"Zeke…" Grisha had originally intended to directly call out Zeke Yaeger, but he saw Guilliman standing to the side, and quickly corrected himself.
"Zeke, do you know what kind of message you sent back to the family? You want the family to deploy all its fleets?
"Are you sure you want to do this? Our family is not without enemies. If we deploy all our family fleets, it means turning the entire Segmentum Obscurus into a battlefield!"
Grisha's tone was serious, while Zeke was bewildered by his father's words.
He hadn't properly understood the family's enemies, precisely because he had never read any history from more than 5,000 years ago.
It was for this reason that Zeke was unaware that his family also faced a necron dynasty.
Seeing his son's reaction, Grisha understood that his son must have been slacking off when reciting the family epic; otherwise, he absolutely couldn't have been ignorant of this matter.
However, now was not the time to talk about his son's shortcomings, so Grisha could only remind him.
"The family has enemies. Why do you think the Great Crusade didn't achieve victory? Why didn't the Yaeger family support Terra in time?"
"Why do you think the Emperor's unfilial son was able to successfully harm him? Wasn't it because the family encountered an equally matched enemy? Otherwise, do you think a mere Horus would be worthy?"
As the current head of the Yaeger family, Grisha could look down on any Primarch.
Therefore, when he said this, even Roboute Guilliman didn't retort, but instead continued to sit to the side.
In the entire universe, besides those from the Yaeger family, he believed no one knew the family's true power better than he did.
Zeke, of course, also observed that Guilliman hadn't said a word, merely sitting and listening.
"Then, Father, please tell me who the enemy our family faces is?"
This time, Grisha didn't keep him in suspense, but directly revealed the Yaeger family's enemy.
"The Kaerzan necron dynasty!"
necrons!
Zeke naturally knew about the necrons, after all, he had previously made a trade agreement with the Collector, so he had some understanding of them.
These guys were by no means weak; simply from the Warhammer lore he knew in his previous life, it was difficult to fully analyze the combat power of the entire Infinite Empire.
Admittedly, the Dominion had the capability to wipe the necrons directly from the universe, but the cost would be the entire universe.
And engaging in a large-scale war with the necrons across the entire universe was certainly sustainable for the Terran Dominion, but for Zeke at this moment, it was too much to bear.
Even for the fully developed Dominion, those necrons would just be a bit of a hassle.
But that was for the Dominion.
After hearing that his enemy was actually a necron dynasty, Zeke was momentarily stunned, but quickly spoke again.
"Father, please tell me how far the war went back then? If our family still exists, we shouldn't have lost that war, right?"
Zeke grasped this crucial point: if his family still existed, didn't that mean his family absolutely hadn't failed in the previous war?
Of course, the necron dynasty certainly hadn't failed either.
After all, if his family still considered them an enemy, they shouldn't have been annihilated.
Speaking of the outcome of that war, a complex expression appeared on Grisha's face.
"We didn't lose that war, but in reality, it was no different from losing. The necrons achieved their goal, and humanity's hope for ascension was lost then."
"And in the war with the necrons, the family was not at a disadvantage.
The family's fleet was able to clash with the necrons across the entire Segmentum Obscurus, even pushing out beyond the galaxy, engaging in a large-scale fleet battle outside the Milky Way.
"We are confident that our family's ancestors delivered a significant blow to the necron dynasty at that time, although the family's losses were also not small."
"But that war still ended in a draw between both sides, do you know why? Because the Emperor was gone!"
"No one expected that while we were fighting well outside, something happened at home; the Emperor was actually stabbed by his son."
When he said this, Grisha even sounded a bit resentful.
This was a long-standing sore point for the family's ancestors, so after saying this, he looked at Guilliman with a resentful expression.
Feeling Grisha's gaze, Guilliman shrunk his body, trying to make his presence even smaller.
To say who played the biggest role in the Great Crusade within the entire Imperium, it would undoubtedly be the Yaeger family.
Without their large-scale space fleet battles with the necron dynasty, the Imperium would not be in its current state.
This matter was indeed a problem for the Imperium, indeed a problem for them, the gene-sons.
If it weren't for them, the Emperor's Great Crusade would not have failed, and after reuniting the entire galaxy, everything would not have been an issue.
If the galaxy could be unified, then it could be cultivated.
At that time, the Yaeger family was not at all secretive; they displayed all their technology and were willing to teach anyone in the Imperium their knowledge.
Of course, knowledge wasn't that easy to master.
Therefore, the Mechanicus and the Empire's scientists struggled greatly in their learning, but they believed that if given 10,000 years, they too could fully grasp the Yaeger family's knowledge.
But all of this could only be done in a peaceful and stable environment after the Great Crusade ended.
The failure of the Great Crusade caused humanity's opportunity for ascension to disappear, forcing the powerful Yaeger family to halt their war machine and now become an ordinary knightly family.
This was the Empire's problem, and Guilliman was very clear that his side was in the wrong.
Therefore, facing Grisha's gaze, even this individual known for his 'coconut heart' felt a bit embarrassed.
"Alright, Lord Guilliman, the Thirteenth Primarch.
Please don't hide anymore; I can see you. No matter how you hide, I can see you. Our family has no intention of blaming the Empire."
"Now, let's continue our original topic.
Son, you must understand that if the family deploys its fleet, the necron dynasty will inevitably stir, and war will break out again."
After Grisha finished speaking, Zeke immediately began to analyze the current situation.
Indeed, if the necrons were also drawn into this war, everything would become somewhat uncontrollable.
The Segmentum Obscurus was already chaotic enough, with extra-dimensional forces constantly appearing.
At the same time, the threat of the tyranids was constantly approaching the galaxy from outside.
Just now, the immense threat of extra-dimensional daemons was added, meaning that two, no, three of the five great cosmic disasters had already appeared in the Segmentum Obscurus.
The situation was already extremely chaotic; if his family and the necron dynasty were added, it would be equivalent to two more revitalized empires joining the battlefield.
The thought made Zeke instinctively rub his forehead.
Oh well, oh well, if it really came to that, it would be too chaotic.
"Alright, Father, let's keep the family's fleet on hold for now, but the enemy is indeed powerful. I need more resources. Please have the family transport enough alloys to my sector."