"What else are you planning now, father? I heard you exterminated about 30% of all the Chaos Marines in the galaxy. Maybe more." Janice asked as I was lining the entire superdreadnought with blackstone armor, 40 meters thick. Perhaps a bit too little, considering how the Imperium was using these behemoths as siege breakers.

Claritas, the machine spirit of the ship didn't mind at all, and subtly requested I reinforce a few power conduits and its own cogitator core with extra armor.

"I was also thinking what to do. Most likely, fix up things back home, then go out hunting Tyranid Hive Fleets." I answered as the new cogitator core got covered in a meter of auramite and blackstone.

"...Sounds dangerous. I had to save your ass back at Forge Gryphonne." Janice said in a wary voice.

"That was mostly the extra Chaos invasion. I was dealing just fine with the silly bugs." I muttered a bit unconvincingly.

Janice sighed and patted my arm. "You have crafted a legend for yourself, father. The man who can defeat anything. Even the Emperor believes it. But, Custodes Niles here can beat you up with a single hand." my daughter answered with a nod towards the golden Custodes keeping watch on the bridge.

I picked a single rose from my dimensional pocket and placed it in the man's mouth before he could speak. "I hear you like taking space walks. Come with me." I urged Janice and stepped beside her on the nearest moon. Canis had left a path of wolf paws on the silver sand.

Janice covered herself in a telekine field, and glanced at me a bit curious.

So I began building. Adamantium frames, auramite ingots, blackstone plates, then more metals and minerals as needed to construct a Warlord Titan. But a little taller.

Even when following the exact template and measurements, scaling the thing to become 400 times larger was very difficult. And then I had to add anti-grav plates and extra reactors to power them, an entire command bridge and Ares engines for space flight. Technically, the internal volume was large enough now that I could add Warp-engines or even Macharius-engines, but sub-light speeds would suffice for this first test.

Instead I went with more armor, even more shields and reactors and extra cogitator-cores. A network of 400 such cogitators will allow even a single person to pilot the new Giga-Titan, although it would lose 90% of its effectiveness in a real combat. Much the same as piloting a 12 kilometers Emperor-class battleship. Only mine had legs.

One arm held a 5-barrel Godsbane Lance battery, and the other a battleship-scale Plasma Annihilator gun. A dozen secondary batteries of Volcano Cannons should take care of the small fries, while the shoulder mounted Volcano Lance batteries will take care of anti-air defense.

In just 3.14 minutes, I left out a big breath and turned off the Breath of Gods. "I present to you, your wedding gift. A Lancefire-J pattern Titan." I spoke as we moved right inside the bridge.

The head of the Titan towered above the moon's surface from 10 kilometers high, giving us an amazing view of the short horizon. I always imagined Titans stepping over mountains, but now they could.

"Daddy, you shouldn't have! But really, for me?" Janice yelled as she ran around the bridge then jumped into the Command Throne.

"Omnissiah's Judgement Titan is ready for action. Reactors charging, now at 3%. Current operational range, 93 billion kilometers, or 30 years in light combat action." the titanic machine spirit spoke from a tiny hologram depicting the same Titan as a blue and green model.

Janice turned the giant walker around and scanned for a target. A fragment of a Chaos battleship was the closest, so she fired the lance battery in quick succession, burning off half the cursed adamantium armor and splitting the rest into 5 smaller fragments. "I can fight even a battleship with the Judgement!" Janice yelled in a joyous voice.

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"It is meant to fight ground targets though, but sure. Go for a walk with it." I urged my daughter with a kind voice. To see your child take their first steps was a joy for any father.

You might be worried that my large Titan would sink into the soft ground of the moon, but the anti-grav plates worked perfectly as Janice took off at a slow walk, and then accelerated up to 27% light-speed for a cruise around the Ryza system.

We stopped an hour later right in front of the Claritas, who was still almost 4 times larger. "I'm not sure how to haul this big thing around though. Some kind of underslung clamps?" Janice mused rather cogently.

It was a bad idea though. Clamps could be damaged or break. I drew another big breath, and added a large adamantium hanger under the dreadnought, where the Titan could rest and be carried like a gondola under a zeppelin. It could also serve as a service-bay, so why not?

The Claritas machine spirit grumbled on my implant about extra volume and more difficult manouvers, but I ignored it. With the new upgrades I gave the big dreadnought, Claritas could deal with a marsupial pouch holding a baby Titan.

While Janice ran off to show Canis and Purity her new toy, I met with Rose again.

"You're lucky the Mars ships have already departed with the tithe, or they would have asked for another god-walker for the Forge." she warned me with a tired headshake.

"That wasn't luck. I just waited for them to leave. Janice liked her wedding gift though." I answered in a light voice.

Rose climbed on top of me, and hugged me to her chest. "Your strange powers are still growing then? You have outmatched the Primarchs long ago."

"Tell the Emperor he can bring his palace to Salvation when he leaves. It's either there or Nocturne, but we have less vulcans back home." I whispered instead, while playing with her 'Death and Duty' famous mountains.

"...If I didn't know your mother so well, I would have suspected you're as old as the Emperor. Not even his Custodes dare to speak like that." Rose sighed as her eyes became a few degrees colder.

"About that. I arranged for Justine to get reborn. Ynnead owes me a favor, so I chose my mother for it. So don't shoot her if she appears in the Imperial Palace one day. Sister Stern as well, but she got the resurrection gift covered by the God-Emperor. The other one inside the Astronomican, I mean." I added while tapping the Imperial Aquila hanging at my neck.

Rose stared for a minute at the double-headed eagle, before nodding gently. "One body and two heads. To think the truth stared me in the face my entire life, and I never realized what the heads meant."

"Belief has a way of making things become true, even if they seem impossible. Oh well, at least I found the fix for the Golden Throne, so it won't explode anymore. And no, it wasn' my fault this time. Damn thing was built with a fail-safe, just it case it ever stopped working." I explained in a careless voice, and commited a few capital heresies at the same time.

Rose placed a finger on my lips, to stop me from talking. "Sealed, under my authority. Never speak of this again, unless the Emperor himself asks." Rose growled as her index finger looked exactly like the Inquisition's seal.

I kissed her finger in return. Sealed with a kiss. I finally found what the words meant.