When Martins escorted Blevins and the other eight people on their way to the Angry Owl Star, Gu Hang had already received information from the Immortal Bird.

In this information, Martins did not hide anything from Gu Hang. The origins of the Bevens and their gang, as well as a series of information about the 'Ashes Dead' warband, are attached to the report in detail.

After reading it, Gu Hang actually had a good idea of how to deal with Blevins and the other eight people.

There is no doubt that Martins wanted to save the lives of these men.

Don't look at the information coming back from the front, every conversation between Martins and Brevins is recorded. Words like 'traitors to the Empire,' 'disgrace to warbands,' and 'cowards' were smashing into the heads of the Brevans. Moreover, in Martins' own report, he also clearly wrote about the crimes of these people, and claimed that all the power of trial lies in the hands of the supporters, masters, and saviors of the war group, that is, Gu Hang.

But if Martins really wanted to wash away his shame and slaughter these eight renegades on the spot, wouldn't it be over?

Even if they care about the so-called correct process, or want to give them a ritual trial, then it shouldn't be said that the fate of these people will be judged by Gu Hang.

Reporting to the Empire, whether it is the Imperial Inquisition or the Space Marine Governing Body, is a more suitable inquisitor - of course, that will cause the undead bird to wash some of its reputation and fall to a halt, and if it is not good, it will have to be reviewed, and the gains outweigh the losses.

But no matter what, nominally, what does Gu Hang have to do with the immortal bird? It's nothing more than a funder.

It is true that Gu Hang is indeed the actual controller of the Immortal Bird Warband, but when Martins set off, Gu Hang had already made it clear that for these people who may be traitors to the Immortal Birds, he will leave it to Martins himself.

As a result, Martins brought the man back alive.

Don't look at what he says, just look at what he does.

As for whether these people are dead or alive, in fact, Gu Hang really doesn't care.

Eight Space Marines only.

Even if they are all century-old veterans, they are all elites, so what?

Gu Hang can now create Space Marines in batches. Even the selection of genetic seed belt personnel will consume about 1,000 points of gift; MK4 Wei'an power armor, the alliance can already be mass-produced, and even the cost can be controlled below 100,000 tax coins.

For Gu Hang, Space Marines are no longer a scarce commodity.

Eight hundred-year-old veterans are indeed quite powerful, and they can be used as the middle backbone, but after all, the training system in Gu Hang's hands, it will cost an extra two hundred points to train a single interstellar soldier into a veteran; Even if Blevins and the others had reached the rank of Master Chief, then Gu Hang would be able to get a new one for an extra four hundred points.

It is precisely because of this that Gu Hang let Martins deal with it himself.

Picking up eight veterans for nothing and saving 10,000 gift points is really good; But if Martins is obsessed with eliminating this group of people, Gu Hang has no opinion.

However, looking at the current situation, since Martins wanted to let these people live, or at least had a tangled mentality, Gu Hang felt that it was not impossible to accept them.

As for the risks, he didn't feel anything.

According to Bravins's confession, they were still very cautious in their actions in the past, that is, they recently came to the Pegasus Star Zone to seduce Martins, so they repainted the power armor and made it red. If they used to act normally, they wouldn't even be painted red, and the whole other color variety, the hell knows who they were.

Externally, they claimed that they had already killed these 'pirates' when they were on Saturn.

As for those who really know the truth, after all, there are still a minority, mainly those elites of the 10th Brigade. The reliability of these people is also quite high, and Gu Hang is not worried that they will leak secrets.

Of course, they can't be completely cheaper. After all, there is sin in them.

Capital sins can be avoided, but living sins cannot be escaped.

Gu Hang gave Martins a suggestion, or instruction: under the war group, set up a new company, which will be called the 'Company of Atonement'. After the eight of them re-swore allegiance to the Emperor, their past, the warband, and the alliance would be kept secret for them. However, the Company of Atonement they are in will be involved in the hardest part of every battle of the Immortal Bird Warband in the future.

The alliance will not engage in an atonement expedition, no reinforcements, lack of supplies, and clearly send people to death. The treatment is the same as that of a normal immortal bird warrior. The equipment supply that should be provided, the support force that should be provided, will not be missing from them, and they will not be allowed to carry out any mortal mission.

But in the same way, they must also undertake the arduous task of tackling tough problems, and they cannot shirk the blame, and they must fight beautifully when the normal conditions are provided.

……

For the treatment of Blevins and the other eight people, that's it.

Compared to the eight of them, Gu Hang was more interested in the past of the immortal birds, as well as the information about the 'ash dead' that Blewins and the others mentioned.

He had previously checked the information on the 'Bauhinia Rebellion' that led to the Immortal Bird being sentenced to the Atonement Expedition.

It was a very confidential piece of information, and at first, Gu Hang could only hear a few words, as well as some undead bird statements from the mouths of Martins and Pastor Rizzo.

But these are relatively one-sided and thin.

Later, when Gu Hang's 'good brother', Pochoa Gallardo, became developed, it was more convenient for Gu Hang to investigate these news.

Gallardo gave him an internal confidential report.

The Bauhinia Rebellion took place in a star sector called 'Bauhinia', which was located in the Spider Web Domain, within the Empress Star Domain.

The Spider Web Domain, right next door to the Eastern Universe, is located in the north of the star map.

In the Bauhinia Star Zone, there is a war group, the name is the same as the star field, it is called the Bauhinia War Band. This is also a sub-regiment of the Phoenix Legion, with the same bloodline as the Undead Birds.

In the Spider Web Domain, there is also a warband called 'Iron Armor'. Compared to Bauhinia and Immortal Birds, the reputation of the Iron Armor Wargroup is much greater, and they directly guard the Empress Star Domain, together with multiple star regions, forming a defensive network. And the main enemy they face is the Void Zerg.

The Void Zerg are terrifying alien creatures in which they have no self-will, but are completely at the behest of a higher level of node creature.

Their biological fleet crosses the planetary sea, and each ship can be considered a giant space creature. They are the true destroyers, visiting a planet and quickly devouring all life on it, destroying the local ecosystem and laying a massive 'blanket' of flesh. These meat blankets will absorb the nutrients of the entire planet, and efficiently absorb the energy of the stars, while hatching more Void Worms, and even hatching many parts and sending them into space to form new biological starships.

A hive fleet, in the form of a conventional physical space voyage, came to the Queen's Star Domain and caused great destruction. It wasn't until the arrival of Iron Armor and several warbands allied with Iron Armor that the situation in the Empress Star Domain was controlled, and the power of the Void Zerg was suppressed within a few star regions.

Although the disaster is under control, the characteristics of the Void Zerg represent an infinite number of people, as well as the characteristics of super-fast recovery of troops. In addition, the planets that have been devoured by the Void Zerg are all their meat blankets, and even if the humans take it back, they will basically not be able to use it again.

Because of this, the Empire considered that the price to be paid to recapture these planets was too high, so it ordered Iron Armor and multiple warbands to establish a defensive belt around the multiple star regions invaded by the Zerg. The goal of the Human Empire is to control the situation in the region and not let the Empire invest more strength, after all, at that time, the Solar Expedition was in full swing of preparations, and a large amount of manpower and material resources were concentrated in the southern part of the Empire, and there were really not enough resources to solve this major disaster.

To this end, the Empire also granted considerable autonomy to the Iron Armored Warband. They can collect their own taxes and control the imperial power in the entire Empress Star Domain, as long as they pay the imperial taxes, the rest will be under the control of Tie Armor himself.

Even, the multiple battle groups operating in the Empress Star Domain also made Tie Armor an alliance leader, and he could coordinate and deploy actions.

At this point, the Iron Armor Wargroup has become the de facto master of the Empress Star Domain.

The Iron Armor Warband did a good job, they blocked the continuous expansion of the Void Zerg, and paid the imperial tax in full.

If things only go so far, then the Iron Armor Wargroup will undoubtedly be a great loyal and meritorious hero of the Empire.

However, the affair soon revealed some inside stories.

The Iron Armor Wargroup did not pay so many taxes at all, and the so-called 'full' tax payment in the Empress Star Domain was actually a fake account. They multiplied the losses caused by the Void Zerg by more than ten times, and withheld 80% of the taxes that should have been paid in the star field by lowering the development level and concealing population verification.

On this basis, they also exaggerated the scale of the battle with the Zerg, and constantly asked the empire for money, people, and materials, and said that they couldn't stop it if they didn't give it. Then, they will really let go of part of the defense line, let the Void Zerg rush out, go to the outer star field to make trouble, and force the empire to really give money.

There is also a problem with the tax on genetic seeds they hand in, and the number of seeds they give is in line with the level of a warband of about 800 or 900 people, but in fact, they are much more 'overborn'. According to reports, the Iron Armor Warband was at least six thousand Space Marines in size on the eve of the Bauhinia Rebellion.

The empire has a limit on the size of the warband, which cannot exceed 1,000 people. Six thousand Space Marines, that's the size of six warbands.

What's more, they have also cultivated a large number of mortal auxiliaries who are loyal only to them.

This is the standard self-respecting behavior.

And the one who revealed all this was the Bauhinia Warband.

Bauhinia is also in the Imperial Maiden Star Domain, but they already have some old grudges with the Iron Armor Warband, and now they have to let them obey the command of the Iron Armor, which is a bit difficult to accept.

If this is the case, for the sake of the overall situation, for the sake of the empire's orders, they will pinch their noses and endure it. But the key point is that the Iron Armor Wargroup is not kind, and the resource supply often deducts them, and they are always let to fight difficult battles.

The enmity is getting bigger and bigger.

Bauhinia is inside the Empress Star Domain, and after a long time, they have some evidence of what the Iron Armor Wargroup did, and then directly stabbed the Holy Terra, and there was an armed conflict with the Iron Armor Warband.

Bauhinia couldn't fight against the Iron Armor Warband, which was much larger than them, let alone the other three warbands, who also stood with the Iron Armor.

So, they started shaking people. It was also at this stage that the immortal birds, who had a good relationship with them, were shaken over to help.

But at this point, the situation is actually fine, only staying in an armed conflict, turning a blind eye to it, it can not be regarded as a civil war.

However, the next action of Divine Terra escalated the situation.

The behavior of the Iron Armored Warband, of course, the Imperial Government is not happy to see.

Make a little fuss, for the sake of you really being in charge, then forget it; However, it's too big, and 80% of the tax revenue in a star district makes you throttle; If you are born 1,800 people, you can endure it when you are in a wartime state, but if you have 6,000 people, plus there are three warbands standing with you, a total of faster than 10,000 space marines, it is indeed very inappropriate to set up an independent kingdom here.

As a result, the Empire decided that the actions of the Iron Armored Wargroup were a rebellion, and restored the Imperial tax within a time limit, and demanded that the Iron Armored Wargroup be split into six regiments and accept the Empire's dispatch to go somewhere else.

Bauhinia, the Immortal Bird, and another 'Starbreaker Blade' warband that was shaken in were the Overseers.

Iron Armor didn't do it anymore, and directly decided that this matter was aimed at, it was nonsense, and the ghost was in Terra.

They let go of the defense line, allowing some Void Zerg to rush out, and at the same time, completely blockading the Empress Star Domain and the surrounding multiple star domains, preventing any Imperial ships from passing through the Empress Star Domain. Moreover, inside the star field, the Bauhinia Flower, the Immortal Bird, and the Star Breaker Blade were comprehensively cleared.

That's a big deal.

The events that affected many star fields had a great impact on the Empire's taxes, trade, and navigation in this region. The Void Zerg went on a rampage, and Iron Armor followed behind, taking over and even plundering many planets in the name of pursuing and fighting against the Void Zerg, and even requisitioned the materials of many empires' taxing fleets.

And inside the Empress Star Domain, the Bauhinia Flower, the Immortal Bird, and the Star Breaking Blade couldn't fight against the Iron Armor at all. The number is not as large as that of the family, and the key family has raised a large number of very elite mortal auxiliary troops for so many years. The three warbands have lost the support of the Empire, and can only deploy some planetary defense forces under their control, and the quality is very different, and they can't be defeated at all.

Things have gotten so bad that they can barely end.

Is it really necessary to fight an imperial civil war during the preparation of the Expedition to the Sun?

It's not that it can't be defeated, but at least nearly ten more loyal warbands must be deployed, plus countless Astral Troops and Imperial Navy fleets, to be able to calm this matter down. Then, we have to deal with the raging Void Zerg, and then we have to leave enough strength to block the Void wormholes that are constantly popping up in the Empress Star Domain.

In summary, this is too expensive.

It was at this moment that a Terra official was ordered to send an envoy to the Iron Armor Band. With great diplomatic skills, he persuaded the Iron Armor Wargroup to stop.

The empire will not divide them anymore; The imperial tax in the Queen's Star Domain has risen a little, but not too much; Give them back where they should be kept; The Empire still needs to give them reinforcements; The Empire is also to retract its decision to rebel against the Iron Armor Warband......

The Iron Armor Bands accepted these conditions.

So since Iron Armor is not a traitor, who is?

Someone has to be responsible.

At the request of the Iron Armor Clan, Bauhinia was saddled with this black cauldron, and this rebellion was obviously an Iron Armor Clan, but in the official records, it became the 'Bauhinia Rebellion'.

They framed the 'loyal' Iron Armor and took the initiative to attack, causing the Zerg defense line to be broken, forming a situation that affected several star fields, and even put the Spider Web Universe in deep danger.

Bauhinia was completely wiped out under the 'counterinsurgency' battle of the Iron Armor Warband.

The Immortal Bird and the Starbreaker Blade were released and sentenced to the punishment of the Atonement Expedition. Sixty years into the Atonement Crusade, the Starbreaker was completely wiped out; The immortal bird survived the hundred-year expedition, but there were only seven people left, until they met Gu Hang.

This is the whole process of the 'Great Bauhinia Rebellion'.

Now, the Iron Armor Wargroup is still a big overlord in the Spider Web Domain, with strong soldiers and horses, its own independent small kingdom, and it is still a heroic wargroup against the Void Zerg.

And the warbands that opposed them, except for the immortal bird, which had a special situation, the rest were all wiped out.

Gu Hang has actually been thinking about this occasionally.

Originally, the alliance didn't have much to do with the Iron Armor Warband. Although the Eastern Universe and the Spider Web Domain are next to each other, but when it comes to the star field, the distance between the Dragon Eagle and the Empress is not close, and at least three more star fields must be crossed in the middle before the two can be connected.

Unless the alliance expands to a very outrageous extent in the future, it should not be able to touch the Empress Star Domain in a short period of time;

However, there is another problem that cannot be ignored: if the Void Zerg problem in the Empress Star Domain breaks out, whether it is the iron armor that can't stop it, or what are they going to do, and the scale is expanded to a very outrageous situation, then the Dragon Eagle Star Domain may be affected instead.

But that probability shouldn't be too high. The incident a hundred years ago was not small, and it did rush through the three star fields, and it took a lot of effort to destroy it, but the direction did not come to the Dragon Eagle Star Field.

However, while this is the case under normal circumstances, if the undead birds are revived, then what will the Iron Armor Warband do?

Gu Hang's understanding of this battle group all came from the report of the Bauhinia Rebellion. Judging from what happened in those years, Gu Hang felt that the methods of this war group were quite bottomless. Moreover, they have a bit of a retributive character, and they are also ruthless in dealing with their enemies.

If the Bauhinia Flower was revived, then Gu Hang had no doubt that the Iron Armor Battle Group would find a way to kill the Bauhinia even if it was separated by three star domains.

Immortal birds, it's slightly better. After all, the immortal bird came to help in the war, and its hatred for Iron Armor was not so great. But it's just a little better than Bauhinia, Gu Hang is still not sure, what will Tie Armor think when he turns around.

This can be a threat to be taken seriously.

The Ashes Dead War Gang is the same, even more urgent.

Anyway, the Iron Armor Wargroup is still a person in the imperial sequence, and no matter how unscrupulous they are, they can't completely abandon the rules. As for the Ash Dead, this is a renegade gang that has defected to Chaos, they don't have any rules and restrictions, and they are full of malice.

According to some information revealed by Brevins when he was later interrogated on the ship, the Ash Dead retained an 'obsessive' attitude towards all the bloodlines of the undead birds of the past. After the Brevins broke out of the encirclement of the Seed Kihua, in the years that followed, they were tracked and intercepted by the Ash Dead many times, and they ran away each time.

Chong Jihua really wants them to 'join', just because they have the same blood on their bodies, so it's better to all become dirty blood. If the immortal bird is still loyal, or even getting better and better, Chong Jihua will be very unhappy.

This was certainly Bravins' guess, and there was a point that he was deliberately exaggerating. However, Gu Hang believes that it is indeed a high probability that the ashes dead will be the enemy of the immortal bird, and then the enemy of the alliance.

The undead birds' attack on Jedi Saturn this time solved not only a small problem of pirates, nor just the problem of eight undead birds, but also put some hidden worries about the future in front of Gu Hang.

These things must be guarded against.

How to prevent it?

It's nothing more than making yourself stronger.

To fight against iron armor, that may be a long way off. He is the overlord of a star field, and a hundred years ago he was superborn to an estimated 6,000 Space Marines; A hundred years have passed, and although they must have suffered some losses in the continuous struggle against the continuous invasion of the Void Zerg, they will gradually develop, and I am afraid that it will definitely not be less than back then. In fact, now the empire doesn't know how many people there are in Iron Armor, and they are very wary of this.

There are not only thousands, but even tens of thousands of space marines, the most important thing is that he has unified the power of a star field, and the strength level is equivalent to that of the astral army, and the mortal auxiliary army is probably calculated in billions; The size of the naval fleet, according to the Dragon Eagle Star Domain, is at least three to four times the heyday of the Pegasus fleet.

The size of the alliance today is incomparable.

But at least, that's the goal.

To be honest, Gu Hang still yearns for the rule of the Iron Armor Battle Group in the Empress Star Domain. However, Gu Hang will not adopt a similar plan to implement them.

As for the Ash Dead, this one may be relatively easy to deal with in terms of strength. The scale of this war gang may be similar to the current immortal birds, that is, the scale of two or three hundred people. What's more, there is an alliance behind the immortal bird.

But the trouble in dealing with them is that the whereabouts of the mutinous war gang are even more unpredictable, and they have no base and nest, so they can't find it. Even though Martins now desperately hopes to find the Ash Dead and eradicate the true Shame of the Undead, ...... No conditions.

To deal with them, you can only defend passively.

Frontal confrontation is not a problem, but the problem is that Gu Hang does not know when, from, and in what way their threat will come, and it is not easy to guard against.

In this case, Gu Hang decided that in the next period of time, he would invest a little more strength and put it on strengthening the Immortal Bird Warband.

The best way to fight against the Chaos Space Marines is, of course, the loyal Space Marines.

When people are not stupid enough to confront the huge size of the alliance head-on, most of them will engage in some means of overrun operations and special operations, and the alliance must have corresponding forces to confront it.

……

After pondering for a while about the two possible threats in the future, Gu Hang casually dealt with the matter of Jedi Saturn.

When Martins left Jedi with Blevins and the others, the Alliance left about 20,000 Astral Army of the Raging Bear Legion behind to control the capital of Jedi Saturn.

But in fact, Gu Hang did not intend to include the Jedi Saturn in the direct rule of the alliance.

The forces of the alliance are not much of a problem in the Pegasus Star Zone, and Gu Hang is now the head of the Pegasus Star Zone. But if it were to be extended beyond the Pegasus Star Region, it would be a rather sensitive political event that would cause some consequences that Gu Hang didn't want to see.

It's not that he doesn't have a plan for this, but if he wants to do it, he may still lack some opportunities.

The point is that if there are really particularly significant interests, Gu Hang will take the risk and do it. But obviously, the condition of Saturn, and the benefits it can bring, are clearly not equal to the risks.

That planet, the minerals have not yet been explored, but I don't think there are too many, or not very precious, otherwise it wouldn't be what it is now; The development of industry also lacks some of the necessary conditions, and it is neither a place close to the market, nor a place with a particularly large population, nor a place rich in resources.

Just relying on nomadism and agriculture, barely supporting 200 million people, Gu Hang felt that there was really no need to make a big deal for it.

The conditions of the absolute Saturn may not be as good as the original angry star. Although the population of the Angry Owl Star was small at the beginning, and it was still a post-war wasteland, it was good to have the development of the Angry Owl Star back then, but there was a place like the Qinggu region where the natural environment was well maintained, and there were also precious resources such as the Waste Energy Storm.

What's more, when Gu Hang invested resources in the construction of the Angry Owl Star, there was no way, he started here, and he had no choice.

Now that he has a choice, Gu Hang doesn't think it's a good choice to take over the Jedi Saturn and then spend a lot of money to develop there.

However, not including it as the direct domain of the alliance does not mean that there is no other way.

The governor is dead, and the crime is ready-made. The renegade of the Star Marines is removed, and the rest is enough for Gu Hang to hang him.

Then, he will support a new Saturn Governor, who will not join the Alliance, but can sign some cooperation agreements with the planets below the Alliance.

The food and biological materials produced by the nomadic herds there are valuable, and the alliance can also export some cheap industrial goods, such as daily necessities, furniture and household appliances, which are disgusted by the imperial tax, in exchange for these things.

It's good to be a small grain production base.

Then, some technology can also be slightly spilled over and used for better breeding and primary processing industries, which will also stimulate the development of Jesaturn.

In general, it's a thing that benefits both - the benefits of the alliance are a little greater, but not so much that it's bloodsucking.

At the same time, the Alliance's control over Jedi Saturn will also be increased to a very high level. Although I didn't join the alliance, I seemed to have joined.

In the future, if things change, when Gu Hang needs it, he can ask Jedi Saturn to submit an application to join the alliance at any time, and as soon as it is approved, it will be over.

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First of all, I would like to greet everyone for the New Year!

Happy New Year to all!

This chapter is 7.2k words, and it's been updated!

I know that I still owe the alliance leader to add more, and I still owe 25k, plus a month because of a business trip and illness, I broke off the shift for three days, and 12k also had to be repaid, a total of 37k.

Today is a plus more 3k, and I still owe 34.

It's actually very busy during the Chinese New Year, but I work hard to write!

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