Once he grasped the situation, the Cadian commander carefully kept all his soldiers in check. Their recent battles had taught them that their forces alone could not defeat these Space Dwarfs.
Yet these high-tech dwarfs, whose weapons and defenses outclassed the Imperium's in every respect, had been reduced to victims of a slaughter when faced with these Iron Clanks.
This was clearly not a situation his small force could handle.
However, the other side seemed to ignore the Imperial troops entirely. They even appeared to be avoiding the Tech-Priests caught up in their technological fervor. This peculiar situation prompted him to immediately dispatch several reconnaissance squads to accompany the Tech-Priests and follow these Iron Clanks throughout the Dwarfs' cities.
He had to find out exactly what these Iron Clanks were doing. They might pose an even greater threat than these dwarf xenos.
While the Imperial troops were utterly bewildered, Iax, up in orbit, found himself in much the same state.
This was deep within the Galactic Core, and the third so-called Dwarfs Homeworld he had attacked.
But he had never expected Imperial troops to appear here.
Even more baffling was how these deranged red-robed fanatics seemed to turn up everywhere.
He looked at the Imperial Aquila and the insignia of the Adeptus Mechanicus on their bodies.
These were people of the Imperium, through and through.
Iax even spotted those canned warriors so characteristic of the Imperium.
Iax took the opportunity to scan these Space Marines and mortal troops, but the results were no different.
The Cadians' genetic sequences contained more mutations and scored even lower than those of ordinary Imperial citizens, with quite a few strange mutations mixed in.
As for those Space Wolves...
Well, the proportion of animal genes was almost over half. That fundamentally violated the basic standards