Lin Fan lay in the blast zone, feeling the tremors. He pulled open a slit with his fingers so he could see outside.
According to Rogal Dorn, wedged between those two eight-pointed stars was an advanced AI known as a Tech Entity. Lin Fan was curious to see what this Tech Entity would do.
In the very center between the two eight-pointed stars, he spotted a massive tesseract vault. If he remembered correctly, that thing was a device the Necrontyr specifically used to imprison C'tan.
This place was really interesting. It seemed the Advanced Technology Consortium of the Necrontyr had contributed quite a bit during its construction. So there were Necrontyr among the Finalizers too? Then why had they done this?
The ascension ritual was based on Red Harvest, which was merely one way for the C'tan to feed. Could the Advanced Technology Consortium have been exploiting the Finalizers' desire for ascension, making them willingly offer up their souls to nourish the C'tan imprisoned here? Just as the Necrontyr once had, with their entire race becoming soulless dregs after ascension.
What god could it be? The Nightbringer? The Deceiver? The Void Dragon? Or something else?
As Lin Fan pondered, he drifted farther and farther from the distant tesseract vault, while the details of the ground atop the eight-pointed star above became clearer. He could see the bombardment. Towering, colossal factories raised shields, but the Core had anticipated this long ago. The first weapons to strike the shields were all physical weapons.
Nuclear bombs and kinetic rods struck the shields in an instant. The shields overloaded under such massive impacts, and the energy weapons that followed struck key nodes throughout the factory district.
Towering explosions and blazing flames filled Lin Fan's vision. Then more robots poured in from every direction, propping