Chapter 336: Gap, the Seeds of the First Group

Galvin finally chose to change his own ship after he decided to take the 1,000 newly born Grey Knights with him.

The Grey Knights who were still in hibernation and had not yet awakened were all moved to the new flagship, the Grey Knights' backup battleship, the Relentless Crusade, under the supervision of the pharmacist by the servitors.

This is a huge ship with an effective space of eight kilometers. Its body, which is covered with adamantium armor, is nearly 3 kilometers wide at its widest point and 1.4 kilometers at its narrowest point.

The two Mars-type nova cannons on the bow are enough to instantly evaporate the entire fleet when firing at full power; the Emperor's Blade-type light spear array, which has a total of sixteen cannons after the entire ship completely abandons the macro cannons, is the nightmare of every enemy stared at by its auspicious instrument.

This type of battleship has been discontinued, and its sister ships are almost invisible in the current Imperial Navy. Mars's replenishment of this type of battleship is also limited to the first two thousand years after the end of the Great Heresy.

Because the core technology for manufacturing them was lost in that catastrophe, the related supporting factories and technicians were also broken and drifted in the war that spread all over the galaxy, and could never be found again.

After completing the construction of the only few warships of the same type on the dock, Mars immediately announced that the dock where it was built would be sealed forever due to the loss of technology.

Oh, by the way, it has an ancient and meaningful name-Apocalypse Class.

This warship, which has been sleeping for thousands of years, has now fully awakened. According to the order of the Grand Master Council, it arrived at the Fedman IV system a year ago, just waiting for Calvin to arrive.

It is another gift given to Calvin by the Grand Master Council while delivering the newborn Grey Knights.

In fact, as early as the end of the affairs in the Orpheus sector, the mother planet Titan had received news from the Hassan sector war report that the battle cruiser-the Soul Redeemer was seriously injured.

The news that the Primarch changed to the high-speed cruiser "Angel of Punishment" also came one after another, and this seemed to be a temporary measure at the time, and there was no problem.

But the Grand Masters immediately thought of the change of the Primarch's ship, which would cause a series of problems for the subsequent training of new recruits.

The space and equipment of the Angel of Punishment were too small and backward. It was built only to meet the combat needs of the squad to company level.

The Primarch's subsequent training at the level of the battle group and battle group seriously exceeded its capacity limit.

And considering that Calvin's identity has gradually changed from dark to bright, his position in the Inquisition no longer allows him to hide behind the scenes.

So choosing a cruiser as a ship is already very inappropriate.

After comprehensive consideration, the Grand Masters' requirements for the Primarch's ship have already been clearly stated:

A warship that is sufficient to protect the Primarch's safety;

A warship that can cooperate with his training work;

A warship that can match his status as a high lord;

A warship with sufficient combat power and self-sustaining ability, enough to demonstrate his authority with destructive firepower.

Queen of Glory? No!

Fleet Commander Mardak made it clear to everyone present that if there were no more than three battle groups, don't even think about driving this level of war beast.

That leaves only standard battleships.

So the Grand Master Council, which confirmed the scope, handed the specific work over to Watson Maldak, the fleet commander of the chapter and the Grand Master of the Blade of Victory.

This was not difficult, because the Grey Knights did not lack equipment, they only lacked people.

In terms of battleships, the Grey Knights benefited from the legacy of the Emperor and the Sigillite Malcador, and had a fixed agreement with Mars signed directly by the Emperor himself:

That is, in the future Mars Iron Ring Shipyard, fixed battleship construction projects will be carried out at fixed times to provide the Titans with stable battleships and their frigates.

Because of its extremely high authority, this agreement has been implemented by Mars with the highest priority in the past eight thousand years.

As a result, regardless of whether the Titans expressed the need for battleships, the shipyards on the Mars Iron Ring were under construction according to a fixed plan.

When the Imperial Navy and the Astartes Chapters were looking forward to new battleships and trying their best to reach a deal with Mars to obtain the precious quota for the production of the next batch of battleships,

In some corners of the Martian shipyard, there are always several docks flashing welding and outfitting sparks day and night, silently working for this sacred agreement for almost eternity.

8,000 years have passed in a flash, and the number of fleets behind the Titans has been increasing.

The Grey Knights occasionally unseal some warships to make up for their losses in the war. But most of the warships can only float quietly in this silent space except for regular maintenance.

No one except the Grey Knights knows the number of warships here, or even the existence of such a large fleet.

Even among the senior members of the Mechanicus, only a few of them vaguely know that warships are delivered here because of the industrial direction they are in charge of.

This is just the warships, and the inventory of equipment is even more exaggerated.

Unlike the "original sin" carried by other chapters, the Grey Knights have been fully trusted by the Throne Court since their establishment.

At the beginning of their establishment, they had a complete exclusive forging world, Demos, under the personal efforts of the Imperial Prime Minister Malcador.

This forging world, which was born in the early days of the Great Crusade, has a high degree of independence and confidentiality. Even the technical priests of Mars cannot touch it. It is completely controlled by Titan technicians.

The technical priests on Mars could only vaguely know about its existence from the relevant technical agreements.

They knew that this forge world, which once belonged to them and was the direct manufacturing center of Mars, had quietly enjoyed the technological dividends of that era while being ordered to provide equipment support to the expeditionary fleet.

It was complete and more complete than many large forge worlds today.

Based on the existing production records alone, the priests of Mars can infer that it has almost 80% of the equipment drawings and related technical authorizations during the peak period of the empire.

As for the special equipment and hidden experimental projects that are not recorded in the documents, there is no way to count them.

In today's declining empire, at least one-third of the equipment in the list of equipment produced by Demos is considered to be relics by other war groups.

The expansion of the Grey Knights has enjoyed the benefits of this accumulation: thousands of recruits have received all the corresponding weapons before arriving at the Feldman system. Even in order to ensure their subsequent training, the Titans have specially allocated a full 200 Aegis Terminators for their daily tactical training.

Now, after Calvin and Urdas discussed, the command of these new soldiers fell into Calvin's hands.

Correspondingly, Calvin's long-cherished legion construction finally began its initial practice after the personnel reached the basic requirements.

...No eunuch, just something happened at home, which delayed the update.