Chapter 45 The simple ending and the complexity behind it

Chapter 45 The simple ending and the complexity behind it

The meeting with the Sons of Dorne was not pleasant, but it was productive and left no misunderstandings.

The Flag Officer of the Imperial Fists Chapter from the Phalanx, Vladimir Pugh, who was equal to Galvin in person, had a battle with Calvin in a style that was very consistent with the character of the Imperial Fists. Efficient communication without any polite greetings and within 5 minutes:

In explaining the causes and consequences and confirming that Calvin was clearly aware of the incident, no one in the Imperial Fists was aware of the illegal operations of the Psionics School. The entire incident was the result of the private behavior of the former first-class imperial knight.

Vladimir, the flag-bearer of the Imperial Fists, bluntly gave the compensation from the Imperial Fists: in the next 100 years, the chapter represented by Calvin will have absolute priority in selecting the think tank candidates for the Imperial Fists.

After finishing speaking, Vladimir looked directly at Calvin, waiting for the other party's acceptance, without any intention of bargaining.

Calvin was also pleasantly surprised by such an unexpected substantive compensation.

So, after receiving confirmation from Calvin, the son of Dorne placed the token in his hand on Calvin's table, turned around and left. The sound that echoed in the corridor was the same as his footsteps when he came, precise and without any modification.

Calvin was satisfied with this, thanks to Gavins' urgent use of psychic energy to communicate with Calvin after initially hearing the other party's footsteps.

He felt that he had to give Calvin a vaccination to make him understand that the other person's behavior was not arrogance, but natural. To prevent Calvin from mistaking the other party's possible arrogance.

With the stone-like personalities of these Astartes and their Primarch Rogal Dorn, even if the cause of this incident is entirely due to the Imperial Fist, you still can't expect to hear any soft words from their mouths. talk.

This is also a fact that Calvin witnessed with his own eyes after Gavins told Calvin about the other party's behavior in advance.

Even if it costs a substantial price such as the Imperial Fists' priority supply of think tank recruits for the next 100 years, the principle of the "Cats of Dorne" is "no apology means no apology."

This group of men made of brass used practical actions to establish to Calvin his first and most important impression of the Imperial Fists:

"We are the cubs of Dorne, we can shed blood, not even a drop of tears."

This incident, which started out of Matthews's selfish motives and ultimately resulted in the death of him and his entire family, ended seemingly simply.

And all this presupposes that the High Lords Council is uncharacteristically efficient and has a clear attitude in this incident.

In this non-scheduled and irregular event of the High Lords Council, forces from all parties did not pay enough attention to this incident.

After all, in the eyes of these big shots who have so many things to do, the essence of this matter is just an illegal operation of private rights.

Had it not been for the affairs of the two Astartes Chapters, the file bag on such an incident would not even have been delivered to the Lords' offices.

In this empire with a huge territory and trillions of people, just counting the number of times it happens every day is enough to support a huge department.

The lords had important matters of their own, and with the help of the Servo Skull or a more senior assistant, they only briefly knew the general outline of the relevant events in the document that was delivered to the table.

In their eyes, being able to squeeze out one more precious representative from the hands of people who are not enough to use it is already a sign of giving them the greatest attention.

But when these civil servants, who were accidentally sent to participate in the nominally highest-level meeting of the empire due to their official duties, had not yet broken away from the emotions of honor and excitement, they had just entered the conference room under the leadership of confidential personnel.

These shrewd senior bureaucrats were keenly aware of this incident when they saw Lord Stadt Northumberland of the Tribunal sitting in his seat uncharacteristically early and had not had the chance to see him because he had just taken up his duties. There are other reasons behind it.

In the eyes of the aristocratic families involved in politics in these times, this level of political game is far beyond the reach of their little arms and legs. In this level of confrontation, so-called court aristocrats like them who have no real substantive rights and violence , not even cannon fodder.

Opposite Lord Stadler Northumberland, the High Lord of the Inquisition, representatives of the Astartes Chapter and the Forbidden Army who had also arrived early confirmed this point again.

So in such a strange and high-pressure atmosphere, the representatives who were originally lucky to be present at the meeting could only tiptoe to the agent's seat slightly behind the tall and luxurious seat of their high lord.

Praying to escape from this storm alive is probably their biggest wish for the emperor at this moment.

In this way, the meeting was announced to begin in a strange atmosphere where most high lords were absent as usual, but some few or rare high lords were present.

Uncharacteristically, the Inquisition did not blur its position in this incident in order to wait and see what would happen.

At the beginning of the meeting, High Lord Stadler Northumberland of the Inquisition blatantly pointed the finger at the Star Torch Court and the Ministry of the Interior, and these two departments happened to be the intricate branches of the Sutherland family with hundreds of people. The foundation of annual business operations.

The representative of the Astartes Chapter did not make a clear statement. The incident itself involved an interest dispute between two Astartes Chapters, making his neutrality seem natural.

The two temporary representatives from the Ministry of Interior and the high lords of the Star Torch Court have not yet thought clearly about whether it is necessary to face the interests of a family that is barely ranked at the bottom of the second echelon in the ranking of the Senate. When the high lord of the Tribunal had a hard time with himself, he was followed by an even rarer representative of the Imperial Guard from the Throne Chamber, who also made a speech with an extremely clear attitude.

In a sense, this speech also became the final guiding speech that led to the outcome of this High Lords Council meeting.

You must know that as the emperor's direct guard, the Imperial Guard is inherently aloof from many political forces in the empire.

In most daily meetings of the empire, and even in most major meetings that can determine the national policy of the empire, the seat of the Imperial Guard representing the throne room is vacant.

At most, only after the meeting has a clear preferred outcome, representatives of the Forbidden Army will walk out of the palace and add a golden seal to the meeting minutes, indicating that the Throne Court knows and recognizes the results of this meeting.

Their concern for Terra and the entire empire was limited to the palace. This is the traditional impression formed by the high lords about the Custodes' operation in the Council for thousands of years.

And when there is a meeting in the High Lords Council that represents the center of power of the empire, the Tribunal, which is already in a dominant position, and another group that in a certain sense exercises the vacant but not non-existent royal power, And a transcendent force that truly has the right and ability to blatantly negate the final resolution of the High Lords Council when necessary, and to reach an agreement on something without warning.

Representatives of cardinals from the state religion, representatives of the Supreme Council and Standing Counselor of the Ministry of the Interior, representatives of the adjutants of the high lords of the Astral Navy, and representatives of the high-ranking wizard lords of the Star Torch Court.

These huge forces that really determine the fate of the empire, and the people who really have the power of the standing meetings of the parliament, all realized in the instinctive trembling before a certain crisis:

Starting today, some things will never be the same as before; and a certain balance that was once maintained through the consensus of all forces also appears to be in jeopardy in the meaning behind it expressed in this meeting.

High-ranking civil servants, military officers, bishops and wizards all hurriedly walked to their own special planes for this trip after the meeting.

But unlike the excitement and enjoyment when they came, their most urgent need was to return to their headquarters as quickly as possible and report the actual situation of this meeting to the supreme lord of their own forces.

A political power or key figure that they were completely unaware of before may have silently enveloped the sky over Terra, and the court nobles like them who have served the Terran government for generations have no idea about it.

They actually had to wait until this force or person started to reach out to them before they were shocked to discover the existence of the other party. What a dereliction of duty for them!

They could already imagine the angry rebuke from the high lord himself that they would face after returning to their headquarters.

And that unknown force or person must get their attention. The interests represented and contained in the empire are fixed in the eyes of these high lords who have truly exported it into the constitution.

In their eyes, the person who has been able to use two such crucial seats in the High Lords Council has missed the best opportunity to kill him.

So they can only accept the fact that in the future, there may be one more person who will sit on this supreme power and share the interests with them.

So how can we make a mutually satisfactory compromise on the existing distribution of interests? Or if it involves our own core interests, we cannot compromise.

Then knowing the opponent's foundation as early as possible and preparing to go to war with it is the core focus of all parties.

Although they have not yet found a way to communicate with each other, as long as they are willing, the high lords can always detect the other party's existence and interests.

And given the size and interests of the other party, he or they will not be allowed to lurk for a long time.

Waiting patiently or preparing is the most common way for the nobles on Terra, the capital of the empire, to deal with an unknown threat that they have to face.

The exact target is still unknown, but just now, its claws and claws accidentally revealed in the clouds, and the shadows reflected on the ground under the sunlight, have already made them feel huge pressure, or in other words, fear. .