secret.

But we still have to save face.

What organs fail? This was the arrangement made by the great Roger Dorn.

The Great Primarch believed that the Astartes of the Imperial Fist would not be captured by the rebels. Therefore, removing the salivary glands that secrete strong acid and the Suan meninges used to save lives when severely injured and unconscious, two genetic modification procedures, could shorten the recruit modification time by 37% and increase the success rate of modification by 17%.

This is proof of Imperial Fist's loyalty.

loyalty!

Ah yes, yes, yes, you Imperial Fist are the Grand Stewards of Terra, you are the security captains of the Throne World, whatever you say is right.

What does this mean? It means that the Brass Skull Chapter is definitely not the offspring of Dorne.

Well, at least not in terms of bloodline. If the Astartes with the brass skull insists that he is Karz, the son of Roger Dorne, all we can do is silently offer our blessings.

After all, our Desolation Wings even claims to be Robert Guilliman's child.

The older you get, the longer you live, and the more strange and unusual things you see and know.

"The Empire at present... let's not even talk about the Empire anymore. As far as I know, the longest period of time that someone has successfully awakened from a state of suspended animation is 587 years."

Obi-Wan Kenobi recalled.

"Ah, successfully awakened?"

This really touched on a blind spot in Kass's knowledge. Does it mean there are still unsuccessful attempts?

"The theoretical entropy increase limit of Suan's meninges should be 639 years. After all, this thing can only put us Astartes into a state of suspended animation with extremely low metabolism. In essence, it still consumes the body's nutrients. If you are in good condition, you might be able to wake up from a short period of suspended animation by shaking you hard. However, if you are seriously injured before the suspended animation or have been in a state of deep suspended animation for a long time, you must be awakened externally by a pharmacist. You cannot wake up on your own."

"As expected of the Obi-Wan brothers, they are very knowledgeable."

"During the expedition with the White Scars, the Third Company had more than twenty brothers who faked their deaths. It was impossible not to know about it."

Don't ask what you shouldn't ask. The chapter leader chose to keep the specific information about that expedition sealed away, and Kaz didn't have such a strong curiosity, so he didn't deliberately look it up.

But one can probably guess that if someone is wary of even their own company commander, they're probably involved in something shady.