As the fighting in the Underhive of Hive World Two in the Teda Galaxy grew increasingly intense, brilliant flashes continually lit up the Mandeville Point. Warships emerged from the Warp one after another and sped toward the heart of the Teda Galaxy.
One 8.5-kilometer-long Battle Barge exclusive to the Astartes, one 7.1-kilometer-long Imperial Navy Retribution-class Battleship, three 5-kilometer-long Lunar-class Cruisers, and five 2.2-kilometer-long Scimitar-class Frigates.
The Imperium had deployed a full ten warships to the Teda Galaxy to deal with the invading Orks.
On the bridge of the Battle Barge, Bartos, Chapter Master of the Defenders Chapter, gazed gravely at the three hive worlds within the Teda Galaxy.
The Defenders Chapter was a successor Chapter descended from the Ultramarines. It had existed for a thousand years, and throughout that millennium, it had continually fought for the Imperium across the galaxy, eliminating countless enemies of the Imperium.
The Defenders Chapter had happened to be patrolling nearby and had been dispatched by the High Lords to fight alongside the Navy and eliminate the Orks invading the Teda Galaxy.
The Imperium's high-ranking nobles had never expected Orks to choose the Teda Galaxy, deep within Imperial territory, as their target. It was only a little over a thousand light-years from Segmentum Solar, the heart of the Imperium.
That was why Imperial reinforcements had arrived so quickly. Had this been some remote Imperial system, it might have taken an age for the Imperium to deploy a rescue force. Given the Imperium's sluggish efficiency, it could have taken more than a century before reinforcements were sent to aid a fallen world.
Chapter Master Bartos turned his gaze toward Chief Librarian Kosoz beside him and asked softly, "Kosoz, can you use your psychic powers to predict the current situation on the hive worlds within the Teda Galaxy?"