Chapter 90 Learning and Surprises

Calvin's specific schedule on the Supreme Decree is as follows:

Except for the three hours of prayer and purification rituals in the morning, noon and evening:

Calvin usually appears on time in the staff array below the command platform at 6 o'clock in the morning, where he will finish and review the daily work of the previous duty cycle with the officers who specifically manage the mortal combat forces of the entire fleet.

Then he will participate in the handover process of the entire staff team until 6:45, and start the next round of work preparations with the assistance of the new staff until 10:45.

Afterwards, Calvin has 15 minutes to go to the training hall of the Grey Knights, where the think tank within the chapter is waiting for Calvin's arrival to explain to him about the law alone.

After lunch at noon, Calvin will choose to perform a 2-hour law strengthening ceremony, and then join the normal training subjects of the Grey Knights at around 13:00. The specific subjects depend on the projects arranged on the day.

Dinner is at 18:00, and then it is training time until 22:00.

From 22:00 to 6:45 the next day, free reading and rest time.

In short, Calvin's new life on the Supreme Edict battleship is very fulfilling and fruitful.

In addition to intensive training and learning, Calvin is also reading the materials in the library.

He reads the books he borrowed at a speed of about 4-8 days/book, and then returns to the library to return the old books and borrow new books.

As a battleship exclusively for the Grey Knights, the Supreme Edict has a very long service life. In Calvin's understanding, it can even be traced back to the time when the Grey Knights were first established.

It may also be because of the long service time that the collection in its library is extremely rich and comprehensive.

Calvin can not only find the battle reports and summaries of the three major courts on the hot spots in each star zone from their own perspectives, but also find the corresponding brief summaries of the garrisons and defense nodes.

This gives Calvin a basic concept and understanding of the current business situation of the Holy Hammer Order and the other two brother units.

In addition to these external information and materials, Calvin also found a lot of daily training materials belonging to the Astartes.

They were classified according to the labels of each founding legion, and detailed information about their specific date of formation, seed source, combat style, and the basic maintenance status of the legion in the past 300 years was marked on them.

And these materials also have some common characteristics, that is, in the last few pages of each information book about a specific legion, you can usually see some speculations and experimental discussions on how to specifically and specifically restrain these Astartes from the tactical and combat levels.

There is not much such content, but it makes Calvin raise his eyebrows.

"Using Astartes as an imaginary enemy? It's a bold idea. Who? Who dares to take such a big risk?"

Calvin suppressed his curiosity and continued to read it, and then he saw a golden emblem representing their relatives in the Terra Throne Court on the last page of these materials without any surprise.

Under the emblem, the following line of words was even marked in the same golden ink in the Gothic cursive:

"Book number ***/**, thanks to the Throne Court Library for the gift on 31.."

"Oh, that's fine."

After all, that group of people never trusted these Astartes warriors, and this distrust even included their gene father, the Primarch, who was also looked at with suspicion by the Emperor's personal soldiers when he came to Terra to meet the Emperor;

After all, in addition to hating that they could not fulfill their duties and caused their master to be seriously injured, the second thing that that group of people hated was the betrayal and treason of these Astartes.

Even more ironically, the rebellion in the late Great Crusade also proved that these distrusts were correct.

So after experiencing such a painful lesson, it is understandable that these guards who lost their master naturally turned their attention to these Astartes.

Calvin continued to flip through the materials in his hand calmly, and he slowly understood the tactics and ideas of these Astartes and practiced them in his mind.

These Astartes may not be reliable enough, but this does not hinder the precious value of their combat experience summarized from the Great Crusade era for nearly ten thousand years.

Although many of the designated equipment required for tactics, such as incendiary weapons, are rare now, the ideas can still be used for reference.

Especially the combat organization and firepower composition of their legion period before the Holy Code, which is definitely the valuable experience needed by the current Grey Knights.

There are also their coordination and command methods with mortal troops, and their use of super-heavy armored forces such as the Titan Legion. These are all knowledge wealth that Calvin attaches great importance to.

After all, in today's 39th millennium, except for the distant Cartier, it is difficult to find such a huge and magnificent battlefield, and it is even more difficult to find the same super-organized combat experience as these legion warriors active in the 31st K era.

Even in Cartier now, the organization of the Astartes on the front battlefield is still composed of special strike groups composed of one war group after another.

Their ability to grasp the entire battlefield is naturally inferior to that of the warriors in the legion period.

It's not that they lack courage, nor is it related to logistical equipment. It's that their overall structure is not designed to confront equal forces.

Guilliman created the "Astartes Codex" out of distrust of the Legion, which was a timely move for 31K, which had just experienced rebellion and purge.

After all, the political credit of the Astartes Legion in the entire Empire at that time had been completely consumed by the losers who fled back to the Eye of Terror.

Without the Emperor's endorsement, all political forces in the entire Empire could no longer trust these armed organizations that represented the highest violence in the Empire.

The body of the Empire groaned in pain under the tyranny of these "angels" who originally claimed to protect her. Tens of thousands of planets were destroyed, hundreds of thousands of Astartes died, tens of billions of mortal auxiliary troops died in the war, and billions of civilians died in this unjust rebellion.

At this moment, the Empire is not suitable to support these legions anymore.

Before their eyes towards these loyal people become more and more dangerous, it is undoubtedly a wise move to dispel the Empire's doubts about them and disarm themselves.

This is the embodiment of Guilliman's vision and ability as a great politician. Even stubborn people like Dorn and Russ have to accept this seemingly incredible suggestion after careful consideration.

After all, as long as the Primarchs are still there, on the basis of firmly grasping the power, all they need is time.

"It only takes a few hundred years for these mortals to trust us again; it only takes a few hundred years for time to heal the pain and forget the betrayal, and short-lived mortals happen to be best at these two things."

This is probably what the Primarchs thought at the time.

But Guilliman also had his own oversight.

He never thought that the Primarchs, including himself, would be cursed by fate.

In the following hundreds of years, they left the center of the Imperial power stage for various unexpected reasons.

Including Guilliman himself, after suffering a fatal blow from the fallen Primarch Fulgrim,

he was thrown into the Black Library by the Emperor with his life in danger and stopped writing... ah, it was to save his consciousness and put him in a stasis field.

The last Primarch just walked away in an accident.

With the Primarchs disappearing one after another, the Custodians still imprisoned themselves in the palace for dereliction of duty, and the Astartes ordered by their own fathers to be dismantled into war groups and scattered throughout the galaxy.

There is finally no obstacle on the road to power for mortals.

The ruling power of the Central Dynasty of the Human Empire finally returned to the Twelve High Lords Council dominated by mortals in the 32nd millennium of the post-Emperor era.

The embarrassing problem is that this transfer of power was accidental rather than orderly.

So, the shackles on the Astartes that were waiting to be unlocked have no chance to be unlocked.

The High Lords will not be stupid enough to unseal the knife again, and the Astronomican Court and the Inquisition are also happy to see such a scene.

So it took a full 8 thousand years.

In the eight thousand years since Guilliman left the Empire.

There is really no hero in such a huge Empire who dares to make a "decision that goes against the ancestors".

The "warband" of the Astartes can only be a "warband".

No matter how strong the foundation of your founding warband is or how stable the management of the sub-warband is, it is useless.

After all, there is no assigned astral navy and mortal auxiliary army; no full support from the Titan Legion and the Forge World and the military and political integration of thousands of planets.

The upper limit of a military organization composed solely of Astartes is there.

No matter how big your warband is, it can only be a warband.

Galvin does not have this concern, but he does lack experience in this area.

The Grey Knights have no experience either.

Although they have never really fallen into the jurisdiction and shackles of the "Holy Code".

But unfortunately, since the beginning of the establishment of the army, there has been no manpower to operate and manage according to the legion model.

The old soldiers of the original legion have long returned to the throne, and the people are gone.

But I think they will eventually regret that their legion's combat experience has not been passed on.

They only have the skills to control dragons, but they have never seen a dragon in their lifetime.

This is the regret of the eight veterans at the beginning.

They have the potential to form a legion, but they have no experience in management and operation.

This is Calvin's trouble.

In short, these materials came very timely.

Their arrival allowed Calvin to gain not only simple merits and honors in this long march, but also knowledge and experience that he valued more.

Calvin was full of gratitude to the original owner of these materials.

Well, it would be better if there was no hardcover signed commemorative edition of "The Emperor's Word" sandwiched in these materials as a surprise.

Ah, py wave.