For Soshyan, although the Black Legion finally withdrew, the battle against the Death Star was not completely over yet. What he had to face was a planet that had suffered severe corrosion.
The influence of Chaos has not been completely eliminated because the subspace rift has been closed, and may even affect the residents living above it thousands of years later.
The five Chapter Masters and the Supreme Master of the Gray Knights discussed for two hours and finally made a decision——
An extermination order will be executed on the Pai Shang planet, but due to the existence of the rift, the entire planet cannot be destroyed. Biological weapons can only be used to exterminate all life on the planet.
Among these life forms, there are both native creatures of the planet and a small number of remaining native inhabitants of the planet.
For Azrael and Soshyan, this is quite ironic. They spent great efforts and sacrifices to try to save the planet's inhabitants, but in the end they had to personally carry out their final extermination.
If there had been no rebellion, perhaps things could have been restored, but the large-scale rebellion of the planet's residents pushed everything into the abyss.
Whether voluntarily or involuntarily, the empire has no place for them.
The first to evacuate are the Astra Militarum who participated in the battle. They will return to their respective stations and home planets. After repairing and undergoing review and purification, they will be replenished and put into new battlefields.
After the Astra Militarum retreated, the orbiting fleet dropped hundreds of deadly virus bombs onto the planet's surface. After the virus devoured all life, vegetation, and oceans, a luminous spear from the Eternal Loyal ignited the atmosphere.
The once lush and green Pavilion Star instantly turned into a burning star.
It burned for a whole week. After that, the planet became a desolate world with no ecology. The name of the Pavilion was removed from the imperial planet number. It will become the backup resource planet bh-08113 in the future.
One day, perhaps a certain Mechanicus mining fleet will come here to set up a mining center to dig out the planet's last mineral resources.
The matter on the planet is over, but Soshyan still has many things on his hands.
The first is the distribution of spoils after the war. This battle wiped out many Chaos Space Marines of the Black Legion. Although in principle, those people's belongings should be destroyed, but in this period of scarcity of equipment and resources, even the Dark Angels cannot
Mind using purified equipment, such as spare parts for Terminator armor.
Moreover, Abaddon evacuated in a hurry, leaving behind a small armory underground, which also contained a lot of equipment, many of which were looted from the empire, and even the imperial marks on it were not erased.
After discussion, as the Dark Angel who had made great efforts in this battle, Soshyan gave the opponent 30%, which was not a small amount. As the leader of the battle, the Astral Knights themselves only had 30%, leaving three battle groups.
To divide the remaining 40%.
The Gray Knights do not participate in the distribution of trophies, but all trophies must be inspected by them to confirm that there is no great danger before they are allowed to be recovered by the five Astartes Chapters.
Those that they consider dangerous, or those related to psychic powers and witchcraft, are "destroyed" by the Gray Knights on their behalf.
Of course, only the Gray Knights themselves know whether it will be destroyed or not.
After the equipment was divided, it became the battleships, but nothing was captured in the final naval battle, only the Emissary of Desolation class, the Endless Wrath.
But here's the trouble. If there are no captures at all, then that's it. Or if we capture a few small ships, then it doesn't matter to everyone. But this is a big thing, a battleship.
The first person to speak was not the Astartes Chapter, but the Imperial Navy.
The reason is also very simple——
Codex Astartes does not allow the Chapter to have a capital ship of this level!
Moreover, the Navy decided to act first and then play its part. Not long after the battle ended, it secretly sent two tugboats to tow away the Everlasting Fury with its engine down. If Lothar hadn't had a foresight, Bahram and the other 20 would have been taken away.
A few people were sent to the ship in the name of clearing out the remnants of the enemy, and they might have allowed the other party to succeed.
There's something wrong here.
It turned out that when Bahram and others went to the ship, they found that all the Chaos Space Marines inside had already escaped, so they immediately ordered the technical heretics above to restore the engine. As soon as the engine was repaired, the navy's tug fleet arrived.
As a result, the Infinite Wrath started its engines, which made the Navy think that the ship was about to escape, and immediately dispatched a jump team.
Bahram's side received a signal to join the gang.
Because the bridge of the Everlasting Fury had been hit hard and the communication channels between the two sides were completely mismatched, it was impossible to identify ourselves and the enemy immediately. Bahram and others set up an ambush near the entrance of the bridge - according to Bahram's description
, they did this because the number of people was too small, and they were worried that their dispersed deployment would be defeated one by one, so they simply laid an ambush on the only way to pass, turned off all lighting facilities, and opened fire when there was any movement.
Then the unlucky gang members didn't think much about it, thinking it was a mutiny among the old crew members on the ship, and headed towards the bridge.
Soshyan didn't ask about the specific process that followed. He only knew that two captains and more than thirty gang members died on the navy side - this was because Sablin gave up in time when he heard someone shouting "For the Emperor"
Everyone cease fire, otherwise the entire Navy's gang jumping team may be scrapped.
The Navy did not mention this matter later, but it made a very strong request to recover the warship.
Soshyanken?
Of course he refused.
Even if he was willing, Azriel wouldn't.
The other three Chapter Masters were not reconciled either.
The Gray Knights took a neutral stance on this matter. The Supreme Master left after meeting with the Inquisitor, or disappeared again.
However, Soshyan did not choose to have a head-on conflict with the Navy. He told the Navy Commander that several battle groups participated in that battle, and the Navy also participated, so the Wrath of the Endless was considered a joint prize, and the Adeptus Astartes could not
I want this ship directly, but I can also ask for the equipment on it!
For example, for engines, plasma furnaces, and main guns, it is okay for several battle groups to have a few of them each.
This shocked the navy representatives. They had never seen such logic before. Doesn't this mean that the ship was dismantled?
But everyone is a human being, and soon the Navy came to their senses and understood Soshiyang’s subtext——
The ship can be handed over, but the warband must be compensated!
All that's left is the bargaining process.
After some operations by Soshyan, each war group participating in this battle will receive a strike cruiser "sponsored" by the navy, and it is ready-made! It is directly transferred from the neighboring star sector, and even the crew is packed.
In fact, from the perspective of the navy, it is a profit, because the Desolation Emissary class battleship can no longer be manufactured. The original Desolation Emissary class of the empire has basically defected to the hands of Chaos. Five strike cruisers are exchanged for one out-of-print, powerful main battleship.
, it’s a good deal no matter what.
For Soshyan, forcibly eating a battleship is not only unrealistic, but also too eye-catching. He now wants to reduce the attention as much as possible.
The reason——
Not long after the battle, Soshyan received a secret signal from Thor. The Legion's flagship, the Avesta, had been obtained! It is now hidden in a certain area of the galaxy's small star belt!
In fact, when he received Lothar's battle report, he realized that the Legion flagship had appeared. He was just curious about how Thor could operate such a giant ship by himself.