Performance Sword
The Ragefang opened the Webway entrance once more and traveled through the Webway to investigate the surrounding star systems.
The strike cruisers of each Chapter approached the orbit of the hive world and bombarded the areas where the most Greenskins had gathered.
Carrier-based aircraft launched from the Judgement Day and the Retribution Class Carrier.
Lu Jin approached the spire of the primary hive aboard a Transport Aircraft. The bombers, already loaded with munitions, flew ahead of the Transport Aircraft formation.
After entering the atmosphere, Lu Jin saw through his own eyes that the world outside was teeming with Greenskins.
The bombers accelerated into a dive toward the hive, blasting the Greenskin army atop the spire to pieces before climbing back into the sky.
The Transport Aircraft formation landed above the distress signal. Once the hatches opened, the neophytes from each Chapter jumped to the surface under the guidance of veterans.
When Lu Jin jumped out of the transport, members of the Blood Brotherhood were beside him, along with a group of towering Space Marines clad in black armor.
The Chapter those Black Armored Space Marines belonged to was called the Sons of Antaeus. They, too, had been created during the Cursed Founding, but their Gene-seed had not mutated in any malign way. Instead, it had enhanced their height, vitality, and strength.
If the Space Marines of every Chapter were ranked by height, Lu Jin would be first. Any Space Marine chosen at random from the Sons of Antaeus would be second tallest.
Lu Jin first worked with the Sons of Antaeus to stabilize the battle line, while observing the xenos before him.
Unlike the Degenerate Orks in the Ragefang's sealed-off area, each Ork in the vast green tide before him was about as big and powerfully built as