Chapter 598, 2 new groups

Chapter 598: Adding the Second Group

When Gu Hang got the report from Huanyue Star, he just glanced at it and then signed to indicate that he had read it and agreed with the next steps.

The reason for his casual attitude is not because the matters of Fury and New World Torch are not important.

On the contrary, they are quite important.

Gu Hang had long wanted to get rid of Paulitos. He had caused a lot of trouble for Gu Hang and the alliance.

If Paulitos had honestly found a place to fight a decisive battle with the alliance, there wouldn't be so many problems and the war would not have been delayed for so long.

After they were killed, except for a huge hidden danger, there were finally no large-scale, threatening enemy forces inside the Aozhua Star Region.

For the Phoenix Chapter, the Alliance helped them complete one third of their revenge.

The surrender of New World Torch also brought benefits.

Gu Hang actually didn’t care much about those two hundred Space Marines.

Putting aside their level, who would dare to believe them after they betrayed us twice and are traitors to three families?
No matter how magnanimous Gu Hang was, he was unwilling to put Wang Mengsong and the more than 200 New World Torches he brought with him in any key position. They had already proved that they could not withstand the pressure. They could switch sides twice in order to survive in a crisis, and there would be a third time.

But the New World Torch itself is still quite important.

Ever since he found out that there was a limit to the number of Phoenix seeds he could exchange, Gu Hang had to consider gathering more warbands to obtain more gene seeds and produce more space marines.

After the New World Torch surrendered, a new gene seed exchange option appeared on Gu Hang's battle group-related interface.

This is their greatest value.

The new gene seed that can be exchanged is not called the 'New World Torch' gene seed, but is called the 'Secondary Infinite Gene Seed'.

The parent group of the New World Torch Regiment is the Infinite Regiment. This is clearly recorded. During the period when Faro established the army, the newly built regiments were basically built using the gene seeds of the Infinite Regiment.

Not surprising at all.

The Infinite Legion had the largest number of members in the Legion Era. Their gene seed compatibility was the highest among all the newly established Legions, which meant that the success rate of gene seed implantation was the highest. In addition, their Legion had been good at management since the Legion Era, so it was quite normal that they had the largest number of members.

If there are many people, then when the legion is split into wargroups, there will be more wargroups; the gene seed tax paid will be more; when the army is subsequently established, more wargroups will be established using the seeds of infinite warriors; the more wargroups and people there are, the more gene seed tax will be paid...

The positive cycle continues to this day, with infinite battle groups, blue helmets and blue armor, and many children and grandchildren.

But why 'secondary' seeds?
Shouldn't the Infinity Legion's gene-seed be one of the most stable? Why would it degenerate?

After thinking for a moment, combined with his knowledge of the Space Marine gene-seed and the situation of the Phoenix, he had a rough guess.

The gene seeds of Space Marines will undergo some "changes" over the long years and countless inheritances. Some gene seeds are relatively less stable, so the magnitude of the changes may be large.

This also involves a characteristic of gene seeds: the gene seeds that mature in the fifth year do not count. The seed that has been with the Space Marine for a lifetime and is picked when he dies will carry a part of the host's 'information'.

Those are some combat experiences and skills.

When it is implanted into a new person, it cannot turn him into a mature warrior immediately, but it can greatly accelerate the process. The information contained in the gene seed will become something like biological instinct, allowing the new warrior to inherit.

Space Marines grow rapidly, and often inherit many of the fighting styles of their former masters.

For example, the Phoenix, which has a history of thousands of years, is considered an ancient warband, which means that after inheriting the original Phoenix gene, they have undergone similar changes and transformations for thousands of years. In addition, the Phoenix gene seed is not famous for its stability, so it is normal for the gene seed to have some differences with the Phoenix mother group.

In addition, the Phoenix has some unknown experiences in its past history...

Therefore, their current gene seeds cannot be said to be completely different from those of the Phoenix, but the differences are also quite large.

This is what Gu Hang could see in his system panel. The gene seed he exchanged was called 'Phoenix Seed', not 'Phoenix Seed'.

Gu Hang suspected that the blood shark would be in a similar situation.

However, they have not yet appeared in Gu Hang's battle group list, and their gene seeds cannot be redeemed, so they can only wait for verification in the future.

As for the New World Torch, they are a different story.

The New World Torch was established not long ago, only about 300 years ago. Their warband has only been updated to the fifth generation so far, and there are even a large number of second and third generation members in the warband.

This is obviously not enough to support any significant changes in the Chapter's gene-seed, let alone a Chapter like the Infinite Warriors, whose gene-seed is still the same as when the army was founded.

As for why it is secondary, it is easy to understand.

In theory, each chapter would hand over one-tenth of its newly generated gene-seeds to the Empire as gene-seed tax, which would be kept by the Mechanicus and, after inspection, sealed in a gene-seed bank.

In this case, what seeds will each war group hand in?
The only requirement was quantity, so naturally they had to hand in the least active seeds, and they were the new seeds produced in five years. Those that were recovered when the old soldiers and elites died, and those with particularly good activity, would definitely be kept by themselves.

After these generally unsuccessful gene seeds were sent to Mars, it was unknown how many years they were kept in the cold storage.

The Mechanicus's technology for preserving gene seeds is certainly not bad. However, time is the best killer. No matter how good the preservation technology is, after hundreds or thousands of years of storage, the activity will inevitably decrease.

The biggest impact of the reduction in gene seed activity is that it will lead to a lower success rate of implantation surgery;
The second, relatively invisible impact is that after the operation is successful, the strength of the superhuman organs that grow will be weakened to varying degrees.

This kind of problem can be gradually solved and improved over a relatively long period of time, after the regiment has experienced brutal battles time and time again and has accumulated enough veterans, and their gene seeds have been passed down.

But...no matter the time when the New World Torch was established, or what they have done in the past few hundred years, it is not enough to support them to complete the cultivation and optimization of their own seeds.

When it fell into Gu Hang's hands, it became the 'second-rate Infinite Warrior Gene Seed'.

However, he soon stopped worrying about this issue.

It doesn't matter if he's second-rate, he's still a Space Marine.

Gu Hang is not without a way to make up for it. Through the training interface, he can raise the level of the Space Marines to a higher level.

For veterans, champions, and the like, the differences brought by gene seeds will be reduced to a negligible level. Wait... Thinking of this, Gu Hang realized another problem: not every Space Marine has the potential to be trained to become a champion.

Even if it is the Phoenix, all members can only be trained into veterans; 30% can be trained to the level of non-commissioned officers; and 10-15% can be trained to the level of company champions.

Will the inferior seeds affect the potential of the Space Marines that are cultivated?

Maybe it's really possible.

Thinking of this, and looking at the glaring word "inferior", Gu Hang couldn't help but curse. No wonder the New World Torch was so poor, it was not good in terms of bloodline!
After being depressed for a while, Gu Hang calmed down and continued to think about the future.

The quality of the gene seed was already determined and could not be changed. But how to deal with it was still a question that made him hesitate.

Excluding Wang Mengsong and others who are still alive, Gu Hang can exchange a total of about 1,800 inferior infinite seeds.

Adding the two hundred surviving New World Torches who surrendered, the total number reached two thousand.

Together, they pose a complex problem: How will Gu Hang use the proceeds this time?
If we break it down, there are actually three issues: captives, seeds, and the name of "Torch of the New World".

Let’s talk about the ‘New World Torch’ first.

Gu Hang wants to keep this battle group name.

Of course, the newly trained Space Marines can be handled according to the "Shadow Regiment" that Gu Hang had established with a thousand Phoenix seeds. However, the Shadow Regiment can only do dirty work and act in secret, which is not very convenient.

With one more combat regiment under his name, Gu Hang has one more thousand regiments that can act openly.

As for their betrayal, this must also be dealt with, otherwise the empire will not be able to get away with it.

The solution is the Atonement Expedition.

As the commander of the southern front, Gu Hang joined forces with the Shining Tribunal, which had a very good relationship with him and had been active in the Eastern Universe for a long time, and sentenced the New World Torch to a hundred-year atonement expedition.

This is a bit problematic.

Let's not talk about Gu Hang for now. The main thing is that the Flash Tribunal is a little... too small. They have this power in theory, but they are too weak to deserve it.

But the alliance now seems strong enough.

As long as there is no problem with the process, the alliance will solve the problem of strength.

While in the state of the Atonement Expedition, the New World Torch must unconditionally accept requests for help and instructions from all imperial forces.

That is naturally the alliance.

Even if this war is over, the New World Torch's combat missions for the next 100 years will all be taken up by the Alliance. If other imperial forces want to issue missions... Sorry, I have a ready-made one on hand, and I have to fight for the Alliance.

In fact, not only New World Torch, but Nuyan Gu Hang also plans to deal with it in this way.

He would announce to the public that the Fury had also surrendered - regardless of whether they actually did so.

Then he was sentenced to a two-hundred-year expedition of atonement.

Then, go back and get the seeds from other wargroups and fill them into this rage.

In this way, with the addition of the 'Torch of the New World' and the 'Flame of Fury', Gu Hang now has two thousand more Space Marines who can act openly.

In fact, this still does not account for all of the 4,000 gene seeds that Gu Hang estimated.

Let’s talk about the prisoners.

Gu Hang thought about these two hundred people and decided not to execute all of them.

Although it was an unconditional surrender, Gu Hang had not promised them anything. But after all, after they had agreed to surrender, they acted as bait according to the alliance's requirements and barely held out for fifteen minutes as required.

Although that battle was not fought beautifully at all, Gu Hang was still not prepared to cross the river and burn the bridge.

He would give Wang Mengsong two choices: Either all members would retire, and the Alliance would plan some "territory" for them in a wild, undeveloped world in the rear. They would be given the status of Alliance citizens, and then go to open up the wasteland, just like an ordinary farmer.

There are many such worlds, especially in the northeast of the Dragonhawk Star Region, those worlds that were once occupied by greenskins.

It is impossible for the Alliance to wipe out every world full of greenskins by issuing extermination orders. So far, the Alliance has only eliminated all interstellar navigation capabilities of the Iron-toothed Greenskins, and through orbital bombardment, it has blown up all conspicuous garbage cities and hit the Greenskins' industrial potential.

There are many worlds with hundreds of millions of greenskins still alive.

Otherwise, create another greenskin boss, build a secret garbage city from the ground and the hills, build some greenskin ships and launch them into the sky... maybe the Iron Teeth Green Tide will start again.

Even now, when the Alliance is going on an expedition, there is still a small fleet led by a cruiser, patrolling in the former greenskin occupied area. They will regularly clear out the prominent targets on every greenskin planet.

The Alliance has also established colonies on these planets.

Occupy an area, collect resources, immigrate, continue to grow, and then fight outward... This may be a century-long plan, and only by using the method of people's war can the entire planet be truly cleaned up.

But fortunately, without a leader, the greenskins fought among themselves more fiercely. For them, there was not much difference between coming to cause trouble for Xiami and overthrowing the greenskin tribe next door.

The greenskins are in a state of disunity, and they have no concept that racial war is above all else.

The old warriors of the New World Torch can all retire and go to these planets. If they die, then blame yourself. The immigrants of the Alliance can find a way to survive. Even if the Space Marines lose their power armor, they can't survive? That's purely your own problem.

By the way, it can also provide some help to the Alliance in immigration and colonization of these worlds... I hope so.

Those who choose to retire will be completely scattered all over the planet, and then do whatever they need to do.

If Wang Mengsong and the others were unwilling, Gu Hang gave them a second option: to join the Punishment Battalion, or the Death Company. They could continue to be Space Marines, but would always face the most brutal battles, and would have the lowest priority in getting supplies. In the Death Company, without orders, they were not allowed to decide to retreat or transfer on their own.

(End of this chapter)