Guilliman Was Impressive

As they were traveling in the Warp, Baldur was inside of his office looking over documents that had been sent to him with a frown. 

"Come in," Baldur replied before the hand that was about to knock on his door could make contact with the metal. A young woman walked inside, wearing the standard officer uniform. She walked into the room and stood a few meters across from Baldur before falling to one knee and lowering her head. 

"You called for me, Your Majesty?" the young woman asked

"Hmm. I've been looking over the resupply information that you sent me and you were correct. It seems that based on the scheduling that we have received from Terra, they expect us to not feed 68% of our men," Baldur gave her his reason for calling

She was the lead of logistics and noticed this problem after having been given the information from Terra itself. The young woman reported it immediately to Baldur who had her send him the files. Not because he did not trust his subordinate but because that type of logic was ridiculous. 

"They are telling to simply act as raider and pillagers after forcing other planets to serve the Imperium," Baldur couldn't see the logic.

Even if they had an impressive show of force and could raise many of these planets, the fact remained that most were reluctant to give up their sovereignty to a foreign power. And the Emperor wanted them to loot them or request supplies that could feed not only their normal humans but also feed the Astartes who ate much more than that.

If Baldur didn't act as a raider, he would need to take long breaks to resupply properly or have his men fight on empty stomachs. 

"I apologize for noticing this late, Your Majesty. I am willing to accept any punishment," the officer naturally assumed responsibility. She was in charge of logistics and it was her job to notice these things earlier. 

"No need," Baldur would not let her take the blame. How was she supposed to predict that the Emperor who planned on conquering the Galaxy could only prepare the army and not the food that would support the army. 

"We will simply have to change the way we work. Come back in 3 hours," Baldur told her while pulling up the map of their planned conquests. He then pulled up several more screens before him, each one giving details over the planets in different systems that the Imperium itself or the scouts he sent ahead had gathered. 

The officer nodded and left, heading back to her office to go over the details herself and try to support her king as best as she could.

Baldur began to do the calculations in his head, looking at the various resources each planet could provide in the systems and how they could best take advantage of them. It took him nearly two hours of focusing his full attention on those and even using a spell to help expand his mind and let him think about the logistics in a completely new manner.

But after those two hours, he knew what to do which was insane in its own right. For normal humans, it would take months or even years to plan out the logistics for a single fleet, let alone 16 and with unknown worlds along the way. 

He spent the rest of the time before he met with the officer again to not down everything that needed to be done.

What and how much the fabricator ships would produce, the death planets that had enough animals to be hunted and agri-worlds that could be visited, and the minerals on different astronomical objects, he was able to find out where and when each fleet would be able to resupply.

He had to do these calculations for all 16 of his fleets in order to ensure that they were properly supported. 

Baldur also took into account planets that would resist, thinking an average of 1 out of every 3 planets refusing compliance meant that he could raid them without worry. His pride as a king would not allow him to raid newly gained allies but he could somewhat settle his heart by taking from those that disobeyed the Imperium. 

There were several dead-zones where he could not ensure that they would be able to get supplies due to lack of information but he would change his orders from the Terra and have larger single shipments instead of smaller shipments over a spread out period of time. If he did that, he would not have to worry about the dead-zones as much.

Baldur also decided to put his Knights and Grey Knights in the Feluc System to work. They were to gather materials off of the other 7 planets in the system that couldn't sustain life and use creatures from the Game World to create MREs. 

The young officer walked into the room and saw her king looking colder and grumpier than ever, the air actually being colder in the office than outside. But she walked into the room and stood with her arms behind her back.

"I did the math and sent it over to your console. Grab as many men as you need and check over the numbers until we exit the Warp and change anything that you think seems wrong," Baldur told her, his hands pinching the bridge of his nose as the migraine he had gotten from doing all of those calculations so fast came at him in full force. 

"Yes, Your Majesty! I will not fail your expectations," the woman saluted before walking out of the room. She picked up the datapad from her hip and began to look over the numbers, surprised by how many calculations that Baldur had done. When she walked several steps away, the officer turned around and bowed toward the officer before continuing back to her own. 

'Thank you for the hard work. I shall be sure that we overlook it properly. Please rest well, Your Majesty,' the woman thought to herself before messaging all the logistic officers under her to meet in the large meeting room. 

'I gotta kidnap them,' Baldur slumped in his desk, thinking that he needed to find which of his brothers was best at logistics and how he would pull them and their Legion under him so he would never have to do math like that again.

He had long realized that each of the brothers were most likely designed for a different aspect of war and civilization, and from what he knew about the others, it was not them. So Baldur was hoping that whichever brother was best at logistics turned up soon and under his watch.

Baldur's fleet traveled through the Warp for another 3 days until they were able to reach Chicurn where the rest of their forces were waiting. Baldur had split his original Legion and the Legions under him into 16 groups because they were supposed to be reinforced by 16 different fleets that had several regiments attached to them. 

As the new ships joined them, a small detachment broke off of Baldur's fleet that was led by the logistic's officer under Baldur. She was heading off to pass the information over to the various fleets as long range communications were not set up to pass on difficult or long messages.