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Chapter 103 New Recruit Selection

Chen Xi naturally couldn't let the Ash Knights leave, so he naturally chose to let them stay on Rostov II for fifty years.

In this way, Rostov II is legitimately protected by Space Marines.

In order to welcome the arrival of these space warriors, Chen Xi held a grand welcome banquet for them, and all forces on the Rostov II were invited.

Faced with the arrival of the Space Marines, the various forces reacted differently.

The native nobles of Rostov II naturally worship and flatter the Space Marines in various ways, which is no different from the nobles of other worlds in the Empire.

If there was any difference, the nobles of Rostov II had gone through Chen Xi's last purge, and as a result of their own martial spirit, these nobles took the initiative to express to Sergeant Ion, the leader of the Ash Knights, their hope that the Ash Knights could select new recruits from among their offspring.

For any Imperial noble, if a family's offspring can become an Astartes, the Emperor's Angel of Death and the Demigod of the Empire, then this is a great honor for the entire family.

Of course, generally speaking, Space Marine chapters do not recruit soldiers so casually.

Chapters usually recruit new soldiers on special recruiting worlds, and the requirements for becoming a Space Marine recruit are not to be the offspring of a noble.

"Each chapter has different recruitment standards for new recruits, but generally speaking, candidates must go through life-and-death trials before becoming one." Sergeant Ion looked at the nobles before him and gave a brief explanation: "Although the requirements for the Ash Knights won't require candidates to climb snow-capped mountains, cross ice fields, and deserts with their bare hands, they still need to survive a training camp with a mortality rate of two-thirds.

If you don't mind the death of your offspring, I can select new recruits for the chapter on this planet."

Under normal circumstances, Space Marine Chapters certainly cannot recruit soldiers from Imperial worlds at will, nor will they recruit soldiers at will.

Because generally speaking, in order to ensure the cultural heritage of the chapter and the quality of the recruits, Space Marine chapters usually only recruit new soldiers on specific planets.

These planets are usually wild worlds with harsh natural environments, and the people recruited are usually strong young men from the tribes.

Although there are people selected from civilized worlds or hive worlds, the Space Marine Chapters are more inclined to groups trained in harsh environments, such as hive gang members and Badlands wanderers.

As for the offspring of Imperial nobles... it's not impossible. For example, when the Ultramarines were selecting new recruits, there were cases of recruiting offspring of nobles, and the Imperial Fists also had similar records.

But generally speaking, the sons of nobles are not high-quality soldiers for Space Marines.

However, for Chen Xi, as long as these nobles are willing to send their own children as recruits, he doesn't mind recruiting new cans on his own planet.

After all, in addition to the sons of nobles, General Gregory of the Defense Force also hopes to give these outstanding young men in the Defense Force this precious opportunity.

Chen Xi was still very satisfied with his own defense force.

Especially the elite Alien Hunters, they are tough guys who can hunt down Flayers and are qualified enough to become Space Marines.

However, the defense forces and the nobles were enthusiastic about this, while the Ecclesiarchy and the Mechanicus expressed a polite welcome to the Ash Knights but did not give them any special treatment.

They even expressed a subtle wariness and rejection of the Ash Knight's arrival. This was understandable; the interests of both parties on Rostov II were at stake, and the situation on the planet was already complex enough. They didn't want another force to disrupt the balance of power that had been so hard to achieve on Rostov II.

Especially since the combat nuns are now the elite fighting force under Chen Xi, the state religion is planning to expand the size of the combat nuns so that the state religion can have more say on this planet.

If Space Marines join, it will undoubtedly affect the status of the Battle Sisters under Chen Xi.

Of course, due to the Space Marines' transcendent status and the fact that the Knights of Embers were only staying for a temporary period of fifty years, the Ecclesiarchy did not express any dissatisfaction at the banquet.

As for the Mechanicus, since they were only concerned about the issue of alien technology and had no conflict of interest with the Space Marines, Tonya only said some bland words on behalf of the Mechanicus, pretending to be indifferent.

That is, several officers of the Imperial Navy stationed on the Rostov II welcomed this without any other thoughts.

After all, for the Imperial Navy, the Astartes are just a large-scale boarding team, and the two sides generally do not interfere with each other.

In this somewhat chaotic atmosphere, the welcome party finally ended successfully, and the Ash Knight also settled on this planet.
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Shortly after the banquet, Chen Xi asked Rachel and General Gregory to preside over the selection process.

The sons selected from various noble families and the ambitious people who met the requirements in the defense force were gathered together and then received a short-term training lasting three months.

During this period, those who fail to meet the requirements or do not meet the requirements of the Space Marines will be eliminated.

This step was set up by Chen Xi because he did not want there to be too many casualties among the candidates receiving training.

Although the selection of new recruits for the Ash Knights would not result in too many casualties, Chen Xi did not deliberately impose any restrictions.

It is impossible for no one to die, but there is no need to force them to die if fewer people can be killed.

Anyone who can participate in the selection of Space Marine recruits can be considered a talent. It would be a waste to let these people die in elimination.

After one third of these people have been eliminated, the Ash Knights will begin the real selection, and then eliminate another third, and the remaining ones will be qualified recruits.

In the actual selection process, elimination largely means death.

However, these had little to do with Chen Xi. After handing the matter over to Sergeant Yarn, Rachel, and General Gregory, he himself boarded a Thunderhawk transport plane and left Rostov II in a low-key manner.

Although nominally going to inspect the mineral mining situation on the planet Fever Dog, Chen Xi actually went to the planet Rostov IV to check on his secret base and the other half of the company of Primaris Space Marines.

After they completed the construction of the fortress monastery in 32, they moved in and began training new recruits.

If nothing goes wrong, they will start recruit training at the same time as Sergeant Yan and his colleagues.

Chen Xi had higher expectations and attached great importance to them, so naturally he wanted to come and see the situation in person.

(End of this chapter)