Before I start I like to say a few things mainly the numbers concerning the numbers in both star wars and war hammer.
First let's deal with star ward numbers. In the star wars the total amount of clones produced during the clone wars is roughly around 6 million.
That's... kinda low... Well very low especially considering the US army alone had 11 million troops in WW2. Let's not mention the other world powers that took part in WW2. It's safe to say that America alone in manpower wise could fight the Republic head on.
Now in star wars legends it is said that those 6 million are in units and each "units" is actually a battalion or in other worlds 576 clones per "unit"
So in Legends the clone army is 3,456,000,000
But as everyone that knows the numbers in Legends is kinda bull shit. Like blaster blots that could hit a target miles away but can't seem to dude a few feet away. That's total bull shit!
100 megatonne proton bombs!? The largest nuke detonated on earth had a yield of 50 megatonnes! It detonated MILES in the air and still caused tremors that traveled around the earth 3 times! If your every day bombs has that yield then why bother building the death start in the first place! Total nonsense!
If you want to play that way then Warhammer too has the "biggatonnes" numbers.
Let's go with Krieg as we're writing a story about Krieg.
The fluff about Krieg is that after the Krieg civil war and when they rejoined the Imperium, the administratum levied on them the highest tithe possible of paying 1 regiment.
If I remember clearly the highest tithe is paid yearly.
Face with that Krieg was like: No no no we'll pay you 20 regiments.
That would roughly translate to 2 million men, now do note that this is Before Krieg acquired vita womb technology so the number of troops Krieg produces is many times that.
It might not seem unsustainable to be constantly producing 2 million troops to die per year using the good old monkeys humping each other.
But you see unlike in the 21st century where people generally have a few kids. krieg was based on the 19th century where people have Dozens of children.
It isn't strange for our grandfather's generation to have dozens of siblings, so it's entirely possible for Krieg to sustain such production rate.
As for logistics? Well... Krieg is a war-oriented society whose sole purpose is only war.
Naturally non-essential industries like entertainment industry are abolished. Random newscaster whos sole job is to face the camera and reads off a teleprompter having 6 figure salary? Simply ridiculous! Wouldn't that money better spent on the war effort and that guy doing productive jobs like making lazguns be better?
Cosmetics? Rubbish!! Just put red paint on your lips or something.
It is said that for every soldier there is at least a dozen logistical personnel behind him, well then guess how many siblings does each of these kriegsmen have?
Yes obviously they exploit child labor just as our children worked the mines in our world wars.
Saying all that it is entirely possible that Krieg to pump out at the very least 2 million troops per year. Now that Krieg has vita womb technology their troop production would have undoubtedly increased by several hundred folds.
--story start--
A few more decades later.
Aboard one of the a sloop on an exploratory mission during warp transit.
Meet trooper W1LL14M (author's note: W1LL14M is in base 64 so to convert this to The standard decimal numbering system it would be unit 091,082,203,215,131,000 ) or more commonly known as WILLIAM.
Lieutenant William is one of the few fortunate Kriegsmen to be assigned aboard a sloop whose primary responsibility is exploring the great void in the sky.
Traveling in the smallest class of imperial ship and exploring the great unknown naturally poses great danger but that is precisely why he signed up for the job.
... Well pretty much everyone in the Korps signed up for the position, fortunately William he has been chosen to in such a glorious task.
It sure as hell beats mining or spending all days doing mock battles or some menial tasks.
While he could go an adventure to great unknown filled with danger, he'll encounter Xenos and slay them wherever they might be, whatever form they might take, he'll contribute to HUMANITY's great expansion to this new Galaxy.
Eventually he'll die fighting for some filthy Xeno scum in the name of the Emperor! He'll sacrifice his life in the name of the Imperium!
That is his and pretty much all kriegsmen's dream! There is nothing more glorious than to die for the Imperium.
As he was thinking about he suddenly fell a tremor ran across the ship, he nearly bumped his head on the bulkhead of the ship in his quarters.
Soon alarm bells started to ringing followed by red blinking lights.
William quickly got up and grabbed the closest weapon he could find.
He looked around and found a laspistol laying on the table next to him.
It was his laspistol.
He grabbed and rushed out of his quarters to see what's going on.
He exited his quarters to find crewmen scrambling to their stations.
He quickly got to the bridge to report to the captain.
After a bit of running, he arrives at the bridge and is surprised to find the bridge a mess with bodies laying on the floor and the captain has his mask cracked.
Outside of the viewport lays a planet, lush green world ripe for the taking.
Most likely he bump his head on the bulkhead with that bump.
As soon as William arrived the captain then lazily turns his attention to William with gray coat swinging.
"At ease lieutenant..." the captain then proceeded to tell him what had happened.
It seems that the navigator made a big boo-boo causing the to exit near a planet.
For those that didn't know exiting or entering the warp near a gravity well is a bad idea.
Safe to say that they got off easy despite the catastrophic failure, even though a few sections of the ship is missing, their engines are dead, their navigator is dead and their ship is slowly drifting closer to the planet below.
The captain then proceeded to order the crew to brace for atmospheric reentry.
William looked at the viewport as he watches the planet slowly getting bigger and bigger.
--story end--
The next part of the story is William's adventure in Republic space and stay tuned to find out how he gets back to Krieg space.