Chapter 898: Space Marine Legion

Chapter 898: Space Marine Legion

As a newly established regiment, the Saints Regiment was finally taken down by Gu Hang.

They were already on the list after the Great Purge.

The profits brought by the startup group were indeed much greater than those of an ordinary group, just as Gu Hang had expected.

Directly opened a branch page: Legion!

The first point is reflected in the number of gene seeds.

fifty thousand!

As soon as he saw this number, Gu Hang was a little stunned.

No wonder it’s called the Legion.

If all 50,000 Space Marines are recruited, wouldn't that be a Space Marine Legion from the Imperial Crusade era before the implementation of the Space Marine Codex?

However, upon closer inspection, there are still some limitations.

These fifty thousand are limited to all saints’ bloodlines.

This means that after collecting the Saints, the founding regiment, it no longer makes much sense to collect other sub-regiments.

So far, the Alliance has one hundred warbands under its command. Among them, the number of Saints' sub-groups is the second largest, second only to the Infinite Sub-Group, with eighteen.

Decades ago, when the Saints decided to guard the Seven Star Corridor, they did not fight alone, but issued a call. Ten Saints' sub-groups accepted the call of the mother group and came to Mersifat. In addition, there were already four Saints' sub-groups in the Mersifat star field. Including the Saints themselves, there are fifteen groups here.

Now, once they have all "surrendered" to Gu Hang, plus the 33 saints' sub-groups that were originally conquered, the number of saints' war groups has directly reached , becoming the largest group in the entire alliance.

However, all of this is meaningless. No matter how many there are, the total number of Space Marines with Saint bloodline is fixed at 50,000.

The number of 20 actually did not reach the scale of the saints when the country was founded and the expedition was launched. At that time, their total number should have reached more than .

This made Gu Hang a little dissatisfied.

Why don't you give me 20? When the army was at its peak, they had this much!
But on second thought, that's because they have a large population. Some groups have very small populations.

If it is a fixed quota of 50,000, it is not unacceptable. In the future, when we try to capture Blood Angels, Phoenixes, and other groups with excellent individual skills but relatively few in number, that is also good and can make up for it.

What's more, the current 50,000 places are actually strong enough.

The Saints alone can bring together 5 people, and with the other chapters totaling 88, Gu Hang can fully staff up to 13.8 Space Marines!
During the Great Crusade, this was also a full-fledged Space Marine Legion!
Moreover, in addition to the 50,000 limit, there is another benefit to taking over the startup group: after it is fully staffed, every time a new warrior is cultivated using the 'Inherited Gene Seed', this warrior will be counted towards the total number of seed limits!
This means that the 50,000 limit is not the limit, but will increase!

Every Space Marine will be "born" with two gene seeds in his lifetime.

The first one, five years after they become Space Marines, is called the 'New Seed'. The one they take out when they die is called the 'Inheritance Seed'.

The second one should be the gene seed that was implanted into their bodies that year and has been supporting them in battle. It even carries some fragments of the Space Marine's long years - basically focusing on learning, knowledge, training, skills, command and other aspects.

According to general saying, with this kind of inheritance seed, the new blood will inherit many things in the gene seed, will become more talented, and will find it easier to learn the skills and content recorded in it, and even learn it without a teacher.

There is a distinction between the two types of seeds.

If I successfully train a new recruit using the inheritance seed, can I get an extra spot?

So what this means is that when the Saints have reached the full strength of 50,000, for every veteran who has served for more than five years and dies in battle, as long as the gene seed can be successfully recovered and then used to train a new warrior, then the 50,000 quota will be increased by one?

Hiss, the conditions are a bit harsh.

Five years, and you have to die in battle, and you have to successfully retrieve the seeds... The cumulative ratio is probably about 30 to 40%. And this ratio is calculated by the ratio of those who meet the conditions to the total number of those who died in battle. Although Space Marines are called big-headed soldiers by some people in some apocalyptic wars, in fact, how many apocalyptic battles can there be? In ordinary wars, their casualty rate is very low.

What's more, even in an apocalyptic-level war, casualties of hundreds or thousands of Space Marines would be a big deal.

Plus, the Space Marines have a long life span, so they can live quite long...

This condition is still difficult to achieve, and the growth rate will be slow.

But it doesn't matter, it's good news after all.

Under the new legion mechanism, Gu Hang can steadily have 50,000 saint warriors fighting for him, which can be quickly replenished after casualties. Moreover, this number is sustainable. The longer the time goes, the larger the number will be in the future.

What's more, if there are really 50,000 saints, Gu Hang will quickly exchange all the gene seeds to make up the number. Their natural growth will directly increase the total number of saints to about 70,000 in five years - new warriors will give birth to new seeds in five years.

This would cause the total number of saints to exceed the limit of 50,000, causing Gu Hang to be unable to replace new seeds until the number of saint warriors was reduced to below the limit of 50,000.

But what does it matter? By then, 70,000 fighters will be enough. Moreover, the new ones can be upgraded to new ones.

After the scale is increased, the speed at which Space Marines expand their forces is actually not too slow.

Of course, it has to be run well.

What system did the Space Marines of the Legion era have to use? They slowly operated and developed, and they grew to 35 people, or even the Infinite Legion's peak of people, didn't they?
Some legions had fewer men as they fought, and Gu Hang believed that this was mainly because those legions themselves had problems.

Either their commander, the Son of God, who was not too careful about his life and focused on the great expedition and meritorious service, rushed in and attacked fiercely, resulting in heavy casualties and difficulty in replenishing the losses;

Either the gene seed of the legion is not very compatible, which is directly reflected in the significant reduction in the success rate of the gene seed implantation surgery;
Or maybe the army is only good at fighting and not very good at development. Oh, or maybe it's all three of the above, or two of them.

The one that occupies all of them is the Bat Legion; the one that occupies the last two is the Blood Angels; the one that occupies the first two is the Angel of Death... Anyway, they all have some problems.

The Infinite Legion and the Saint Legion, which have large populations, have none of the three. Their gene seeds are highly compatible, and the Son of God will not be crazy enough to lead the legion to fight bloody battles every day. At the same time, they can also operate and develop. The Infinite Legion has managed its own five hundred worlds very well, and it is still one of the richest places in the empire. The Saints are not so good at politics and economics, but they also have some characteristics in religious construction and management. Mesifat was able to support them with a large number of legions in the past.

They can all operate it. Gu Hang has such a good foundation and an entire alliance as his backing. Is there anything he can't operate?

Based on this idea, the number of gene seeds exchanged provided by the system is more like a guaranteed mechanism.

If by any chance the legion suffered a devastating blow, Gu Hang would be able to spend grace points to quickly build up the troops and pull them to a basic line in a low-number situation.

The comeback will be quick.

But as long as you don't play yourself to that point and continue operating normally, on the one hand, the lower limit of the guarantee mechanism will be raised; at the same time, the upper limit brought by normal operation will also be very high.

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After reaching an agreement with Gu Hang, Raymond Weiss even accepted new blood reinforcements for the future saints from the Alliance's Star Warrior Training Center.

Of course, they also put forward a request: the Alliance must still respect the traditions of the regiment.

Gu Hang agreed to this immediately.

According to the regulations of the Space Marine Management Association, the chapter itself has the right to make requirements for new recruits in the New Blood Training Center according to its own needs.

These requirements generally have little to do with strength. After all, the new blood produced by the training center is all very good.

They may make some requirements, such as requiring new blood to be from their home planet, to be familiar with the culture and history of the war group, to be from a farmer's family/hunter's family/descendant of nobility/ancestors in the army/orphans...

What's even more outrageous is that not only must the new recruits be born on their home planet, the training center must also open a branch on their home planet, and the entire training process for the new recruits must be carried out on their home planet.

Of course, the Administration will not compromise unconditionally and agree to everything. It all depends on the negotiation.

But in general, being able to allow chapters to 'customize' recruits will be of great help to the Alliance in recovering chapters after encountering them in various places during the Dark Side Expedition.

As long as it is recovered, Gu Hang will have 2,000 gene seed quotas. Not to mention that the recovered regiment itself occupies 1,000 quotas, Gu Hang will directly have 1,000 extra seed quotas, which is equivalent to an extra regiment.

This newly established regiment will not have any reputation and will not have any requirements.

What's more, even if the recovered wargroups have many names, so what?
It is true that the Chapter can make demands on the New Blood Training Center, but there is one reverse condition, which is the bottom line and cannot be compromised: the training center must have a matching Loyalty Academy, and all new Space Marines must be trained in the Loyalty Academy.

In essence, this is the process of Gu Hang spending grace points to train these space marines into political commissars to ensure their loyalty.

As time goes by, when the proportion of new blood trained in Zhongsi Academy in those recovered regiments increases to a certain level, it goes without saying what the regiment as a whole will become and whether they will betray again.

The same is true for the saints.

As expected, Raymond Weiss put forward many conditions for the alliance to train new blood for them.

Gu Hang fully agreed to this.

A new Space Marine training centre has been built on the planet Truth. The entire training process is conducted entirely on the planet Truth, in an open and transparent manner, and they are very happy to hire veterans of the Saints Chapter as instructors.

Most of the new blood born from this training center are selected from the believer families on the True Word Star, and most of them will be added to the Saints Corps.

There is another part, which was also recruited from other places in the Mercifat star field and added to the Saints' sub-group.

Of course, none of them are fully staffed.

The troops were not fully staffed when they arrived, not to mention that they had experienced decades of brutal war.

After decades of fighting, although new soldiers were constantly recruited to supplement the various battle groups, to be honest, the speed of replenishment could not keep up with the speed of consumption.

This is also why, in the later stages of the battle to defend the Seven Star Corridor, Raymond Weiss could no longer hold on.

If we don't shrink our defense line, everyone will be bled to death.

But it's okay.

Once the Space Marine Training Center on Truth is established, all of these chapters will be fully staffed quickly.

Gu Hang will let these saint warriors see what the speed of the alliance is like.

They will surely be shocked and then suspicious.

This does not conform to their common sense for thousands of years.

But it doesn't matter.

Over time, the extremely fast replenishment speed and high-quality soldier quality will become like an addictive drug. Even if you think this thing may have hidden dangers, you can't resist the temptation of it being so useful.

What's more, as time goes by, they will find that there are really no hidden dangers or disadvantages - as long as they don't have any ulterior motives and don't betray each other.

(End of this chapter)