Yet where could they possibly find hope?
The Warp kept evolving, and Chaos kept growing.
This game would sooner or later end with the extinction of humanity and the entire universe.
Whether they acted or simply lay there and watched, the outcome would not change.
Since the outcome would not change, they had no desire to change it.
After all, continuing to lie there only meant watching the Imperium decline. Those people's efforts would yield no results either, so naturally they would not be willing to change anything.
As for some of the Primarchs, they had joined Chaos for various reasons, becoming catalysts driving that outcome and constantly accelerating the plan's implementation.
While every race was plotting the future course of the universe,
Gamma World's progress was also advancing steadily.
The Blackstone Fortress seized from the Chaos raiders had brought Gamma World much valuable reference material. The ancient technological creations contained within had left them stunned by the scale of the War in Heaven.
During their analysis, they discovered that the War in Heaven had been vastly larger than the combined scale of every war currently being fought across all battlefields. Blackstone Fortresses like this were merely insignificant machine-drones and machine-swarms among the battleships. Their sole purpose had been targeted eradication of enemy forces on the ancient battlefield.
The true black technology was still buried within the Webway.
That was why Vashtorr had tried to obtain the fragments of Webway keys remaining in the material universe. The technology within was enough to let him bypass the Dark King's path to godhood and become the fifth Chaos God.
And now,
Gamma was using this colossal technology from antiquity to conduct large-scale experimental data collection. By using its Warp-energy pumps, they could forcibly draw out special energy from the Warp and separate