"I witnessed the Emperor unifying Terra, the fall of those technological warlords, and the first flame of human civilization's rebirth."
"I also witnessed Horus' betrayal, the collapse and destruction of the Emperor's foundation, and the day Terra was drowned in blood."
"My name is Sagittarius, a poor creature buried in a sarcophagus."
This sentence comes from the memoirs of Sagitarius, a veteran of the Imperial Guard's Shield Battalion during the Great Crusade.
Just write it on the first page, on the first line.
This is the memoir left by a member of the Custodians who once participated in the Terran Unification War and the Great Crusade.
The story of this imperial guard is very rich.
He accompanied the Emperor in his rise to power, and was ultimately buried in the Dreadnought Sarcophagus in battle.
After the Siege of Terra, when the Emperor ascended the Golden Throne, he left behind this memoir to record those stories that should not be forgotten.
The book has been kept in the library of the Imperial Guards.
After the Holy Emperor ascended the throne, scholars responsible for studying history were able to access these secret materials and compiled copies for the world.
The remaining memoirs have also become important historical materials for people to study the early days of the empire.
Let people truly see the demise of those heroes and those shameful betrayals.
His story was once buried in the long river of history.
It was later excavated and placed in the Empire's History Museum, where it continued to be sung.
This story is destined not to be forgotten.
It will continue to be passed down until the universe is destroyed, all things decay, and even the gods disappear in the unpredictable and imaginable vast time, and the story will continue to be passed down.
The story left by the Guards is what Constantine wants to tell.
The story wasn't the best.
But it is the most comprehensive.
This story tells the rise of the Emperor, the creation of the Imperium, and the wars between the Primarchs and the Space Marines from the perspective of the Custodians.
After the horrific war between the machines that caused humanity to completely fall from its dominant position as the ruler of the galaxy, the Eternal Night Crisis soon followed.
The glory of human civilization moving towards the galaxy quickly came to an end and became fragmented.
The Eternal Night Crisis lasted for more than five thousand years.
All worlds colonized by humanity are isolated by violent warp storms, rendering interstellar travel impossible.
Terra's connection with all colonies was severed.
Countless human worlds throughout the galaxy are plunged into chaotic war.
The struggle for power among local forces and nations has torn humanity apart.
In some worlds where governments have completely collapsed and are controlled by psychics and mutants, some bizarre and terrifying events have occurred.
Groups of inanimate beings crossed the boundary between reality and illusion and entered the real universe.
Those monsters poured out from the warp in droves, harvesting and sacrificing entire planets, causing countless unimaginable horrific killings.
It was an unimaginable dark age.
Countless powerful technologies have been forgotten.
All the virtues and progress of the past have been abandoned.
All that remains is constant chaos and mutual slaughter.
The once noble humans have turned into a group of savage beasts.
Crazy psychics and religious agitators are waging wars endlessly.
Human civilization was destroyed as quickly as a collapsing tower.
Just when mankind is about to face its final destruction.
A great man emerged.
He is the father of the Holy Emperor, the Great Emperor, the founder of the Empire, the protector of mankind, the warrior who fights against the gods.
From the moment he stepped onto the stage, the emperor's name would be sung countless times for thousands of years to come.
During the Long Night, Terra became a wasteland fought over by technological overlords, mutants, and psychics.
The land was reduced to scorched earth.
The oceans have also dried up.
People live in the wasteland like wild beasts.
Murder and evil were happening everywhere.
They used all means to survive and lost all the noble qualities that make them human.
To reverse this, the Emperor created his Legions, the Thunder Warriors and the Custodes, from the ruins.
The former refers to his army that conquered all directions and intimidated the enemies.
The latter were guards who swore to devote their lives and souls to him.
Those weak warlords and forces were defeated by him, and their population and materials were completely absorbed.
Like a snowball, the emperor's power grew stronger and stronger.
Moranson's Pope was the first tough nut he encountered.
He established a huge religious state in the wasteland in the name of God.
Arrogance and fear are at the heart of religion.
People are always afraid of death, afraid of hardships, afraid of the cruel power of the universe, afraid of the inevitable extinction, and afraid of their own powerlessness in the face of fate.
Pope Moranson used the means of propagating doomsday theories to establish a religious force maintained by fear.
This force is extremely cruel and bloody.
A mass grave filled with bones.
Pagans were being crucified and sacrificed everywhere.
Blood and cruelty are the characteristics of Pope Moranson's power.
In the beginning, the Pope was just a priest who gave out water and food.
Those gods noticed him and tortured him in the name of faith, making his life difficult and full of suffering.
When he prayed, the gods blessed him in a serious manner.
Through such means, the pastor believed in his God more and more and called himself God's shepherd.
Under the command of God, he ordered the people who followed him to sacrifice themselves to the evil machines left over from the ancient long night, cloned vicious transformed soldiers to capture cities for him, and brought "liberation" to those people in the name of God.
He captured one gathering place after another and gathered more refugees.
In order to fulfill God's will, they were so depraved that they committed horrific atrocities for the sake of so-called justice.
Superstition and ignorance led them deeper and deeper into trouble.
In order to verify their beliefs, they killed the pagan captives again and again, piling up the bodies to form mass graves.
Those crimes were so horrific, so unforgivable.
The Emperor led the Thunder Warriors and the Custodes to attack them.
Pope Moranson has many advanced technologies properly preserved in his hands, and also controls the mysterious power of the warp.
He knows how to incite the ignorant.
Tribal savages and fanatics swore to defend their beliefs and their future.
They were clad in crude power armor and wrapped in the fur of cloned animals to protect themselves from the cold wind.
The bulky, muscled, genetically modified body is covered in countless religious symbols and scars.
The first major war soon broke out.
The nuclear bomb landed, causing a deafening explosion and a cloud of smoke that could be clearly seen dozens of kilometers away.
The fighters of both sides held high various flags and fought in the ruins of the city filled with white bones.
The radiation-filled winds carried battle cries and death screams.
The terrible cannons and engines flashed with scorching light and deafening sound.
Amid the slaughter by Thunder Warriors and Imperial Guards, Pope Moranson's defeat was inevitable.
In order to save his great cause, he performed a terrible witchcraft.
With the outbreak of war, the Pope unleashed all the mysterious magic.
Like a torrential rain, a dense swarm of insects covered the sky and swept towards the Emperor's army.
Block the air intake, muzzle, goggles, mouth, nose, ears and eyes.
The drinking water boiled out of nowhere, and the engines overheated and overloaded and burned out.
Many soldiers either turned into hard stone statues, or became soft and boneless or their flesh rotted and fell off.
Some people fell into madness and screamed hysterically.
Others turned into demons and killed each other.
Swarms of insects were crawling all over the ground, spreading madly.
People's bodies were covered with pus-filled sores, and their bodies and minds changed drastically, transforming into unspeakable monsters that attacked their companions and chewed on their bloody corpses.
In this desperate moment, the Emperor appeared like the rising sun, and the power of witchcraft melted away like spring snow.
His personal guards took advantage of this opportunity to rush forward, break into the fortress, capture the guy alive, and end this terrible battle.
Pope Moranson was eventually executed and his people were incorporated into the new empire.
The Emperor brutally destroyed all the temples built by the Pope and turned all the poems and books recording those gods into ashes.
Use violent means to erase all traces of the gods' existence.
The defeat of Pope Moranson laid the foundation for the emperor's unification.
After that, the Pan-Pacific tyrant Doom, the brutal gene lord Bishop Tang, Akkad who ruled the central region of Asia and Europe, Lord Nofi who controlled the Esindio-class combat robots developed in the Golden Age, and many others also failed in the subsequent battles.
Their brutal reign was ended by the Emperor.
Some were imprisoned in Terra's prisons, while others were banished forever.
The Emperor conquered Terra and rebuilt human civilization from the ruins.
He initiated many social reforms in which fear and superstition were driven out and practicality and rationality followed.
The Astronomican for interstellar faster-than-light travel was built.
An Astrologer's Chamber for interstellar faster-than-light communications was also built.
The Emperor used a variety of genetic experiments to stabilize the population and reshape the human species back to its pre-Warp Storm state.
Under the Emperor's persuasion, the Genetic Church of the Moon and the Mechanic Church of Mars finally chose to surrender to the Emperor.
With the help of both, the Emperor created the predecessor of the Primaris - the Space Marines, and built a large number of ships, launching the glorious Great Crusade.
The Emperor and his Space Marine Legions set out on a great crusade to liberate all of humanity from the xenos and monsters of the Warp.
One world after another was reclaimed.
The alien enemies were defeated or annihilated in a series of battles.
Worlds contaminated by the Warp were purified by virus missiles and cyclone torpedoes released during orbital bombardment.
During the conquest, he also retrieved one by one the Primarchs who had been thrown to other planets by the Chaos Gods, allowing them to lead the Space Marines created with them as anchors according to the original plan.
The Primarchs were shaped from the gene pool of the Emperor himself.
Every bit has been adjusted.
He was portrayed as the leader and general of mankind.
The Space Marines were also divided into eighteen legions, corresponding to eighteen primarchs scattered throughout the galaxy.
These Primarchs were to grow up at the Emperor's side.
However, due to the conspiracy of the Chaos Gods and the traitors who strayed into the chaotic time stream, the Primarchs, who were still infants, were scattered across the galaxy and grew up far away from the Emperor.
After launching the Great Crusade, the Emperor reunited with the Primarchs one after another.
The Primarch rode like a god across the battlefields of the Great Crusade, reclaiming world after world for the Imperium.
Under the leadership of the Primarch, the Space Marines achieved great development.
The progress of the Great Crusade was also accelerated by the return of the Primarch.
Every world liberated will be quickly armed.
Like a snowball, the empire's expeditionary force grew larger and larger.
After a series of brilliant victories in the Great Crusade.
The Emperor decided the time had come to return to Terra for the next phase of his grand plan to save humanity.
He believed that the Primarch he created would replace him in the subsequent battles.
The Primarchs have proven themselves time and again, and will soon eliminate the xenos and other threats to humanity once and for all.
Horus was the first of the Primarchs to return and the Emperor's greatest champion.
He gained recognition in the campaign to destroy the Alien Empire.
The Emperor entrusted him with the Great Crusade and appointed him Warmaster.
There is nothing special about telling a story, but it is not so easy to tell a story in a way that people love it.
Constantine possessed precisely this ability.
Many people think that he is cynical and a liar who is only good at talking.
But people have to admit that being good at talking is often an enviable skill.
In many cases, this skill only belongs to people with extraordinary talents and cannot be achieved through later transformation and enhancement.
In order for a story to be moving enough, the speaker must have the ability to empathize with others.
The Empire's transformation technology can give a person a strong physique and a quick mind, but it cannot give a person the ability to empathize.
This ability is an absolute gift.
People were fascinated by the history of the empire told by Constantine.
A history book of the empire, written by countless people with their lives and courage, slowly unfolds before them.
It allowed them to get a glimpse into the story behind a powerful empire that possessed countless advanced technologies and had a massive army.
The existence of the Empire is a miracle.
But it is not a miracle created by God.
Rather, it is a miracle created by countless heroes who sacrificed their lives for the survival of mankind.
People listened quietly to the past of the empire.
The last bit of resistance to the empire in his heart also disappeared.
The Empire is not some unimaginable god, nor is it some unfathomable supreme being.
It is made up of ordinary human beings.
The establishment of an empire was not as easy and peaceful as God's creation of the world in seven days.
The creator of the empire did not create the world with a few words.
Instead, it was only after experiencing countless setbacks and countless battles that he led mankind out of the ruins and desolation and established an empire.
The existence of the empire celebrates not God but humanity itself.
The people sitting together put themselves into the story, imagining themselves joining the grand expedition.
What a grand undertaking that is.
"Such a story can satisfy those middle school students, but it is far from enough to make people cry." Lucifer said as he looked up while wiping the wine glass.
Constantine drank the glass of wine in one gulp and smiled.
"This story is just the beginning. If it were just this, I would never cry so hard that I can't control myself. The cruelest thing in the world is to show you the beauty and then shatter it completely. You have witnessed a king's expectations for his race and the great plan that the first human master outlined for mankind. Now, this is the cruel part of this story."
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"You are my son, Horus. We have fought side by side for the longest time, and you are the one who knows my dreams and goals best. Now, the time has come for me to retire from Terra, and my duty as a warrior will end here. The next battle will be handed over to you. I grant you the title of Warmaster. From now on, all my armies and generals will obey you, as if the orders were given by me personally. Go and save those lost compatriots with my trust, no."
Horus became Warmaster and gained control of all the armies.
The Emperor returned to Terra to begin the next phase of His plans.
If this plan succeeds, mankind will be truly liberated and will be able to live happily, and the long dark night will never happen again.
In order to better coordinate resources from various locations, the Emperor established the Terran Senate to handle Terran government affairs and establish and maintain Imperial laws throughout the countless Imperial worlds.
The emperor's departure caused a lot of trouble to people.
After the Terra Council was established, the Primarchs who did not get seats felt that they had been abandoned.
They openly questioned Horus' orders, ignored his instructions, or twisted his commands for their own purposes.
Horus felt the pressure enormously.
He had to do his best to maintain his balance and strive for victory in order to maintain his identity and status.
Horus was in desperate need of honor to prove himself worthy of the title of Warmaster.
Any insult to his reputation was unbearable for Horus at that time.
And the enemies hiding in the dark took advantage of this.
The Emperor launched this war not to create an empire under his control, but for the true transcendence of mankind, so that mankind could escape the ultimate fate of destruction.
The Emperor's enemies are the primordial destroyers. Some people call them gods, while others call them omniscient and almighty. But no matter what the name or title is, it can be seen how powerful and terrifying those guys are.
When the emperor is powerful, they hide.
When the Emperor was forced to leave his sons, they became active, secretly looking for opportunities to corrupt the Emperor's offspring.
As the Warp Storm draws nearer, the Emperor's time is running out.
He must create a faster-than-light road for humanity that does not rely on the Warp before a new Warp storm arrives, in order to maintain the Empire's communications and navigation.
The arrival of the storm weakened the connections between the various regions of the empire.
Even with the Astronomican's guidance, Warp navigation was slowly becoming dangerous.
The connection between the entire Empire and Terra is slowly weakening.
Humanity must find a way to bypass its dependence on the Warp, otherwise the new empire will be destroyed in a new round of storms.
If we fail this time, humanity will never have the chance to rebuild civilization.
The Chaos Gods will completely control the real universe, just like those corrupted universes, and become a paradise for the inanimate.
The empire will once again become fragmented, and human civilization will be destroyed.
The Emperor must hurry up to carry out his plans and complete all the work.
This plan is so crucial.
So much so that he could only share it with a few people who were always there for him.
Not even the Primarchs knew the details.
When the Emperor was not paying attention, those arrogant and ignorant Primarchs were corrupted by the original creatures who were deliberately trying to enslave humanity and control the real universe.
The first Corruptor was Lorgar, Primarch of the Word Bearers Chapter.
He madly worshipped those individuals with great power and built enough temples for the Emperor.
In his fanaticism, he committed many unforgivable crimes in the name of the Emperor.
Imagine those medieval religious wars put into space.
Planet after planet was burned as heretics for refusing to listen to Lorgar's religious theories.
The whole world smells like barbecue.
During the Great Crusade, Lorgar launched countless religious massacres.
Many innocent people were ordered to be exterminated because they did not accept the Word Bearers' teachings.
The Emperor did not like Lorgar's behavior and reprimanded him many times, asking him to learn from the Holy Emperor Guilliman.
Out of jealousy, this guy turned to worshipping the power of destruction.
He and his minions secretly planned the Davin incident.
First, they stole a terrible weapon containing the evil power of the Warp from a human civilization scattered among the stars, then tricked Horus into falling into their trap, allowing a traitor on the planet Davin to find an opportunity to use the weapon to injure Horus.
Weakened by their wounds, and filled with doubts about the Emperor's cause, the unholy gods finally broke through Horus's defences.
Horus had no idea what the Emperor was doing in the crypt!
Nor is it clear that humanity is facing an unprecedented extinction crisis.
A super-large-scale subspace storm will tear apart the fragile human civilization and turn the entire real universe into hell.
He only felt that he was abandoned by his father, and his primarch brothers were unwilling to obey his orders.
In deception and lies, Horus made a sinful pact with the Chaos Gods.
"Surrender the Emperor to us, and you will be the true Lord of the Galaxy, Horus."
The Chaos Gods deceived Horus into believing that his father was the source of chaos.
He wants to save mankind from his father.
Those Primarchs who were originally corrupt and dissatisfied with the Emperor were quickly won over by him.
Even the Space Marines were quickly pulled into their camp.
The Primarch has a great influence on the Legion.
The Space Marines regard their Primarchs as fathers and mentors, and are willing to fight for them until death.
Of course, there were some Space Marines who did not go along with the trend.
They valued the future of humanity more than the Primarch.
Firmly believe that only the Emperor can lead the future of mankind.
A sad betrayal soon broke out.
Horus used the power in his hands to transfer those Space Marine Legions that could not be loyal to him far away, and distorted the Emperor's orders, forcing the Space Wolves and the Thousand Sons Sorcerers to fight a bloody battle.
On the planet Instefan III, Horus planned another large-scale purge.
He set a trap in Yin Stefan and ambushed the three loyal Primarchs together with those Primarchs who had already betrayed but not been exposed.
Eventually, the Primarch of the Iron Hands, Ferrus, was killed, the Primarch of the Salamanders, Vulkan, was captured, and the Primarch of the Raven Guard, Corax, was rescued after a long guerrilla campaign, but his subordinates suffered heavy casualties.
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Constantine lowered his voice, and the holographic ball in his hand also broadcast the sorted video and audio.
Those heroes screamed in betrayal and despair.
They never thought that their companions would betray them.
Scenes of war after war were recorded.
The Battle of Yinstefan, the betrayal of Calth, the massacre of five hundred worlds, Beta Galmon, etc., wars based on galaxies continued to break out.
Tens of billions of humans died each time.
People's mood is also slowly declining.
The glory of human civilization was shrouded in a faint haze.
The drinkers sat in silence at their seats.
The empire's past is so tragic.
It saddened everyone who listened.
"I have lived a life full of honor and a few regrets, traitor, do you dare to say that?"
"For everything we have ever created."
"The grasslands and mountains of Chogoria are so beautiful, and I will never see them again."
"Never betray the blood of Sanguinius."
"The Iron Hands will never surrender."
"Even if Vulkan is dead, the Salamanders will never compromise."
"Fenris forged our unyielding will."
"I want to tell your stories to future generations, but unfortunately I can't do it."
"Remember my name, demon, my name is Or, and I forever spit on you and your master."
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When Constantine tells of the Siege of Terra, and of the heroes who once fought among the stars for humanity and sacrificed themselves one after another to defend the future of humanity.
Mortals took up arms against those terrible monsters.
Use your frail body to fight against the minions of the evil god.
Rely on each other in the darkness and get that little bit of pitiful courage.
Some people have already shed tears.
It’s because the story of Empire is not about superheroes, but about countless ordinary people defending their hard-earned homes.
Driven by the destruction of their homeland, they took up arms to fight unimaginable monsters and traitors to the gods.
There are no heroes in tights, no miracles performed by gods.
It is only the survival that countless human beings have earned with their blood and courage.
"The battle between the loyalists and the rebels was extremely fierce. They fought for palace walls one by one. The corpses piled up like a mountain. The war vehicles trampled corpses and ashes as they moved forward. The war soon reached its climax. After a long war, both the loyalists and the rebels had reached their limits."
"The loyalists were pushed to the last wall. There were no tactics, no strategy, and no hope. Those horrible monsters appeared at will and slaughtered every human being. The sky of Terra was shrouded by countless horrors. The giant eye like a mountain, the huge tentacles like Mount Everest slapped the rotten ground. Each one was so terrifying. The whole world was pulled into the abyss. If Terra fell, there would be no hope for mankind."
"The Emperor walked out of the underground palace where he had been hiding, wounded. The warriors and scholars who had followed the Emperor into the underground palace for the future of mankind had also shed their last blood. His plan - the webway that could be used for faster-than-light communication and navigation - failed due to the stupidity of his offspring - Magnus of the Thousand Sons Legion."
"For the sake of the humanity he protects, and to allow this foolish and short-sighted race to continue to exist, he has decided to duel with his traitorous son. Even if this decision will cost him his life, he will not hesitate. For humanity, the Emperor can give everything."
"When the Emperor was preparing for a decisive battle with Horus, the loyalist reinforcements were only a few hours away from Terra. The loyalists rushed to Terra regardless of everything. As long as their army entered the battlefield, the situation of the war would change dramatically. The loyalists would completely defeat those damned traitors."
"So in the end, the loyalists arrived in time and defeated the traitors led by Horus?" said a drinker with red eyes.
The hero's end, the king's tragedy.
How many people have paid the price of their lives to win the future of mankind.
Reinforcements would arrive on the battlefield in just a few hours.
If the defenders could hold out a little longer, they would be able to defeat those damned traitors and make them pay the heaviest price.
That's a pretty good ending to the story.
Constantine looked around at the people who were listening to the story, and seeing that they all expressed the hope that the story would have a good ending, he immediately revealed a cruel smile.
Reality is not a fairy tale.
Otherwise, how could the empire become so cruel and kill all the gods who were unwilling to submit to the empire
"Horus blocked all external information channels on Terra, and the defenders were unaware of the arrival of reinforcements. What's more terrifying is that Terra had been contaminated by the power of the Warp at that time, and time had been controlled and no longer flowed freely. If the Emperor did not take action to eliminate Horus, he might control time forever and keep the battle at a stalemate."
"The duel between the Emperor and Horus was something that the gods had been promoting all along, and something that humans at the time could not stop. Whether they were loyal warriors or those despicable traitors, they were all just pawns in the hands of the evil god. This civil war that caused huge casualties to humans was just a rare entertainment in the eyes of the evil god."
"The Webway Project backfired on the Emperor, forcing him to constantly focus on sealing and suppressing the Webway entrance, and unable to leave the Underground Palace. His best friend and subordinate, the hero Malcador, sacrificed his life to temporarily take over his place to control the seal and suppress the Webway. The Emperor was able to leave the Underground Palace and drag his exhausted body to the decisive battle with Horus."
"Horus, blessed by the gods, was extremely powerful. He used various conspiracies to weaken the warriors who boarded the ship with the Emperor, and even manipulated them to attack the Emperor."
"When the Emperor got rid of those enemies and led the remaining guards to where Horus was, the enemy had already killed one of the Primarchs on board - Sanguinius. The noble Primarch who fought for humanity to the last moment fell to the ground, his snow-white wings stained red with blood."
"The Emperor was appalled at how fallen Horus had been, and hoped to awaken the spirit of his Son, but the result was sad.
Horus had been completely corrupted and could never be redeemed. He severely wounded the Emperor and killed the Emperor's personal guards and an Immortal who had come from afar. The Immortal had parted ways with the Emperor, but for the future of mankind, he resolutely chose to return. After blocking a fatal blow for the Emperor, he transferred his remaining strength to the severely wounded Emperor, giving him the strength to fight back in the end.
"After realizing that he could not save Horus, the Emperor released a psychic thunderbolt that was powerful enough to destroy a star. Even with the blessing of the evil god, Horus could not resist the psychic thunderbolt and was knocked to the ground, howling miserably."
"After expelling the power of the gods, Horus was able to regain some of his sanity. Realizing what he had done, he shed tears of regret. Horus asked his father to kill him. He had no way to resist the gods."
"Horus was eventually killed, and the Emperor fell from his wounds. Although humanity did not achieve transcendence, it survived."
The eyes of many drinkers were red with tears, and those with more emotional emotions even cried uncontrollably.
The Emperor has accomplished unprecedented feats and possesses great power and immortality.
But he did not seek enjoyment, and gave everything for the weak mortals.
Think about it, there are so many people in this world who want to maximize the power they have and seek benefits for themselves.
All the lowly officials are thinking about making money and having affairs with women.
With two cents in his pocket, he would just spend it on wine and women and do nothing.
The founder of an empire of stars did not have a harem of 30,000 concubines or hundreds of thousands of concubines. Instead, he devoted himself to wars and the struggle to seek benefits for mankind.
Countless human heroes therefore rallied around him.
I thought it would have a happy ending, but it turned out to be so sad.
Those Chaos Evil Gods became the biggest winners.
Humanity suffered countless casualties in the civil war, which nurtured those hateful monsters.
Constantine glanced around at the people and drank the wine that Lucifer poured for him again.
As soon as they got to the point, these people couldn't control their tears.
More exciting things are yet to come.
It will definitely make these people grit their teeth.
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The supreme title of the emperor.
Guilliman came out of the top-secret laboratory and handled some important government affairs while waiting for the Chief Sage, Belisarius Cawl, to come and see him.
"The issue of taxation needs to be discussed in more detail. Some inter-universe colonies do not yet have a strong enough sense of identity with the Empire, and some worlds have not yet recovered from war, reconstruction, and transformation. The burden is too heavy. It is recommended to use a softer indirect tax method."
"We must strengthen supervision in all regions to prevent people from using power and wealth to undermine local democratic elections. Those who are caught will be sent to the disciplinary camp. If they have families, they will be sent there as well. We also require officials from the governments of all sectors and sub-sectors to stop trying to get by, and to work hard to implement all of Terra's standards and requirements."
"Let the heads of these media organizations, such as the Imperial Daily and the Star Report, come up with effective methods and measures to strengthen the management of their branches in various regions, do a good job in guiding the thoughts of the people of the Empire, and resolutely criticize the pursuit of pleasure and excessive individual liberalism. We must establish and maintain the three perspectives of the human race as a whole civilization."
"The Tribunal should conduct a thorough investigation of the bureaucratic systems in various places, firmly implement the principle of the competent taking the top positions, and resolutely put an end to all backdoor and personal connections, and punish them mercilessly. Don't break the bottom line of the empire at will by talking about contributions or personal connections. Breaking this a little, breaking that a little, and then everything will be in chaos. The sacrifices made for the empire are worth remembering and worth rewarding, and the empire should not be stingy on this point. But this kind of reward should not be inherited by the younger generation. Abusing power for personal gain and trying to consolidate the so-called bloodline is extremely short-sighted, and will ultimately poison the entire empire and the entire civilization."
"The assassins' methods should be more secretive and better managed, so as to be as unnoticed as possible. For those who have made great contributions and have great influence, but lack ideological awareness, and always feel that the empire owes them a stable job that can be passed down from generation to generation so that their descendants can be superior to others, when there is no way to use normal means, assassins should be used to eliminate those unruly guys at the lowest cost. The scope of the Assassin's Court should also be expanded. There is no such thing as a perfect system in this world. There are always people who want to walk on the edge of the law, find loopholes, and damage the collective interests of the empire to make themselves full. Such people must be cleared out in time."
Guilliman reviewed government affairs very quickly.
Of course, many details are handled by the Terra Council headed by the Imperial Prime Minister.
Guilliman is only responsible for controlling the big picture.
Guilliman has no moral burden in using assassins to kill those who always walk on the edge of the law and exploit loopholes in the rules.
That's what assassins do.
The parliament always sends assassins to kill so-called political fighters.
What pursuit of peace!
Use all the funds for people’s livelihood!
We must have absolute democracy and freedom.
Advocate the abolition of cloning laws and return to the human small family model.
There are also people who advocate justice and peace, the complete abolition of classes, and the creation of a true utopia.
Others are calling for the abolition of inheritance taxes and interest-based review laws that are so high that heirs receive nothing.
Inheritance taxes in the empire were very high.
Even if the parents are wealthy, the heirs often don't get much.
If you use other means to transfer property and wealth, once investigation and evidence collection confirm the existence of a crime, you will be considered to have evaded taxes. Not only will you have to pay the inheritance tax, you will also have to pay a huge fine and face imprisonment.
Such matters were not difficult to investigate. The Empire possessed a variety of lie detection techniques and could also check memory, so it was almost impossible to escape the inspection of the tax department.
According to the conflict of interest review law, if a promoted imperial official is found to have multiple conflict of interest visiting the same institution, he will be inspected by the inquisitor.
This relationship includes but is not limited to students from the same school, teachers and students, family colleges, or small unofficial certification groups, etc.
The collusion and transfer of interests and the private establishment of factions are taboos in the empire.
Violators will either be sent to the punitive camp or become machine slaves.
Many people have been calling for the repeal of this law, claiming that the punishment is too harsh and not in line with the establishment of a democratic and humane society.
For these guys who have no evidence of any crime and are getting in the way.
Guilliman directly cleared it physically.
The one playing it is a black heart.
In fact, Guilliman had no choice. He couldn't possibly change the system again.
There is only so much cake.
Either you take it or he takes it.
Now the empire is an unfair class model without inheritance.
The class divisions are clear.
Scholars who can produce scientific research results and front-line troops are treated the best.
The higher the rank, the better the resources and treatment one enjoys.
Everyone competes fairly under the same rules and from the same starting point.
How much cake you can eat depends on your ability.
If you can climb to that position, it means you have the ability to reach that position.
Your enjoyment will be in line with that position.
Some say that such a system cannot inspire people's enthusiasm to defend the empire.
If you can’t leave everything you create to future generations, then why bother working so hard!
Guilliman scoffed at such a suggestion.
It sounds as if those innocent people who died in the past have descendants left behind.
Aren't they all just useless guys who have no wife, no son, no money, no power, and know nothing, and are going to die to protect those guys who have power and influence and have things to leave for their descendants!
Guilliman's attitude is that whoever dares to play the game of three generations of officials and vested interests in the imperial system that he has worked so hard to rebuild will be punished.
He dared to guarantee that even the pregnant woman in that family would be sent to the punishment camp.
In today's imperial system, the most important thing is justice.
Everyone can only fight for themselves.
Collusion of interests is absolutely not allowed.
That would bring the entire empire to collapse.
If you are capable, you will enjoy a good life.
You don't have any ability, but if you dare to fight and dare to join the army to fight for a future, you can also live a good life.
If you don't have the ability and don't work hard enough, then you can only live a life of idleness and wait for death.
Guilliman dealt with a few more decrees regarding military deployments when he heard a servant come to report that the Chief Sage had arrived.
"Let him come directly."