Perhaps because he was closer to humanity's sun, or perhaps because he was closer to the Emperor, Lox could feel the pressure and tension he had brought back from Beta-Garmon gradually dissipating.
Even the burden on his shoulders seemed much lighter, and the suffocating sense of impending doom had vanished entirely.
The greatest strength of Horus's rebels was not their military power. Compared to the forces wielded by the Imperium of Man, the rebels' strength was not unbeatable, nor was it enough to pose a fatal threat.
The Imperium had long since recovered from years of stalemate. This was no longer the early stage of the war, when the rebels held every advantage in information and timing.
The rebels could no longer, as they had in the past, mass their superior forces and catch the loyalists off guard.
The greatest threat Horus brought was actually the Warp at his back. That invisible distortion and corruption, along with the direct intervention of the Warp's evil gods, were the truly lethal dangers.
Most people who faced Chaos corruption would suffer lingering effects to some extent.
Some became more extreme, irritable, and violent. Others appeared unaffected on the surface, but the seeds of corruption had already been planted in their hearts, merely waiting for the right moment to take root and sprout.
That was why Lox needed to imprint ideological steel seals upon everyone. They were like Warp vaccines, capable of strengthening humanity's general resistance to the Warp.
Though ideological steel seals could not completely eliminate the effects of Chaos corruption, they could at least ensure that most people would not be utterly helpless before the Warp.
Lox left Adam on Ganymede, while Aisha, the Titan pilot who had escaped from Beta-Garmon III, volunteered to teach Adam about Titan operation and Titan warfare.