++ Chamber Borealis ++

 ...as one might expect, none emerged from the Sorrowful Years unchanged for much would be transmuted within the crucible of their passing. Alliances alloyed and reforged. Others sundered or called into question. 

Recuperation, much needed in some quarters would come to give way to malaise for the Astartes are bred to make war and a lack of it does not become them. Sparring and combat drills were of course run regularly upon all vessels throughout the fleet but as Raskail explained to us as we undertook an early cycle perambulation about the starboard outer skin corridors of the Hikialani, such efforts are ultimately akin to trying to keep a blade sharpened with a crumbling waterstone.

It was fortunate then that as Candlemas passed, preparations were already underway to raise the Argyntum Stellæ and their allies to a full war footing again. With the benefit of hindsight, such preparations seem much more obvious, as long absent Kill Teams and Oki-hāmau cells were recalled, materiel was withdrawn from stockpiles for distribution and attaches bearing summons were dispatched to call forth those who would stand true with Volnoscere. At the time though much was shrouded in secrecy and masked by obfuscation so as to keep our enemies blinded to our intent...

Illiatariu. C., Rememberancier Documantist Minoris. To Walk Among Demigods. A Treatise Upon The Nature of The Argyntum Stellae., Published 863.M33, Sector Heliopolis, Segmentum Pacificus.