Warhammer 40K in a box

Chapter 168 Armored Hundred Thousand
Returning to the 3K era, everyone felt a little tired.

During this period, everyone's energy was greatly expended in dealing with the Blood Angels, the Griya technical team, and the subsequent visiting Great Sage.

Although time flows at a relatively normal rate in the 40k era and they have enough time to rest, mental fatigue is not so easy to eliminate.

After all, in 40k, a world that is like a cesspool, no one can completely relax and will always be unconsciously nervous.

So after sending Kohr away, everyone left the 40k era and returned to the 3K era.

"Hoo-hoo! We need to go home and have a good sleep for a day. Discussing technical issues with Dora Kaur is too taxing!" 32 spoke first.

Because of her identity as a technical priest, she and Kaul did have a lot of common topics, and she used her points to buy good things from the old man Huang, so she and Kaul got along very well.

"Why do I feel like you're still not satisfied?" Chen Xi teased, then sighed, "Anyway, the investment from Kaul has been agreed. All that's left is to get that forge back."

"This should be 32's job, right? Deal with Olivia's technological heresy and have her and her bestie retrieve Kaul's forge." Mai Mai looked at 32 and Chen Xi and asked the question that concerned her: "Speaking of which, what exactly is in that forge?"

"Nothing, just ten thousand Primordials." Chen Xi said it lightly, but it made everyone else look surprised.

"Are you kidding? Are there really ten thousand original cast cans?" Dusk was a little bit incredulous.

Although it was a fact that the Dorakaulman Empire buried the Primal Cans, and they initially speculated that there must be Primal Cans buried under the forge in the Mariupol Forge World, ten thousand Primal Cans were still somewhat surprising.

After all, this number is very impressive even in the Great Crusade era, and in the 40k era it is a huge force that is enough to march to Luoyang and keep the high lords awake at night.

Apart from anything else, in the largest civil war among the Space Marines since Wang Huron's great rebellion, the total number of troops deployed by both sides was less than 10,000 cans.

"Ten thousand cans, fully loaded and crewed. According to Cawl, as long as they are equipped with warships, they will be equivalent to ten standard Primaris Chapters." Chen Xi briefly explained, and then continued, "In addition, Cawl has stored various weapons and equipment sufficient to equip these ten thousand cans, as well as the production lines for their production.

I don’t care about 10,000 cans and equipment, but we must get the production line.

With these production lines, the Knights of Embers can expand their forces without restraint. Perhaps by the time the Thirteenth Prince arrives, we'll already have tens of thousands of Primaris Astartes."

"Uh, do we have so many gene seeds?" Guterres asked curiously because he used Space Marines.

After all, the number of Space Marines has always been restricted by gene-seeds. Although the Empire can produce enough gene-seeds to expand its army, for various reasons, the High Lords Council has always kept the number of Imperial Space Marines at around one million.

"Caw sponsored one thousand Primaris gene-seeds of the Imperial Fists, and together with the seeds cultivated by the Embers themselves, it is enough for me to stockpile a hundred thousand Primaris." Chen Xi did not say much, but just listed a simple number.

The Ash Knights are Chen Xi's own chapter. He originally used the model of the Black Templars to modify it. Therefore, the entire chapter also inherited the gene seed of the Imperial Fists, which is even purer than the gene seed of all the Imperial Fists chapters in the current 40k Empire.

Because they possessed a complete set of nineteen transformation surgeries, and after Primaris, they possessed all twenty-two types of artificial organs. Honestly, if Chen Xi announced this news, Imperial Fist would come crying and beg for seeds.

However, he also couldn't explain why the Ash Knight had undergone all nineteen complete transformation surgeries.

You should know that the reason why the Imperial Fists did not have the complete nineteen operations was because in order to quickly replenish troops during the period of great chaos, Rogal Dorn personally ordered the reduction of two transformation operations, thereby speeding up the recruitment of the Imperial Fists.

This was just a helpless move during a special period. Originally, Rogal Dorn had planned to recover after the great rebellion.

However, after the Heresy ended, the Imperial Fists suffered heavy losses. There were not many veterans left, and he himself led a wave of them out to give up, and he himself became the one who was left with a trick. As a result, the Imperial Fists no longer had the Betcher's Gland that produced acidic and toxic saliva and the Sus-an Membrane that allowed the Astartes to enter a dormant state.

Later, during the Beast Wars, the Imperial Fists' parent group was destroyed and rebuilt by its daughter group, the Fists of the Exemplar. The Imperial Fists had no way to compensate for the impact of the loss of these two organs.

Because of this, there are some common worrying issues within the Imperial Fists.

For example, the Imperial Fists commonly suffer from a genetic defect called 'Dorn's Darkness', similar to the Black Fury of the Blood Angels.

These Imperial Fists' attacks caused them to relive the immense pain and suffering of Dorn during his most trying period - when he discovered the Emperor mortally wounded in the final hours of the Siege of Terra.

It is a trance-like state, akin to a living nightmare - those afflicted Astartes remain in a state of half-sleep, half-wakefulness, and are rendered incapable of combat.

But the Ash Knight does not have these problems and hidden dangers because of its intact gene seed.

With the addition of Primaris surgery, it's not wrong for the Knight of Embers to say that he is the strongest son of Dorne.

"If the gene seeds are not a problem, then we only need to consider the equipment and we can build up our troops?" Mai Mai looked at Chen Xi, and there seemed to be expectation in his tone.

Chen Xi nodded affirmatively, and then said: "It is easy for us who hold the blood coffin to blast out soldiers. The only problem now is that the soldiers do not have enough armor after being blasted out, and the source of soldiers mainly relies on the training chamber, which will still reduce the overall quality.

But overall, as long as we fight a few battles, we can basically make up for the shortcomings, so this is not a big problem.

With enough power armor and bolters, we could almost have a legion of Space Marines out before the Great Rift opens."

"Will there be any problems with doing this? For example, when the regent returns, he may suspect that we are plotting something bad..." Guterres expressed his concerns.

In response, Chen Xi simply spread his hands and said, "Instead of worrying about Guilliman suspecting us of our ambitions, we should first consider how to deal with the various monsters and demons that will appear after the Great Rift opens! Don't forget that the entire galaxy will be filled with wild psykers and Chaos invasions."

(End of this chapter)