The meeting ended on a decidedly unsatisfactory note.
The Blood Angels refused to let this golden opportunity slip away. They insisted on killing Horus once and for all to avenge their Gene-Father.
The other participants, however, largely opposed the plan. Attacking through the rebel fleet and ground-based artillery would likely cost them more than half the Expeditionary Force just to secure that opportunity.
If the Imperium threw away its Expeditionary Force so readily, Horus might be killed, but the entire Eastern Fringe, along with part of the Ultima Segmentum, would likely be lost.
In the worst case, even Ultramar would be engulfed in war.
When the Archmagos of the Adeptus Mechanicus announced that the probability of success was only 11.1816%, Blood Angels Company Captain McDoss's face darkened like the bottom of a scorched pot, and he walked straight out of the meeting.
He went back to rally reinforcements. He would gather as many sons of Sanguinius as he could, and even if every last one of them died, they would cut Horus down.
Titus, meanwhile, silently followed Agemman, the Ultramarines' First Company Captain, back.
Demetrian Titus, the former Captain of the Ultramarines' Second Company, had many great victories to his name.
For certain reasons, however, he had been taken away by the Inquisition for investigation. This time, Inquisitor Achilles had temporarily restored him to regular service.
Also temporarily conscripted were many of the Inquisition's "talented individuals" whose status was questionable. Like Titus, they had been dragged into this "deep-space expedition."
After all, compared with the potentially troublesome Titus and that assortment of dubious characters, Horus was clearly a far greater problem and more deserving of the Inquisition's attention.
"Captain, could this be real?" Titus asked.
"Let's hope it's false. Otherwise, we'll be in serious trouble."
Captain Agemman replied.
"Titus, this