The fighting on the Eastern Fringe had been contained, and the remaining vast Ork fleet had been utterly scattered.
Numerous Imperial forces were busy pursuing fleeing Orks across the long battlefront spanning the Eastern Fringe and the Ultima Segmentum.
The Dark Angels had left considerable forces behind to help the local Imperial troops clear out the remaining Orks.
Lion El'Jonson himself, however, had vanished once again, along with the Unyielding Truth and several other Dark Angels ships.
After leaving several standard fleets to help the Imperium hunt down the fleeing Orks, Iax began the return journey with the Heart of the Forge.
Consuming five Planetary Fortresses had given Iax enormous reserves of supplies.
The technological data brought back by the Heart of the Forge had also given Iax new ideas.
Iax had always considered the Sword of the Void's method of collecting psychic power somewhat unstable.
With no assignments for the moment, the Sword of the Void soon crossed nearly half the Imperium's territory to rendezvous with the Heart of the Forge.
The two giant ships arrived one after the other near a barren region of space almost devoid of celestial bodies and began transferring supplies.
Vast quantities of minerals and materials were sent into the Sword of the Void's empty holds to construct an additional enormous installation outside its hull.
This installation included an independent Warp Engine and specially designed energy conduits.
Whenever the ship needed it, the installation could independently tear open the veil of realspace and immerse itself alone in the Warp to extract energy.
The mixed energies would be separated directly within the Warp, after which psychic power, temporal energy, spatial energy, and energy suffused with destructive power would be fed separately into the Sword of the Void.
Hyperspace Folding Technology was applied inside the Sword