There was no doubt that, for Raymond, defeating and capturing The Outsider Saranoga was merely the beginning.
The greatest challenge lay in extracting the countless C'tan Shards from Primus one by one.
The process was like someone crushing a cookie into crumbs, vacuuming them up, then trying to get them back out through the vacuum's intake.
In terms of workload and the time and effort required, it was enough to drive 99.99 percent of people to a complete breakdown.
Fortunately, C'tan Shards possessed one major trait: like Stand users, they were drawn to one another.
Once enough C'tan Shards fused together, they would awaken self-awareness and then find ways to forcibly pull other shards out from within Primus.
All Raymond needed to do was piece several shards together until they reached the minimum threshold needed to absorb other shards, then prepare several more of these larger shards to keep them isolated.
That way, although more and more shards were extracted, each individual one remained weak enough that there was no need to worry about them reassembling into a complete C'tan.
Moreover, as the number of extracted shards increased, the efficiency grew geometrically.
In just a few short months, hundreds of millions of C'tan Shards had been arranged by serial number within an enormous Stasis Field seal.
Vashtorr personally led his subordinates in conducting systematic analyses and tests on the colossal construct without the slightest restraint, quickly confirming that it was the complete Saranoga, with nothing missing.
Soon afterward, forbidden experiments involving the secrets of the Warhammer Universe and the C'tan's origins began inside an unknown supermassive planet.
To ensure absolute secrecy, Raymond used the power of the Phyrexian Oil Avatar to drag it into another higher dimension between Realspace and the Warp, preventing the likes of Tzeentch, Khorne, Slaanesh, Orks,