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Chapter 2029 Bloodline and Culture

After listening to the entire process, Soshiyan was really amused and crying. It was not a big deal. It was not uncommon for Astart to have friction and finally resort to force. After all, they are war machines themselves, and the instinct to resolve conflicts will adopt the most direct and violent methods. In fact, most battle groups are basically a culture of violently solving everything.
But things are not as simple as it seems. In fact, Soshiyan had a long time ago that something similar might happen.
Because whether it is the Legion or the Warring States Period, the most basic bond that maintains the relationship between the Astat combat brothers is bloodline. After the second establishment of the army, the blood ties can be said to have become the foundation of the existence of the Astat Cultivate.
Just as different blood may cause rejection reactions in the human body, if the Astat combat brothers with different bloodlines are in the same organizational framework, they will naturally easily cause rejection.
Talos once said that in the era of the Legion, in order to make each other understand each other, the legions would send representatives to serve each other, but most of the results were not good. Most of the soldiers sent out were difficult to truly integrate into other legions, so until the great rebellion broke out, it was difficult for the various legions to be known as mutual understanding.
This is also the reason why the infrastructure of Death Watch is the killing team. Although as an organization with complex components, Death Watch seems to have achieved the possibility that warriors of different bloodlines can cooperate with each other to fight and live, it actually limits the organizational framework to a very small range to achieve such a goal. If Death Watch is active on the scale of a battle group, the results will definitely be different.
Now with the continuous expansion of the scale of the Astral Knight, Soshiyan must face the problems that no one has ever faced before and has no experience to learn from—
How can Astart, who has different bloodlines, get along and live together in a large group.
In fact, there are not any previous examples. The Immortal Army itself is an example. Before revealing its life experience, their ancient predecessors were active in the Imperial Fist Legion as the son of Dorn.
However, this requires another price to be paid, which is to erase the uniqueness of culture.
Although the relationship between Astartes is maintained by blood, the fact is that it determines the style of Astartes' behavior, not blood, but culture and traditions accumulated over a long time. It is like a group of recruits who have transplanted the genetic seeds of the Emperor's Son. If they are cultivated according to the dogma and training methods of the Raven Guard, then in the end they will be a group of Raven Guards. Then before revealing their life experience, they can work with the real Raven Guards without any obstacles, and connect with each other through the non-existent "blood bond".
Crimson Blade is a living example. They accept the dogma of the Extreme Warrior and take Robert Kiliman as an example. Although their genetic seeds have obvious characteristics of the Holy Blood Angel, before revealing this truth, they are a group of unscrupulous sons of Kiliman. They will never have behavioral patterns and gang dogmas consistent with the Holy Blood Angel because of the influence of the genetic seeds.
Simply put, if Soshiyang forcibly covers up the true identity of the 11th Company or even the 6th Company and makes their veterans give up their past culture and traditions, then when a new generation of recruits grows up, they will be undead soldiers of the undead army, and this problem can indeed be solved in a sense.
However, Soshyan could not do this. First, he had promised Talos, Zaraton and others. Second, from a more practical perspective, although different cultures will bring rejection reactions to the battle group, it also makes the Astral Knights have a high degree of tactical flexibility that most battle groups do not have. The pros and cons of this ultimately make him choose to retain the cultural uniqueness of those blood companies of non-dead army.
However, this requires the problem of splitting the battle group.
Soshiyang has always believed that there is no airtight wall in the world, but some things can be kept for a long time, and some things can't be kept for that long.
All he can do is to prevent problems before they happen and make the most reasonable arrangements when things happen.
"well--"
With a sigh, Soshiyan walked up to Oscar and looked at the sergeant who was about to become the company commander.
He did intend to appoint Oscar as company commander. As the first batch of recruits recruited by Nesson 4, they have served for nearly fifty years and are already able to hold leadership positions. Although the recognized strongest individual in the same period was Robin, everyone also believed that he was not suitable for leadership positions. He focused too much on the sword in his hand and often ignored the people around him.
Haumo has entered the first company. As one of the best gray marrow-adaptive warriors, Maximilian is very optimistic about this new soldier. The future Defender needs to be expanded. Haumo's best growth route is to be tempered with the Terminator elites.
Veronica has always believed that Bahram is more suitable as a commander, and Soshiyan also admitted this. However, Talos has always implied that Bahram has another mission and is not suitable to be company commander at present. Soshiyan guessed that Talos should have foreseeed something, and he chose to believe in his friends.
Then in the end, only the Oscars are left.
He performed well during his service in the third company, and his personal strength can be called the forefront of the team. More importantly, he has a strong communication ability, has friends in various companies, and he also has Zod, a younger brother who is close to him, so he naturally has an arm to help him.
So after the Second Battle of Angustorm, Soshyan promoted Oscar to the Centurion of the Legion, which sent a signal that his intention was to give the other party some psychological preparation and encouragement.
"Oscar, you disappointed me."
Oscar glanced at Soshiyan, then lowered his head.
"Captain of the Battle...I didn't control my emotions, I was wrong."
"Your fault is not just this."
Soshyan turned and walked away from him and walked past the others.
"You have been soldiers who have been struggling on the battlefield for decades. I want to ask you, in addition to the weapons in your hands and armor on your bodies, what else is the most trustworthy?"
Everyone fell into silence, and finally Bahram gave the answer.
"The leader of the report battle is a comrade-in-arms."
Soshiyan looked at Bahram, nodded slightly, and then asked:
"Now, Bahram, what are comrades?"
"Comrades... Comrades-in-arms are people who can put the spoon into the bowl when they are eating, people who are willing to tell you some jokes that he is not good at in a bad mood, people who tease you when they are proud, people who comfort you when they are frustrated, people who can block bullets for you on the battlefield, people who are willing to sacrifice their lives to steal your body even if you die, and people who are willing to be your shield even if they have no blood relationship with you, people who are the eternality of iron and blood, and the immortality of life and death."
Looking at Bahram, Soshyan suddenly had an impulse at this moment and announced on the spot that he would be the fifth company commander.
However, this is not good for him and will ruin the Oscars.
He turned around and looked at Oscar.
"So, Oscar, do you know where you are wrong?"
Oscars were speechless.
Then Soshiyan looked at Zod.
"Zod, do you know where you are wrong?"
Chapter completed!
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