A few minutes might have seemed brief to most people, but it was a different matter for the Chaos Fleet present, and for the Daemons and Imperial traitors aboard who followed Vashtorr.
Vashtorr, in particular, had never imagined that the Warp Spatial Rift he had opened would offer someone else a convenient way in.
Amid the black smoke formed from the sinister power of the Warp, the vast fleet of Mechanicus Ships continued its attacks on the Chaos Fleet and Longlin Star itself without pause.
Longlin Star had now become a complete Engine of Discord. Warp power wreathed the ancient Old Ones' Creation, greatly weakening strikes from conventional energy weapons.
Whether Railguns from the fleet of Mechanicus Ships or its various astonishingly powerful Beam Weapons, their attacks were significantly weakened as they approached the planet's surface.
Though flames seemed to fill the sky, the actual damage to Longlin Star as a whole was minor.
Iax simultaneously calculated the effectiveness of the strikes on the battlefield.
The weapons aboard every ship in the Mechanicus Fleet were also changing almost constantly.
Aboard many ships, the original large laser arrays and Plasma Turrets began transforming under the action of Nanomachines and auxiliary equipment. Banks of Railguns emerged, their dimensions growing ever more extreme.
At that moment, Iax suddenly began to understand why Chaos favored energy weapons while the Imperium favored physical projectiles.
Those seemingly foolish, cumbersome Macro-cannons really were the first choice for fighting Chaos.
Even the Warp powers that twisted the laws of the Physical Universe needed some time to corrupt solid projectiles of such immense size.
Energy weapons did indeed seem ineffective against these Chaos creatures formed from Warp energy.
And the larger they were, the less effective energy weapons seemed to become.
The resistance of a planet-sized Chaos entity to