Thanks to the Sin's outrageous docking method, loading the hundred thousand Death Guard aboard did not take long.
They had no supplies to load.
The only things they could bring were those tens of thousands of gene-seeds.
Unlike their corrupted bearers, these gene-seeds were utterly pure.
Every last one of them was.
Perhaps it was Nurgle's twisted sense of humor, or perhaps he had some unknown purpose.
When Nurgle bestowed his blessings upon the Death Guard, he had specifically "blessed" their gene-seed on a conceptual level.
Yet this "blessing" genuinely ensured that the gene-seed would never suffer contamination or degradation, no matter what happened.
Even gene-seed extracted from already decaying Plague Marines bore no Warp contamination whatsoever.
Whether loyalist or traitor.
Not a single Space Marine Chapter could rival the Death Guard in the purity and cleanliness of their gene-seed.
So much so that, when the Death Guard expanded their ranks, they had needed an extra step that other traitor Chapters did not.
An Astartes aspirant implanted with gene-seed would become a normal Death Guard warrior, then immediately be sent away for corruption.
Only then could these recruits become one of them.
Now, however, they no longer needed to carry out that step.
Given the sins they bore, the other Primarchs would most likely never again allow them to recruit from any planet.
Once everyone had been loaded aboard.
The Sin swiftly turned its hull around.
High-energy particles soon enveloped the entire spaceport.
The decaying orbital structure disintegrated into countless metal fragments, which were then fed into the ship's hull.
Before departing, the Sin also dropped an enormous gravitational bomb.
The bomb instantly increased the gravity of the entire Plague Star more than a thousandfold, and the planet twisted before disintegrating completely into countless scattered fragments.
Having destroyed the entire