"I have some matters I would like you to decide."
"Matters concerning logistics."
Mathieu bowed again.
Qin Mo could tell that the Apostle of War had run into serious trouble, so he listened quietly.
"Those participating in this Golden Crusade are not only the Son of the Emperor and the warriors who follow him."
"There are also the God-Emperor's loyal subjects."
Mathieu explained a matter concerning the Ecclesiarchy.
The head of the Imperial Ecclesiarchy, one of the High Lords of Terra—the Ecclesiarch—had just issued a call for Ecclesiarchy believers to join the Golden Crusade.
Yet the Ecclesiarch was merely yielding to public sentiment.
As early as when the Golden Expedition Fleet had first arrived near the Eye of Terror, Ecclesiarchy believers had already begun preparing.
Countless Ecclesiarchy worlds across the Imperium, along with the systems containing them, were conducting inefficient but extraordinarily fervent mobilizations.
Merchants and nobles were nearly bankrupting themselves to buy Transport Ships equipped with Dimension Engines, crude weapons and gear, and small quantities of supplies.
The priests of every Ecclesiarchy world went through streets and alleys, preaching to the public about the Golden Crusade. Then, after ending their sermons with the words "For the God-Emperor," they led their fervent listeners to the largest cathedral on their world.
Fervent men and women stood in line through the night without sleep, receiving crude weapons and gear and only enough food for the one-way journey before boarding Transport Ships bound for the Golden Crusade's front lines.
Some smaller Ecclesiarchy worlds had even been completely emptied, because every person on them had left home to join the war the Ecclesiarch called a holy crusade.
The desperately poor believers even boarded Warp Engine vessels and began their voyages without Navigators, yet they still miraculously reached their destinations.
Once these miracles spread, more