"Given the armed forces I brought to Luna, the gene cult should never have been able to turn things around. But the original template was taken away by Tarabuvita No. 37 and vanished without a trace. I had no choice but to dispatch most of our forces to search for it, and I could no longer intervene in the war with highly destructive weapons such as Titans."
Lox had also underestimated how tense the situation on Luna had become. The troops originally sent merely to intimidate and deter the gene cult encountered unforeseen complications and had to change their mission, fighting the traitors without causing large-scale casualties or destruction.
After all, a single Titan volcano cannon shot could probably wipe an entire area clean. Who knew whether it might cause friendly casualties—or even directly vaporize the hidden gene witch?
As for the original template, unless the gene cult's leaders had completely lost their minds, how could they possibly do something as insane as testing how sturdy it was?
That was the perfect description of their predicament. Cawl, Barabas Dantioch, and the others had no choice but to deploy Imperial Fists troops onto Luna's surface, joining the mortal auxilia in a low-intensity war against the rebellious gene cult.
"So you fought a pacification war against the rebellious gene cult on Luna?"
"But honestly, when the Emperor pacified Luna, wasn't a restrictive treaty already signed? The Selenar gene cult wasn't permitted to possess its own private armed forces anymore."
Lox felt the logic suddenly click into place. He had underestimated those people.
Back then, the Emperor had dispatched the Seventh Legion, XIII Legion, and Sixteenth Legion to conquer Luna. At the height of their power, the Lunar cults had not even lasted six hours.
It was also after that campaign that the