Looking at the ship's bulging stores and quantities of equipment the Space Wolves could scarcely have imagined, almost everyone had gone numb.
The Ultramarines Chapter was the largest Chapter in the Imperium, and Macragge's Honour held almost all of its finest equipment.
For an ordinary Space Wolves company, this was not so much a pleasant surprise as an outright shock.
The ship was just as staggering to the Tech-Priests who had spent years aboard ordinary Imperial Ships.
It also contained an inexhaustible wealth of ancient knowledge.
And the Tech-Priests grew ever more fanatical in their devotion to the Men of Iron who had rebuilt it.
Iax had no idea what terrifying waves this act would send through the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Under normal circumstances, the ship would have required at least twenty thousand crew merely to keep it underway.
As things stood, however, they had no choice but to press the Astra Militarum troops into temporary naval service.
The surviving crew taught the former Astra Militarum soldiers how to help operate the ship while trying to familiarize themselves with the deeply unfamiliar equipment before them.
Compared with ordinary Imperial Transport Ships and battle barges, this vessel was far too technologically advanced.
With the help of numerous servo-skulls and Imperial Servitors, they finally eased the enormous Giant Ship away from the landing platform.
Once they saw that the others had learned to operate the vessel, an Industrial Ship slowly approached the landing platform. Nanomachines flowed like water, swiftly devouring the entire platform before carrying it into the Industrial Ship's cargo hold, where it was turned into metal ingots.
A surviving naval petty officer, temporarily appointed captain, stared blankly at the immense bridge before turning to the Wolf Lord behind him.
"My lord, where do we go now?"
"Back to Fenris first. I