Warhammer: I don't want to be a stinky can! ! !

Chapter 83 76. Table Talk
White, dazzling, cold, ruthless, the lights are flickering.

Bright room, but not warm.

Despair once spread here, and at this moment, it is still shrouded here, but a small hope is slowly shaking, supporting an insignificant light.

Here the Primarch sat silently, and there, beyond their sight, his brood cried out without a sound.

Be quiet, the Death Guard always do.

But someone will always break the silence.

"Mortarion, after I glimpsed those images, I have been thinking about how to fight against this predetermined fate, how to win the war with the subspace creatures."

More than empty consolation, Mortarion and his Legion need actionable advice now.

Mortarion, who had grown up on Barbarus, had always been a pragmatist rather than an idealist, grabbing whatever he could, even if he loathed it.

With enough chips, Mortarion will accept Hades' proposal.

"And now, my first answer is, Psyker."

"Every human being with a soul is a channel between the subspace and the physical world. Among them, psykers are more likely to open the interface between the subspace and the physical world."

"But this does not mean that psykers need to be cleared. We need psykers to warn of the emergence of subspace creatures in advance, and to judge the thickness of the barrier between subspace and the physical world."

"and,"

"We need psykers against psykers, against creatures of the Warp."

"On the basis of considering the cost of deployment, the only one who can defeat a psyker is another psyker."

Mortarion raised his eyes slowly, his amber eyes dimmed in the white light,

"And you."

Hades snapped, but quickly continued his speech,

"The untouchable is also an excellent choice against psychics, but... compared to the psychic, the search cost, training cost, and battlefield adaptability of the untouchable are obviously weaker than the psychic."

Hades is a special mutant, and not all untouchables can be transformed into space warriors.

Moreover, the characteristics of the untouchables determine that they will only appear on the battlefield with psykers or warp creatures.

On other battlefields, deploying them is not a wise choice.

After all, the untouchables can also have a negative impact on comrades.

In the period of the Great Crusade, it was mainly fighting against aliens and other humans, and the deployment of the untouchables was more like an investment in the future.

Mortarion stared at Hades silently, thoughtfully,
"So. Let's not mention the untouchables. We, the Death Guard, need a psychic team. Psykers with a strong will can resist the existence of subspace."

There was still a look of resistance in Mortarion's eyes. He thought of those stupid people who used witchcraft, and he thought of those who used witchcraft and eventually became crazy.

And their power... ultimately comes from the subspace.

Those chaotic, crazy, filthy things.

Hades' eyes dimmed,
"I know what you're worried about, Mortarion, I'm not trying to cover up psykers. In fact, as beings closer to the subspace, psykers are indeed more likely to be corrupted and become...become those we all hate. The presence."

"So, we need surveillance, and error correction to exist."

"This is my second answer. There are political commissars or priests in the Death Guard."

"You can call them whatever you want. They are not only responsible for the psychological and ideological work of psykers, but also the ideological work of the entire legion."

Mortarion was visibly lost in thought, Commissar?There has never been such a position on Barbarus, and there are no political commissars in other legions.

Commissars are figures that exist in mortal auxiliaries, and Mortarion has always believed that only weak-willed warriors need them.

And the priest?
Mortarion did know that his brother Lorgar had this position in the legion, but there were no gods on Barbarus, and they didn't welcome religion, or the gorgeous and wasteful existence of priests who faced the loess.

Mortarion frowned, but the cries of his sons still echoed in the depths of his soul.

"Warpspace is an existence that can corrupt thoughts. Even though the Death Guard is a representative of tenacity and unyielding on the current battlefield, we still need warriors with thoughts and hearts. This is a different battlefield. This is a The battlefield that the Legion rarely touched before—”

"But this is the battlefield we will face sooner or later, and it is the existence we have to face."

Are their thoughts really not as tough as they appear on the outside?

However, the despair just now filled his soul like maggots that gnawed at his bones. That feeling...was really bad.
Moreover, if Hades suggested it, as an untouchable, he must have thought it over carefully as he saw the illusion in advance, right?

Even if Mortarion felt a subconscious distaste for these unfamiliar words, he was the Lord of the Legion, he was the father of his sons, and he could not be so capricious.
Only those who face reality are the final winners.

"Really. Is there no other alternative, Hades?"

Hades looked at him with seriousness and determination in his eyes.

"Mortarion, as my personal preference, I'm not partial to this, but with the current situation and form, we seem to have only one option."

Mortarion paused for a moment, then nodded slowly and silently,

"Okay, I accept your suggestion."

"The new think tank team is called Undertaker."

They will bring death, they will send the enemy back to another world.

Even if they exist, they are rejected by everyone.

"And the new corps of thought, discipline, and heart is called the grave warden."

Anyone can be given death's rest, but not them, they are the Gravekeepers, the keepers of the Legion.

They must survive in this cruel world, pass on the power of thought, and stick to the barriers of thought.

"it is good."

Mourners, tomb keeper.

Mortarion chewed the two names slowly in his mind.

Their existence will completely change the fate of the Death Guard.

Hades swallowed,

"Then, my third answer is, Untouchables."

Mortarion raised an eyebrow.

"Although the number of untouchables is extremely small, and the training cost is huge, we still need them."

"It's going to be a loss-making business for a long time to come."

"But we need them."

Mortarion spoke and said what Hades was thinking.

Hades nodded. At present, the only untouchables in the empire are the Sisters of Silence. There is a formal screening and training process for female untouchables.

As for the untouchable men, most of them are distributed in various other expatriate departments of the empire, but there is no official screening and promotion channel.

"If we want to expand the ranks of the Untouchables, we need to expand the sources of recruitment for the Death Guard."

"That's my fourth answer."

"Not only the untouchables, our legion also needs to expand."

Mortarion nodded, expanding the army was his ambition from the very beginning.

After Mortarion took over the Legion, he reorganized the Legion into seven companies, and the full number of each company was 7.

Should the Death Guard reach full strength, they will have 49 Space Marines.

Currently, the death guard's recruiting planet is only Babarus. In the original book, Mortarion did not choose other recruiting planets.

Hades blinked indistinctly. He still hadn't figured out what Mortarion was thinking. He wanted to recruit 49 interstellar warriors with a conscription planet.

And Barbarus isn't a densely populated hive yet.

Robert Guilliman next door, under the premise of having five hundred worlds in Ultramar and an extremely efficient administrative system, the legion's resident strength is only about 25.

If the Death Guard want to expand their troops, they must expand their conscription planets.

Generally speaking, during the Great Crusade period, it was relatively easy for the Legion to conscript a planet. As long as the operation was done properly, the planet that was taken over by the Legion to the Empire could be obtained.

I just don’t know why Mortarion in the original book didn’t apply for a new recruitment site for the Legion. There is a high probability, Hades thought, that Mortarion feels that soldiers from other planets are unreliable.

Moreover, if the recruitment of multiple sources of troops is done properly, to a certain extent, it can also break the regional conflicts within the legion.

A cruel future has been placed before Mortarion and the Death Guard. In the face of life and death, personal preferences can of course be ignored.

"Yes, I accept the recruitment of untouchables and the expansion of conscription planets."

Now, Hades meditated in his heart, think tanks and untouchables are used to fight chaos on the frontal battlefield, political commissars prevent the legion from being corrupted, and expanding conscription planets is a decision that benefits everything.

There is also to improve productivity, technology is the primary productive force!
But Hades swallowed again. To be honest, although he really wanted to go to Mars to learn from Mechanics, judging from the current situation, his previous behavior directly cut off this possibility.

Hades was afraid that if he left, Mortarion would have to hug the mechanical sage on Mars and cry if he had another scene with the legion just now.

"Fifth, we need to develop anti-psychic technology and other technologies that can improve productivity."

As far as Hades knows so far, the most common anti-psychic device in the empire during the Great Crusade was the anti-psychic suppression collar, which is a product of the dark ages, but the empire does not currently have this technology.

Because the anti-psychic suppression collar is a lost technology retrieved by the Iron Hand and the World Eaters, but now, Mortarion has just returned to the empire, and the No.12 Legion at this time is still called the War Dogs.

But that's enough, and it at least provides evidence that anti-psychic technology does exist.

As for the other well-known disabling grenades used by the yet-to-be-founded Culysas Assassins, they are the ashes of psykers produced after the Emperor sat on the Golden Throne after the Horus Heresy For the raw material, it is clear that, at the moment, this path is not going to work.

In other alien technologies, there are also anti-psychic, or weapons that manipulate psychic energy.

Tsk. Hades thought silently in his heart, he originally wanted to go to Mars to see if there were mechanical sages who specialized in anti-psychic weapons.

It's better to send someone else later, he will most likely have to hang beside Mortarion as a pendant now.

And this proposal, for Mortarion, is quite normal and easy to adopt.

Mortarion himself likes to do experiments and scientific research.

Science and logic, this is what Mortarion has always believed in.

That's why, Mortarion and his aversion to the illogical and scientific Warp.

Mortarion snorted, taking it as acceptance.

Hades just now helped him analyze the status quo and countermeasures in an orderly manner.

Compared to facing the unknown enemy and being unable to resist the panic, Hades put these subspace creatures, which are even incomprehensible to ordinary people, in front of them, and analyzed the countermeasures one by one.

Warp creatures are not invincible, they have their own underlying rules, the Death Guard can resist, and they can also have weapons against warp creatures.

Rationality has replaced emotional panic. Compared with the previous despair, Mortarion is now fiercely calculating the implementation measures and possible effects of these proposals in his mind.

It should be almost there, Mortarion thought, Hades has indeed revealed all the measures that can be done at present.

But those hopeless, chaotic futures... no. Mortarion knew what else he could do.

Make the decision that can really save them——

On the Endurance, as well as all Death Guard ships, installed the self-destruct system, and the system for forcing out of the warp, and installed the self-destruct option on his scythe "Nirience".

If that day does come, let the raging flames devour everything.

Even though his soul may not find rest, his unwatched offspring may reap their final death.

This could be. This could be the last struggle he could make, the last thing he could do for his children.

Hades would never have made that opinion, but Mortarion would.

Of course, Mortarion would not tell Hades about this arrangement he had already made up his mind to do.

After thinking through all this, Mortarion's inexplicable suffocation finally slowed down, and Death let go of his hand that was strangling his own throat.

In Mortarion's deduction, the worst outcome is that most people sleep peacefully in the fire, and the last thing is death.

Even if he cannot be redeemed, it doesn't matter, as long as he does not disappoint his heirs.

At this moment, Mortarion felt inexplicably relaxed, and looked at Hades with relief, hoping that he would end this conversation,
His heirs are calling to him, his soul throbs inexplicably, and he needs to comfort those frightened children.

However, Hades looked at him with abnormally cold eyes, and he continued to speak,
"Article [-], don't trust anyone."

"Trust no one, Mortarion."

Mortarion stuck,
"Including the Death Guard?"

"Including the Death Guard."

"how about you?"

Hades took a deep breath,

"If I am also corrupted, please kill me."

"So, including me."

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