Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

Turning his attention to Gian Moro, the latter is much more complicated in Calvin's eyes.

During this week, he read a large amount of internal information from the Tribunal and the Government Affairs Council.

The key figures on both sides, their resumes, and acting styles gradually became clear in Calvin's eyes.

There are obvious gaps in the empire's collection of information on Fenris, and relatively detailed information basically ends before the Great Rebellion. And even with these relatively detailed information, most of the records focus on the whereabouts of soldiers from Terra.

As for the detailed information of the entire legion and even the expedition fleet, most of them were burned to the ground in the famous "Siege of Terra".

The records of this kind of information became even rarer after 32,000 years, especially with the promulgation of the "Holy Code" as the dividing line. After that, the only information belonging to Fenris was the changes and registration matters of important figures such as Chapter Masters.

In a word, the Space Wolves from now on will be almost an independent warlord. They will neither ask for any supplies from the Empire nor bear tax obligations for gene seeds to Terra. (ps: The gene seeds of the Space Wolves have their own special characteristics. Among them, the key transformation process - wolf wine, that is, the toxicity of the wolf spiral, only the native residents of Fenris can be exempted. Terra once retained the corresponding solution , but this technology was also permanently lost during the Great Rebellion).

There are many reasons for this "stocking" state, but there are only two main reasons:

First, their behavior is too violent and they never consider the overall perspective of the war.

After the last Primarch left, no one in the entire empire could make the wolves of Fenris bow down and restrain their wildness and minions for the empire's use.

Second, Fenris's recruitment system is too fragile. Without the help of the Primarch, their recruitment scope can only be limited to Fenris.

And you only need to look at the harsh natural environment of Fenris to know that any fierce battle in which the number of casualties exceeds 30% may permanently weaken the Space Wolves' already unusable power.

"Can this thing be called an army? It can only be a wolf cub who grinned and bluffed at home after the first wolf ran away from home, right?

He has a bad temper, bares his teeth at every turn, and won't resist beatings. If he gets hit, he will really dare to die for you.

hiss! These things are really..."

The moment Calvin saw this, he had the illusion that his molars were aching.

He almost spanned thousands of years and saw the expressions on the faces of the Lords of Terra who were bitten by these wolf pups but could not punish them, and who were even more uncomfortable than constipation.

"Okay...the empire doesn't lack this kind of troops, so just keep them, even if it's for Russ?"

So in the following reading, it is not surprising that the primarch adopted a gentle strategy towards this group of "endangered protected animals" when seeing Terra.

After considering the problems faced by the Space Wolves, Terra no longer pressed for the right to deploy and command them.

On the contrary, Terra gave them independent combat rights, and they could join or withdraw from any aspect of the Imperial battlefield at will.

Similar covert help is also reflected in the Adeptus Mechanicus of Mars. Although the wolves showed no respect for Terra, Mars still never refused the request of the Iron Priests to come for further training.

Even in order to maintain their dignity, these Iron Priests were given great authority during training. In addition to learning the full set of equipment knowledge of regular Astartes, they could also cast their own equipment, including Land Raiders, Shadow Raiders, etc. A variety of heavy vehicles including swords and super heavy tanks.

Among the Astartes Chapters in the entire Empire, only a few Chapters have this privilege.

But unlike the Space Wolves, these chapters have obvious technological foundations from the Legion era. Mars' technical authorization (STC template authorization) for them is not so much a help as it is a legal recognition.

The information about the Space Wolves ends here. Most of the remaining documents contain the achievements of these Space Wolves on various battlefields of the Empire.

From these documents, the primarch saw the ferocity they displayed in battle, and from the accusations from the Imperial soldiers who fought alongside them, the details of their heretical behavior were equally shocking. .

But his understanding of the Space Wolves did not become clearer. On the contrary, compared with the information about the Space Wolves' battle group mechanism and culture, these descendants of Russ became more blurred in his eyes.

Calvin put down the information in his hands and sat behind the desk, thinking deeply.

Yes, they are Space Wolves.

But are wolves really only violent and savage?

If the blood descendants of Russ are really only wild, then how did they survive from the Great Crusade to today?

If the children of Russ only know the violence that pours out of their hearts, how can they explain their promotion from Bloodclaw to Gray Hunter to Longtusk?

And if they are not as rough and incommunicable as they appear on the outside, then the "characteristics" displayed by the Space Wolves as a "legionary policeman" in a sense in the hands of the Emperor during the Great Crusade era would be It’s time for their unique survival wisdom.

Yes, in Calvin's eyes, in the context of the Legion era, the core positioning of the Space Wolves is the "Legion Military Police".

And if the various characteristics of the "White Helmets" that Calvin saw during his previous life of service overlap with those of the Space Wolves in front of him, then the various behaviors of these Space Wolves will also appear. Reasonable explanation.

They fear power, they obey power, they are loyal to power, and they enforce power.

They are the Emperor's most loyal hounds, and as long as the Emperor gives the order, they dare to use their fangs to bite any enemy;

They are the Emperor's most ruthless executioners. As long as the Emperor's will is clear, even those who fought side by side in the past will fall under their blades.

This is the culture of wolves and the natural class attribute of wolves. They are loyal to their leaders and they obey the proven powerful.

But there is a prerequisite, that is, you must first prove your own strength before gaining their loyalty.

And once you prove yourself, they will put aside traditional justice and evil and faithfully fulfill any of your will.

The survival wisdom of the wild wolves is demonstrated in this. They never care about the opinions of their brother troops. They are only responsible for executing the will of the alpha wolf.

But in order not to be besieged by their brother troops, they are also accustomed to using brutality to hide their reason and violence to hide their thinking.

They are like their genetic fathers, always howling like the beasts of Fenris before they can speak. They are also like a certain Cyclops' evaluation of Russ, with shrewdness hidden in their savagery.

"Very good, very good..." After reaching a satisfactory conclusion, Calvin finally closed his eyes and took a short rest.

As long as these wild wolves don't really understand human speech, everything will be easy to explain.

What do they want?

power? Or a strong punch? He can give it all.

As long as the situation allows, the original body does not mind using his fists to teach these wild wolves in a physical way what "strong fists are truth" means.

The thought of how to deal with the Space Wolves came to an end for the time being here, but the Inquisition, which was theoretically his own territory, made Calvin frown.

The information of the Inquisition was replayed in the mind of the original body, and the personnel arrangements of the Gian Moro sector for a hundred years were retrieved and filtered from the mind of the original body at high speed like running water.

Although he did not find anything unusual about the Inquisition in the Gian Moro sector for a while, when he re-examined the confrontation between the two sides, a set of familiar administrative operations gave him a faint smell of conspiracy.

Regarding the resume of the current high-ranking judge of the sector, Lisetta Truvesi, Calvin did not find any problems.

But it was precisely this flawless work experience that made Calvin, who had worked at the grassroots level all his life, feel abnormal!

It's too clean, as clean as a civilian employee who has never participated in grassroots business and doesn't know what complicated situations are and what temporary changes are.

And aside from the strange attitude of the Grand Inquisitor towards Lisetta before he set off, every time he tried to inquire about the Inquisitor along the way, all the Inquisition personnel also showed explicit or covert resistance.

There was another point that aroused Calvin's vigilance, and that was the time when Lisetta arrived as Gian Moro.

In 50 years, in 50 years, this woman who parachuted here alone from the distant hazy star field integrated all the branches of the Tribunal here.

In the past 50 years, while controlling the power of the entire Inquisition of Gian Morogh, she was also granted the power to recruit a full chapter of Astartes!

Calvin had reason to suspect that this inquisitor was by no means alone. She was definitely supported by a certain group and came with some special mission.

So what's her goal? Space Wolves…

Based on Calvin's understanding of the war in the Gian Morro sector, the battle there does not require the participation of a third-party war group. Even if the strength of the Gray Knights and Exorcist Chapters is insufficient, the Inquisition only needs to recruit other nearby ones. Just join the battle group.

So why wait until the Space Wolves join?

Moreover, the Inquisition has a complete set of secret-keeping procedures for dealing with the remnants of Chaos pollution, so why is it so eager to deal with these fleets in the Gian Morro sector before the Space Wolves have left? ?

Can't we transfer it to other star regions in the name of defense change?

As a high-level inquisitor who has grown up from the grassroots level, Lisetta is the person in charge of a sector. Her methods must be so clumsy that even these Fenrisians can see clearly?

Plus the Gray Knights arriving at Gian Moro at just the right time, and the Exorcist Chapter showing up at just the right time.

This looks too much like a well-done game, and as the Inquisition possesses the most comprehensive information about the Empire, it is indeed capable of digging such a hole for the Space Wolves.

So what's the reason?

You don’t need to think about Calvin to know the reason. It’s simply that there is a group of people who feel that the Space Wolves have displayed too many heretical behaviors in recent centuries, so many that the senior members of the Inquisition cannot suppress the opinions of the grassroots members. There must be an explanation to the entire tribunal!

What werewolves from the Thirteenth Dalian Company? And those giant biochemical wolves that bite friendly corpses directly on the battlefield? And the group of steel priests they sent to Mars had the belief of "evil god worship" almost clearly written on their bodies?

In a word, the Space Wolves at this time neither have the Primarch to back them, nor are they as unshakable as the Black Templars and the First Legion.

They are not even as good as the two legions of the latter, and they have a minimum respect for the laws of the empire!

Yes! Even to cover it up?

It’s not like the Empire is unaware of the suspicious numbers of the Black Templars. The local judges who report to Terra every year have already clearly counted their troops that appear on multiple battlefields at the same time!

The same goes for Dark Angel!

It’s true that the Empire doesn’t know the little secret they keep, but doesn’t the Empire know anything from their strange behavior?

It might be possible to cover it up in one or two years, but after thousands of years of big data, everyone knows that they are chasing some people.

But has the empire asked? Does the empire care?

No, the Empire won't ask, and the Empire doesn't care.

As long as you are still fighting for the Empire and proving your loyalty with the blood of your enemies.

Even as long as you cover it up out of respect for the "Holy Code", the empire will not get too entangled in these details.

No, the Space Wolves have no respect for the Empire. They will just leave a mess on the battlefield and then turn around and walk away relaxed. Find the next battlefield and continue the self-motivating war.

The tribunal responsible for wiping the butt could only conduct futile persuasion to the grassroots judges and political commissars, and even went so far as to silence these people in order to keep the secret...

They've had enough! They don't want to wipe the Space Wolves' butt anymore!

They decided to punish this arrogant wild wolf even if they pay a heavy price!

Because it's out there, and if it's not dealt with explicitly, how will the Black Dragon Chapter of the Sons of Volkan deal with it?

If it doesn't use its blood to show the bottom line of the Empire's mortals, what about the warbands near the Eye of Terror who are on the verge of rebellion?

This is definitely not just the will of a purist!

This should be the collective will of the entire Inquisition, hoping to use the blood of the Space Wolves to rectify the increasingly arrogant behavior of the entire Empire and all Astartes Chapters in these years!

Purist? What a good knife...

Calvin squinted his eyes and crossed the fingers of his hands to hide his expression. In the quiet office, the servo skull was chirping softly, while the burly figure of the original body, illuminated by the holy candle on its head, disappeared into the darkness under the light...

The idea is good, but the method... is too violent.

This sword strike might indeed frighten all the Astartes battle groups.

But what about the chain reaction of cutting it off? Is it really what they want?

Have they not considered that once this conflict becomes unmanageable, the already fragile mutual trust between the mortals of the Empire and the Astartes will suffer another immeasurable loss?

When did the strategic vision of the Inquisition become so short-sighted?

Or is it really what they think is their true thoughts that drives this kind of consciousness to be unified within the Tribunal?

Calvin smelled the smell of conspiracy, and this smell was familiar to him. It was the smell of his old enemy...

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