In fact, it is easy to understand why Rika Fujimaru only thought of asking the Dark Angel for the Midnight Lord prisoner in the first place, instead of realizing that she could actually take the entire ship together.

Leaving aside the impact of her own personality, the problems that arise when two incompatible departments work together are also secondary. Judging from the disastrous interpersonal relationship alone, Rika Fujimaru has never seen any scenes. Coupled with the experience she gained from commanding legions in the illusion, she already knew what might happen in the future, such as incompatible chains of command, mutual backstabbing, and disobedience.

The trouble she really wanted to avoid by subconsciously avoiding the entire Lion's Mane was actually the Lion's Mane itself:

An Imperial ship—a battle barge commanded by Astarte during the Great Expedition, a Gladiator-class light cruiser that hasn't been cut by the Astarte Codex—requires a lot of resources and time to maintain, and at least a military port that can keep up with the technology and production capacity. Rika Fujimaru couldn't conjure it up from her Storm Border, which didn't look much bigger than a jumper torpedo.

What's more, this kind of old object, which was popular during the Great Expedition period and has long been discontinued for various reasons, if it really goes to a certain casting world, it is not certain whether it can be opened smoothly and smoothly.

The current Jestal is a civilized world, with a medium-sized airport and the corresponding supporting equipment and personnel. Thanks to the standardization and compatibility of Imperial technology (or rather, not only has it not progressed much in 10,000 years, but has even regressed slightly), the Lion's Mane has been able to overhaul and maintain the most critical parts of any Imperial ship capable of subspace navigation: the subspace engine and the Geller force field, and then the ability to fix the corners and corners of the hull and compartment tightness. But as for the weapons system, there is nothing civilian ports can do to help, and can only pray that the system itself is redundant enough to continue the normal operation of the Lionmane.

- It's a desperate thing to know that there are no technical sergeants left on this ship of the Dark Angels, not even the members of the Iron Wings, not a single one!

Nor can it be said that it is a matter of personnel: at the time of the Lionmane's departure, there were a total of 220 Space Marines on board, and the appropriate number of technical sergeants were indeed proportionally staffed. Unfortunately, in the course of the subspace storm, ninety-two people unfortunately died in some accidents and conflicts that ordinary people can't explain, including all the technicians.

In other words, counting the Space Marines alone, there are one hundred and twenty-eight Dark Angels on board the Lionmane, and forty-five Midnight Lords who are still alive in the escort. With the addition of the eighteen people on the Storm Boundary, they could barely make up the number of two Holy Canon Companies.

Some of Ranmarok didn't say it explicitly, but what Fujimaru Rika learned from various clues was that the Lionmane was ordered to "escort the Midnight Lord's prisoners back to Caliban" when she left the fleet, and after this mission was successfully completed, the next mission was to "bring some new blood from the Caliban back to the battlefield".

Considering that this escort group, which is led by the Great Master of Firewing, and the remaining members should normally be equipped with some Crow Wings and Hurricane Wings, a Dread Wing Company Commander can appear inexplicably, and Fujimaru Rika can even guess that on the return trip, the person who will be on this ship will become the veteran of the Terra descent who has achieved great achievements, and the Space Marines on board it will form a Dread Wing Dalian. Ranmarok didn't show her the exact configuration of the Lion's Mane itself and the various equipment she was carrying, and if she could have known more detailed information, perhaps Rika Fujimaru's guess would have been more accurate.

It's a pity that the relationship between the two parties is not close to that point. The Dark Angels have always had a reputation for being suspicious of their genetic father, and Rika Fujimaru is well aware that she has no trust in her relationship with any of the Lionmane's crew at the moment. The two of them are only based on some extremely unstable cooperative relationship based on some external forces such as forced by the situation and mutual benefit, and it is not good to say that Ranmaro sleeps with a little brain, how to give her a sword after taking out the information that Fujimaru Rika promised to give, and finally take the whole ship away.

- This does not prevent Fujimaru Rika from striking preemptively, and trying to command as much as possible when he can. She gave the specific coordinates determined on the Storm Boundary, and directly asked the commander of the Dreadwing Company, Zantyk Afpa, to lead a team to the surface of Jestal and blow up the Spirit Clan Tunnel Gate. There are more people, there is this benefit, she can hand over some things that are not difficult and risky, and lie in the main control room to eat cookies.

I don't know what prophecy I heard, and it was really annoying for the spirit clan who suddenly appeared through the Internet and wanted to kill her, but Fujimaru Rika had already deduced this possibility with the emperor, and the conclusion at that time was that it was not to be feared. The waves set off by the "Children of Hope" of humanity in the subspace may herald the resurgence of the entire human race, but for the Spirit Race, the threat of chaos will always be primary.

There may be some antiquity-eating elven prophets who stubbornly believe that the rise of humanity will deal another heavy blow to their entire race, but unfortunately, this argument is unlikely to become mainstream in the already scattered spirit race. This means that small-scale tentative attacks from the Spirit Race like the one before may appear from time to time, but they don't require much effort. Fujimaru Rika told the truth, the matter of the Spirit Clan was even worse than the problem of supplies.

The basic necessities are okay, Astarte's special rations have too much redundancy on the Lion's Mane (another proof that the ship will carry reinforcements on the return journey), and there is no need to think too much about it for the time being, the problem is the repair of various types of power armor and the replenishment of various conventional and unconventional ammunition, as well as the problem of naval guns. Ranmarok had already hinted to her that if she couldn't find a suitable place to resupply, it would be best to pray that the Lionmane wouldn't encounter a scenario that would require naval battles.

When it comes to naval warfare, then the problem is even more. Rika Fujimaru has never fought a naval battle with anyone in the past six months, firstly, because the Storm Boundary does not have the ability to sail outside the atmosphere, and secondly, the ship does not need to pass through Mandeville Point for subspace navigation. As long as you don't go to the Void, you naturally won't have to fight enemies in the Void...... But the essential difference between the Lionmane and the Imperial Dream is that it can't turn into a Somney and be stuffed into the Storm Frontier and then shouted out and fired when needed.

In other words, after the acquisition of such a ship, Fujimaru Rika will have to give up her advantage in ship flexibility and move in a more imperial way, and the Storm Frontier will naturally take a back seat and become a transport landing craft or something. In addition, such a large battle barge is difficult to hide in all dimensions, and some of the operations that the Storm Frontier could have done such as sneaking through the veil from subspace to landing on a planet, or driving directly into the enemy Gnaku, have become less effective. Not to mention the spatial leaping ritual based on the Emperor's psionic energy and the light of the Star Torch - dragging a small ship like the Storm Boundary was already strenuous enough, and if you wanted to use this ritual to move the Lion's Mane, it was better to kill her directly.

- In her original plan, an Imperial ship should be one of the last things to appear in the team!

Rika Fujimaru wanted to give up thinking, but the schedule she had made on her tablet made it clear that she couldn't rest yet. While it would take about ten days for the Lionmane to resupply and repair at Jestal Airport, there are some things that the sooner you plan for them, the better.

She sighed, grabbed Xiaoku into her arms and pinched it. The soft touch of the doll is healing, but Koku is not satisfied and runs away from her hand with a complaint. She sighed again, threw herself back into bed, and continued to think.

Then there's the issue of personnel - she now has almost two canon companies, but that doesn't mean she can really split the nearly two hundred people into two canon companies. Not to mention that the Dark Angels themselves have a unique command system, which cannot be opened to Fujimaru Rika until a perfect relationship of trust has been established, and they can only be regarded as a relatively reliable ally with a probability of refusing requests. And then there's the Midnight Lord...... Well......

Rika Fujimaru sincerely prayed: I hope that Sevita Leone is okay.

Leaving aside the issue of the Midnight Lord's command, Rika Fujimaru didn't think it would be a good idea to mix them up with the Dark Angels. This is true at all times. All in all, I hope that fighting by the side of their genetic father will give them a little motivation, and I hope that the Midnight Lord Legendary Company Commander can hold them all down and prevent them from dragging each other on the battlefield.

- Rika Fujimaru doesn't even expect them to choose not to drag the Dark Angel back, as long as they don't drag themselves.

It must be noted that the Midnight Lords have a tradition of forming gangs since ancient times with the connivance (or rather, rottenness) of the original body, and the Midnight Lords who are currently housed inside the Storm Frontier are clearly divided into two groups: the Midnight Lords of the 40K Chaos Warband, who were previously taken in by Rika Fujimaru and were given some freedom of movement after being tried by Conrad Coze and successfully surviving; and the 30K veteran Midnight Lord, who followed Conrad Coz and Yago Savitarion at the end of the Salamas Expedition to gang the Invincible Reason.

To say here that the differences between the two sides are clear, and both are light. Even more lethal, Conrad Coze is the kind of protogen that causes a noticeable temperature difference when dealing with offspring that he likes and hates. Aside from Sevita, who was the only one, Rika Fujimaru felt that he seemed to like the eighteen people who passed the trial recently.

…… He didn't even think about it...... He probably didn't think about it.

Even if the people who were willing to follow the jumping gang back then were all members of the Red Glove Faction, there was a high probability that Sevita would not be able to suppress the excitement of the forty or so people. What's more, what is the probability that those eighteen people can resist not jumping their faces in front of the old-timers to show off? Anyway, Rika Fujimaru thinks it's so small that it's negligible.

The Storm Frontier was designed and built without Astarte in the world, so the ship didn't have a dueling cage from the start. Rika Fujimaru was thinking about whether to restart the simulation room, nominally to let the group solve problems in the way they liked, but in fact they were to paste a bunch of messy monsters to make them doubt their lives, and by the way, make them realize who was the woman at the top of the food chain on this ship.

Speaking of Conrad Coetze's trial, it reminds Rika Fujimaru of the whole thing: these people inevitably encountered chaos pollution during their long lives in the subspace. She also had to think about whether to change some of the religious magic of baptism and chanting to the state religion of the empire, so that she could use it directly when she encountered a similar situation in the future. Although the effect was not much worse, she was sure that the user experience of the baptismal chant would be much better than Coetze's use of his essence to cut through the chaos-tainted parts of the sorcerer's body.

What's more, with the power of "guilty will be punished", who can guarantee that their lives are pure and flawless, and they have never committed a crime? At least the eighteen Midnight Lords who managed to survive the "Journey to Judgment" will most likely wear "red gloves" dyed with their own blood for the rest of their lives. Fujimaru Rika didn't ask about the change in appearance after noticing this, but considering the meaning of the tradition itself, it is likely that it is not only the appearance change.

Conrad Coetzes wasn't as kind as she was to give the punishment inside the Red Glove a lifting period. Even in the illusion, Sevita Leon on her side ended up replacing the red gloves.

Thinking of this, she remembered that she hadn't asked why Sevita's Terminator armor was so familiar. And when did Alter come about?

She had seen this combination many times in the illusion, and it was so familiar that it seemed natural in a hurry, and it was only now that she suddenly realized that something was wrong. Conrad Coetze's sudden realization of his own essence is also suspicious - you all play the reverse summoning of individual manifestations for me, right?

Fujimaru Rika immediately locked on a few troublemakers in her mind, then got up again, quickly grabbed Xiao Ku who was hovering by her window, and asked the doll, "In the past two days, apart from my usual daily summoning for operation and maintenance, has anyone else appeared on this ship?" ”

Considering that Sevita Leon and Joan of Arc Alter, a combination that only exists in a fantasy (dream), Rika Fujimaru has quickly eliminated the suspects to only two remaining, Merlin and Oberon. She had even made a plan for a moment how to punish the real criminal, but Xiao Ku's answer was beyond her expectations:

"When you slept before, there was a golden shadow falling in the summoning room." The doll said, "There was no hostility, I turned around and walked away, I don't know what to do." ”

…… Yes?

Fujimaru Rika was at a loss.