Chapter 598, Added the Second Group

When Gu Hang got the report from Huanyue Star, he just glanced at it and signed it to show that he had read it and agreed with the next policy.

The reason for his casual attitude was not because the matters of Fury and New World Torch were not important.

On the contrary, they were quite important.

Gu Hang had long wanted to get rid of Paulitus. He caused a lot of trouble for Gu Hang and the Alliance.

If Paulitus had honestly found a place to fight a decisive battle with the Alliance, there would not have been so many things and the war would not have been delayed for so long.

After killing them, except for a big hidden danger. There was finally no enemy force of scale and threat in the Proud Claw Star Region.

For the Phoenix Regiment, the Alliance helped them complete one-third of their revenge.

And the surrender of the New World Torch also brought benefits.

Gu Hang didn't really care about the two hundred Space Marines.

Putting aside their level, who would dare to believe that they betrayed twice and were slaves of three surnames?

No matter how generous Gu Hang was, he was unwilling to put Wang Mengsong and the more than 200 New World Torches he brought with him in any key position. They have proved that they can't bear the pressure. They can switch sides twice for survival in a crisis, and there will be a third time.

But the New World Torch itself is still more important.

Since he found out that there is a limit to the number of Phoenix seeds he can exchange, Gu Hang has to consider gathering more warbands to obtain more gene seeds and produce more space warriors.

After the surrender of the New World Torch, Gu Hang had a new gene seed exchange option on the warband-related interface.

This is their greatest value.

The new gene seed that can be exchanged is not called the "New World Torch" gene seed, but the "Secondary Infinite Gene Seed".

The parent group of the New World Torch Warband is the Infinite Warband. This matter is clearly recorded. During the establishment of the Faro Army, the newly built warbands were basically built with the gene seeds of the Infinite Warband.

It's not surprising at all.

The Infinite Legion had the largest number of members in the Legion era. Their gene seed compatibility was the first among all the newly founded Legions, which means that the success rate of gene seed implantation was the highest. In addition, their Legion has been good at management since the Legion era, so it is quite normal that they have the largest number of members.

With a large number of members, when the Legion is split, there will be more Legions; the gene seed taxes paid will be more; when the army is subsequently established, there will be more Legions built with the seeds of the Infinite Warriors; the more Legions and the more people there are, the more gene seed taxes paid...

The positive cycle continues to this day, the Infinite Legion, blue helmets and blue armor, many children and grandchildren.

But why is it a ‘secondary’ seed?

Shouldn’t the gene seed of the Infinite Legion be one of the most stable? Why would it degenerate?

After thinking for a while, combined with his knowledge of the gene seeds of the Space Marines and the situation of the Phoenix, he had a rough guess.

The gene seeds of the Space Marines will undergo some ‘changes’ over the long years and countless inheritances. Some gene seeds are relatively less stable, so the magnitude of change may be large.

This also involves a characteristic of gene seeds: the gene seeds that mature in the fifth year are not counted. The seed that has been with the Space Marine for a lifetime and is taken when the Space Marine dies will carry some of the host's "information".

That is some combat experience and skills.

When it is implanted in a new person, it cannot make him a mature warrior immediately, but it can greatly accelerate the process. The information contained in the gene seed will become something like biological instinct, allowing the new warrior to inherit.

Space Marines grow rapidly and often inherit many of the fighting styles of their previous masters.

For example, the Phoenix, which has a history of thousands of years and is considered a relatively ancient war group, means that after they inherited the original Phoenix gene, they have undergone similar changes and transformations for thousands of years. In addition, the Phoenix gene seed is not famous for its stability, so it is normal for the gene seed to have some differences with the Phoenix mother group.

In addition, the Phoenix had some unknown experiences in the past history...

So, their current gene seeds are not completely different from the Phoenix, but the differences are also quite large.

This is what Gu Hang can see in his system panel. The gene seeds he exchanged are called "Phoenix Seeds" instead of "Phoenix Seeds".

Gu Hang suspects that the Blood Sharks will be similar.

But they have not appeared in Gu Hang's battle group list, and their gene seeds cannot be exchanged, so they can only wait for verification in the future.

As for the New World Torch, they are another case.

The New World Torch was established not long ago, only about three hundred years. So far, the latest generation of their battle group has only been updated to the fifth generation; there are even a large proportion of second and third generation members in the battle group.

This is obviously not enough to support a particularly large change in the gene seeds of the battle group, not to mention that it is a sub-group of the genetically stable battle group such as the Infinite Warriors. Their gene seeds are still the same as when the army was founded.

As for why it is secondary, it is also easy to understand.

In theory, each regiment should hand over one-tenth of the newly produced gene seeds as gene seed tax to the Empire, which will be kept by the Mechanicus and sealed in the gene seed bank after inspection.

In this case, what seeds will each regiment hand over?

There is only a quantity requirement, so naturally they have to hand in the seeds with the worst activity, and the new seeds produced in five years. Those that are recovered when the old soldiers and elites sacrificed, as well as those with particularly good activity, must be kept by themselves.

These generally not very good gene seeds, after being sent to Mars, are stored in the cold storage for unknown years.

The Mechanicus's preservation technology for gene seeds is certainly not bad. However, time is the best killer. No matter how good the preservation technology is, after hundreds or thousands of years of storage, the activity will inevitably decrease.

The biggest impact of the reduction in gene seed activity is that it will lead to a lower success rate of implantation surgery;

The second, relatively invisible impact is that after the successful operation, the strength of the superhuman organs that grow will be weakened to varying degrees.

This kind of problem can be solved and improved gradually over a long period of time, after the regiment has experienced brutal battles again and again, and accumulated enough veterans, and their gene seeds are passed down.

However... the time when the New World Torch was established, and what they have done in the past few hundred years, are not enough to support them to complete the cultivation and optimization of their own seeds.

When it fell into Gu Hang's hands, it became the "inferior infinite warrior gene seed".

However, he soon stopped worrying about this problem.

It's inferior, it's inferior, it's still a space warrior.

Gu Hang is not without a way to make up for it. Through the training interface, he can raise the level of the space warrior to a higher level.

For veterans, champions, etc., the differences brought by the gene seeds will be reduced to a negligible level.

Wait... Thinking of this, Gu Hang realized another problem: not every space warrior has the potential to be trained to a champion.

Even if it is the Phoenix, all members can only be trained into veterans; 30% can be trained into non-commissioned officers; 10-15% can be trained to the level of company champions.

Will the inferior seeds affect the potential of the Space Marines cultivated?

Maybe it is possible.

Thinking of this, looking at the glaring word "inferior", Gu Hang couldn't help but curse. No wonder the New World Torch is so bad, it's not good from the bloodline!

After being depressed for a while, Gu Hang calmed down and continued to think about it.

The quality of the gene seeds is a foregone conclusion and cannot be changed. But how to deal with it is still a question that makes him hesitate.

Excluding Wang Mengsong and others who are still alive, Gu Hang can exchange a total of about 1,800 inferior unlimited seeds.

Counting the 200 surrendered New World Torches who are still alive, the total number is 2,000.

Together, they constitute a complex problem: How should Gu Hang use the proceeds this time?

If we look at it separately, there are actually three problems: captives, seeds, and the name of "New World Torch".

Let's talk about "New World Torch" first.

Gu Hang wants to keep this name of the regiment.

Of course, the newly trained space warriors can be handled according to the "Shadow Regiment" that Gu Hang established with a thousand Phoenix seeds. However, the Shadow Regiment can only do dirty work and act in secret, which is not very convenient.

With one more regiment under his name, Gu Hang has one thousand more regiments that can act in the open.

As for their betrayal, this must also be dealt with, otherwise the Empire will not be able to get through.

The solution is the Expedition of Atonement.

As the commander of the southern front, Gu Hang, in conjunction with the Flash Tribunal, which has a good relationship with him and has been active in the Eastern Universe for a long time, sentenced the New World Torch to a 100-year Expedition of Atonement.

This is a little problematic.

Let's not talk about Gu Hang for now. The main thing is that the Flash Tribunal is a little... too small. They have this power in theory, but they are too weak to deserve it.

But the Alliance seems strong enough now.

As long as there is no problem with the process, the Alliance will solve the problem of strength.

In the state of the Atonement Expedition, the New World Torch must unconditionally accept requests and instructions from all imperial forces.

That is naturally the Alliance.

Even if the current war is over, the New World Torch's combat missions for the next hundred years will be occupied by the Alliance. Other imperial forces want to issue missions... Sorry, I have ready-made ones on hand, and I have to fight for the Alliance.

In fact, not only the New World Torch, but also the Fury Flame Gu Hang plans to deal with it in this way.

He will announce to the outside world that the Fury Flame Corps has also surrendered - no matter whether it actually has or not.

Then sentence them to a two-hundred-year Atonement Expedition.

Then, go back and get the seeds of other war groups and fill them into this Fury Flame.

In this way, after Gu Hang has the "New World Torch" and "Fury Flame", he will have two thousand more Space Marines who can act openly.

In fact, this is not all of the four thousand gene seeds that Gu Hang estimated.

Let's talk about the captives.

Gu Hang thought about these two hundred people and decided not to execute them all.

Although it was an unconditional surrender, Gu Hang had not promised them anything. But after all, after they had agreed to surrender, they acted as bait according to the alliance's requirements and barely held out for fifteen minutes as required.

Although the battle was not beautiful at all, Gu Hang was still not ready to cross the river and burn the bridge.

He would give Wang Mengsong two choices: Either, all members would retire, and the Alliance would plan some "territory" for them in a wild and undeveloped world in the rear. They would be given the status of Alliance citizens, and then go to open up the wasteland, just like an ordinary farmer.

There are many such worlds, especially in the northeast of the Dragon Eagle Star Region, those worlds that were once occupied by greenskins.

The Alliance could not have issued an extermination order to clean up all those worlds full of greenskins. So far, the Alliance has only eliminated all the interstellar navigation capabilities of the Iron Tooth Greenskins, and through orbital bombing, it has blown up all the conspicuous garbage cities and hit the industrial potential of the greenskins.

There are still hundreds of millions of greenskins alive on many worlds.

It is not okay to ignore it. Otherwise, create another greenskin boss, build a secret garbage city from the ground and the hills, build some greenskin ships and launch them into the sky... Maybe the Iron Tooth Green Tide will start again.

Even now, when the Alliance is going on an expedition, there is still a small fleet led by a cruiser, cruising in the former greenskin-occupied area. They will regularly clear out prominent targets on each greenskin planet.

The Alliance has also deployed colonies on these planets.

Occupy an area, collect resources, immigrate, continue to grow, and then fight outward... This may be a century-long plan, and only in the form of people's war can the entire planet be truly cleared.

But fortunately, when the greenskins have no boss, they fight each other more fiercely. For them, coming to trouble "Xami" is not that different from knocking down the greenskin tribe next door.

The greenskins in a state of disunity do not have the concept of racial war above all else.

The old warriors of the New World Torch can all retire and go to these planets. If they die, blame yourself. The immigrants of the Alliance can find a way to survive. Even if the Space Marines lose their power armor, they can't survive? That's purely your own problem.

By the way, it can also bring some help to the Alliance's immigration and colonization of these worlds... I hope so.

Those who choose to retire will be completely scattered all over the planet, and then do whatever they need to do.

If Wang Mengsong and the others are unwilling, Gu Hang also gives them a second option: to join the Punishment Camp, or the Death Company. Then they can continue to be space warriors, but they will always face the most brutal battles, and their priority in getting supplies will be the lowest. In the Death Company, without orders, they are not allowed to decide to retreat or transfer on their own.