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With the Treaty of Olympia finalized and Mars formally incorporated into the Empire, the entire solar system entered a long period of silence. Everyone awaited a predetermined moment: the Eldar's pent-up emotions from their extreme indulgence would reach their peak, the Slaanesh would be born successfully, and the warp turbulence that had swept the galaxy for millennia would be quelled.

Terra itself has long since eradicated all separatist forces, but scattered throughout Mercury, Venus, Jupiter's moon belts, and the Kuiper Belt remain mutated void creatures left over from the Old Night Era, refugee alien races, and out-of-control biomimetic communities from the Golden Age. These groups survive in asteroid cavities and the gaps between gas giant clouds, exhibiting bizarre habits, some possessing natural psionic resistance. A direct assault by a fleet would inevitably result in unnecessary casualties for Space Marines and the Guardians.

Huang Feng and Neos finalized a simplified attack plan: abandoning a large-scale fleet sweep, they would instead use the Imperial Guard, the Silent Sisters, and the 19th Legion's shadow infiltration teams to carry out precise point-to-point elimination. Huang Feng would use the Eagle Banner psionic energy to mark the alien nest's coordinates, Neos would release a directional psionic collapse strike from a distance, and the Martian Titans would conduct single-point artillery fire from orbit, without affecting surrounding interstellar meteorites and resource facilities, ensuring zero large-scale frontal combat throughout the entire operation.

This low-loss tactic was implemented for nearly two hundred years until M30.600, when all the original anomalous races and void mutants in the solar system were completely wiped out. From the inner rocky planets to the inner Kuiper Belt, the entire territory was incorporated into the administrative territory of the new human empire, and the inner solar system was completely stabilized.

The peace didn't last long. Two hundred and three years later, in M30.803, the Battle of Sedna officially began. Sedna, located outside Pluto's orbit, is the most remote dwarf planet on the edge of the solar system. The entire planet has been transformed by aliens into a hollow pseudo-planet fortress, with three layers of void armor on its outer shell and tens of thousands of kilometers of underground tunnels inside. The origins of this alien race are unknown; they do not belong to any known alien lineage in the galaxy. They are born with a mastery of void psionic energy, capable of distorting conventional electromagnetic trajectories and deflecting plasma cannon fire. For nearly a thousand years, they have been continuously plundering resource transport ships traveling to and from the solar system, and have even ambushed Imperial patrol fleets on several occasions. They are the last external threat to the solar system.

The Empire assembled its entire mobile elite force across the solar system: eight fully-strength Space Marine legions, the 7th and 12th Titan Legions on Mars, the Empire's newly formed Void Fleet, and the fully assembled Sister Silent Psionic Combat Force. In the early stages of the war, conventional macro cannons, torpedoes, and Void missiles all became ineffective. The Xenomorphs used psionic energy to distort the trajectories of their projectiles, causing all fleet fire to miss, and even using psionic rifts to devour small Imperial frigates.

Huang Feng adjusted tactics on the spot, with the entire Silent Sisters deploying a mental sealing field to sever the psionic resonance links between the alien race. Simultaneously, the think tanks of each legion coordinated, amplifying the psionic energy within the legion's eagle banner pre-embedded by Neos, unleashing a combined, area-wide, targeted soul shock. This shock did not damage the planet's physical structure; it only targeted organic psionic life forms, wiping out their souls at the fundamental level. In just four hours, the entire alien race was completely annihilated at the soul level, with no individual escaping.

In the aftermath of the war, to prevent any further psionic contamination, Macardo ordered the destruction of all images, genetic and tactical files of the Sedna Xenomorphs, erasing all related records from all Imperial databases. Only one Xenomorph psionic core was extracted, sealed with three layers of void-isolation material, and stored in a top-secret, permafrost vault on Mars, accessible only to Huang Feng, Neos, and Macardo. Following this battle, the entire solar system, from the surface of Terra to the outermost Oort Cloud, was unified, and humanity firmly established itself as the dominant power in the solar system.

The Empire then entered a period of comprehensive military buildup that lasted over a century: the Martian shipyards operated 24/7 to mass-produce interstellar warships, expeditionary power armor, void torpedoes, and psionic jamming equipment; the lunar gene workshops continuously iterated on the original space warrior modification process, filling all legion personnel gaps; Huang Feng coordinated the improvement of the entire army's eagle banner adaptation protocol, completing the deployment and debugging of adaptive eagle banners for all legions. The entire army rested and recuperated, quietly awaiting the end of the Eldar civilization.

At the same time, on the high ground at the center of Terra, Neos was overseeing the construction of the Star Torch. Powered by the boundless thermal energy of Terra's core, the Star Torch's surface was embedded with a psionic stabilization array modified by Huang Feng. It would replace natural warp channels, providing a global navigation anchor point for the Great Expeditionary Fleet and avoiding scattered warp turbulence. Meanwhile, Su Jinyu and Makado were discussing the Great Expedition's marching route, Xenomorph population predictions, and logistics network connection plans in the underground war council. The two analyzed the known distribution of neutral and hostile Xenomorphs in the galaxy and finalized a sector-based expedition strategy.

The council chamber doors were gently pushed open. Neos removed his engineering dustproof robe and looked calmly at the four people inside: "Would you like to enter the warp together and witness the Eldar's final destruction?"

"Of course we have to go watch the show." Huang Feng instantly stood up, grabbed Makado who was still deducing the star map, and then took Su Jinyu's hand. He turned to call Erda, and the five of them set off together. Neos opened a full-domain psionic isolation barrier, enveloping everyone inside, ignoring the barriers between reality and illusion, and smoothly infiltrated the shallow subspace.

The subspace was still filled with the colorful emotional mist overflowing from the Eldar, but the agitation had reached its peak. Huang Feng took out a constant-temperature portable meal, drinks, and observation and recording instruments from his own spatial storage dimension and distributed them to everyone. "The demise of a top-tier civilization that spanned tens of thousands of years across the galaxy deserves some kind of ceremony. Let's eat and record simultaneously, preserving complete observation data to improve our subspace risk control plan later."

At the end of M29 (the general timeline of the Milky Way, later than a local timeline of the solar system), in the Eldar core region of the Milky Way, spanning hundreds of millions of light-years, the desires, rage, paranoia, and emptiness of billions of Eldar individuals completely overwhelmed their limits. The Slaanesh soul embryos, residing deep within the warp, burst forth under the nourishment of a massive amount of emotional energy.

A piercing scream, spanning the material universe and the warp, reverberated throughout the entire galaxy, with no frequency capable of being blocked. The pure white psionic shockwaves derived from the scream spread rapidly along the barrier between reality and illusion, first engulfing the Eldar homeworld cluster. All Eldar civilians and warriors who had not yet escaped on the Ark or taken refuge in the Webway were physically unharmed, but their souls were forcibly ripped from their bodies and swept into the Slaanesh's bodies by the warp's gravity, instantly devoured and dissolved. Billions of Eldar were reduced to complete skeletons in an instant, and the Eldar core star system, once filled with towering buildings and psionic light, fell into deathly silence.

The shock of creation ripped apart the unchanging boundary between reality and illusion, creating a colossal, permanently unhealable void rift—the Eye of Terror—at the heart of the Eldar Empire's former territory. Within the rift, reality and illusion merged completely, warp storms persisted indefinitely, and demons could now enter the real universe without the rift. This place officially became the first source of chaos in the galaxy, continuously radiating chaotic pollution outwards for millennia to come.

Without pausing after its birth, Slaanesh launched a divine war against the Eldar pantheon. The newly born evil god, at the pinnacle of power, instantly overwhelmed the Eldar's native gods: Isha, the goddess of life, was defeated and captured, only to be intercepted by Nurgle before being devoured and imprisoned permanently in Nurgle's Garden; Cairne, the god of war, fought Slaanesh for seven days and seven nights, his divine body torn to shreds and scattered throughout the galaxy, later becoming the Eldar's Bloodhand avatar; only Segrak, the god of laughter, sensed the impending crisis and escaped alone into the undisclosed Primal Web, becoming the only Eldar pantheon god to retain its complete divinity.

From this point on, the Eldar's racial destiny was completely rewritten: upon death, the souls of all Eldar individuals would be captured by the Slaanesh's instinctive gravitational pull and would be devoured without fail. The surviving Eldar on the Ark were forced to accelerate the development of Soulstone crafting, pre-sealing their souls within Eldar bone artifacts to evade the Slaanesh's hunt. The Eldar were thus reduced from a top-tier power in the galaxy to an exiled race.

The raging mist that had been churning within the warp for millennia slowly subsided, and the crimson and inky black chaotic currents gradually dissipated, with overall flow velocity and energy fluctuations returning to stability. The small warp storms that had previously torn apart the shipping lanes all subsided, and the warp environment across the entire galaxy entered its most stable phase in ten thousand years, perfectly meeting the conditions for the Great Expedition.

Huang Feng put away the observation instruments, threw away the food packaging, and looked at the four people beside him: "We've seen the excitement, the subspace risk is zero, let's return to Terra and initiate the final mobilization of the Great Expedition."

Neos retracted the outer psionic barrier, leading the five back to escape the warp and safely return to the Terran core fortress. That day, ancient air raid sirens sounded throughout Terra, and the Martian Guardians and the Void Fleet simultaneously deployed, officially marking the start of the final 24-hour mobilization phase for humanity's galactic expedition.