"The Aeldari? They were merely a servant race created by my makers. I am far older and nobler than you."
"During the War in Heaven, my makers created many races to fight their great enemy. The ancient Aeldari and the Krork were among the stronger ones."
Inside a chamber aboard the New Caliban that no scanner could detect, the Second Empire's four leading figures and the strange addition of the Aeldari seer Ulthran gathered around the alien construct known as the Tuchulcha Engine.
For the Second Empire's four leaders, the most important task at hand was to consolidate every force they could take with them and return to the Solar Segmentum through the Webway and conventional Warp travel.
Given Ulthran's admission that the Webway might not be able to accommodate too many reinforcements, the vast majority of their military strength would likely still have to reach the Solar System through ordinary Warp travel.
At such a moment, after waging a thoroughly satisfying war on Davin, the Lion finally revealed part of his secret to his brothers—the Tuchulcha Engine acquired by the Dark Angels Legion.
Considering that Ulthran, as an Aeldari, possessed deep knowledge of much historical information and intelligence, the Lion had steeled himself for a long time before allowing a xenos into his secret chamber.
After the group of five passed through layer upon layer of Inner Circle veterans and no fewer than thirteen verification checkpoints, the Tuchulcha Engine was finally revealed before them.
Upon seeing Lox and the others, the self-aware Tuchulcha Engine began by conversing with Ulthran.
Its true body was an alien construct that emitted hazy beams of light, but it spoke through the body of a human boy. Half-naked and pale-eyed, the boy was linked to Tuchulcha by countless metallic data cables. After only a