A few days later.
Beyond the borders of Talon, outside a newly developed and still unnamed agricultural world, Macragge's Honour, the Ultramarines flagship, was docked in the starport.
An enormous device was being transported toward Macragge's Honour.
The entire Ultramarines Chapter had mobilized, and Caldor personally oversaw the device's reception and escort.
Among the C'tan, The Chronicler, Mimic, Void Dragon, Burner, and Saranoga, along with six C'tan combat squads, would accompany the Ultramarines mortals in escorting the device.
Guilliman did not participate in such a significant occasion, because he told his son Caldor that he had something extremely, extremely important to attend to.
On Talon's side, Qin Mo did not participate either, and the response received by the C'tan and the Tyranids was exactly the same as what Guilliman had told Caldor.
On the agricultural world, upon the surface.
The leaders of Talon and the Imperium, the two human powers, held a meeting that would go down in history.
At this meeting, Guilliman wore shorts and a shirt emblazoned with the Ultramarines emblem.
Qin Mo was dressed the same way as Guilliman, except his shirt bore Talon's emblem.
The meeting place of the Lord of Tyran and the Imperial Regent was a field on the planet's surface.
The sun blazed overhead.
There was neither wind nor rain.
A massive bipedal machine as large as a Knight strode through the farmland, its back hung with a great many agricultural tools.
Its two arms held a tool that looked like a firearm, and it continuously fired seeds from it.
A huge plowing device was mounted behind the machine's waist.
The drones and intelligent machines that should have been doing this work stood dumbfounded in a row along the ridges between fields, like spectators.
The machine plowed the field over and over, spraying