Be'lakor's Shadow Blade, the Best Relic Fragment

909.M30.

Shadow of the Throne, primarch's office.

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

"My lord, I have compiled the exploration status of the twenty-five fleets dispatched separately by the six legions. In the Abyss of Zaku-Trada, we have discovered a total of thirty-five star systems and ninety-nine worlds once inhabited by the Hrud."

Nimrod knew that the Hrud had fifteen major worlds and eighty-four minor worlds in the Abyss of Zaku-Trada. In other words, every world had been found.

"There are one hundred and five worlds in total with rich mineral deposits of various kinds, but not one of them is a Terra-like world."

During the Great Crusade, millions of resource-rich worlds had been discovered. Among them, Terra-like worlds were habitable and the most precious.

The Imperium's mining worlds had environments more or less similar to Terra's, making them more suitable for habitation than the worlds of the Abyss of Zaku-Trada.

In fact, Nimrod knew Zaku-Trada had never been developed by the Imperium, which was also why most Iron Warriors believed the mission assigned to them by the War Council was meaningless.

This place was far from the Imperial frontier, plagued by xenos who distorted space-time, and had no rare Terra-like worlds. Desolate Gorgis was already paradise in the entire abyss.

Perturabo agreed with them as well. Perhaps in ten million years, this place would become important to the Imperium.

But what they saw as flaws happened to be the advantages Nimrod valued.

He had already dealt with the Hrud. Zaku-Trada, far from the Imperial frontier, now belonged to him.

"Relocate migrants from Vostonia, as well as densely populated worlds such as Necromunda and Vigilant Star, and build the Zaku-Trada New District."

"Aside from Viziaole, which belongs to the Fourth Legion, the remaining