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If the Iron Fleet was decimated in that encounter the Iron Warriors might have found it impossible to bring about the next stage of conflict. That the Hrud had placed such a powerful blow, both psychological and psychical, that it would have set a deep scar within the foundations of the Iron Warriors.
However, that was stopped by the intervention of the Mechanicus. If there was any way to describe the Iron Warriors it would be the sheer amount of spite that their Legion was able to muster when they were beaten down.
That was firstly manifested in the assault against the Hrud who almost destroyed them. While their anger had been the manifestation of Perturabo’s own they had extracted their blood tithe against the Xenos with emotion that showed they too felt that wroth.
When the battle was over it was calculated that at least a tenth of those xenos who caused the event were killed. While such numbers seemed to be low it was also estimated that roughly seventy percent of all Hrud within the galaxy had made themselves present at the Temporal Event.
Thus in effect they had sliced deeply into the numbers of Hrud. While the event could still happen once again the combined forces were now wise to such an epic exploit that the Hrud tried to pull upon the Iron Warriors. Thus a plan was given to TalOS to look over.
Written by his brother the designs were showing what were dozens of strike forces with roughly five ships a piece. These were each equipped with what was a modified design of a Gellar Field. Such a device was devised by the cooperation of Perturabo and the Lucian Auxiliary, but it was still by most metrics an untested design. In it TalOS easily found so many flaws that would have had it declared heretical. However the innovation was needed and it was only heretical thanks to the knowledge that TalOS had.
So he began his own work in review. The next few days as they prepared for the counter assault led to TalOS and Perturabo sharing these schematics and designs over the Noosphere which now covered the entire fleet.
In this time TalOS was not graced with the face of his brother nor did any of these communication have a letter within them. As TalOS heard from the Auxilia the Primarch had locked himself within the Iron Blood with his communications only coming as messages to his officers and TalOS.
This might have been worrisome, but TalOS had already spent an entire day’s meeting discussing war with the Warsmiths of the Iron Warriors. If his sons were any demonstration it was that the Iron Warriors were not sulking but thinking and stratagising.