Bad Moon boss Thomas Edison was exceptionally furious.
Under the orders of Warboss Zak, he had used the human captives on Gork's Anvil to lure Vulkan's fleet into a trap.
Then, with Erebus's help, he had forged a partnership with the Daemon Primarch, hoping to crush Vulkan in a single battle. Everything should have gone perfectly according to plan.
But who could have expected that damned Vulkan to be so decisive and ruthless, directly launching a devastating strike against the sun of the Anvil System?
Under the ravages of the solar storm, the human fleet had indeed suffered severe losses, but the greatest victims had been the Orks lying in ambush within the system.
To ensure the mission's completion, the Bad Moon boss had brought more than six battle moons, along with an even greater number of Greenskin warships.
A large portion of those forces had been his own direct troops, the substantial wealth of the Bad Moon clan.
Because they excelled at amassing wealth and growing stronger, and were more cunning and deceitful than other Ork clans, the Bad Moons had always ranked among the foremost Ork clans.
Even the Goff clan, theoretically the strongest, often found itself firmly suppressed by the Bad Moons.
Since Thomas Edison had risen to become Warboss Zak's chief finance minister and minister of internal affairs, he had exploited his authority to shamelessly seize benefits for his own clan.
The Bad Moon clan's influence had been steadily rising.
Yet under the sudden assault of the solar storm, all of it vanished as easily as flowers in a mirror and the moon's reflection in water.
Ork warships and battle moons had never been particularly good at defense.
Thus, when the runaway star unleashed its devastating solar storm, the violent streams of high-energy particles, electromagnetic radiation,