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Chapter 130 Warhammer - Changes

The Great Expedition was in full swing, and Dio successfully took over the Emperor's duties. After all, he had said that Dio was the other half of the Empire's double-headed eagle.

This gave Dio the same rights as the emperor within the empire.

Therefore, Dio reformed the military and political system.

First, the purpose of establishing military tribunals in each army corps was to prevent future incidents of political commissars executing soldiers on the spot.

Tens of thousands of years have passed, and he doesn't believe that the human empires in the Warhammer world don't have military courts and would still do things like executing soldiers on the battlefield—such backward and disorderly practices.

Admittedly, those who retreat in the face of battle or those who spread misinformation that causes unrest in the army are indeed hateful, but this is not a reason for a political commissar to execute them on the spot.

This is where the importance of military tribunals comes in.

Then came the construction and conscription of the various protostar homeworlds.

The Great Crusade lasted a long time, taking hundreds of years as Dio searched for the Primarchs and brought them all back.

There was plenty of time to build up the empire, but everything the emperor did challenged the original limits!

Although it took five years to build a close relationship with these children, it seems insignificant compared to the lifespan of a family that is measured in thousands or even tens of thousands of years.

Dio certainly made some suggestions, but the emperor usually adopted them selectively.

This is why Dio behaved that way in the previous chapter.

While claiming that you and I have the same rights, he also denies some of Dio's policies of using his power to benefit the empire.

No wonder that of all the immortals who followed him, only Macardo was willing to confide in him.

“I know about military courts, but I believe my sons can manage their soldiers and provide them with psychological support.” The Emperor frowned slightly as he looked at the documents in his hand.

Dio rolled his eyes at him: "Then can you prepare these children psychologically? You already understand their personalities, so why haven't they changed much yet?"

Dio's words caused the emperor to pause for a moment. He coughed, stamped the document, and handed it to his subordinate.

"I understand the military tribunal, but what about this?" The Emperor picked up a design drawing.

Dio took one look and saw that it was a warship designed by Dio based on the spaceships of the Marvel universe. It was much better than the long, narrow ships of the Warhammer world, which required turning and tilting the ship when fighting.

Of course, it's not that spaceships in the Warhammer world are bad; at least their forward ramming angles and massive size and mass are very useful when charging into enemy forces.

But it's the 30k era now, shouldn't the cannons on the spaceship be made to be rotating?

The fixed cannons look like something out of a 16th or 17th-century pirate ship.

In addition, Dio proposed the Death Star plan to counter the Greenskins' Battle Moon.

"What, is it that the empire, with its size, can't do it?"

The Emperor shook his head: "It's not that we can't do it, but if we do it, then we'll have to overturn almost everything we're using now, and that would be a huge challenge to the Empire's existing combat mechanisms."

The combat style in the Warhammer Galaxy is basically to stack armor and shields on your body, then charge in with chainsaw swords and power weapons and hack and slash.

Both the human empire and the aliens fighting against it are basically a group of fierce people.

Before the human empire encountered the Tau, an incongruous race, it relied on wearing heavy armor and wielding the sharpest weapons to eliminate all aliens.

When the Imperial fleet and the Tau fleet met and fought in space, they learned that space combat could eliminate enemies by covering them with artillery fire from a great distance, and that enemy units could be dealt with without boarding.

These are the traditional models of space warfare.

However, this world has something called a void shield, which theoretically can deflect or redirect all flying attacks, such as artillery fire.

This thing has another drawback: objects that approach a void shield at a certain minimum speed will not be intercepted.

This weakness isn't really a weakness in theory; firepower coverage is completely useless against Void Shield.

However, this becomes a fatal flaw in the space battles of the Warhammer universe.

The ships used by the human Empire in the Warhammer world are controlled by intelligent programs made of wet parts, which is not only extremely inefficient, but their ships also lack any firepower interception systems.

Once the Void Shield's defenses are breached, the only option left is to rely on the ship's sturdiness to withstand the attack.

Although the ship's frame is made of nearly indestructible adamantite, everything has its limits. The sturdy adamantite can only maintain the shape of the crashed ship at most when facing more enemies in the future.

Overall, Dio was being farsighted; although the current empire doesn't need it, that doesn't mean it can't have it.

"Constantly evolving technology, tactics, and military skills are among the most important tools that humanity has developed from the primitive era. Even if those enemies are only future ones, we need to plan ahead now and use more powerful attacks to eliminate existing enemies with lightning speed, so that we will have more time to prepare for the unknown future."

The emperor rubbed his temples and got up to look out the window.

"Do we really need to rush like this?" the emperor asked.

Dio was speechless. Even an ordinary person knows to plan ahead and prepare supplies at home in case of emergencies.

Is someone who has lived for tens of thousands of years worse than an ordinary person?

Did the golden age of humanity give him confidence?

“Those enemies are still a long way off, we can take it slow…” The Emperor turned his head and saw Dio’s unfriendly expression, and his tone softened.

Dio took a deep breath.

Well, as expected of a protagonist written by Saxons, the entire setting reflects Saxon expectations.

The Emperor's decision to resolve the Perfect City in the original story could be better resolved by the Chinese people.

But he used the most direct and also the most foolish method.

He's a hypocrite by nature, having forcibly seized the essence of the warp. What's wrong with being even more shameless?

Judging from the current situation, the so-called golden age of humanity had a great influence on him, and it's normal for him to have absolute faith in humanity. However, the four Warp Gods will not sit idly by.

Especially now, in some battles on the battlefield, the dangers are avoided just like in those novels, while in others, we are completely in the dark and rely on Guilliman's military guidance.

He didn't even consider that reality has already differed from the plot of the novel.

It's important to know that Horus's famous battle was already completed before the Primarch's return.

By then, the entire solar system had been conquered, but the Mechanicus was still missing, and they didn't know how to get along with it.

Now, the emperor often stands there like a mascot, only charging forward when the legion encounters an invincible enemy.

"Alright, alright, I'll inform the Cult of Mechanics." The Emperor, feeling uneasy under Dio's gaze, nodded in agreement.