Chapter 869 Iron Hand System

After the Heresy, the survivors of the Iron Hands began to review the reasons why the Battle of Isstvan was a complete failure.

After a lot of discussion and details, the Iron Hands believed that Ferrus's excessive power and emotional misjudgment ultimately ruined everything for the Legion.

They could have used carefully crafted heavy weapons and dark technology to destroy all the enemies surrounding them, but Ferrus chose to lead his troops to a frontal assault in the rage of Fulgrim's betrayal and gave up the defensive plan of building a position.

Therefore, the Iron Hands' top brass believed that the Legion should not and would not allow it to be permanently ruled by a single person again. The Iron Council composed of various Iron Fathers became the core of the Iron Hands, and the Chapter Master was just a tool selected by the Iron Council to lead the troops.

However, on the surface, the Iron Hands still fully maintained the majesty of the Chapter Master. After all, they signed the Codex Astartes, the only guide for the actions of the Space Marines after the Heresy. Although the Codex Astartes 2.0 has been promoted in the Great Dining Hall and Ultramar, the Iron Hands on the other side of the world are using the requirements of the Codex Astartes to build the Chapter.

It is not new that the Codex Astartes was localized in the original Chapter, and the same is true for the Iron Hands.

The Iron Hands did not use the Codex by heart, and the highly pragmatic thinking that prevailed in the hearts of the Iron Hands led to the Codex being analyzed and improved by the Iron Fathers as soon as it landed on Medusa. By absorbing the reasonable parts of the Codex, retaining and improving the old traditions and models of the Iron Hands, and finally combining the two organically, a highly strict and organized Chapter structure was formed.

The Iron Hands secretly took the essence and removed the dross, and openly maintained a correct political stance to prevent doubts from other departments of the Empire.

For example, the all-pervasive Inquisition, in order to reassure the Inquisition, each company of the Iron Hands Chapter is a standard 100-man company. The Iron Council also secretly collected the Chapter's combat data for thousands of years and compared it with the requirements of the Codex, and finally discovered and formulated a series of plans and amendments. In the original timeline, Guilliman's return inspired the Iron Council, and they submitted all the documents to Guilliman.

However, the Empire's ultra-long-distance communications are based on astropaths. Those messy messages that were lucky enough to pass through the turbulence of the subspace and the interception of demons were analyzed by astropaths, and finally turned into a grotesque riddle that made sense but also made no sense.

Now if they have any news to submit to Guilliman, Lin Fan will let the Death Army teach the astropaths of Medusa a more efficient and safe way to cast psychic spells.

The fact that the son of the Space Marine has become like this must be inseparable from his Primarch father.

As a Primarch, Ferrus did not completely unify his home planet Medusa.

Medusa is in the fourth ring orbit from the inside to the outside of the Stenelos system. This barren planet and eight other planets and a bunch of asteroid dust belts orbit an unstable blue supergiant. The most common disasters in the galaxy are various disasters released by stars. The barren Medusa is already the safest harbor in this dangerous environment.

The sky of Medusa is always dark, with frozen mountains, volcanic ridges, and boiling geysers weaving thick clouds that sunlight cannot penetrate. But this is the gift of the planet to protect life. Without the shielding of this layer of clouds, life on the planet cannot survive in the gamma rays and solar wind of the blue supergiant.

Most areas are below zero all year round, and the hard permafrost that can break a pickaxe is everywhere. Under the cold shell of the planet is an overactive heart. Abnormal plate activity makes the orogeny on Medusa extremely intense. New mountains rise every year, and precious minerals underground are also turned to the surface.

The cruel environment has shaped a cruel culture. Before Ferrus came to this planet through the rift, the local people had already mastered the temperament of Medusa.

Tribes based on clans are everywhere. In order to survive on Medusa, each tribe has a warlike and martial culture. Coupled with the local harsh and toxic air and dangerous environment, every native resident of Medusa has undergone mechanical transformation.

The ever-changing natural environment made it impossible for conventional building communities to appear. The people of Medusa relied on experience and equipment to predict the arrival of natural disasters, and then loaded all their property onto vehicles and quickly moved before the destruction came, just like a wasteland tribe.

At that time, Ferrus admired the endless fighting enthusiasm of the various clans in Medusa. After gaining control of the Iron Hands Legion, he named the ceremony for selecting new recruits for the war group Iron Moon.

Since then, all clans will gather the best young people in their clans at the foot of the Fergazer Mountains during the Iron Moon and then fight with young people from other clans. The Iron Father and Iron Priest who are responsible for recruiting soldiers stand aside to observe the bloody fight and select the children they recognize.

After entering the galaxy, Ferrus saw too much blood and cruelty. He began to think about the meaning of his existence and realized that the Iron Hands Legion’s hatred of flesh and blood was so unhealthy.

Hating natural things and hating human things is the first and greatest act of depravity.

Denying your arm today will deny the human race tomorrow.

At the end of the Great Crusade, Ferrus lamented that his physical defects led his descendants astray. He planned to clean up the silver metal wrapped around his arm after the war, eliminate the hatred of the various clans on Medusa, stabilize the situation of the Blue Superstar, and make Medusa a paradise worth enjoying life.

But before he could do these things, he was hit by a mud truck of the Great Rebellion and became the first Primarch to fall. The pyramid system of the Legion built with Ferrus as the core collapsed, forming a large and small broken group. And the people of Medusa also rushed towards more and more extreme social Darwinism.

In the past and now, the Iron Hands will not stop the clan friction on the planet. On the contrary, they believe that this kind of war will forge Medusa more and more powerful.

Fulgrim absorbed his memory fragments when he killed Ferrus and countless clones. These things gave Fulgrim a deeper understanding of Ferrus and allowed him to convey Ferrus's true meaning to Stunus.

"Flesh and blood may be weak, but will lives on. Uphold humanity, and keep your heart strong. Never forget the essence and mission of being human."