Warhammer 40K: Rise of the Second Imperium
Chapter 509

Bounty Mission 5

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Seeing the utterly bewildered looks on Tyberos and El's faces, Gaia instantly understood. These two had never truly encountered the entire Milky Way!

In that case, expecting them to accurately locate a tiny star system on this map of the Milky Way was simply asking the impossible!

Gaia's voice suddenly rang out like a thunderclap shattering the quiet atmosphere. "Just tell me the general location!"

"Oh! All right!" Tyberos and El replied in unison.

They had originally been staring intently at the enormous, complex map of the Milky Way before them, as though trying to burn every detail into their minds.

However, Gaia's sudden words instantly pulled them out of their daze and back to reality.

Tyberos and El swiftly exchanged a glance, then nodded in mutual understanding. Tyberos spoke first. "Blackstone Planet is roughly located in the dark regions beyond Segmentum Pacificus."

The so-called dark regions were actually human territories beyond the reach of the light of Terra's Astronomican.

Without the Astronomican's illumination and guidance, if a human fleet dared enter this region and attempted to travel through the Warp, then without a psychic beacon to guide them, they would be highly likely to lose their way and ultimately fall into the terrifying state of being lost in the Warp.

For this reason, most Astartes Chapters and naval fleets of the Imperium kept well away from such dangerous places.

Only Chapters as ferocious as the Carcharodons Chapter, along with the various loyalist Chapters punished by the Imperium, would venture deep into those dark regions to wage war and slay enemies, protecting humanity's territory from xenos invasion.

With a light wave of Gaia's arm, every star system vanished like a phantom except for one specific region beyond Segmentum Pacificus!

What now appeared before Tyberos and El was a vast expanse

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