Yggdra had opted for the Outer Heaven to be stationed in orbit of the previously besieged colony world within the Galaxy W40K, that being the designation originally given to this galaxy until the Valkyrians would find the name of it made by the oldest, living natives. The 36th SPL Fleet "XNFE" (Nafe) was reinforced over Yggdra and Naru's slumber cycle by the two more SPL fleets, the 35th "MZMA" (Mazama) and 30th SPL "WARR" (War) fleets, adding 1,000 Kreons, 600 Frigates, 500 Heavy Cruisers, 50 Snipers, 3 Scopes, 50 Dreadnoughts, 2 Super-Dreadnoughts, and 1 Dreadnought Leviathan to the small colony's defenses. They would be able to shield the colony from all but a large, dedicated assault from the Orks should the greenskins return somehow.
The battle world "Justification" had its entire surface excavated by a dedicated fleet of City-Eaters, leaving it bare of even Ork spores. All ships and ship remains from the space battle have since been collected and returned to the bellies of Outer Heaven where they would be repaired in anywhere between hours to days, depending on the number of ships that were damaged or destroyed.
It was six human hours after going to sleep that Yggdra woke up. The window panes were tinting the distant star's light so there was no need of worrying about it waking Naru up. Yggdra sat up in her bed while cradling Naru in her arms with enough grace to not even disturb her. Looking over her features, she noticed that her mixture of red and white hair was nearly completely white like her own and her skin was devoid of the pink tint common with newborn human babies. Her stubby feelers on her back grew another inch or so and they would softly vibrate every few seconds. Her body slimmed down some so it wasn't as plump as a human's.
She lifted her child to her face and gently nuzzled her nose and lips against her body, moving everywhere between her toes and hair. Naru mumbled a few noises that she could tell via the hive and psychic link she made with her that she was having a pleasant dream. She was too young to understand the images so in her dreams, they were merely represented by swirls of warm colors that comforted her mind.
Yggdra continued her lavishing by adding her soft tongue to some parts of Naru's body that were getting a little dirty. Like how saliva is the first step of digestion for humans, so it is for Valkyrians. Her saliva cleansed Naru's body of any building bacteria and dirt without hurting her own skin. She made sure to pay special attention to cleaning the area around her feelers. One human, a long time ago, compared this method of baby caring to how a dog licks its pups. That human was cut up and preserved until the mother eventually fed him to her growing child throughout several dozen meals.
After finishing Naru's bath, Yggdra dried her slightly wet skin with soft kisses from lips heated orange due to her activating a natural ability found in a species of subterranean fire salamander she Nebladed on her homeworld. The warm sensations were a little too much and Naru awoke with a murmur and blurry eyes. She deactivated the heat and kissed the sleep from her eyes with normal lips.
"Good awakening, my precious child," she greeted in a quiet voice. She met her eyes with her now magenta, much like her own. "So, it seems your changes are finished for the most part. You look so much like your mother now. She is very happy." She iterated with a smooch to her lips that she gibbered happily over. With her hearing, she heard her tiny tummy growl and she gave her a look that she would swear was purposefully as pitiful as she could make it. "Oh my, you're such a big eater. I would like you to try and eat something we just found last awake cycle but it wouldn't be good for one so young as you. Perhaps when you're older then."
With an ease she didn't have before, she laid her in her arm like a cradled baby and positioned her in front of her open breast. She identified the source of her frequent meals and needed only a little help pushing her up against the teat. The instincts of nature took over from there as the mother quietly sat and enjoyed watching every second of her baby feeding.
"Truthfully, if someone were to interrupt this moment, I would wipe them from existence," she said, more to herself but also a promise to Naru.
It seemed some malignant force of nature wanted to test that promise as a large, swirling red rip in reality itself appeared about 500,000 miles away, easily visible from her window but she first noticed it due to an aura of insanity and madness that tried to overturn her mind.
"RIP APART EVERYONE!"
"You can't trust those around you. They're plotting your death. Always scheming, always planning. Will you really let them get away with that?"
"Let me in. Just relax. We could have so much fun together, experiencing endless pleasure."
"Rot and decay await all life. I can save you from that."
"FEED ME THE BLOOD AND SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! DESTRUCTION IS THE ONLY FATE OF THOSE THE WEAK!"
"Your child will take everything you give her and want more. She'll betray you. Best pull a weed out by the roots or else it will choke the life out of you."
"Adorable child. I can't wait to smother it. hehehe."
She quite easily and most definitely vengefully brushed it aside like a wisp of annoying smoke. Her field of domination cast an impenetrable shroud over her baby's mind, thankfully. She quickly activated the general alarm of Outer Heaven with her mind, accessing cameras and sensors on the bridge to point towards the insulting anomaly.
With a pink flash, she disappeared from her bed and reappeared on her primal's throne on the command bridge. Her body was still absent of clothes but she didn't care nor mind in the slightest, a feeling shared by the bridge staff. A green flash beside her heralded Frigga's arrival, looking disgruntled and intrigue by the nature of the alarm. The Grand Primal Commander Hrist was already in charge of the situation, making sure all Valkyrians and A.I.s at their stations were studying the incoming data constantly flooding in from the thousands of sensors onboard the ship. The thousands of ships in stationary orbit around Outer Heaven were receiving orders from her as she begin positioning them in a blockade to protect the flanks of the ship.
"What can you tell me about this anomaly, Hrist?" Yggdra questioned with a serious tone, anger beneath her lips boiling like an entire ocean during a planetary glassing.
The aged but beautiful Valkyrian-Major turned to her at attention. "Data is still being compiled but from what we've deduced, it's unlike anything we've seen. Some of the ambient energy matches those from a few of the Ork 'Weird Boyz' we encountered on Justification, those Ork sorcerers. Energy readings from that tear are off the charts. It's like an entire reality made up of energy."
"A semi-sentient energy as well, or at the least, a method of communication with some gathering of entities" Yggdra said, causing the leaders nearby to pause in confusion. "I detected it before I actually saw it because it rushed my senses, trying to overpower them and drown me in madness. I detected screams for blood, whispers of treachery among my crew, propositions of physically pleasurable acts and immortality. On and on it went and with a simple swipe with my mind, I brushed it aside. Thankfully, my presence protected my child as well but I have no doubt it would have targeted her had it been able to do so. Did it not affect anyone else like that?"
The bridge was quiet with contemplation as the new data was uploaded and inquiries were made throughout the fleets. "None have been reported, my Queen," Hrist responded after a minute.
"Then it was targeting me specifically until proven otherwise. The nature of the attack was psychic, so perhaps due to me being the center of the Valkyrian hive mind, with that signature amplified due to my connection to Outer Heaven, it was drawn to me specifically. This wasn't just an assault on my mind. I am treating this as an assassination attempt on my daughter's life since the words whispered paranoia and deceit about her and wanted me to kill her. I will not be subsumed by some entities gossiping like human schoolgirls tropes."
The bridge took this in and Yggdra could feel the fury and indignation of her whole species, even those across the vast reaches of dark space in other galaxies, connected to her and strengthen through Outer Heaven. Not just the Valkyrians, but a flood of coding and signals from all settlements and space stations and naval ships of the Valkyrians crewed by the estimated 486.6 billion A.I.s and nearly 100 trillion V.I.s were confirming an unanimous consensus to eliminate this threat. Thankfully, the Omni-Core, the main A.I. intelligence network of Outer Heaven comprissing of millions of A.I.s connected to create a single entity (the ship's mind itself), was built vast enough to coordinate and disseminate such a massive amount of data from all over the galaxy cluster.
"My Queen, a massive object has been detected on the other side of that tear. It's going to enter our reality in five minutes," a Valkyrian-Minor stated, halting the flow of activity for but a moment before Yggdra gave an order.
"I will not be delayed from returning home, but I will not forgive this attack on my mind and risk the safety of my child and the children on this vessel. An object is coming through, you say? Then charge the Grateful Sun Ray to full power and we shall burn it and its entry point out of existence. Follow my commands so that the first object it sees is the light of the Valkyrian people's wrath, a light that outshines even stars themselves."
Her orders were heard and followed. Outer Heaven's armada was tasked to stay positions while the mothership aimed the muzzle of the Grateful Sun Ray at the portal.
"Twenty seconds for warp cannon, my Queen. An additional 34 objects have been detected to be following the trail of Target 1."
"Stay the course," she replied with confidence.
"Warp cannon is prepared. Grateful Sun Ray is at 85%." The thing about the Grateful Sun Ray is that due to the newest maxed limit known to the crew thanks to Yggdra's immature revenge against the sun, the new "100%" is now the 320% used against the poor sun.
"Fire immediately. Hold the G.S.R. until 100%"
From the muzzle, the blue beam shot forth and exploded just a dozen meters from the warp rift. A second beam shot out and exploded just a few miles away, just inside its AT Field. The tendrils of the G.S.R. were glowing positively nuclear with power begging to be released.
"Target 1 will be emerging in two minutes. G.S.R. is fully charged, my Queen."
"Energy facilitators are all stable, my Queen. Coolant systems are all functioning optimally."
"Then continue charging the cannon until the cannon shows signs of destabilization. Let us truly test the strength of this cannon."
"Very well, my Queen. Additional quasar vaults #41-85 opening. Energy readings climbing at 2% per second." Like the A.I. stated, large barriers began lifting up, allowing massive amounts of excess energy from the quasar within the core of the ship to funnel through the massive tunnels running down the length of the tendrils where the energy would be collected for storage until given the order to fire.
"Fire on my command only. A.I. cyber-warfare, if this is an enemy ship of technological nature, I want you to rip their defenses apart any way you can and I want to know who and what they are. I want everything before I fire this cannon. That will be when I finish addressing their foolishness if they are even capable of comprehension."
"As you command, Queen Yggdra," dozens of A.I. units remarked simultaneously.
"Position the Grateful Sun Ray's muzzle against the warp bridge."
"Very well."
The ship's cannon muzzle was moved a few kilometers forward til the first thing any object coming out of it would see is the inside of the Grateful Sun Ray's barrel.
"Now...we wait."
The near silence was extending the timer, it felt like to everyone until the object finally appeared on screen. It never truly exited the Warp rift before it was already passing through the Einstein-Rosen Bridge and was now within the barrel of the massive Grateful Sun Ray. Information from the sensors began pouring in as the sensorium primal began listing off details.
"Object classification: Star ship. Object dimensions: 17.238 Km (15.3 for Valkyrian Km) Width varies at three areas. The super structure at the stern is 4.837 Km, the elongated body portion of the ship is 3.289 Km, and the two pronged aft is 4.298 Km. Height is varied as the ship's design is very uneven. Mass: 359.82 Megatons.
Scans indicate a massive fungal infestation over 100% of the ship's structure. Analysis is not comparable to the Orks' fungus spores so no chance of it being an Ork colony. It doesn't match up with the Flood either. No, our sensors detect that the infestations are living organisms, all showing signs of decay and rot ranging from present to over ten thousand years. However, this indicates that the very ship itself is alive… still alive somehow despite the constant decay rate. There's a massive maw in the front between the prongs. That decay rate, whatever is causing it, should not come into contact with any of our ships but those made with either Nethicite or Life Armament. Anything with a decay rate will be rotted and aged exponentially. An example would be a City-Eater decaying within days.
Deformed weapon platforms, both mechanical and biological, have been confirmed so this is a warship. A massive, fixed mount, forward-facing cannon is the most obvious. Sensors detect a mass clouding surrounding the ship made up of decaying bio-matter being spewed from numerous openings along its sides. Deep scans show the warship is heavily honeycombed yet built in a way that is very organic."
Thanks to the advanced sensors of the ship, a clear image could be seen of the offending mass of rot and flesh and metal. It was truly a disgusting looking ship.
"I believe we've actually found a ship that looks more vulgar than a Flood-infested ship," Frigga commented, her eyes linked with the sensors of the ship taking in all the data and compiling it for a future study.
Yggdra looked at the ship and wanted to spit at the sight of it, but more so, she wanted to obliterate it since it held a psychic presence similar to one of the voices she heard earlier. "What of our cyber attacks?"
"Not much can be obtained due to the biological mixture of the ship. It's like we're trying to hack into a living, breathing entity," an A.I. responded from its spherical form perched at its station.
"Well, we should certainly be grateful that our guest has patiently sat there and not attacked. Let's greet them," the queen announced and the ship launched hails across all known channels, even psychic ones in nature.
"We're also detecting a new signature one astronomical unit (Valkyrian AU, not Human) away. A group of twenty ships ranging from 1.2 Km to 1.8 Km. They seem to simply be observing. Ship structures are unknown but seem to be made of a biological material."
"It seems we're becoming quite the attraction for the species of this galaxy. I do despise being treated like a show. Should we provide food and drink for everyone who happens across our paths? Leave them be. Make a recording of this meeting and we'll send it to them if they want to know who we are. I have dallied enough in this sector."
A hail was finally accepted by the fungal ship within their own cannon and his form appeared via 3-Dimensional hologram. It was an ugly titan of rotting flesh and decaying metal, armored with both metal and flesh alike that Yggdra could probably smell it just from the image. The image projector was built to translate their actual sizes to the projections so this behemoth stood at a towering ten feet from pointy helmet to feet. Yggdra didn't bother including the cluster of… stacks on its back that spouted insects though. In its hand, it beheld a large scythe of simple construction and it sat on its hunches upon a throne of rotting and decaying flesh and bones and pulsating pustules of infection- seriously, is this a theme for the being or what? The throne even had a few humanoid faces sticking out from the armrests that were seemingly screaming in agony.
The being glared from tiny eye slots in its rotting helm across the room at her throne that put her eye to eye with it. Yggdra was the first to start the talks off.
"Assuming you are here, are you the one who dared to try and enter my mind? You might as well speak truthfully since either way, you will not live for sharing the same psychic presence as my assaulter."