>>5663136Now if only that massive military might was surrounding TalOS like the protective shell it's supposed to be during this time of war. We came here to Sol so that in the salvation of Mars and the aid of Rogal Dorn, we would buy more time for Perturabo to send as much of the Federation here to Sol as he can.
The Federation is secondary. We've rebuilt it before, we can rebuild it again. The most important thing he can do is:
-Get a shit load of troops and ships here
-Do not let Fulgrim or Lorgar or Horus slay us
Everything can be rebuilt so long as we and Terra survive. And even Terra's survival may or may not be so important as we have alternatives to the Astronomican as a C'tan Shard.
He's had anywhere between 8 years to do this (iirc when we became the Omnissiah by battling the Crons it was only "months away" from Istvaan 006.M31. Horus arrives, if he is on time, at 014.M31 unless QM makes him do shortcuts but that throws the rest of the Heresy outta whack).
Our boy has one job: Break the damn Siege. We've given him time, troops, resources, a way to break through the ruinstorm through the BSF.
This is the most important task he was literally designed to do. This is the equivalent of asking Magnus to perform a warp feat, or Jagatai Khan to get somewhere with haste.
It all depends on him, and us not to do something stupid by risking TalOS until Perty arrives with the very literal Knightly cavalry of a hundred Questoris worlds.
Perturabo please don't fuck this up.