Lox changed into the Sage's robes that old fellow Bakel Dilan had given him back on Macragge. They differed slightly from traditional Martian red, woven with black cog patterns and blue laurel wreaths.
After all, this was a Forge World native to the Five Hundred Worlds, so it naturally differed somewhat from Mars's orthodoxy. Lox quietly waited at the very top of the tower for Sage Arkhan Land and the others to arrive.
Ever since his meeting with the Emperor had ended, he had made up his mind to unseal the data and STC templates related to the Iron Men and Stone Men stored in the Red Alert's database.
The Iron Men had never rebelled. Both the resistance and the Gold Men alliance that had once oppressed humanity had received the Iron Men's aid.
Yet the Warp could still threaten these intelligent constructs. Chaos Scrapcode, direct Warp corruption, and similar methods could all twist the Iron Men's thought matrices. The Blackstone technology Lox had acquired from the Necrons undoubtedly compensated for this weakness.
The artificial intelligence core on Ganymede resided within a Blackstone matrix in the reactor chamber, while its thought matrix controlled the planet through countless signal tendrils. Strictly speaking, those Iron Men were mentally linked to Ganymede's artificial intelligence.
The AI progenitor within the Blackstone Array could exclude Warp interference to the greatest possible extent. Once any subordinate Iron Man was affected by Warp corruption, the progenitor would immediately detect it and activate countermeasures.
Only with multiple layers of safeguards did Lox dare unseal these exceedingly dangerous creations.
Moreover, on Ganymede, he used the Red Alert's database and STCs to create the first Stone Man. He named this female Stone Man "Anji."
The Stone Men were highly mature androids, created by humanity to make space colonization faster and