The Ferrous Head cleared the way with precise orbital bombardment strikes.
Lu Jin's convoy entered the Celerus Hive City closest to the wasteland without incident.
They refueled and rested in the industrial district on the outskirts of the hive.
Lu Jin and Lion waited beside the vehicle. First, they saw a large group of technical workers carrying supplies approach the convoy. Then they saw the Tech-Priest Iprevus-XIV leading them.
"After the decapitation strike succeeded, those of us in Alert Star's leadership all went our separate ways."
Iprevus stopped before Lu Jin and explained why he was in Celerus, rather than in one of the hive cities controlled by the Tywin family.
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"How many troops can you mobilize?" Lion stepped forward and asked. "I need Alert Star's forces to gather and enter the wasteland, so we can wipe out the xenos while they're distracted by their civil war."
"Sorry, Primarch." The Tech-Priest made the sign of the cog. "I can't spare you a single soldier, because my Celerus Hive City is under attack."
"Orks?"
"No. It's a heretical rebel cult called the Poor Prince."
When the Tech-Priest said "Poor Prince," Lion recalled what Lu Jin had told him about what would happen on Alert Star and the enemies they would encounter.
The Poor Prince was one of the hostile factions.
It was a heretical cult whose main members were xenos called Genestealers, along with mutant humans whose genes had been corrupted and who had been led astray by the xenos.
Genestealers were the vanguard infiltrators of the terrifying Tyranids. Once they had taken control of a planet, they would perform a ritual to signal the Tyranid fleet. The fleet would then arrive and devour