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 deliberated 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 kill 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.
It was an irony for Azrael and Soshyan, who spent so much effort and sacrifice trying to save the planet's inhabitants, only to have to carry out their final extermination themselves.
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, there is no place for them in the Empire.
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 turned into 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 mining fleet of a certain Mechanicum will come here to set up a mining center to dig out the last mineral resources of the planet.
Things on the planet are over, but Soshyan still has a lot 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 exerted 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 war 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 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 Desolation Messenger-class 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 guy, a capital ship.
The first person to speak was not the Astartes Chapter, but the Imperial Navy.
The reason is also very simple——
The Codex Astartes does not allow the Chapter to have a capital ship of this level!
Moreover, the Navy decided to strike 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 twenty others would have been taken away. A few people were sent to the ship in the name of cleaning up the remaining enemies, 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 going to run away, and immediately sent out a team to escape.
Bahram's side received a gang-hopping signal.
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 jumpers didn't think much, 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 did, Azrael wouldn't.
The other three Chapter Masters were not reconciled.
The Gray Knights took a neutral stance on this matter. The Supreme Master left after meeting the Inquisitor, or disappeared again.
However, Soshyan did not choose to conflict with the Navy head-on. 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 ask for the equipment on it!
For example, engines, plasma furnaces, main guns, etc., it's 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 Soshyan’s subtext——
The ship can be handed over, but the Chapter must be compensated!
All that remains is the haggling phase.
After some operations by Soshyan, every battle group participating in this battle will receive a strike cruiser "sponsored" by the navy, and it is in stock! They were transferred directly from neighboring star regions, and even the crew members were packed away.
In fact, from the perspective of the navy, it is profitable, because the Desolation Emissary class battleship can no longer be manufactured. The original Desolation Emissary class of the empire has basically rebelled in the hands of Chaos. Five strike cruisers were 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! 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.
