The clouds were dim and emitted a pungent chemical smell. Above the turbid earth, dirty buildings like termite nests were bloated and crowded together, reaching into the sky.
Standing on that desolate and barren plain, the black nest city in the distance looked like a series of mountains, majestic and dirty.
Hades blinked hesitantly, then tried to take off his helmet and took a deep breath -
Very good, it is highly poisonous.
Hades smiled bitterly and put his helmet back on. The Death Guard was now fighting against the poison gas.
To become a hive planet, the first thing to be sacrificed is the ecological environment.
The waste gas produced by the factory is continuously discharged into the sky, forming the dim atmosphere of Galapagos all year round. The waste water is discharged into the rivers, and now any water source on this planet is highly acidic.
Humans will not try to manage the environment. That would be too wasteful and unnecessary. The inside of the hive has its own unique ecological environment, and many people will never step out of the hive in their entire lives. Naturally, there is no need to manage the deadly environment outside the hive.
After a few generations, it is no longer necessary. For them, this is the normal sky and normal earth in Galapagos.
Hades lowered his eyes and glanced at the dirty and barren land beneath his feet. The heavy metal content exceeded the standard and was even radioactive.
Hades pondered silently in his mind what it would be like to transform Galasper. The conclusion was that it was not very realistic.
Barbarus was still able to obtain a lot of investment by relying on the political status of the Primarch's home planet. Coupled with the star rings that were vigorously built when the Empire first arrived, Barbarus' construction was able to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
And the small population of Barbaros makes relocation and large-scale environmental transformation feasible.
If we want to transform Galaspa, it will be a bit difficult, so let him think about it again.
Moreover, the transformation must also take into account efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Currently, the most cost-effective solution is to maintain the original status quo and then directly allow Galaspa to return to its previous full-power production state.
Unlike Barbaros, Galaspar's transformation may be a long one.
Hades sighed deeply, looked at Garo in front of him, and motioned Garo to take him into the main nest.
If the nest looks like a pile of garbage from a distance, then when you walk into its bottom layer, you will be surprised to find that it is a pile of garbage.
Apart from the important factory areas and the top nests located higher up, other places were a mess. Dark construction waste was piled up randomly in the corners of the endless shacks, and the smell of rotting excrement flowed along the corners of the walls. There were a mixed number of crudely built shacks and holes dug in the walls, with panicked and respectful looks revealed from inside, but then they trembled and lowered.
Those are the inhabitants of the Low Nest, they live and die here.
Under the helmet, Hades frowned. He had seen the poverty of Barbarus, the desolation of the wilderness, the struggle between man and nature, and the struggle for survival.
Galapa, on the other hand, presents another kind of bloated difficulty, where people are crowded together, living becomes a non-consumption, stagnating for the sake of survival, and slowly entering death.
Although the populous Galaspa is a prime location for the empire, with numerous nest cities meaning a constant influx of population, this may not be a good thing for the locals.
Hades thought silently in his mind that the first step was to reduce the population density. Druun could relocate a large number of people, and Barbarus could also accommodate some people. Barbarus's forging satellite Mitt was also short of people, and the expansion of the legion could also share some of the population pressure.
As for the possibility that the legion may not absorb many people
There will be no such concerns when the war starts.
The second step is to simply improve the environment near the hive and migrate the hive population to the surrounding plains to slow it down further.
The third step is to cooperate with the Mechanicus to further transform the hive city and install water purification equipment and garbage disposal areas.
In the previous transformation of Galaspar, the Mechanicum gave priority to restoring the factory areas that had been shut down due to the Death Guard's attack - these mechanics didn't care about the living areas unless the population was so poor that it affected production progress.
The fourth step is to build a hive system, fill the hive relationship system, and establish a balanced hive ecology, both in terms of the environment and humanities.
As he moved forward in the hive, Hades roughly sorted out in his mind what needed to be done in Galaspa. Although these were just a drop in the bucket, they could at least ease some of the pressure of survival.
[Commander Hades, we've arrived.]
Garo's voice came from the channel, and they came to a cliff in the hive city.
This is one of the Death Guard's recruiting locations in Galasper. The selectees need to start from the Sourwater River on the edge of the hive, trek along the Sourwater River, cross the garbage dump, and finally climb the cliff.
The time limit is three days, and you must bring your own dry food and equipment. Although the Death Guard is more relaxed in terms of equipment, this trial may be a little longer than the selection on Barbaros.
Moreover, the current people in the Nest City are unlikely to obtain any decent equipment.
There are two pharmacists in the middle of the journey, one at a place that can be reached after one day and two days of trekking. Participating in the treatment will automatically mean giving up. There is also a pharmacist at the end point, but it is used for the treatment of those who advance. Because of the large number of people, there are no pharmacists in other places.
To be fair, Hades felt that Galaspar's trial might be a little more severe, but facing the Galaspar people who far outnumbered Barbarus, this was all he could do.
Even if the enrollment of Galapagos is greatly expanded, more Galapagos people will still be screened out in terms of proportion.
The place where he is standing now is the location of the trial selection. If the trial selection process is feasible, then the thirty-seven recruitment points set up in the Galaspa galaxy will start the selection simultaneously.
The trial selection route is the longest and most difficult, but the Death Guard also promises that those who successfully advance will get more opportunities within the legion, which leads to a large number of people participating in the preliminary selection.
The Death Guard does not register for this, and it is free to participate, and any healthy male of appropriate age can participate. There are too many people, but the Death Guard will provide at least one week's rations to each contestant.
Galaspar's conscription was even more chaotic than Barbarus's.
Hades sighed again. Compared to Barbarus, who had a better crowd base, Galasper would still have to go through a relatively chaotic period.
[here we go.]
Garo's voice came from the channel. Hades turned around, sighed, and chose to sit on the edge of the cliff. He half supported his chin and waited eagerly for the first person to arrive.
What no one expected was that the first person to arrive was a woman.
Hades opened his mouth in disbelief as he saw the staggering, skinny figure staggering through the garbage mountain. Half of the man's left calf was gone, and yellow and white pus was still dripping from the broken leg.
Could this be a follower of Nurgle
This was Hades' first reaction. He tentatively diluted the black domain and probed over. He was surprised to find that although the man's soul was so tiny that it was about to go out, it was extremely bright and not polluted.
What's going on
Garo's voice sounded, and Hades swallowed his saliva. Under the penetrating light of the helmet, they could clearly see the organs in the body of the dirty person, the intact ovaries and uterus, that was a woman.
[Did you mention males when you were recruiting?]
[I have said it, and I have emphasized it very clearly.]
So. So what does she want to do
The person staggered and almost fell to the ground, but she still walked to the edge of the cliff. She tied up her broken limbs with rotten and messy strips of cloth, and then randomly crushed the dried garbage on the ground and smeared it on her hands.
She was increasing the friction on her hands.
The person began to try to climb, and Hades watched her climb in fear. What was she doing
Hades waved his hand to stop Gala from scolding the woman. Her status as the first person in this selection at least allowed Hades to respect her.
The filthy hand stretched out from the edge of the cliff. Hades stood up, stepped back, and waited for the first person to be selected.
This is a gray-haired woman. Not only does her gender not match the criteria, her age also does not match the criteria. She is obviously too old for a teenager.
Some leprosy spots corroded by chemicals were scattered on her face, which made her facial features blurred. She might be very beautiful.
After seeing Hades, the man began to half-kneel and cry, wiping the tears from his face with his hands, choking and hiccuping.
Hades stood there, waiting patiently.
Finally, she seemed to calm down, choking and preparing to kneel down.
“No kneeling.”
Hades said this calmly, and then he saw the woman trembling and starting to cry again, she was breathing heavily.
"Our selection is not for women this time, and you are over the age limit."
Hades continued,
"My Lord, I know, my Lord."
She seemed to want to kowtow subconsciously, but after being stopped by Hades, she had to sit on the ground trembling in embarrassment. Because of fear, she covered her face with her hands, leaving only a little of her eyes exposed. The blood from her broken limbs had accumulated into a small pool of pus on the ground.
"I just want to thank you for saving us. I."
"Sir, please take me away. I don't want to stay here. You have brought liberation, and I don't want to be a slave anymore."
"Thank you for your liberation. Praise you, Lord, take me away"
Hades choked.
It was not he who liberated Galaspa, nor did he approve of its liberation.
This woman appeared in the original Galaspari and was named by Mortarion, but she has not appeared again in other Death Guard works.
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