No one wanted someone climbing over their head.
Nor did anyone want their life to be controlled by others.
The enormous "pumps" produced by Gamma World were sufficient to drain the entire universe, drain the entire Warp, and then create the power singularity needed to cross parallel worlds.
Others might know that Gamma World was building pumps, and that it was researching ways to extract the powers of the various Chaos Gods, but no one could possibly have guessed that these massive "pumps" were merely a byproduct of Gamma World's construction of an Ascension Ark to leave this world.
Because ascension inevitably meant the destruction and extinction of the original world.
That meant Gamma World would inevitably stand opposed to every other power.
Therefore, Gamma World could absolutely not use this power—at least, not before it possessed the absolute strength to contend with every force and publicly reveal the Ascension Plan.
Thus, Gamma World needed to maintain the universe's superficial peace while remaking it, strengthening itself as much as possible for the final war that would erupt when it ascended from this world.
But now, the time was drawing near.
Everyone knew that a great storm was approaching.
The Imperium of Man's Malcador had returned. The Necrons had begun gathering vast numbers of Necron Tomb Worlds to form a new alliance council, seizing people throughout the universe in an attempt to restore their souls. The Aeldari Ynnari were growing stronger. On the galaxy's dark side, the Imperium of Man was gradually falling apart. Countless worlds were continually being consumed by Chaos. Only a short time had passed since the Cadia incident, yet more than half the worlds on the Imperium's dark side had fallen into xenos hands.
Humanity suffered widespread routs, rebellions, desertions, sacrifices, and slaughter on the battlefield.
Every