Not Right-Sanguinius Doesn't Count

What was so funny? Just keep it together, okay?

Lin En composed his expression and looked at the two Custodes Tribunes.

"Gentlemen, how much longer until we reach Sagan II?" Lin En asked.

After checking, Valerian answered him. "Once we enter the system, it'll be standard space travel. We're expected to reach the outskirts of Sagan II in one Terran standard day."

Black Pelt's energy couldn't be mobilized in realspace, but in the Warp, he could use it freely.

The moment Lin En and the others' ship entered the Warp, Black Pelt made the black hole move them to the Maelstrom with a whoosh.

So fast. Seriously, so fast.

So convenient. Seriously, so convenient.

"One more day." Lin En calculated the time mentally.

That was fine. It wasn't too long.

During the previous Badab War, the Lamenters and Mantis Warriors had joined the rebellious Astral Claws, and were consequently declared traitors.

The Badab System lay within the Maelstrom Zone. Led by Huron of the Astral Claws—the future Red Corsair—the Mantis Warriors, Executioners, and Lamenters were stationed there to defend the zone, eradicate pirates, wandering Chaos warbands, and xenos raider fleets, and protect interstellar trade convoys.

Huron was dissatisfied with the planetary governor's corruption and embezzlement. The governor was indeed a bastard, but Huron had already been planning to rebel.

He publicly executed the Imperial governor, declared the Maelstrom region independent, and rebelled against the Imperium. He also deceived the Lamenters and Mantis Warriors, telling them that they were merely resisting the planetary governor who had embezzled their military supplies.

When the Imperium discovered the rebellion, it assembled an expeditionary fleet made up of multiple Space Marine Chapters and sent it into the Maelstrom.

The Imperial forces besieged Badab's capital world. Huron was defeated and severely wounded. He fled into the