Seems Like We Forgot Something... Oh, F**k

The Imperium soon received news that the fallen Forge World had returned.

The other eleven High Lords representatives had been summoned by the head of the Astropathic Choir. They sat around the massive black stone table, utterly bewildered and unsure what the Choir's leader wanted to tell them.

Then the head of the Astropathic Choir staggered through the council chamber doors.

Astropaths spent their lives immersed in psychic communications, and their bodies were already frail. This Chief Astropath was especially old.

As he entered, he tripped and stumbled three or four steps forward.

Several High Lords who were close to him shot to their feet. "Lord Chief!"

"What happened?!"

Ignoring his exhausted body, the Chief Astropath raised an urgent military dispatch that had just been transcribed from an astropathic message. It was densely packed with freshly printed text and coordinate data. "My lords."

The Chief Astropath's hands trembled as he held the report aloft.

"Urgent report from the Atilan's Gate war zone. The Forge World Bolomite, previously swallowed by the Warp, was successfully reclaimed at twelve hundred Standard Time today and dragged back into Realspace. The planet's overall structure remains intact, and all surface Chaos units have been eliminated. Operation commanders: Lord Lion and Lord Lin En. Supporting Chapters: the Lamenters Chapter and the Dark Angels Chapter."

Every High Lord abruptly raised their head. "What?!"

Even the quill of the Astronomican's overseer, who normally kept himself detached from everything, froze in midair as he stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

All the High Lords seemed to have had their movements paused.

What?

A Forge World swallowed by the Warp had been successfully reclaimed and... dragged back into Realspace?

This was not simply a matter of reclaiming a Forge World.

In the Warhammer Universe, a planet swallowed by the Warp normally meant it