Rumble—
Within the cold void, one-third of the Scourge Fleet and several thousand Astartes companies from various chapter-sized formations, led by Safer, set off on the long voyage toward the sector where Lion El'Jonson was stationed.
After Safer departed, Rorschach, who had originally intended to continue commanding the fleet's patrol, also received a great deal of Intelligence Report from the Local Universe.
Because Homeworld Terra's population capacity was limited and its food production had reached its limit,
after several years of careful discussion, the UHF Council finally launched a large-scale colonization effort centered on the Solar System and even the entire Milky Way.
As a result, not only did the Local Universe's population grow exponentially, but the number of Astartes gradually reached around fifty thousand.
The Great White and Weepers had recruited the most new members, followed by the Blood Ravens, then the Raven Guard. Companies such as the Silver Skull and Black Templars had also begun Gene-seed cultivation programs.
The Giant Raven Guard, on the other hand, had the fewest numbers. Even after increasing their cultivation efforts, they numbered only around fifteen hundred.
And apart from the two ten-thousand-man Astartes formations stationed on Homeworld Terra,
the vast majority of the Astartes had followed the colonization fleets into the cold galaxy to deal with the many Xenomorphic Races they might encounter.
And according to the suggestion of UHF Chairman Iron Man David,
unless the Xenomorphic Races encountered by the colonization fleets were too savage and xenophobic to be conquered or communicated with, the Astartes would not initiate extermination-level slaughter.
Because the Mad Titan Thanos still existed within the Local Universe, the UHF had to take the opposite approach.
At the very least, before the Mad Titan's forces were completely destroyed, the Human Race might become the leading race among countless