The Astartes Family's Notebook

This long-standing, absolute trust is precisely the biggest difference between loyalists and chaotic traitors.

Therefore, the Fifth Company of the Raptor Squad believes that the Fourth Company of the Wastewings has too flexible a moral compass, which is both true and false.

Jesfer had no moral burden about deceiving the Chaos traitors, but Motor Sich had much more to consider.

The Fourth Company Commander is unwilling to do things in this way.

The overall style of the four-part series is already wild enough. Once this precedent is set, the consequences are unpredictable.

But Motor Sich could only swallow these words and could not mention them to anyone.

A subtle cognitive misalignment led other Astartes, including Yesfe, to mistakenly believe that Motor Sich did not want to use the Chaos Traitor proposal.

It doesn't matter. It's just killing tens of millions more members of the Nazi cult. It's a small matter.

The combat comrades were indifferent to the matter, but Motor Sich was somewhat worried.

Despite the apparent advantage held by the Empire, there is actually a significant hidden danger.

That is, the mortal forces that launched the attack from the second hive city as the source of the war have penetrated too deep into the first hive city.

Unfortunately, due to limited troop strength, the Imperial army was unable to complete the encirclement of the First Nest City.

After the air force blasted a hole in Nest 1, the ground troops rushed in.

Although there were still gaps in the defenses and supply lines of more than twenty PDF regiments on the perimeter, the fighting strength of the Skolds...

It's upsetting.

In other words, the Shadow of Death faction has openly adopted a defensive counter-attack strategy, and doesn't consider the Nurgle cultists as their own people at all.

Otherwise, if Chaos Astartes led the troops out from the other gates of the First Hive, they could easily outflank and encircle these Imperial mortal armies that had penetrated deep into the Hive.

This is the negative effect of launching a hive defense war without completely paralyzing the Void Shield.

Fleets in orbit cannot cross the void shield to provide effective fire support to mortal forces fighting on the ground.

Chaos Astartes can use Nurgle cultists as cannon fodder, but those cultists who survived the initial infection of the Nurgle Plague and retained their thinking ability and personal will do not consider themselves cannon fodder.

My loving father loves me; I am the chosen one!

If these guys suddenly have a change of heart or completely change their minds and abandon the Chaos Astartes of the Shadow of Death faction to go it alone, then the Empire will be in big trouble.

Once the hundreds of thousands of combat-capable ground troops are wiped out, or even surrender to Chaos in despair and isolation, where will Motor Sich find another army of mortals?

At that point, forget about everything else and let all loyalist Astartes retreat to the second hive city to prepare for a battle to defend it.

Those nobles who survived in the nest city, not receiving a clear answer, would naturally react defensively.

The intensity of street fighting in City One has escalated once again.

Motor Sich's ambiguous delays at least didn't completely rule things out, and the nobles, who didn't consider themselves Chaos cultists, still hoped to have a good fight and realize its value in uniting the people.

These cowards simply don't understand, or rather, don't want to understand, why the planet's upper echelons, including the governor, would rather die fighting than surrender to Chaos.

First came the Chaos Astartes, then the Loyalist Astartes; these superhuman Space Marines truly terrified these ignorant, remote planetary nobles.

Is wanting to live a sin?

The Divine Emperor will forgive us!

Finally, after a long wait, Judge Vinava arrived, accompanied by her support fleet.

The vast Imperial fleet orderly departed the warp channel from Mandeville Point, a sight that left Motor Sich completely stunned.

"Ms. Vinawa, what secrets does the planet Skold hold that warrant such a great deal of effort from you?"

The judge's real age is unknown, but this strong woman, who has clearly undergone body enhancement surgery, has the resolute face of an ancient Terraslav woman.

She had plastic surgery.

As a sergeant in the company, Katz returned to the Victory Balance from the exciting front-line battle. He joined the other company brothers in posing and showing off as a lackey to help Company Commander Motor Sich.

"I'm sorry, Company Commander Motor Sich, I didn't intentionally investigate the background and relationships of your Desolate Wings Chapter, but I need to confirm one thing before deciding on the stance to take in subsequent negotiations with you."

"Madam, please speak."

"You and your chapter seem to have close ties with the Martian Mechanicus."

Motor Sich frowned and thought for a full ten seconds before replying.

"Yes, the chapter maintains a traditional friendship with a certain Mechanicus Grand Sage on Mars."

Vinawa smiled.

"Dealing with smart people is so much easier. Company Commander, I've made contact with the Yellow Springs Six Forging World. The Great Sage of the Forging World wants to take back the monopoly on the output of the Skold mining world. I wonder if you could do me a favor?"

Motor Sich's brow relaxed.

Dealing with straightforward people is definitely easier.

Motor Sich had seen too many judges who thought themselves superior and could fool others; dealing with such idiots was incredibly frustrating.

These fools always like to play the trick of information asymmetry, always pursue the maximization of personal interests, often mess things up, and then take advantage of Astartes' loyalty to the Emperor and their sense of responsibility to the Empire to demand that the Chapter clean up their mess.

Judges like Ms. Vinava, who are straightforward and clear about things before negotiating terms, are truly a breath of fresh air among judges.

The Desolation Wings are not dogs of the Martian Mechanicus. Maintaining a personal friendship with a high sage of the Mechanicus on Mars does not mean that the chapter must be "loyal" to Mars.

So, Motor Sich had no qualms about helping Huangquan VI Casting World with some tasks.

"What do you want, and how do you plan to do it?"

Motor Sich's subtext was clear: there was nothing wrong with the matter in principle; just show some sincerity.

Inquisitor Vinava's smile widened. She was really lucky. Both the Malice Warriors and the Desolate Wings were flexible Astartes Chapters, unlike some Holy Orders Chapters that were stubborn and unyielding.

It seems this matter has been settled.

"Mars has hidden Skord very well. The Underworld Six has been trying to find the origin of these special minerals for a long time, but without any clues. If it weren't for Master Leothers uniting all available forces, the great sages of the Underworld Six probably wouldn't have found out the specifics of Skord even in the next millennium."

While it may seem like she's rambling on and on, Ms. Vinava has actually exposed the Martian Mechanics Cult completely.

The governors of the planet throughout history believed that those rare minerals that sold for exorbitant prices were probably worth far more than they thought, and that the Martian Mechanicus was willing to create a Truman Show-like scenario to tactically deceive them.

After all, deploying large equipment like mechanical arks or void mining ships wouldn't fool the competition.

Instead, by slowly mining the planet under the governor's command, they can fool other oil enthusiasts and, incidentally, inflate prices.

In the Dark Ages, the Forged World of the Underworld VI might have truly existed, but after the Horus Rebellion, such a forged world as the Forged World of the Underworld VI no longer exists within the Empire's territory.

So even though everyone knows that Huangquan No. 6 is just a new alias for Huangquan No. 8, no one says it.

If this matter is exposed, it will offend Huang Liu, Huang Ba, and the three forging worlds of Mars. What's the point?

People won't do things that don't bring them any benefit.

Although Mars represents Mechanism, Mars does not represent Mechanism.

This is not a promise or a vow, but the true state of the empire.

The human empire is divided into numerous factions, and the Inquisition is comprised of many groups. The Loyal Faction alone in Astartes is divided into nine major groups and more than a thousand branches.

But compared to the academic clique of the Mechanics Church, this is nothing.

Riza, Lucius, Graja, Griffin No. 4, Metalica (nicknamed Steel Ball), Triple Fall, Zhao-Akada, and the famous Yomiuri No. 8.

These casting worlds, which are clearly at odds with Mars, are all technological heretics that the Martian Mechanics Cult would love to eliminate, and are all infamous traitors to the Mechanics Cult.

The nonsense about the world being incredibly precious and the Empire losing one less is enough to fool the officials of Holy Terra. The real powers rooted in the star system all know that these Mechanicus factions are running multiple accounts everywhere.

Especially Huangquan No. 8, which is the stronghold of the heretics, really doesn't even need to act.

What's so great about the name "Huangquan No. 6"? It's great because it means that Mars can't stand me but can't do anything about it.

During the Horus Rebellion, the Forged World of the Dead nearly fell into the hands of traitors, but was saved by the intervention of the Eldar Prophet. Because of this incident, although the Forged World of the Dead remained loyal to the Empire after the Great Rebellion, it gradually transformed from the traditional Mechanicus faction into a Mechanicus faction known as the Heretics.

The so-called Alien Faction is a faction dedicated to researching and developing alien technology.

Although, apart from a few die-hard, orthodox humanist motor enthusiasts, most members of the Mechanicus Cult are openly or secretly researching alien technology, we do this in the dark. What do you mean by "Yellow Springs No. 8"? You dare to raise your flag? You've really gone too far!

Therefore, the Mars Forging General proposed extermination of the Yellow Springs Eight Forging World more than once at the High Lords' Meeting, but it was rejected by the other High Lords. The root cause was that Mars's behavior was too ugly.

Are you Martians against the heretics? I can't even be bothered to call you out. What you're really against is that Huangquan-8's alien technology is more advanced than Mars's. You Martian geeks are just envious of Huangquan-8's technology. You're despicable!

In the mid-M36 period, the Deathwatch, supported by Mars, assembled dozens of killing squads and launched a devastating invasion of Underworld VIII, forcing the Underworld VIII to take drastic measures to deal with the Deathwatch killing squads.

Ultimately, Deathwatch denied the veracity of these rumors, and Yomiuri 8 continued to provide technical support to Deathwatch for thousands of years afterward.

Although the two parties involved reached a private settlement, Deathwatch has been trying to find fault with Huangquan 8 because of such a painful loss. The inaction of Martian Oil Guy also made Deathwatch see the true nature of the Martian Mechanic Cult and refuse to be used as a disposable tool again.

In an attempt to erase their actions, the Heretics of the Forged World of the Eighth Underworld employed a series of covert attacks, including virus programs and agent infiltration, to sabotage and alter the archives in the Imperial Ministry of the Interior's data archives concerning the Forged World of the Eighth Underworld's research into alien technology.

However, don't mythologize the technological capabilities of the Yellow Springs VIII. Without the High Lords Council giving it the green light behind the scenes, the Yellow Springs VIII couldn't have done all this. This is the Holy Terra.

The pinnacle of Huangquan No. 8's work was hacking into the Inquisition's data system and altering the archives related to the world created by Huangquan No. 8.

Therefore, the exact location of the Eighth Underworld is still a mystery to the Astartes Chapter.

Upon checking the information, it was confirmed that Huangquan No. 8 was not located in the Solar Star Region, but this forged world also existed in the other four major star regions.

Later, the Supreme Master of the Trial Court felt that this matter was a bit outrageous, so he personally typed on the keyboard to change the data and said, "Your Huangquan No. 8 shall be officially registered in the Taiping Starfield."

Huangquan No. 8 also knows how to reciprocate kindness. Okay, the adults of Holy Terra say I am in the Pacific Starfield, then I must stay in the Pacific Starfield.

Thus, the Taiping Starfield truly came to have a forging world called Huangquan VI.

The Martian Mechanicus has been perverting and manipulating people's mentality for over a thousand or two thousand years. Do they really think that the governments of the major star systems don't have any tempers?

The reason why Huangquan VI was able to thrive in the Pacific Starfield was because it had the support of Holy Terra and the imperial government of the Pacific Starfield.

In fact, because Huangquan No. 6 did not raise the banner of the Heretic Faction, it actually gave Huangquan No. 8 more room to maneuver.

So when Ms. Vinova mentioned the name of the Yellow Springs VI forging the world, Motor Sich knew roughly what it meant.

With a major financial backer like Forge World footing the bill, it makes sense that the female judge could muster a fleet of this size to provide support.

The specific details of the spoils division were not something to be discussed in public, but Ms. Vinawa was very interested when she heard that the traitor in Hive One wanted to defect, and she decisively took over the matter from Motor Sich.

Throne Agents are professionals at this kind of thing.

Vinava, who transitioned to the role of judge through the process of being granted amnesty, wanted to have some fun with these useless people.

Chapter 128 A Sorrowful Aria

"The Emperor's Ambition"

Author: Anonymous

Kill, kill, kill! The expedition never stops.

Aliens must be eradicated, and heretics must be purged.

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The planet Skold doesn't have any particularly spectacular black stone formations on its surface; there are only some scattered small obelisks.

As a mining world that has carved out honeycomb-like structures from the shallow crust of planets, the Skold Mining Association is certainly aware of the condition of these black stone creations.

Therefore, in terms of intelligence, the Chaos traitors and the loyalists of Astartes actually knew roughly the same things.

The rich black stone veins are actually located deep in the Earth's crust.

Although the Empire had long known that the special mineral Blackstone had an inhibitory effect on psionic energy, it had never been able to understand the underlying principles. Therefore, Blackstone veins were not a high-value necessity for humanity.

The origins of Blackrock Fortress and Blackrock technology are among the few pieces of knowledge that Kaz, a Cloud Hammer enthusiast, clearly remembers.

Because the CG short film about Cadian standing tall was so good, Kaz watched it all following the video recommendations.

Therefore, he knew exactly what troublesome things the Eldar Empire and the Necromancers had done after the War in Heaven.

Blackstone Technology is an anti-psychic material created by space necromancers under the guidance of the Star God.

In other words, before the War of Heaven, there was no such substance as Black Stone in the Milky Way. In order to fight against the Old Ones and the powerful war minions they created, the Necromancers of the Space, with the help of their Star God masters, created Black Stone all over the Milky Way. They used Black Stone as a stable anchor point in the real universe to severely suppress the Old Ones' most proficient warp power.

This is the origin of Blackstone Technology.

However, Blackrock Fortress, a cosmic fortress the size of an asteroid built using blackstone as the base material, was not the work of the Necromancers, but rather a creation of their adversaries, the Eldar Empire.

The Warhammer universe is interesting, isn't it? The Eldar during the Empire era had a very flexible moral compass. I really don't know where these pointy-eared people got the audacity to call humans monkeys and show off their superiority. The Eldar have done plenty of things like technology theft too.

Furthermore, the Eldar shamelessly named the Blackrock Fortress, which they copied from Necromancer technology, the Val's Amulet after their own god of craftsmen, Val.

The War of Heaven, an epic battle that took place 60 million years ago, had no true winners. After the War of Heaven, both the Star God and the Ancient Saint faded from the grand stage of the galaxy. The Space Necromancer, who successfully betrayed the Star God, also fell into an intractable mental struggle, and the entire race entered a long period of slumber. As a result, the Eldar Empire seized the opportunity and became the dominant power in the galaxy at that time.

Kars didn't know exactly how many Blackrock Fortresses these pointy-eared creatures built, and probably even GW himself didn't know. However, the first time the Imperium of Man came into contact with these alien creations, the Blackrock Fortresses, was in the Gothic Sector during the M31 era.