When the tremor from the Sermon of Advancement crashing into The Rock reached him, Vashtorr instead looked behind him. The eruption of an immense energy source had caught his attention.
A vast fissure tore open in the empty reaches at the center of the Blind Obedience Star System. Unlike the Warp, the rift spewed torrents of violent, frenzied energy, several orders of magnitude more powerful than a star going supernova.
"Something big is coming..." Flames blazed in Vashtorr's hollow metal eye sockets.
An enormous planet was spat out of the rift, a layer of green energy protecting it from the energies within.
The planet had no atmosphere, making it easy to see that it was built entirely of metal: metal forged into a city, and that city cast into a world.
Luo Wen, who had become a Big Mek, took the goggles off his head and wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Good thing I'm so good at this. Nearly got swept away by the spatial turbulence."
Only after the universe's restorative forces slowly healed the spatial rift and it vanished did Luo Wen finally breathe a full sigh of relief.
Then information arrived from within the Blind Obedience Star System. As the chaotic melee between the fleets of Abaddon, Vashtorr, the Dark Angels, and the Blood Angels appeared on the monitor, a delighted smile spread across Luo Wen's exhausted face.
Sneaky Boss had ordered him and Kidd to finish building the two Battle Moons, the Skull of Gork and Mork's Grin, as quickly as possible, then lead the Ork fleet on an expedition north. A long time had passed since then.
Sneaky Boss had only indicated a rough direction, leaving Luo Wen and Kidd to search this sector for the enemies he had mentioned.
They had encountered Tyranids, Humies,