Faced with Ork fleets rampaging in all directions and Ork troops that had already landed on the ground,
Iax's orders were very direct. The Time-Reversal Fleet activated its Space-Time Controllers again and again, and the vast Men of Iron fleet rapidly wiped out one Ork fleet after another in the past.
Large-scale distortions of space and time unfolded across the entire Eastern Fringe.
This was precisely the situation humanity had once feared.
Using Space-Time Controllers to turn back time, harnessing time itself to destroy enemies in the past before they had even set out—the Men of Iron considered this extremely efficient and entirely reasonable.
Yet the consequences of temporal disorder were not something the Men of Iron cared about.
The Intelligence Core understood only the concepts of completing orders and improving efficiency.
And the greatest expression of efficiency was to resolve a problem before it occurred.
Had the Time-Reversal Fleet's Space-Time Controllers not been limited to reversing time by a thousand years, Iax would even have considered finding the Orks' original birthplace and going straight back to the moment of their creation to wipe out the entire species.
Fortunately, temporal technology still had its limitations.
Otherwise, no one would have known what might happen.
Even so, this large-scale reversal of time affected more than the former Space Battlefield.
Numerous Imperial Worlds already invaded by the Orks were affected as well.
Vast numbers of Orks fighting Imperial forces, along with their creations and fleets, vanished in swathes under the effects of temporal paradoxes. Strange spatial distortions appeared in many of the places where the Orks disappeared.
Wary of the unknown situation, Astartes from numerous Chapters, along with Ordo Xenos Inquisitors and elite mortal troops, had no choice but to advance and investigate this strange phenomenon. During their investigations, everyone who approached