"Yago, after another three Terra days in the Warp, we'll be back in the Sol System."
"Are you really... prepared?"
"In the Imperium's identification records, we are still traitors through and through. The moment we are discovered, we may be met with annihilating death."
The towering metal giant raised his coldly gleaming chain-glaive, sweeping away the droplets of blood clinging to it.
Yago Sevatarion wore a tactical helmet adorned with bat wings. At his side, a petite mortal woman clad in finely crafted carapace armor spoke softly to him.
Power boots stepped through pools of freshly spilled blood. The Black Guard followed their leader, subduing the screaming crowds trying to resist.
"Secure this merchant vessel. Its master and I have matters to discuss." The Prince of Crows' voice echoed through the ship's compartments, and the silent Black Guard vanished into the darkness in an instant.
They were currently aboard a heavily modified Lunar-class cruiser that looked somewhat dilapidated, sailing through the illusory Warp.
This merchant vessel, converted from a Lunar-class cruiser, was roughly five kilometers long. Each broadside was equipped with a Mars-pattern macro-cannon battery and a Starbreaker lance battery.
The Lunar-class cruiser possessed gleaming golden battlements and intricately engraved hull armor, but the dust of war had obscured it all, making it resemble a wreck on the verge of falling apart.
In Imperial records, it was a merchant vessel belonging to the Blitz family of Rogue Traders.
The Blitz family was a major Rogue Trader dynasty from the Ultima Segmentum. Their trade network spanned countless star systems, and they had once wielded extraordinary power and influence.
However, after the Horus Heresy broke out, their family was also caught up in the war. Most of its members were killed in the Shadow Crusade launched by Lorgar and Angron, and the