Chapter 113: On the Black Temple

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"Huhuhuhuhu~~~~~~~~~"

A strong current swirled around the empty parking bay, rattling Agaven's Asterta robes.

In front of Gavin, more than a dozen winged square boxes were flying in from the space outside the Tempest through the entrance, stopping above the Tempest's parking bay with a sense of uniformity and spectacle. This ugly square flying box is called the Arvus Imperial Navy Barge, and it is a reliable transport aircraft for transporting equipment and armed personnel in space in the Imperial Navy. This type of transport aircraft is also often used as assault boats by Navy marines, and its thick armor and fast space flight speed are appreciated by most Marines.

"Sneer~~~~~~~"

The sound of air currents caused by the opening of the engine door was incessant, and inside the hatch of the transport barge, a black giant figure was revealed.

"Black Templar Warband ......"

Gavin looked at the elite space marines wearing a set of power armor painted all in black, with only a black cross on a white background on the shoulder armor, and couldn't help but sigh in a low voice.

These Space Marines, who have a great relationship with the Heretics-Inquisition, are all fanatical warriors sent by the Black Templar Warband, who are extremely loyal to the Emperor, to carry out missions under the Inquisitor. These Black Templar Space Marines have a fighting style similar to Earth's medieval Crusader Teutonic Knights, and the Black Templar Space Marines on the battlefield have continued the fighting style of the Warband's founder, Sigmen, to take out opponents with melee weapons instead of long-range bombardment. Crushing one's enemies with righteous wrath and noble faith in face-to-face combat is the only way to make a true Black Templar Space Marines gain honor and respect. This is all the more admired by the fanatics of the warband, whose righteous anger makes them deeply ashamed of retreating from the enemy, and they will relentlessly rush at the enemy on the battlefield, and the fall of each comrade will only stimulate their fighting nerves, and they will take revenge on their brother's murderer with greater speed.

As part of their faith in the Emperor, the Black Templars would take a powerful oath of faith and protection, and revisit one of these oaths before the Great War, depending on the warrior's duties on the battlefield, encouraging their boundless courage, ruthlessness, and extreme dislike for their sworn enemies.

The Black Templars have absolute loyalty to the Emperor, and they will temporarily carry out the tasks assigned by the Inquisition established by the Emperor himself, but these warriors are extremely disdainful of being in the company of the Empire's authorities, so that when they are provoked by the stupid bureaucrats, they will also add punches and kicks, and the stupid bureaucrats of the Empire who have been beaten or killed are often forced to forget about this matter by the Inquisition, so this makes the reputation of the Black Templar Space Marines more and more unfriendly among the government officials of the Empire. However, the Black Templars said that they didn't care about this kind of thing, they were only loyal to the Emperor, and they were not interested in the Empire. They now fought only for the emperor's gold and possessions, and not for the so-called imperial government.

Due to the fleet-based nature of the Black Templars, the fighting forces of this group were rarely assembled in warband units, but were divided into several crusaders. In general, it is rare for more than three Crusaders to appear in the same theater of operations at the same time, although occasionally many Crusaders are involved in the battle at the same time. As recorded in the Black Templar Warband's battle to quell the Dalmark Rebellion, as many as 14 Crusaders fought simultaneously in the Battle of the Solar Field. There is also a great deal of flexibility in the size of a Crusader, sometimes as few as 50-100 Space Marines, sometimes equivalent to the sum of several companies following the Astarte Codex. At the moment, only the Generalissimo himself knows how many Space Marines there are in the Black Templars, and despite the fact that the Black Templars are spread across the wider Empire, it is clear that they are far larger than any regular warband. If some of the rumors are true, they have a total of 5,000 to 6,000 fighters. This force would be unstoppable if it were to be assembled in any single theater of operations. While some members of the Inquisition have expressed concern about the potential size of the Black Temple, the size of the Warband remains a mystery to this day due to the lack of evidence of disloyalty to the Emperor in the warband's long history, and no evidence that anyone could challenge the Black Temple in terms of numbers.

Each of the Holy War forces is continuing the ancient first mission of the Space Marines: to take the initiative to find each of the Emperor's enemies and destroy them before they advance on to the next Emperor's mortal enemy! All Space Marines are named after their fervent faith in the Emperor, but the extremes of the Black Templar Space Marines are often described as fanatical. They are eager to tear apart every enemy of humanity, and they have no mercy or tolerance for heretics, mutants, magicians, aliens, and anything that is hostile to the Emperor. As a result, there is no Think Tank Curator in the Black Temple's battle sequence. They never trusted the power of the subspace, as no Black Templar Space Marines would fight alongside a psyker.

For the past 10,000 years, warbands have proven their loyalty through constant jihad. This creed has been so deeply integrated into the creed of the warbands that they are left with absolute cruelty when they rush at anyone or anything that is perceived as a threat to the Emperor. When psionics appear on the battlefield, the Black Sanctuary will be enchanted by hatred and a desire for revenge, and they will not hesitate to eradicate the heresy of the rebellion by obliterating all the inhabitants of the planet. In every world that has been reclaimed or reclaimed, the Black Templar Space Marines have built fortresses of warbands, and these impregnable fortresses are a constant reminder that the gaze of the emperor is everywhere! Of course, their main purpose is to recruit new Space Marines from the local population and as a strategic base point for gathering different crusaders. Although these are not comparable to the monasteries of ordinary warbands, these warband fortresses are still objectively large, and each has enough space to station 2-3 companies of Space Marines. Countless similar fortresses have been erected over the last millennium, some of them still standing still alive today, others mostly abandoned or no longer manned, but these seemingly lonely ruins have never been forgotten, and it is to be expected that the Black Templar Space Marines will suddenly return to these fortresses and make any creature stupid enough to dare to occupy them in their absence!