In accordance with the usual practices of the Imperium of Man, Noah reported to the Department of the Interior that their world had been cleared of orks.
He had reported it, whether the Department of the Interior received it or not was their business.
Judging from what Noah understood, the Imperium of Man might be late for everything else, but they would certainly collect their tithes.
Just as Noah had planned, he was not prepared to turn against the Imperium of Man now, so he had to pay this tax.
But the problem lay here.
The taxes of the Imperium of Man were truly outrageous; they demanded everything, with no specific standard at all.
Bethel.
hive Worlds could produce the lasguns needed by the Astra Militarum.
The artillery and tanks needed by the Astra Militarum.
Even their ammunition, and they could also produce some food.
All these things needed to be taxed.
In short, when Noah learned this news, he always felt that this empire was very abstract, and he really couldn't understand how such an empire could sustain itself.
No matter how he looked at it, it seemed to be crumbling and on the verge of collapse.
Food was easy to solve; taking one-third of a month's output from the hydroponic farms would completely cover the food tax.
After all, Bethel was not a traditional agricultural planet.
So, the food tax he needed to pay was relatively small.
Weapons and equipment were also not a problem, as Noah had now thoroughly mastered the technology of the Imperium of Man's weapons.
He could completely open more factories and have the idle citizens participate in manufacturing.
With the help of some machinery, this problem could be completely solved. What truly troubled him was that this hive World actually had to pay a blood tithe and an Astra Militarum tax.
The blood tithe referred to Psykers.
Could this be paid?
No one knew better than he what Psykers meant; it meant a huge, very useful labor force.
Once these Psykers underwent systematic training, they could be incorporated into the PDF and become valiant PDF.
In addition, they would learn knowledge faster than others.
This meant that if there were a large number of Psykers, Noah would have enough labor in two years.
In short, Psykers, in Noah's view, were high-quality labor, and besides this factor, the Terran Federation would never hand over its citizens.
Even if, theoretically, the Imperium of Man was now the legitimate successor of humanity, and his Terran Federation had not yet appeared, still belonging to a planet under the Imperium of Man, this was not the point.
the federation would never betray its citizens, nor would it ever hand over its citizens; this was an ironclad rule.
After all, the information left by the previous governor had already made it very clear that these Psykers were sent to Holy Terra to be used as fuel to be burned.
That would be sending his citizens to their deaths.
the federation would never allow such a thing to happen.
In contrast, the selection of the Astra Militarum was easier to solve, as the Astra Militarum fought for the entire human civilization.
Noah was still willing to send a portion of his troops to participate in the Imperium of Man's wars as Astra Militarum to fight for the race; that was not a problem.
So, for Noah at this time, his biggest problem was the blood tithe; he had to find a way to avoid paying this tax.
After a round of contemplation, Noah made a decision.
The blood tithe could be said to be the foundation of the Imperium of Man; this tax was very difficult to avoid.
If he wanted to avoid it, there were only three ways: one was to make the higher-ups not see him, another was to directly go to war with the higher-ups.
Or, pay the tax first, and then steal his people back; the matter had to be handled cleverly enough.
Go to war with the Imperium of Man?
He didn't have that ability now; his stellar base was still under construction.
He simply did not have enough resources to build new warships to confront the Imperium of Man.
At the same time, his current technology was only civilian technology.
He was not sure if his civilian technology could defeat an interstellar civilization, so he only had two options left.
One was to make the higher-ups not see him... How could he make the higher-ups not see him?
That was naturally very simple: destroy the black ships.
the federation would never abandon its citizens, nor would it ever stand idly by and watch its citizens go to their deaths!
But honestly, black ships were really important.
Without the fuel supply from black ships, the Imperium of Man might collapse, which also forced Noah to consider the survival of the human race.
Rather than disregarding the entire race for the sake of his citizens.
The education of the Terran Federation was truly too good, so much so that Noah now generally considered the dust problem of the entire human race, rather than stubbornly only considering himself.
So, after much deliberation, Noah had only one last option.
That was to hand over the Psykers and then mobilize his troops to snatch them back.
Put the battlefield in the Warp, and snatch his citizens back in the Warp.
the federation's fleet had this capability.
Noah's protection fleet had enough capability to find the Imperium of Man's black ships in the Warp.
After all, the Imperium of Man's black ships traveled through the Warp, and the Warp was practically their own backyard for the Terran Federation.
It was too easy to find a black ship that had just left in space.
As long as he could find the Imperium of Man's black ships, Noah could appear inside the Imperium of Man's black ships with his troops.
Anyway, according to the information found by the Inquisition, black ships being attacked by Warp Daemons was a common occurrence.
As long as they launched an attack, just snatching back their own people, and incidentally snatching a few more others as a cover-up, then it would be no problem at all.
To put it bluntly, Noah could never have too many of these Psykers.
As for whether they could remain loyal after being snatched back, that was also not a problem.
Ordinary Psykers would be utterly incapable of resisting Noah's psionic power; a slight alteration was very simple.
Then, coupled with genetic-level modifications, their loyalty could be completely guaranteed.
Or rather, it would provide them with an insurance, and at the same time, it would make them no longer fear the corruption of Chaos.
None of the citizens on Bethel knew that their governor was already preparing to sometimes raid the Imperium of Man's black ships for their sake.
Of course, to execute such an operation, Noah alone was not enough; he needed some troops to cooperate with him.
What kind of troops were best suited for combat in the Warp?
The Terran Federation already had a conclusion: the Psionic Legion!
Or recruit Battle Sisters and Valkyries; these three forces were the Terran Federation's specialized psionic combat units.
Although he could not create the powerful Psionic Legion and psionic forces of the Terran Federation.
However, he could use his civilian technology and the high-quality psionic materials he carried with him to create the federation's very early Psionic Legion.
Every soldier of the Psionic Legion could directly ignore the corruption of Chaos.
As for combat power, an ordinary soldier's combat power was similar to that of an ordinary Greater Daemon of Chaos, subtly exceeding the opponent.
This was the limit of what Noah could do now, after all, even the most powerful technology needed a foundation to be realized.
Just like a modern person who has mastered all technology, if you ask him to make an iron sword when he returns to the Neolithic Age, it would be very difficult, let alone building an atomic bomb.
To make ordinary Psykers, especially this group of trash-like Psykers from the Imperium of Man, truly become the Psionic Legion he needed now, Noah would need to conscript qualified Psykers across the entire planet and then enhance them.
A new order was issued from the governor's Mansion.
The governor commands:
Conscripting qualified Psykers for training, for humanity!