431. Oh, the Taste of Mother.

One day in the heavens is a year on earth. While this isn't the so-called "pit-filled" Celestial Court, the Warp is just as treacherous; time flows in a completely disjointed manner. You never know if you'll complete your voyage on time—you might even arrive 200 years early, for all you know.

In the Webway, however, there are no such concerns. Because the Webway forms its own distinct system, it remains disconnected from the outside world despite being constructed through the Warp. Neither the physical universe nor the Warp can exert control over it.

During the Great Crusade, although Emperor didn't find the right method and had to rely on the Evil Orcs—those "concrete-pouring boys"—to build a Webway path only slightly better than a dirt road, it still consumed a massive amount of resources from the crusade era.

Now, with the Whirlwind Poison Dragon Drill, an artifact specifically designed for excavating the Webway, material consumption has been drastically reduced. Even so, one cannot simply blow up a newly constructed Webway path on a whim; after all, one must save where one can and spend where one must. Working on the construction site doesn't stop one from enjoying a massage at the club.

The return journey was not swift. The Webway, having been traversed by the Orks, was left littered with them. Hogg could not leave these aliens alive, knowing that even if a few remained, they would sprout into a massive fungal infestation by the following year.

He had no choice but to order the fleet to conduct a purge in the vanguard, protecting the White Scars boys driving the drills behind them as they recovered the Webway materials.

During this time, Hogg was not idle. Knowing that his Blackwatch would cause trouble if left to congregate, he ordered these scions