Because I have to leave Sotha with so haste, I decide the Kroot and the Nicassar howorlds need to go.
One is ho to a species of ever-evolving cannibals, eating their victims to absorb their traits, much like the Tyranids. Not a danger yet, due to being rather savage, but that could change rapidly once they eat an Eldar Exodite world, for example.
The Nicassar are species of psykers, which will not end well for them. Either producing another Warp godling or sothing worse. Plus the Tau will be forced to adapt for their absence with lee suits and better navigation equipnt.
The Tau howorld loses their next capital city to a Vortex torpedo and the subsequent Chaos invasion, which should either delay their expansion for a century, or force them into a furious arms race to create anti-demon weaponry and sensors.
Welco to the 40k, blue aliens! Yes, there are bad things in the galaxy, and you're not prepared. Also, kinda hard to hide that truth when your entire planetary force has to muster to defeat the invasion.
"Your brother Guilliman has just awakened on Macragge, Primarch Khan. Your brother the Lion, he still sleeps in stasis aboard the Dark Angels' Rock fortress-monastery, forgotten even by his own sons. Couldn't find your other absent brothers, so I suspect they vacation inside the Maelstrom or the Eye of Terror, killing demons one at the ti." I advise the one-man-sword-army as I send him another STC dataslate with the Planetary Gellar Field STC, and another gift in the form of the , to catch a dozen trillion Tyranids on the ground and in orbit around the forr Necron World.
My special gifts are also ready, two more Enslaver Bone Staffs and the hybrid Null Rod/Bone Staff for my Rose.
And then, since I notice the Scythe Barges are all gearing up to depart for Macragge in a hurry, I steal all their Exterminatus and Vortex torpedoes. They can request new ones from their Primarch, or maybe Forge talica, since they did tow that Tau battleship there, at my insinuations and at the Lady Inquisitor's demand.
Just after my bodyguards begin to return with their loot from the artifact planet, I call Rose to explain the new developnts, and the necessity to redirect the Pharos beacon again.
There is no absolute rush, as the Imperium doesn't move fast even when it wants to, but I have a nasty feeling in my gut that things have gone too well for too long.
The Tranquility leaves first, escorted by the Serenity till the Warp limit.
Rose plays with her impossible staff in wonder, and gets to massacre a hundred Orks with the blade of her daughter, just to sense how it works. It works great, and she becos even younger and prettier, maybe because Orks are ageless, since their makers didn't bother to consider what immortal mushrooms might get up to. Or perhaps they did, and intended the C'tan to be hunted by their creations for eternity.
Just before I leave, I call Fidelia to arrange the transfer of her family of Blanks. She and Letitia step directly onto their howorld, and thus I can begin to abduct everyone they point out. Almost 13 thousand Blanks, and 11 thousand of them are won.
Perhaps they do get born in a preferential female ratio, that's why there are more female Blanks than n. Or perhaps the Astra Telephatica cull the n at every centennial visit, to prevent too many births of Untouchables.
Anyway, it is a great boost to my Blank program, and my Rose agrees. I can even accelerate rebuilding the Lanters, after a decade of compulsory harem managent for all the younger n, and tons of schooling and training in the anti.
To have a good soldier, you need to send him to school first, or all you have is a beast in human leathers.
History, politics, dicine and science.
How can they make wise decisions for strategy, without the knowledge of past failures?
How can they use weapons effectively, if they do not know the principles of their work, the limitations and the ways to exploit those limits in their enemies?
How can they provide first aid, or target vital organs without dicine?
And most importantly, how will they know who to shoot? Too many tis Astartes shoot innocents, without ever thinking for themselves.
To fight and die for the Emperor, is too easy. Anyone can do that, from attack wolves to the PDF and the Imperial Guard. You don't need Astartes just so they can die. You need Astartes to win. And to win without dying, well...that takes knowledge.
Knowledge of battles, of science and of your enemy. Know yourself, and know your enemy, and you shall be undefeated in a thousand battles.
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