The sky above the Primordial Chaos Commercial Hub turned into a ceiling of suffocating, black-iron armor.
Three thousand colossal star-fortresses hung motionless in low orbit, each the size of a planetary continent.
Their hulls were welded from scarred void-steel, bristling with spiked anti-matter batteries and heavy siege cannons.
At the forward prow of each dreadnought, a massive Chaos-Annihilation Cannon charged with crackling, dark-red plasma.
Thirty million red laser targeting beams lanced down from the clouds, painting crosshairs across the glass roof of the newly renovated Taichu Welfare Mall.
High on the bridge of the flagship Iron Desolation, a man draped in black robes embroidered with gold coins paced back and forth.
[Lord Gu-Du | Moral Integrity: -89/100 | Chief Political Commissar of Heavenly Plunder Bank | Extorted 2,400 Frontier Worlds, Starved 500,000 Wounded Veterans]
In his claw-like hand, Commissar Gu-Du held a glowing crimson soul-tally inscribed with the blood-runes of eight million soldiers.
