Chapter 209: Despair and Dawn
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Time passed little by little, and in the blink of an eye, the standard Terra had passed a month, during which Gavin had hunted a huge Split-toothed bear on his Okeanomon, and countless ferocious, powerful beasts had died on Gavin's spear and had become the ingredient for the upcoming feast.
Parker also successfully defeated his inner desires, survived the trials of Moka, and his body changed dramatically, and he became a big man.
The only thing that remains unchanged is Parker's old face and gray hair, the wolf gene in his body has also been stabilized under the operation of Tarik Wolf Priest, and now as long as Parker's body adapts to the wolf gene, he can officially undergo the first operation of the Star Marine-the second heart implant.
The second heart is the simplest and completely self-sustaining implanted organ. The second heart not only speeds up the blood supply, but also maintains intact physiology when the recipient's original heart is damaged. The first stage of implantation will allow the Space Marines to survive the lack of oxygen or trauma. At the same time, the second heart is also the engine that provides a steady stream of power for the Space Marines, keeping Brother Asterta's massive body running.
However, implanting a second heart is urgent, and Parker's body must be adapted to the wolf gene, and this operation can only be carried out after Tarik Wolf Priest is completely sure that Parker's body does not conflict with wolf genes, otherwise the gene conflicts, and the Parker has no other option but to die, and he has no chance to become a werewolf.
Therefore, the operation was urgent, and Parker had to be given some time to allow his body to develop and adapt, which is the main reason why the Space Marine was built for a hundred years.
The other fourteen recruit candidates also took the Moka Trial, but even though the Warmen's Mocha Trial had undergone a lot of modifications to reduce the mortality rate. The recruit candidates were also elite warriors who had been carefully calculated, but there were still five recruit candidates who died on the test ground, slumped in front of the path leading to Brother Asterta.
And just passing the trials of Moka doesn't mean that those candidates are safe and sound, and a high risk of mortality awaits them in future surgeries. With a little bad luck, ten recruit candidates, including Parker, may die on the way to the Space Marines.
Die of genetic instability, die of rejection of genetic organs, and die in the name of a sentry on the battlefield. All sorts of tests await them, and it's no joke that only a single-digit percentage success rate is available.
This is the reason why space marines are scarce and difficult to replenish, if each world of the empire is evenly distributed among the star marines, according to the number of star marines and the territory of the empire, most of the imperial worlds are less than one star marine, three million star marines sound like a lot, but if it is evenly distributed, then it is like sprinkling pepper noodles, a huge empire will not have any effect at all, and the star marines can only exert their most powerful combat power if they are concentrated. A single Space Marine can be killed by the Imperial Guard.
Therefore, in addition to the original warbands with rich family backgrounds, those interstellar warbands that were formed for the second time were not in the middle of the battle, and carefully selected the battle to be carried out, for fear of consuming the precious Asterta monks in the meaningless war.
You know, if those small and medium-sized warbands are lucky, they can only replenish a dozen recruits in a hundred years, or even a little unlucky, there are only two or three recruits to replenish in a hundred years, or there are no recruits at all, and sometimes they can't even pay the tithes of the Mechanics Cult, and the leaders of such small warbands must live a careful life in such days, not important battles, or battles that the Imperial Defense Forces can't support and urgently need the support of interstellar marines, those interstellar warbands will ignore this battle, Even if the Imperial Defense Forces will suffer heavy losses in this battle, and the world of one empire after another will be destroyed, and hundreds of millions of civilians will cry out in despair and die in agony in the war.
Those passing interstellar warbands will not voluntarily go into battle, unless there is a sign from the Imperial Inquisitor or a high-ranking Imperial officer, otherwise an interstellar warband will not easily enter the battle. Even if there are orders and calls for help, most of the time, the Omensed Starwarbs will refuse to carry out support orders, refuse to go into battle, and refuse to become meaningless cannon fodder and consumables.
This is not indifference, nor is it ruthless, but it is a last resort.
In the Empire, except for the original warband, most of the warbands in the empire have never had an easy day, if a wargroup accidentally suffers serious losses in a battle, this wargroup is not only difficult to replenish new soldiers, if even the tithes of genetic seeds cannot be paid, the Mechanics will not wait to see this warband, and it will be very difficult for the interstellar wargroup to replenish the lost weapons and equipment, and the fanatical battle nuns will target this warband, ready to destroy this suspected disloyal wargroup at any time.
Therefore, many small warbands on the verge of destruction did not die on the battlefield in the glorious annihilation of the whole army, but fell on the dagger in shame. This is the main reason why Brother Asterta is so disgusted and hostile to the Battle Nun.
And tithes are a name for an interstellar wargroup to hand over genetic seeds to the Mechanics Cult, which is a tax explicitly stipulated in the empire, every ten genetic seeds of the Eye Wargroup must be handed over a seed to the Mechanics Cult, and the Mechanics Church monitors whether this wargroup has genetic mutations or is polluted by chaos according to the genetic seeds, and whenever the empire wants to build a new interstellar wargroup, it will let the Mechanics select suitable genetic seeds from these genetic seeds, As the genetic seed bank of that new warband, it has allowed that interstellar wargroup to develop and grow independently.
Don't think that tithes are not heavy, it seems that ten genetic seeds, as long as one genetic seed is handed in. In fact, there are only two gene seeds on a space soldier, one can be surgically picked after maturity, and the other one will only be taken by the priest with a gene collector after the death of the star soldier, and the maturity period of a gene seed is often more than ten years, and the empire has lost the cultivation technology of gene seeds, and the existing gene seed sources all rely on the two gene seeds on the star marine's body to support the replenishment of the star warband, which is undoubtedly very inefficient.
In order to replenish a full-fledged Space Marine, ten genetic seeds are often not enough, and a lot of wear and tear often lies in the process of the growth of the Space Marine. What's more, there will be mutations in genetic seeds, once a genetic seed has mutations and defects, then the genetic seed will be destroyed and will not be used. If a mutated and defective genetic seed is forcibly implanted into the body of a Space Marine recruit, there is a high probability that the recruit will develop uncontrollable mutations and defects in the process of development. In the process of cultivation, the possibility of mutation of a genetic seed is not small.
However, sometimes, there are some warbands that often have no choice, they can only secretly use these mutated seeds, blocking everything for the future of the warband, and in the end, the vast majority of such warbands often do not end well, the starmarines of the warband have serious genetic mutations, and the whole group can only desperately make the last allegiance to the emperor, and the Asterta monks of the whole group died in a huge battle. If it weren't for the madness of genetic mutation, being seduced and degraded by evil gods, and finally betraying the emperor, rebelling against the empire, and becoming a disgraced chaos gang, the infinite life can only live in regret and pain. Then he fell into a bottomless abyss, unable to extricate himself.
As a result, many small warbands cannot afford to pay their tithes after suffering serious losses, and it is even difficult to replenish their own recruits, because the gene pool of this wargroup has a serious lack of gene seeds, resulting in the normal operation of recruit replenishment, and the severely damaged warbands must shrink into their own recruitment world and silently recover their vitality. And this recovery time is often beyond the imagination of mortals.
The empire's territory is too vast, and the empire's enemies are too many. The sheer size of the territory made it difficult for the empire to muster all its forces to deal with the enemy, and the sheer number of enemies plunged the empire into constant warfare and embattled conditions. Every minute and every second of the empire is the ships of the navy fighting, there are the legions of the Imperial Defense Force in the annihilation of the whole army, there are countless innocent civilians who are being scattered, and even their own homes are completely destroyed in the war.
The history of the empire has never stopped the war since the emperor lay on the golden throne, and peace has completely moved away from the empire and away from mankind, and the war has forced mankind to make all kinds of cruel choices, whether it is a cruel action, whether it is an act of extermination. This is a multiple-choice question for the Empire, and the score of this multiple-choice question is a matter of survival for mankind.
Sometimes, there is no right or wrong, no mercy, no distinction between victory and defeat in the actions of the Empire, only for the survival of mankind, struggling in darkness and despair, struggling to pursue that dawn, that hope.
It's a pity that most of this pursuit is in vain, and fate leaves the result to mankind, as if only destruction and death remain.
Until now, a faint glimmer of light and hope has appeared in front of humanity. (To be continued.) )