Nimrod: I Should Also Go Along

Make Myself a Perpetual

Shadow of the Throne, primarch's office.

"My lord," Arsena Dunn reported, holding a Data Slate in both hands, "the Third Legion has broken through to the archives. The Hrud of Gugan have been purged."

"I have compiled the casualties of the four Legions. A total of two thousand eight hundred and forty dead."

[Casualties amount to less than one-tenth of the Iron Warriors'.] Nimrod wore a smile.

[This time, without question, the greatest credit goes to me. Through three sacrifices, I dealt with most of the Hrud in batches.]

[Next were the Void Claws, which destroyed the Hrud's void forces.]

[The Beyonders of the four Legions also cannot be ignored.]

At last, Nimrod silently praised Perturabo.

[Of course, your Stasis Device was indispensable too. Without it, I could not have drawn in the Hrud.]

He gathered his thoughts and issued an order.

"Settle the Gugan System. Build a Warp Gate."

"The 5th Legion will be responsible for it, and it will serve as an exclusive recruitment world."

The Abyss of Zaku-Trada lay far from the Empire's effectively controlled regions, and it was territory he wanted to keep hidden. Only the 5th Legion could most conveniently deploy through the Carium Gate.

The complex Gugan System was also suitable for the "Astrologer" to act.

Nimrod leaned back against The Throne. Thinking that Gugan still existed and that Volpa Star Canyon was under the Legion's control, he could not help sighing inwardly.

[This is the real victory.]

Nimrod remembered that after Perturabo had dropped the Stasis Device he had made onto Gugan's surface, the Hrud across the entire system had fallen into madness.

The gathered Hrud caused the star of the Gugan System to change rapidly from a small yellow star into an expanding red giant.

Gugan was destroyed