Chapter 735, Interfering with the entire empire?
Chapter 735, Interfering with the entire empire?
The Psychic Order is in bulk.
In theory, the Order of Psykers is a powerful organization. They have the authority to manage all psykers in the entire empire, organize psyker groups, and provide all the psyker support needed for various other imperial organizations, from the military to the Inquisition to civil agencies.
However, this was only achieved when the Psychic Order was first established, and later became a dead letter.
For a long time, the power of psychic energy was a taboo in the empire and could not be mastered. Psychic awakeners were severely persecuted, mainly by the Inquisition. Most psychics would be imprisoned or simply executed.
Later, the chancellor who followed the Emperor to establish the human empire and was called the Immortal believed that although psychic power was a dangerous force, it was still a power that could be mastered. He personally established the Order of Psychic Powers to cultivate and master the psychic power of the entire empire.
At that stage, the Psionic Order performed its duties powerfully, trained a large number of psykers, and sent them to various units. The psionic experts of the Inquisition, the psionic troops of the Astra Militarum, the navigators and contemplative clusters of the navy, and even the think tanks of the Space Marines would communicate with the Psionic Order of the Empire.
That was an extremely glorious era for the Psychic Order.
The Psychic Order controls a large number of Psychic Academies, screening people and training Psychics. After training, all parties beg the Psychic Order to send people there. The Chief Grand Master is directly led by the Imperial Chancellor and is a very important member of the Supreme Council. He controls the extraordinary power that ordinary people in the empire can control.
The dispatched psychics were led by both the psychic order and their own units according to their academy and their ranking in the psychic order. With a word from the order's Grand Master, all the psychic power of a certain unit could be drawn out, or assigned to a certain team.
At the same time, the Psionic Order also has its own direct troops, which are mainly psychic, but also have a large number of professional anti-psychic units. They use psychic to counter psychic, or assist the Mechanicus in developing anti-psychic weapons and equipment, and deploy elite soldiers to form a legion.
Such a psychic order is certainly worthy of the status of a high lord.
But the good times didn't last long, as the chancellor, who was supposedly immortal, died in a huge civil war after the Emperor's ascension. Without his support, the Order of Psionic Power lost its most fundamental political power.
Of course, this alone is not enough to make it that bad.
But in the following years, their base was constantly eroded.
The core problem lies in the dual leadership of psychics.
Logically speaking, any psychic in any unit should be under the jurisdiction of the Psychic Order. However, the Inquisition was the first to refuse to do so.
We have so many confidential matters in the Inquisition, many of which are related to various supernatural powers. We need psychics to handle those matters, but how can we let you lead the Psychic Order? Wouldn't that leak the secrets?
Even you psychics, who listen to the whispers of the subspace every day, might become corrupted or explode one day. The harm is huge, and you must be supervised.
With the Inquisition as the main force, the Psychic Order was constantly challenged and suppressed in the long years that followed.
Other imperial forces also have good motives and do not want their own psychic teams to be controlled by the Psionic Order.
After all, with dual-line jurisdiction, how can it be comfortable to have a single-line jurisdiction?
The Astra Militarum did not want the psionic corps to be suddenly transferred away by the Order one day; the Navy could not accept the Navigators and Meditators being taken away from their ships. The Assassin's Court was such a mysterious place, and they never allowed the Psionic Order to interfere in the training of psychic assassins.
The Psychic Order would certainly not give up its power, and it engaged in a struggle with all parties for quite a long time, which even continues to this day.
However, the outcome of the struggle was obviously not good.
The main reason is that the Order of Psychic Powers is almost against everyone in this matter.
If that were all, it would just be a leg chopped off.
They also have a large number of psychic academies, and as long as they can control the training and allocation of psychics, they still have considerable say.
But here, too, they are continually being disenfranchised.
Psychics are useful to everyone, so why would they be willing to be strangled by a cult?
The training of psychics is not a patent, and it must be trained in the Psychic Academy. In the past, it was forced to do so mainly for the sake of control, and the Empire had relevant mandatory administrative orders.
Administrative orders can be overturned and changed.
Each family began to train specific psychics on their own according to their own needs.
For this purpose, loopholes are constantly being made in the past psychic system.
If too many loopholes are opened, the rules themselves will become full of holes.
Then, the financial budget of the Psychic Order was cut. The Psychic Academies gradually could not continue to operate and were forced to close one by one. Each academy had its own special psychic troops and anti-psychic experts. The Psychic Order's own direct troops also gradually withered due to budget problems...
At this point, there are still some psychic academies, but their proportion in the overall psychic training of the empire is very low; there are still direct forces, but their strength is really not enough to support psychics to sit at the table and eat.
The Order of Psychic Powers is now increasingly becoming a club-like place for imperial psychics to communicate and learn together. Without sufficient actual power, it is naturally difficult for it to gain a particularly strong political status.
Theoretically, the Chief Grand Master still has the qualifications to join the Vocational High Council, but in the past one or two thousand years, the Psionic Order has not been seen among the High Lords.
This is the current situation of the Psychic Order.
They are definitely not willing to accept this.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have come to Gu Hang.
But it was also because of their unwillingness and their desire to maintain a strong imperial central institution that Salihovic made some subsequent comments about them.
They remain aloof, as if the Psychic Order had never declined, and strive to maintain their dignity; but they are often very flexible, and as long as there is something that can be related to them, or there is the slightest opportunity, they will stick to it to demonstrate their own value.
How could anyone let go of such an easy-to-use target?
All kinds of dirty things were done by dragging this group of pretentious psychics into this.
If an important person is missing, the Psychic Order will send a consultant to see if it is related to psychic power. If the person is found, you will get credit. You are just a consultant, what else do you want? If the person is not found, then you will bear the blame;
When the war breaks out, the Psychic Order will send out some of its own Psychic troops. No? You have to send some out, or else they will have a reason to deduct your remaining budget.
This is all extra work. If a psychic disaster occurs somewhere, you will have no chance to escape and will be blamed.
It's like a trash can where all the dirty things can be thrown. Down and out, at the mercy of others, feeling aggrieved...
Sad. In other words, the foundation is still strong. There are some psychic academies in the empire and Holy Terra, which serve as the foundation and forcefully keep alive.
However, if this trend continues, the final outcome of the Psychic Order will probably be inevitable collapse in the foreseeable future.
After hearing this, Gu Hang recalled one of the paths that Gallardo had arranged for him before, which was to become the leader of the Psychic Order.
At that time, he was still thinking that the Psychic Order was a top force after all, so why would they let Gu Hang, an outsider, be the leader?
I didn’t expect it to be that simple.
There's no need to fight for it, people will give it to you with both hands eagerly!
However, pushing the Chief Grand Master to the position of High Lord is not an easy task but extremely difficult.
Of course, Gu Hang didn't think that Gallardo was talking nonsense at the time. In fact, Gu Hang could guess how this matter would work: it was nothing more than "selling" his military exploits in the Iron Armor War.
That's not okay.
Turning back to the matter at hand, Gu Hang asked, "So, do you have any suggestions, my ambassador?"
In his gradual narration just now, Salihovich had actually already made clear his own position: "I suggest you stay away from them, Your Excellency the Governor. Getting too close to them will lead to misfortune."
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After a pause, he continued to add his reasons: "The Psychic Order is now only a name and a framework. If you want to lead them to revive, you will not only have to invest a lot of resources, but also face many difficulties. The worst thing is that the more you improve, the greater the resistance you will encounter. The stronger the Psychic Order becomes, the more conflicts of interest it will inevitably have with many parties, which is very unfavorable to your cause."
Gu Hang asked: "What if I just want his name and framework?"
After all, it's free.
As long as Gu Hang nodded, he could get the title of the so-called "Chief Mentor" at almost no cost.
At least it is a top title, and one can enter the High Lords Council.
To put it another way, even a rotten ship still has three pounds of nails. The remaining power of the Psychic Order is more or less a little bit. Every year, it can get a budget of tens of billions of dollars from the Empire, sometimes even tens of billions. Being a trash can in the center of the Empire, it can more or less win over a lot of connections...
"No, that's unrealistic." Salihovic said, "Let's not talk about other factors for now. There are also big problems within the Psychic Order. They invited you to be the Chief Mentor because they hope you can lead them to revive. If you don't take key actions, it will be difficult for them to continue to obey your will. At that time, not only will it be difficult for them to help you, but they may even hinder you."
Gu Hang touched his chin and agreed with Salihovic's statement.
However, in between conversations, he also had his own thoughts.
"What if I were to build a psychic order?"
"Huh?" Salihovic was a little confused.
Didn’t we talk about this before?
"Giving up the power of the Psychic Order to rule over all the psychics in the empire, isn't this the biggest conflict between the Psychic Order and other factions in the empire?"
Salihovic was also a very smart man. He immediately realized, "You mean... focus on building the Psychic Academy and the Order's direct troops?"
"Yes." Gu Hang said, "In the future, the Psychic Order will be transformed into a training base for psychic energy. The existing Psychic Academy is a very good foundation, and they have enough talents. As long as the resources keep up, the Psychic Academy can expand rapidly. We will increase the training of psychics. They can accept commissions from other imperial factions for training, or they can train themselves and then send them to the direct psychic forces and anti-psychic forces."
"As one of the highest-level independent institutions in the empire, the Psionic Order's direct troops, as far as I remember, do not need anyone's consent. As long as they receive the order from the Chief Grand Master, they can go anywhere in the empire and perform tasks that only require them to be responsible to the Grand Master, right?"
Salihovic nodded: "Yes."
"Does that mean I have the power to interfere in any affairs of the entire empire?"
Salihovich calmly reminded, "I'm afraid it's not that simple. Putting aside the strength and the adverse effects of excessive interference, even from a legal perspective, the power of the Psychic Order to handle affairs throughout the empire is limited to psychic matters. Although the actions do not require approval from others, they only need to be responsible to the Grand Master, but the Grand Master must have a reasonable reason."
"Ah, that's a problem." Gu Hang's smile grew wider and wider. "In this world, everything can be related to psychic power, right?"
"…If you want, indeed."
A Governor-General whose level cannot even be described as Alpha level, and a professional psychic agency, what can't they make out to be related to psychic power?
In other words, is there anything in this universe that is not related to the subspace?
However, Salihovic is still worried.
"Will the Psychic Order agree? They have been clinging to their glory for thousands of years and dream of returning to their heyday, when all the psykers in the empire united in the Psychic Order. It will be difficult for them to accept giving up this claim. You will face great resistance if you push forward this matter."
Gu Hang restrained his smile: "That is the task of Master Dou. Why should I become the villain directly? I hope he can clear out the old stubborn people in the Psychic Order and hand over a clean order to me."
"Let's put off joining the Psychic Order as the Grand Master for now. But before Dou Zhao left, he told me that he wanted me to go to the Psychic Order for some exchanges?"
"Promise him, is three days enough time to prepare?"
"I'll clean the house for him and provide some help."
Having said this, Gu Hang waved his hand and removed the mental deception of the observer.
Gu Hang usually tries to be as frank as possible. But when it comes to sensitive topics in the conversation, it is better not to let them hear it.
These monitors who possess anti-psychic means have no idea who they are monitoring.
As long as Gu Hang wants, what they can hear and see are what Gu Hang wants them to hear and see.
It’s nothing more than using it as little as possible and at a lower intensity to avoid being noticed.
(End of this chapter)
