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Chapter 731 The Essence of Burning

Phaeton builds the world.

The Phaeton Foundry World with two suns in the sky is very unique even among many foundry worlds. From space, the entire surface of the planet is covered with dense and neat black scales, all of which are photovoltaic solar panels.

The surface of Phaeton is scorching hot and dry, with no oceans and no plants or animals. These neat black photovoltaic panels, which stretch as far as the eye can see, extend along the mountains and plains, cross gullies and rift valleys, and disappear at the end of the horizon.

The orbits of planets in a binary star system are extremely complex, which results in the definition of a day and a year in Phaeton being very different from that of the planets in the solar system. However, these differences do not affect the daily lives of the people of Phaeton, because all residents of the Forge World live below the surface and are exposed to artificial lighting for a long time, and can decide the length of light exposure according to their own wishes.

With the rapid expansion of production capacity, the original natural underground space can no longer meet the needs of the Phaeton foundry world. Through in-depth exploration of geological strata and reasonable planning, one underground city cluster after another is emerging and connected by a complex and efficient rail transit network.

Some cities that are shallower and closer to the surface have built many large light wells composed of lenses, prisms and pipes, through which natural light from the surface is directly obtained. In other cities, underground rivers, tundra covered with luminous fungi, and scattered lava lakes are also unique landscapes.

But the most mysterious place in Phaeton Forge World is the ancient underground labyrinth, the deepest part of the cave network of the Forge World. The Mechanicus fleet brought a large amount of ice crystals from space, melted them and poured them into the labyrinth, turning it into an underground ocean. From then on, the ocean was designated as a restricted area and no one was allowed to approach it.

No one knows what secrets are hidden there. It is just said that an ecosystem has inexplicably emerged in that ocean, from microorganisms to animals and plants. This is a magical miracle for the forging world that lacks biodiversity.

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At this time, the Industrial Casting Temple.

Fu Qinghai led a five-meter-tall black giant and strolled between the forging hammer, converter and assembly line, introducing the equipment being produced on the assembly line while walking.

"Using a new special fuel instead of promethium, this is the secret of our melta cannon, my lord."

As Fu Qinghai spoke, he picked up a double-barreled melta cannon with one hand, then opened the tank valve behind the cannon. The sticky blue liquid swaying in the tank emitted a faint fluorescence.

"This new fuel has a high calorific value, even higher than Promethium after multiple refinements. It can even explode if certain rare earth elements are added. The downside is that it is highly corrosive to metals, so an acid-resistant alloy coating has been added to the inner wall of the melta cannon."

Fu Qinghai said this and pulled the trigger towards the open space.

Two surging blue flames spurted out from the muzzle.

A sudden wave of heat hit the black giant's face. He stared at the melta cannon held by Fu Qinghai. Two blue pillars of fire were reflected in his red pupils.

"It is interesting."

Vulkan Vulkan nodded and said.

Although he was reluctant to admit it, he knew in his heart that the melta weapons of the Iron Pagoda were more powerful than those of the Salamanders - this seemed a bit shameful for a chapter that used flamethrowers and melta cannons as conventional weapons, but the facts were in front of him, and Vulkan could feel how outrageous the temperature of the flame was just by relying on his skin.

"This way, my lord."

Fu Qinghai put down the melta cannon and pointed the way.

The two continued to visit the production facilities and weapons workshops attached to the Foundry Temple. Fu Qinghai kept showing and introducing the unique technology of the Phaeton Foundry World, as well as the various high-tech equipment of the Iron Pagoda Regiment, to the Primarch, trying to arouse his interest, and he also made tentative hints in his words.

And Walkan's attitude remains the same.

Just expressing approval calmly.

Fu Qinghai simply stopped and stopped probing. Instead, he turned around, looked up at the Primarch and said seriously:

"Stay, my lord."

"Stay? Where?"

Vokhan asked calmly.

"Phaeton, Terra, Nocturne, any Imperial world will do. Just make sure we can always find you when we need you. The Imperium needs a Primarch, my lord. Mankind needs a Primarch. This is… this is your duty, my lord. You cannot shirk the responsibility the Emperor has bestowed upon you."

Fu Qinghai said with a slightly excited tone.

Seeing that Vorkan had an expressionless face and remained indifferent to his persuasion, Fu Qinghai even resorted to moral kidnapping, trying to impress the Primarch with "responsibility".

Fu Qinghai knew that Vorkan had no interest in managing the human empire. He did not expect the Fire Dragon Lord to return to Terra to take charge of the situation. He only hoped that if the Fire Dragon Lord decided to live in seclusion again, it would be best to choose a place they all knew so that they could call him out the next time the empire encountered a major crisis. More Primarchs would mean more chances of victory.

The planet of Cordra must have been gone. A large amount of the earth's crust was stripped into space by the gravity weapons of the battle moon. Even if the main body of the planet was still there, humans could not continue to live on the planet. If possible, Fu Qinghai certainly hoped that Vulcan could stay in his territory - as for what the Salamanders thought, that was not within his consideration.

"I am not shirking my responsibilities, Aoyama."

Vukan shook his head slightly and said:

"The Emperor created the Primarchs for his own purposes, his... vision, and his expectations, but the human empire now... has strayed too far from his original expectations. I don't want to see humanity degenerate like this, but I can't change anything. I can't even change a war. It was all thanks to your Titan that the Beast of Beasts was killed. The Primarch may not be as omnipotent as you think, Qingshan."

Fu Qinghai opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

"Your Forge World is good, Qingshan, I see that, your sector is also good, the people live and work in peace and contentment, the industry is booming, everything is thriving, I see things in their faces that I cannot see on the faces of many people in the Empire. But the development of a sector cannot make up for the decline of the entire Empire, just like Guilliman's five hundred worlds cannot represent the Empire of Man. What the Emperor cannot do, the Primarch cannot do either."

Wokan reached out and patted Fu Qinghai on the shoulder and said:

"Don't regard the Primarch as the savior of all mankind, Qingshan, and don't regard the belief in the God-Emperor as the savior of mankind. Humanity has no savior and does not need a savior. If the Empire is destined to be destroyed, it must be caused by mankind's own actions. If mankind can be redeemed in the end, it is also because mankind has saved itself."

After saying these words, the two of them almost reached the end of the tour route - the elevator entrance of the airport of the Phaeton Foundry World. Vulcan looked back, tightened the handle of the war hammer in his hand, turned around and said goodbye to Fu Qinghai solemnly:
"If one day the empire is really in a desperate situation, I will come back. See you later, Qingshan. If my descendants ask you about my whereabouts, you can tell them what I said and tell them not to look for me."

After saying this, Wokan strode away.

Fu Qinghai looked at his back for a long time in silence.

If we were to say what the biggest plot change he made this time was, it was undoubtedly that Vorkan, who was originally going to die with the beast, did not die. However, even though the Fire Dragon Lord did not die, he still insisted on his pessimistic view of the Empire and chose to continue his secluded life wandering the galaxy.

"Ugh……"

Fu Qinghai sighed.

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Kuitun Death World, Kuitun Satellite No. 1.

The Iron Pagoda Regiment Fortress Monastery, Cloud City.

Fu Qinghai's desk was already piled with documents and scrolls. Fu Qinghai was flipping through them one by one, while the servants of the regiment outside the door were still carrying boxes of data storage modules.

Split up to form new sub-groups.

This is not a simple matter.

What determines the style and characteristics of an Astartes Chapter? Fu Qinghai believes that this is a rather complicated question. Gene seed plays a big role, but gene seed can never determine everything. For example, the Space Sharks are a sub-chapter of the Raven Guard, but the tactical style of the Man-eater Sharks is completely different from the stereotyped Raven Guard.

According to Fu Qinghai's observation, gene seeds and conscription world, these two core elements together basically determine the tactical style and main characteristics of an Astartes regiment.

Looking at the eighteen Astartes Legions, no matter loyal or rebellious, each Legion's style is closely related to its home planet. Gene seeds determine the appearance and physical fitness of Space Marines. The influence of the world of conscription often even exceeds the gene seeds. Therefore, choosing the world of conscription for a Chapter is as important as choosing the gene seeds.

The Storm Knights' main range of activities is in the Octarius sector, but it is a ship-based regiment without a fixed recruiting world. Qingshan Khan certainly would not allow his sub-regiment to continue this state of wandering without a fixed place to live - each regiment's recruiting world is a special tax-free world. Choosing a recruiting world not only means completely controlling a planet, but also exempting from the tithe. This is a simple choice of pros and cons.

Some people may wonder: since the Death World of Catachan has such a strong source of soldiers, why not use Catachan as a recruiting world to form an Astartes Chapter? The reason is that the most important tithe of Catachan is the soldiers it produces. Once it becomes a special tax-free world for recruiting Chapters, the Imperial Guard will not be able to recruit any soldiers from Catachan, and will instead recruit only a thousand Space Marines.

There is no upper limit to the number of members in the Imperial Guard Corps, but there is an upper limit for the Astartes Chapter. It is obvious who has the greater war potential. The Empire will still settle this account, and if anyone is to blame, it should be Robert Guilliman and the Codex Astartes.

"Wow."

Fu Qinghai opened another roll of parchment.

Each of the six sub-groups will have its own conscription world.

These conscription worlds should be as close to the parent group as possible.

In this way, we can support each other at critical moments.

Forming the so-called Iron Pagoda Six Towns structure.

Therefore, choosing a world for conscription is not a simple issue. The Iron Pagoda Regiment has transferred a large amount of information from the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Military Affairs, and conducted a preliminary screening based on this information.

However, for many less developed wild worlds or death worlds, the Ministry of the Interior basically only collects a tithe. As long as the tax revenue is enough, they don't care about the specific situation of the planet at all. Therefore, much of the information in these materials is seriously outdated or contains only a few words, which is not as detailed and rich as the information provided by the merchant fleet.

Fu Qinghai focused his analysis on the commercial data provided by the Connection Axiom Fortress (the headquarters of the merchant fleet), which involved local products, resource distribution, population information, customs and habits... In addition, the crime data provided by the Ministry of Justice and the Tribunal can also reflect some situations indirectly.

Although Fu Qinghai has resigned as the commander-in-chief of the empire as agreed and abolished this position completely, and is no longer a high lord, his influence is still there. As long as he speaks, Terra will send all the information he wants by the fastest ship, without any delay.

"boring."

Fu Qinghai yawned and put down his quill:

"Qingming, I'll leave it to you. Combining all this information, select six worlds that are most suitable for recruiting soldiers in all aspects."

"Okay, master."

Qingming sat down on his wide chair and flipped through the documents on the desk at a scanning speed. Fu Qinghai slowly picked up the teacup and walked to the large French window more than ten meters high. He stood in front of the window, sipping tea and thinking.

Mars was mainly responsible for providing gene seeds and the fleets of the six newly formed sub-groups. As for the individual weapons, various vehicles and the most critical power armor of the Space Marines, they were provided by the Phaeton Forge World, as Fu Qinghai looked down on those common goods. The transformation surgery was also handled by the Phaeton Forge World, and the new all-alien Space Marines had three more transformation surgeries.

In addition, all sub-groups must be implanted with the Extremis virus and equipped with Space Marine automatic medical platforms. These two seemingly unrelated things actually belong to the category of nanotechnology.

Theoretically, all the configurations of the six sub-regiments should be aligned with those of the parent regiment, but in reality, this requirement cannot be achieved because some of the equipment of the Iron Pagoda Regiment cannot be mass-produced.

Storm Eagle's Nest Helicarrier, each company of the Iron Pagoda Regiment has one. This thing relies on anti-gravity metal spears to achieve permanent floating. The anti-gravity metal spears come from the Marvel Comics Universe and are limited in number. The six sub-regiments do not have them.

The leader warriors, all the armored vehicles of the Iron Pagoda Regiment have the ability to transform, but the leader warriors must rely on transformation gears to transform. The transformation gears come from the Transformers United Universe and are limited in quantity, and the six sub-regiments do not have them.

Fu Qinghai doesn’t think there is anything wrong with this. As a parent group, Tiefutu needs to maintain its advancement and uniqueness.

"Notify the inner circle members and convene a chapter meeting."

Fu Qinghai put down the teacup in his hand and spoke.

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Cloud City Fortress Monastery, meeting room.

Fu Qinghai glanced around at the senior officers of the regiment.

"After the Beast War, I speculate that the next major plot events should be Nova Terra and the Age of Apostasy. These two major plot events have one thing in common - they are both civil wars in the human empire, with basically no alien races or chaos forces involved. No matter the scale or intensity of the war, it cannot be compared with the Beast War."

Fu Qinghai spoke calmly.

Nova Terra, or "New Terra", refers to a world called "Nova Terra" in the Pacific Segmentum, where an organization called the "Proto-Council" declared the Pacific Segmentum independent and opposed the rule of the High Lords Council. At the same time, the "Moirai Schism" broke out within the Mechanicus, and the Imperium of Man was plunged into the largest civil war since the Horus Heresy.

The Age of Apostasy was a civil war within the Empire's state religion. Gauji Vandire used conspiracy to simultaneously assume the office of Pope and Minister of the Interior, effectively monopolizing power and beginning a bloody reign. Sebastian Thor promoted a new faith and launched a crusade against him, gaining the support of the Custodians and Space Marines, thus ending Vandire's rule.

These two civil wars have one thing in common, that is, during the civil wars, many imperial forces chose to remain neutral and watch from the sidelines, and did not participate in them - for example, the Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar took advantage of the central power vacuum caused by the two civil wars to strengthen their autonomous power and achieve rapid development.

Although Nova Terra is known as the largest civil war in the Imperium since the Horus Heresy, it was mainly because it involved the Moirai schism of the Mechanicus. If there had been no civil war in the Mechanicus, Nova Terra would at best have been a minor rebellion.

There were only two founding chapters involved in the Nova Terra incident, the Dark Angels and the Iron Hands. The Dark Angels actively participated in the war because they suspected that there were shadows of Fallen Angels behind the original Council. The Iron Hands fell into a split due to the civil war of the Mechanicus, so strictly speaking, they did not participate in the war.

As for the events of the Age of Apostasy, only one Astartes Chapter participated at the end, the Black Templars.

From the number of Astartes involved in the events, we can see that the scale of the two civil wars was not very large, which indirectly proves that many imperial forces chose to stand aside and watch. Of course, Fu Qinghai's so-called "small scale of war" and "low intensity of war" are compared to the Beast War. If the two civil wars were placed in other reincarnation worlds, they would be regarded as the end of the world wars, but they are ordinary in the Warhammer 40K universe.

"I haven't figured out what position our chapter should take in these two civil wars. It may ultimately depend on the faction allocation in the reincarnation world. But there is a more pressing issue before us. Both major events in the plot line occurred in M35, which is three thousand years ago. How should we spend the three thousand years of reincarnation gap?"

Fu Qinghai looked at everyone and asked.

Mainly looking at the reincarnations present.

All the Space Marines of the Iron Pagoda Chapter are anchored in the Warhammer 40K universe, which means that they are bound to the timeline of the Warhammer 40K universe. When they are in other reincarnation worlds, the time of the Warhammer 40K universe is frozen; when they are in the Warhammer 40K universe, the time of the Warhammer 40K universe continues to flow.

"After the reincarnation gap ends, everyone will buy a World Anchor and drop anchor in your favorite reincarnation world to see if you can drag through the three thousand years of reincarnation gap in the Warhammer 40K universe in other reincarnation worlds. It doesn't matter if you miss one or two major plot events. Nova Terra and the Age of Apostasy were not critical plot events."

Seeing that everyone was lost in thought.

Fu Qinghai announced his decision directly.

"Agreed." "Okay." "No problem."

The reincarnations all expressed their agreement.

Fu Qinghai looked at the other senior officers of the regiment who were not reincarnators, such as Qiao Shida, Kalamanda, and Satfaran, and patted the first captain on the shoulder and said earnestly:

"During my absence, Qiao Shida will serve as the acting commander of the regiment. I leave everything to you, Old Joe. Take good care of our regiment and territory, as well as our six sub-regiments."

"Ah."

The Moon Wolf Warrior nodded expressionlessly.

"If you find it too boring, you can also lock yourself up with a stasis field and release you when I come back."

Fu Qinghai made a joke.

After saying that, Fu Qinghai turned to the reincarnations among the senior officers of the regiment, including Lin Yu, Camille, Tristan, No. 56 and others, and assigned them a new task.

"When we were researching the Proteus Protocol, we encountered some new problems. To put it simply, we solved the process of digitizing the human brain's thoughts and consciousness and 'uploading' it to a storage device, but we couldn't solve the process of 'downloading' the digitized thoughts and consciousness in the storage device back to the human brain."

Fu Qinghai explained as simply as possible:

"I remember there was a cyberpunk-style American TV series called Altered Carbon, or Altered Carbon? After you leave the Warhammer 40K universe, go and find out if there is a reincarnation world generated by this American TV series. If it does, bring me the relevant technology."

"Yes, Khan."

The subordinates agreed one after another.

The technology of digitizing human brain thinking consciousness naturally has some scientific and ethical issues. But before solving the scientific and ethical issues, Fu Qinghai encountered a more difficult technical problem: whether it is the technology in the movie "Chappie" or the Proteus Protocol, there is no way to re-inject the digitized thinking consciousness into the human brain.

This makes it impossible to realize the true meaning of "old soldiers never die" - old soldiers never die, they just live in USB flash drives?
As for why the Forge Commander Kubik did not encounter this problem? Because in addition to their own biological brains, the high-level sages of the Mechanicus often have an external mechanical brain to assist in calculation and thinking. They call this the "Wisdom Core". Kubik does not need to re-inject the digitized thinking consciousness into his biological brain, but only needs to write it into the mechanical brain, and he can be resurrected in this way.

But after all, Space Marines are not the high-level sages of the Mechanicus. Space Marines do not have external mechanical brains. If they want to achieve the true meaning of "old soldiers never die and never fade away", they must master the technology of re-injecting digitized human brain thinking consciousness into a blank brain, which is the kind of science fiction technology in the unpopular American TV series mentioned by Fu Qinghai.

In the future world, rich and powerful people will have a chip embedded in their cervical vertebrae. This chip will automatically back up the brain's memory every few hours. Even if they die accidentally, as long as the chip is not damaged, they can continue to create new bodies for resurrection.

"Not only does the Chapter need this technology, it also has very practical significance for us."

Fu Qinghai knocked on the table and said:

"I once met a reincarnation in the Marvel Comics Universe, Theodore Cyberdine. He digitized his own thoughts and consciousness and built a Terminator body. The reincarnation world still recognizes his form of existence."

"In addition, you are all familiar with the leader of the Perfect Human Society, Monroe Melville. He used cloning technology to create countless clones. These clones are consistent with his original thinking and consciousness. The reincarnation world also recognizes this form of existence."

Fu Qinghai leaned forward and lowered his voice to emphasize:

"It means that the reincarnation world recognizes 'digital life' and allows reincarnators to continue to survive in this special life form. Once this technology is perfected, no matter how many reincarnation lives are left, it will be difficult for us to die. Do you understand?"

Upon hearing this, the subordinate's breathing suddenly became heavy.

"Understood, Khan."

Several reincarnations responded loudly.

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The Chapter Master's Office in the Cloud City Fortress Monastery.

After the inner circle meeting of the chapter ended.

Fu Qinghai returned to his office.

At this time, Qing Ming was skillfully issuing orders in his name, sending warships to the selected planets for field surveys and to identify the six regiments' recruiting worlds.

Fu Qinghai sat back in his office chair.

Silently open his property panel.

[Name: Fu Qinghai (real name)

Race: New Alien Space Marine

Power: Cursed Knowledge

Ability: Burning Essence (24%)】

There is an additional ability in the attribute panel.

[Cursed Knowledge] is the upgraded name of [Tony Stark's Electronic Soul Backup], Fu Qinghai's original golden finger. [Burning Essence] is the knowledge that the Star God fragments forced into his brain, which is not only reflected in the attribute panel, but also has a percentage progress bar.

Fu Qinghai compares the differences between the two superpowers.

[Cursed Knowledge] includes everything Iron Man has learned throughout his life, covering a wide range of subjects, including mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, and many more. It teaches you how to use the simplest materials to create a cold nuclear fusion reactor, and how to use the most basic code to write a super artificial intelligence program. In the final analysis, this is a kind of engineering knowledge reserve and an engineer's thinking mode, which focuses more on solving practical problems.

As Captain America complained: Stark sees all the problems in the world as engineering problems.

[The Essence of Burning] includes the knowledge and understanding of the entire Warhammer 40K physical universe by Nyadrazasa the Burner, the knowledge of the underlying rules of the universe, and the understanding of the laws of how things work. This is not engineering knowledge, but basic natural science knowledge. This knowledge cannot be directly transformed into inventions or immediate combat power, but it enhances his knowledge and understanding of the Warhammer 40K universe.

[Cursed Knowledge] is an instruction manual and tool book that teaches you how to make great inventions.

[The nature of combustion] is more like basic sciences such as relativity, string theory, electromagnetism, and thermodynamics.

To make an inappropriate analogy, the difference between the two is similar to the difference between pure mathematics and applied mathematics. The former focuses on the construction of theoretical systems and the exploration of internal laws, while the latter emphasizes the practical application of mathematical tools in real-world problems.

“It feels like being filled with knowledge.”

Fu Qinghai leaned back in his office chair.

Keep throwing and catching a regular cube in your hands.

The cube emits a soft yellow-green glow.

That piece of Star God fragment did keep its promise.

Unfortunately, Fu Qinghai never agreed to it.

After discovering the hypercube cage that bound the Star God fragment, Fu Qinghai did not choose to move the entire hypercube cage along with the Frost Prison Crystal that froze it. Instead, he chose to take the risk of cutting the crystal to open the cage and release the Star God fragment. The reason is: after using the cosmic containment unit to store the Star God fragment, he can directly use the power of the Star God fragment.

This is what AIM pioneering technology uses, they use the energy of the space gem through the cosmic containment unit.

He still had no idea about his personal super armor. Fu Qinghai was considering whether to install the Star God fragment on a cannon? Or install it on the "Pojun Golden Armor" as a new energy core? Or hide it first?

"Tsk, take your time."

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