Even though Calando desperately wanted to stop him, Guilliman still decided to let Iax come aboard Macragge's Honour.
Fortunately, Iax's comprehensive analysis indicated that Guilliman was very unlikely to harm him. When Calando tentatively asked whether he could meet the Primarch alone, Iax did not refuse.
However, Iax also made one request: keep those little Red-robes, whose eyes were practically shining, well away from his Bodyguard.
He did not want to return and find it draped in scraps of flesh.
After finding a separate chamber, Iax ordered the Bodyguard Robot to remain stationed inside. It was authorized to destroy any unit that entered other than himself.
Then he followed Calando aboard a Thunderhawk and left the ship.
Less than two minutes after Iax left, battle alarms rang throughout the Dawn of Fire.
When a large contingent of Ultramarines and mortal soldiers arrived at the source of the alarm under the direction of the Astra Militarum general on the Bridge, the door to the Bodyguard Robot Chamber had vanished, along with an entire bulkhead.
The mechanical wreckage and scraps of flesh scattered across the floor left no doubt about what had just happened.
The Tech-Priests had not been foolish enough to personally test Iax's warning, but several Servitor identification numbers had been added to the damage report.
Once they confirmed that they would not be attacked as long as they stayed outside the missing wall, little Red-robes gathered beyond the wreckage, admiring the Machine God's work of art through the holes blasted into the walls.
A cacophony of binary noise filled the air.
Aside from praise, most of it consisted of discussions about its appearance and structural details, along with open deliberation over whether they could dismantle the Bodyguard for a look inside.
That continued until the Bodyguard Robot warned every