"Who did these super soldiers belong to...?"
When Guilliman declared that the Codex should be abolished because of the birth of the New Thunder Warriors, allowing the Astartes to take up the military responsibilities they should have borne in the first place, the Emperor raised a crucial question.
The Emperor's human aspect, possessing Vanessa, had many flaws—avoidance among them.
But when it truly mattered, he always said what needed to be said and did what needed to be done.
"That is a political matter for you humans." Saranoga swept its gaze across Qin Mo and the Emperor. "Whether it is you two, who consider yourselves human, or those who are genuinely pure humans... that is your problem, not ours."
"What kind of nonsense are you talking about?!" the Emperor snapped angrily.
Then the Emperor suddenly realized that perhaps he and these C'tan did not understand the same question in the same way.
"What I am asking is whether the New Thunder Warriors belong to us humans, or to you C'tan," the Emperor clarified.
"I thought you were asking whether the New Thunder Warriors belonged to the Tyran Sector or the Imperium." Saranoga spread its hands. To make the gesture, it even formed metallic arms out of thin air. "After all, you humans love infighting. You can turn the tiniest matter into a courtroom dispute."
Hearing Saranoga's assessment of humanity, the Emperor felt somewhat angry, yet still searched his mind for evidence that humans liked infighting, because he himself was human.
Only then did he realize why he had trusted a C'tan's judgment of humanity in the first place. Just because they were older?
And after delivering its assessment of humanity, Saranoga still did not directly say whether the New Thunder Warriors belonged to humanity or the C'tan.
It was not