In the end, Hogg agreed to let his second daughter use the name Jeanne Menethil. Even so, he still thought Old Man Yellow was a terrible person.
Compared to Jeanne, who stood four meters tall, Hogg in his two-point-two-meter, minimum-energy form looked like an oversized toy. The sight was hard to describe, but somehow hilarious.
Hogg didn't care. What was the point of being so huge? It consumed more energy and made fighting on the battlefield harder. Even digging a trench meant shifting two extra shovelfuls of dirt. He had the perfect build already. He could always transform when he needed to.
After nearly being dismembered earlier, Hogg decided Jeanne needed a data upgrade as soon as possible. Otherwise, if the silly child connected to the Khala Network and evolved on her own, she might grow up all wrong.
He kicked aside a Guilliman figurine blocking the way and brought Jeanne to the main control platform. With his brothers watching, he shoved the two neural cables disguised as her braids into Blacklight's internal database.
As data began flickering in the silly child's eyes, Hogg used C'tan Power to give Jeanne a full-body checkup. He hadn't inspected the body after the Archangel and the others had assembled it. Any problems would be a nuisance.
"Holy shit, 512 GB of memory? You two idiots have to be kidding me! I said not to make her too smart, but what you've made is an idiot!"
Good thing he'd checked. With memory about on par with the phone he'd had when Meteor cracked him over the head, Hogg wondered if Jeanne would crash the moment she connected to the Khala Network.
Hogg's unique power began to course through her. As Psionic Energy spurred the flesh to grow, it repaired and upgraded flaws in Jeanne's