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Chapter 713 Recommendation
Terra, Imperial Palace, Hall of Discipline.
After Vulkan finished scolding the High Lord.
War mobilization meetings were also held here.
The Space Marines are discussing the candidate for the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces.
Any military organization must have one and preferably only one commander-in-chief. Vulkan is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate. This is the consensus of everyone present. He has the ability and prestige to command all the imperial armies.
But the Lord of Fire Dragon refused without hesitation and was extremely resolute. He only agreed to serve as the nominal supreme commander of the coalition forces, without being concerned with the specific military deployment and operational command, and threw the issue of the commander-in-chief back again.
The plot developed exactly as Vera described.
Is it time to decide by lifting the hammer?
"I propose that Qingshan Khan be appointed as the commander-in-chief."
Mandulatu Khan spoke calmly.
His voice was not loud, but the whole hall could hear it. After saying this, Mantulatu closed his mouth and did not add any specific reasons for this proposal.
The two Chapter Masters of the Dark Angels and the Ultramarines turned their heads to look over at the same time. It was an unusual thing for the parent Chapter to choose to support the Chapter Master of the daughter Chapter to become the Supreme Commander.
After Vulkan explicitly refused to command the human coalition, many Space Marines thought that this "chief commander" would be born from at least one of the six chapter masters of the founding chapters on the scene. However, they did not expect that the first person to be nominated was the chapter master of a subsidiary chapter, and he was nominated by the chapter master of the parent chapter of this subsidiary chapter.
"The Storm Lords agree."
Targujin Khan immediately expressed his support.
"The Sun Eagle Chapter agrees."
"The Marauders agree."
"The Berserkers agree."
"The Destroyer Chapter agrees."
Without any discussion, the other five chapters of the White Scars all expressed their support. Such a united appearance made other chapters look at them sideways, and Qingshan Khan became the focus of everyone's attention. Although no one stipulated that the "chief commander" must be elected by a show of hands, so many chapters supporting the same person at the same time created a sense of momentum.
"The Black Templars agree."
Bosimonde spoke slowly.
Something even more surprising happened. The most powerful chapter of the Imperial Fists, the Black Templars, which had a number of warriors and a fleet size far beyond what was stipulated in the Codex Astartes, also expressed support for Aoyama Khan.
Those around him were very surprised that Grand Marshal Porsimonde did not choose to nominate himself, or to support the last Space Marine of the parent group, the Imperial Fists, Kurland.
"The Space Wolves Chapter agrees."
Among a group of grey-armoured Space Marines with extremely thick hair and fierce and savage faces, a Space Marine with striking red hair crossed his arms and grinned evilly.
His thick, coarse red hair made him look like a furry poodle from a distance. The brown beard on both sides of his cheeks was so thick that it was braided into four small braids tied with gold rings, swinging around his broad chin.
Saroyan Skarsson, Chapter Master of the Space Wolves.
This is support from a newly founded chapter, which is very important. But the problem is that no one knows why he chose to support Qingshan Khan. The White Scars and their successors may support Qingshan Khan out of brotherhood, and the Black Templars may support Qingshan Khan out of recognition after fighting side by side...
Space Wolves because of what?
They had just arrived in Terra.
Doubts just arose in everyone's minds.
"The Blood Angels Chapter agrees."
The support of the second startup regiment has arrived.
Among a group of red-armored Space Marines with similar blond hair and handsome pale faces, a warrior with long flowing middle-parted hair spoke softly with a calm expression.
Blood Angels Chapter Master, Elkan Orlok.
Although the Blood Angels only sent three companies this time, no one dared to underestimate them. Not only because the Blood Angels were one of the nine founding chapters, but also because they destroyed a battle moon with just one chapter. No one knew how much the descendants of Sanguinius paid for this, but it did not prevent other warriors from paying them high respects.
Now, the two commanders of the Dark Angels and Ultramarines were a little impatient. They looked at each other first, and then cast their undisguised doubtful eyes at Saroyan Skarsson and Elkan Orlok, thinking: Didn't our four chapters arrive at Terra in the same batch? How come you two seem to know something we don't?
What did you communicate privately?
Kurland stared at the regiments that announced their support for Qingshan one after another, including Poseidon, who he thought was the most unruly and self-willed. It was hard to imagine that a Space Marine could win so much recognition from his peers at the same time. But he thought about it again and felt that it was all very reasonable. Qingshan Khan had conquered three battle moons. Under his leadership, humans won victory after victory. These victories were the basis for people's firm support for him.
"The Imperial Fists Chapter agrees."
After coming to his senses, Kurland immediately spoke.
Although he was the only Space Marine left in the Imperial Fists, Kurland still wanted to express his views loudly and firmly to prove that the Imperial Fists were not completely destroyed.
The four founding chapters and six second-generation chapters have all expressed their support. Qingshan Khan seems to have become the popular choice.
The other Astartes Chapters did not raise any objections or nominate other candidates for the Supreme Commander.
"Green Mountain."
Seeing this, Wokan smiled with relief.
"Thank you all for your support."
Facing the Primarch's expectant gaze.
Fu Qinghai stood up and said seriously:
"Thank you for your kindness, I dare not disobey you."
There is no disagreement or controversy.
No tests are required.
The commander-in-chief of the human coalition forces officially confirmed it at this moment.
The high lords present felt as if the sky had fallen!
This was the person they least wanted to see.
The Imperial Guards supported Qingshan Khan.
The Primarch supports Qingshan Khan.
All ten Astartes Chapters supported Qingshan Khan.
The other six did not object.
Qingshan Khan can now even be crowned as Regent of the Empire.
The high lords were filled with bitterness at this moment.
This coup will never end.
The sky in Terra has really changed.
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Terra, Imperial Palace, outside the Training Hall.
"Qingshan!"
Saroyan hugged Fu Qinghai tightly.
The ceramic steel breastplates collided with each other, making a hard, crisp sound.
"I am alive, and you are alive too."
Saroyan, with his wrinkled beard, looked at Fu Qinghai, who still had a young face, and recalled the strange adventure they had in the subspace. He felt a lot of emotions in his heart. He did not expect that hundreds of years later, they would meet again on Terra.
"You are now Chapter Master of the Space Wolves."
Fu Qinghai also patted Saroyan and sighed.
Fu Qinghai and Saroyan have known each other for a long time. He could be said to have witnessed his promotion step by step from a captain to the captain of the Primarch's personal guard, and then from a company commander to a chapter commander. It seems that his experience in the warp benefited him a lot.
"A few years later than you, but not too late."
Saroyan said with a chuckle.
Is that a few years late? Maybe a few hundred years late.
Fu Qinghai felt that Saroyan had become more shameless.
"Excuse me, both of you."
An abrupt yet polite voice sounded.
The blond, red-armored Space Marine interrupted the conversation.
"Chambermaster Elkan Orlok."
Fu Qinghai turned and looked at the person who came.
"Hello, Qingshan Khan."
The Chapter Master of the Blood Angels nodded in greeting.
Then he turned and looked at the Space Wolves:
"Excuse me, Chapter Captain Skarson, can you please let me and Qingshan Khan have a private chat?"
Saroyan glanced at Fu Qinghai.
Fu Qinghai nodded.
The Space Wolves simply turned and left.
He left with the other old wolves outside the door.
Watching the Space Wolf's back walking away until it was out of the hearing range of the Ear of Leman, Elkan Orlok turned to face Fu Qinghai and said softly:
"Thank you for the serum, Khan."
It turns out that this is why Saroyan was sent away.
Fu Qinghai had expected this. But in fact, there was no need for Elkan to avoid Saroyan, because the Blood Angels suffered from the genetic defect of "bloodthirst", which was almost a semi-open secret at the end of the Great Crusade and the Heresy. Many Primarchs and Astartes Legion leaders knew about this.
Elkann chose to talk privately, probably because he felt it was not glorious to bring this matter to the public.
"I accept your thanks. This is not an easy invention. It consumed a lot of scientific research resources of the Phaeton Forge World—even though my warriors don't need this thing."
Fu Qinghai accepted the other party's thanks calmly.
"It is a remarkable invention, valuable to every Son of Sanguinius, and played a huge role in our destruction of the Battle Moon."
The Chapter Master of the Blood Angels said seriously.
Fu Qinghai had never expected that the serum would actually come in handy in the battle between the Blood Angels and the Battle Moon. This super serum, created by Master Quinto using the blood of the First Ones to fuse and transform multiple blood serums from the multiverse, could not completely cure blood thirst, but it could prevent the Blood Angels injected with the serum from completely losing their minds when they became thirsty again, and it could also significantly enhance their physical fitness.
"It's hard to imagine that our blood priests have been tirelessly seeking a solution to the 'bloodthirst curse' for the past thousand years, but have never been able to do so. Sometimes even the most determined warriors have to succumb to this bloodthirst. I didn't expect that the curse in the genes of the Blood Angels could be solved by you. The one who forged the divine machine is indeed worthy of his reputation."
Elkann thought about this incident often.
Still an expression of disbelief.
Blood Priests are a special class of the Blood Angels, and can be considered an advanced version of the Apothecary. They have a special piece of equipment called the "Blood Chalice", which contains part of the blood of Sanguinius. Blood Priests have been studying how to cure blood thirst, and at the same time, they have to use their own blood circulation system to keep the blood of Sanguinius fresh and active.
"You are too kind, Chapter Master Orlok."
Fu Qinghai shook his head and corrected:
"Technically, we didn't cure the thirst, we just made it a little more manageable, that's all."
“That is also a remarkable achievement and breakthrough.”
The Blood Angels' Chapter Master said solemnly:
"To be honest, when we learned that you were using the Flesh Tearers who were trapped in black rage and bloodthirst for experiments, we were all very angry. Although they committed many crimes, the descendants of Sanguinius should not be treated in such an insult. If they must be tried, it should be carried out by Baal. But the results of your experiments surprised us..."
Elkan O'Rourke paused.
"No matter what, the Blood Angels Chapter owes you a favor. Baal will always have your back, Qingshan."
The Chapter Master of the Blood Angels said solemnly.
Just your words are enough.
Fu Qinghai thought to himself:
Otherwise, why would I spend such a huge amount of money?
My own warriors don't have any genetic diseases.
"By the way, how is Nasir Amit?"
Fu Qinghai suddenly remembered the Flesh Tearers' Chapter Captain.
"He got the home he deserved."
Elkan was silent for a moment before answering:
"The Flesh Ripper was assigned to the Death Company. During the battle with the Orks on the Moon, he was one of the first Space Marines to be dropped onto the surface of the satellite. After the battle, we found his shattered body among a pile of Ork corpses."
Fu Qinghai nodded upon hearing this:
"That's a worthy death."
"Qingshan, we have decided to use the gene seed reserves to rebuild the Flesh Tearers. Baal will regularly purchase new serum from the Phaeton Forge World. We hope that this matter will be a secret limited to us. The serum, Nasir Amit, the bloodthirst... We implore you to keep this secret forever."
Elkan stared into Fu Qinghai's eyes and said.
"of course."
Fu Qinghai agreed immediately.
The Blood Angels and their daughter Space Marines have the genetic defects of bloodthirst and black rage, which is no secret to the thousand-year-old veterans or high-ranking members of the Space Marines, but outside the circle of the Adeptus Astartes, most of the civilians of the Empire, including other Imperial military forces, are actually unaware of this. Especially for the civilians of the Empire, knowing that the Blood Angels have the risk of losing control and going crazy to suck human blood and eat human flesh is a huge blow to the image of the entire Chapter.
It not only hit the image of the Blood Angels.
There are also a lot of sub-groups that have branched out from it.
Because they possess the unique black technology of "Blood Coffin", the Blood Angels' efficiency in exploding troops is actually very high, and this may be the reason why the Blood Angels have a particularly large number of sub-regiments. The number of Blood Angels' sub-regiments may be second only to that of the Ultramarines.
These sub-groups also inherited the bloodthirst and black rage.
So the blood thirst issue does have a huge impact.
Fu Qinghai and the Blood Angels have just begun their cooperation, and after several serum transactions have established initial trust, he plans to bring up the traitor gene seed trade to see if Baal can accept this way of trading.
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Terra, Central Office of the Ministry of Military Affairs.
Fu Qinghai began to exercise the power of the empire's commander-in-chief.
He moved his office directly here.
He quickly scanned all the confidential documents, memorizing all the logistical resources that Terra could mobilize in a short period of time with just one look. Then he began to weigh and calculate how to allocate these resources to better serve this expedition. The Iron Pagoda Regiment was of course the first priority for all resource allocation. Fu Qinghai made no secret of this, otherwise why did he launch this coup?
"The Ninth Company has no force field weapons yet."
Fu Qinghai said as he flipped through the parchment:
"Call in a batch of force field weapons immediately."
"Understood, Master."
An old servant with a bald head and hunchback beside him said.
The names sound similar, but force field weapons are different from power weapons. Force field weapons are not equipped with a disintegration force field generator, but a special psychic matrix. This psychic matrix can amplify the user's psychic abilities and coordinate with the weapon itself to convert psychic energy into direct lethality.
Force field weapons are equipment exclusively for the Think Tank. Ordinary Space Marines cannot use the power of such weapons. The Grey Knights, who are all psychics, are equipped with more unique Sky Punishment force field weapons. Force field weapons are a combination of technology and magic that is unique to Warhammer 40K. They are essentially the same as teleportation technology, Geller force field, and other things. Just like power weapons, force field weapons also come in many forms, such as swords, axes, halberds, hammers, and scepters.
Force field weapons are very special and can only be produced on a very small number of forge worlds. The Phaeton forge world does not have the production technology for force field weapons, so the Iron Pagoda Regiment, including the think tank director Danzhuer, does not have their own exclusive weapons. They fight with bolters and chainsaw swords like ordinary space warriors. Fu Qinghai just took this opportunity to replenish the exclusive weapons for the newly formed witch brigade.
"Use this mobilization period to scan all the data here, and then analyze and summarize it. We need to have a clear idea of the resources that Terra can mobilize."
Fu Qinghai put down the parchment scroll in his hand and said.
"Okay, master."
The bald, hunchbacked servant bowed his head and said respectfully.
The old man disguised as a servant is Qing Ming.
These vast data stacks and parchment scrolls in the central office of the Ministry of Munitions involve war materials stored in countless warehouse worlds of the Empire. Ordinary scribes and clerks may spend their entire lives sorting them out, but for a super artificial intelligence, it is a piece of cake.
"The Storm Knights are on their way. The war mobilization is expected to be completed within a month. We cannot leave the orcs too much time to prepare. They will set out immediately after the mobilization is completed."
Fu Qinghai stood up and said in a deep voice.
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