The Astartes Family's Notebook

If the first-priority recipient does not survive the most dangerous first-stage remodeling surgery, namely steps one through four, then these implants can theoretically be removed and reused.

Because apart from the second heart, the other three enhancers are very small in size and are mainly responsible for secreting the magical chemical substances carefully formulated by the Emperor, which can accelerate the growth of a ten-year-old child into a strong Astartes man.

Without a strong body, one naturally cannot withstand the long, continuous, and invasive reconstructive surgery that can last for several years.

Therefore, the high-risk stages for surgical failure are precisely the first to fourth steps.

If a rejection reaction occurs, the new blood still has a chance to survive before the fifth step. At worst, they can be sent to be scouts, or their implanted organs can be removed and they can be trained as enhanced humans, which can be considered as making use of waste.

However, starting from the fifth step, there was no turning back. With the implantation of the Lariman organ, Astartes began to go further and further down the path of inhumanity.

Furthermore, the order in which the superhuman organs are implanted through the nineteen gene surgeries cannot be changed. Each subsequent implant strengthens and solidifies the previous implants.

For example, the Lariman organ, a golf ball-sized contraption, seems to only enhance the Astartes' blood clotting ability, but in fact it is the core coordinator of the muscle, bone, and blood enhancers.

From this point onward, there is no longer any talk of disassembling the parts.

In other words, if you survive the initial foundation-building period and have already reached the size of an adult Astartes, but then an implant causes a rejection reaction, the chapter will not stop fighting.

The surgery will only continue. As for the rejection reaction, we'll just have to tough it out with our faith in the emperor. If we can't withstand it, then we're being disloyal.

If you are dead, may your soul return to the golden throne.

So now that this explanation is finished, readers who still have questions probably understand why the Astartes have become increasingly strict in selecting new blood since the Great Rebellion.

On the one hand, it's a technological regression; on the other hand, it's an inevitable choice given the current reality.

As long as you get through the most dangerous stages one through four, the probability of developing specific rejection reactions later on is actually relatively low.

Even so, there are still some unlucky souls who, despite completing all eighteen surgeries, develop a rejection reaction to the black carapace.

Therefore, the success rate of the surgery is a probability for the patient, not for the genetic seed.

The greatest danger in the transformation process lies in the first to fourth steps, which may force a child who hasn't even reached puberty to mature into a California Arnold or a Changshu Arnold.

The heart can be transplanted, and the three enhancers can be transplanted. The first candidate failed, but there are others in the queue.

Therefore, a 50% success rate does not mean that only 50 Astartes can be created from 100 gene seeds, but rather that only 50 out of 100 new blood can be successfully transformed into Astartes.

Of course, there is a risk of gene seed loss during the modification process, but the probability is very small and it is within a controllable range.

Therefore, some readers who questioned the success of the forty new recruits in the Fourth Company on their first attempt might wonder if it's possible that the Fourth Company was formed from hundreds of new recruits, resulting in forty new recruits surviving.

After all, GW lacks common sense, and GW's writers are unlikely to be medical doctors.

If we really assume that one genetic seed corresponds to one recruit, and considering the ones provided by GW itself, the success rate of Imperial surgeries is generally between 30% and 40%. There's no need for Chaos to intervene; the Space Marines would have been wiped out long ago.

After all, the Astartes' gene seed grows linearly, with only one individual multiplying in each generation. While this is cool, anyone who can pass middle school math can figure it out. If we calculate the loss of gene seeds based on a 40% success rate, the Astartes would probably have already become an endangered species by the M32 era.

Warhammer Musings (Part Six)

This kind of topic is something we should talk about after the book is finished, but let's discuss it now.

Why use this writing style to write this book?

To make it easy for beginners to understand.

It's nothing to be proud of. My last book, Warcraft, took ten years to write on and off, and only amounted to a little over 1,200 chapters in total, which is about 120 chapters a year, or 10 chapters a month...

Is it that you don't want to write?

Yes or No.

It doesn't make money.

At that time, Wu Neng had only been out of the army for two years, and the feeling of being out of touch with society was particularly severe. Before enlisting, everyone was using Nokia phones, but after serving, everyone was using smartphones.

I was completely dazed.

Not knowing what to do, and not wanting to work for the People's Armed Forces Department, I thought I'd just write a novel.

So he wrote the book "Abnormal".

At the time, the results were quite good; the first month's bestsellers sold over 10,000 units in the first month.

But how many coins?

Less than eight thousand.

So later, unable to find a job, he went out and followed his friends to start a business and make money.

Driven solely by my love for words and a simple sense of responsibility towards my readers, I have been writing on and off for ten years.

After all, we are taught from a young age to finish what we start.

Then, I asked the people in the book club what new books they wanted to read.

A bunch of people are supporting you; we'll read whatever you write.

Well, asking is the same as not asking, and telling is the same as not telling.

So Wuneng stopped using group chats and started using private chats instead.

Then I discovered that Warhammer was a good subject, which led to this book.

In fact, at the very beginning, many of the readers who collected and subscribed to the book were not fans of the original work, but simply people they had built up from their previous work on Warcraft.

They had only heard of Warhammer, but never actually seen it.

So the idea of ​​incompetence is also very simple: make them understand as well.

But reality is also harsh: most people who are willing to read Warhammer fanfiction are Warhammer fans, and they can't stand it if you're too "educational".

So around chapter 150, the style of this book was roughly finalized, and it became what it is now.

It can't compare to those Warhammer fanfiction works that have achieved better results than mine. I knew this would be the outcome from the very beginning of the book; I had expected it.

What is fan fiction? It's about filling in the gaps in the "history" and creating a happy and fulfilling future for everyone.

The author suffered a decrease in subscriptions precisely because of the strong emphasis on the "hammer" theme, but it doesn't matter, consider it an atonement.

Many of the readers who supported me when I wrote Warcraft were junior high or high school students, and now they are all fathers. Ten years—how many decades does one have in a lifetime?

These situations are all within my expectations. This book will be included in the premium category in a few months, so there shouldn't be any major problems.

I'm not saying this just to be sentimental or to whine without reason, but to let everyone know that my incompetence is also a consequence of getting into this mess early.

I got into Warhammer in 2002. Back then, information was incredibly hard to find, and we relied entirely on the passionate efforts of the translation experts.

GW is also a master at pretending to be stupid, contradicting the original text, and ruining the established settings.

No, FUXK said that.

The most controversial issue recently is the question of the battle group commander and company commander of the Space Wolves.

One reader directly posted LEX's original text, and Wu Neng was stunned after reading it. It was different from what he remembered, so he went to ask the experts at the translation institute.

Then the expert was also stunned and said he would look into it.

Then, they gave me an explanation.

It's still a translation issue.

Based on the original text, there is no problem that Great Wolf was a chapter commander and Wolf Lord was a company commander.

The problem lies with Ruth's Wolf King.

The King of Wolves, the undisputed master of the Space Wolves Legion.

After Ruth left, or rather after the Primarchs left, the Legion era ended and the Space Marines entered the Chapter era. At this time, how to translate the terminology accurately and fluently became a problem.

Translating Wolf Lord as "Lord of the Wolves" is definitely correct, and shortening it to "Lord of the Wolves" is also fine.

However, problems arise in the Chinese context.

Wolf Lord, Wolf Lord, who is the true master of this legion, you or me? Ruth is the real master.

Therefore, it is correct that Great Wolf was originally translated as "Great Wolf Lord" or "Head Wolf".

However, when placed alongside the company commander Wolf Lord in the Chinese context, problems arise.

Stripped of official Warhammer lore, in the context of Chinese culture, who is more powerful: the Alpha Wolf or the Wolf Lord?

One is a wolf, the other is a man...

That's a real expert; they managed to explain this so clearly. Kudos to the translation team.

But the expert also said that the focus should be on LEX.

Therefore, I am unable to admit my mistake; regarding the issue of address, it was I who got it wrong.

However, the title is wrong, but the facts are correct: Logan Grinham was not yet Great Wolf when the Month of Shame occurred.

Another point of contention, regarding the size of the Mountain Array, is something Wu Neng really has to say.

GW is a bunch of academic failures who can't even memorize the multiplication table, don't blame me for this.

For a long time, official data listed the Mountain Array as having a wheelbase of 26 km.

In the HH novel, the Estanceson's logbook provides a detailed description, showing that the Mountain Array is indeed not particularly large, only about one size larger than a typical Star Fortress.

but.

In the same novel by HH, when it came to the chapters related to the Siege of Terra, GW had a meltdown.

The shadow cast by the Mountain Array at noon can cover the Himalayas.

This is the original description.

The second known condition, as stated in the original HH novel, is that at the time, the orbit of the Mountain Array was between the Earth and the Moon, most likely at the gravitational equilibrium point between the Earth and the Moon, which is also known as the Lagrange point.

This saves fuel.

那么大约计算一下：地球的质量约为5.96*10^24kg，月球质量约为7.35*10^22kg，地月距离约为384000km。那么根据万有引力公式F=GMm/r2，可以得到L1点距离地球为384000*x/(1+x)，其中，x为地月质量比开根号。根据这个结果可以算出，山阵距离地球约为345618km，即3.456*10^8m。

It's important to know that the Terra Palace occupies the entire Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and is roughly an irregular oval shape.

It is about 1400 kilometers from north to south and more than 2000 kilometers from east to west.

Be conservative.

Assuming the Mountain Array can cast a shadow over the Earth at least 1400 kilometers wide, and considering that the principle behind this shadow is similar to that of a total solar eclipse, a simple calculation shows that:

太阳的直径约为1.392*10^6km，日地距离约为1.496*10^8km=1.496*10^11m（由于日地距离约为太阳直径的100倍，所以我们可以近似认为这个切线截面的长度约等于太阳的直径。实际上这个截面的直径约为太阳直径的99%）

那么根据相似原理计算一下就知道，山阵的直径约为1400+(1.392*10^6-1400)*(345618/1.496*10^8)km≈4612.68km

Even if the shadow cast cannot cover the entire palace, we can still calculate the minimum value of the shadow that can be cast on the ground:

Firstly, the fact that the sun's brightness allows it to cast shadows indicates that the mountains essentially completely block out the sun. Simply put, during a partial solar eclipse, the sky doesn't darken much.

假设刚好不能在地面上投下阴影，即在地面上的阴影面积为0，那么很显然，地面上的阴影点与山阵边缘截面与太阳边缘截面构成的两个三角形为相似三角形。我们可以简单计算一下这个极小值：1.392*10^6*(345618/1.496*10^8)km≈3215km。

The above deduction was not made by someone incompetent; a senior engineer directly sent this calculation to GW via email.

Then GW revised the official 26km data that the Mountain Array had been using for over ten years.

By the way, the person who sent the email is Chinese.

The official data for Blackrock Fortress is similar, with the diameter of the core chamber estimated to be between 160 and 320 kilometers.

The reason for the 100-mile difference is that the GW of the trench did not clearly state whether those 100 miles were R or D.

I won't even discuss whether the Mountain Array is actually 26 kilometers long. To be on the safe side, let's assume a wheelbase length of tens or hundreds of kilometers. The internal space of Blackrock Fortress could easily fit several Mountain Arrays.

Unless GW admits to being illiterate, the official data uses the 3000km figure.

Otherwise, in this matter, "incompetence" is not a mistake.

They are all victims who were originally licensed users; Wu Neng has already become indifferent to it.

At first, I would discuss it with fellow readers, but later I didn't even want to update the miscellaneous sections anymore. The more I said, the more mistakes I made. Wouldn't it be better to just tell the story and avoid these kinds of things, like others?

But thinking about my original intention in writing this book, I couldn't resist.

I'm not trying to argue with fellow readers, I just want to clarify things.

I'm so grateful that you've gone to the trouble of finding screenshots and writing articles to point out the problems; I'd be more than happy to thank you. How could I possibly be criticizing you?

That's just how things are right now. If I want to thank you all, I have to build up my armor first. It's a pain.

Otherwise, it would be pointless for a single chapter of casual remarks to anger two readers who have subscribed to the entire book.

I haven't deleted a single one of those comments from people who read a few chapters and then wrote book reviews saying this or that.

Right? Ka Zhongtang is magnanimous, but the incompetent is even more magnanimous!