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TalOS gave his nod of understanding to those words, “Then your Legion to keep their attention towards the Machine Spirit. It will try and work, but putting so much weight upon its spirit might cause it to falter.”
“Maintenance will not be a problem.” Barked Ferrus, “If my Legion cannot maintain their own ships then it will be a failure.”
“Then you are suggesting that your Astartes learn the Rituals and Rights?”
“I do. If there is a time where we have lost a battle and cannot recover within a week’s time it will be a great failure on both us and the Imperium. The enemy will only get more ground if we let them have it.”
“So you plan to keep them down through attrition?” TalOS asked his brother with a hint of curiosity.
“I do.” Ferrus Manus answered swiftly, “There is more work then we can do this week on this ship. The armor is too thin, the guns weak, and there are too many points where it can fail.”
“It is something to be expected of a Grand Cruiser, unless one is specially made the Mechanicum will go with the most balance of approaches.” TalOS answered as he looked upon the ship, “It will take time and resources if you want to outfit this vessel to be greater in all of those marks you give it. As a Primarch you have near limitless resources when refitting a ship, but with the time table of six more days we cannot do everything.”
To those words TalOS heard an odd click coming from his brother. Not one of the tongues but a quick exhaling of air. Either way it demonstrated the stubbornness that his brother was surely having, finding himself between a rock and a hard place when it came to both finding glory and making things how he liked it.
“You have had ship combat.” He said as his metal helm looked upon TalOS, “What has given you the most benefit?”
>Sensors, no enemy should be able to sneak up on you.
>Guns, lots of guns.
>If you can take the hits, you can deal them out.
