Chapter 905, Terra Expedition

Chapter 905, Terra Expedition

Robert, the Son of God, fully realizes that his only choice now is to cooperate well with the alliance.

He had to acknowledge that the Alliance was part of the Empire and part of humanity, and acknowledge the authority of Gu Hang, the High Lord and Archon of the Dark Side of the Empire. Moreover, he needed to hope that the Alliance, which was already doing very well in the Dark Side of the Empire, could continue their expedition and unify the Dark Side.

He even hoped that the Alliance would provide him with support and help so that he could launch an expedition similar to the Dark Side Expedition on the Holy Land of the Empire.

Finally, let the entire human empire return to peace.

Of course, true peace is impossible to come. Although that is the wish of the Son of God, he also knows rationally that it is impossible for every place to be absolutely peaceful. That is unrealistic.

It would be great if we could achieve overall peace across the entire territory of the empire, or have enough strength to unite and deal with major threats to peace.

He must rely on the power of the alliance.

As for if half of the empire, or even more, is covered by the alliance system, and the power of the empire is mainly in the hands of the alliance... so what?
Does Robert care about power?

He doesn't care.

He only cares about the Imperium of Man.

If the Alliance represents a better human empire, then why not?
He doesn't have to be the regent.

It is a right, but it is more of a responsibility.

After reading the empire's ten thousand years of history and carefully studying the empire's recent situation, he was extremely disappointed with the empire's current situation.

Ignorance, chaos, infighting, inefficiency, corruption...

All these bad things can be used to describe the empire.

Whether it was the center of the empire or everywhere else, everything was in a mess.

It's not that it's bad now, but it has been bad since a long, long time ago.

After waking up, Robert was not satisfied with what he saw.

To be honest, the two forces that support him the most - the Infinite Warriors and the State Religion - are the two parties he is most dissatisfied with.

In his mind, the state religion represents the most ignorant side.

In the glorious era he lived in, religion was no longer something that could be accepted. The Empire was promoting rationality and scientific thought. The Emperor was the Emperor, a great leader, and there was no such thing as the "Son of God". These brothers were the children of the Emperor, but they were also the commanders of the Empire, expanding the territory for mankind and leading the people.

For Robert, it all seemed like yesterday.

It was true that he woke up after 10,000 years, but to him, this 10,000 years was just a blink of an eye. He was seriously injured and entered a state of stasis, everything stopped, and when he opened his eyes again, it was this dark and twisted era 10,000 years later.

How could he accept the current ignorance of the empire?
He found it extremely absurd that there was such a disgusting thing as a state religion, which worshipped his father, him and his brothers as gods.

And he actually felt this feeling in his genetic offspring as well.

That is why it was his descendants who followed him in disappointment.

Reason, honor, fairness, justice... this is what he taught his descendants.

But they seemed to have lost the first item, and they also began to worship the Emperor of God and the Son of God.

The first and most important item is lost. Are the so-called honor, fairness, and justice that he insists on later still the good virtues he expects?

However, he couldn't even express this heavy disappointment.

He slept for ten thousand years, but he did not lose his political wisdom.

Under the current situation of the Empire, he goes around showing up and openly says that the Emperor is not a God, but a human being; and I am not a God either, but an ordinary human being?

How can people believe you when they see your body which is much taller than that of a Space Marine?
Even if he is the Son of God and he says these things in person, he cannot change the faith of the people of the empire that has lasted for thousands of years.

Not to mention today, ten thousand years later, didn't his saint brother already believe in the Emperor as a god ten thousand years ago? In the civil war, he chose to stand on the side of mortals and handed the empire over to mortals, just to follow the will of God, not because they thought everyone was human.

Now, Robert openly talks about rationality, getting rid of ignorance, and getting rid of religion... The result is almost impossible to be the good direction he hopes for. Instead, it is likely to further make the current fragile empire even more chaotic and divided.

He has the desire to save the empire, but because of this, he feels the current situation of the empire is difficult and even a little desperate.

Even with his wisdom, it was difficult for him to think of an immediate solution to these problems.

After thinking for a long time, I finally decided to take the long view.

He had to do it step by step. He might need to acknowledge his own identity, acknowledge the existence of religion, and continue to maintain the unity of the empire. Even if it made him feel a little disgusted, he had to continue to do so to ensure that these forces could continue to be used for his own benefit.

Later, through his own words and deeds, and through gradual religious and political reforms, he would change some of the things that he really didn't like.

Of course, in this process, perhaps he might be contaminated by the "cesspool" of the empire, but who can say for sure?
Just when he had made long-term plans, planning to use a hundred years? Two hundred years? Or even longer, to change the empire bit by bit and save the empire, he suddenly read about the Alliance.

Although the Alliance has existed for more than a hundred years, it is still very short compared to the long history of the Empire.

However, the Infinite Warriors still have a rich record of the Alliance. After the two sides had an initial friendship of fighting side by side in the Iron Armor War, they subsequently launched a long-term trade. During this process, many "spies" under the Infinite War Group also entered the Alliance and collected some intelligence everywhere.

The Infinite Legion does things both secretly and openly.

They were said to be secretive because they were skilled and experienced. They instinctively collected information from all over the empire, relying on the highly developed trade system of the Infinite Star Domain. After connecting to various places, they naturally began to collect intelligence.

Only with enough information can one make the right judgment. This is one of the 'ancestral teachings' left to them by the Son of God thousands of years ago.

Speaking of being aboveboard, their spying activities basically do not touch particularly confidential information. They rarely take the initiative to explore military secrets, political secrets, and commercial secrets. Those spies are often the most normal sailors, businessmen, and immigrants. They live their own lives and do their own work. In the process, they also share the public information they see, or some non-public information that is accidentally exposed to them. The purpose is to integrate all the information they have seen and report it to the Intelligence Department of the Infinite Star Domain as the ship returns.

Then, there are analysts who integrate this intelligence and make judgments. The Infinite War Group has a great interest in the Alliance.

There are few places in the empire that are as adept at management and development as the Alliance.

In the eyes of the Infinite Warriors, the most common type of local dignitaries in the empire is to enjoy themselves, or to have the ambition to climb up with the help of the empire's system. The former's biggest demand is stable rule, while the latter's demand is promotion and wealth. They are not so concerned about local construction. It can even be said that economic construction and development are not important in their own goals.

Even if there are some who want to develop well, they often do not have the ability to do so.

Even if one has the ability, one is always limited by various conditions and environments and thus cannot truly achieve the goal.

Most of the rich places in the empire took advantage of the environment and resources. Either the environment of the planet itself was particularly good and suitable for development, and as long as the leaders did not mess around, they could develop; or their location or political significance was significant, and higher-level government agencies invested huge resources to accelerate their development.

However, this is not the case with the alliance.

According to the analysis of the Infinite Warriors, they believe that the development of the alliance relies on high efficiency, relative integrity, emphasis on development, reasonable policies and unity.

They did a lot of things right.

Of course, there were some things they just couldn't figure out. For example, the speed at which the alliance's military power expanded, the efficiency of factory production, the efficiency of trade, and the efficiency of talent training were all better than their highest possible estimates.

This part can only be said to be the result of the emperor's blessing.

The only thing that makes people feel a little uncomfortable is that the Alliance has changed too many traditional systems of the Empire, and the people of the Alliance are generally not pious enough in their beliefs. The Emperor is above is often just a catchphrase. They respect and worship the Emperor, but there is a lack of fanaticism. Many religious rituals and religious ideas have disappeared under the so-called Protestantism.

The Space Marines had some complaints about this, but this aroused the interest of Robert who was later looking at the analysis reports.

He thought this was awesome!

In such a cesspool-like empire, there is actually such a piece of pure land!
After reading the history of the rise of many alliances, there were many things he couldn't analyze or understand, such as why so many soldiers suddenly appeared, why their combat effectiveness was so strong, and their economic development was as fast as if it was a cheat... However, this did not prevent him from admiring the alliance leader Gu Hang.

So, he went to have a long conversation with Gu Jing.

During this exchange, he also learned about the Alliance’s century-long Dark Side Expedition.

There is no doubt that the league did what he wanted.

The Alliance played the role that Holy Terra was supposed to play.

At present, the situation on the dark side of the empire must be much better than that on the Holy Land of the empire.

This is ironic.

We have Holy Terra and the most essential areas of humanity here, but it is in such a mess that it is completely inferior to the dark side of the Empire which is isolated on the other side and has much worse objective conditions.

As for Gu Hang's "ambition" that people are concerned about?
That would be great!
If possible, Robert wouldn't mind pushing Gu Hang, the 'High Lord', to move up a level.

Chancellor of the Empire? Rule the entire Empire?
No problem at all.

He missed his father's closest deputy, the first prime minister of the empire, who had made great contributions in the founding expedition. Even the proud "sons of God" had to admit that the first prime minister, with whom they had many conflicts and contradictions, had achievements that were no less than theirs. Without this prime minister sitting in the rear for a long time, the founding expedition would never have been so smooth.

He was eager to have a communication with Gu Hang.

Thanks to the opening of the Seven Star Corridor, Gu Hang found a way to stably allow psychic signals to pass through the scarlet scar. In addition, Gu Jing was right next to Robert, acting as a signal tower, so the communication became feasible and stable.

It was their first communication and they had a very pleasant conversation.

The visit of Dante, the commander of the Blood Angels, was just a minor episode, just one more bystander.

They continued to talk in detail and had already talked about the expedition to Holy Terra.

The Alliance will use the Seven Star Corridor as the most important channel to transport a large amount of war resources and troops. The entire Western Front will completely turn to Holy Terra as its target, and use the constructed Mersiphat star field as its base camp to carry out the next step of the war.

This has gone beyond the scope of the dark side expedition, and Gu Hang calls it the 'Terra Expedition'.

The Alliance's Western Front was not the protagonist of the Terra Expedition, but more of a supporting role.

The real protagonist is Robert himself.

The power he integrates from the infinite star field will move from north to south, aiming at Holy Terra.

However, he will not adopt the Alliance's dark side expedition model.

He admitted that it was very stable and the right way to go.

With the Infinite Star Domain as the center, we will fight southward little by little. We will build a place after liberating it, gain a firm foothold, and then continue to fight southward.

With his identity as the Son of God, his appeal is even stronger.

However, he still thought it was too slow.

The Alliance’s Dark Side Expedition has been going on for a hundred years, but how far has it come?
At the same efficiency, it would probably take another hundred years to fight from the Infinite Star Field to Holy Terra.

Even if there is an alliance on the southwest side, also attacking towards Holy Terra, it will not be short for both sides to successfully join forces.

Robert became anxious again in this regard.

In the past hundred years, we can already see that the empire is on the brink of collapse; what will it be like in another hundred years?
I'm afraid that by that time, the entire empire will be completely hopeless, except for the infinite star field and the dark side areas controlled by the alliance!
He wanted to take a faster, more intense, but somewhat risky approach.

He temporarily compromised with the things that disgusted him in order to unite greater forces and exert the appeal of religion so that he could lead enough forces to carry out his adventure plan - he would lead his Terran expeditionary force, with the guidance of the Eldar gods, to conduct primitive warp navigation, skipping all the astral tunnels in between, and go directly to Holy Terra!

(End of this chapter)