No one knew why, but the reports submitted by the Imperial Army soldiers guarding the lowest deck were simply ignored by the Astartes lords.
Even more absurdly, the orders sent back from above told the Imperial soldiers guarding the entrance not to meddle in other people's business, but to focus on guarding the passageway and leave everything else alone. They even received an unwarranted reprimand for it.
Although the Imperial Army soldiers felt baffled and aggrieved, unsure why this was happening, if the lords above didn't want to deal with it, then they were naturally happy to avoid unnecessary trouble.
So, following the example set above them, they simply chose to ignore the explosions in the abandoned FC-N-01 deck and the occasional terrifying howls that came from it. They couldn't even be bothered to send someone down to check, as a matter of routine.
Perhaps, in the eyes of the Imperial Army soldiers and certain Astartes godlike lords, some things could be treated as if they had never happened, so long as they pretended not to hear them?
And so!
An abnormality report that would once have prompted several Astartes Space Marines to personally lead an investigation was jointly suppressed by certain officers at various levels aboard the Vengeful Spirit. Before long, the report was tossed into a corner to gather dust.
However, the Imperial soldiers and the Astartes lords could pretend that nothing had happened, but Ali, the leader of the resistance, couldn't!
For the past few days, she and her subordinates had been racking their brains, exhausting themselves with worry over the daemons that had appeared on the abandoned lower deck—the "underground world"—and the monsters that seemed to spread corruption.
After all, the abandoned FC-N-01 deck was the only place they had, and the sole refuge they had