Boreas's poisonous twin stars hung in the sky, mercifully and maliciously nurturing the life of the entire system.
But if you pulled back your perspective, you'd find that life throughout the Boreas system was flourishing with extraordinary vitality. Unlike their Necron ancestors, its inhabitants had suffered none of the stars' toxic radiation.
Ultimately, this was all thanks to an ancient relic in the system known as Starflame.
It was part of a stellar system built by the Necrons of the Mephrit Dynasty. With this device, Starflame could absorb the radiation from the two poisonous stars in the Boreas system, then channel and focus it through prisms to create a gigantic celestial weapon of considerable power.
Perhaps it was simply a matter of Necron circumstances, but even after 65 million years, the Starflame system still ran steadily. And after humanity colonized Boreas, they made further improvements to it.
Under human modification, the Starflame system was divided into sections. Using the enormous prisms, it spread the light of the twin stars throughout the system, nurturing all its life.
Warm sunlight fell from the horizon. The trenches, which should have been muddy, were strangely dry. A few Evil Orcs who had been tunneling underground crawled out and used their sand-stained red skin to perform their daily, essential photosynthesis.
At the same time, far away, the Greenskins were also lying on the ground like the Evil Orcs, basking in the sun as they prepared for the Great Krumpin to come.
Meanwhile, both sides watched the Genestealer Cult and Eldar Knife-ears fight in the center of the battlefield, creating a bizarre sense of harmony.
Clearly, Nethus had ultimately agreed to cooperate with the Genestealers. The two sides had formed a temporary alliance to resist the Green Tide and the Eldar assault.
Of course, at first,