Arrival Ahead: Shadow Realm Star!

There was no need for much careful consideration.

Trazyn's geniusly vicious plan immediately won the approval and affirmation of both Rorschach and Fulgrim.

Trading the destruction of countless xenos for the entire fleet's escape from danger was a profitable deal no matter how one looked at it!

As orders were swiftly issued one after another.

The mortal crewmen throughout nearly the entire fleet became busy once again.

And when rows of shipborne Augur Arrays formed detection grids and caught the traces of a massive Hive Fleet at the edge of a star system.

More than a dozen of the fastest Cobra Destroyers, under Rorschach's orders, undertook the dangerous task of drawing away the Hive Mind.

Their captains had to ensure that the Hive Fleet kept pursuing them rather than turning around to devour other Imperial Worlds in nearby systems.

After the Primarch fleet swiftly set sail and opened some distance from the Cobra Destroyers that were fighting independently.

It embarked upon a void route toward the Necron Dynasty of Canoptek.

Not long afterward, having crossed an entire star system at the maximum speed possible in realspace, the Primarch fleet successfully arrived at a Tomb World named Batik.

And in order to wake the Tomb World completely and set it into motion.

Several Strike Cruisers from within the fleet, under Trazyn's enthusiastic command, carried out a sparse Orbital Bombardment above the Tomb World!

Sure enough, once the Orbital Bombardment ended.

Dense masses of Necron forces began appearing across the desolate surface of the Tomb World.

Even a Necron fleet, with a Scythe-class Reaper as its flagship and dozens of Jackal-class Raider Ships as escorts, swiftly emerged from the far side of the Tomb World and entered the frigid void.

Yet at this moment, although the Primarch fleet had long since activated