The bridge of the 5th Legion's flagship, the Relic-class warship Starship.
Chapter Master Santiago Bergkamp held a Data Crystal in his left hand, poured psyker power into it, and decoded the information contained within.
His obsidian-black eyes were unfocused, and his right hand held a brush.
The brush, with a shaft of Double-Number Black Gold and a tip of Cold Stone, kept dipping into various kinds of spiritual blood.
The dark blue mixed from Kraken blood and seawater, and the pale blue mixed from Sahar-Duin blood, formed the main lines.
The red mixed from Salamanders blood and magma, and the white mixed from Raft Spider blood and spider silk, served as support.
The brush let spirituality guide it, sketching line after line.
As the lines gradually grew clearer, sweat seeped from Santiago's forehead, and a star map leading to the northern reaches of the galaxy, thousands of light-years ahead of the "Great Crusade," gradually took shape.
The star map went from partial to complete, finally outlining six star systems.
Santiago examined the recorded star map and confirmed that it matched the direction indicated by the information in the Data Crystal bestowed by the Black Emperor.
Afterward, he pressed his right hand onto the shining Psyker Crystal sphere.
The veteran "Astrologer" Santiago infused spirituality, sketching scenes of future Threads of Fate within the crystal sphere:
Under dim light, fragments of shattered worlds drifted like magnetic plates, mingling with ship debris scoured by torrents and dried corpses whose minds had been hollowed out.
The stars' light grew dimmer and dimmer, until at last they exploded in blinding radiance, and the entire star system was reduced to nothingness in a storm of heat.
"Astrologer" Santiago narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at the star systems as they went out one after another.
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