Among these Chapters,
they did not get along with one another.
Some were even hostile toward each other.
It was only because of Angron's appearance that they had temporarily entered into a series of alliances.
Angron had once been banished by the Grey Knights.
But it had taken 109 Grey Knights, reduced to only thirteen survivors through sacrifice, to banish him.
After all, he was an ascended Primarch.
No matter how much he was called the floor of combat power, in the material world, he was still not something ordinary Astartes could contend with.
Not to mention what Angron represented.
On the planets of the Damocles Gulf, some planetary governors, upon receiving the news, swiftly fled into Tau Empire territory.
Others had no chance to flee and were eliminated by Inquisition acolytes—psykers, warrior monks, assassins, and the like—sent out by the Imperial Inquisition. To ensure the purity of the worlds, the Inquisition dragged out and purged not only those people, but also their closest confidants and loved ones from hiding. During the purge, the Inquisition encountered fierce resistance. Some planets secretly supported by the Tau Empire even erupted into violent anti-Imperial actions.
In the blink of an eye, they had lost the support of those people on those planets.
The Kaladon Conference.
It was the highest-level conference in the Kaladon Sector.
The conference gathered the Inquisition of the Kaladon Sector, the lords of vital Imperial resources from the fortress of Icarus IV, the Knight World of Colossi, the Forge World of Akatrin, and other Imperial worlds, along with the worlds' generals.
Within it, the originally slow-moving plan was replaced.
It became a more aggressive, bloodier, and more violent suppression campaign.
Within the conference,
arguments and rebukes were eternal fixtures.
Questions and fury were the fierce clash of fire and steel.