Every time the Ragefang opened a Webway entrance, a fleet came through with it.
Kao welcomed each new arrival on the command deck.
The first to arrive was the Burning Falcons fleet.
Once a Chapter of only six Space Marines, they now numbered two thousand.
Their home world was a place so dangerous on the surface that everyone lived in sky cities.
The world also had orbital shipyards.
The two thousand Burning Falcons had a fleet of fifty warships, including six carriers. Unlike the Judgement Day, however, these carriers were merely cruiser-class vessels whose hangar decks had replaced their macro cannons and lances.
After some time, the Soul Forger arrived.
More than a thousand members of this Chapter had been sent to serve as Techmarines in other Chapters, but it still had the Titan Legions as its ground forces.
Then came the Rune Shaman Chapter.
The Chapter had grown to fifteen hundred members.
While Lu Jin had been away traveling, a Chaos warband had attacked the Rune Shaman Chapter's home world. At the time, the Rune Priest Chapter Master had far fewer warriors than he did now, and the Chapter had paid a terrible price alongside the planet's inhabitants to drive off the enemy.
The former Rune Priest Chapter Master, who had also been the mentor of Manros, Chief Librarian of the Fierce Angels, sacrificed himself to conjure a blizzard on the home world that wiped out every last enemy straggler.
The current Chapter Master was named Gundernier.
The Soul Eaters arrived alongside the Rune Shaman Chapter. They now numbered two thousand, and Salpedon was still their Chapter Master.
Salpedon still had spider legs in place of his lower body. Nothing had changed there.
After that, the Alliance's other Chapters arrived one after another.
The Sons of Antaeus, Iron Guard,