"Mm. Say that again, honored Sister Anlena."
"Honored Khan Xiao Lan, I will recount everything I heard, for the Emperor. Is there a problem?"
"No. Please continue. If possible, start from when the warp storm disappeared." Xiao Lan was inwardly delighted. Khan did not necessarily refer to Jaghatai Khan; it was a title for the leader of a force of White Scars Sons. A company commander could be called a Khan, and so could the leader of a special operations team.
But Khan simply sounded better than company commander. Ah...
"We were ordered to the Segmentum Tempestus, reached Baka, and then joined the Baka fleet on its expedition. There were far too many rebellions and xenos there. With its powerful fleet and extremely high warship production capacity, Baka fought bloody battles against the enemy, but the other regions still fell. Baka had almost become an isolated world, with only one usable warp route left.
We operated alongside the Rainy Night Chapter. They were a newly founded Chapter from this latest Ultima Founding, with their fighting strength fully established, but the Imperium was desperately short of warships..." As she spoke, Sister Anlena glanced at Xiao Lan again. The Astartes was listening very attentively.
"They had only one Battle Barge and three Strike Cruisers. We accompanied them to reinforce their naval strength.
Soon, we entered a region where the warp was silent and encountered severe navigational interference.
Our fleet emerged from the warp and discovered that the local worlds had already suffered ferocious Tyranid attacks. The living worlds there had become lifeless dead planets.
The enemy had not yet left. We exchanged fire with their Bio-fleet and drove them out." Xiao Lan was inwardly speechless. You drove them out? They had finished eating and were leaving.
"There, we encountered an Adeptus Mechanicus