Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 66

Chapter 66: Just a Little Cheating

Hang cheated Martins.

Not much, just a little.

Drawing cakes is not a lie. If the Space Marines are willing to help him, and the future of the Wrathful Owl Star does develop as he planned, then he doesn’t mind supporting a regiment.

He never thought of letting the Phoenix serve him completely and thoroughly.

The difference is too big.

In the imperial system, the planetary governor and the Space Marine Chapter Master are completely different systems, and there is no subordination; but in terms of status, the latter is much higher than the former.

If it is the heyday of the Phoenix Chapter, then they will dominate their home planet, and the governor on the planet is really a mortal steward, doing the chores that the Space Marines are too lazy to do; his influence will be extremely strong within the scope of a star zone, and every governor in the entire star zone will respectfully welcome the arrival of the Chapter Master and pray that when their world is threatened, they can get help from their nearest neighbors; in the entire star field, even if they are separated by a distance of countless light years, the reputation of the Phoenix will spread widely.

Once a large-scale war breaks out, if only one warband participates in the war, then the warband leader will become the highest military commander in most cases. Although the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Astra Militarum are not nominally affiliated with the warband, they will fully respect the opinions of the warband leader and even obey the command of the warband leader. Of course, if there is a famous general with a great reputation, the situation may be different.

Although the Phoenix is no longer the Phoenix of a hundred years ago, the organization of the warband is still there, and the identity of the warband leader is still there. Gu Hang can’t let a warband completely obey him.

Let alone him, even the head of the star zone can’t do it.

But forming an alliance and mutual benefit is enough.

You live in my house, drive my car, eat the food I provide, use the supplies I get for you, and I promise to rebuild the warband for you in the future… In this case, I am in trouble, and you have nothing to do to help me shoot a few shots. It’s not too much, right?

As long as this covenant is maintained, Gu Hang doesn’t mind fulfilling his promise after a long time and rebuilding the warband for them. Whether it is the supply of manpower and material resources, or finding ways to build or buy starships for them.

As for where Gu Hang lied to them…

it was the third point he mentioned before, “replenishing enough space warriors”.

Gu Hang actually has a way.

How to become a space warrior? This is a very difficult thing. It

requires “gene seeds”.

After the chosen one is implanted with gene seeds, he will undergo drastic human body transformation. After one or two years, the gene seeds will thoroughly and meticulously change the entire body. In this way, he will become a recruit.

Then, after a long period of training, the regiment believes that the recruit has met the requirements and will grant power armor, thus truly becoming a space warrior.

It is easy to say, but in fact this process is extremely difficult.

After the gene seeds are implanted in the body, the drastic transformation is extremely difficult to endure.

The chosen ones who want to become space warriors are all physically strong and determined people selected from billions of people, but despite this, most people can’t make it. Either the body collapses or the will collapses. As long as one of them fails, it will lead to genetic collapse and death.

After getting through it, there is still the recruit training phase. Fortunately, this part is just harsh, and generally does not result in a high mortality rate.

In this whole process, the most important things are two things: high-quality soldiers and gene seeds.

The source of soldiers is relatively easy to say. Generally, a war group has an entire planet as a recruiting world, which is the so-called mother planet. The people of a planet can be used to select soldiers, and the best of the best can be selected. Generally, there is no need to worry; even if it is a ship-based war group, it can go to certain planets to try to recruit soldiers. It is not realistic to conduct large-scale selections on a global scale, but if there are hundreds of people who want to be taken away for training, will there be any governors who object?

Even if the Phoenix is in such a bad state now, it can just go to a world and kidnap a few good seedlings. Generally, the planet has no intention of hunting down a group of Space Marines for a few people.

But even if the problem of soldiers is solved, the Phoenix cannot solve the latter, that is, the problem of gene seeds.

How the Emperor created the gene seeds of Space Marines is no longer traceable, and there is no technology left for things tens of thousands of years ago. In the current era, Space Marines are mainly “born” by the Space Marines themselves.

Each Space Marine can give birth to two gene seeds in his lifetime. The first seed will mature in their bodies five years after they become Space Marines, and can be harvested to develop new soldiers; the second seed will mature after ten years, but cannot be harvested, and can only be harvested after death.

In theory, Space Marines can grow from one to two, two to four, four to eight… exponentially. But in reality, it is impossible.

Space Marines always fight in the most dangerous battles, and it is very common for their bodies to be broken and cannot be found, and there is no time to collect the bodies. The second seed may not be collected back, only the first seed, the source is relatively stable.

Then, each regiment must hand over 10% of the gene seeds to the Empire within a certain period of time as a gene tax, which is used to detect whether the gene seeds of the regiment are pure, whether they are contaminated, and whether they have mutations. At the same time, the collected gene seeds will also be used as the seed bank for the Empire to create new regiments.

In addition, the implantation of gene seeds has a high failure rate. Once it fails, the person dies and the seed disappears.

Under the superposition of multiple factors, it is almost impossible for the Phoenix to change from 7 to 14 or 28.

What’s worse is that the seven living Phoenixes are all veteran warriors over a hundred years old, and the five-year seeds have been picked long ago. If they want to pick them again, they have to wait until they die.

In addition, it seems that there is no pharmacist among them who is responsible for the gene seed implantation surgery, so they can only let Pastor Rizzo do this job. He can do it, but he is definitely not as reliable as a professional pharmacist in the chapter. If the craftsmanship is not good enough, it may mean that the probability of the recipient’s successful awakening will be further reduced.

Gu Hang said that there is no way to help the Phoenix in this regard, and Martins would not doubt it at all, but just skipped the topic.

No Space Marine would expect a mortal to be able to provide any help to the Phoenix in this regard.

But the actual situation is that Gu Hang has this ability.

In the [Event] panel, the event line [Phoenix is dying] has undergone new changes.

[Phoenix is dying: Gene seeds (repeated event, can be selected continuously)]

[The Phoenix Chapter came to the Wrathful Owl Star and reached a preliminary cooperation agreement with you. A governor who is seeking to control and develop the world, and a dying but determined to revive a warband, are a good match. 】

【The most important thing for the warband to revive, gene seeds, are nowhere to be found. If you have this ability, what will you choose? 】

【Pay 100 points of grace and get a gene seed (Phoenix Warband). 】

Looking at this system function, the feeling of happiness is secondary. Gu Hang feels more like a cold sweat on his back.

(End of this chapter)