The Men of Iron displayed their capacity for execution to the fullest at that moment.
A standard Mechanicus Ship fleet quickly adjusted its course.
As the Warp Route opened once again, the vast Mechanicus Ship fleet slowly sailed out of the Mandeville Point.
An extremely unusual Star System entered the sensors' field of view.
It was a mysterious, dazzling interstellar wonder. Even in Iax's database, Star Systems with such distinctive environments were rare.
The two celestial bodies marked Alpha-1 and Alpha-2 on the rudimentary star map were a pair of stars orbiting one another.
Alpha-1 was an enormous blue giant, with a surface temperature reaching tens of thousands of degrees Celsius. It radiated intense, searing blue light like a burning sapphire. Its mass was dozens of times that of the sun, and its powerful gravity kept the entire Star System revolving around it.
Its companion, Alpha-2, was an orange dwarf. Compared with Alpha-1, its temperature was milder, and it emitted a soft orange glow, continuously supplying the surrounding regions with relatively stable energy.
The two stars circled one another along complex, intricate orbits, their separation alternately narrowing and widening. At their closest approach, their gravitational pull triggered violent tidal activity on their surfaces.
The blue and orange energy tides could even raise waves of energy tens of kilometers high across the stars' surfaces.
The violent magnetic fluctuations and radiation releases even interfered with some of the precision equipment aboard the Mechanicus Ship fleet.
Orbiting this binary pair were four planets with differing forms and complex environments.
Closest to the binary stars was β-1. Scorched by the intense radiation of both stars, its surface was a blistering ocean of magma. Orange-red lava churned and surged across the planet, occasionally erupting into enormous columns of volcanic ash that shot into the sky.