With the precision afforded by Machine Intelligence control, the ship threaded effortlessly through the other vessels. By the time Iax's ship moved beneath the Glory of Fire, the top of its hull had already changed.
An enormous groove ran down the center of the seamless hull. Castellan had left the ship and used several Mechanical Claws to connect two Cyclonic Torpedoes to its hull.
Meanwhile, the Nano-Swarm was installing repulsion rails in the central groove, which extended for several kilometers along the hull.
The already oddly shaped vessel now barely resembled a ship at all. It looked like an enormous rail launcher.
Compared with Macro-cannon shells only a few meters long, these two Cyclonic Torpedoes, each tens of meters in length, needed far more extreme acceleration to get up to speed. To ensure they struck their target, they had to travel at least as fast as Macro-cannon shells.
Cyclonic Torpedoes were normally used to exterminate planets, so speed had never really been a consideration in their design. Nor could the Imperium build a dedicated vessel just to launch Cyclonic Torpedoes like cannon shells.
Their applications were too limited, and the Imperium could not afford such an expense.
Even the battle moons of the past wars against the Orks had ultimately fallen to the Imperium's terrifying Boarding Actions.
But the balance of forces here was completely lopsided.
Looking at the immense Ark of Omen, it was obvious that it could hold at least one or two hundred million Daemons, with room for Rebels and Chaos Warbands besides.
The dozens of Imperial ships Guilliman commanded carried, at most, close to ten million people between them.
However powerful the Ultramarines were, there was nothing they could do in a situation like this.
Worse still, this Ark of Omen had been converted from a