If the period of the Great Expedition represents Rome in its heyday, then the Otrama Star Region, located in the southeastern border of the Far Eastern Star Field, is like the Byzantine Empire, the continuation of Rome after its collapse.

Unlike most Space Marine warbands that have only one home planet (the home world), the Ultramarines (including a whole bunch of sub-groups) have five hundred worlds.

This is Otlama, the farthest point that the Imperial Torch can shine on.

Macurag, the capital of the sector, is the third most important planet in the Empire, followed by Mars and first by Terra.

One of the special points of Maculag is that it is the only planet in the Empire that is allowed to rule over other planets.

In addition to the eight worlds to which the Makulag directly belonged, Robert Killiman divided the planet of Otrama into five parts: east, west, north, south, and middle, and the four sides were ruled by the four heroes he appointed.

Five hundred worlds is nothing for a huge human empire, but it is prosperous, a relatively refined country that is better than the imperial world average in all aspects, just like the fiefdom of ancient princes.

Of course, in the Warhammer 40K universe, where can you get rid of bad luck? It's often either rotten like tofu in a pile of ashes, or you've been slaughtered as a pig with a shovel.

The Otrama Star Zone was targeted by his loving father Nurgle, and the plague wars were famous, and in the Empire, this kind of fame often meant the death of many, many people.

But that was hundreds of years later, and now it was 140 years of the 41st millennium, and the situation in the empire, although bad, was far less bad than it was later.

Kane didn't come to the Otlamar zone this time, either.

The Otrama Star Zone is almost the same as the current Gothic Star Zone, and there are very few wild areas in its interior, and it has basically been swept away by diligent Ultramarines.

If you don't sweep a house, how can you sweep the world?

In this regard, the Ultramarines are the best of the warbands.

The place where Kane was going was to the northeast of the Otrama Star Zone, which was already beyond the farthest range that the Torch could shine on.

As mentioned earlier, since Terra, the cradle of the human empire, is located on the third cantilever of the galaxy, rather than the center, the Emperor's Torch does not encompass the entire galaxy.

Then, according to the star map of the Human Empire, the Far East Star Domain is further east, and it belongs to the true wilderness where the glory of the empire basically cannot shine.

And here, a relatively young, intelligent population called the titanium group has begun its journey to rise.

It took them about 6,000 years for civilization to develop from primitive tribes to interstellar colonization, but because they had not yet mastered the technology of subspace navigation, the pace of colonization was still relatively slow.

As for this civilization, in a word, if the human empire is Europe during the Crusades with the galactic as the stage, the black sci-fi version, then the titanium tribe is Japan.

The set of the family world of the titanium family is easy to think of those famous chaebol families in the island country, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, and so on.

And the good way advocated by the titanium people is also quite similar to the '***** circle', even the co-prosperity on the surface, and the means of secretly playing the next are quite similar.

For example, the first Poktong intelligent race to join the Titanium Empire, within a few generations, strange diseases basically disintegrated their population, and the Titanium people's physique was very suspicious and happened to be immune to this plague, so the Titans naturally filled the home world of the Poktong people, and gradually turned it into the capital planet of the future 'Burke An' home world......

The Titan is also a highly mechanized population of the military. So high that many of the Imperials who didn't know much about them thought they were mechanical beings.

Actually, no, the Titans are humanoids, but they are shorter and thinner than the Imperials. They have a full range of armoured suits.

From close-fitting armor, to wearable exoskeleton power suits, to mecha armor that is more than 3 meters tall and resembles Iron Man's Hulkhead armor, to various types of mecha that can compete with the dreadnought mechs of the Space Marines at about 6 meters, and even Titan-class mecha that can compete with giant beast units......

All in all, the Titanium Clan is a very island country, from "Ghost in the Shell", to "Apple Nuclear War", to "Armored Cavalry", "Gundam Series", you can see plausible in the Titanium Clan, it is estimated that in the future to master subspace navigation, in order to fight against the evil gods and demons, there will be tactical aircraft in "MUV" and decisive weapons in "EVA".

The Titan is the weakest of the known races of Warhammer 40K.

Moreover, the environment around their birthplace is also harsh.

There is the second largest Orc Empire in the entire galaxy.

There is also the Sotek Necropolis area of the space undead.

and the World of Ultra Warrior Five Hundred.

In the future, Nurgle's Plague Legion and a combined fleet of Tyranids will visit......

However, Kane knew that even so, the Titanium Clan would not die.

Not because of their good reputation as 'the only (fake) hope in despair', but because of good luck (the model figure sells well, and the creator god hangs it)!

As for now, if it weren't for the wrong style of painting, the Titanium Clan would be broadcasting songs like 'Today is a Good Day' every day, because the second fleet expedition launched by the Titanium Clan for the 'Second Sunday' plan has not yet been completed, but it is also expected to be victorious, greatly expanding the territory.

Even those who don't understand economics can figure out what kind of prosperity and abundance the titanium people will bring to the titanium group from the population to the individual in the coming period of time.

Kane knew that the first and second Sunday plans of the Titanium Clan were successful, as can be seen from the fact that one expedition corresponds to one plan.

A large part of the reason for these two successes is due to the relatively small expansion force and the fact that there is still a little distance from the problematic star region.

And the main reason behind this is that the Titans have not yet mastered the subspace refractory technology, and they will not have their own subspace navigators until the Nikasar people join their camp.

And to complete this step, if we follow the pace of the original history, we will have to wait for nearly a thousand years.

Compared with the great development of the human empire, the titanium clan can be called a turtle expansion, but it also occupies at least the word 'stable', occupying a domain, operating a domain, digesting a domain, and working step by step.

To be sure, Kane appreciates the Titan more than the Empire, the 'Superior Path'.

What is the best way?

Here's how it is expressed externally:

At the grassroots level, there is only a difference in the division of labor and organization, and there is no difference between high and low. No matter how humble their individual work, they are respected by their fellow citizens, because each individual is part of a great whole and a promoter of the common good.

Doesn't it feel a little familiar?

That's right, very Celestial.

And there's more.

For example, the Titan are more inclined to peaceful absorption, intelligent races with similar qualities to those who have converted to the 'superior good path' than conquest by force.

To put it bluntly, if you are honest, obedient, and willing to work, then you will get the protection, trade, and technology grant of the Titans.

For another example, the Titanium people have always believed that their own methods of doing things are better than those of other races.

It can even be said that the Titan people are in extreme self-confidence, believing that it is their destiny to unify the stars. This is the so-called Mandate of Heaven.

Now, isn't it completely inside?

In Kane's eyes, the 'superior good way' is actually a monistic philosophy that is highly close to utilitarianism. This is Satoko.

As for face, it is a selfless, idealistic, and great founder who is committed to building a large alliance of intelligent populations in the Pan-River system.

However, caste, family (door valve), and clear social hierarchy have exposed another side of it, even to the point where the general situation of each individual can be accurately known from the name.

Earth, fire, water, and wind, four major castes, plus a ruling class of ether.

The door has its own name.

There are five social hierarchies.

For example, there is a titanium person, whose full name is Aun, Kaguya, Tianhua· El, Aun refers to the ether, indicating that he is the ruler, Kaguya is the family to which he belongs, Tianhua is his personal name, and El, which represents the fourth class of the fifth class of social status, corresponding to the caste of the ether, called the sage.

Then this person is at least an elder of the family world called Kaguya, or the successor of the door master.

And if Aun is replaced with Shas, then this person belongs to the combat class, and his fourth social status means that he is a knight, second only to the fifth rank O (commander).

The hierarchy is so rigid and rigid that it is more like Japan than the Celestial Empire.

As for the one that has no distinction between high and low, Kane thinks it would be good to listen to it......

Of course, on the other hand, governing the country has nothing to do with Wei Guangzheng, and the people do not have to tell the truth in everything.

Moreover, the fact that the Titanium civilization can enter the interstellar civilization from a primitive society in 6,000 years is enough to prove that the problem of bureaucracy and capital is not serious.

The gate valve problem is serious.

There is also a very Japanese characteristic of the lower gram and the solo walk.

Belonging to the fire caste, named Vision, it rose in the 41st millennium in the Akunasha War in 733, and after the Damocles expedition in 760, he refused the order of the return army, and instead built a series of fortressed planets on the basis of most of the lost territory recaptured by the expedition, and since then there has been a disgraceful existence of 'vision separation', which even the lord of the immortal spirit (head of state) does not want to mention.

There is also a big problem with the titanium tribe, that is, the rapid development of its civilization, this momentum of rapid development, suspected of overheating, breeds many problems, so it has to transfer the internal contradictions to the outside.

This is also very similar to Kane's memories of World War II Japan.

At that time, Japan's rapid economic development was at the cost of overdrawing the future, and later the reckless use of military force was also the inevitable trend of this mode of development, and the successive victories (naval battles) of the Qing Empire and the Russian Empire made it taste the sweetness, so it deepened on this road.

In fact, the Titanium tribe has also experienced a similar embarrassment, and it is also a helpless move to kill the first intelligent race, the Poketong people, with a genetic virus.

At that time, they needed the world inhabited by the Poktong people to milk themselves.

Of course, this approach is very bastard, and no matter how good the reason is, it cannot be washed away.

But it must be said that this is judged from a fair point of view.

From the perspective of the titanium family, there is no big problem. It is more appropriate to die a foreigner than to die a native of one's own race.

Moreover, if a civil war breaks out, it will bring many problems.

Take, for example, the emotional rift within the race. Once your hands are stained with too much blood of your own race, it will be difficult to return to the harmonious relationship of the past.

Another example is the damage to the operating system constructed by the concept of the 'superior good way'.

To a certain extent, the most fearful thing about governing the country is actually the death of people and the rest of the government. Even if the starting point is good, it will be a great waste for the whole, and it will be a waste in all aspects, including some intangible and spiritual wealth.

The 6,000-year-old transformation of the Titanium Race from a blue monkey running around in the field to a burst out of the home planet to the sky, to a large extent, means that there is no major destruction of the political system, let alone tearing down and rebuilding or something.

It is a system of eternal improvement, and from the perspective of the people, it has become a matter of course. As a result, the whole group of civilizations has formed a kind of development inertia.

The most taboo thing about such a civilization is to be sharpened, and it is very likely that a violent blow will collapse in one fell swoop.

Therefore, the leadership of the titanium family has been trying to avoid this kind of problem.

Behind the way Boketong people deal with it is the choice made by dealing with the internal crisis.

Who doesn't understand the truth of 'a thousand gold bones'?

But there is no way to live up to it, so you can only sacrifice the alien race.

That's the least bad option.

Thankfully, there are still options.

Unlike those countries in Kane's hometown, like the pit aliens, they do not have technology, and can only solve a series of contradictions based on overpopulation and lack of resources through internal friction on the home planet.

Blind people can see that the more there is a round of internal friction every few years, the slimmer the chances of stepping into the era of interstellar colonization.

After all, many of the resources of the home planet are non-renewable, or the process of regeneration is too long, and they are all measured in millions of years.

Then, the manpower and material resources that have been invested in rounds of internal wars of attrition, and those invested in the project of jumping out of the gravity well will naturally decrease.

However, this project belongs to the kind of project that burns money and benefits future generations, but it is difficult to achieve results in a short period of time, and it is extremely scientific and technological.

The Titan is the power of the entire race, and before they are about to collapse themselves, they finally master the minimum interstellar navigation technology, nuclear fusion + plasma propulsion engine, although simple, but they can also start the interstellar journey in a staggering way.

Therefore, the titanium family is lucky, and there is a choice at the critical moment, and they successfully passed the pit and simple Boke Tong people to milk themselves and relieve this breath.

Since then, there have basically been no more character-hurting incidents similar to the Poktong human gene virus incident, at least not on such a large scale, and it looks ugly.

So Kane couldn't help but think of the saying he heard when he was in his hometown: every generation that made a fortune has more or less shit sitting under the buttocks......

If you think about it again, when he was a reincarnation, he didn't feel complacent because he took advantage of others or killed people to gain treasure, aren't people in the indigenous world human? Aren't other reincarnators human?

It has been said that 'those who do big things are not informal'.

Kane felt like it was making excuses for himself. What is a great thing? It is a great thing to benefit the country and the people? Even if it is, how do you know that you will not do bad things with good intentions? How many evil deeds in the world are committed for good purposes?

It can only be said that as long as we do things, there will inevitably be many obstacles, and it will inevitably damage the interests and even lives of some people.

The two are often convertible, and even ordinary people know that cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. It sounds exaggerated, but if you take a closer look, maybe because of the loss of this wealth, the old mother's dialysis fee can't be paid, and the daughter's leukemia can't be continuously treated, which is fatal......

So in this world, it is often the case that when a few people laugh, more people cry.

Because of this, Kane felt that the titanium people were okay.

Comparatively, at least it's okay for yourself. This is much stronger than those countries that 'would rather be friends than domestic slaves', or let their own people tighten their belts, or take big risks to give love on the front line of hot events, and use them to do favors and make some dog meat friends.

However, the Empire is not very friendly to the Titanium. Xenomorphs and heretics are all dying, but it's not just talking.

When the Empire first met Titan, Titan-kun was not yet able to ascend to the heavens (in the 35th millennium, a research ship of the Mechanicus discovered their home planet).

Then the empire was hit by a massive subspace storm......

N years later (more than 5,000 years), the Empire and the Titanium Empire, which was at the end of the 'Second Week Expansion', began to clash.

During this time, the decaying side of the empire was vividly manifested.

It can be said that excluding a few very unimperial defeats (numerical inferiority) and political defeats (some imperial worlds have defected to the Titan monarch), the biggest characteristic of the imperial military is that they are blindfolded and can't bear to read that.

The results speak for themselves.

The empire is finally getting serious.

When the Imperial Defense Force concentrated a wave of forces and prepared to push in a wave, the Greenskin Orcs and Tyranid Bugs came separately.

This was a series of battles that took place between 897 and 903 in the 41st millennium.

Needless to say, orcs grow a genderless super-energetic race that lives on war like a mushroom.

The bugs are one by one, similar to marching ants, and when they reach a certain size, they will diverge out a group led by the new bug queen, and this time the empire is encountering a Leviathan swarm.

In the face of the inexhaustible wildfires and the spring breeze blowing and rebirth, there is no word, just the orcs who are happy to fight and smash a refreshing one, and the Tyranid Zerg who are so numerous that they can eat wherever they go beyond the imagination of most people, under the effect of a series of karmic encounters, the Imperial Fleet unexpectedly acted as an ally of the Titanium Empire.

And in 999, 41 millennium, a wave of imperial counterattacks represented by the Space Marines attacked a colony group on the outskirts of the Titanium Empire, and the Titan people were expelled from many worlds in the region.

But the other fronts have achieved good results.

For example, in the famous Mugulas Bay offensive, the Titanium Army swept across the battlefield like a whirlwind, and no less than 12 prototypes of advanced weapons were successfully used on the battlefield......

As soon as we entered the 42nd millennium, the most eye-catching thing in the whole galaxy was Abaddon's thirteenth black expedition, the Kadia Fortress Star and the Kadian Gate were captured, and the huge subspace moat cut the empire in half, etc., at this time, the human empire could no longer take care of the titanium race......

Therefore, the luck of the Titanium Clan is okay, including the Titanium Starship encountered by the Buzhoushan at this time.

If the ships of the Empire are generally in the shape of pistols, then the starships of the Titan people are basically in the shape of sea fish, the most common of which are sea rays, manta rays and the like, and in front of you is a sea ray shape.

Kane estimated that the other party was an exploration ship that gathered intelligence for the later development of the Second Zhou Tian Project and resulted in a miscarriage.

He couldn't think of a better reason than Trek to explain that the other party would be here. After all, judging from the location of the star region, this place is really a bit far away for the current Titanium people.

The truth is similar to what Kane had guessed. The only thing he didn't guess was that it wasn't a haze, it was an exile.

The other side of the Titanium Clan's 'Supreme Good Path' is the ritual of killing.

Whether it is true that they have violated taboos or have been victimized by others, in short, once they become the losers of a deceitful battle, then the fate that awaits them may be exile.

Of course, the comprehensive value of fame, status, etc., must reach a certain level before such treatment can be achieved. To paraphrase the Japanese template, you have to be a samurai class to talk about them one by one.

To some extent, banishment is also a default way of dealing with the loser to the last bit of decency.

If you don't choose, you will die socially in the way of "going up to the good way" (assassination happens from time to time, but on the surface it is basically not sentenced to death).

And this, for most non-fart Titans, is more unbearable than simple death.

The values of the Titanium people include 'being envied when you are alive and being missed when you die'.

Vulgar, but also honest.

Meiyang is a loser in the pursuit of fame and fortune.

She is an ether, a natural leader, and the education she received from a young age is all about this. For her, survival has never been about food, clothing, shelter and transportation, but how to become a qualified head of the family, lead the family to glory, and establish an immortal career, such as a family based on one world.

Although the success of the second expedition has brought many opportunities for many families of the Titanium clan to go further and establish a family world, in the process of competition, the number of losers still far exceeds that of the winners.

Mei Yang was defeated in this kind of gambling on the family's property, and her last dignity was the assets of the entire family, with only this modified exploration ship remaining, as well as loyal subordinates and family members who could not be accepted by the victor (usually direct relatives, and would also be exiled in order to prevent them or interested people from using their influence to make trouble).

In the name of the outside world, it is the birth of another great enlightened person, the Great Sun Family, with the power of the clan, to create an exploration journey, for a more glorious future for the Titanium Clan, and advance towards the unknown......

If this kind of exile like Voyager 2 never looks back, there is also the so-called joy in suffering, then, with the continuous transmission of exploration information, from time to time to receive feedback from the titanium world, it should be counted as one.

Meiyang and her Da Nichi are considered to have good luck, and after more than ten years, they still send back valuable information from time to time, which makes many ordinary Titanium people remember her and her family.

However, no matter how good the luck is, there are times when it runs out, and Meiyang feels that she and the Big Day will not be able to get through this time.

The other party was a starship she had never seen before, with a multi-curved hull, a beautiful body, and powerful firepower, and in terms of stealth technology and speed, which she had always been proud of, this kind of starship all crushed the Great Nippon.

Fighting, defeating, escaping, not escaping, hiding, not being able to hide, it seems that only defeat remains.