A week later.
"I never thought that the sun in Barbarus would be purple."
Mortarion stood thoughtfully on a piece of empty land, looking up. There, the sun, which had previously been only a vague white disk in Barbarus's sight, became so clear for the first time.
Perhaps due to atmospheric refraction, the edge of this clear white circle is light purple mixed with some rose red.
Strange, Mortarion thought.
Compared to the desolate Barbarus, the sun in Barbarus is so luxurious, or full of that unrealistic romance.
Unfortunately, Callas couldn't see all this.
Mortarion chewed on this fact slowly, just like the emperor who came down from the sky and tore apart the isolation of Barbarus, completely changing the direction of the story, and being buried in the cold and fearless Karas also made the original story fall into pieces.
Mortarion stared at the sun, and the Primarch had no idea that he was like a scarecrow watching over a barren field, and continued to stare at the sun.
He could do no other, and it was always like this, Mortarion knew it.
But he can grant death, something Mortarion is only skilled at.
Mortarion knew that he could not let his old friend die in a ridiculous trial, and he could not swing his scythe, because his scythe was pointed at the tyrant, not his old friend.
Karas would die in a sufficiently grand war, he would die in a war of liberation, he would die in a war to overthrow tyranny, Mortarion assured Karas of this.
That was the only thing he could guarantee.
When the Primarch encountered a war that was powerful enough to tear the entire Legion apart, he would awaken Kharas.
But not now.
Hades ignored the Primarch. As a technical sergeant, he and pharmacist Leo personally presided over the entire process of Karas being put into the Dreadnought. By the way, he installed more than one monitoring system and suicide program on this Dreadnought.
Carastiphon watched it all in silence.
Hades patted the Contemptor Dreadnought beside him, which was the standard model in the Great Crusade, with the Death Guard's unique white and green paint scheme.
"I mean well. After all, we are old friends."
Hades said,
"This Dreadnought has a suicide program. When you are awake, you can choose to die at any time."
Karas glanced at Hades and said in a dry voice,
"Thank you."
Hades rolled his eyes.
"But I don't recommend you to die now. Otherwise, I can't fool Mortarion by saying that the implant surgery failed."
"You can choose the next time you wake up."
Carastiphon smiled bitterly. How did it end up like this
If he wasn't so greedy, he would have ended up like this.
Karas pursed his lips, and before falling into a long sleep, he finally chose to speak. This was completely unnecessary, but perhaps Karas wanted to see Hades's entanglement out of evil taste.
".Hades, do you hate me?"
Hades was silent for a long time, and then the dead soul spoke,
"No."
"Why?"
Calastiphon swore that it was the first time he saw Hades so gloomy, like a skeleton that had just crawled out of a grave, staring monotonously at the world, cursing and scolding the world.
“.”
"I can't afford the gamble."
What can't you afford to gamble on
Karas felt confused, but the injected drug gradually took effect, and the increasingly heavy sleepiness prevented him from thinking any deeper.
"But after everything is over, if there is still time and opportunity, I will come to see you again."
Hades didn't realize his voice was hoarse.
Hades knew it was a complete lie, there was no way they would be alive after everything was over.
In the end, there is a high probability that the original body will survive and continue to live with the brother he thinks is shit.
But what if? That's how the lie called hope comes about.
Karas looked at Hades and his vision began to blur. The pharmacist, like his medicine, had never been merciful.
This was the second assurance Kalas had received, the first being from Mortarion.
Hades took one last look at Karas.
"If you still believe, live first."
But what Karas didn't know was that this was actually a curse, a curse from the dead.
He handed him the key but did not point out the exit.
Hades closed the door of fearlessness, and everything fell into darkness.
On Barbarus, apart from Mortarion standing aside in a daze, Hades was now squatting on the ground in a standard old farmer's half-squat, holding up a pile of soil and examining the results of the Mechanicus's transformation.
Measurements showed that the land was quite fertile.
Hades clapped his hands in satisfaction and shook the soil on the ground. Then he stood up and looked at the sky of Barbarus. After the atmospheric transformation, the sky of Barbarus appeared a light blue mixed with green.
Facing Mortarion's sigh about the lavender sun, Hades did not expect that Barbarus's sky would be like this.
“There are always things we can’t imagine.”
The matter of Karas has come to an end for the time being. Perhaps when the Death Guard encounters a large-scale battlefield one day, Karas' story will continue, but now, this "old friend" can only sleep for the time being.
Hades blinked and stopped thinking about it.
There are many things that are useless to think about, and you will be tempted by them, so it is better not to think about them.
If you can do it, do it. If you can’t, forget it. There’s nothing you can do if you can’t do it. Just be sad for a while.
Time is still flowing, a lot of things are still waiting, and there is not much time left for sighing.
Generally speaking, the legion's home planet has an extraordinary political status, and whether to attach importance to the home planet and whether to build the home planet depends on the legion's own planning.
There are legions with strong legion culture and willing to build their home planets, such as the Ultramarines. Roboute Guilliman's Macragge is a beautiful pearl of the Five Hundred Worlds, with high mountains and blue lakes, towns and tall castles, which embody the brilliant culture of the Ultramarines;
Another example is Baal of the Blood Angels. Although this planet was originally full of radiation, under the management of Saint-Gilius, it was carved into a church of beauty and art. Countless exquisite angel statues look down in the church, which is a gathering of the Blood Angels' faith.
Of course, some legions’ home planets just let things take their own course and let things take their own course. Barbarus in the original book belongs to this type.
Some legion home planets have been deliberately forgotten, or are not very good.
This is because there are some problems with the Legion's supervision of the mother planet.
As for the Death Guard's home planet
In the planet construction plan given by the Mechanicus, the positioning of Barbarus is actually quite clear, an agricultural planet, or a garden planet.
If it chooses to become an agricultural planet, the sky of Barbarus will once again be covered with poisonous gas, but this time the poisonous gas will be the exhaust gas from fertilizer factories. Specially improved crops will also be planted all over every inch of Barbarus' land. Tall agricultural machines will roar, continuously transporting quick-grown food to other planets.
Hades and Mortarion decisively rejected this option.
If it becomes a garden planet, Barbaros will be built into a very habitable planet. The empire’s current garden planet can even be described as a paradise, and it is not an exaggeration.
The greatest significance of the Garden Planet is its political nature. Important officials of the Empire and politicians from nearby galaxies will come here for vacation and conduct some inter-planetary cooperation or business activities.
The biggest disadvantage of becoming a garden planet is that it cannot support too many people. The original residents of the planet will be relocated to cities beneath the surface to avoid interfering with the "scenic value" of pollution caused by excessive population.
However, Barbarus does not have such concerns. The population of Barbarus is already so small that even if they were all moved to Barbarus, the Mechanical Sages would dislike the fact that too few maintenance personnel are needed.
As a planet, the most important thing about Barbarus is its political and cultural status.
Then continue to develop this point and play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses.
In Hades's vision, Barbarus will become a garden planet. Relying on the influence of the Legion and using Barbarus as a stage, it will attract politicians and dignitaries from planets near the Storm Star Region, and sign cooperation treaties with the Legion and other planets for mutual benefit and assistance.
This is similar to a super loose confederation, with the Death Guard being the largest one within it. Under the supervision of the Death Guard, the various planets have loose trade exchanges.
This does not have any direct benefit to the Death Guard, but the planets near Barbarus have become prosperous, which is also good for the Death Guard.
My neighbor has food and I have guns. Tonight, cough cough, no, no, the Death Guard will take a reasonable share of the commission. After all, the Death Guard provides a platform for various politicians to talk together, Barbaros.
The arrival of these politicians in Barbarus will also indirectly improve the per capita cultural quality of the planet. After all, if the people of Barbarus want to engage in related service industries, they also need to learn High Gothic.
Hades felt disheartened when he thought of the teachers who taught "tax evasion" in schools, but the good news was that so far, the moral education of these teachers had not corrupted the students.
Moreover, if other planets see how awesome Barbarus and the Death Guard are and want to send their children to the Death Guard, they can sign a few agreements with Barbarus. If the new recruits pass all the tests and have good personal moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor qualities, then it can be discussed.
The reputation of the 30k Legion is still very good, thanks to the Imperial propaganda, the Space Marines and their Primarchs were portrayed as glorious and heroic, fighting hard to regain lost territory.
Therefore, many people also want to join the legion. On the one hand, it is a personal choice. On the other hand, for those families that control an entire planet, it will definitely not be a wrong choice to make friends with the armed forces of the empire.
Since you have family members in the Death Guard, you will continue to cooperate with the Death Guard in other areas. This is a natural thing.
Maybe someone will say, this is not the Empire, why are you doing this in private? Are you trying to...
This is not right. Look at the Ultramarine and the Five Hundred Worlds of Macragge. What did the Empire say
Although Robert Guilliman was often suspected by other Primarchs because of this, after all, the Five Hundred Worlds of Macragge did look quite ambitious.
The Death Guard will not learn from Macragge either. After all, Guilliman's warp projection may really be a quantum computer, but Mortarion's is definitely not.
If the Death Guard really had direct jurisdiction over so many planets, even if all the current members of the Death Guard were trained as politicians, it would still not be enough.
So the Death Guard will not do this. They just need to focus on the construction of the most important planets. The rest is up to those who are willing to take the bait. It is a matter of mutual benefit and assistance.
The Great Crusade is still going on, and war is the main theme of the Legion, so the Death Guard cannot always be involved in the details of politics. It would be a good choice to use the Death Guard's home planet Barbarus to develop logistics in disguise.
The Death Guard hasn't received many war orders recently, all because of the Battle of Galaspar, where the Death Guard devoured an entire super-large galaxy at a rapid speed, and Mortarion's brutal war style directly caused the high-level officials of nearby galaxies to surrender. After all, the Death Guard hanged all the management of Galaspar and smashed the main hive of Galaspar.
As long as they surrender to the empire before the war begins, these senior officials can still enjoy their old age.
Perhaps it must be said that the Emperor who sent the Death Guard to the vicinity of the Galaspa system really understood in some ways which legions were suitable for which situations and how to seize as many resources as possible in the shortest time.
Although the Death Guard suffered heavy losses
Therefore, up to now, the Death Guard has made reasonable progress in the Empire's war missions and has not reached the point where they need to be warned by the Emperor.
Hades calculated the time. By the time the Death Guard had finished building their logistics supply lines, the Empire's new war decree would come down.
He looked up at the dreamy sky of Barbaros, pondering his next arrangements.
Beside Hades, Mortarion stared into the distance and breathed in a sigh.
Those noisy Graiai oil men attracted Mortarion's attention. Although Mortarion was somewhat grateful to these sages for their dedication to transform Barbarus, these sages were indeed too noisy in a sense.
They chanted the binary prayers of the Mechanicus and sang the wonders of the God of Machines.
"Those mechanical sages have been moving this way."
Mortarion said affirmatively, and then Hades beside him began to cough violently, as if he was choking.
"The Space Marines' bodies are constructed so that they cannot choke."
Mortarion once again affirmed,
Hades was silent for a long while before he spoke slowly.
"I accidentally gave them a Mechanicus skill earlier, and they seemed shocked by it, and..."
Hardy paused.
"Maybe I learned some good things on Mars before, and they are envious of it."
Mortarion looked at the red-robed sages in silence. He thought of Karas, who was the one he had neglected in the beginning.
"If this bothers you, please speak up."
"The Death Guard will not be threatened by a Forge World."
Hades breathed a sigh of relief. He managed to fool the person.
In a sense, what he said was entirely true.
"No, no, no, it doesn't affect it."
“In fact, that might be a good thing.”
The Death Guard has always been positioned as a heavy infantry force to fight against the army, so it is reasonable for him to ask Graiedo for some tanks or something.
The Death Guard can't really win just by smashing infantry on the battlefield.
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