Chapter 332 Return, Inspection on Titan II

The small-scale battle with the Eldar on the space hulk did not cause a greater conflict between the two races;

No trace of the Eldar navy was found in the fleet's subsequent voyage. Under high alert, the large fleet successfully reached the predetermined target - the Federman IV system a week later.

"What about the equipment loss?"

On the eve of the fleet approaching the Federman section, Calvin was still finishing the previous battle.

With the help of the technicians of the Mechanicus, the proceeds from the previous battles and excavations are in the stage of intense inventory and verification.

Calvin is very concerned about these followers, especially their personnel and equipment losses after the war.

In the previous battles with the Eldar, the Terminator battle groups of each regiment fought all the way, giving full play to the advantages of the Terminator's heavy firepower in the narrow terrain of the hulk.

The total number of enemies killed by more than 300 can be said to be a brilliant achievement in the recent combat records of the Inquisition, both in terms of quantity and the ratio of enemy and friendly losses.

But everything has a price. As the price of such gains, these veterans equipped with heirlooms of various chapters also paid a heavy loss of twelve people. As for the number of disabled people, it is twice that.

Fortunately, Calvin and the Astartes are accustomed to this kind of sacrifice. The departure of comrades is not a loss in the eyes of the Emperor's angels walking in the starry sky.

For those who have endless lifespans because of war and protection, this act of sacrificing life for the realization of self-worth is itself an excellent reward and relief.

Faith is loyalty, and sacrifice is reward.

This sentence may be the creed of the priests of the state religion in the eyes of mortals, but in the eyes of the Astartes, this is the most true portrayal of their lives.

A simple funeral is all, and the gene seed recovery ceremony will occupy a large part of it.

Calvin and the commander of the chapter have no time to grieve for this. They need to replace those who sacrificed as the living and make more contributions to the cause of the Emperor and the Empire.

The loss of personnel is like this, and it can be gradually supplemented by new recruits later;

But the loss of equipment is different. The situation of each regiment is different. The general model of Indomitable Tactical Dreadnought is relatively easy to deal with, and the Omen Convent can be responsible for repairing or replacing it;

But there are some special models that are difficult to maintain once lost:

For example, the Gorgon Tactical Dreadnought, the Hades Tactical Dreadnought, and the three extremely rare Red Angel Tactical Dreadnoughts inherited by the Lamenters from the mother regiment.

As the actual supreme commander of the alliance, Calvin must have a clear attitude towards the loss of the relic-level property of these regiments and make timely supplements to the losses of these regiments.

And this supplement is also time-limited, because the soldiers of the regiments urgently recruited this time, except for the new recruits, are essentially in the rest period of rotation from the front line.

The condition of these soldiers who have experienced fierce battles is not intact, and even some veterans are still in the recovery stage after being seriously injured.

Calvin's previous warning to them was a helpless move under the threat of Ophelia's Chaos invasion;

Since he had sent these warriors here from the distant Krieg, he had the obligation to ensure that all losses of these loyal soldiers were reasonably compensated.

If these damaged equipment cannot be repaired in time, then in the next hundred years of rotation, the lack of equipment will affect the progress of these chapters' missions, thereby adding more unnecessary casualties.

This is something Calvin is extremely reluctant to see. And his meeting with other chapter commanders was carried out in this context.

"Not ideal, at least fifteen tactical dreadnoughts have suffered varying degrees of damage, ten of which need to replace parts, and only one-third can be repaired on the battleship..."

Van Vries, the senior commander of the Weepers Chapter, answered Calvin's question on the other side of the screen.

In order to respond to the call of the Primarch, Castle Lord Van Vries can be said to have given everything. A full forty Indomitable Tactical Dreadnought Power Armor can be said to be half of the equipment support for the Weepers in the Krieg Galaxy in recent years.

If this battle fails, Van Vries dare not think about how he will face his brothers in the chapter.

The situation of other warbands was not much different. The total shortage of nearly 50 tactical dreadnoughts made Calvin, who actually controlled the entire Krieg Warband Alliance, frown.

First of all, excluding the loss of the Minotaur, the reason is that the Akonak battle-type tactical dreadnoughts they were equipped with were extremely special, and the Krieg system did not have the blueprints of this kind of power armor;

Secondly, the High Lords Council paid for these losses, and it was not Calvin's turn to raise them.

Then the remaining 30 tactical dreadnoughts were the problem he needed to solve.

Thirty, a full 30 extra tactical dreadnoughts that he needed to raise.

For other Primarchs, this was nothing at all, and any founding warband could afford this price. But Calvin was different. He could not even make his identity public with his foundation in place, and 30 Terminators were by no means a meaningless number for him.

After the meeting, Calvin stayed in the office, thinking hard about the raising of these equipment.

In theory, these equipment could be produced by the Krieg system, but their production limit was already to support the existing five warbands.

Mars was also excluded by Calvin. With the crazy expansion of the Legion Headquarters, the original inventory of Titan's mother planet must be used with caution. The equipment agreement signed with Mars has a clear quantity limit and cannot be changed for this reason.

Then there is only Reza. Calvin still trusts their industrial manufacturing capabilities.

But the question is, why?

Or to put it more clearly, what is the price?

Judging from their style of doing things without profit, if they cannot give a corresponding price, then the favors owed must be repaid with a more expensive price...

stc, only these human technology crystals representing technology are what they are interested in, or rare mineral planets, but unfortunately Reza is not such a poor forging world.

stc... Calvin looked at the soul stone placed in the corner of the table and remembered the part of the spoils that he had given to the Order of Omen before.

"Well, wait a little longer, wait until the Omen Order has a preliminary assessment of the value of those things, then go and talk to the natives of the Storm Star Region..."

After the fleet continued to maintain a week of subspace navigation, the navigator found the location of the Fedman IV system on the star map according to the comparison of the astronomical torch in the direction of Terra; shortly afterwards, the astropaths also began to communicate intensively from the psychic relay channel, confirming the former's judgment.

Led by the navigator, the fleet began to leap towards the nearest Manzeville point. After a huge roar of energy, the fleet finally saw the light of stars in the physical universe again after several months.

The Imperial Navy obviously knew nothing about the situation here, and they showed great shock to this fortress group located on the route to Terra.

Soon after the Angel of Punishment initiated communication with the defense fortress, under the "guidance" of dozens of frigates, these Imperial Navy fleets quietly followed the instructions of the flagship and quietly sailed towards their assigned berths.

Calvin didn't care too much about these navies. Anyway, before they separated from his fleet, the officers of the naval fleet would inevitably undergo a large-scale memory cleansing.

As for those low-ranking ordinary crew members, unfortunately, in a space city with clear class distinctions like naval warships, they don't even have the right to know where they are if necessary.

On the main star of the Titan II Fortress Group, nearly a thousand Grey Knights were lined up in the square on the surface.

In the years since Calvin left for the expedition, the Titan mother star from Terra has been sending new recruits of the Grey Knights here.

This place is now used as a pilot by the new legion. With the increasing strength of the legion, the Grey Knights' previous ship-based combat mode has been changed to a combat mode that divides the war zone by star field and uses the defense fortress group as a branch base.

The one thousand sons of Calvin and the one hundred Grey Knight veterans here are the core force of this base.

They also undertook the combat mission of the entire Storm Star Field under the leadership of other senior members during the expedition of the castle lord Calvin.

A total of 1,100 Grey Knights, equivalent to the establishment of a whole Astartes regiment.

Although they have never seen Calvin, like all legions, the sons of Calvin have a natural yearning and expectation for their genetic father.

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