"Your sons once exiled a Star God fragment." Lion looked at Guilliman. "The Ultramarines have experience with this sort of thing."
Guilliman did not know what to say.
He did not want to respond, especially in front of Qin Mo. Though Qin Mo did not stand with the C'tan, the problem was that the C'tan were now helping humanity.
If not for the Blackstone Obelisk created by the Void Dragon, this war could not have been fought at all. Launching an expedition into the Eye of Terror would have been tantamount to seeking death.
After hesitating for a moment, Guilliman merely looked at Qin Mo. "I have looked into this matter in detail... all I can say is that the C'tan truly are not an easy species to communicate with. If they were not so violent and extreme, perhaps we could have established contact with them long ago."
"Do not think about establishing contact with the C'tan." Qin Mo stared at Guilliman. "The C'tan devour one another, bully one another, and betray one another. This species simply has no understanding of cooperation. Like animals, the weak are prey to the strong. That is the C'tan's greatest problem."
"So blunt? I thought you would defend them," Lion said.
Qin Mo turned to Lion. "I will defend them. I will defend Mimic, the Void Dragon, Burner, and every C'tan undertaking this great cause alongside me. But I will also face their flaws head-on. Only by facing them can we solve them."
Qin Mo then spoke of the C'tan some more.
He bluntly stated that, long, long ago, the relationships and ways the C'tan treated one another had been no different from those of animals.
Guilliman, meanwhile, considered Qin Mo's views on the C'tan and realized that Qin Mo might be trying to