Chapter 32 Beautiful Dream
Tell a joke: In the 40K era, who is the only person in the entire Empire who does not think that the God-Emperor is a God? It is the Emperor.
Coincidentally, the same thing happened to the Grey Knights, which was founded in the 31st millennium.
Among all the people in the entire Empire who have the right to know the existence of this army, who would think that the Grey Knights are not Grey Knights? Coincidentally, it is not them.
The old Emperor knows his own business. Becoming a god is just a choice for him, but this choice does not match his vision.
But the Grey Knights can only suffer by themselves. The facts in front of them do not have a "like or not" option.
They are really not Grey Knights. Or, not the Grey Knights that were originally thought.
Can a chapter without a Primarch be called a chapter? Can a chapter without a complete transformation process be called a chapter? Maybe someone will say:
"Without a Primarch, isn't it the same to have a source of gene seeds?"
"Without a complete transformation process, isn't it the same to become an Astartes in steps first, and then accept the Emperor's genetic transformation?"
Is it really the same? Is there really no difference? Others may not know, but the Grey Knights know it clearly.
What is the significance of the Primarch? What is the significance of his existence to a chapter, a legion, or even the entire empire?
Is he a wise leader? Or an invincible commander? None, or to be more precise, these are not their original and most essential meanings.
In the past history of the empire, people have endowed the Primarchs with too many legendary colors, and these external glitz obscured the eyes of the imperial scholars to explore the true meaning of the Primarchs.
Let us put aside these overly strong personal colors, political factors and those dispensable military significances:
What is the significance of a Primarch? The answer is actually very simple, he is a stabilizer, nothing more.
An individual life created by diluting the Emperor's own genes that cannot be borne by mortals.
And this life stands out from mortals through its own individual evolution, and establishes a stable node in the long evolutionary journey between mortals and the Emperor.
Through this node, he can maintain a lower limit, a stable, mass-produced lower limit of extraordinary warriors.
Even if this lower limit is a weaker product than the Primarch, it is acceptable to the Empire.
This is the "gene seed". When the first batch of gene seeds cultivated from the Primarch was sent to the cultivation base on Mars after heavy protection and began to replicate and spread in batches.
In the eyes of the Emperor, the mission of the Primarch has actually been largely completed.
The remaining so-called leaders and commanders are just icing on the cake. Or to put it more harshly, it is just waste utilization.
Would the legions without the Primarch not fight during the Great Crusade?
Or, before the return of the Primarch, those legions that had already followed the Emperor himself to gallop across the galaxy did not have their own commanders? Or a mature war system?
The answer is of course no.
Even the combat system of the Dark Angels, as a founding legion, was mature long before the return of the Lion King.
The so-called "six wings" integrated by the angels' Primarchs after their return are nothing more than the "Sky Army" system that the Legions had already evolved and perfected before their return, with just a new name.
But please do not ignore the significance of the Primarchs. A complete transformation that can be achieved through a one-time operation may seem natural in the eyes of the Legion's descendants.
But in the eyes of the Grey Knights, this has become a luxury that is out of reach. What the Grey Knights lack is this node.
Don't the Grey Knights want to expand? Or can the "Astartes Codex", which is not taken seriously by a mere founding regiment, bind these mysterious regiments that are directly descended from the Emperor like the Imperial Guards?
What's more, the source of this "Codex" comes from an unknown founder of the Second Empire?
Terra! The wind on the Himalayas in the Imperial Palace District is warmer than this joke!
Let's take a look at the Imperial Guards, which are also brothers. In the eight millennia since 31K, they suffered heavy losses in the Webway War, but have quietly restored the huge scale of the peak period known as the "Ten Thousand Men Corps".
And hidden behind this terrible appearance is an even more terrible fact: the Imperial Guards send out an unknown number of guards every year, and there are more retired personnel all over the galaxy than the number of people serving in the Legion.
However, the number of Imperial Guards on duty in the Imperial Palace District has never decreased.
Retired Imperial Guards are not Imperial Guards? Well, there are too many cold jokes today.
At best, they decided to take off the golden armor and put on black robes to run around the galaxy for the Empire after confirming that they would no longer make progress.
Does it look familiar? Yes, I did this before I played the game and released the Novice Village.
Under this operating model, the true size of the Imperial Guards may only be known by the Emperor himself.
What little secrets and the Second Empire, compared with this big secret that is well known but no one dares to ask, the former two are nothing.
The Grey Knights knew this, and were jealous to the point of their eyes turning red, but it was useless.
The Emperor had a chance to solve this problem for them, but think about it, the Emperor was already in trouble when he established this army;
Prime Minister Malcador had a chance to solve this problem, but he was ahead of the Emperor;
Dora Cawl on Mars, ugh! It was the Mechanical Magus Belisar Cawl, who also had a chance to solve this problem.
But unfortunately, from the time he accepted Guilliman's support to start the Primaris Space Marine project in 32K, he knew nothing about the existence of the Grey Knights in the 8,000 years before and after.
So the Grey Knights could only hope to rely on their own recruitment range throughout the galaxy and those chapters with cooperative relations under the influence of the Inquisition.
In the hope that with the massive supply of soldier samples, enough excellent samples can be screened out, and through several generations, dozens of generations, or even hundreds of generations of optimization.
There must be a sample that can successfully cross the dividing line between God and man, right?
However, no, before Calvin, in the 8 long millennia, among the hundreds of millions of samples, no Grey Knight could achieve the hidden condition in the final test.
There was no one who could really stand up and provide a stable node between man and god for the continuation of the entire legion, like other Primarchs.
What if there is even one? Just one, just one will do.
Then, after being baptized by the blood of the Emperor and having his life level elevated, this person can also use his own seeds to save the entire regiment the last step of screening.
Just for this step, how many excellent seeds have died in the past 8,000 years!
So the entire Grey Knights can only repeat the process of raising Gu, investing so many excellent seeds every year, but the harvest is very few.
It is in this context that from the initial hope, to luck, and then to despair. The Grey Knights gradually stopped talking about this topic.
The predecessors died one after another and returned to the throne. The regiment has never been fully staffed in 8,000 years, and there has never been enough manpower for rotation and rest.
The Grey Knights, who live on the brink of structural collapse every day, put this matter that everyone knew on the shelf. Avoid talking about it.
Today, 39 thousand years later, only when the Grand Masters take over the positions from their predecessors will the predecessors bring up this topic to them.
Aidan had very high expectations for Calvin, but no matter how high the expectations were, they were not extravagant. He had never subconsciously thought that he could solve this problem in his lifetime.
But now, everything has changed with Calvin's words.
Calvin's words made him see a beautiful dream, and this dream was only separated from reality by a trial of joining the order.
"We have a real Grey Knight!"
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