Although the Solar System fleet seemed inclined to avoid battle, there were still things that had to be done.
Kwalon still led the entire fleet to one of the three locations Usulan had foretold, conducting the same meticulous search as the Tyranids.
An entire Navigator House whose frontal lobes had been removed was bound within a unique chamber aboard the Solar System fleet's flagship. An Ecclesiarchy patriarch held an Ecclesiarchy edition of the Lectitio Divinatus in one hand and a miniaturized Bolter pistol used by mortals in the other, glaring viciously at the hundred-odd Navigator slaves.
This Navigator House of more than a hundred members had been captured after Guilliman issued an order to purge the Navigators. Their frontal lobes had been removed, and their eyes and mouths sewn shut with threads soaked in corpse oil produced after Ecclesiarchy priests died.
These Navigators were connected to a cylindrical device a hundred meters tall, standing there like walking corpses as they jointly wielded Psychic Power toward a single purpose.
"Begin the psychic divination!"
The Ecclesiarchy patriarch shouted the admiral's order from the command deck, and those responsible for operating the Navigators and the device began to act.
The order was passed down layer by layer.
The Navigators were controlled as they supplied Psychic Power to the cylindrical device. Once Psychic Power within the device had become abundant, the slaves around its lowest section began working.
All these slaves had once been retainers of the Navigator Houses, or members whose third eye had not opened, or whose mutations were not as severe as those three-eyed freaks.
Lightning discharged by Servo Skulls forced the slaves to their feet. They dragged chains directly connected to their bodies, thereby pulling the entire device into operation.
A psychic divination spanning the entire star system began.
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