Can't say I was really surprised when a silver-haired beauty, with rosy cheeks and newly grown deep-blue eyes joined in bed, eager to repay for the miracle.
Lady Kalistradi was now grumbling beside , for giving the other Inquisitor the idea of sharing my bed.
"Just wait your turn, pretty lady. There's plenty of Pef to share!" I answered in a genial voice, and drew the woman into a deep kiss, while fondling her with grabby hands.
"... Fine! It's not like the two of us will be enough anyway." the black haired model allowed in a softer voice, struggling to regain her breath.
Indeed, I had Sister Letitia on the nu tonight as well, the glorious siege and the glowing finale having determined the elder Silent Sister to join my family and produce a hundred children to defend humanity.
Well, nothing like seeing the imnsity of the task ahead, I guess. Letitia only had to gaze at the roiling ocean crashing towards her, to realize we needed many more of us to stop them.
And this Tyranid Hive Fleet was still among the smaller ones, even if divided into a hundred tendrils to reach for food in more places.
Damn bugs were sustaining themselves by foraging, which was both clever and a weakness.
Soon the last remains of Hive fleet Kraken would destroy the Necron World of Sarlok, and Trazyn will owe another favor, for eliminating yet another rival.
But Necrons had a million Tomb Worlds or more, each of them a match for an Imperium's Forge World. The Necrons possibly had enough numbers to match the Tyranids in their stasis vaults, and plenty of advanced weapons. Plus those enslaved C'tans, each of them a match for a Segntum Battlefleet if unleashed.
And defending Hive Worlds one by one was slightly futile in the long term, except for the imdiate gains of requisitioning millions of won for my colonies, plus setting up less corrupt governnts indebted to and my House, cleaning up the underhives and upgrading the defenses to modern standards.
For wherever my fleet went, I had absolute judicial power as Commander of a Crusade, plus Inquisitors and Astartes to enforce my edicts.
It seed amazingly stupid to for a Hive World to have more than 100 billion people, yet muster less than a million as soldiers.
On my orders, the new Governor had to raise a billion soldiers over the next 100 years, and the local techpriests covens were also tasked with raising a billion new acolytes, enginseers and techpriests, to support the militarization. The PDF troops were given under the jurisdiction of the Adeptus Arbites during peace ti, increasing their ability to patrol every corner and enforce Imperial Law by a million tis.
Then I ordered the construction of a dozen underground Hives with a fortress on top, about 10 kiloters from the main Hive City, such that overlapping fields of fire could protect each of them from invaders.
It would be the work of generations, but already Avalos was twice as productive as before, and that will keep growing as more and more people got technical training as techpriests. They also had blueprints for system-corvettes and a Planetary Reality Cage to be constructed once they had sufficient numbers and materials.
A week later, we arrived at Hive World , and a crashed voidship infested with genestealers. Luckily, for the good guys I an, Sly Marbo was there, to even the odds.
So, my dear Andrea has 'inherited' her own Warrant of Trade, by marriage and inheritance or vice-versa. Plus the ownership of a mining world rich in adamantium and other precious tals.
Sure, those nobles signing over the transfer may have been slightly broken and coerced, but then such is life in the 40k universe. Sotis an anvil nad Sly Marbo drops on you, and crushes your dreams.
As it happens, I had a Forge World right here always in need for minerals, and able to provide servitors and techpriests, in exchange for a sizeable portion of those minerals. I could bet a throne on that.
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