A few decades later
The now dubbed Krieg sector that spans around the irradiated planets centered around a red giant now called Jurten Primaris, named after the great Kriegan hero Colonel Jurten who turned Krieg into an irradiated planet by detonating hundreds of dark age nuclear warheads in Krieg's atmosphere punishing Krieg for betraying the Imperium.
Thinking about it quite a few Kriegsman is starting to believe that it's the emperor that sent them there.
Perhaps the emperor has great plans for them here beyond the Emperor's light, the news of the planetary governor colonizing those irradiated worlds certainly added more fuel to the fire.
The governor didn't care at first but as time passes by it starts to become apparent that some of the higher-ups are starting to believe this as well.
Apparently, it seems that the possibility of being the new planetary governor of a new planet is quite enticing to some of the high ups.
Naturally the planetary governor of Krieg promoted himself to the title sector governor.
Although it's nice to have a promotion but the governor is still of the opinion of wanting to send Krieg back.
Unfortunately for him the magos who is doing the research is still centuries away. Truthfully though it's actually it's actually thousands of years away, the magos just like... lied to the old governor and is placing his bet on the next sector governor of the mindset of wanting Krieg to stay.
That movement after all is carrying quite a momentum right now. It is said that the governor's heir is quite interested in the prospect of a whole new galaxy to conquer.
This is of course not a succession movement from the Imperium as given their history with the unmentionable evil autocrats whos heinous crime is so grave that even to this day Krieg is still paying for and will continue to pay for a long time to come, so obviously this is not a succession but merely them "interpreting" the emperor's divine will.
Obviously, they are there for a reason and that reason is obviously the emperor telling them to conquer this whole galaxy.
Perhaps the emperor sent them here to bring forth his divine light upon this new galaxy.
Now it might seem an impossible order but such is the price they have to pay for the crime their forefathers committed.
Such an Andover will undoubtedly be full of hardships, impossible even and will undoubtedly cost countless kriegsmen's lives.
Keywords "countless kriegsmen's lives"
Now Krieg as a planet that believes in the cult of sacrifice, the idea of sacrificing everything for the abstract metaphorical idea of redemption.
No sacrifice is too great and no hardship is too heavy, countless of kriegsmen dies every day in hopes of one-day Krieg will eventually sacrifice enough for Krieg to be redeemed.
Now isn't the sight of waves upon waves of kriegsmen willingly marching straight into their death for such a great and noble cause moving? Such noble sacrifices from these kriegsmen could warm the hearts of even the coldest commissars in the Imperium.
Unfortunately, the still-reigning sector governor is of the opinion that Krieg is still best served back where it used to.
Naturally the magos isn't going to orchestrate some conspiracy or plot to... shorten the governor's life. All he has to do is wait until his flesh fails him and die.
Fortunately for the magos he has the omnissiah's blessing letting him transcend the weakness of the flesh and live for thousands of years.
The magos thought about the fragility of the flesh, he sang a few praises to the omnissiah before he carried on to his research.
On another note the colonies are doing quite well as kiregsmen are expert trench and tunnel warfare so digging a few subterranean settlements isn't much of a problem.
Another surprising this is that quite a few of the newly colonized planets are actually quite rich in minerals.
With the sector irradiated naturally no life can be found on these planets so
without any alien civilization to exploit it these minerals are pretty much left sitting there throughout the eons.
It came pretty much as a surprise to the Kriegan engineers as they were excavating hub blocks for the settlement only to discover densely packed mineral deposits.
Much of the populace pretty much just took is as blessings of the emperor giving more fuel for the staying here moments claiming that this is a sign that the emperor wants them there.
Another new development is that the shipyards in orbit around Krieg are starting to produce large quantities of sloops in an attempt to explore the area.
Usually the dauntless class would be suited for the such a job but due to Krieg lacking in shipyards... well they have docks for ships to re-supply and make repairs but it isn't actually a place to make ships for any stretch of the imagination.
They can at most produce escorts, to produce anything larger would require a dedicated concerted effort that would range from decades to even centuries.
This mainly due to the lack of proper facilities, equipment and experienced engineers.
The ships that came with them to this galaxy is naturally to valuable to be risked on exploration missions.
While light cruisers are just a step up from the standard escorts but it's also a few levels above that of a sloop. The resources needed to that one light cruiser could make a dozen sloop so with exploring the new galaxy considering, having a dozen small ships could map the galaxy faster than having just a light cruiser.
Not to mention the threat of losing ships is quite real especially when exploring.
Now a case could be made that sending large power ships could fight off any potential threats but then you arrive at the question of how much firepower do you need to guarantee the safety of your ships?
The answer is no amount of firepower can guarantee your safety especially when dealing with the unknown. You can send your entire fleet out and still can't guarantee that they'll safely come back.
Another thing to note about is that when you send out a ship then you must also accept the possibility of losing the ship you just sent out, this is a choice that every admiral must face when they sent out ships.
Right now anything larger than escorts are irreplaceable so obviously they'll send out the more replaceable smaller ship classes to do all the high-risk missions. It's not like they're going there for a fight anyways.