The sons of Orion stood at attention their captain the same at the front of them all. Looking at them to make sure their is not a mistake made in their formation. They all heard steps coming to them. Once they saw their father come they all stood still. Fear but mostly respect for their father as they awaited his command. "My sons I know this will be new territory for you all. I will answer your silent questions now. No this is not the imperium or a world near our solar system. Instead it is a different thing all entirety. We are in a new universe." Hearing this the marines were in shock their masks hiding it. but the slight movement from all of them gave Orion a hint at their confusion. "I see you are all confused and need some time to yourself. I will answer any questions you may have now. I am not a psycher so I can't read your minds. So please my sons speak and I shall answer." One of the marines asked "Father where are we and why are we here? Why are we not helping our brothers and cousins in battle? I don't want to be away from the empress and away from the imperium." It was this question Orion hope for. Something he could explain.
"I will not lie son. The imperium needs more marines then ever. To end all wars upon our universe we will need this world as part of my plan. The empress has been told of it and the reason this universe was chosen is simple. It has life forms very similar to humans. They capable of growing in strength surpassing normal marines. Reaching levels of strength that would rivals chapter masters. This world will be the key to us winning the wars of chaos,orcs, and tyrinads. I will inform you all of the rest of the plan later but know this son. What we do here will be for the better ment of the imperium." Mean while in his mind. 'BROTHER HELP!!! I need a to know if you got a plan for this please!' With panic and urgency in his thoughts Orion asked his brother. "Surprisingly you don't got to worry brother. Am not going to have to do something but you might want to worry about another thing." Orion hearing Rick's voice was relieved for a moment till he heard the last part. 'Why what is going on?' Rick with nervousness in his voice told Orion the truth. "So you know the other void being that helped by being the empress?" Orion putting it together 'oh. Oh no please don't tell me-' being cut off from what he was going to say by Rick. "She decided to just.. uh adopt you and make the entire 40k universe." Orion hearing this began to panic. 'How worried should I be brother?' Rick look up in his room "honestly not that much but do expect to be head patted and hugged a lot by her." Orion hearing this decided it wasn't that bad.
'Ok not that bad but why did you say to worry?' Before Rick could answer another voice went inside his head. "Because I will now be watching you little one, very closely." A mature and sothing voice entered his mind and strangely he felt calm and relaxed. 'Who was that? Brother please tell me your just fucking with me?' Silence is what filled his head for a moment before a long sigh came. "That would be the problem I told you about. This is where you might want to worry." Rick said in exasperation this void being was a close friend to Rick. Having spent many centuries and some eons together. Weirdly they never had a connection more then that of siblings or friends.
As Orion was contemplating whether he should be happy or sad. The female voice in his head decided to speak up. "Hi Orion I will be your new mommy!" Orion confused even further couldn't help but ask. 'Huh?' While Orion was having his mental mind risking a break down Hestia started calling in marines to the famila room. Where she was going to start having the marines join in the familia.
Down stairs a marine knock on the door. "Come in!" Hestia with eagerness to have her familia grow called in the first marine to come. Opening the door a marine in black armor and red lenses on his helmet. "Welcome to the joining chamber. Here you will be given my mark and be part of the familia." The marine who was looking around then stared at Hestia. He looked at Hestia then told her with what she felt as truth. "I will not trust some random person who I have never met in my life. My father is a kind person and is trusting of people he shouldn't." Sighing the marine then looked at Hestia but this time took off his helmet. "I know my father and his intuition has always been right. I trust my father's judgment but. Betray his trust and if I find out you are using him for something I will take care of you myself."
While the marine was giving his speech hestia check her system. It told her that all marines had only 50% loyalty to her. The captain worse only having 15% loyalty to her. With this she felt slightly worried. Because with the upgraded system she saw who most of their loyalty resided. How the loyalty worked was that if one person was given 100% loyalty. The other people the person is loyal to with automaticlly have it brought to zero.
(So say a space marine has 60% loyalty to the emperor or empresses in this case. If they have a higher loyalty to their primarch like 80 to 90% then the emperor. They would follow the primarch and his orders over the emperor's.)
Hestia saw that all the space marines that Orion summoned. Had a staggering 95% loyalty to him. They only had 75% loyalty to their empress. So to say hestia was kinda worried was an understatement. If the empress ordered her dead she would be sent to tenkkai faster then she can say "wait". Coming back to reality Hestia decided to tell the space marine. "I am happy my child Orion has such lovely sons. But don't worry I would never hurt my Orion."
She understood that she probably would never have the same amount of loyalty come from the marines the same they have for their father. It was at this moment that the space marine introduced himself. "I am Sargent tyranus interfectorem. My battle brothers just call me tyranus."
One after another the marines went inside the room and got branded the mark. Hestia system removing the requirement of having it place on the back. It was now able to place anywhere now. With no need to remove armor. After all the dragons marines now the part of the children of hestia. A familia meeting was called in which Lili who saw that all her old familia members feared Orions wrath. Decided to fully join the Hestia familia.
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Author here ok guys what the hell. It is almost a week and no one even voted. So I decided to take the more chapters and faster uploads but shorter chapters. Ok see you next chapter. Also who the hell is sending the power stones?