The Fabricator-Sage asked to board the Landing Craft for an inspection, but the Space Wolves refused the request.
With no other choice, the sage could only examine the details of its exterior.
Yet aside from the ship's insignia being wrong, every recorded specification matched the Macragge's Honour.
Although the Imperium still had several Gloriana-class Battleships, almost all of them served as the flagships of individual Space Marine Chapters.
And almost every Gloriana-class ship was a unique, custom-built vessel.
No one had ever heard of two identical ships appearing.
The utterly bewildered Imperial Navy personnel at the scene reported it to the Segmentum Departmento Munitorum, which forwarded the news directly to the Imperial Regent, who was still in the Solar Star Region.
Equally shocked, Guilliman temporarily left Terra aboard the Glory of Fire.
After all, the Macragge's Honour had once been his flagship, and he knew the vessel intimately.
"What exactly are they trying to investigate? If those vermin from the Inquisition are behind this again, I'll make those fools pay this time."
Logan paced back and forth inside an enormous compartment. Aboard the Macragge's Honour, this room had once been Guilliman's office.
Ever since they had sailed this ship all the way back to the Imperium Sanctus.
Almost no Sector Departmento Munitorum had intercepted them.
Yet he had merely passed through the Segmentum Solar and been stopped by the Imperial Navy.
Logan had now named the ship the Wrath of Fenris.
The ship's insignia had been altered, along with every visible inscription and emblem inside its compartments.
Even the statues of Guilliman had been recarved into likenesses of Russ through the efforts of numerous mortal artisans.
But if anyone boarded the Landing Craft for an inspection and discovered that vast stockpile of gene-seed, even Russ himself would probably struggle