The Sautekh Dynasty's movements could not be hidden from the other dynasties. As the third-most-powerful dynasty before the great sleep, and one now poised to claim the top spot, it naturally had countless factions watching it.
Its bitter rival, the Oruscar Dynasty, immediately responded to the Sautekh Dynasty's unusual activity, swiftly dispatching large numbers of Necron scout ships.
It was hardly fair to blame the Sautekh Dynasty's security measures. Their king, Imotekh the Stormlord, had ordered the activation of their backup Pariah Nexus equipment.
A hypercubic region of realspace entirely devoid of psyker power was created, then loaded with C'tan Shard weapons and the Stormlord's winds of conquest.
Old General Zahadrek's chivalry was an exception. The rest of the Sautekh Dynasty consisted of fanatical invaders who had already occupied vast territories in the eastern galaxy. If the Tyranids had not attacked, there probably would not have been much left of Ultramar's Five Hundred Worlds by now.
Within tens of minutes, the entire Pariah Nexus slammed from the eastern galaxy into Segmentum Pacificus in the west. The containment device holding the Wayfarer C'tan Shard nearly lost control under the immense energy output, forcing the Stormlord to suppress it with another C'tan Shard.
Were it not for the Pariah Nexus equipment, whole swathes of Necron warships could have performed inertialess jumps and instantly arrived around the Light of the People.
The Crimson Tide struggled to hold its line. Even with Gellar Field protection, the immense power of the Warp compressed the realspace bubble generated by the device into an extremely small area.
Adamantium Warriors guarded the Gellar Field, keeping its immediate surroundings safe for now. At the outermost edges of the warship, however, whispers from the Warp had already appeared upon the steel armor, and twisted faces manifested on shells as they