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With the battle over, Lorgar had claimed the Blackstone Fortress.

The Blackstone Fortress was quite a prize. The Aeldari had originally built it before the Fall of the Eldar, intending to destroy the C'tan once again should they return.

That was why Laman and the others had wanted to seize this Blackstone Fortress. They needed this "Vaul's Talisman" to face the coming crisis.

Unfortunately, Lorgar had already sent the whole lot of them off to report to Slaanesh.

"My lord, our observations suggest that this structure may currently be dormant, but even the energy it produces in its dormant state far exceeds our expectations," Archmagos Grut said as he inspected the control systems inside the Blackstone Fortress.

Lorgar knew that once fully activated, the Blackstone Fortress could breach the barrier between realspace and the Warp, creating a beam of pure Warp energy that would destroy everything in its path.

And if that energy beam linked up with other Blackstone Fortresses, it would form an even more powerful beam.

Yet a certain Warmaster had used something this powerful like a throw-down firecracker.

Archmagos Grut gave the Blackstone Fortress a preliminary inspection and discovered, to his astonishment, that aside from a few faults in its weapons and power systems, nearly everything else was intact.

Once his initial delight had passed, Lorgar ordered Archmagos Grut to remain aboard the Blackstone Fortress and oversee its repairs and maintenance.

Naturally, Archmagos Grut could not have wished for anything better. Studying the Blackstone Fortress was already a dream come true, and studying the warships of those ancient civilizations around it at the same time would be just as welcome.

Lorgar stationed a company of Space Marines and an Imperial Army formation numbering several hundred thousand here, primarily to provide security.

He also planned to establish several