You Have No Understanding of What True Death Is

As the purge of the entire Bottas Sector began, more than a hundred planets were instantly engulfed in war.

The families of those slain planetary governors had, over centuries or even millennia, expanded into vast monopoly groups bound by blood.

Not only power and military forces, but nearly every profitable industry on each planet had also fallen under their control.

So when these people learned that everything they possessed was about to be stripped away, and that even their lives were no longer secure, they naturally mobilized every resource and force they could to resist.

They even deceived civilians who knew nothing of the truth, sending innocent ordinary people to die defending their own interests.

But regrettably, as a backward region on the fringes of the Imperium that had been nearly forgotten, its technological and industrial standards were appallingly low.

Even its major Forge Worlds could at most produce tanks, armored vehicles, small transport ships under a kilometer long, carrier-based strike craft, torpedo boats, and atmospheric vehicles.

Their weapons consisted only of lasguns, plasma cannons, Bolters, medium artillery firing solid ammunition, tactical nuclear missiles, and other worthless junk with little use in interstellar warfare.

Although high-end equipment like mechs was not entirely absent—at least a dozen or so Imperial Knights could be assembled—they were nothing but prey before Phyrexian Oil.

Before they could even unleash their full firepower, they would be corroded in swathes by Phyrexian Oil poured down from outer space.

In the end, both the mech itself and its pilot would become part of the New Phyrexian army.

Ordinary people, by contrast, were not subjected to much Compleation. So long as they laid down their weapons, their safety would immediately be guaranteed.

As a Praetor, Skulltaker understood perfectly well that these mortals were lambs in his master's Soul