Chapter 456: Daily Life of a Space Marine and Leman Russ Warthog

Kuitun Death World.

The Iron Pagoda Fortress Monastery.

Located on the Kuitun-1 satellite.

(PS: By the way, I'm soliciting names, for example, White Scars: Quanzhou, Dark Angels: Monolith, Space Wolves: Fang, Raven Guard: Raven Tower...)

The Death World of Kuitun has three satellites and three moons. The Chapter chose one of the satellites with a thin atmosphere and named it "Kuitun One" as the location of the Iron Pagoda Chapter Monastery to monitor the entire Death World.

The gravitational tidal disturbance caused by the three moons is constantly affecting the natural ecology of Kuitun's surface. The closer to the equator, the more obvious it is. The crustal plates here are extremely unstable and are constantly colliding and drifting, and volcanic and earthquake disasters occur frequently.

The only two stable places are the North and South Poles of the Death World. Although there are no geological disasters here, the climate is extremely cold and only a small number of human tribes live there.

After the Iron Pagoda Legion selected this place as its home planet, it established strongholds at the North and South Poles to help the local human tribes unite and build basic living facilities, assist them in expanding their population, and teach them language and culture, the use of machinery and combat skills... In return, the local human tribes must hand over a group of young boys with the strongest bodies, the most determined wills, and the most superb martial arts every year as candidates for the Iron Pagoda warriors.

For the local human tribes.

Although the trial and surgery process will take the lives of countless young boys, it is a great honor for the entire tribe to be selected.

For the Chapter Priest.

Although the residents of this death world have high physical fitness and the harsh environment has tempered their strong physiques, the population is still too small to support screening.

Fortunately, the Chapter does not have many gene seeds at present.

If the operation fails but the patient survives, the Chapter will generally allow these young men to join the Chapter and become Chapter Servants, including warship operation servants (crew), medical servants (nurses), historical servants (historians), cooking servants (cooks), logistics servants (chores), etc. Different Chapters have different attitudes towards Chapter Servants.

The White Scars call their servants "Zat". The Iron Hands use their Chapter Servants as a source of wetware. The Blood Angels have a special kind of Chapter Servants called "Blood Slaves", who volunteer to become mobile blood packs and wait for the Blood Angels Space Marines to replenish their blood when their blood thirst strikes. Most Chapters treat their Chapter Servants equally, and the Salamanders are a typical example, but there are some worse ones, such as the Carcharodon, for whom Chapter Servants are just a group of slaves.

At this time, the starlight has not yet illuminated the satellite.

The day of the Iron Pagoda Space Marine has begun.

4am: Morning meditation.

The day begins with the Company Chaplain leading the warriors in meditation and contemplation in the Iron Pagoda Academy. The Company's flags and relics are displayed here, and the warriors repeat aloud their oaths to the Chapter and the Emperor. At this time, the Captain will give a speech or issue orders to all his comrades, usually announcing appropriate rewards and promotions, and if necessary, punishments.

5am: Shooting practice.

After the morning prayers, the Iron Pagodas would conduct the first shooting practice of the day as usual. All individual long-range weapons would be practiced, but the focus would be on personal weapons. Rewards and punishments would be issued according to the results of the shooting, and the shooting practice would be conducted in the armory or the shooting range of the monastery.

7 a.m.: Combat training

From the shooting practice just now to the unarmed combat training and close combat weapons training, the situations encountered in actual combat are accurately simulated, including countless lethal or non-lethal environmental conditions, such as polar regions, volcanoes, rift valleys, swamps, or areas with mixed characteristics of the above.

12:00 noon: Lunch break

Most of the Astartes will start praying again at this moment, but for the Iron Pagodas, now is the time to study! They can read any information in the chapter library and library, including but not limited to books on geography, history, humanities, etc. Qingshan Khan encourages learning and encourages soldiers to learn all knowledge rather than just military knowledge. Khan requires his soldiers to be knowledgeable, questioning, careful, discerning, and sincere, so that they will not be confused by some evil gods.

1pm: Lunch

The Iron Pagodas begin lunch, which is usually nutritious but tasteless food for Space Marines, such as triglyceride gel and amino acid oatmeal porridge, and local creatures hunted during the morning's combat training as a side dish.

1:15 PM: Tactical Indoctrination:

Learning a new combat language, including sign language and codewords, studying the weapons, deployments, and vehicles of the aliens and traitors, reviewing squad and company tactics, and taking an exam on the subjects learned in the morning combat training.

3pm: Tactical and driving training

The afternoon was mainly spent on squad and company coordinated combat exercises, including but not limited to driving various Space Marine-specific vehicles. Qingshan Khan encouraged innovation, so each company would occasionally try some new tactical exercises.

8pm: Evening study

Most Marines' evening prayers were replaced with meditation, review, and reflection, during which time the gene-seed was tested and observed by the Apothecaries of each Company.

9pm: Dinner

Dinner is a more important meal than lunch. The Chapter Servants will prepare a hearty meal, not food for the Space Marines. Qingshan Khan allows his warriors to drink alcohol, but does not allow the consumption of neurotoxins.

9:30 p.m.: Night combat training

The world of the Iron Pagoda Chapter's Fortress-Monastery has an objective night, so night combat training can be carried out. If the Chapter happens to be on a ship sailing in the void at this time, night combat training will be changed to training underwater combat, fighting through fog, fighting in zero gravity, or fighting in other special alien environments. Any Space Marine who makes noise or collides with his companions during night combat training will be punished.

11:15 PM: Maintenance Ritual

The Space Marines use this time to maintain their personal weapons and power armor. The three cavalry companies maintain their jet bikes; the Vanguard maintains various types of armored vehicles; the Vanguard maintains the assault terminators; the Xiaolong regularly inspects the Swordtail interceptors to ensure they are ready for battle at any time. The company's technical sergeants supervise and review this.

11:45pm: Free time

Although the free time is only fifteen minutes, most Chapter Masters still consider it a waste of boredom and an extremely dangerous distraction. Qingshan Khan allows Space Marines to have and manage their personal time, and encourages them to develop some personal hobbies, such as poetry, painting, music, and board games, but does not allow gambling.

00:00: Break time

Start sleeping, four hours.

In general, compared to other chapters, the daily routine of the Iron Pagoda is quite regular. It is not particularly strict, like the Black Templars who pray three times a day and each time needs enough time, but it is not too lax either - in the Warhammer 40K universe, if you are too obsessed with art, you will be tempted by Slaanesh; if you are too obsessed with knowledge, you will be tempted by Tzeentch; if you are too obsessed with killing, you will be tempted by Khorne... Three meditations a day are similar to the three devout prayers a day of most chapters.

Practice the golden mean and refuse to go to extremes.

It is the Iron Pagoda Chapter's way of countering the evil of the Warp.

......

The days go by.

The Chapter Master has been very busy lately.

He had to arrange for the STC exorcism of two tanks, an airborne capsule and an intelligent control robot and then enter the industrial system of the Phaeton forge world. He also had to assist Master Quinto in the serum experiment, so he had no time to take care of the major events in the plot line, nor did he have time to take care of the seven-member team of the Zero World Guild.

But this group of people couldn't hide in the cabin forever, as it would be inconvenient with so many people on the warship. So Lin Yu was sent to take them to wander around the Marcus Wang Star area in disguise, and experience the different customs of the forging world, the hive world, the agricultural world and the death world in turn.

Lin Yu brought seven people from the Zero Realm Guild on a low-altitude airship and followed the main road of the Phaeton Foundry City all the way to the suburbs. This was a plantation for luminous fungi, brain fungi and other fungal organisms from the radiation universe. In addition to the artificial lighting facilities on both sides of the road, large areas of fungi emitted a bright green light, stretching and undulating along the ridges and hills, as if they were in an endless fluorescent ocean.

"Wow, it's really beautiful."

Olivia exclaimed.

In the ocean of fungi, there are also some two-headed cows (Brahmins) wandering around. If these radiated cosmic creatures did not look too scary and weird, the scene on the outskirts of the forged city would even have a pastoral feeling.

"I read in the information that the forge worlds in Warhammer 40K are all rusty wastelands with no vegetation. Why can the Phaeton forge world have so many animals and plants?"

Olivia asked Lin Yu a question.

"Because these animals and plants all come from the radioactive universe, they have already adapted to the radiation environment. On the contrary, if the radiation dose in the environment is not enough, the yield may even decrease. This is a natural landscape unique to Huitengzao."

Lin Yu explained.

He didn't mention another reason.

Godzilla had just entered the underground maze and began to fall into a deep sleep not long ago. Since he fell into hibernation, the radiation dose in the environment of the Phaeton Foundry World has been getting lower and lower. The problem now is that if the Phaeton Foundry World cannot continue to expand its production capacity, the radiation pollution caused may not even be enough for Godzilla to absorb.

They are all underground mazes.

There are void dragons on Mars.

The Phaeton has Godzilla.

"What is that?"

At this time, a human warrior pointed at a four-wheeled off-road vehicle speeding past below and asked.

"That looks like... a Warthog troop carrier?"

Augustus said, frowning.

The tone sounded a little uncertain.

A landmark vehicle from the Halo universe suddenly appeared in the Warhammer 40K universe, which made him a little unsure.

"Yes, it's a warthog."

Lin Yu gave an affirmative answer.

......

"Warthogs are as much a part of the UNSC as boots, guns, and tasteless coffee."

——"Halo Encyclopedia"

…

At this time, in the center of the forging city.

Master Buck's Industrial Foundry Temple.

A huge palace-like room.

There is a sign on it that reads "Phaeton Power Propulsion Center".

Science fiction is complicated.

In fact, it is nothing more than a question of power and propulsion.

In terms of power, the highest level of technology Fu Qinghai has mastered is nuclear power. Including the power backpacks of Space Marines, the battleship engines of the Chapter Fleet, the energy cores of the Four-Armed Titan, the core engines of the Thunderhawk Gunships... all are Nyadrazasa reactors, also known as the Star God Burner Reactors. In essence, it is still cold nuclear fusion, but it is a very efficient cold nuclear fusion reaction. In Warhammer 40K, it is usually called a plasma reactor, but it is actually a nuclear power reactor.

Controlled cold nuclear fusion technology is not easy at all, and it is even the ceiling of most science fiction universes. Beyond nuclear power reactors, there are hypermatter reactors in Star Wars, antimatter reactors in Star Trek, dark matter reactors in Transformers, etc. Fu Qinghai has not yet come into contact with these science fiction technologies, so he can only look forward to it.

No matter which science fiction universe, nuclear reactors are very expensive and cannot be used in all aspects (except for the radiation universe, which is indeed a bit weird).

Therefore, many sci-fi universes, including Warhammer 40K, still have room for traditional gas turbine engines (aircraft engines) and piston internal combustion engines (vehicle engines). Including various fighters, jet motorcycles and armored vehicles... They still use fuel engines. It's just that the traditional fossil fuels of gasoline, diesel and kerosene have been changed to sci-fi fossil fuels such as promethium. The Phaeton Forge World uses artificial monster blood.

It is not that using a nuclear reactor is better than using a piston internal combustion engine. For example, the same level of super-heavy tanks in the Imperial Armored Series, Shadow Sword uses a nuclear reactor, and Poison Blade uses a piston internal combustion engine. This is a choice based on cost and maintenance. No one is the best. The Thunderhawk gunship uses a nuclear reactor, and the Swordtail-class interceptor uses a gas turbine engine, but the Swordtail-class interceptor flies faster than the Thunderhawk gunship, and the speed difference is even more obvious in the atmosphere.

But even a piston internal combustion engine.

Warhammer 40K also has black technology.

The Imperial Guard's Emperor Baneblade tanks and Leman Russ tanks, as well as the Space Marines' Rhino personnel carriers and Predator tanks, all use an engine called the "Multi-fuel Adaptive Thermal Combustion Reactor", commonly known as "it can burn anything", alcohol, fat, gas... This universal adaptability is itself a very outrageous black technology.

And now there happens to be an opportunity.

Fu Qinghai can make it even more outrageous.

"The Warthog Armed Utility Vehicle, or 'Warthog' for short, is a family of entry-level Joint Light Tactical Ground Vehicles serving the United Nations Space Command Armed Forces. Its various variants are capable of equipment transport, utility, command and control, rescue reconnaissance and various other tactical and logistical support roles. It is a highly maneuverable, four-wheel drive with all-wheel steering, powered by a liquid-cooled, hydrogen-injected ICE engine, and is equipped with a manual transmission."

Koshveto said with pride.

At this time, inside the Phaeton Power Propulsion Center, Master Buck, Fu Qinghai, Shi Lan, and Koshveto all gathered in a circle to carefully observe the device in front of them. The first three were the Forge Master, the Casting Master, and the Space Ape. Koshveto, a Spartan warrior, seemed a little out of place among them, but his tone was still full of pride.

Because the Warthog, like the Spartan, is an iconic element of the Halo universe.

"What is a liquid-cooled hydrogen-injected ICE engine?"

Master Buck asked.

"Hydrogen fuel is burned inside the engine at very high temperatures along with a synthetic carbon-silicon catalyst to achieve higher efficiency. This hydrogen engine is the standard engine for all UNSC ground and most air vehicles, replacing traditional fossil fuel-based engines approximately four hundred years ago."

Koshveto immediately introduced it.

"Well, to put it bluntly, it's just an internal combustion engine burning hydrogen. It's nothing special."

Fu Qinghai then said:

"That's what I want you to focus on."

Fu Qinghai pointed to an auxiliary device next to it:

"Graf Houtman solar salt water converter."

"What is this?"

Master Buck continued to ask.

"You just need to add 12 liters of fresh or sea water, and the device will convert it into hydrogen. The Warthog can then travel 800 kilometers on this hydrogen."

Fu Qinghai explained.

"Twelve liters of water, eight hundred kilometers."

He emphasized it again.

"Hmm…"

Master Buck and Shi Lan frowned together.

"Just asking if you guys are awesome or not?"

Koshveto asked with a smile.

"The premise is that there is sunlight in the environment."

Fu Qinghai added,

"The Warthog series of vehicles itself is not particularly outstanding. It is very fast but has very thin armor. It is nothing more than a halo version of a machine gun pickup truck. The liquid-cooled hydrogen injection engine is actually nothing special. The multi-fuel adaptive reactor of the Lemann Rust tank is a hundred times more powerful. But this Graf Houtmann solar salt water converter is really amazing."

"Korsweto has obtained the relevant technology. If we can copy this device and improve it using the Empire's existing material science technology... the multi-fuel adaptive thermal combustion reactor plus the Graf Houtman solar salt water converter, the vehicle's endurance will be terrifying."

Fu Qinghai said seriously.

"It really has potential."

Master Buck commented.

The calorific value of hydrogen is not as high as that of promethium, but seawater is much cheaper than promethium.

Hydrogen can be produced with sunlight and seawater, and the pressure on logistics supply will be greatly reduced.

"This will be our unique technology."

Fu Qinghai affirmed.

"The Leman Rust tank is going to be completely refitted."

Master Buck sighed and said:

"I don't know if those guys on Mars will accept it."

......

(End of this chapter)