"I am the heretic of the Empire."
Guilliman could imagine the expressions of the Grey Knights and the Ordo Malleus if they knew that the Primarch, who was the Regent of the Empire, was preparing to train a demon traitor.
But Guilliman had no choice. Knowing the threat posed by the Four Gods, he knew that he had to do everything he could to ensure his absolute victory.
There is absolutely no way to win against those abominations using legitimate means.
This is a universe that is lower than the limit.
Morals and rules are not as important as survival.
Humans know very little about demons, but demons know everything about humans.
In addition, psychic communication and faster-than-light travel, these important technologies that maintain the integrity of the empire, all rely on the subspace.
There is a serious information inequality between humans and evil gods. It would be impossible for the Empire to win.
This situation must be improved.
Guilliman wanted to ensure that the war between the Imperium of Man and the Warp was equal.
Demons can enter reality and build temples.
Then why can't the Empire enter the subspace to commit massacres
It is not unacceptable to train a few demon guides.
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With heretical ideas that were enough to be sent to the stake by the Ecclesiarchy and the Inquisition, Guilliman exited the secret room and used his own password to enter the encrypted elevator again.
When we walked out of the elevator, the Glory Guard was still loyally guarding the entrance.
"Sir." Fikris saw Guilliman coming out and walked over to him and saluted. "Sikarius just sent a message. He wants to see you. He said he has the latest intelligence."
“Send him over to my reception room,” Guilliman said. “We can sort out his problems there.”
"Understood." Fikris nodded and walked to the other side. He was going to inform Sicarius.
"Let's go." Guilliman watched Fikris's back disappear in the corridor of the spaceship and walked towards another passage.
The Honor Guards escorted their master away, and several Terminators stayed behind, holding bolt guns, and continued to guard the door, not allowing anyone to approach the area.
They need to make sure no one can break into the secret place that belongs only to their master.
After Guilliman left, the place fell into darkness and silence again.
The Terminators responsible for guarding this place are all veterans of the Ultramarines.
They can tolerate loneliness and silence better.
You don't have to find something to say like a new recruit.
They stood there like sculptures, silent and cold, faithfully carrying out the tasks assigned by their masters.
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Guilliman's reception room is much larger and simpler than that of an ordinary commander. Apart from the projector and data crystal column used for intelligence, there is no other decoration. It pursues simplicity and practicality.
To be honest, he didn't like the skull culture of the empire.
Today's Imperial nobles and the Mechanicus like to make everything look like a human skull to represent their purity as humans.
Over the long tens of thousands of years, with the development of the state religion and the Inquisition, the status of mutants has become increasingly low.
Those mutants can basically only serve in the military, and no world in the empire is allowed to be ruled by mutants.
If that happened, that world would be considered rebellious by all forces in the Empire.
When Guilliman returned to the reception room, Sicarius and Fikris also arrived.
"My lord," Sicarius said respectfully.
"What happened?" Guilliman sat on the big chair that belonged to him, and motioned Sicarius to find a place to sit down.
Sicarius found another chair and placed the data crystal and books on the other side.
"There's news from the missionary world Espandor. They hope that the Primarch can come to that world so that the inhabitants of that world can feel the Emperor's mercy and glory, or the Primarch can agree on a place where they will go on a pilgrimage," said Sicarius.
"Missionary world?" Guilliman's fingers tapped rhythmically on the table in front of him, indicating that he was thinking.
"Yes, this world encountered some changes 1,600 years ago, and then the state religion came in, cleansed up the heretics, and shaped it into a missionary world in Ultramar." Sicarius explained the situation of Espandor.
The missionary world is also called the church world, the bishop world, etc., and it is filled with fanatical believers from various planets.
Just like the perfect city that Guilliman once burned, it is filled with poems and sculptures praising the Emperor. It is a fanatical religious planet.
A lot of history from ten thousand years ago has been lost, and the current state religion probably doesn't know that Guilliman once burned down the City of Faith.
Even if they knew, they wouldn't make it public.
If you trace back that period of history, you will understand that the emperor did not like religion.
The Emperor doesn't like religion, so what's the point of the state religion
For whatever reason, Espandor should not know what Guilliman had done, otherwise they would never dare to invite Guilliman.
Let Guilliman go for what
Aren’t you afraid of getting burned again
Guilliman paused for a moment, then looked up at Sicarius. "Report to them. I will arrive at Espandor soon."
"Okay, sir, any other instructions?" Sicarius asked.
"No more, go and reply to them." Guilliman waved his hand, signaling Sicarius to go about doing what he had instructed.
Sicarius left the reception room, the sound of his footsteps fading away.
"Sir, why do you have to go in person? You can just designate a world and let them come to see you." Fikris asked in confusion.
Guilliman stood up and walked to the porthole.
At this time they are still in the subspace, and all the portholes will be closed to prevent the crew from succumbing to the temptation and being bewitched by the subspace and turning into twisted monsters.
However, some light still leaked in from the gaps in the shielding, looking weird and unusual.
From Guilliman's memory, he learned that the Primarch had faced the Warp several times. The strange scene contained an unimaginable amount of information that would burn a person's brain.
Thanks to the powerful body of the Primarch, he was able to survive.
If he were an ordinary person, he would have died long ago.
There are countless ways to die while navigating the Warp, but dying while looking directly into the Warp is undoubtedly one of the stupidest ways to die.
"I need to assess the value of Espandor, Eccles," Guilliman said. "The faith of the State Religion has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It is impossible to completely eradicate it. Moreover, in this dark universe, the people of the Empire also need a little faith to support them through these difficult times."
"Sir, do you have any new plans for the state religion?" asked Fikris.
"I have an immature idea. The specific details can only be confirmed after we go to Espandor. I will find a way to control the state religion in my hands and minimize its influence on the empire." Guilliman said, "The power of the state religion of the empire is too great. They even have the right to accuse a certain chapter or a certain world of disloyalty and declare it a traitor. This is too dangerous. Religion makes people blind and lose their rationality. The state religion must be controlled."
Since the birth of the state religion, the stupid things that have been done are almost countless.
Although saints like Celestine appeared and saved the fate of the human empire, they also played an indispensable role in the human empire's decline into ignorance.
In the 32nd Millennium, during the Beast Wars, the Ecclesiarchy encouraged its followers to launch a fanatical holy war against the orcish war moons, resulting in heavy casualties.
In the thirty-third millennium, a split occurred within the state religion. The Temple purged the Alliance of Light and took control of all religious activities in the empire. Human rationality gradually collapsed and entered an age of ignorance.
In the 34th millennium, the state religion formed a crusader army to cleanse the Twin Empires - New Terra, and the Empire completely became a religious state.
In the 36th millennium, the newly appointed Pope of the State Religion, Vandiel, launched a bloody reign, during which he issued extermination orders to at least one hundred human worlds because they were not pious enough to the State Religion (disloyal behavior included: not creating enough Emperor statues, not welcoming the State Religion team warmly enough, and not being active enough in religious donations).
He once launched a campaign against the Space Wolves because the Space Wolves adhered to their own beliefs and were unwilling to change their state religion.
The empire fell into decline during this period, and thousands of years of accumulation were consumed by the rampant religious activities.
In the thirty-seventh millennium, thirty chapters with more than twenty thousand Space Marines were declared traitors by the Saints of the Ecclesiarchy and sent on an expedition to the Abyss. Except for the remnants of the Piercing Sword Chapter that were able to return, all other chapters were completely wiped out, and more than half of them were completely corrupted.
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These things represent some of the more representative events that the state religion has done. Many of these events are not listed in detail, but they are also extremely horrifying.
The Emperor was right, every religious organization is a cancer.
Unfortunately, Guilliman did not dare to break this cancer directly, as that would kill the entire empire.
He has a new plan, which will try his best to guide this fanatical belief into the track he needs.