The Actual Strength of Each Legion at the Great Birthday Celebration: The Greatest Force I Could Mobilize Exceeded Six Hundred Thousand

Shadow of the Throne, the Primarch's office.

Arsena Dunn held a Data Slate in his arms and began reporting to the Black Emperor.

"My lord, in accordance with Your command, I have compiled the strength of every Chapter."

"As of now, the legion has a total of 393,160 Shadows of Order."

Nimrod recalled that in 900.M30, the legion had numbered 279,630—a growth rate of roughly 40.6 percent.

He then remembered that the Ultramarines had possessed a total strength of 166,000 in 900.M30, rising to 250,000 before the Great Birthday Celebration, a growth rate of around 50 percent.

The Ultramarines had not gone through any major wars over the past century.

Over the past century, I fought the Hrud, the Fire of Time, Terra, the Greer Abyss Orks driven by Tzeentch, the Aeldari Craftworld Mag-Silas, the Ark Fringe Cluster, the Jingyuan Federation, Hraf, Gate 42, Murder, and other brutal wars. It was already quite good that I still achieved this growth rate.

If I had not poached the 36,274 men of the Second Legion, the legion could never have reached its current scale.

As Nimrod sighed inwardly, the Primarch's Attendant continued his report with a proud expression.

"In accordance with Your order from a century ago, I seized every opportunity during the war against the Greer Abyss Ork invasion to report the actual casualties of 9,413 as 25,600—"

"To conceal the existence of Terra, the Jingyuan Federation, the Ark Fringe Cluster, and other regions, we did not report casualty figures to the War Council."

"In the eyes of the Warmaster and the other factions, the Shadows of Order number 237,400."

"Well done," Nimrod said approvingly. Arsena had altered the battle reports as reasonably as possible, making the inflated casualty figures seem plausible.

The hidden 155,760 men already exceeded the combined pre-Great