Since arriving in the Solar System, Lox's schedule had accumulated a massive number of tasks.
With Mars currently occupied by the traitorous Dark Mechanicum, the Imperium was suffering severe shortages of weapons, equipment, and warship supplies. The civil war on Mars had never ceased, but with troops in short supply, the Imperium found it difficult to intervene in the Martian conflict.
That was Mars, the center of technology since humanity's Dark Age of Technology. Countless epoch-defining inventions had been born upon that red planet. Not even the Fabricator-Generals knew how many treasures still lay buried in the ruins of Mars.
The war erupting on that planet was a horrifying clash of cutting-edge weapons wielded by factions of the Adeptus Mechanicus with differing philosophies. The Imperium no longer had enough soldiers to waste in that meat grinder.
Lox had to rely on the technological core installed aboard the Red Alert to establish one or more logistics and supply centers within the Solar System, providing weapons, equipment, and war materiel to arm every defender in the system to the teeth.
This was undoubtedly a colossal undertaking. The density of defenders in the Solar System now far surpassed even that of Macragge. Nearly all the Imperium's remaining strength had gathered here to resist the rebel assault.
Power armor, boltguns, las weapons for ordinary humans, melta guns, force-feedback power armor, all kinds of logistical supplies and medical equipment—even armored vehicles, Knight suits, Titan war engines, and void warships—there was a shortage of everything.
The Solar System was now surrounded by the enemy in the broader sense, while the traitors were in turn encircled by Imperial forces farther out.
It was a pincer movement from both sides, and a contest of speed and endurance.
If the Imperial defenders of the Solar System could not hold,