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“Terra…” TalOS started with a moment’s wonderment, “I have heard that word a few times here on Lucius. Horus, you must understand first and foremost that we of the Mechanicum did not find the planet capable of anything. I have seen records from my Martian fellows but is it truly the heart of a new Empire?”
“That is so!” Laughed the Emperor’s son with delight, “A lot can happen in a few thousand years you must understand. Why, the Emperor proved what can occur in a few hundred through the Unification Wars.”
“Unification Wars, that was a two hundred eleven year crusade to reunite the tribes of Terra. Something similar happened to Mars but to accomplish it in only a few hundred.”
“You are selling the Emperor short TalOS.” Laughed the herculean man with a laugh, “But it was through his ingenuity and limitless ability that the world is now built. Many of the great cities that dotted Terra still held as our Father did not war but convinced their people to become his vassals. The last time I had been there, roughly three years ago now, those very cities had doubled in size as folk from all over the Imperium came to it. If it continues at this rate we will not be able to see the ground in a thousand years!”
“Terra a Hive World, none of the previous predictions could have foresaw that.” TalOS admitted the ignorance of Lucius, “But they were before the time of our creator.”
“Indeed it was.” Horus laughed as he shined TalOS a grin, “How about you TalOS? I have heard whispers among the Martians that this planet has now been scarred twice.”
TalOS felt a small bit of solace within his heart as he heard such words, “The Martian Priests were not wrong. It was after the moment I was ordained into the Priesthood that the Plastoids attacked this world. It was before I had developed the Acillians so it was only our Skitarii and Mechanized Armies against what were armies of Sorcerers and their odd Sorcerer Titans. As the Knights of Dutonis would say, it was the first day I rode Particep Semper into battle.”
“Rode? Do you have one of those greater machines?” Asked Horus with curiosity.
“We did not have the Knights of Dutonis at that time, Horus. My ‘Steed’ in their terms is one of the greatest God Machines that Lucius has to offer. The Imperator Titan known as Particep Semper.”
“A Titan?” There was a small laugh building within the voice of Horus as he registered those words, “So your first real battle was in the Princep’s seat of those mighty machines?”
“I have.” TalOS declared as he fashioned a smirk, “I can safely say it was one of the greatest days of my life to wield such awesome might.”
