In the frigid void, a small number of Cachalot-class Hive Ships that had luckily survived the brutal naval battle were accelerating out of the Baal System under the bedraggled cover of gigantic Tyranid creatures.
Having concluded that the situation was hopeless, the Hive Mind decided to stop wasting biomass and leave behind a batch of fleet seeds for the Leviathan tendril to rise again.
However, the hundreds of Capital Ships led by the Gloriana-class Battleship Iron Fist gave this Leviathan fleet seed no chance to escape alive.
Even though their massive hulls were already covered in scars and the energy flames spewing from their Warp-assisted engines flickered unreliably, countless Capital Ships, led by the Fleet Lord, forcibly intercepted the remaining several dozen Cachalot-class Hive Ships and launched an extermination campaign without hesitation.
At the same time, the War Fortress Hero Tower, whose overall structure had suffered almost no damage, slowly moved near Baal I. Its planet-killing cannon, capable of destroying an entire planet with a single strike, was gradually accumulating energy as it awaited the Primarch's Exterminatus Edict.
Immediately afterward, large numbers of auxiliary vessels that had not suffered much damage began clearing the entire Void Battlefield.
Countless void-creature carcasses belonging to the Tyranid Swarm were incinerated by Spear of Light Arrays. Capital Ships whose heavy hulls were covered in horrific scars but whose adamantium Dragon Bone keels and internal structures could still be repaired were gradually towed back into the ruined Starport of Baal, where they awaited restoration by Tech-Priests and vast numbers of Auto-Servitor Robots.
Even more ship debris, from vessels that had unfortunately shattered into countless metal fragments or collided into the beginnings of Space Hulks, was successfully recovered by the tireless auxiliary vessels.
Their fate would either be to become mechanical components for repairing a Capital