Korane—Far-Reach System's primary world.
Rosicky Cech, Lord of the Forge of the Shadow of Order, looked ahead as specially designed cantilever cranes descended for the transfer, locking around the entire hive-like structure.
Amid faint tremors inaudible to ordinary people, the hive network rose from the ground.
Every unit of the vast xenos structure was close to a regular hexagon.
They stretched endlessly together, forming a collective hive.
A series of Runes flared to life, and the anti-gravity devices suspending the hive shone with blinding light.
Rosicky watched the hive network climb upward as cables steadily hauled the structure into the air.
The xenos hive network could shelter an entire world when the Warp Storm raged.
Since arriving in the Korane—Far-Reach System under the Black Emperor's orders, he had studied the xenos structure from the perspective of a senior Archaeologist, aside from finalizing the Saturnine Terminator and Saturnine Dreadnought designs with the Salamanders' Keepers of the Hearth, the White Scars, and the Thousand Sons Librarians.
Now, he intended to dismantle and take the entire structure with him.
He withdrew his gaze and quietly asked the Chaplain beside him, who held a Crozius.
"Has our lord's task been completed?"
"My lord, their subconscious minds now lean toward us," Dreamwalker replied.
Rosicky nodded in satisfaction and asked the Librarian Miguel Questa, "Has the evacuation been completed?"
Miguel, the Tech Psyker, held the Heart-Forged Staff.
"My lord, all energy flows of the Great Maelstrom recorded by the outpost have been archived, including all data concerning the Warp turbulence after the Great Maelstrom awakened four years ago, devoured nearby systems, and the Ruinstorm formed, counteracting and calming the Warp turbulence."
"All psionic relics have been collected and sorted, and are stored in the Librarium."
"It is time to leave." Rosicky turned and walked toward the