Guilliman, you won't mind me impregnating your cub again

A recruitment world for the Tech Sergeants.

The war of annihilation on Viziaole lasted an entire stellar year. It was not declared over until the 47th Expeditionary Fleet pledged allegiance to Kuhl in the year 903, designated the planet 47-10, and began building the Perfect City in the planetary capital of Monarchia to worship The Emperor.

Within a hundred and twenty thousand kilometers of space around Viziaole, burning metal wreckage filled the void, lighting the planet until it shone.

The planet's surface was embedded with fungus-wrapped metal and reeked of nauseating pus.

Screams of the dead echoed throughout the entire system. The Fourth Legion's "Gatekeeper" and "Necromancer" led the "Spirit Medium" across the planet, replenishing the lost undead.

Shadow of the Throne, the primarch's office.

Arsena Dunn held a Data Slate in his arms and began his report.

"My lord, I have compiled the casualties from each Chapter. Across six Chapters, twenty-four thousand and fifty men were killed in action."

"Most of them died in the Distortion effects caused by the Hrud after the Ramillies-class Star Fortress was destroyed."

Nimrod nodded. Added to the previous two thousand eight hundred and forty dead, Shadow of Order's total killed in action had reached twenty-six thousand eight hundred and ninety.

The total number of deaths was not higher than the roughly thirty thousand Iron Warriors killed in the Gugan System.

And the results achieved were fundamentally different. Perturabo had only driven off the Hrud; the Gugan System had shattered and could not be used.

Nimrod had annihilated the largest Hrud population in the galaxy and gained the Abyss of Zaku-Trada, which could be developed and exploited.

Mm... Although the casualties were not light, they were still lower than activating the Stasis Devices over and over again on each Hrud colony world.

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