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“It does not matter, it was clear she was the one who allowed the rebellion to take place.” Perturabo said as he tried to mentally tarnish the memory of his sister, “Calliphone… she died as all foolish vassals had. She wanted to reap the resources of Olympia for herself instead of allowing it to furnish the entire Imperium. For that she brought death to herself.”
“She will not be the last.” TalOS reasoned as he struck a chord, “The Imperium, built upon domination, will have issues like this from time to time when there is a sense of Imperial Weakness. Your Sister simply did not have the will to stop a rebellion during a time of Imperial Strength.”
“What it does rob us of is an ease to solve the issues.” Perturabo announced as he walked up to the corpse of his Sister, “Without a governor then we cannot force tribute. I could do so, but it is obvious to me that they are seeing me as their enemy.”
“There might be a few who are loyal to you.” The Priest pointed out, “If we do an invitation then they might come to follow you still. Such is reasonable as every man has a different opinion.”
Perturabo weighed the fact and wondered to himself. His brother spoke a sense of truth, but those people will still wish to exact a price upon his head. After all, the entire planet was in revolt, but just a select group.
“There are two others you can consider,” His brother began, “First is that we invite them upon the name of the Mechanicus. While I can see many of them do not like the Priests of Mars they will respect my order enough to give me pause. Especially if they are those who benefited greatly from our exploits. The other is that we simply start conquest, starting here once more on Lochos, to demonstrate that their resistance is futile. I calculate such a campaign to take two months if we employ the Iron Warriors in orbit.”
“All of these still leave the need for a Governor.” Perturabo pointed out.
“We can empower your Warsmith up until we find someone suitable. After all, in times of peril, we must make do with what we have.”
>Try and gather loyalists
>Gather everyone to hear their grievances
>Start the reconquest.
