Warhammer 40K in a box

Chapter 104: Rapid Recruitment Production Line
The Thunderhawk transport plane plunged into the atmosphere of the gas giant planet, flying through the dense ammonia clouds, dodging unstable cyclones, storms and lightning from time to time.

After a period of turbulence, the Thunder Eagle transport plane finally landed at an outpost in the relatively stable stratosphere below the ammonia cloud layer.

This is a standard gas planet mining outpost, and the mining array installed on it will mine promethium and other rare gases from the atmosphere of this gas planet.

It would then be transported by shuttle to a refinery in geosynchronous orbit for refining and storage, and finally transported by transport ship back to the factory at Rostov II Starport for further processing.

Closely connected to this mining outpost is a Space Marine Chapter Monastery.

However, this is not a standard-model Chapter Monastery, but just a small monastery transformed from a living platform on a gas giant planet.

After all, if it is a standard chapter fortress monastery, its size is comparable to a small space outpost because it has to accommodate the chapter's training facilities and various weapons, as well as planetary-level defense facilities.

Even Chapter-Fortress-Monasteries like Macragge and Fenris, home to the Ultramarines and Space Wolves, can be observed with the naked eye from space.

"Welcome, Your Excellency the Governor." The company commander wearing MK10 power armor appeared in front of Chen Xi and welcomed him.

Chen Xi raised his head and looked at the 2.8-meter-tall strong man in front of him, and felt the burden on his neck seriously.

"I never thought that when a Primaris Astartes stood in front of me, I would need to look up at him from this angle." Chen Xi sighed.

When Chen Xi met Sergeant Yarn before, although he was also very tall, he did not have to look up to look him in the eye.

After all, the old Astartes is about 2.1 meters to 2.4 meters tall. Although he is very tall, ordinary people can basically look him in the eye if they raise their heads.

But the Primaris Astartes was 2.8 meters tall, so if he wanted to look at her in a friendly manner, he had to tilt his head back.

If you have no idea, the floor height of residential buildings in the 3K era is generally 2.8 meters, while the height of door frames is between 2 meters and 2.4 meters.

Normally, we don't need to look very hard to see the lintel of the door frame, but we usually need to look up to see the ceiling.

"The Primaris Astartes' size is significantly improved compared to the old Astartes. This brings us more powerful strength and enables us to better deal with the enemies of the Empire." The company commander responded to Chen Xi and took off his helmet, revealing the three golden service spikes on his forehead.

"Hello, Captain Shi Dong, or should I call you Captain?" Chen Xi looked at the giant in front of him and greeted him.

Although this was his own chess piece, after entering this world, he became a living person. This feeling made Chen Xi feel very wonderful.

Although it was not the first time that he had talked to his own chess piece, for Chen Xi, Astartes was special, and Captain Shi Dong was also a special chess piece.

"You can call me whatever you want, whether as a Space Marine or as your chess piece, your control over me is absolute." Shi Dong simply replied in front of Chen Xi. While answering his question, he also explained the positioning of these chess pieces.

Chen Xi nodded, then said, "Then I'll call you Captain. Please introduce this place to me."

"Okay, please come this way." Shi Dong nodded, then gestured to Chen Xi to move forward.

Chen Xi followed the enormous Shi Dong, keenly aware of his enormous size. Often, Chen Xi took three steps for every one Shi Dong took, demonstrating the disparity between the two. "In this monastery, Sage Oregana has prepared a cultivation chamber for us, capable of cultivating physiques at a rate of 300 per year." The first facility Shi Dong showed Chen Xi was the chamber used for the mass production of 'pure-blooded humans.'

Although this thing requires the use of natural embryos, any geek knows that with just a few tweaks, it can be turned into a human cloning production line.

Three hundred people a year may not sound like a lot, but if all these three hundred people could be transformed into Primaris Space Marines, it would be extremely terrifying.

"Three hundred people a year? How's the quality of the bodies?" Chen Xi asked Shi Dong beside him, looking at the 'bodies' that had grown to adult size and were immersed in nutrient solution in a culture tank that was more than one meter tall.

"The physical fitness can meet the recruitment standards for new soldiers and meet the requirements of the transformation surgery." Shi Dong took out a data tablet and handed it to Chen Xi, which clearly listed the physical fitness of this physique.

Chen Xi nodded with satisfaction.

This is the advantage of advanced technology. If you are recruiting soldiers on a planet, you will need to use various trials to select and pick out the recruits with the best physical fitness.

If you use a cultivation chamber, what comes out is a body with physical fitness that meets the transformation requirements.

Of course, there is a huge gap between the two, that is, personal will.

Generally speaking, the recruits selected through the recruit trials are very strong in both physical fitness and mental willpower, far from comparable to those who only receive hypnosis and indoctrination education in the training cabin.

This is also the reason why each regiment has to spend so much effort on the trials for new recruits and even specially reserve wild planets as recruiting worlds.

However, this problem is not unsolvable through acquired means, so Chen Xi doesn't care about it.

He and Shi Dong continued walking forward and soon arrived at another facility.

There are dozens of sarcophagus-like devices placed here. Most of them are empty at present, and only a few of them are closed and in operation.

"Is this the blood coffin of the Holy Blood Angel?" Chen Xi only took a glance and roughly guessed what it was.

"This was arranged by Sage Oregana. She felt that traditional transformation surgery was too slow and the success rate was too low." Shi Dong answered Chen Xi's question and explained, "This is a stone coffin that Sage Oregana created by transforming the blood coffin's STC. After the gene seed is implanted, the body will sleep in the stone coffin for a year.

A year is enough time for the gene-seed to mature and transform into a qualified Space Marine."

This was the technique used by the Blood Angels to train new recruits. This technique meant that during the Great Crusade, the 9th Legion did not need to carefully select new recruits. Even severely deformed mutants could develop into qualified Space Marines with this technique.

This also meant that the Blood Angels had sufficient manpower in the early days, and they did not need to carefully select the genes of their recruits like other legions.

And for Chen Xi, this means only one thing, that is, he can expand his army with full freedom.

However, there is still a problem that restricts his expansion of the army: "Are there enough gene seeds?"

(End of this chapter)