Omiya III had completely transformed into a massive construction site.
Hundreds of millions of civilians were digging tirelessly on the ground, day and night.
With the Hive City as the center, the entire surrounding land was filled with endless trenches.
Behind the trenches, countless convoys flooded in from the outside, transporting materials, and relying on these materials, they converted the Hive City into countless fortresses.
Meanwhile, during work breaks, civilians had to pick up rifles to undergo assault training; since the factories couldn't produce that many weapons at once, they first used wood or sheet metal as substitutes.
As for the soldiers personally selected by the Black Watch, they were organized into groups of one million each, and Sith mobilized ten such groups in one go.
At this moment, tens of millions of soldiers and over a billion armed civilians were firing countless training barrages every day at an exaggerated speed.
At the same time, various artillery pieces from the factories were continuously being moved into the newly built fortresses or mounted on high walls.
Sith was busy using every means possible to prepare for the Tyranids, but in the sky above, ignored by everyone, a ripple in the Warp gently appeared.
Deeper in Octarius, further away from the direction of the Empire, as the spatial fluctuation settled, a Cobra-class destroyer—different from any Imperial force and with a unique style—appeared in the void not far from Omiya III.
There were no markings of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Navy, or the Ecclesiarchy on the destroyer; only on the shield plate on one side of the hull was a pattern painted that was exceptionally unfamiliar to the Imperial military.
While ordinary soldiers might not recognize it, in Octarius at this moment, this pattern was extremely famous.
Because this destroyer belonged to the Rogue Trader 'Faramor Dynasty'.
Unlike ordinary Rogue Traders, the Faramor Dynasty possessed breathtaking wealth.
It is hard to prove their financial strength just by citing numbers, but for the high-ranking officials of the Empire's sector, they only needed to know that the 'Faramor Dynasty' dared to send warships into Octarius to trade with the Greenskins while enduring the beating of the Tyranids.
They also organized a fleet to support the Blood Angels in the Defense of Baal, simply to win the favor of the Blood Angels.
If all this was not enough to make people take this family seriously, then as an entity that openly funded Guilliman's Indomitus Crusade in the capacity of a merchant, I fear no one in the entire Empire would dare to show them the slightest disrespect.
And at this moment, this Faramor Dynasty destroyer was quietly anchored not far from Omiya III.
Subsequently, a scanning light screen, definitely not of Imperial technology, covered the entire planet.
Inside the destroyer, a middle-aged man dressed in luxurious clothing with a face full of venality was watching the data transmitted back by the scanner with great interest.
Beside him, in addition to a large number of merchant fleet private soldiers, stood a tall alien wrapped in strange, tight-fitting armor plates.
Of course, or one could call these aliens by their official name: Aeldari.
With a face like an elf, so beautiful that it was difficult to distinguish between male and female, the surrounding merchant crew members, rather than focusing on the other's beauty, were more focused on the obvious Aeldari skull insignia on the armor.
Because this insignia meant that their merchant captain was currently dealing with an Aeldari pirate.
"Not bad, this set of scanners is indeed much easier to use than our Imperial goods."
Kairo nodded repeatedly at the clear image covering the globe in front of him, and the Aeldari pirate Famir, seeing the other's approval, spoke up with the directness typical of a pirate to remind him:
"Then according to the agreement, you should hand this Imperial world over to us."
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