Ebanks had heard some rumors about the Holy Flame Order. As early as when he first came to the archdiocese, he heard that among the entourage brought by Soshyan there seemed to be a sect with less orthodox teachings. In addition, the archdiocese
There seems to be some unofficial personnel changes at the top.
So when Soshyan proposed using certain sects as a cover, he couldn't help but have some concerns. After all, this seemed a bit abnormal, and it didn't look like an arrangement that an Astartes would make, but Soshyan's attitude seemed very...
Determined.
So Ebanks asked Soshyan how to arrange the important personnel of the archdiocese, and Soshyan told him that it was naturally arranged by the pope, and the sect was just a fig leaf.
In addition, in order to dispel the other party's concerns, Soshyan also said that after the militarization of the archdiocese is completed, it can even launch jihad expeditions to many dark areas in the Storm Star Territory to further expand the scope of influence of the state religion. At the same time, the astral knights will also actively respond to the call of the state religion.
The key point is naturally the last sentence. This is an unexpected surprise for Ebanks. You must know that most space warriors have a respectful attitude towards the state religion. No matter how much the state religion respects them, they have no influence. It is not even as influential as the Inquisition on the space warriors.
Big, this has been a very frustrating thing for successive popes. Even the Ministry of Internal Affairs has a team of Space Marine thugs.
But now Soshyan has the intention to take the initiative to get closer to the state religion. Ebanks did not dare to take it lightly and quickly expressed that this matter was important and he needed to ask the Pope for instructions.
Soshyan also said that this was no problem, but Tai Lun did not wait for anyone. It took too long for the news to come and go. In the meantime, he could not guarantee whether there would be any urgent matter to leave. In this case, Iban
Kes could only allow Soshyan to get things done first, which was equivalent to killing it first and then telling him. In order to appease the other party's uneasy heart, Soshyan told him that he was willing to write a personal letter to the Pope to explain the current situation and express
The Astral Knight's willingness to establish good relations with the Ecclesiarchy.
This makes Ebanks extremely happy. If it goes through, it will be a great achievement. He will attract a powerful space warrior for the state religion. This merit and capital are enough for him to compete for the position of Cardinal of Terra!
Shortly after the discussion ended, Ebanks convened the senior members of the Anglican Church in the archdiocese and announced the archdiocese's decision to "permanently jihadize" the archdiocese, which would add 13 fortress worlds, develop 16 industrial worlds, and establish a permanent holy war in the patriarchate.
The position of Jihad Lord will be added, and they will be the rulers and military leaders of every fortress world under the Archdiocese. At the same time, a universal military service system will be implemented, and every adult male will undergo regular military training and a series of other measures.
Regarding the Shengyan sect, Ebanks chose to ignore it and let it develop. After all, he was a representative of the Pope and could not support unorthodox sects, but it was enough to pretend not to see it.
However, Ebanks did not realize that the symbols of the Holy Flame Sect not only began to spread in the archdiocese, but also began to appear in large numbers among the unnoticed low-level personnel of the Silent Knights and Faith Watch.
It stands to reason that these things will keep Soshyan busy for a while, but fortunately with the help of Velez and Silu, and Ustad's handling of government affairs is becoming increasingly mature, Soshyan is much more relaxed and has time to deal with them.
Military matters, including awards, awards, promotions, and a series of other tasks. In addition, considering that there must have been chaos over there at the Trace of Victory, Soshyan asked Malakin, Seth and others to lead their respective battle groups back first.
Only Arash and the White Templar remain.
Before Malakin and others left, Soshyan also replenished some ships for the allies of the Suffering Alliance. After all, everyone suffered heavy losses in this battle and nothing was captured. It happened that Zhao Akada and Ulanhu
Da, and other forge worlds (payments from previous auctions) provided a batch of new warships that arrived in the archdiocese, Soshyan simply transferred some frigates, destroyers and other small boats to the allies, among which the ones who lamented the biggest losses
Soshyan was also the most generous, handing over two strike cruisers and six frigates to Malakin, at least allowing their fleet to regain a certain combat effectiveness.
At this point, there are not many battleships in the hands of the Astral Knights. There are only 2 Retaliation-class large cruisers (delivered by Grea), 1 Rogun-class light aircraft carrier (delivered by Ulan Huda), and 2
Styx-class heavy cruiser (delivered by Huangquan 8), 3 Viper-class guided missile destroyers (delivered by Ulan Huda), 2 Dreadnought-class light cruisers (delivered by Griffin 4), 5 new-star frigates (Zhao
-Arkada), 14 Cobra-class destroyers (jointly delivered by multiple forge worlds), 3 Goliath forged ships (delivered by Griffin IV), so far Huangquan 8 has delivered 3 Styx-class ships to
Legion, there are still 10 Cardinal-class ships undergoing modification and awaiting future delivery.
And these warships can't even make up for the losses in this battle, but there's nothing you can do about it, war is like this, and there is no business of making sure profits without losing money.
When heading to the Archdiocese, the Legion dispatched 27 capital ships and 128 small ships. In a series of battles, the Lunar-class cruiser Nathan's Blade, the Tyrant-class cruiser Aegis, the Executor, and the Pluto-class heavy cruiser Invisible Terror
Six battleships including the Vanguard-class strike cruiser Tornado and the Dictator-class heavy cruiser Spinel (which was so damaged during the battle that it was forced to abandon the ship) were sunk. The severely damaged Mars-class battlecruiser Triumph and
The battle barge Soul Messenger underwent emergency repairs in the Cardinal World's shipyard. Although its navigation ability was restored, its combat capability was not restored. It needed to be sent to Zhao-Akada for further repairs. There were also 54 small ships.
The sinking or abandonment of ships means that the legion has lost 8 capital ships at once, and the replacement capital ships are only 4, including the Abyss class, which is only 5, and the small ships have only made up for half of the losses.
Then there is the issue of troop rotation. The main forces of Faith Watch are currently deployed in the Benson System and the Cassatsas System. This is already the middle of the Archdiocese, and it is quite close to the Cardinal World. In the future, it will also
It will be a very important line of defense. Now the archdiocese basically provides troops for Faith Watch at the training speed of a batch of new recruits every 14 weeks.
Although the previous series of fierce battles caused serious losses to the Faith Watch, with a total of eight million people, more than one million soldiers were killed and disabled in the Faith Watch, which is already an exaggerated number, but it also trained a large number of experienced combatants.
Brave veterans and officers, with them as the backbone of the Faith Watch, the recovery speed is very fast.
By the time they arrived at the new station to redefine their defenses, the number of Faith Watch had increased to 15 million. Although the rapid expansion of their numbers had reduced their combat effectiveness to a certain extent, and it was difficult to supply various heavy equipment in a timely manner, many Faith Watch groups
They were only light infantry regiments, but they still far exceeded the level of the local militia.