"My lord." Arsena Dunn held the Data Slate in both hands. He swept it a glance, confirming that the scarlet numbers matched his memory.
"In the war against Lady Hera, a total of fourteen thousand nine hundred and twenty-five Shadow of Order were killed."
"Among the seven Legions that took part, the 10th Battalion suffered the highest number of deaths, with three thousand six hundred and eight sacrificed."
Nimrod nodded. He remembered Corvas Corax leading two thousand men down upon Indra-Sur, while Lion El'Jonson had led the main force of the Legion away, absent from Ullanor and the great war against the Ork.
Although he did not know the exact casualty figures, there should have been several thousand dead and wounded.
The casualties of the Shadow of Order were higher than those of the Dark Angels, but what Lion had encountered was the Hraf clan of three Originators.
What Nimrod had encountered, however, was all fifty-two Originators. Though the clans of three Originators, including the King of Hraf, were larger, there was no fundamental difference in scale compared with the clans of the other Originators.
What he had faced was at least a thousand times more than Lion, so the casualties he had suffered were still acceptable.
Moreover, the First Legion had gained almost nothing throughout the entire war, and had instead suffered enormous, irreparable losses.
They had not recovered and reused the possessions of Lady Hera, including the Extermination Carbines that could have been used directly.
They had expended the vast quantity of forbidden psychic items they had collected while exterminating one hundred psychic xenos worlds, as well as many Dark Mechanicum Era relics the Old Man in Yellow had bestowed upon the First Legion, such as the Psyker Devourer.
They were all consumables that could not be replicated