In the end, the grand celebration swiftly drew to a close amid the heavy stench of blood surrounding the Inquisition.
The upheaval that would originally have swept across the entire Imperium was contained before it began, thanks to the early intervention of the Officio Assassinorum.
Although the political turmoil on Terra would continue for quite some time, this was not a major problem.
After the Inquisition underwent a political purge, the Red Hunters were ordered to embark on a thousand-year penitent crusade.
Meanwhile, Dorn also conducted thorough investigations into cases in which many other Chapters had been oppressed or framed.
Besides the Red Hunters, the implicated Minotaurs Chapter and several other Chapters serving the High Lords of Terra and the Inquisition were also punished, receiving sentences of three to five hundred years on penitent crusades.
Once the investigations and resolutions of these matters were complete, the Celestial Lions received reinforcements once again and began rebuilding their entire Chapter organization.
Dorn even drew a little of his own blood to produce a new batch of one hundred percent pure gene-seed for them.
This honor stirred a trace of envy even among the other successor Chapters of the Imperial Fists.
Still, among the numerous successor Chapters, there were also some that Dorn felt good about.
After handing the political problems back to Guilliman, Dorn began attending to his own affairs.
Unlike his other brothers' warriors, the vast majority of Imperial Fists were Terran, which meant the Adeptus Custodes placed an exceptionally high degree of trust in them.
And now Dorn intended to carry out certain plans that Guilliman dared not undertake.
He wanted to cooperate with Iax to redesign Terra's entire defenses, while learning as much as possible about the technology of the Old Era.
This was not Dorn's strongest field. The