Chapter 11 11, Planning Before the Expedition

"Your Highness Dukel, what do you want?"

Sister Efilar came to the room and asked.

She had been busy mobilizing the legions of the state religion these days.

When she was called here, Efilar thought that another war was about to start, so she seemed very motivated.

"Go around and comfort the injured people and soldiers."

In his eyes, this sister also had a firm belief in humanity, similar to Gris, and was just a little bit away from joining the Heart Network.

Ophelia VII is the hometown of the fighting nuns and the second holy place of the state religion.

Among the tens of billions of permanent residents, there are countless people who have such fanatical beliefs.

It only takes the high-level officials of the state religion to go out and catalyze, and the members of the Heart Network can increase rapidly.

"Ah? Me?"

At first, Efilar thought that Dukel wanted her to drag all the injured people to Tutu and have a bloody massacre.

Later, she understood that she really wanted her to comfort the wounded.

But as a combat nun, she only prays and fights every day, so how can she comfort others?

It is much easier for her to kill demons than to comfort people.

Seeing her like this, Dukel naturally knew what she was thinking.

But there was really no one else to use. Dukel had been living in seclusion since the end of the war. He was not very familiar with other high-ranking officials of the state religion. Only Efilar was quite handy.

"Efilar, this matter is very important. If I didn't need to talk to other planetary governors next, I would do it myself."

"Those people have suffered too much grief, and they need someone to guide them and strengthen their faith."

The Primarch looked directly at the nun in front of him, his tone was gentle, and his eyes were earnest.

"You will help me, right?"

Efilar looked at Dukel's bright eyes, and this determined female warrior suddenly lowered her head shyly.

"Okay, I'll try my best."

Dukel nodded,

"The Emperor's eyes look at all people equally. As his children, we should not lose our love for the people."

"Okay, I understand."

Efilar walked out of the room with a slightly red face.

For some reason, she felt that her heartbeat became particularly fast when she stood in front of the Primarch today. This was a feeling she had never had before.

After Efilar left.

Dukel began to calculate how much progress was left before the real Great Crusade.

A new warship is being built.

The strengthening of one's own mind and will has been completed.

The seeds of the Second Legion (heart network) have been sown.

In the Warhammer world, it has never been an easy task to launch a real Great Crusade.

Even with these enhancements to the strength of the Legion.

To ensure the smooth progress of the expedition, there must be a stable rear base.

Ophelia VII, located in the Storm Star Region in the remote southern part of the Milky Way, is a long way from Terra.

But as the second holy land, its richness is second only to Terra.

And after the fall of the Cartier Fortress, Ophelia VII was trapped in the newly formed Great Rift.

There is always the risk of being attacked by Chaos. Basically, if you drive away a Khorne Daemon, there will be another Blue Flame Tyrant of Tzeentch.

In the original plot, when the planet was finally saved by the resurrected Guilliman, it was the Blue Flame Tyrant, the Lord of Change under Tzeentch, who was attacking the world at that time.

The entire galaxy was in a mess. Humans and Chaos, Chaos and Aliens, Chaos and Chaos all races started a melee mode. Any attack from any party was not surprising.

Therefore, in the rare period of peace, Dukel wanted to integrate all the nearby life planets, including Ophelia VII, to create a base camp that could provide him with a stable source of troops.

Under Dukel's call.

Soon more than half of the nearby planetary governors had arrived, and the remaining ones who did not come would not come again.

This did not surprise Dukel.

Ten thousand years have passed since the Primarch and the Emperor appeared in the world.

Such a long history is enough to bury many things.

The once glorious interstellar warbands have now become auxiliary.

The glory of the empire has also been swept into the dust of history.

It is normal for these planetary governors to be wavering. After all, no one wants the power in their hands to be suddenly taken away by a person who originally only existed in legends.

Dukel has no time to deal with these people for the time being. What he has to do now is to maintain these worlds that are still willing to provide loyalty to him.

In order to build the nearby galaxies centered on Ophelia VII into his own resource base.

In the short term, Dukel plans to develop only in the direction of elite troops.

And to win over the people, streamline the administrative departments, and provide more military forces and backup personnel for his upcoming expedition with high efficiency.

All this requires the help of the planetary governors.

In order to expand the efficiency of the territory of the human empire, each planet has autonomy.

These planetary governors are no different from the emperor on their own planets.

It is unimaginably complicated to unite all these forces to serve him.

Even with the systematically constructed heart network and the unimaginable abilities of the Primarch, he cannot completely control every world in the short term.

Many planetary governors, led by the Oracle Priest of Taran, expressed their loyalty to Dukel.

But Dukel just stared at each of them in turn, and then slowly said,

"I need to form an independent parliament, which can allow my will to be spread smoothly in the Storm Star Region. Who of you is willing to support me?"

After that, Dukel looked at everyone quietly, waiting for their decision.

As the second Primarch who was previously expelled from the Empire, he did not have the deep reputation of Guilliman, and it was basically impossible for him to get the support of the Supreme Council of Terra.

Therefore, before he was fully fledged, Dukel needed to establish an independent parliament to ensure that his will and beliefs could be spread smoothly.

He was not like Guilliman, who could compromise and give in as long as he could unite everyone, and even tolerate the signs of rebellion.

When Dukel launched an expedition to conquer every world, all conquered worlds had to be transformed according to his will.

He understood that such behavior would bring him a large number of enemies.

Even most of the galaxy would fight against him.

But it doesn't matter. Duker is confident that he has enough power to suppress all resistance and kill all those who try to resist. If the later ones still choose to resist, they will be killed again.

After thousands of trials and tribulations, impurities will be eliminated, and what will remain will be absolute loyalty.

In this dark age when the power of the Four Gods has expanded infinitely and the Emperor has fallen into a deep sleep.

Only by doing this can one have no worries, and only pure loyalty can save the human empire on the verge of collapse.

Anyway, Duker will not accompany those guys who are corrupted by power and move towards sustainable destruction with the human empire.

This approach seems extremely normal to Duker.

But to the Oracle Priests and others, it feels extremely bold.

Strictly speaking, the idea of ​​establishing an independent parliament has crossed the line.

Could it be that this Primarch wants to rebel against the Emperor's rule like his brother?

For a moment, they couldn't even figure out whether Duker was speaking the truth or trying to fish for them.