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The Council of Terra, also known as the Council of High Lords of Terra, is the highest governing body of the human empire, and the high lords who make up the council are the people who hold the highest governing power of the empire. There are a total of 12 seats in the High Lords Council, including 9 fixed seats and 3 floating seats.

The 9 fixed seats are:

The Pope of the State Church, General of the Forging of Mars, representative of the Inquisition, Supreme Master of the Assassin's Court, representative of the Navigator Family, representative of the Astronomical Tribunal, representative of the Astronomical Chamber, Minister of the Interior of the Empire, and Minister of Justice.

The remaining three mobile seats are competed by powerful figures such as the Commander-in-Chief of the Astra Militarum, the Marshal of the Imperial Guard, the Head of the Merchant Marines, the Marshal of the Imperial Navy, the Prime Minister of the Empire, etc.

However, under normal circumstances, one of the three mobile seats is permanently locked by the Advocate Marshal by default. This is the political tacit understanding of the Terran Council for many years.

After the Storm Coup, all 9 of the 12 High Lords except the Marshal of the Forbidden Army, the Master of the Merchant Marines, and the Supreme Master of the Assassin Court were killed. No one can tell what happened in that chaotic political struggle. What, there are rumors that the Assassin's Court planned the murder of other high lords long before the Primarch's army entered the Sol Sector, and some people claimed that they saw the shadow of the Custodes in this political purge.

No matter how dark and tortuous the process was, the result was certain. All dissidents were physically wiped out, and Robert Guilliman took full power.

But only Guilliman himself, who sat on the throne of regent, knew that the empire under his one-man rule seemed stable, but in fact it was not. The crisis of division had begun to brew secretly.

The first is Mars.

During the Storm Coup, Mars was directly subjected to a full-scale orbital bombardment from the 1st Expeditionary Fleet. The Ring of Steel fell apart and a large number of facilities were completely destroyed. Even the Foundry General of Mars was personally led by the Marshal of the Imperial Guard to kill and replaced him with a Belisarius Cawl, the notorious member of the Mechanicus, temporarily assumed the role of Forge-General.

This caused a lot of complaints on Mars.

The Adeptus Mechanicus generally believes that the original Treaty of Olympus has been torn up by the original body, and the independent status granted to the Adeptus Mechanicus by the Emperor himself has been threatened as never before. The new Foundry General airborne now is the best evidence—— Cawl is a heretic, not a follower of the God of All Machines, but a lackey of the Primarch.

The Primarch is trying to take control of Mars, something the Adeptus Mechanicus cannot stand.

The Adeptus Mechanicus is the largest and only technology supplier in the empire. The followers of the Mechanicus control almost all the industrial production capabilities and military-industrial groups of the human empire. It can be said that the death of the Foundry General has a greater impact than the other eight high lords. It all adds up to something even more significant.

This is a problem that must be solved immediately. If the Adeptus Mechanicus cannot be appeased as soon as possible, the human empire will soon fall apart and perish.

However, just as Guilliman was anxiously reading the original text of the Treaty of Olympus, trying to ease the relationship between the new government of Terra and Mars, an unexpected news suddenly came:

"Caul has successfully convinced almost all the high-ranking sages of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Now Mars is very supportive of Caul as their Forge General. There are even voices saying that Caul is the only candidate for Mars' Forge General. Mars will never accept anyone else's involvement. This location.”

How is this going? Guilliman was almost stunned by the sudden good news.

After in-depth understanding, the answer he got was very joking:

Caul dug out a large number of precious Dark Age technologies and ancient STCs from his database. In this way, he bribed all the mechanical magi on Mars to support his camp. Many of these people were related to Caul. The relationship between them was very bad, and they could even be called rivals, but Kaul gave him too much.

According to Guilliman's understanding, the most important part of the price Caul paid to buy Mars was the research on biological jump engines.

Kaul publicly showed the corpse of the ether giant worm to everyone on Mars, as well as the battle video of the ether giant worm in the Ultramar galaxy making a super-light jump with its physical body. He warmly invited all the biological sages on Mars to join his research and crack the code together. The secret of this creature's ability to physically make superluminal jumps.

As a result, many Mechanical Sages who do not specialize in the biological field also forced themselves to join the project, otherwise they would be extremely determined to oppose Caul.

No matter how bizarre the process was, the result was that Caul successfully secured his position as General of the Forge of Mars. This absurd fact made Guilliman feel that he had overestimated the integrity of the Adeptus Mechanicus in the past.

——These oil guys have no moral integrity at all. Once they heard that Caul had something good to study here, they could even ignore the humiliation of Mars being bombarded from orbit as if it never happened.

It is also thanks to Caul's ghostly methods that Mars fully supports the construction of the Terra Star Gate. It is believed that the Terra Star Gate can be completed before the 50th year of the 40th millennium.

During the two years of building the Stargate, Guilliman focused his energy on pacifying Terra's political situation.

The impact of the Storm Coup was too bad, and the aftermath caused by the Northern Expedition's army on the side of the Qing Dynasty needed to be calmed down.

In order to hedge against the political impact of the Storm Coup, Guilliman decided to announce a piece of bombshell news to the Terran government and citizens: Llane El'Jonson, the Primarch of the Dark Angels, had returned.

This is old news many years ago. Lion's return was several years earlier than Guilliman. However, due to the green skin siege of the Sun Star Territory, Terra has never known about it. Many people thought that the Green Skins were besieging the Sun Star Territory. Liman was the first Primarch to return.

Guilliman briefly summarized the current situation in the galaxy:

After Nurgle's death, a giant warp storm swept across the galaxy, warp navigation was completely paralyzed, and all sectors and colonies of the Human Empire were lost. The empire was facing a de facto state of division.

However, due to the long-term sailing and efforts of the Terra Expedition Fleet, currently about 1/8 of the important galaxies have been connected to the L-Stargate network.

Represented by worlds such as Cadia, Badab, Ultramar, Fenris, and Krentalina, once the Terra Star Gate is built, the Terra government will immediately be able to take full direct control of these worlds.

Moreover, it is an unprecedented direct rule with almost no time lag.

In general, today's human empire has lost about 7/8 of its galactic territory, but has gained a star field system that is more closely connected and ruled more efficiently, using those node galaxies that have been connected to the star gate network as a jump version, Kiri Mann began preparations for an expedition to regain the lost territory.

"Let's call it the Indomitus Crusade." Guilliman gently penned down on the parchment, setting the outline of the next action.