Chapter 143: Echoes of Courage and Loyalty (6) Doubts, Lost Company
"Need support?" Tabers asked with a frown.
In the view of the battleship porthole in front of him, several battleships belonging to the Sons of Guilliman were already under the control of the Ultramarines.
At the same time, the Gray Knights were also performing similar tactical actions, and in the video signals sent back after the Terminator team jumped in and logged in, no traces of subspace pollution were found on these warships.
This phenomenon certainly attracted the attention of the Ultramarines, because it was obviously inconsistent with the information provided by the Inquisition, and the Gray Knights who arrived later also confirmed this situation.
After patrolling the two cruisers, Turab, the Purifier who led the team, solemnly shook his head at Tabos across from the video.
"There is a problem here." Severus, the Archon from Ultramar and the current commander of the Third Company of the Ultramarines, said.
Adjutant Sura looked curiously at the Purifiers beside him. He didn’t know much about these mysterious Gray Knights.
With his own considerable knowledge, he would never believe that there really was an army of Astartes hiding in the dark side of the Empire.
Who are they? Which Legion are they from? Which of the Emperor's many descendants are they descendants of?
Are they an original chapter? Or are they a sub-group of another chapter? Why are their power armor so different? What do those unknown holy seals and tomes represent?
The young champion swordsman's gaze is so upright, and his strong thirst for knowledge is as full of vitality and vitality as his age. It is like a young lion seeing a tiger walking out of the forest for the first time, with dark green eyes.
His eyes were full of simple curiosity and inquiry.
"Ahem..." Severns really couldn't bear to see the virtue of his adjutant. When the video conference fell into a silent stalemate, he couldn't help but cough lightly to remind his adjutant to pay attention to his manners.
Chief Purifier Turab and the Gray Knights behind him were not surprised, but they did not react much to Sura's appearance.
"Where are those Sons of Guilliman?" Tybos was silent for a long time on the other side of the video, and then asked in the direction of Severns.
"They are all in custody." The Archon of Ultramar responded to Tybos, and gave a specific description of some details.
"The two companies they have in orbit are all new recruits! The oldest officers don't have more than 100 years of service."
Severns looked at the focused reactions of everyone, thought for a moment and then said the following:
"They refused to admit the fact of corruption and betrayal, and insisted that they received direct orders from the top of the chapter. Even before we joined the battlefield, they once thought they were fighting for Ultramar..."
"Whose order? And what about their organization? Who is in charge of Presdia's current command sequence?"
After hearing Severs' story, Tabers followed this logic and asked three questions.
However, both the Ultramarines who accepted the surrender of the Sons of Guilliman and Turab the Purifier, who participated in the custody and preliminary interrogation, looked at each other and gave an answer that Tybos had not expected:
"they do not know."
"Absurd!" Tabers scolded.
Don’t know? How is it possible?
An elite soldier who was at the top of the pyramid in the imperial war sequence actually said that he didn't know who he got the authorization from and who he got the order from?
So what kind of training did they receive? How did their company organization operate?
How can they excuse themselves by saying they don't know?
Where are the battleship’s servo records? Where are the power armor’s information terminal data backups?
People can remain silent, but then will all the records on these equipment and equipment disappear?
"Let me tell you..." Turab said.
"They have never been to the ground since the beginning of recruit training! All recruits are like this. They receive remote command from the ground in Presdia on the battleship from the beginning.
As for the order of operations and command..." Turab thought for a while, then looked at Severs, who also opened his mouth to make additional explanations:
"Since the 700th year of the last millennium, this war group has been mobilized one after another to participate in the siege of Salinas far away from the home planet, the Le Calmont counter-rebellion war, and the offensive and defensive war in the Ghoul Star Territory Roda Galaxy...
Because the main force of the large army is always in expeditionary mode, and their casualties have always been relatively serious, they have always been in the "blood tax" tax-exempt status. The Ultramarines Chapter is responsible for regular inspections of all sub-groups.
Of.
Therefore, as their managers, Ultramar Direction also failed to detect their abnormalities in time for this reason. This is our dereliction of duty..."
"Okay..." Tabos stared at the Ultramarines supervisor for a long time through the screen. After confirming the sincerity of the latter's attitude, he could no longer hold him accountable for this matter.
"What about their Chapter Master? And what about their company's establishment? Isn't anyone willing to take responsibility?" Tabers asked.
"That's exactly what I wanted to say!" Severns followed immediately.
Recalling the interrogation process of the sons of Guilliman just now, his eyes were full of doubts at this time.
"Their chapter leader is a monk named Sly Barr, and this name has not changed in our filing materials for eight hundred years."
A veteran with 800 years of military service?
Several Astartes officers looked at each other after hearing Severns' words, and then they all shook their heads in unison.
impossible……
This is not to say that it is impossible to have veterans of this service age, but it is to say that not just any battle group can have the soil for such veterans to appear.
It is true that Astartes have no theoretical life limit, but will Astartes not die?
On the contrary, the death rate of the Astartes has never been low since the Legion Era. Especially in the Chapter Era, the Chapter Master, as the actual commander of the company, has never left the frontline battlefield.
Although they have the title of high-ranking officers, their casualty rate is no different from that of ordinary soldiers.
What is the concept of a war group that does not change its leader for eight hundred years?
Not to mention an unknown sub-group of the Ultramarines, which of the several famous start-up groups has achieved this? (ps: This is the M39 period, please note that Dante is not born yet, the Wolf Group's
Bjorn has a similar record, but if he wants to be counted, his dormant time needs to be included...)
"And their companies..." Severns continued.
"They claimed internally that most of the Chapter Commander's companies are performing missions outside, but as far as we know, the only ones on the empire's border that can match the number are their four companies, plus the third, fifth, and ninth companies here.
There are only seven companies."
"Which three are missing?" Tabos asked, and Chasov, a member of the Inquisition behind him, also raised his head.
"First, second, and fourth companies." Severns said, and then seemed to remember that the comrades in front of him did not need to abide by the constraints of the "Holy Code", and added an explanation:
"That's all the veteran companies in the Chapter except the Think Tank!"