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Chapter 284, The mystery of gene seeds

"Nirvana?" Gu Hang frowned, quite puzzled.

After the Phoenix Chapter completed their raid mission behind enemy lines, Martins, the chapter leader, came to him.

Originally, Gu Hang thought this was just a simple report on the battle situation, and he was still thinking why he didn't just hand in a report and be done with it, and he had to say it face to face.

As a result, what was unexpected was that Martins mentioned a special situation.

He informed Gu Hang of the special situation that happened to Anato.

"Yes." Martins Salas explained to Gu Hang in detail, "'Nirvana' is... a characteristic of our Phoenix. Our history is very long, almost... in the era of the Great Rebellion. After that, the first batch of battle groups were established. Our parent group was the founding group - the Phoenix Legion, with the blood of the Phoenix flowing. But after a long time, our gene seeds... experienced some strange changes. "

Now that the relationship between the two parties has reached this point, there is nothing that cannot be said to the Governor.

Martins continued: "We seem to have lost some of the talents of the Phoenix Sons. We don't seem to love art so much, and we don't like gorgeous fighting styles that much. We have also lost our sharp swordsmanship, and our fighting style has become simple and unpretentious. up...but instead, we seem to become more tolerant and stronger."

"The so-called 'Nirvana' is another more drastic change that occurs in addition to ordinary changes. It will only appear in a small number of people. They may be seriously injured or even near death. Miraculously recovering from injuries and possessing greater strength, agility and fighting awareness than normal. We call this situation 'Nirvana'."

Gu Hang listened thoughtfully.

Although the space warriors generally look similar, in fact, when the human emperor created this kind of inhuman warrior, he designed a variety of genetic templates, and used different templates to form different legions.

This is the first batch of start-up legions.

They are generally the same, but there will be differences in some details, which will cause the Space Marines 'produced' by different gene seeds to naturally have certain physiological differences.It shows that each type of space warrior will be different in talents and things they are good at.

The subsequent Space Marine Chapters all dismantled large legion organizations after the Great Rebellion and split them into Chapters with a maximum number of no more than a thousand men as stipulated in the "Space Marine Codex".All battle groups are separated from these founding groups.

But despite being split up, many Chapters will never forget their 'roots'.Often, war groups have very close ties with their parent groups.In fact, they originally had the same blood and were the same kind of gene seeds.

Just like the Phoenix, it was separated from the second legion, the Phoenix Legion.All descendants of the Phoenix Legion are called 'Sons of the Phoenix'. Some are closely united around the parent legion, while others are relatively independent and alienated.

But the genetic source is always the same.

From this perspective, what happened to the Phoenix is ​​quite special.

Gu Hang said: "Is it caused by the mutation of the gene seed? This is a possibility, but it is actually not very likely..."

Having said this, Gu Hang observed Martins' expression and saw no change.So, he simply said: "Another more likely situation is that the gene seed bank was 'contaminated' during the inheritance of the Phoenix... Please forgive me for using this word, but you The characteristic mentioned is more like the similar ability that the Blood Angels of the Fourth Legion have in rumors. Although they do not burst out in this situation when they are dying, but in fierce battles. But in the end, this is not It should be like what a son of the Phoenix would look like."

Martins sighed and said with a wry smile: "Now I am extremely convinced that the gene seed you found does indeed belong to the Phoenix. It even has the original unique genetic abilities of the Phoenix. Who can say that it is not? ?”

Gu Hang smiled and said, "This should never be questioned."

"But there will be trouble." Martins said sternly, "The war group has ended the Atonement Expedition. Logically speaking, we should pay the gene seed tax."

Mentioning this, Gu Hang remembered that something like this might happen.

Space Marine Chapters also have to pay taxes.However, the tax they pay is a little different: it is not a physical tax, but a tax on genetic seeds.

The amount required to be paid is one-tenth of the gene seeds harvested by the war group in each period of time.

These collected gene seeds will be sent to the imperial capital, Holy Terra, and Mars.

The main uses are two:

First, it is used to check the status of the gene seeds of the battle group to avoid the situation where the gene seeds are contaminated, the battle group is corrupted, and the enemy rebels and becomes chaos elements.

This kind of situation... Although it will not be reported on the surface, there are actually many.After the Great Rebellion, with the exception of the No. 13 Legion - the Infinite Legion, almost every legion had traitors.Among them, almost all members of the Tenth Legion, the former Cang Yue Guard and now the Sword of Chaos, rebelled.

The Chaos Space Marine warband is still a major enemy facing the Imperium and is the backbone of the forces of Chaos.

In the countless years after the Great Rebellion, many battle groups were corrupted and surrendered to Chaos.The Empire is very vigilant about this, and regular inspection and control of the Chapter's gene seeds is naturally a top priority.

As for the second purpose, it is naturally to collect enough gene seeds and use them to establish a new war group.

From this perspective, changes in the phoenix's gene seeds are something that deserves vigilance.

"How did you deal with gene seed taxes in the past?" Gu Hang asked this question.

"We..." Martins fell into memories, "In the past, when the battle group still had pharmacists, they would check every gene seed and try to select those that were more like phoenixes and hand them over. Moreover, we have always followed The contact with the parent group will explain the situation to the parent group. The parent group understands our predicament and will help explain the situation to Terra and Mars, but they are also becoming more and more confused about the changes that have happened to us..."

Having said this, Martins pursed his lips and added another piece of information: "We once had a chapter leader who tried to contact the Blood Angels, hoping to conduct detailed comparative experiments on our two gene seeds. Find out the specific situation...but was rejected by the Blood Angels.”

(End of this chapter)