Warhammer: Just unified the Empire, you said it was 40K

Chapter 336 The Empire's Restraint

Is this really something a human being could say?
Even Guilliman was filled with great doubt at this moment.

His mind felt as if it had been ravaged by the hand of some subspace.

Subsequently, the memory modules and the word-construction modules were disrupted.

So much so that, at 40K, he actually heard the name Horus.

He will never again hear the emperor walking among men.

Let Macardo remain the regent of humanity!

"Send me the latest information about the Empire."

"My lord, you need to rest!"

"No need. I need to know the current situation of the Empire."

Guilliman was the most powerful force in the entire empire.

Especially at 30K.

When Horus rebelled, they knew that their greatest threat was Guilliman's 250,000 standing Space Marines and more than 3,000 warships.

This level of combat power was enough for Guilliman to decide victory on the Imperial battlefield.

Horus then had Loka, along with the Word Bearers, lead Guilliman's army into the pit and massacre Guilliman's forces.

But then Killman pulled out another $250,000 worth of canned goods from his house and rejoined the fray.

Although the world of Ultramar suffered heavy damage during Guilliman's slumber, the intertwining of various noble factions made it extremely difficult for the Ultramarines to carry out any reforms. This resulted in a reduction in the size of the Ultramarines, which, although reduced to a size far too small compared to the Great Crusade, still maintained a considerable fighting force compared to other chapters.

Killieman was reviewing the documents.

With the help of others explaining the past ten thousand years of the empire to him, he quickly understood the current state of the empire.

"Macado is indeed acting as regent, then..."

Others are also returning.

Horus.
If Horus were to return, who knows if he would incite a new upheaval?

Killieman was somewhat worried.

He had always had a question about the emperor.

He wanted to know if the emperor had ever treated them as sons, or if he had truly only used them as tools.

If he really is just a tool, then it's no wonder that the other original creators would betray him, because Guilliman understands this, but even if he understands this, it doesn't mean he approves of it.

"Hey"

After reviewing the current situation.

The current situation is still too tense.

A terrifying black rift, stretching for 100,000 light-years, has appeared within the empire.

This rift completely isolates half of the empire on the other side, rendering them completely unable to carry out any actions. To save the people of that half of the empire, the empire needs to cross the great rift. However, the good news is that the empire has now begun to master the technology for long-distance crossing.

But even if you master this technology.

They also faced pressure from other bureaucratic systems within the empire.

Especially considering the power and pressure from the Star Language Court and the Navigator Family.

Long-distance interstellar travel can indeed enable the Empire to move over extremely long distances.

However, one of the most difficult challenges they face in this process is getting other forces to cooperate.

First of all.

Makado traveled to the Martian forging base to find the Martian forging general, hoping that the Martian mechanical order would accept their request and help them forge gravity slingshots. This was because gravity slingshots required a lot of materials, and they desperately needed the support of the Martian mechanical order in their forging technology. In particular, there were too many chaotic forces within the Empire, and they needed Om Messiah to improve the forged machines and bestow some kind of blessing upon them so that the machines would not be corrupted or mutated.

This makes the project more complex and troublesome than the Gamma World.

Even though the Gamma World provides tools to detect chaotic forces, they still cannot use them excessively, as that would diminish the importance of the Martian Mechanical Order.

For those Martian mechanical churches.

If every task of the Empire can be handled by others instead of the deep involvement of the Mechanicus, then the Mechanicus will gradually be marginalized, which is absolutely unacceptable to them.

The Mechanical Church is itself an empire within an empire.

They are deeply involved in various tasks of the Empire, including factories, warships, shells, research and development, and so on. The reason they stay in the Empire is because of their mutually beneficial relationship with the Empire. Gradually eliminating the Mechanicus will only diminish the role of the Mechanicus and make them no longer the Empire's only choice.

During the period of reforms in Makado.

The Mechanicus repeatedly halted its arms supply to the Empire because it discovered that the Empire was gradually losing its need for them. If the Empire no longer needed them, then their existence would be meaningless.

Therefore, even if Macardo wanted to reform the Empire and provide it with a large number of psionic probes, the Mechanicus would oppose it, which could even affect the course of the war, the supply of weapons, and the Empire's chances of victory.

Therefore, Makado had no choice but to compromise.

Just like during the Emperor's era, the Emperor did not completely subdue the Mechanical Church, but instead signed a cooperative alliance with them.

Theoretically speaking, the Mechanicus could completely avoid supporting the Empire; they themselves are another symbiotic Empire in the galaxy.

The emperor left behind too many problems and oversights, making current reforms extremely difficult.

Building a gravity slingshot is also a troublesome matter.

The gravity slingshot first requires a massive amount of resources, which the Ministry of the Interior must mobilize. However, the resource channels controlled both internally and externally are gradually shrinking, necessitating the provision of more tax lists. These taxes, in turn, will exploit more worlds, inciting more rebellions. If the Emperor were still alive, perhaps none of this would have happened.

However, with the emperor gone, the emergence of rebellions required more people to suppress them and more soldiers to protect the rebellious areas, which consumed a great deal of the empire's energy.

An empire's energy is finite.

It's impossible to always be suppressing rebellions. If all that's left is suppression, what can they do about the lost territories that haven't been recovered?
But without building a gravity slingshot, they cannot get out.

The storms in the warp continued, slowing their journey. A thousand years might only be a tenth of the time in an empire that had existed for ten thousand years.

However, even a tenth of the time could mean that the empire's lost territories could never be regained.

Therefore, they had to build a gravity slingshot.

Moreover, the biggest obstacle to building a gravity slingshot is not the issue of resources.

Instead, it is a family of navigators that serve the same purpose as gravity slingshots.

Using a gravity slingshot, conduct real-world intergalactic travel.

This will only diminish the importance of the Navigator family.

The original Navigator Family and Star Language Court were in a state of mutual opposition. Although they cooperated, they spent most of their time in a confrontational phase.

Now, the gravity slingshot is meant to weaken their power. Although it hasn't weakened them yet, they clearly understand that once the gravity slingshot is completed, the Star Language Court and the Navigators will no longer have a chance to work, and the transportation that other forces rely on the Star Language Court for will also disappear.

Because they have a safer and faster delivery channel.

So, are these technologies good?

Of course it's good.

But this is the human empire.

Even if an emperor wanted to implement it, he would still encounter some resistance.

Not to mention Macadamia.

Because these are not just a few forces that are being shaken.

Instead, they are a group of forces colluding with each other.

"News has come from the Regent's Construction Site that a riot has broken out at the gravity slingshot parts factory we are building, and the project has been delayed again. The Mechanical Church has replied that the machinery needs to be redeployed and dispatched from the World Champion Casting Center, but we do not have that kind of building here."

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This is not the first time the project has been delayed.

Macardo somewhat misses the high-speed mobility he had in the Gamma world.

During his reforms, he utilized the Assassin's Court and the Tribunal to assist him in conducting a series of investigations.

However, those deeply entrenched families and the aristocratic class have completely altered the existing structure of the empire, and even if he wanted to implement reforms, it would take a long time to achieve the desired results.

And on gravity slingshots and psionic detectors.

He encountered large-scale opposition, making his plan almost impossible to implement.

Those people may not have intended to plunge the empire into the abyss.

But everything they did was pushing the empire into the abyss. They didn't need to do anything; they just had to stand there and watch, and the empire would be destroyed by chaos.

Makado has tried his best to change the current situation.
But the empire is in a really bad state right now.

For every step he takes, countless people will stand up to stop him from moving forward.

Although some people have tried to change the current state of the empire, they are a minority, and even if they wanted to, they didn't have the power.

Moreover, his various strategies did not have a significant effect.

Makado also had some doubts.

Am I getting old?

"Your Majesty, we have received news from the Star Speakers that Horus has been discovered on the planet Cardivine."

Macardo's leg twisted.

Almost fell.

However, thinking about his interactions with the emperor...

He calmly nodded.

"Yes, it was the Emperor who sent him back."

Macado's head was starting to ache.

He remembered that Horus's return was probably caused by something happening in the Gamma world.

What on earth are those guys doing?

He saw that the entire star sector, spanning nearly a thousand light-years, was completely extinguished.

All the starlight was completely extinguished.

But right now, the most troublesome thing isn't even that. Several Chaos Children have broken into the Empire, attempting to kill the Emperor and resurrect him. And there are quite a few of them.

(End of this chapter)