Imperial Reform

Roboute Guilliman was one of the few primarchs who had remained within the Sol System.

After the final battle drew to a close, he gathered with his brothers one last time before they went their separate ways.

Lion El'Jonson hurriedly led his Dark Angels back to Caliban in the Obscurus Segmentum.

Oh, and before leaving, the Lion had sternly demanded the return of the xenos artifact, the Tuchulcha Engine.

Guilliman had never seen Lion so anxious, not even when he had crossed the Ruinstorm and arrived at Macragge, when the two of them had been at each other's throats.

Originally, Guilliman had intended to hand the Tuchulcha Engine over to Mars and the Advanced Technology Consortium during these peaceful years following the war, to see whether they could uncover the miraculous technologies contained within it.

During their rush to reinforce Terra, the Tuchulcha Engine had played an enormous role, allowing the Lord of Macragge to leap directly across countless rebel blockade lines.

But Lion wanted it back so badly that Guilliman had no desire to clash with him. Besides, it had belonged to his brother in the first place.

Jaghatai Khan was much the same as Lion, hurrying back to Chogoris in the Ultima Segmentum.

Though the Khan departed after Lion, the extraordinary mobility of the Storm Eagle allowed him to leave the Sol System even sooner than the Lion.

No one was swifter than Jaghatai Khan.

His brothers' strange behavior put the Lord of Macragge on alert.

He knew very well that the last person to arrive at a gathering of brothers and friends never got a good outcome.

Either they had already finished telling jokes about him, or they had finished speaking ill of him. At best, they had merely finished digging up all his gossip.

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