Chapter 321: Respective Positions

Imperial calendar millennial timekeeping method, 186. (439, night.

The subspace channel corresponds to the Imperial Storm Sector, and the Horison V Sector leads to the Terra section.

The Supreme Lord and Grand Inquisitor of the Senate of the Human Empire, the Chief of the Supreme Council of the Human Imperial Inquisition, the Grand Master of the Silver Blade Brotherhood of the Holy Hammer Order, Calvin, and his direct fleet finally completed the meeting at the Horison V Sector, which is located at the border between the Storm Sector and the Solar Sector.

It has been 15 days since Ophelia 7 left. According to the millennial timekeeping method used by the Imperial Navy, the two fleets have contacted each other from most of the star field to crossing the vast sea of ​​stars. It has been 27 millennial years. (Each millennial year is 8.76 hours in standard Terra time)

This is the result of the Imperial Navy's emergency decision and the requisition of ships from nearby star regions.

If it is really based on According to the document sent by the Grand Fleet's home port, if ships were to be requisitioned from Baka, then Calvin would have to consider how to spend another year on the Angel of Punishment.

Fortunately, both parties involved in the incident were known for their pragmatism, and their status and influence did not require them to have enough respect for the Imperial Naval Law.

Therefore, for the honor of the navy and Calvin's desire for efficiency, the issue of Baka's illegal requisition of local ships remained strangely silent throughout the process when both parties were aware of it.

Such requisitions involving several large ships and nearly one million crew members involved departments of course not limited to the Grand Fleet itself.

In fact, behind this seemingly simple incident, there were also the tentacles of the Imperial Senate in the Storm Star Region, such as the Ministry of the Interior and its subordinate Legal Affairs Department. The influence of the Ministry, the Military Command and other affiliated units is evident.

These forces and their more specific employees hope to use this incident to undermine the trust between the Grand Fleet and the Inquisition, but all of them have failed without exception.

The reason is that when the controller of the largest force in this star field is sober enough and has enough respect for the highest representative of the second force group, then all the efforts of other monsters and demons will not be feared.

This struggle hidden between documents and files is extremely obscure, and the Navy tries its best to cover it up for honor considerations. (The large-scale crew corruption incident, if the Inquisition intends, is a powerful weapon to attack the top of the entire star field fleet. According to the extravagant and debauched lifestyle of naval officials in the post-imperial era, as long as they want to investigate, there is no one who can't find problems.)

If it weren't for Calvin's high position, Sufficient intelligence network, and a strong enough ability to summarize and proofread all kinds of information.

These open and secret struggles on the hidden front may have really deceived him.

In short, during the fleet reunion, the various documents that traveled throughout the star field made Calvin, although he did not experience it personally, feel that the bureaucratic faction headed by the Ministry of the Interior of the Empire was deeply rooted and omnipresent.

This is undoubtedly a cancer. It is also a worry that Calvin has determined after thinking about it for several lonely nights, and if there is a chance, he must eradicate it.

But they are too large, and their roots in various parts of the empire are too dense;

In today's empire with constant internal and external troubles, even a person as strong as Calvin can only suppress these thoughts deep in his heart and passively deal with the sudden events that keep appearing in front of him.

"Wait a little longer... wait a little longer..." Calvin murmured to himself in the quiet office, then put down the documents of the Ministry of the Interior in his hand and turned his attention to other matters.

After the two fleets met at the edge of the star zone and merged into one, Calvin inevitably experienced another courtesy meeting with the escort fleet corps.

After meeting and appeasing these fleet officers who represented the will of the star zone navy, the fleet immediately adjusted its course under Calvin's order and began to move towards the Grey Knights' base camp in the Storm Star Region - the Feldman Galaxy/Titan II Defense Fortress Group located in this star region.

According to Calvin's standards, the existence of the escort fleet itself is a ceremonial existence. Its real combat power itself is questionable, and the obedience of the warships in the event of an emergency is also an unknown number that people cannot trust.

Especially in the context of the six cruisers from Krieg not leaving, these warships temporarily transferred from the Baka direction are not so much to maintain Calvin's honor as the seat under the Terra High Lord, but rather to maintain the face of the Storm Star Region Navy after the large-scale corruption of the previous fleet.

It was precisely because of this implicit position that the admiral of this fleet showed extraordinary enthusiasm and diligence when he met with Calvin.

Calvin was not impressed by this lack of rigor, but for the same reason that he could not say, he still reluctantly expressed appropriate praise to appease the rather excited mentality of the commodore.

But words are words, and actions are actions. With the Krieg fleet as the core force in his hands, Calvin could no longer put his own safety in the responsibility of the navy.

The formation shown by the large fleet during the march can clearly reflect the will of the fleet master:

Behind the core formation headed by the Angel of Punishment, the three large cruisers of the Spear of Order, the Shield of Order, and the Sword of Order from the Krieg system guarded the flagship in a triangular shape;

The middle and flanks of the fleet were the formation sequence of the Imperial Navy.

The fragile tail of the fleet was also commanded by the Krieg-series cruisers:

Three cruisers that were later manufactured, such as the tail ship of the Order series - Order Shield, the second batch of cruisers Dawnbreak and Dawnfire, quietly occupied these positions in the marching queue after the fleet merged.

Some things between soldiers do not require verbal communication, and the order of the fleets of the navy when merging is just one of these things.

The navy that came later had the intention to make up for their mistakes. After meeting with Calvin, they saw the position reserved by the other party and were ready to fight for it.

But the admiral of the navy looked through the fleet list sent by the other party before the merger, and did not find any mortal warships except the Inquisition.

Compete with the battleship of the Astartes battle group? The admiral of the navy is not so stubborn.

In desperation, this middle-aged and energetic commodore looked around and found no better options.

He could only hold his nose and bear this silent and long "parade of humiliation" unilaterally on behalf of all his colleagues in the Storm Star Region.

This mentality of atonement kept him in a highly depressed mood until the Grand Fleet encountered an accident in the subspace as expected...

The first and second updates may be a little later. The firecrackers were too noisy, and my mind was in a mess...