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Chapter 149 Love from Terra

The subsequent impact of the Chaos Invasion is not so easy to deal with.

The destroyed warships need to be destroyed. Although it is possible to tow them away for purification and recycling, the Imperial Navy generally does not want such things.

The most important thing is that the keel of the warship must be intact and not damaged, and it must be worth repairing and rebuilding.

After all, the keel of a warship is usually made of fine gold. The keel will not be damaged even if the ship sinks. If it is salvaged, just remove the damaged part and build a new ship.

However, some hulls that are severely contaminated by Chaos or corroded by Warp energy will not be recovered even if they are intact, but will be pushed into the star and destroyed.

(This is not a permanent solution. A space hulk contaminated by Nurgle was pushed into a star, and then the star turned green.)

As for the two Chaos warships of the Khorne War Gang, although the Warp Energy Corrosion and Chaos Pollution were not particularly serious, because the last 32 fired a Nova Cannon, the keels of the two ships were severely twisted and basically had no recycling value.

Although the precious metals on the hull or the instruments and equipment that were still worth repairing were worth recycling, after everyone discussed it, the two ships were pushed into the stars of the Rostov system and were completely destroyed.

Thrown in along with them were the bodies of the Chaos warband, its cultists, and anything else judged to be tainted by Chaos.

It is never too much to be cautious when dealing with chaos pollution.

After doing all this, Chen Xi also informed the capital of the Mariupol star zone of the news of the Chaos invasion.

This is because Chen Xi's planet is special and has sufficient planetary defense forces. Otherwise, a Chaos warband plus two Chaos warships can really wreak havoc on an entire planet and kill all of the more than one billion people on the planet as sacrifices to Khorne.

After all, normally on which planet would there be three chapters of Space Marines just lying around?

Even if Death Watch is only the size of a ten-man strike team, it can still represent an entire regiment.

Chen Xi didn't think that being invaded by Chaos and then repelling it was anything worth worrying about. This kind of thing was as normal as encountering wild monsters spawning in a game.

But he didn't care. The Ecclesiarchy, the Inquisition, and even the Governor of the Mariupol Sector were almost scared to death. The matter was even reported to Terra by the Military Affairs Department of the Mariupol Sector.

The reason is simple. The consecrated wine previously purchased by the Inquisition and the State Religion has played an important role in some critical occasions in recent years, and has helped the empire to clear out many hidden corrupted people.

This has led to the Holy Blessing Wine now being valued by Holy Terra. The Mariupol sector has even received a star message from Holy Terra, asking them to do everything possible to ensure the production of Holy Blessing Wine. This thing has now become an important resource for the empire.

Originally, this kind of prop that can only identify heretics and degenerates is not rare for the empire, nor is it something that can affect the situation in the empire.

Apart from the State Religion and the Inquisition, which really have an urgent need for it, no one takes it too seriously.

The empire's territory is too vast, and it produces a lot of good things. However, it is often limited by the size of the empire, which makes it difficult to promote or apply these good things to the entire empire.

But something happened that forced Holy Terra to pay attention to the production of consecrated wine.

A case of consecrated wine was delivered to Holy Terra, where it was met by the Imperial Guards and escorted to the throne room. The political signal from this incident was very strong, almost explicit.

It has been far too long since the Emperor has shown any sign of life within the Imperium, though the tolling of the Lost Souls Bell hanging high outside the Imperial Palace indicates that the Emperor still sits upon the Golden Throne.

But over the past ten thousand years, the Emperor's influence on the Imperium, and even on Holy Terra, has been decreasing.

As for the Holy Decree? Since the Emperor ascended the Golden Throne, the last appointment letter of the Planetary Governor from the throne room was the only Holy Decree issued by the Emperor.

Now, the blessed wine from that planet has been sent to the throne room again. What exactly this symbolizes is really interesting and thought-provoking.

For these political creatures of the Elderly Main Council of Holy Terra, this was definitely not because the Emperor was craving for wine and wanted to find someone to brew wine for him, but a clear political signal.

The state religion even interpreted it as a signal that the Emperor was about to return. After all, it had been ten thousand years. Even if the Emperor really was craving for wine, it meant that he had at least regained the ability to drink and was no longer a dried corpse on the throne.

However, just as the consecrated wine was delivered to the throne room, the planet that produced the consecrated wine was invaded by Chaos?
This is not a slap on the ass of Governor Chen Xi, but the face of the entire empire and the face of the High Lords Council being trampled on by Chaos!
In particular, Chen Xi did not neglect his duties. He repelled the invasion of the Chaos War Gang, destroyed two Chaos Cruisers, and wiped out the entire Chaos War Gang!
So Chen Xi is not responsible!
In the Empire, there is no need to say much about failure, and there is no need to say much about victory!

Since the Governor is not responsible, who is responsible?

Self-explanatory.

The High Lords have no control over when Chaos invades, and they don't have the ability to do so.

If they could control it, the empire would not be in its current state.

All the High Lords can control is how the Empire responds to the Chaos invasion.

Then things became simple. The High Lords still had the final say on matters on the Imperial side. Some of them even thought they could control the Primarch, but they had to admit that the High Lords' Council did indeed possess supreme power.

The Terran Ecclesiarchy Headquarters then allocated funds and asked the Mariupol Sector to help Rostov II build an orbital ring and strengthen the planet's defenses.

The Martian Mechanicum also sent a letter to the Forge World of Mariupol, requesting that the local Mechanicum provide the necessary assistance for the planetary defense of the planet.

The Imperial Navy investigated the situation of the naval fleet in the Mariupol sector, and upon learning that the area had been included in the naval patrol range and was even a logistics supply point, no further adjustments were made.

They simply selected three outstanding candidates from the unemployed or retired naval officers and assigned them to the three Moon-class cruisers ordered by the National Church for Chen Xi, and assigned a group of smart and capable officers to each of the three ships.

The Military Affairs Department did not do so many things. It just counted the troops that the Military Affairs Department could mobilize at the moment, looked at the situation in Rostov, picked out two regiments, and sent them to Rostov II.

A mechanized infantry regiment of the Armageddon Steel Legion, an armored regiment of the Tallarn Desert Raiders.

(End of this chapter)