The Ark as a Whole

++Golden Ark overall integrity: 86%.

Core integrity: 0.03%

Apotheosis progress: 154%++

Oedmeir froze for a moment. She had taken part in the early campaign to assault the Golden Ark. Though she had never seen what its coremost region looked like, she still vividly remembered the Golden Ark's outrageous size.

Oedmeir swiftly analyzed the information she had obtained and concluded that the Golden Ark they had attacked back then had not been the Ark's main body, but merely its core.

The apotheosis progress referred to the God-Emperor within the Warp, who was in an intermediate state where he could ascend, but had no need to.

Then what was the Ark as a whole? What exactly did "overall" refer to? No matter how hard Oedmeir pondered, she could not find a reliable answer in the fragmented information before her.

After having Rebecca fill Unit 0's vacancy, Oedmeir would be spending the foreseeable future in the Octagonal Fortress.

They would tear down all the useless facilities, then build reliable factories and residential districts.

How many people would such a massive fortress need for maintenance and operation? Oedmeir took out her data slate and found that the available workforce was pitifully small.

They lacked everything.

Oedmeir shook her head and threw herself into the complicated, exhausting work alongside Delia.

The newly formed fleet advanced toward Ultramar, clearing out the swarms along the way together with the detached support fleet.

Sergeant Mar shoved the communications officer pinning him down aside. His hands were covered in blood. One look at the gaping hole in the communications officer's chest told him that he had lost another comrade.

Removing the bulky communications equipment from the officer's back, Mar recalled the instructions in the communications manual and attempted to call the main force.

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