Warhammer: I don’t want to be a can of worms! ! !

Chapter 83 76. Table Talk

White, dazzling, cold, heartless, the lights are flashing.

Bright room but not warm.

Despair once spread here, and at this moment, it is still shrouded here, but a small hope is slowly shaking, supporting the insignificant light.

Here the Primarch sat in silence, and over there, beyond their sight, his sons screamed, silently.

Quiet, as the Death Guard always is.

But someone will always break the silence.

"Mortarion, after I glimpsed those scenes, I have been thinking about how to fight against this destined fate and how to win in the war with subspace creatures."

Mortarion and his Legion now need actionable advice more than empty comfort.

Mortarion, who grew up on Barbarus, was always a pragmatist rather than an idealist, grabbing whatever he could, even if he detested it.

With enough leverage, Mortarion would accept Hades' offer.

"And now, my first answer is, psyker."

"Every human being with a soul is a channel between subspace and the physical world. Among them, psykers can more easily open the interface between subspace and the physical world."

"But this does not mean that psykers are existences that need to be eliminated. We need psykers to provide early warning of the emergence of subspace creatures and to judge the thickness of the barrier between subspace and the physical world."

"and,"

"We need psykers to fight psykers, to fight the warp creatures."

"Given the cost of deployment, the only person who can defeat a psyker is another psyker."

Mortarion slowly raised his eyes, his amber eyes dimmed under the white light,

"And you."

Hades paused for a moment, but quickly continued his speech,

"Untouchables are also an excellent choice against psionic powers. However, compared to psykers, the finding cost, training cost, and battlefield adaptability of untouchables are obviously weaker than those of psykers."

Hades belongs to a special mutant species, and not all untouchables can be transformed into space warriors.

Moreover, the characteristics of the Untouchables determine that they will only appear on the battlefield with psykers or warp creatures.

On other battlefields, deploying them is not a wise choice.

After all, untouchables can also have a negative impact on their comrades.

During the Great Expedition, the main focus was on fighting aliens and other humans. The deployment of the Untouchables was more like an investment in the future.

Mortarion stared at Hades in silence, thoughtfully,

"So, let's not talk about the untouchables. We, the Death Guard, need a psychic team. Psykers with strong will are the existences that can resist the subspace."

There was still a look of resistance in Mortarion's eyes. He thought of those stupid people who used witchcraft. He thought of those beings who used witchcraft and eventually became crazy.

And their power ultimately comes from subspace.

Those chaotic, crazy, filthy things.

Hades's eyes darkened,

"I know what you are worried about, Mortarion. I am not trying to protect psykers. In fact, as beings closer to the warp, psykers are indeed more susceptible to corruption and become those things that we all despise. The presence."

"So, we need surveillance, and corrections to be there."

"This is my second answer. There are political commissars or priests in the Death Guard."

"You can call them whatever you want. They are not only responsible for the psychological and ideological work of the psykers, but also the ideological work of the entire legion."

Mortarion was obviously lost in thought, Commissar? There has never been such a position on Barbarus, and there are no political commissars in other legions.

The Commissar is a figure that exists in the mortal auxiliary army. Mortarion has always believed that only those warriors who are not determined will need these existences.

And the priest?

Mortarion knew that his brother Lorgar had this position in the Legion, but there were no gods on Barbarus. They faced the loess and did not welcome religion, or the gorgeous and wasteful existence of priests.

Mortarion frowned, but the cries of his children still echoed deep in his soul.

"The subspace is an existence that can corrode the mind. Even if the Death Guard is a representative of toughness and unyielding on the current battlefield, we still need warriors in mind and heart. This is a different battlefield, this is a A battlefield rarely touched by the legion before——"

"But this is a battlefield we will face sooner or later, an existence we have to face."

Are their thoughts really not as tough as they appear?

However, the despair just now was like bone-gnawing maggots, crawling all over his soul. It felt really bad.

Moreover, if it was Hades who suggested it, as an untouchable person and as someone who saw the illusion in advance, he must have thought about it carefully, right?

Even though Mortarion felt subconscious disgust at these unfamiliar words, he was the Lord of the Legion and the father of his children, and he could not be so willful.

Only those who face reality are the final winners.

"Really. Is there no other alternative, Hades?"

Hades looked at him, his eyes full of seriousness and determination.

"Mortarion, as my personal preference, I am not biased towards this, but given the current situation and form, we seem to have only one option."

Mortarion paused for a moment, then nodded slowly and silently.

"Okay, I accept your suggestion."

"The new think tank team is called Undertaker."

They will bring death, they will send their enemies back to another world.

Even if their existence is despised by everyone.

"The newly established team that manages thought, discipline and soul is called the grave warden."

Anyone can be given the eternal sleep of death, but not they, they are the grave keepers, the keepers of the legion.

They must survive in this cruel world, convey the power of thought, and hold on to the barriers of thought.

"good."

Mourners, gravekeepers.

Mortarion chewed these two names slowly in his mind.

Their existence will completely change the fate of the Death Guard.

Hades swallowed.

"Then my third answer is, untouchables."

Mortarion raised his eyebrows.

"Even though the number of untouchables is extremely small and the cost of cultivating them is huge, we still need them."

"This is going to be a losing proposition for a long time."

"But we need them."

Mortarion spoke and told what Hades was thinking.

Hades nodded. Currently, the empire's untouchables force only has Sisters of Silence. There is a formal screening and training process for female untouchables.

Most of the untouchable men are distributed in various other expatriate departments of the empire, but there is no official screening and promotion channel.

"If we want to expand the ranks of the Untouchables, we need to expand the sources of recruitment for the Death Guard."

"That's my fourth answer."

"Not only are the untouchables, our legions also need to expand."

Mortarion nodded and expanded his army. This was his ambition from the beginning.

After Mortarion took over the Legion, he reorganized it into seven companies, and the full strength of each company was 70,000 people.

If the Death Guard reaches full strength, they will number 490,000 Space Marines.

Currently, the only recruiting planet for the Death Guard is Barbarus. In the original book, Mortarion did not choose other recruiting planets.

Hades blinked blankly. He still hadn't figured out what Mortarion thought about using a recruiting planet to recruit 490,000 Space Marines.

Moreover, Barbarus is not yet a densely populated hive city.

Robert Guilliman, who lives next door, owns the 500 worlds of Ultramar and has an extremely efficient administrative system, but has only about 250,000 permanent troops in the legion.

If the Death Guard wants to expand their troops, they must expand their recruiting planets.

Generally speaking, during the Great Crusade, it was relatively easy for the Legion to recruit a planet. As long as the operation was done properly, the planet could be acquired by the Legion and returned to the Empire.

I just don’t know why Mortarion in the original book didn’t apply for a new recruiting location for the Legion. It’s very likely, Hades thought, that Mortarion felt that soldiers from other planets were unreliable.

Moreover, if the recruitment of soldiers from multiple sources is done properly, to a certain extent, it can also resolve the regional conflicts within the legion.

The cruel future has been laid before Mortarion and the Death Guard. In the face of life and death, personal preferences can of course be ignored.

"Yes, I accept the recruitment of untouchables and the expansion of the conscription planet."

Now, Hades meditated in his heart. The Think Tank and the Untouchables were used to fight Chaos on the frontal battlefield, the Political Commissar was used to prevent the Legion from being corrupted, and the expansion of the recruiting planet was a decision that benefited everything.

There is also the need to improve productivity, and technology is the primary productive force!

But Hades swallowed again. To be honest, although he wanted to go to Mars to study in the Mechanicus, judging from the current situation, his previous behavior directly cut off this possibility.

Hades was afraid that once he left, if Mortarion caused the scene just now with Legion, he would probably have to cry while holding the Mechanical Magus on Mars.

"Fifth, we need to develop anti-psionic technology and other technologies that can increase productivity."

As far as Hades currently knows, the most common anti-psionic device used by the Empire during the Great Crusade was the anti-psionic suppression collar. This was a product from the Dark Ages, but the Empire currently does not have mastery of this technology.

Because the anti-psychic suppression collar is a lost technology recovered by the Iron Hands and the World Eaters, but now, Mortarion has just returned to the Empire, and the Twelfth Legion at this time is still called the Warhounds.

But that's enough. This at least provides a basis for the existence of anti-psionic technology.

As for the other well-known disarming grenades used by the yet-to-be-formed Assassins of Chulisas, they were the psyker ashes produced when the Emperor sat on the Golden Throne after the Horus Heresy. For raw materials, it is obvious that, at present, this road is not going to work.

In other alien technologies, there are also weapons that can counter psionic energy or control psionic energy.

Tsk. Hades thought silently in his heart. He originally wanted to go to Mars to see if there were any mechanical sages who specialized in anti-psionic weapons.

It's better to send someone else back. He will most likely be hanging next to Mortarion as a pendant now.

For Mortarion, this proposal was quite normal and easy to adopt.

Mortarion himself likes to do experiments and do scientific research.

Science and logic, this is the creed that Mortarion has always believed in.

This is why Mortarion hates the Warp that is illogical and scientific.

Mortarion snorted and accepted it.

Hades just now helped him analyze the current situation and countermeasures in coherent language.

Rather than facing an unknown enemy and being unable to resist the panic, Hades put these subspace creatures that were even difficult for ordinary people to understand before them and analyzed the countermeasures one by one.

The warp creatures are not invincible, they have their own underlying rules, the Death Guard can resist, and they can also have weapons against the warp creatures.

Reason has replaced emotional panic again. Compared with the previous despair, Mortarion is now fiercely calculating in his mind the implementation measures of these proposals and the possible effects.

It should be almost done, Mortarion thought, Hades has indeed revealed all the measures that can be taken at present.

But those futures were filled with despair and chaos. No, Mortarion knew what else he could do.

Make the decision that can truly save them——

Install a self-destruction system on the Endurance, as well as all Death Guard ships, as well as a system for forced escape from the warp, and install the self-destruction option on his scythe "Nullion".

If that day really comes, let the raging flames devour everything.

Even though his soul may not rest in peace, his unwatched descendants can reap their final death.

This may be. This may be the last struggle he can make, the last thing he can do for his descendants.

Hades would never suggest this, but Mortarion would.

Of course, Mortarion would not tell Hades about this arrangement that he had already made up his mind to make.

After thinking about all this, Mortarion's inexplicable suffocation feeling was finally relieved, and the god of death lowered his hand that was holding his own throat.

In Mortarion's reasoning, the worst outcome is that most people sleep in the fire, and the last thing is death.

Even if he can't be redeemed, it doesn't matter, as long as he doesn't let down his heirs.

At this moment, Mortarion felt inexplicably relaxed and looked at Hades with relief, hoping that he would end this conversation.

His heirs were calling him, his soul was throbbing inexplicably, and he needed to comfort the frightened children.

However, Hades looked at him, his eyes were extremely cold, and he continued to speak,

"Rule 6: Don't trust anyone."

"Trust no one, Mortarion."

Mortarion was stuck;

"Including the Death Guard?"

"Including the Death Guard."

"how about you?"

Hades took a deep breath,