A klaxon horn echoed across Mars Sara.
"All hands to Combat Station! All hands to Combat station!" The voice echoed on the Headquarters of Mars Sara.
The planet is now empty, all the civilians is evacuated the second time as they enter a gate that teleported them away from this place.
Alexander sighed as it been four years since the Zerg landed in Mars Sara, and He had to abandoned the planet, because he had to fight the Confederacy and the Zerg is flooding into the system with the former, his forces was basically just a Planetary Governor gone rogue on the broadcast, now he able to amass his forces.
Holding this planet before, once held no defensive position other than a Hive City that held out until his fleets return to destroy all the Zerg infestation.
Now this time, he would make them bleed, and bleed they will.
This is now his capital in this realm.
And if there was a ranking to the Imperium Warhammer capital best place to defend... This is in the ninth place.
Every inch of land was covered in guns and every cities and towns whose rooftops turned into flak towers and Artillery harmonica of barrels.
The pragmatism of the Iron warriors were in full effect, they literally overhauled the planet four years ago with just seventy thousand of their own.
Every ornament have either a hotshot laser, giant statues were like automated defenses, whose mouth were installed with auto cannon. Even the store glass were magnifier for laser defenses.
The roads were akin to a Runway able to hold a weight not just a baneblade to rush in but also a marauder bomber to land for emergency repairs.
Even the garden pots were makeshift mines in spite. And parks that people enjoyed were underground Railgun battery and Missile silos.
If someone asked who can weaponized Autism, Iron Warriors can. Anything they can see, can be weaponized for the war effort.
The reason why they consider by the High Lord, that the Iron Warriors is perfect for the job. And if they given full authority and had more time, they would had made the planet equivalent to a Iron Cage. For Kerrigan to suffer the most. This legion is the first to be recruited.
And they weaponized the planet they did.
Even the land below was a protected manufactorum to produce the ammunition and spare parts for the fight ahead. And hanger to launch the more exotic aircraft.
With the piece of the Artifact is sending beacon of its existence. The Zerg is flooding into a predetermined path.
Reports came in, that while the fringe worlds of the border of the imperial holding its defenses, some of the Planetary Governor self-destruct the planets to deny the Zerg to have a foothold. But it also corral the Zerg fleets into a boxed fleet.
His space is akin to a psychic nightmare.
Plenty of Necron Pylons were scattered every planet became active. Causing their cohesion to be fractured. Making their fleet to be feral by the numbers that could be picked off by the remaining fleets.
As it crippled the Zerg to ftl their fleets to the more important planets. Alexander deliberately didn't activate the Necron Pylons that been constructed in Mar Sara last year.
He wants to make them bleed to the point of ensuring that the Zerg would be crippled.
While the Zerg land based forces is near infinite, the Zerg had one problem.
Their leviathans are not so easy to replace.
They use organism to be infected by the Zerg and use them to be transport. The Zerg Leviathans was just space whales.
Alexander mused to himself. The Zerg, as long as you allowed a single drone land on the planet, they would raised hives to fueled their war effort. It was a numbers game.
While it is just a knockoffs of a Tyranid. He didn't dared looked down on them. Especially they did took over the planet for the first time while he's been building the planet to be a capital planet.
This time... He is not letting them leave.
Any assets from the fringe colonies that can be salvage are retreated to the more stablized battlelines.
Fleets that belonged to the planets that self-destruct, joined the fleet ls that need their manpower..
In a sense the casualties is minimal. As he was greedy to not let a single planet fall after the first few planets burnt to the ground.
More are shored up to defend the borders and the factory and forge worlds is having double shifts if necessary. Even the overtime pay was announced to be paid by the hour and allowed the people to have rest. Causing the manufactorum to meet the quotas.
The shipyards are working overtime to produce the ships and the dockyards is like a Christmas lights at the ships hull that survived the conflict with the Zerg.
The people knew the consequences, if they failed, they and their families would be devoured, their corpses would be used against their home and friends. And every little bit of their contribution helped to deter the monsters at bay.
Even the planet that were considered safe were filled with patrols and psykers scan their planet they lived in with the Zerg psychic imprint.
As all the civilians that evacuated on foot, entered these gates are in actuality, his own Internal Galaxies.
Nine internal galaxy is enough to house his people and ensure that he can wage war with no remorse.
So even if the enemies of the Imperium had spies, like Infested terrans. They are unable to hear or even send out the message. And the moment they entered the realm they were teleported elsewhere to containment planets.
After the battle is done, they can return to normality
Now, There are no Civilians in Mar Sara that would dragged into the fight.
The people that stayed are all military.
And they hunger the war.
Ammunition flowed not by crates, but cargo containers.
Pastors and priest of the Imperium faith, walked in the trenchlines and give the soldiers words of encouragement, with the Sisters of Battle accompanied the procession. Their incense balls wafted their lavender and oak scented smoke across the battlelines. Some even bless the recuited with lemon water.
This time, he didn't held back his cards.
Seventy imperator titans, three hundred warbringer titans, a thousand warhound titans, five hundred Errant Knights and sixty thousand mechs to be deployed and half of the Mechs were just Battletech Riflemen. Each defending a checkpoint around the artifact location. Had he summoned more, the planet couldn't bear the logistical burden.
And it was to hide that he could indeed summon more than necessary.
And every defensive structure is Iron warriors approved. They took note of the Zerg weaponry that even the sandbags is nuclear proof and bolted down.
Every aircraft that are on the surface area, all VTOL, ready to hum to life at a moments notice, their machine spirit hummed to devour. And those that aren't, is equipped with a electronic magnetic catapult to launch them in subsonic speeds.
And the fleets above are veterans of the war against the UED.
This was the best of the best.
Each of them have a order, destroy all the leviathans that arrive the system. And ensure that Raynor pick up the artifact.
If Kerrigan was here personally, Alexander would deal with her. If not he would just defend the capitol until the Zerg are fully destroyed. Let Raynor have his adventures.
But he would perhaps assist them... In due time.
The defenses of the space fleet that surrounded Mars Sara was dense.
They knew what it going on.
Expansive minefields that littered in the billions were scattered around, each square meter of space had about five or even ten of them.
The orbital Space Elevator and Dockyards have the MAC cannons from Halo.
As it was more cheaper to toss tungsten rounds and it can fire thirty shots per minute.
And as a redundancy weaponry if the electricity is destroyed.
Ten Ramilles Fortress stations arrived and teleported to aid the defenses. Each surrounded the borders of the planet central point, making it like a space starforts with the one that hovered above the planet to provide fire support.
And The Orbital defense platforms numbered in the hundreds. Covering the blind spots of the Starfort guns
Each having a hangars in their hold that housed several wings of fighters.
Had it been during the Confederacy era, Alexander couldn't done this without raising suspicion. Now, the Zerg would pay handsomely.
It was not over kill. Only being prepared.
Those that were recruited from the galaxy known war, they never looked down on the Zerg, and if they did, they paid dearly with their lives. Those that were locals, recuited normally faced the horrors first hand, they knew the fact if they escape the Zerg would find where the families is hidden.
The observation outpost on the now fortified planet of Chau Sara detected the Signs of Zerg FTL drives, as they had similar signatures during the brood war the Zerg waltzed into the system as if it was the norms..
The First Leviathan arrived into the system.
And before it unloaded the unending hordes of Zerg fliers, its skull is bashed by sheer amount of Mac rounds and Lancer fire.
But it didn't falter until a suicidal barge rammed into the belly of the beast and unloaded Nuclear Hell fire torpedoes and close range and killing it instant.
Scorching the internals of the Zerg organism. The first defensive lines held, with one automated barge destroyed.
And more and more leviathans is arriving at their locations. And they met by the numerous mines that laid before them.
Each of these mines bore Antimatter and miniature Dark hole that rended their fleet apart.
Kerrigan knew the man that is behind the armies.
Even more tenacious than Acturus.
And more insane if needed to be proven a point.
She sent a third entirety of the Zerg forces. directly at Alexander Imperium.
Because he was more of a bigger threat than Acturus. And the feelings were mutual. As Alexander knew she is crazy with power. And she, at this stage is beyond help
And the first leviathan that was killed as a expensive pointman.
And now, she decided to attack in all directions.
The detection squads detected FTL drives of the Zerg surrounded the system.
She didn't cared about the losses as more can be remade. The Zerg is unending. But the defiance of the Imperial Aquila is eternal.
The invincible spear versus the invincible shield.
The Unending numbers of the Zerg versus the Spiteful Imperium.
Hundreds of thousands fighters and mechs died by the hour, formed a debris field that were like a artificial ring. Forming a second makeshift minefield as their damaged reactors were primed to detonate.
The second wave of leviathans taken out the minefields and third wave is upon the defenders, now it is up to the captains and pilots of the Imperialis Navis to test their mettle.
Broadsides of numerous Imperial ships fired neutron shells that is made from dead stars. Salvos of shells and plasma fired nonstop and lit up the void.
Zerg Leviathans rammed their giant tendrils to drill the ships witth fast speed that would crippled or maimed them. However the void shields held on the assault.
Fighters rained missiles and rockets that scorch the space that it reverberate by the sheer amount of explosions.
The Zerg Fliers used their bodies to block the more critical damaging part of the leviathans, and it provoked the captains to increased the volume of shells at their location.
Forcing Kerrigan to spread out and having did damage control would locate the weak point of the Zerg.
The orbital defense platforms fired their lasers that it would blind any foes that attempted to land at the planet. Torpedoes and missiles were like a tide bashed against the waves of Zerg.
First line was breached, slowly, and the trickle was like creeping pus that gush from the wound. Like a crack in a Dam that is about to break.
More ships blocked the breached lines.
And there was a small gap that she noticed.
Kerrigan was amused on where did he get so many ships.
"Go My minions! And Claim my prize!" Kerrigan spoke. Amused against the tenacity of the Imperium.
She took advantage and pierced the crack, uncaring of the fact it was already a trap. The crack the imperial had made was just a killing corridor for their targetz.
She immediately used her powers to directly teleported five leviathans past the defensive lines. Right above Mars Sara.
The Ramille star fortress had to focused half of their fire support to the immediate threat.
Diverting their barrels to the Zerg ships that teleported to the orbit of Mars Sara.
Zerg Drop pods and their fliers immediately immediately landed on the surface below.
What the Zerg met was a planet like no other.
This planet was covered in guns and metal.
The barrels glistening and fresh out of a forges of the Mechanicum.
And a clouds of flak and streams of tracer and lasers, covered the skies that what was a blue skies turned darkened by the metal shrapnel of the flak and missiles and lasers were like guiding beacon to direct the horde that the defenders shot down everything as much as possible..
Every inch of the planet roared in hatred to the skies above.
Kerrigan may think that she can use the Civilians as a infested Terrans, but she didn't realize that, the man already predicted her actions, every seemingly weakly defended towns were antimatter bombs that were triggered upon the Zerg approach
The Howitzers and artillery rained non stop, they lobbed inferno rounds and flesh eating Nano machine that devoured the Zerg in mere seconds. Not even spores remained.
But the Zerg managed to land at the far south of the planet, far from their target, where the saturation of fire and flames is at the thinness.
There, they grew the hives and hatcheries at rapid pace, the dread of every governor that faced them.
Seeing that the landing zones was far from her target, Kerrigan used the remaining forces to land at the safe zone, as the leviathans that she teleported is being ripped apart before they could provide meaningful assistance.
The battle line is set and the Imperium vs the Zerg is about to start.
The Zerg is flooding into the north now, numbered like grains in the sand.
"Fookin hell mate, there's too many of them!"
"Then shoot everywhere. Where's ya trigga finga laddie! Is it good for pleasing the ladies!?"
"Shite, where's the ammo boi! We need stubber shells at section eight!"
"Got the monster!"
"Mortar at our location, and we need it now!"
"Oh, Shiii-" a man yelled as a Zergling managed to enter the defensive lines and attacked him, a glimmer of a faint outline of a energy shield block the stunned guardsmen, giving him time to pierce the Zergling with shovel.
The trenchlines complex were massive, hail of Artillery and Las fire still rained at the trenches beyond their stations.
The Zerg rushed towards the trenchlines to devour the defenders within.
One wave of Zerglings were dead and another rushed in nonstop.
"Shite, its overran ovah here!"
"Eh, don't mind the chief, he didn't get to say goodbye to his grandkid." Another smiled at his leader antics .
In the trenches, it was not age that determine the valor within.
But the bonds of their unity they shared.
By killing as much Zerg as possible.
"Aye, ya wank, she just turned five today! And I ain't going to die before she gets a husband I would approve off!"
"Yeesh, old timer, less yelling mah ears, more killy!"
"Ultralisk! Fockin fiver of them, heading towards us!" A soldier screamed as a group of ultralisk rushed towards the lines.
Each step they made tripped the landmines in their wake.
A giant tremor were heard behind the trenches and the defenders saw a company of baneblades lined up with their guns facing forward.
"This is Chau Fury company, let them taste our barrels of hell!"
The synchronized firing of the baneblades fired upon the titanic Zergs. Temporary deafen the guardsmen around it.
The bolters and rocket launcher that launched deathstrike missiles rained on the battlefield, turning the wave into a charcoal mess.
Each shot hit a Zerg in their wake. Either ended them either bursting into fine mist or leaving their body half empty.
The Zerg Ultralisks screamed as they was devoured from within from the shots that were inflicted upon them. Slowly they disintegrated just a few meter before they crash into the defensive lines burst into a cloud of metallic cloud. And it spread to the rest of the Zerg Infestation, creep and Zerg alike.
The soldiers looked in awe as the
This shells were special.
They were the product of anti-tyranid program and the shells were condensed form of reprogrammed self-replicating flesh eating Nano machines. The same one that defended Baal via a river, the home world of the Blood Angels.
The cloud devoured every Zerg in its wake until the line in the section of the theater is stabilized again.
The soldiers of the Imperium were a sort of a weird group.
They knew they gonna die, but they can still smile at the face of death.
Each section were protected by certain factions of the Imperium.
Some were Mordian, Others were Tannith Snipers, and Cadian Regiments fought at the trenches.
One section of the trenches that was the first trenchlines, was the Iron warriors that bore the brunt of the Zerg Assault that spearheaded towards their location..
They fought against the tide of Zerg claws and flesh, outnumbered but not outgunned.
Their heavy flamers and sounds of storm bolters were the signs they still in the fight.
Even if they retreated, the trenchline that is so far from the battlelines is rigged with anti matter explosives. Ready to take everyone with them. Alexander knew it, but it was inevitable.
Another wave, another chance to prove themselves for promotion.
Heroes and martyrs were made this very day.
The flag of the Imperial, now tattered in blood of their flag bearer stood against the tide.
Alexander used this war as a way to improved their tactics and technology.
He no longer used HE shells and Ap Rounds, but anti-matter and nano machines. Regardless of caliber, each guns can now deal more damage to the Zerg carapace.
The Zerg would not just be a punching bag, but also a testing bed for the Mechanicum to deploy experimental weaponry.
One section even had Tesla coils that were overcharged to have chain lighting of a trillion volts. Frying everything in their wake.
If Kerrigan knew what he was doing, she would have been frustrated..
Alexander sense her frustrations, she was just a simple ghost that is infested, she knows simple tricks and learn second hand knowledge of strategy and war from the Overmind.
But he is the High Lord of the Imperium, he witness war and understand the cruelty of it.
Every men and women died under his command, he knows their stories. He knew their future.
But this artifact is the beacon to drain as much enemy as possible.
Every lines held, retracted and contracted to deny the Zerg their final prize, saved for the Iron warriors that simply air assault their own trenches and recuperate their own.
Every combat data was relayed in real time and dissected to improved the weapons.
Lasguns is tweaked their frequency of their Krystal's power, Computation of increased sacred powder for the Astartes and titan bolters.
Mountain of Zerg piled high as flames turned their corpses into ashes by the titans. Sending ashes to fertilize the barren soil.
Mutalisk, brood lords and corruptor were swatted out of the skies and fell to the dirt as paste or just outright mist of putrid flesh and sinew.
They didn't even breach the first three defensive lines.
The mere irony that they didn't even reach the lines where the titans stood.
Rockets and artillery rained at the defensive lines.
Uncaring where it hits, only the location they landed.
The frontlines were expanding forward.
Inching closer to the Zerg landing zones.
But in a desperate attempt Kerrigan sent Nydus worm and forced them to burst near the artifact locations.
As it looked around.
They saw flamethrowers, literally flamethrowers everywhere. From the normal soldiers held flamethrowers to the Tanks and titan held flamethrowers.
The golden bluish flames scorch the nydus worms and even a titan grabbed one of the nydus worm with its power fist the worm and used its flamethrowers to scorch the contents within the worms mouth. The flames of the sun turned the worm into charcoal.
Some of the soldiers rushed into the gaping mouth of the dead nydus worm to kill the enemy from within scorching the internal of the Zerg organism as they walked towards their location.
The last gambit failed.
Now, the as the final closure of the war is at the head.
Below where the Zerg landed, where they felt safe from the fury of humanity, millions of promethium bombs were buried deep beneath where the Zerg think they were safe.
The explosives were hidden from the scent and psychic gazes of the Zerg.
Alexander simply placed a sunglass as he click a red button to enjoy the fireworks.
The land that the Zerg held control burst into flames that went to the heavens. Like a volcano chain erupted at the same time as the fire and the screams of the Zerg symbolize that their holdings will have no place in the Imperium.
The land turned into glass by the sheer amount of heat and turned the more durable Zerg into Glass sculptures.
The Zerg leviathans attempted to leave, now too late, a breath away, the trap is set, The Necron Pylons in Mars Sara, now activated and connected the pylon network, effectively cutting off the fleet command from Kerrigan mind.
The Zerg Fleet is now crippled beyond salvage.
And those that Kerrigan tried to escape, were cut off from her psychic connection.
And turned feral by the billions, but what mere primitive savagery faced against the fury of the Imperium?
All the Zerg that rammed headfirst into the walls of the Imperium were put down and those that remained were captured for test subjects and Trazyn Collection...
Hundreds of millions Imperial Guardsmen died or maimed beyond service. Many whose fathers, sons, cousins, sisters and brothers died in the service of the imperium.
Compared to the casualties of the former imperium, this is considered a flawless victory.... As the casualties were the total amount in the theater of their Dominion.
The battle data is already sent and now the forge worlds is implementing the results.
Acid proof carapace armor, improved shield belts were mass produced. To increase the survivability of the soldiers. The soldiers death is not meaningless, as their death not only provide the insight of the Zerg biology, but improved the survival of the soldiers lifespan.
Now the survival rate of the guardsmen is now a guarantee first week as selected veterans go back and trained the recruits to survive the Zerg invasion.
Ships were destroyed and needed repairs by the hundreds. Dockyards harbor the crippled ships whose estimation of recovery is unknown.
Alexander gave a psychic message to the Queen of blades.
"Try harder, queen of blades, your pettiness is meaningless."
The planet is ravaged by the battle a second time, but this time it stood proudly as it bore the scars of the battlefield.
The Imperial war machine is now working more smoothly than before, and the notion of them being crippled is laughable.
Kerrigan Gambit failed. And she failed hard.
Now what came from the ashes of Mars Sara, is not recruits that just tossed into the battlefield, but is a battle hardened troopers that learn the traits of the Zerg.
And what they learned is already spread across the forces of the Imperium.
Raynor Raiders fleet arrived at the planet three days later. They didn't have the Warp technology but used the native ftl drive to enter the borders of the Imperium core worlds.
"Jeez, that amount of hardware... Is enough to take over the Domion and still have some leftovers!" One of the crew spoke as he saw the giant ships silently escorting their own.
The Zerg corpses littered like debris, causing trade lanes to be clogged up, more jobs to clean up the space.
The fight was brutal, from the crew of Raynor Raiders, it held a sense of pride... Because they already shifted their families away from the Dominion, in the event that Acturus would lashed out against them.
And giving them less of a reason to betray Raynor.
Matt Horner noticed that the ships that escorted them bore severe damages etched on the hulls. And as he about to wonder what the hell happened.
A giant carcass of a Zerg leviathan floated pass his command deck.
Bigger than the imperial ships that is poling holes in the body of the dead giant.
"*Whistle* Damm, that man seriously packed a punch... Let's hurry then." Raynor looked at the sight of the remnants of the battlefield.
After their ftl is recovered they launched once more.
What they arrived is a Planetary system that was fortified to the core.
It had been a few years since they arrived from the borders of the Imperium and now Mar Sara changed, it was like a fortress of silver and grey. and at the southern point of the planet was glassed to the point that they could see from orbit.
The defenders looked at them with pride and honor as they landed in the surface below and grab the artifact.
What Matt and Raynor met near the artifact, was a tired Alexander that writing reports in the room, with a simple desk that was provided for him.
"About time you shown up, where had you been?" Alexander smiled at Raynor.
"I.. umm.. about that artifact.... Is it true? About using it to save Kerrigan?" Raynor spoke.
The dreams were vivid, he was here on Mars Sara when the artifact was uncovered.
He was just under Mobius payroll with Tychus to grabbed the artifact.
But now in his place was Alexander that guarded the artifact.
With a army that is beck and call to him.
"Where to now boss?" Tychus spoke.
Alexander looked at Raynor and spoke.
"Follow your memories... Those dreams must meant something yes?" Raynor was alarmed. Only he and Tychus knew it.
"How, did you know? Damnit Tychus, I shoulda known"
"Ain't me, lil Jimmy. I ain't talking to boss."
"Rest your fears... If you follow the dreams, you may find Kerrigan at the end. Mobius foundation Is payrolling your expenses."
"Why not simply use the fleet to enter the Dominion?" Matt Horner asked.
"Simple, that is their problems and it ain't mine. They would definitely looked at us as the enemy more than the Zerg. Besides, if the situation gotten worse, I would send my relief forces to aid the fringes of the Dominion, nothing more."
Raynor felt conflicted. After all the man before him had known about his problems.
"Look, Raynor if you known about your memories of those dreams, you must had realize that you are just a washed up rebel commander. And Acturus gave Tychus on a ribbon to kill Kerrigan."
"Are you tryin to kill her as well? Didn't you join the Dominion like my own memories as well?"
"Why should I? She... Is currently still infested by the deceased Overmind orders. As for the Dominion, that's just politics, rest assured. I not using you to kill Kerrigan, I want you to save her." Alexander smiled as he beckon the people to sit down.
"What did you known about the memories that you received..." Alexander asked.
Raynor felt like he was compelled to say what is on his thoughts.
"I only... Got as far as Char, but each memory is flooding into my head beyond that."
"I see, then I will assist you as far as Char, after that, you on your own. Drowning in beer would just make you blind to the problem, not fix it. Tychus, take care of our boy over here, how's the Heavenly devil Mercenary?"
"Lookin fine and dandy, found a sweet medic from the UED though, mighty fine indeed." Tychus smiled.
"I will hire your mercenaries for the duration of Jimmy over here get his Lil ex-girlfriend from the Zerg."
"Does it include hazard pay? My men is pretty money guzzling vultures."
"I'm a man of my word, besides, you are free to make a choice, do you now, Tychus?" Alexander smiled as he prepared a dataslate from the drawer.
A dataslate was pushed to the location to Tychus side.
He glance at it and found there were no loopholes for him to get screwed over.
"Seemed like I get paid being a babysitter for Jimmy all over again. Fine, I take the contract." Tychus pressed his thumbprint.
"Can you let those... Cogboys take a look at my rig, need some tune-up for protecting jimmy."
"Fine, just don't wrecked it on the streets of Korhal."
"Knew about that too huh? Figures when you have a demigod as your employer."
"Let's just say, this time, that Odin is needed to save Jimmy life." Alexander spoke cryptically.
Both of them glance at the figure in question that was gazing off the dusk of Mars Sara.
They left the planet tomorrow as they loaded up the necessary supplies and money to pay off the crew.
The artifact was kept in the science room in the bowel of the science room that a certain Steinmann was eager to research the material.
Raynor had nothing but to follow the dreams he had before.
Alexander left on Mars Sara as he was doing cleanup.
He glanced at the Next target that is on his list.
The Kel-Morian tried to fish in the muddy waters and made off some of the technology that remained in the battlefield and they were pirate hired by the Kel-Morian to ran off with the technology. And it was already a justification for war.
"Kel-Morian Combine sure made house calls huh? Admiral, prepped a fleet and we are going to invade the Kel-Morian for taking advantage of our war and keeping pirates! Opportunist bastards have no place in the Emperor vision!" Alexander spoke.
The effect of the technology being made without supervision was scarring.
If the Kel-Morian tried to reverse engineered the tech, at best they would erupt a black hole killing their scientist and the morons, at worse, a hole into the warp, allowing chaos to gaze upon this untainted galaxy.
The reason why chaos is busy, is because The God Emperor is already diverting their full attention since one of his version of himself is fully awaken and marching his armies to aid his other versions of himself, it was only a matter of time till he is powerful to contend with the concept of human emotions.
And it was impossible to noticed a couple of gaps of the materium that is free from the Anti-chaos.
Naval fleets is prepped for launch and now the invasion have begun.
The Kel-Morian didn't realize that the Imperium is vengeful incarnate and they believed that they took a few trinkets from the battlefield they would be safely ignored.
Perhaps in their mind they could profit off the technology.
Maybe sell the technology to the Dominion or the Umojans...
They already marked for death. And they didn't know it.
They didn't know a crusade was being form right now. With their stupidity as a excuse of expanding the territory of the imperium.
Alexander didn't bother them, but they did and their resource abundant planets were suitable for the imperial war machine.
He did heard of how they treated the refugees that would eventually start a Zerg zombie outbreak so it was another bonus to attack them.