When Jiang Chen woke up, he found himself lying in a pile of corpses.
One second he was working overtime, and the next second he became a "remnant" of the imperial militia's butcher's knife. When Alicia pulled him out of the pile of corpses, he was already dying.
Three months later, the Empire failed in its second "persuasion to surrender" and launched an extermination order - billions of people were reduced to ashes in orbital bombardments.
He looked at the scorched earth and said, "If they don't let us live, we will live by ourselves."
From one person, to a dozen people, to hundreds of people, to a galaxy.
From laser rifles, to space fleets, to making space marines pay.
He never considered himself a hero, he just wanted people who wanted to live to live like humans.
When the Emperor's army descended again, and when the Primarch's shadow enveloped the starry sky, he stood in the newly built spaceport and watched the first battleship built in the Free Star Domain slowly lift off.
There is a line of words engraved on the ship:
"Live in fear, die in freedom."
