With Guardian-class mechanical ships at work, the supplies the Imperium had been depleting year after year began to grow plentiful.
Battlefields across the Imperium's vast territory received ample supplies for the first time in years.
This period saw fewer ship losses for the Imperium's Black Ship Guild than almost any other.
It also saw the fastest turnover of Planetary Governors.
The Imperium's armies were not the only ones receiving fresh supplies.
Nearly a million psykers had also been gathered aboard the Titan Ship Sword of the Void.
To avoid any accidents, Iax had deliberately taken the Sword of the Void and its escort fleet along the edge of the Milky Way, eventually reaching this region on the outskirts of the Ultima Segmentum.
Not far away lay the Pariah Nexus, which remained active.
Although the previous battle had temporarily halted the expansion of the Necrons' Pariah Nexus, its existing territory had not shrunk.
According to the Imperium's records, the Pariah Nexus was highly effective at suppressing psychic power. If anything abnormal happened, Iax would steer the Sword of the Void straight into this so-called anti-magic Force Field.
For Iax, this was already the perfect testing ground.
Psychic crystals produced by drawing power from hundreds or thousands of psykers at once were, after all, limited in size.
The reason for coming here was to conduct a risky test.
He would draw psychic power from a million psykers simultaneously to form a colossal psychic crystal.
If it succeeded, the massive weapons aboard the Sword of the Void would, for the first time, be able to undergo experiments with an alternative energy source.
Only after solving the problem of the energy source itself could testing proceed on converting the weapons to use psychic power.
The reason Iax had accelerated his research into force weapon