Returning to the 3k era, everyone felt a bit tired.
During this period, in order to deal with the Blood Angels, the Griya technical team, and the subsequent visit of the Great Sage, everyone's energy consumption was very high.
Although time in the 40k era also flowed relatively normally, they had enough time to rest, but the mental fatigue was not so easy to eliminate.
After all, in 40k, a world comparable to a cesspit, no one could truly relax; they would always unconsciously keep their nerves taut.
So, after sending off Cawl, everyone naturally left the 40k era and returned to the 3k era.
"Phew! I'm going home to sleep for a day. Discussing technical issues with Dora Khaur is too mentally exhausting!" 32 was the first to speak.
Because of her identity as a Tech-Priest, she and Cawl indeed had many common topics, and coupled with the good things she had acquired from Huang Lao Han using integral, she and Cawl hit it off very well.
"Why do I feel like you're still not satisfied?" Luka teased, then sighed, "No matter what, the investment pulled from Cawl has been settled. All that's left is to retrieve that Forge."
"This should be 32's job, right? Solving Ovilia's Tech-heretic problem and having her and her best friend retrieve Cawl's Forge." Mai Mai looked at 32 and Luka, asking the question she cared about, "By the way, what exactly is in that Forge?"
"Nothing much, just ten thousand Primaris," Luka said lightly, but it made everyone else look surprised.
"You're not kidding, right? There are really ten thousand Primaris Space Marines?" Twilight was a bit incredulous.
Although it was a fact that Dora Khaur buried Primaris Space Marines throughout the Imperium, and they initially speculated that Primaris Space Marines were certainly buried under the Forge of Mariupol Forge World, ten thousand Primaris Space Marines were still somewhat astonishing.
After all, this number, even in the Great Crusade Era, was very considerable. In the 40k era, it was an immense force enough to march on Terra and make the High Lords lose sleep.
Not to mention, after Huron started the Great Rebellion, the largest Space Marine civil war, the total forces deployed by both sides did not reach ten thousand Space Marines.
"Ten thousand Space Marines, fully equipped and staffed. According to Cawl, as long as they are provided with warships, they would form ten standard Primaris Chapters." Luka briefly explained, then continued, "In addition to that, there are various weapons and equipment stored by Cawl, enough to arm these ten thousand Space Marines, as well as the production lines for manufacturing them.
I don't care about the ten thousand Space Marines and equipment, but we must get our hands on the production lines.
With these production lines, at the very least, the Ash Knights can expand their forces without restraint. Perhaps by the time the Thirteenth Prince arrives, we will already have tens of thousands of Primaris Astartes."
"Uh, do we have that many Gene-Seeds?" Gutierrez asked curiously, as he himself used Space Marines.
After all, the number of Space Marines has always been limited by Gene-Seed. Although the Imperium could produce enough Gene-Seed to expand its forces, due to various reasons, the High Lords of Terra have always kept the number of Imperial Space Marines at around one million.
"Cawl sponsored a thousand Imperial Fists' Primaris Gene-Seeds, plus the seeds cultivated by the Ash Knights themselves, which is enough for me to stockpile a hundred thousand Primaris," Luka didn't say much, just listed a simple number.
The Ash Knights were Luka's self-designed Chapter. He originally used modified Black Templars models, so the entire Chapter also inherited the Gene-Seed of the Imperial Fists, even purer than the Gene-Seed of all Imperial Fists-descended Chapters in the current 40k Imperium.
Because they possessed the complete nineteen modification surgeries, and after Primaris, they also had all twenty-two artificial organs.
Honestly, if Luka were to announce this news, the Imperial Fists would cry and come running to ask for seeds.
However, similarly, he couldn't explain why the Ash Knights would have the complete nineteen modification surgeries.
One must know that the reason the Imperial Fists did not have the complete nineteen surgeries was because during the Great Rebellion, in order to quickly replenish their forces, Rogal Dorn personally ordered the reduction of two modification surgeries, thereby accelerating the recruitment speed of the Imperial Fists.
This was merely a desperate measure during a special period. Originally, Rogal Dorn had intended to restore them after the Great Rebellion.
However, after the Great Rebellion ended, the Imperial Fists suffered heavy losses, and there were not many veterans left. He himself went out and got himself killed, becoming a one-handed individual, so the Imperial Fists lost the Betcher's Gland, which produces acidic toxic saliva, and the Sus-an Membrane, which allows Astartes to enter a state of suspended animation.
Later, during the War of the Beast, the Imperial Fists' parent Chapter was destroyed, and the parent Chapter was rebuilt by the successor Chapter, the Exemplars of Dorn, making it even more impossible for the Imperial Fists to compensate for the impact of these two missing organs.
It is precisely because of this that the Imperial Fists also generally suffer from some worrying issues.
For example, the Imperial Fists generally suffer from a gene-defect similar to the Blood Angels' Black Rage, called 'Dorn's Darkness'.
When these Imperial Fists warriors suffer from this condition, they re-experience Dorn's endless pain and profound suffering during his most difficult period—when he discovered the Emperor was mortally wounded in the final hours of the Siege of Terra.
This is a trance-like state, similar to a living nightmare—those suffering Astartes remain in a semi-conscious state, thereby losing their combat effectiveness.
But the Ash Knights, due to the completeness of their Gene-Seed, do not have these problems and hidden dangers.
Coupled with the strengthening provided by the Primaris surgery, the Ash Knights can truthfully say they are the strongest of Dorn's Sons.
"If Gene-Seed isn't a problem, then we only need to consider equipment to mass-produce troops?" Mai Mai looked at Luka, her tone seemingly implying anticipation.
Luka nodded affirmatively, then said, "Mass-producing troops is very easy for us, who hold the Blood Coffin. The only problem now is that the troops produced don't have enough Power Armor, and the source of soldiers mainly relies on cultivation pods, which will still lower some overall quality.
However, generally speaking, as long as they fight a few battles, they can basically make up for the shortcomings. This is not a big problem.
As long as we have enough Power Armor and Bolters, we can pretty much field a Space Marine Legion before the Great Rift opens."
"Will doing this cause any problems? For example, when the Regent returns, he might suspect us of plotting something..." Gutierrez expressed his concern.
In response, Luka simply spread his hands and said, "Instead of worrying about Guilliman suspecting us of being ambitious, let's first consider how to deal with the various demons and monsters that will appear after the Great Rift opens! Don't forget that the entire galaxy will be swarming with wild Psykers and Chaos invasions then."
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