Much later, I entered my shower to wash off the sweat and tend to the scratches on my back. Lady Adrielle had been really starved, for decades maybe.
Then again, she was perhaps too paranoid about genestealers. It wasn't like they really were everywhere, even if I did find...well they kinda were everywhere, in fact. Even on Illevar, with that cult of theirs.
Might need to ask Trazyn for a genestealer detector of so kind.
Leaving the good Inquisitor to rest, I headed towards the teleport room, and entered the Pharos with Ludvaius at my side.
A stern woman with a ponytail and a dozen n in her retinue were busy interrogating Zarhulash, using so arcane device of possibly xenos origin and a robed psyker with gouged eyes, glowing with bluish tendrils of warp-lightning.
Beside her, a pair of Deathwatch Astartes reacted instantly and one drew a grav-gun to hold at respect, while the other moved to protect the Inquisitor Lady.
"Intruding on an Inquisitor is a capital cri, Lord Lancefire." Inquisitor Ezu warned in a glacial voice.
I just shrugged and kept walking, ignoring the feeble threat. "We are not in the Imperium here, my lady. Out here in the Fringe, you need a Warrant of Trade to speak with Emperor's Voice. Or just have overwhelming power on your side." I explained politely,
walking past the nacing psyker and through his lightning cloud, until I stood face-to-ankle with the huge humanoid shape of the C'tan.
"Pef Lancefire, you have my gratitude! And you may gain a small favor, if you stop that annoying psyker from electrocuting ..." Zarhulash proclaid in a slightly pained voice.
"I do not command the Inquisition, Mighty Zarhulash. Tell about planet , thus directing any nearby Tyranids towards the potential food source.
Then I began instructing Ludvaius via the brain implant, before sending him back on Illevar to bring back the Lancefire Dynasty's private fleet.
The warp-less engine voidships could arrive in a week or two, depending on their starting position, while the torpedo destroyers could travel on the Warp engines and arrive behind the Tyranid fleet approaching Sotha.
Until then, I still had nine Vortex torpedoes and a hundred Nova Mines to destroy the largest Hive Ships and clusters of smaller bioships, right from inside the Pharos.
Should have known that the Tyranid Hive Mind would also deduce the source of the constant attacks, and would send a punishnt fleet to end this threat to their race.
Soon, the Pharos and its entire hoplanet would need world engines and begin to move, or no defenses could hope to save it.
That will take so work.
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