Dorn, I've Fucked Fifteen Primarchs, Don't Fuck Me

That hardly seemed respectful enough to you.

Nimrod picked up the Dice of Prophecy and began divining Laern.

He had chosen Laern not because Laern would one day be the homeworld of the "Crimson Fists."

Nimrod remembered that the "Crimson Fists" and the "Black Templars" were successor Chapters derived from the "Imperial Fists" during the Second Founding, and that the Crimson Fists had been a fleet-based Chapter for the first nine thousand years.

It was not until the "Vortigern Crusade" in the late M40 that, after the "Crimson Fists" crushed several Ork empires in the Loki Sector, they were rewarded with the agri-world Laern as their homeworld.

But in truth, Laern was not where the Chapter recruited or trained. The culture of an agri-world did not fit the "Crimson Fists."

They usually recruited from the nearby savage world of Blackwater and used the Loki Sector for training.

Their homeworld, Laern, served a ceremonial and inspirational role.

Nimrod had decided to divine Laern because the new agri-world model that "Harvest Priest" Keri had explored on Barnett had already succeeded, and he needed a true exemplar.

Laern was one of the most famous agri-worlds in the future Imperium, with superb natural conditions.

In the future, before Captain Bresna of the Laern Guard died a heroic death, he had said with feeling:

"I give my life to the world of Laern. It is the jewel of the Imperium, rivaled only by Terra!"

Though it was somewhat boastful, the future Laern had a population of two hundred million, far exceeding the scale of the vast majority of agri-worlds, which had fewer than a million people, while its environment remained beautiful. Calling it a jewel was not excessive at all.

Moreover, Laern also had the specialty product Nimrod valued: Jade Mold.

Nimrod believed that a