Warhammer 40: From the League of Humans to Warhammer

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“You will send someone to temporarily serve as the planetary governor. I remember that the Imperial Guard should be proficient in everything, so I can rest assured.”

"A professional planetary governor will be arranged after Kirimanten takes action. Until then, the Imperial Guard will be responsible for local planetary security and management."

"When it's time to clean, clean without mercy. Six-legged toads are hard to find, but two-legged people are everywhere."

"With their level of intelligence, I could send a space wolf up there and it would do a better job than them!"

Trajan bowed respectfully: "As you command, Commander. I will immediately arrange for the Imperial Guard to take over the governance of the newly reclaimed world."

Zhou Qing nodded in agreement.

"The Imperial Guard is still very good. I really don't know why that human comrade on the Golden Throne doesn't send you out."

If you were to govern the empire, the snowball effect would be phenomenal; keeping you as gatekeepers in the palace is a waste of your talents.

"I can sense that human fellow's spiritual power is as vast as the ocean. Asking you to protect him is a bit far-fetched."

Faced with Zhou Qing's words, Trajan could only offer a wry smile. After all, how could they refute what this man had said?

In the entire galaxy, only the Emperor and Zhou Qing in the Imperial Guard dare to say such a thing.

Seeing the wry smile on Trajan's face, Zhou Qing reached out and patted him on the shoulder.

"Don't be so upset. After all, you all look quite imposing. As an honor guard, you are absolutely qualified. After all, the supreme commander of the human empire must have a certain presence."

"You will become even stronger in the future. Once my research is completed, your strength should reach an even higher level."

Zhou Qing made this promise to Trajan.

Trajan could only bow gratefully to Zhou Qing; he was at a loss for words. After all, in the entire universe, this was the only person who could truly enhance the fighting strength of the Imperial Guard.

Just as the two were talking, Zhou Qing suddenly had a very bad feeling.

It was an extremely strange premonition, as if something was about to devour all his hard work in one gulp.

"No, something's about to happen. I have a bad feeling about it!"

As a powerful psychic, Zhou Qing's premonitions were no joke. If he sensed something unpleasant, then the event was very likely to happen, because this was a psychic prophecy unique to powerful psychics.

"I need to make a psychic prophecy now, to predict what will happen next? All the worlds will enter a state of full alert."

All network channels are now shut down, all void shields in all worlds are activated, and all world energy shields in all worlds are also activated. Now is not the time to conserve energy.

"Notify all Imperial citizens to return to their respective homes. Those Imperial citizens who do not yet have their own homes will be taken in by the local planetary government."

In short, send them all to shelters and aid stations, ensuring that no citizen remains naked and exposed on the planet's surface.

"The fortresses of each star system have also entered the preparation phase, ready to deal with any possible enemies at any time. I'm afraid the enemies are not friendly."

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Chapter 181 Why are there only 160 million Imperial Guards?

Trajan carried out the order.

Over the past three months, a higher level of combat readiness has begun in the 108 worlds of the Misty Starfield.

With the help of imperial officials, large numbers of imperial citizens began to enter the refuge zone.

Planets that have been transformed can easily accommodate the entire population of the planet, but it's a different story for those that haven't been transformed.

Although Zhou Qing had tried his best to design shelters for all planets, that's not actually the case.

The rate at which the Imperial population was increasing on the planet far exceeded Zhou Qing's expectations. Large numbers of Imperial people were continuously converging on the 108 Worlds of the Hazy Starfield from various planets and settling down there.

According to incomplete statistics, before Zhou Qing issued this order, at least tens of billions of people in each of the 108 worlds of the Misty Starfield were homeless.

They simply lived in the wilderness or plains, relying on the high wages they received to make a living.

No one wants to leave this prosperous world, because no one will starve here.

The government will do everything in its power to help any citizen who is not well-fed.

The Imperial Planetary Government established numerous refugee camps and food distribution points in every region to ensure that no one would starve to death.

Therefore, after Zhou Qing issued his order, there were many refugees in the world who could not be resettled, and this situation kept reaching Zhou Qing's hands.

Zhou Qing, who had originally issued these instructions, was once again troubled by this news.

He is a scientist of the Federation of Humanity, and his high moral standards and bottom line do not allow him to abandon those refugees so easily. But if he does not abandon those refugees, what other way can he settle them?

The refugee settlements on every planet are no longer the same as they were originally designed to accommodate. A settlement block was originally designed to hold 10 billion refugees, but in reality, the number of refugees has exceeded 50 billion.

This is already operating beyond capacity, but even at this capacity, there are still over 10 billion refugees in every world who cannot be resettled.

During this period, in the 108 worlds of the Misty Starfield, even in the world with the fewest population, the number of human citizens has exceeded 2,000 billion.

Moreover, this number is increasing at a rate that Zhou Qing cannot comprehend...

Zhou Qing stared at the data in front of him, lost in thought...

The Human Empire had shocked Zhou Qing several times, but this time it still shocked the top scientists from the Human Federation around him. Zhou Qing helplessly discovered that he had no technology in his mind that could solve the current predicament.

"Trajan, what do you think? Is there any way to save them?"

Trajan had been staying by Zhou Qing's side during this time because Zhou Qing was researching the concept of the Psionic Guard.

Zhou Qing asked the commander of the Imperial Guards for his opinion, but the commander shook his head helplessly.

"I'm sorry, General, I have no way to save the people of the empire..."

Tula was very apologetic. He had no way to solve Zhou Qing's current predicament, because such a comprehensive protection of the imperial people was almost unheard of in the past human empires.

Protecting the residents of Shangchao alone is something the empire would rarely see, let alone something like Zhou Qing's attempt to protect the entire empire's citizens.

Zhou Qing was not surprised by Trajan's answer.

After all, even he couldn't come up with an effective solution, so Trajan, as the commander of the Imperial Guard, was even less likely to do so.

"Sigh, first order all worlds to tighten their guard and strictly prevent all imperial citizens from entering the 108 worlds."

"The Planetary Defense Force is on high alert. We absolutely cannot allow any more people to appear on these 108 worlds. We don't know what kind of predicament we will face, so it is difficult to guarantee their safety if they come to these planets."

Although Zhou Qing did not know how to solve the problem of the inability to resettle refugees, he still issued an order to refuse the refugees from entering the 108th World.

He can't even handle this small number of people now. If the number continues to increase, it'll be like a joke, which is absolutely unacceptable.

"For those refugees already on the planet, immediately arrange transport ships to evacuate them from the 108 worlds."

Since we couldn't settle them in the 108th world, the obvious choice was to transport them away, which was for their own good.

"Turajn, go and oversee the actions of the Imperial officials. I'm always worried about them."

"Although I trained them all, people, especially people's hearts, are the hardest thing to deal with."

As Zhou Qing spoke, he also sighed.

"I understand, General. I will handle this matter and order the Imperial Guards to keep an eye on them."

Trajan readily agreed, as the matter was relatively easy for the Imperial Guard to resolve. Upon hearing this, Zhou Qing's face showed great satisfaction.

Military units like the Imperial Guard are truly useful; they are almost omnipotent. Although they are not the top in their field, they are always capable of fulfilling their duties whenever they are needed.

Considering how useful the Imperial Guards are, and that both his own world and the Empire's world need these all-rounders, Zhou Qing unusually became concerned about the number of Imperial Guards members.

"Trajan, how many guards are there now?"

Trajan bowed slightly: "Thanks to the orders you gave when you left, the total number of the Imperial Guard is now 160 million. Although we still cannot reach the 300 million standard you mentioned, our numbers are still increasing rapidly."

"It is expected that the 300 million Imperial Guards will be fully transformed and ready to serve in two years."

160 million Imperial Guards...

If this number were placed in the former Empire, it would undoubtedly be a terrifying existence, exceeding that of any Space Marine Chapter, but to Zhou Qing it was far too small.

"Not enough! This number is far from enough! At the same time, your replenishment speed is too slow. After so long, you only have 160 million Imperial Guards. When will you be able to fulfill humanity's Manifest Destiny?"

"The Imperial Guards are very effective. The Empire needs you, so 300 million Imperial Guards is too few."

My requirement is that you need to have at least 500 million people, and it won't be acceptable if it takes two years to fill the remaining 300 million!

I need you to replenish this 5 million quantity by August of next year!

"And you must ensure quality and quantity. Don't recruit trash into the Imperial Guard and lower the bar for the Imperial Guard. Can you do that?"

Chapter 182 Stay true to yourself, Trajan!

When Tula Zhen heard Zhou Qing's request to expand the Imperial Guard by 500 million, he was initially delighted.

However, when he heard Zhou Qing ask them to complete the expansion of the Imperial Guard to 500 million by next year, Tula's expression turned sad again.

Especially when he heard Zhou Qing also insist on ensuring both quality and quantity, Tula's expression turned even more grim.

None of my family members understand how they can fulfill such a request.

The selection of the Custodians is different from that of the Space Marines. Space Marines can find any illiterate person and then have time to train them, but the Custodians are different. The Custodians are trained and educated in a strict manner from the moment they are fertilized eggs.

Although the success rate of the Imperial Guards' surgeries was extremely low, resulting in a very small number of Imperial Guards, with Zhou Qing's help now, the success rate has approached 100%.

However, the number of participants has not increased significantly because the time frame is simply too short.

The Imperial Guard never imagined they would have such a day, therefore the total number of their subjects combined has not yet exceeded 1000 million...

Many of these are newly trained individuals, as Zhou Qing wants them to expand to 300 million, so the number of test subjects naturally needs to continue to increase.

However, the number of qualified test subjects at this stage is only over 300 million. Expanding from the previous 300 million is certainly enough, but 500 million...

Tula really wanted the Imperial Guard to be expanded to 500 million, but there weren't enough men.

Zhou Qing noticed Trajan's unpleasant expression and asked.

"What's wrong? Is there any difficulty? If so, just tell me and I'll help you."

"It's like this, General. It's not that I don't want to continue expanding the number and scale of the Imperial Guards. The main problem is that the number of test subjects is so small. The trouble with the Imperial Guards is that they need to start cultivating from fertilized eggs."

At the same time, they are taught a range of knowledge about art, technology, culture, and so on.

Only in this way can one grow into a qualified Imperial Guard test subject.

"But the Imperial Guard wasn't very large before, and the number of test subjects was also limited. Those people were enough to meet the expansion requirement of 300 million, but now..."

Trajan didn't finish his sentence, but Zhou Xing already understood what he meant.

"Are you trying to tell me that we don't have enough volunteers?" Although this was undoubtedly bad news, Zhou Qing's face was beaming with a smile.