Global Crossing: Empire of Stars

"From now on, the Grey Knights Legion and the Ordo of the Daemonhunters would become independent, together known as the Order of the Holy Hammer. Their sole purpose would be to battle the evil gods and abominations of the Fallen God Realm!" Lin Zhichen swiftly signed the relevant orders and sent them to the Ordo and the Grey Knights Legion:

"Continue the Grey Knights' recruitment policy. They may recruit qualified candidates from any planet or department in the Imperium. No department may obstruct them."

In the era of the Imperium of Man, the Astartes' recruitment policies were already strict enough, but the Grey Knights' standards were far more demanding still.

Their recruits came from across the entire Imperium. Every awakened Psionicist was a potential recruit. When Psionicists were brought back from across the Milky Way Galaxy aboard the Ordo's Black Ships, only two paths awaited them.

First, those selected by the Grey Knights Legion would undergo and pass the Ordo's background checks to become recruits. Then, only those who survived the near-impossible trials would be accepted into the Legion.

This was a far more lenient policy than that of the founding Legions. After all, among the recruitment worlds of the twenty Astartes Legions, even the most prosperous, the Ultramarines Legion, had only five hundred worlds. Yet the Grey Knights drew recruits from over a million Imperial colonies. Even at the Legion's peak, their numbers

never exceeded a thousand. That showed just how stringent their standards were.

It took Lin Zhichen a month to sort out the complex institutions of the entire Imperium of Man and gradually integrate them with the government agencies of the Dragon Soul.

He opened the Milky Way Galaxy's holographic star map to check on the changes across the galaxy. Where vast stretches of darkness had once