Chapter 19: Sources of Variation

"Your Highness, eldest son, good afternoon."

A group of pharmacists in yellow terracotta armor lined up outside the laboratory door, and more than 300 recruits who needed surgery rested in batches in the waiting room at the rear.

"Good afternoon, Taylor Wilbur, I'm about to send someone to you, the organ modification surgery for the Imperial Fist Legion warriors is about to begin."

Alexander asked the servants to open the doors to the lab and guide the pharmacists in, while the servo skulls scanned their information in the air.

For this large-scale operation, Alexander carried out a total of 10 operating tables, and a total of 10 technical servants were assigned to each operating table.

To save time, Alexander will perform a Space Marine organ modification operation in sync with nine other Praetorian brothers.

Castia 02 planned to give Alexander's three companies, namely the Astarte warriors from the Imperial Fist Legion, the Fourteenth Legion, and the Fourth Iron Warrior Legion.

"Your Highness, the recruits are ready to start at any time."

Grand pharmacist Taylor Wilbur directed the recruits to lie down on the operating table in turn, while the rest of the pharmacists with red scanners were asked to record the entire operation.

Recruits for the Fist of the Empire are selected differently from other legionnaires, they are voluntary, the slogan shouted by Rogdian Dorn is:

"I need free men, not slaves."

This is fundamentally different from an unstable warband in later generations, wantonly collecting blood taxes on conscription planets.

When recruits for the early Fist of the Empire are selected, they will be reviewed for criminal records and subjected to a series of tests.

For example, physical tests, psychological profiles, psionic levels, eyesight tests, intelligence tests, shooting ability, pain resistance, agility tests.

Recruits who pass these tests will live and train in the base before participating in a rookie ceremony called the Terror Tunnel after six months.

In the tunnel, they will face a series of harsh and cruel challenges such as high temperature, severe cold, and nothingness, and the difficulty of the challenges will continue to increase as the tunnel continues to deepen.

If these newcomers are able to make it through the tunnel, then they will officially become an Astarte apprentice, with the Imperial Fist logo on their hips, and begin to be taught, trained, and trained by a real Space Marine, and by the time of Alexander, undergoing a Space Marine transformation operation.

A laser scalpel can cut through the flesh of a soldier with a single stroke, and genetic testing nerves are safely implanted into the spinal cord between the thoracic and cervical vertebrae.

Astarte warriors rarely undergo two surgeries at the same time, so when Alexander completes a single operation, the servants hand over the comatose warriors to the pharmacist who will check for organ mutation and stabilization.

The surgery of the Space Marines is not the same, some require multiple lung transplants, others are Lyman's Ear surgery, pebble kidney surgery.

Ten operating tables were carried out at the same time, and it still took Alexander two days and two nights for three hundred recruits to finish it completely.

During this period, when some of the forbidden troops had surgical problems, Alexander would add a few more games to remedy them.

In the early days of the Great Expedition, the Gene Seed from Terra was very stable, so the Astarte Modification Surgery did not produce too many deaths, and even during the Gene Seed Adaptation Period, it was more than a few notches stronger than the Warband era.

Dozens of pharmacists paced around the large break room, monitoring the recruits' physical data and mutations one by one, and Alexander was finally able to return to his break room to prepare for the next phase of work.

Under these circumstances, it would take only one round of surgery for the three companies a week.

After the previous organ modification surgery has stabilized, the next step of the operation must be carried out immediately.

If the space marine's organ modification surgery is completed, I don't know how much time it will take Alexander, no wonder Castia 02 doesn't even want the permission of the laboratory.

However, this is also in Alexander's plan, originally he wanted to master the 19 complete organ modification surgeries of the Star Marine, so as to accumulate experience for the subsequent operations of the original cast.

"Your Highness, Chief Pharmacist Tyro Wilbur asks for a meeting."

Garste's chief guard knocked on the door, but did not enter the lounge directly, and only opened the door when he heard a voice of approval coming from behind the door.

"Thank you for all you have done with the Fist of the Empire, Your Highness."

Tyro Wilbur was rarely wearing his helmet made up of three scanners, and the face under the visor was not serious, but rather had a bachelor's style.

"It's a prize, it's nothing to pay for your cousins."

Alexander gestured to the couch next to him and motioned for him to sit down and talk, but his eyes did not take his eyes off the two genetic seeds placed on the table.

According to the detection data given by the Martian Mechanics, the currently known Star Marine legions have basically mutated, but it is just a matter of more or less.

If the emperor did not provide the information in his private laboratory, Alexander really didn't know when he would be able to solve the problem, or maybe he couldn't solve it at all.

"Your Highness, have you also noticed a mutation in the genetic seeds of the Imperial Fist and other legions?"

Taylor Wilbur noticed some excitement about the genetic seeds on the table, and he thought that Alexander was currently busy with a tedious study schedule and would not be aware of these problems.

"Obviously, isn't it."

Alexander beckons to a servo skull, and the red eyeballs project the double-bolted helix structure of the Space Marine's genetic traits.

This genetic material can clearly reflect the integrity of the gene seed is 93%, and the degree of mutation is 2%.

The genetic seeds of the first batch of Startup Corps are superior in terms of their integrity and their degree of variation.

However, Alexander found that during this subspace crossing, the mutation of gene seeds taken from mature glands increased, and the integrity of the seeds also decreased slightly.

These data are not from one or two genetic seeds, but from the genetic seed bank on the Mountain Formation, which is a subtle result that Alexander specially asked Kastia 02 to count.

Although there are good and bad variations, if the factors that affect it come from subspace, it is too intriguing.

The Thousand Sons Legion, which is known for its use of psionic energy, will the more they use psionic energy, the more serious the problem of flesh and blood mutation.

Magnus had read too many books on psionic powers, and he only wanted to rely on the unknown energies he had found by his own cleverness, and he had not even thought about the source of those psionic powers.

He even refused to communicate with other brothers, refusing to use the technology of the material universe to solve the problem, and the result was naturally deceived by the evil god Treacherine.

"Magnus's Stupidity"

It was because of this guy who was looking indiscriminately in subspace that he was successfully used by Tzeentch.

When Magnus saw that the battle commander Horus was bewitched by the Chaos Evil God, in order to pass through the subspace storm and transmit the message, he actually sent a psionic communication bomb directly to Terra, and it was also a communication bomb strengthened by the four gods.

Only by encapsulating the information of the genetic protogen, this psionic bomb can break through layers of screening and blockade and successfully reach the Terra Palace.

This directly led to the emperor being forced to sit on the golden throne and block the subspace rift where the Chaos Evil God could reach the home planet Terra.