Space Bridge Network

When the astropathic signal sent back from 93 light-years away was publicly reported by the Stone Men responsible for compiling the information codes, everyone immediately erupted into a frenzy.

No amount of talk could compare to seeing it with their own eyes. Every Tech-priest, Rogue Trader, and countless others on Ganymede saw that space bridge shining with dazzling light.

They also saw a starship bearing the cog-and-skull emblem of the Adeptus Mechanicus accelerate at full speed through the space bridge before vanishing.

No one who could remain on Ganymede was a fool. Unless the High Technology Community was playing a joke on everyone, this had to mean some major technological breakthrough had emerged.

Coupled with the rapidly spreading rumors that Archmagos Lox, founder of the High Technology Community, had returned to Ganymede, countless nerves were further inflamed.

Some sharp-nosed people had already realized that a massive storm was approaching, and this was the ominous calm before it broke.

"That starship vanished directly from the space around Ganymede. With the gravitational interference of a giant planet like Jupiter, even if its captain had ten times the courage, he wouldn't dare make a Warp jump."

"At the instant one transitions from realspace into the Warp, the disturbed gravity would tear everything apart. Unless the Emperor personally blessed them, they'd be dead without question."

Within Ganymede's F-11 Spaceport, the senior members of the Amengard Rogue Trader family from the Calixis Sector were discussing the situation aboard their own starship.

The Calixis Sector lay in a corner of the Halo Stars in the northern galaxy. It was one of the most vulnerable regions of humanity's vast empire, far removed from those ancient and important human worlds.

The wars and threats that had never truly subsided had fostered in its people a willingness to challenge