Super Blue Cat Makes a Grand Entrance

As I've said before, every era is the age of biotechnology. If it isn't, then that just proves the world is wrong!

As the Imperium's top biological Big Mek, Hogg had studied under Magos Candice, then undergone the Emperor's physical education. Sixty-five million years ago, he had researched biotechnology alongside the Old One Slann, eventually becoming the leading heretical biotechnologist in the Imperium of Man.

With the Blacklight still under construction, Hogg had no professional laboratory to work in. So he could only take Guilliman and the others to Catachan and carry out the Super Blue Cat modification project in the Hive Laboratory.

A blessed haven that had produced the Blacklight Zerg, Super Doggy, the Nila Terminal Machine, and the Flesh-Fusion Repair Pod, the Hive Laboratory had always been a core stronghold of Blackwatch. It boasted the Imperium's boldest researchers, had developed many fine products, and sold them throughout the Galaxy and beyond.

Even gene-sons from other Legions came to Catachan to study after finishing their recruit training, making it another of the Imperium's great academies, alongside the Mars exchange-student program.

But bear in mind that, since the Hive Laboratory was located on Catachan, exchange students were strictly forbidden from leaving the designated area. If anything went wrong, Blackwatch accepted no responsibility.

After completing the Star Gate improvement project, Hogg's teacher Candice had returned to the Hive Laboratory to serve as its director. She taught the newly arrived Medical Boys while continuing her endless scientific research.

For this Super Blue Cat experiment, Hogg decided to ask his teacher to come out of retirement and design it together with him.

After listening to the two big guys explain the Brain-Strong Cat's origins, Magos Candice became very interested. She, too, wanted to uncover the secrets of Old One technology.

After luring a