Chapter 278 Bidding, but Warhammer

A thrilling (Nicholas's perspective) and witty conversation finally came to a temporary end with Calvin's compromise.

He also reflected on himself afterwards, wondering how much of his anger was truly out of justice and how much was out of personal anger.

The answer he got surprised him:

As far as his current short-term goals are concerned, the suppression of his power by the Imperial Guards has not affected these plans.

To be precise, his goals have never been on the small political stage of Terra;

The intrigues and deceptions between mortals are not in his plans.

As for long-term goals?

Sorry, Calvin himself has no real long-term plan.

In his view, the revival of the Legion is just a remedy for the invasion of Chaos;

And in the vast territory of the Empire, even if the size of the Grey Knights reaches the legion organization of the Great Crusade era, it is just another form of fire brigade.

100,000 people are a lot? Calvin sneered at this.

In the context of the Warp Dark Gods mastering the super-rule weapon of the Warp Storm, both the efficiency of force delivery and the isolation and shielding of the Imperial support forces are difficult problems for the Empire to solve.

Let alone the existence of these 100,000 people is just a planned existence. Even if there are really 100,000 Grey Knights serving one day, can it be considered a threat in the eyes of the gods?

Don't forget how the Imperial Fists lost their core heritage.

What the orcs can do, the evil gods can't do?

Under a deliberate Warp Storm, a large number of pre-prepared demon legions are enough to put a legion into an irretrievable situation.

Don't think that the Primarch will be safe with the protection of the legion.

How did Mortarion fall?

When Horus was plotted against, how many legions were around him?

More than one, right?

Calvin is not completely unaware of these details that have been buried in the dust of history.

But under the repeated review of the events of that year by the Inquisition, there is still a vague understanding of the misfortunes encountered by some people.

This is the gap in strategic mobility and the one-way transparency of the strategic fog of war!

Humanity must get rid of the shadow of the subspace, otherwise there is no hope for the future.

Humanity must have another development path besides the webway. Even if the road ahead is full of difficulties and obstacles, it is better than waiting for the end of racial extinction in the stagnation of constant rigidity and corruption.

And is Calvin capable of planning all this?

His life in his past and present lives combined is less than 200 years. How can he undertake such a mission?

It should be noted that the education he received in his two lives combined is just the four words "protecting the home and defending the country".

Even if his origin and nature are so special, it cannot make up for his lack of overall strategic perspective in long-term planning of the fate of the entire race.

Everything, in the end, must return to the original starting point of the human empire-the emperor.

The return fleet finally set sail within a month after the arrival of the imperial guards.

Traveling together is the mechanical ark fleet of the forge world of Reza.

Their huge size has become the actual main force of this fleet.

The trophy at the rear of the fleet, the Orcs' battle moon, bound by the gravity claws of several large warships, has become an even more impressive behemoth.

Calvin no longer asks about the specific matters of the fleet, and most of his energy is in the training hall of the Angel of Punishment.

The exploration of the Grey Knights' combat mode is now Calvin's most concerned matter;

The second most important work is the selection of political officers within the regiment.

There is not much obvious progress in the former for the time being. After all, they are limited by their scale and have been working on the positioning of the secret armed forces of the Inquisition for thousands of years.

The existing armaments and tactics of the regiment are based on the planning and setting of the specialization route.

Even the internal information and feedback on tactical thinking are all accumulated in the direction of specialization.

The reconstruction of the tactical system is a painful rebirth in the army of any era.

Calvin didn't expect to see gratifying progress in a short time.

The existing legion mode is a very good start. The light infantry combat path that Calvin was familiar with in his previous life has almost been taken to the extreme by the Grey Knights under the legion mode.

But that's all. Calvin has seen the upper limit of this tactic.

The premise of light infantry combat is that there is space between the enemy and us on the battlefield;

But in the war with the gods, especially in the battle with Nurgle, numbers have always been the enemy's advantage.

Not all battlefields have the conditions for the use of light infantry tactics;

It can even be said that in most battlefields, the absolute firepower density and injury tolerance are still the final battle.

If the Grey Knights do not want to suffer heavy losses on such battlefields, then their weapons must not be limited to light armored units.

They need a full set of full-range tactical equipment from close to medium and from medium to long;

They need three-dimensional strike capabilities from light to heavy and from ground to air!

Only in this way can they cope with mission environments other than decapitation strikes;

Only in this way can they step out of the existing tactical positioning and face the wider universe, thereby taking more responsibilities.

This is the result of many discussions between him and his staff and the mechanical priest Constantine.

After careful consideration, the latter decided to send a permanent technical team to participate in the construction of the Titan II Fortress Group.

The representatives of Mars also received relevant news in the following days.

As the central force of the Mechanicus, they cannot sit idly by and watch their competitors erode and win over their allies.

The armed sequence of such an important ally was replaced by the Forge World of Reza from the technical standard level, which was a reality they could not accept.

But they could not simply and rudely stop it.

Today's Grey Knights are different from the past. With Calvin, the head of the Inquisition, Mars has to consider the cost of a complete fallout with Calvin, the current high lord.

Attitudes always become flexible in the face of strength, and Mars is no exception.

In response, the technical representative of Mars suggested to Calvin in a later meeting:

In the tactical exploration of the Grey Knights, they can completely make a final choice after proposing specific equipment requirements and comparing and referring to the technical solutions provided by the two companies within a certain period.

As for this kind of healthy competition, Calvin expressed his pleasure.

In the days that followed, he took out some existing orders and placed them in front of the representatives of the two forge worlds.

Among them, the garrison equipment of the Titan II Fortress Group attracted great attention from the two countries.

A competition for the production order of the Grey Knights' equipment quietly unfolded on the way back to the fleet.

This was not just a question of equipment for hundreds of Astartes:

In the eyes of the two forge worlds, this was the first order taken by Calvin, the representative of the Grey Knights.

And the ownership of this order not only represents the future equipment tendency of these Grey Knights, but also a competition for the attitude of Calvin himself, the new noble of the empire.

Under the leadership of Constantine, the deputy forge supervisor, the world of Reza obviously had a faster response speed.

After several meetings, the representatives of Reza threw out their usual trick - technology licensing.

Once this nuclear bomb-level technology proliferation treaty that spared no expense appeared, it successfully forced the representatives of Mars into a dead end.

The representatives of the Martian forge world left the meeting in anger. In his eyes, this pure behavior of exchanging technology for standards was almost unprofitable.

This was beyond his authority, and he could only respond after receiving authorization from Mars at a higher level.

A small-scale bidding ended, and Riza Forge World, the landlord of the Storm Star Region, temporarily won;

But both Constantine and the Martian technical priest knew that this competition was a game between two forces;

And in the context of the two major forces fighting openly and secretly for nearly ten thousand years, the fight here was just the beginning.

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