After speaking with Dorn for a while, Dorn left first.
He wanted to see his sons first and prepare for the Imperium's coming battles, and Guilliman did not try to stop him.
He and Belisarius Cawl still had some matters to settle.
Guilliman arrived at an unfamiliar location that looked more like an underground training facility.
On the platform, two unarmoured giants were swinging weapons at each other in fierce combat. Even from a distance, he could feel their immense strength churning the air.
These were Cawl's latest creations-primaris Space Marines.
Long ago, Guilliman had foreseen the crises facing the Imperium of Man and asked Cawl to develop more powerful military means to confront them.
Beyond technological equipment and newly developed weapons such as Mark X Power Armour, the two figures before him were even more important.
Primaris Space Marines underwent three additional procedures on top of the nineteen performed on ordinary Space Marines, bringing the total to twenty-two.
This made primaris Space Marines bigger, stronger, and more capable fighters than their predecessors.
Though the secrets behind their creation remained a mystery, rumours claimed that traitor gene-seed had been used, and that even the two lost Legions might be represented.
Still...
Who knew?
"*...￥#, at present, the primaris Space Marines have achieved their projected performance, even exceeding it by 6.964%. They are ready for deployment."
"No, Cawl."
Guilliman shook his head.
"It won't happen that quickly."
Although Cawl was considered a heretic within the Adeptus Mechanicus, he still shared some of its ingrained ways of thinking.
Introducing primaris Space Marines was unlikely to be a technical problem. Those stubborn, conservative, insular Chapters probably would not welcome these new warriors.
Not to mention the issue of military organisation.
Guilliman had come to realise that the Imperium's armed forces were now a