Chapter 456: Daily Life of Space Marines and Leman Russ Warthog
Chapter 456 Space Marines' Daily Life with Leman Russ Warthog
Kuitun Death World.
Iron Pagoda Chapter Fortress Monastery.
Located on Kuitun No. 1 Satellite.
(PS: By the way, I am asking for names, for example, White Scars: Quanzhou, Dark Angels: Monolith, Space Wolves: Fang, Raven Guard: Raven Tower...)
Kuitun Death World has three satellites and three moons. The Chapter chose one of the satellites with a thin atmosphere and named it "Kuitun No. 1" as the location of the Iron Pagoda Chapter Monastery to monitor the entire Death World.
The gravitational tidal disturbance caused by the three moons is always affecting the natural ecology of Kuitun's surface. The closer to the equator, the more obvious it is. The crustal plates here are extremely unstable and are always colliding and drifting, and volcanic earthquakes and disasters occur frequently.
The only two stable places are the North and South Poles of the Death World. Although there are no geological disasters here, the climate is extremely cold and only a small number of human tribes live there.
After the Iron Pagoda Legion selected this place as the legion's home planet, they established bases at the North and South Poles to help the local human tribes unite and build basic living facilities, assist them in expanding their population, and teach them language and culture, the use of machinery and combat skills... In return, the local human tribes must submit a group of young boys with the strongest bodies, the most determined wills, and the most superb martial arts every year as candidates for new recruits for the Iron Pagoda warriors.
For the local human tribes.
Although the trials and operations will take the lives of countless young boys, it is a great honor for the entire tribe to be selected.
For the legion priests.
Although the physical fitness of the residents of this death world is very high, and the harsh environment has tempered their strong physiques, the population is still too small to support the screening.
Fortunately, the legion's gene seeds are not too many at present.
If the operation fails but the person who received the operation is lucky enough to survive, the legion will generally allow these young boys to enter the legion and become legion servants. Including warship operation servants (crew), medical servants (nurses), historical servants (historians), cooking servants (cooks), logistics servants (chores), etc. Different chapters have different attitudes towards chapter servants.
The White Scars call servants "Zat". The Iron Hands use chapter servants as a source of wetware. The Blood Angels have a special kind of chapter servant called "blood slaves", who voluntarily dedicate themselves to become mobile blood packs, and wait for the Blood Angels Space Marines to replenish blood when they are thirsty for blood. Most chapters can treat chapter servants equally, and the Salamanders are a model among them, but there are also some worse ones, such as the Man-eater Shark. For them, chapter servants are just a group of slaves.
At this time, the light of the stars has not yet illuminated the satellite.
The day of the Iron Pagoda Space Marines begins.
Four o'clock in the morning: morning meditation.
The day begins with the company chaplain leading the soldiers to meditate and contemplate in the Iron Pagoda Military Academy. The company's flags and relics are displayed here, and the soldiers loudly repeat their oaths to the Chapter and the Emperor. At this moment, the company commander will give a speech or issue orders to all his comrades, usually announcing appropriate rewards and promotions, and if necessary, punishments.
5:00 a.m.: Firing Practice.
After the morning prayer every day, the Iron Pagodas conduct the first shooting practice of the day as usual. All individual long-range weapons must be practiced, but the focus is on personal weapons. Rewards and punishments will be issued according to the good or bad shooting results. Shooting practice will be carried out in the armory or the shooting range of the monastery.
7:00 a.m.: Combat Training
From the previous shooting practice, it will switch to unarmed combat training and close combat weapon training. The situations that will be encountered in actual combat are accurately simulated, including countless lethal or non-lethal environmental conditions, such as polar regions, volcanoes, rift valleys, swamps, or areas with mixed characteristics of the above.
12:00 p.m.: Lunch Study
Most Astartes Chapters will start praying again at this time, but for the Iron Pagodas, now is the time to study! They can read any information in the Chapter's Book Library and Library, including but not limited to books on geography, history, humanities, etc. Qingshan Khan encourages learning and encourages soldiers to learn all knowledge, not just military knowledge. Khan requires his soldiers to be knowledgeable, questioning, thoughtful, discerning, and diligent, so that they will not be deceived by some evil gods.
1pm: Lunch
The Iron Pagodas start lunch, which is usually nutritious but tasteless food for Space Marines, such as triglyceride gel and amino acid oatmeal porridge, and local creatures hunted in the morning combat training as a side dish.
1:15pm: Tactical Indoctrination
Learn new combat language, including sign language and jargon, study the weapons, deployment, and vehicles of aliens and traitors, review the tactics of squads and companies, and take exams on the subjects learned in the morning combat training.
3pm: Tactical and driving training
The afternoon is mainly about the coordinated combat exercises of squads and companies, including but not limited to driving various Space Marine-specific vehicles. Qingshan Khan encourages innovation, so each company occasionally tries some new tactical exercises.
8pm: Evening Study
Most Marines' evening prayers are replaced by meditation, review, and reflection. During this time, the Apothecaries of each company will conduct tests and observations on the gene-seed.
9pm: Dinner
Dinner is a more important meal than lunch. The Chapter Servants will prepare a hearty meal, not food for Space Marines. Qingshan Khan allows the warriors to drink, but not neurotoxins.
9:30 pm: Night combat training
The world where the Iron Pagoda Chapter Fortress Monastery is located has an objective night, so night combat training can be carried out. If the Chapter happens to be on a ship sailing in the void at this time, then the night combat training will be changed to training underwater combat, crossing fog, fighting in zero gravity, or fighting in other special alien environments. Any Space Marine who makes noise or collides with his companions during night combat training will be punished.
11:15 pm: Maintenance ceremony
The Space Marines use this time to maintain their personal weapons and power armor. The three cavalry companies maintain their jet motorcycles; the Vanguard Group maintains various types of armored vehicles; the Vanguard Group maintains the Assault Terminator; the Xiaolong Group regularly checks the Sword Tail-class interceptors to ensure that they are ready for battle at any time. The company's technical sergeant supervises and reviews this.
11:45pm: Free time
Although free time is only 15 minutes, most Chapter Masters still think that free time is a waste of boredom and an extremely dangerous distraction. Qingshan Khan allows Space Marines to have and manage personal time, and encourages them to develop some personal hobbies, such as poetry, painting, music, and board games, but gambling is not allowed.
00:00: Rest time
Start sleeping, four hours.
In general, compared with other Chapters, the daily life of the Iron Pagoda Chapter is quite regular. It is not particularly strict, such as the Black Templars praying three times a day and each time must be long enough, but it is not too lax - in the Warhammer 40K universe, if you are too obsessed with art, you will be tempted by Slaanesh; if you are too obsessed with knowledge, you will be tempted by Tzeentch; if you are too obsessed with killing, you will be tempted by Khorne... Three times a day of meditation and reflection is similar to most Chapters praying three times a day.
Practice the doctrine of the mean and refuse to go to extremes.
It is the way for the Iron Pagoda Chapter to counter the malice of the Warp.
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Days pass by one after another.
The Chapter Master is very busy during this period.
He had to arrange two tanks, an airdrop capsule and an intelligent robot STC to exorcise demons and then enter the industrial system of the Phaeton Foundry World, and assist Master Quinto in serum experiments, so he had no time to take care of the plot line events, nor the seven-member team of the Zero Realm Guild.
But these people couldn't hide in the cabin all the time. It was always inconvenient to have too many people on the warship, so Lin Yu was sent to take them to wander around the Marques Wangxing area in disguise, and experience the different styles of the Foundry World, the Hive World, the Agricultural World and the Death World in turn.
Lin Yu took the seven people of the Zero Realm Guild on a low-altitude airship and followed the main road of the Phaeton Foundry City to the suburbs. This is a plantation area for luminous fungi and brain fungi from the radiation universe. In addition to the artificial lighting facilities on both sides of the road, large areas of fungi emitted a green light, rolling along the ridges and hills, as if they were in an endless fluorescent ocean.
"Wow, it's really beautiful."
Olivia exclaimed.
In the fungus sea, there are also some two-headed cows (Brahmins) wandering around. If these radiation universe creatures did not look too scary and weird, the scene outside the forging city would even have a pastoral feeling.
"I read in the data that the forging worlds in Warhammer 40K are all rusty wastelands with no grass. Why can the Phaeton forging world have so many animals and plants?"
Olivia asked Lin Yu a question.
"Because these animals and plants all come from the radiation universe, they have highly adapted to the radiation environment. On the contrary, if the radiation dose in the environment is not enough, the output may be reduced. This is a natural landscape unique to the Phaeton forging."
Lin Yu explained.
He did not say another reason.
Godzilla had just entered the underground maze and began to sleep deeply. Since he fell into hibernation, the radiation dose in the environment of the Phaeton forging world has been getting lower and lower. The problem now is that if the Phaeton forging world cannot continue to expand its production capacity, the radiation pollution caused will not even be enough for Brother to absorb.
They are all underground mazes.
Mars has a void dragon.
Phaeton has Godzilla.
"What is that?"
At this time, a human warrior pointed at a four-wheeled off-road vehicle that was speeding past below and asked.
"That seems to be... a Warthog troop carrier?"
Augustus frowned and said.
His tone was a little uncertain.
A vehicle with the Halo universe suddenly appeared in the Warhammer 40K universe, which made him a little unsure.
"Yes, it's the Warthog."
Lin Yu gave a positive answer.
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"Warthogs are part of the UNSC, just like boots, guns and tasteless coffee."
-"Halo Encyclopedia"
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At this time, in the center of the foundry city.
Master Buck's Industrial Foundry Temple.
A huge palace-like room.
It was marked with the "Phaeton Power Propulsion Center".
Science fiction is complicated.
In fact, it is nothing more than a problem of power and propulsion.
In terms of power, the highest level technology Fu Qinghai has mastered is nuclear power. Including the power packs of the Space Marines, the battleship engines of the Chapter fleet, the energy core of the Four-Armed Titan, the core engine of the Thunderhawk gunship... they are all the Nydra Zaza Reactor, also known as the Star God Burner Reactor. In essence, it is still cold nuclear fusion, but it is a very efficient cold nuclear fusion reaction. In Warhammer 40K, they are usually called plasma reactors, but they are actually nuclear power reactors.
The difficulty of controllable cold fusion technology is not low at all, and it has even reached the ceiling of most science fiction universes. Going up to the nuclear power reactor, there are the super-matter reactors of Star Wars, the anti-matter reactors of Star Trek, the dark matter reactors of Transformers... Fu Qinghai has not yet been exposed to these science fiction technologies, so he can only look forward to them.
No matter which science fiction universe, the cost of nuclear power reactors is very high, and they cannot be used in all aspects (except for the radiation universe, radiation is really a bit weird).
Therefore, many science fiction universes, including Warhammer 40K, still have room for traditional gas turbine engines (aerospace engines) and piston internal combustion engines (vehicle engines). Including various fighter planes, jet motorcycles and armored vehicles... they still use fuel engines. It just changes from the traditional fossil fuel gasoline, diesel, kerosene, to the science fiction fossil fuel promethium. Phaeton Forge World uses artificial monster blood.
It is not that using a nuclear power reactor is better than using a piston internal combustion engine. For example, among the super-heavy tanks of the same level in the Imperial Armor series, the Shadow Sword uses a nuclear power reactor, and the Poison Blade uses a piston internal combustion engine. This is a matter of choice based on cost and maintenance. No one is the best. The Thunderhawk gunship uses a nuclear power reactor, and the Swordtail-class interceptor uses a gas turbine engine. However, the Swordtail-class interceptor flies faster than the Thunderhawk gunship, and the speed difference in the atmosphere is even more obvious.
But even a piston internal combustion engine.
Warhammer 40K also has black technology.
The Imperial Guard's Emperor's Baneblade tanks and Leman Russ tanks, as well as the Space Marines' Rhino troop carriers and Predator tanks, all use an engine called a "multi-fuel adaptive thermal combustion reactor", also It is commonly known as "can burn anything", alcohol, fat, gas... This kind of universal adaptability is itself a very outrageous black technology.
But now there is an opportunity.
Fu Qinghai can make it even more outrageous.
"The Warthog Armed Application Vehicle, or 'Warthog' for short, is the collective name for a series of junior joint light tactical ground vehicles serving the United Nations Space Command's armed forces. Its various variants are capable of serving as equipment transport, utility, Command and control, ambulance reconnaissance and various other tactical and logistics support roles. It is a highly maneuverable, four-wheel drive and all-wheel steering vehicle powered by a liquid-cooled, hydrogen-injected ICE engine and equipped with a manual transmission. "
Koshvito said with pride.
At this time, in the Phaeton Power Propulsion Center, Master Buck, Fu Qinghai, Shi Lan, and Koshvito all gathered in a circle to carefully observe the device in front of them. The first three were the master of the forge, the master of forging, and the space ape. Kirschvitto, a Spartan warrior, seemed a little out of place among them, but his tone was still full of pride.
Because the Warthog is as iconic an element of the Halo universe as the Spartan.
"What is a liquid-cooled hydrogen-injected ICE engine?"
Master Buck asked.
"Hydrogen fuel is burned inside the engine at very high temperatures with a synthetic carbon-silicon catalyst to allow for higher utilization. This hydrogen engine is the standard engine for all UNSC ground vehicles as well as the vast majority of air vehicles, approximately four hundred years ago to replace conventional engines based on fossil fuels.”
Kirshvitto immediately introduced it.
"Hey, to put it bluntly, it's just an internal combustion engine that burns hydrogen. There's nothing special about it."
Fu Qinghai said at this time:
"That's what I want you to focus on."
Fu Qinghai pointed to an accessory device next to him:
"Graf Hautmann Solar Salt Water Converter."
"What is this?"
Master Buck continued to ask.
"Just add 12 liters of fresh water or seawater and the device will convert it into hydrogen gas, and then with the help of this hydrogen the Warthog can travel up to 800 kilometers."
Fu Qinghai explained.
"Twelve liters of water, eight hundred kilometers."
He emphasized again.
"Well……"
Master Buck and Slann frowned together.
"Just asking if you are awesome?"
Koshvito asked with a smile.
"The premise is that there is sunlight in the environment."
Fu Qinghai added, and then said:
"The Warthog series vehicles themselves have nothing outstanding. They are very fast but have very thin armor. They are nothing more than a halo version of a machine gun pickup truck. The liquid-cooled hydrogen-injection engine actually has no outstanding features. The Leman Rust tank The multi-fuel adaptable reactor is a hundred times more powerful, but this Graf Hautermann solar brine converter is truly amazing.”
"Koshvito has obtained the relevant technology. If we can copy this device and improve it using Imperial's existing material science technology...a multi-fuel adaptive thermal combustion reactor coupled with a Graf Hautermann solar brine reformer, The endurance of the vehicle will be terrifying.”
Fu Qinghai said seriously.
"There's definitely potential."
Master Buck commented.
The calorific value of hydrogen is not as high as that of promethium, but seawater is much cheaper than promethium.
Hydrogen can be produced with sunlight and seawater, and the pressure of logistics supply will be greatly reduced.
"This will be our unique technology."
Fu Qinghai affirmed.
"The Leman Rust tank will be fully refitted."
Master Buck sighed and said:
"I don't know if the guys on Mars will accept it."
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