Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to Castle Talk with... Shoo! Today we are talking about episode 6 of Castle Rock Anhulu. The episode is entitled Filter. This time the title of the episode connects hard into the actual episode because, again, spoilers for probably the entire season up until now. All six episodes. The deaf guy, I can't remember his name. You remember his name? Odin. Yeah, Odin's something. Something that piqued my interest. I forgot to write down his last name. Odin and his translator. Yeah, Rory Culkin of all people. Yeah, that was cool. Looking homeless.  That's bad. Macaulay, I'm sorry. Get off them drugs. Okay. You haven't seen the recent... I haven't. Y'all, he needs to keep up. Macaulay Culkin looks good. Back to the shot. Yes, he looks good now. He's looking healthy. Wow, good job Macaulay. Anyways, back to Castle Rock. Mike from It was in it. Sorry, I didn't look up near name. Wendell. Wendell was Mike and... Yes, yes. The same actor who played Mike in the reboot, the reimagining, whatever you want to call it, the 2017 adaptation of It is playing Henry Beaver's son Wendell. So that makes me wonder who else is going to pop up later on or maybe even in like a season two or whatever. Oh, another thing y'all keep telling me down there, but I haven't mentioned it in the video, Molly Strand. The actress who played Molly Strand was in Rose Red, so my bad. We missed that one. I saw Rose Red. Rose Red. Yeah, exactly. I saw that one time. Stephen King doesn't even talk about Rose Red anymore. It was like the shining mixed with Winchester House and it was really, it was a very strange, strange mini-series. Kind of like The Golden Years. Very strange, came out of nowhere. It's not based on any of his actual books or short stories or anything. Well, you can't have a hit every single time. Yeah, yeah. It's also like Sleepwalkers. I don't think you've ever seen that one. Somebody gets killed with a corn cob in that movie. Pretty awesome, yeah. Maybe in the ear? No, no, no. That's the best part of it, is where he gets killed with it. Not anywhere, no, no, no. Nowhere like that. Y'all know what I'm talking about. Take a look in the comments what I'm talking about. Alright. Let me know. I'll come back and look for y'all. Yeah. So this episode, go ahead, come right out and say it. Well, actually we've already been talking for a while. He thinks it was trash. I don't think it was trash. I think it's easily the worst episode so far. At least my least favorite. I didn't care much for it at all. In fact, I was hollering at the end of the episode. I was like, is that it? His chair screaming at the TV and just left the room. I was mad. He didn't even turn off our PlayStation that we used to stream Hulu on for everybody to see. He just left this. I just got him to walk away.  I was mad. I had no idea. I was mad.  I mean, they say some stuff happened. I guess we got a... Maybe me and the older child. You know what it was? It was a 40 minute teaser for the rest of the season. That's all it was. Yes. It was. It was some plot advancement. Okay. The only thing we... Thanks a lot. But how much plot advancement did they really do? There might be other timelines. We don't even know. See, here's the thing. Here's the thing I'm worried about. When they pick up in the next episode, I'm worried that Mama Ruth and Wendell are just going to be in the next room chilling or something like drinking a cold one. And I am hoping they are off in some alternate timeline. I hope so too. I hope. But the way this show is going, it's just going to pop up. It's going to be... They're going to be... Oh, I love the... I love that they're going to be out back like smoking a doobie or something. And you say, Oh, I left the stove on. I'm sorry.  That's what I think. But if it's more... Okay. And here's another one that I really hated about this episode. Going back to the whole convenience factor of advancing the plot. Pang board in the dang car. Really? He's happened to be there with me. He just conveniently found it in the donkyard. Not just conveniently, but he just happened to be standing there when they rolled up with it. Yeah, just randomly. What? Really? Had he left like 30 seconds earlier, he would have missed that car completely. But I think that's actually kind of minor considering the little content we got this time. We got a little more... This is the key episode that unlocks the rest of the series because we find out about the schizma. We find out about the schizma from Odin and Homeless Rory Coker. We know that that's what Henry has been hearing this whole time and he gets shut in the dang filter. So why does Molly hear so well? Is Molly actually... Does she have talents or is she hearing the schizma too? Does she have a better filter? There's so many questions and of course I know this is J.J. Abrams... Is she from a different timeline or somewhere? Whatever it might be. I don't know. And I know this is a nitpick but I'm getting tired of questions. I'm getting tired of questions piling up. I'm going to forget about some of the questions I had earlier in the season because we keep getting piled on with more questions and very little answers. And I know what... I understand this is J.J. Abrams. Can we say it? Or at least I said it in the last episode. If by episode six they don't really give us anything I'm... just kind of not here for it. I mean I'll watch it.  It's well shot. They're not giving you any content to really consume and think about like you would want to with anything that has Stephen King's name thrown anywhere on it. This is just that... It doesn't feel like there would have been more showdown up to this point there would have been more showdown in a Stephen King novel. I think somebody said that the behind the scenes... I'm going to talk about that in a second. The behind the scenes says it's supposed to be built like a Stephen King novel. I've been studying Stephen King my whole life. It's not built like a Stephen King novel. Yeah, they straight up lied to us. Well, the... and another thing... I'm going to throw this out there. People keep saying that I should watch... We should watch the documentary series that they release every single month. I've read about that. I'm not watching it because I believe the show should stand on its own. I don't believe... We shouldn't have to watch a back story and actually get story to be able to watch the other story. The author's note to explain a novel. That shouldn't be it. Those things should be cool little asides on how this scene was shot or whatever. It shouldn't actually explain the series. We shouldn't be getting plot development from something not everybody's going to watch.  Another thing it's almost like the Matrix doing their thing where they did the comic books. No. The anime. The anime, the video game and the movies. And you had to do all of it to get the entire story. Not everybody's going to go out and play a video game. Not everybody cares for anime. I liked that, but I thought it was too much content to put together. It was cool for multimedia for people like us who are who are more than just casual viewers. Sure. But another thing I want to talk about is the weirdness going on with Ruth. Is she really time traveling? Is she really stuck in a riff where she's hopping in and out of timelines? Did she take Wendell off with her? The thing that got me was How much does she actually know? Right. It's all of her memory issues really having to do with this schism. Whatever it is. The universe being in turmoil. But there's a part where she's looking out the window and Nick is in the backyard dressed like her husband. I thought we buried him in that suit. Which pinged off her. I know she mentioned some. She caught it and I got to think it also is Nick Dever? Is Nick Papa Dever younger Papa Dever and he's stuck outside of the timeline also? And that would explain why he didn't age because he got stuck. And why she's not freaked out by him. Right. But it doesn't explain because I'm going to tell you right now. If I see Nick if I see Nick in my backyard looking like he looked in that suit like deflated ghost kind of deal I'm going to scream.    Nick creepy. He's still creepy. But again remember how last episode ended? And he's also not giving us much. I figured with him being out of prison maybe we would learn a little more from him. Or at least learn some story through his actions and some storytelling that way. He doesn't say anything just let him go adventure and show us some stuff. No. Can't do that either. And another reason I think that the next episode is going to open up on some bull-a-bull is because the last episode ended on a cliffhanger and that ended up being some bull-a-bull. Because we ended up getting into this one and the paying boy was like I thought you were going to help her. What are you talking about? I got you to car and Nick's not even hearing it. So not only with this episode did we not get a whole lot of like fan service going on we didn't get anything. There wasn't many Easter eggs at all. I mean you don't advance the plot much but you also don't at least do the fan service you gotta do one or the other. It would be great if you could actually do both. It was definitely a middle of the season episode that's for sure. One thing I noticed and this is a very very loose connection because I didn't find any other Easter eggs period at all if you did leaving down in the doobly-doo but the sound in the wood the schisma all that stuff reminds me very much of the maybe the it's not the windigo but the sound and everything the presence that Louis Creed feels in the woods when he goes to bury a gauge or any time that he's in the or Rachel or whoever he buries because I think there's two people and the cat end up getting buried so there's total of three people that Louis buries. But the he feels something and he hears something and there's a presence out there I don't know if I'm just reaching because there were no other Easter eggs in there or that maybe is a soft tie-in I don't know blue if you have there buddy I'd love to hear what you think about that. So what are your final thoughts? What about Molly's conversation with Henry? That was a whole bunch of BS. She could have told him that an episode what, two, three, something like that? No, I'm just I'm so confused. I don't understand where that's going. Did he beat his father down and she saw it and then she ended up killing for her? Did she kill him because Henry felt, I don't know y'all I'm so confused at this point and confusion is fine if they bring it all together but right now it feels like a completely different show now that they've introduced the schism. Which I keep on wanting to call the miasma for some reason but that's like a cloud of funk. So my opinion and I'm sure there's going to be loads of you down there telling me how wrong I am and that's fine but my opinion is this episode was hot, hot, I can't even pronounce it hot garbage. Isn't that the same thing as trash? Well no this is hot garbage. This is like compost. There's steam coming off of it. It was pretty bad y'all I was mad. I was really upset maybe when I watch it again I won't feel as bad because once the series is over I'm going to go back and watch the entire I'm going to binge the whole thing and I'm going to be like okay well that makes more sense but I'm hoping that's what happens that that will make more sense because in Stephen King books even other than The Dark Tower you don't get much of that. You don't get much of oh I didn't notice that the first time around at least not for me so I know The Dark Tower is like that but the rest of his books aren't so if you don't have anything else to say I'm just kind of here with the show I mean at this point it's like alright come on just give me something just something so until next time I have an E, you have an U your shell is down here in the doobly-doo we'll talk to you guys later bye bye


Well, I want first to thank very much Prince Faisal Al-Faran to have come here especially from Riyadh to talk with us tonight and immediately after our discussion he will fly back to Riyadh for a dinner My my only I would be totally happy if You had invited me for dinner in Riyadh tonight But nevertheless it is such a present to be here that nevertheless I am very pleased Well, thank you. I'm extremely pleased to be able to be here and to have a conversation with you I always enjoy our conversations and it's glad to share it with all of your friends here and You have an open invitation to come have dinner in Riyadh any time you want. Thank you. Thank you very very much Now I am grateful to you for a second reason I apologize for your collaborators because I understand that you had a very good speech Prepared maybe it could be distributed by the way to us Later on but you have agreed to replace the speech by a discussion between the two of us so let me start by Simple question and everybody understand that you have been extremely busy the last three days so what can you tell us about the the meetings You heard in the last three days and especially on China Well, we had an excellent group of meetings. We actually had three Summits yesterday one was just our regular GCC summit which again focused on Continuing to improve and to grow into GCC corporation and actually Something I did want to point out is that we announced in that summit Israel Hanna's announced that we will be proposing a renewed vision for the GCC we already have what we call the King Salman vision for the GCC program which Resulted in a lot of the economic integration that we've already seen and we are now working on presenting Basically version 2.0 of that After that we had the GCC China summit and then we had the Arab China summit both of them were inaugural events the first of their kind and For us, of course, it's an incredibly important Prospect to continue to increase our cooperation with our main trade partners China is the main trade partner for not just Saudi Arabia But I believe for almost all of the Arab world and having this dialogue with the second largest economy in the world is For us critically important as we continue to build our partnerships In the global environment in a way that fosters the opportunities for growth and prosperity for all So in this global environment, how do you position yourself in the current increasing tensions between the US China? Now the war in Ukraine and so forth and so on and particularly as far as the oil production is concerned So for us from our perspective Polarization is the last thing we need right now, you know, we already see tremendous pressures on the global economy We should see tremendous, you know inflation other issues feud security and more polarization is not a way to solve that It's only a way to exacerbate that so our opinion is that we need to build bridges that we need to strengthen connections And that we need to find areas of cooperation The China Arab world China GC summit was one iteration of that just like the Jeddah summit with the US was it's our Attempt to continue to build bridges with all of our international partners, you know The kingdom is this year the 15th largest economy in the world. It is the fastest growing economy in the world We will be hopefully this year the first time reaching a trillion dollars in GDP. So we are growing in Importance in part of the as part of the global economy and our position the kingdom's position But also the GCC's position as really a bridge between East and West is something that we want to emphasize that we want to build on So as to address all of these challenges that we are facing and you know We live in a complicated world a difficult world There are always going to be issues that need to be addressed But the best way to address them is through dialogue is through interaction is through cooperation and that's our approach Would you for to describe your own foreign policy? Would you? Accept to use the word that the Indians use multi alignment or maybe multi non alignment Maybe you would prefer that. Yeah, it's not about alignment. It's about finding areas of cooperation for us Our foreign policy is driven by our need to build sustainable prosperity first for the Saudi people But then for the people of our region and we hope for the people of the world And we look for every opportunity to build on that Gold so if there is an opportunity to work with a partner on the global stage to further our ability to strengthen our economic Programs our social programs to strengthen our region and that can happen only through cooperation. We will follow those avenues But if you if you are interested in reducing contributing to reduce tensions in this as you said highly more and more complex world Since you are not or not yet a superpower The main interlocutors I'm thinking of a US and China have to agree with the idea that reducing tensions is a desirable goal. So do you think that today the US and China are willing to reduce tensions on the whole? I can't speak for whether or not they're willing But I can tell you that it is our firm conviction is that they must and that arise intentions is not just detrimental to them, but of course to all of us and here it's important that we the kingdom of Saudi Arabia as A leading economy as we just said 15th largest economy We expect by 2030 to be at least in the top 10 if not Ahead of that but also as a part of the developing world to Galvanize the voices of the developing world to galvanize the Voices of those countries that are most interested in a brighter future in talking to all of our partners to say look Let us focus on the future. Let us focus on cooperation competition is a good thing but Competition that leads to conflict is a bad thing. It's bad for everyone. It can only be destabilizing it can only Raise the prospects of Starvation in the developing world of deprivation all of these things. So we need to focus on building bridges We need to focus on cooperation We need to focus on how do we build sustainable prosperity for us as individual countries, but also for the global community You did not Answer to the question of oil production because after all the president Biden as far as you can understand Visited Saudi Arabia somewhat Reluctantly But he did so well if I read the newspapers he did so because he expected that OPEC in yourself would agree to increase production so what What can we say about that? We can say that Saudi Arabia OPEC OPEC plus have a very consistent policy our policy is to maintain a stable market We have worked very very hard to ensure that market stability in very difficult times If we go back to 2019-20 when we had COVID we had a serious disruption in the oil markets We saw prices in some areas go to negative which disrupted Investment in the production of energy which led to constraints on the markets. We intervened we brought Markets back into balance. We continue to do that. And if you look at The oil market compared to the gas market for instance or compared to coal markets Whether in Europe or elsewhere you will see that oil has been relatively stable compared to all other sources of energy even renewable energy And why is that because we have been actively engaged in maintaining stability in the market, you know We have talked to all of our partners the US others and we have explained very much our approach and you know the recent OPEC plus decision Going back to October now Where we announced the two million dollar cup I think we can now see given where prices are that that decision was entirely justified and one of the things we have to remember The price has to be fair to consumers and Suppliers because without a fair price for suppliers suppliers will stop investing and we are already seeing significant lack of investment in The hydrocarbon space because of the green agenda and other issues But in the long term that may be okay But in the short and medium term that is a problem because we are seeing spare capacity Continuing to come down if we see a significant recovery in China Which we all hope economically will benefit, you know will happen if we see The prospects of a recession dimming and global economic growth going up We will see significant reductions of spare capacity because of the lack of investment The only way we can ensure that there is enough investment and enough spare capacity To to cushion us from supply shocks in the near and medium term is if the price is fair to Suppliers and consumers and I would argue that the price at we are where we are now is fair most important is it stable which means that in Investors whether it's governments or major companies can see the prospects of a stable oil price now and into the future Which means that they can make their investment decisions based on that stability We don't see that in other energy markets and that is our core priority That is the mandate that opaque and opaque plus have price stability Thank you very much. This is a very precise answer more generally. What can you tell us about Saudi Russia? relations, so we have had relations Actually since after the first Gulf War and we have continued to have strong relations good relation We've tried to improve them We work very closely together of course with an opaque opaque plus historically and that as we I just explained has delivered benefits To the energy market to the oil market Obviously the situation the conflict with Ukraine is something that is of great concern to all of the global community and you know We have expressed our opinion that in the United Nations General Assembly But we as I said in my first remarks believe in dialogue So our priority is dialogue and that includes talking to Russia who we still consider as Someone that we can deal with that we have a good relationship with we have seen that relationship help for instance in Some prisoner swaps so you can build on these connections these relationships these trusts to help dialogue We know we have tried to continue to foster a dialogue between Russia and Ukraine and we continue to have an engagement something that many don't know is that we actually have commercially our relationship with Ukraine is Our trade relationship before the conflict with Ukraine was larger than it was with Russia So we have a strong relationship with both of those parties and we are focused on continuing to Foster the potential for dialogue. This conflict will only be in the end resolved through dialogue and we need to focus on that And well now many experts and commentators complain that the US policy in the Middle East is not Totally clear to say the least which of course might have some serious implications because as they say in physics Nature a bore Void so Could you comment on that? I certainly think that the US Has an important role to play and that part of that role is of course in the in our region is Being very engaged. I think they are engaged and I think we are having a very good conversation With our partners in the US But we do need To have a real strategic dialogue and that's something that's happening. It's happening on the bilateral level But it's also happening GCC US it's happening Arab world. Yes, so we have I think the US is playing an important role And will continue to play an important role in the region, especially from a security perspective and if you compare Biden to Trump or even Obama Can you are there noticeable? differences Every president will have difference in style every administration will have differences in approach and certainly you you know policy is very different between a Republican administration and democratic administration. So there will be clear differences, but in the end I believe US interests are the same whether Republican administration is an office a democratic administration office. They may approach those interests differently, but We have had a strong relationship with the US through multiple administrations Republican and Democratic So we are very accustomed to dealing with changes in approach in the end the joint interests that bind the US to the region Are the same they continue to exist and I believe they will continue to exist in the future and that means that the Space for cooperation between the the Kingdom the GCC and the US will continue to be very solid So to continue this tour de raison as we say in English the What about the GCPOA? double question in fact is there In your judgment is there still a chance That the treaty will be saved Or is it now inevitable that Iran will become a nuclear power and if so, what do you do? So is there still a chance? Certainly, there is always a chance. I cannot say there is no chance What I will ask you does Necessarily reaching a GCPOA mean that we will not have a nuclear armed Iran. I am not so sure You know, we are quite skeptical about the J4A. That said we continue to support An engagement on the J4A and a return to J4A On the condition that that be a starting point not an endpoint So it'd be a starting point to addressing some of the deficiencies within the J4A and some of the other issues of concern The signs right now are not very positive. Unfortunately We hear from the Iranians that they have no interest in a nuclear weapons program It would be very comforting to be able to believe that We need more assurance on that level If we don't reach a J4A, I think we enter a very very complicated Period in our region a very dangerous period that we should avoid that said even if we did come back to a J4A I'm not sure that that is the end. I think we need then to look beyond that to a stronger agreement Can you elaborate a little further on what happens if they get the operational nuclear weapon? I think clearly if the Iran gets an operational weapon, all bets are off We are in a very dangerous space in the region. You know, we have already seen Significant activity from Iran we could see much more risk from that and of course regional states will not want to You know to be exposed to such a threat without a reaction. So you can expect that regional states will certainly Look towards how they can ensure their own security Few words on Europe Saudi Europe European Union France in particular because France is my country. So this is of course We have started last year actually we signed an Strategic framework with the European Union between the GCC and the European Union, which has already brought significant progress we restarted our FTA talks after they had been stalled for many many years. So that's a positive sign and I think You know Europe is still one of our main trade partners and it's a very important technological partner So there's a lot we can do with Europe. I would say that Europe needs to be more engaged in this region We have a lot to offer Europe in this region we are of course and already a very important energy partner But we are also a very important partner for the energy transition. So Europe cannot achieve its Carbon neutrality goals without this region because you cannot produce enough renewable energy in Europe We are investing the kingdom others in the region tens of billions hundreds of billions of dollars in developing Green hydrogen capacity in developing solar energy capacity wind capacity the capacity to export that green energy To Europe and elsewhere. So we will be a key partner for Europe Well into the next century So we want to build on that partnership the relationship between the kingdom and France is very very strong I can say that we can see President Macron is very engaged in the region is very active in trying to work with Francis partners in the region and we have built a Excellent working relationship with our French counterparts across the board whether it's in the economic side, but also the political side dealing with the regional Files whether it's Lebanon Iran etc. So we we look towards strengthening that relationship and France has been as I said very proactive and that's something that we we appreciate so I would like to spend the last few minutes to say a few words about the domestic situation I think Not so many people in Europe in particular understand what is going on in Saudi Arabia and a lot of things are Going on but before that is there any important question on foreign affairs that I did not ask I Would not presume Terry to tell you what is important in foreign affairs, that's what I call you an ask Well, but if anyone here think there is one important question that they did not ask which is very possible, you know because But apparently one two three No, no, no, no, I'm talking of global affairs. No, no, no, well apparently I Don't see. Oh, yes. Yes, maybe your regular Abraham accord. That's a good question. Sure. What's the question? What's the question? What is the answer? Because you know if the question It is better to start from the answer because after all you have to do big I can't I can tell you what the answer is. Yeah, the answer is a Palestinian state the answer is a Palestinian state Yes, yes, yes, I remember discussion in Paris on that and that's that's a very Serious point. So next time we have the pleasure of being with you Perhaps we should concentrate with a few others on the issue of the of the of the Palestinian state. Well now If I think we have maybe five four more minutes or something like that Why I think we should it would be good to take the opportunity of having you because you are Typically representative the new generation of leaders in Saudi Arabia if I may remind you of course Saudi citizen your father is Saudi if it's in that your mother was German citizen You speak Germany as Fluently as English is English is extremely good, too. I must say so you are very International there is a new generation of business people open to the world So can you just tell us a few words about how you see your country today and and the dream of the young Saudis for the next Generation, let's say first I'm actually already relatively old because I'm in my late 40s and 70% of Saudis are under 35 So I am I'm actually on one of the later generation But I'm happy to contribute as much as I can under the leadership of his Majesty the king and the crown prince to setting up the future for this younger generation and I think it's a tremendously exciting time to be working in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia We are undergoing breakneck change We are most importantly Working under a clear road map under a clear vision and I referred to it earlier Building sustainable prosperity for the Saudi people and that is the absolute priority the absolute driving ethos of everything that the government of Saudi Arabia does Whether it's domestic policy, whether it's foreign policy. So my mandate as foreign minister is very clear my mandate is to support and to Enhance the prospects of achieving the goals of that vision Sustainable prosperity for the Saudi people and that's what I spent most of my time on and That's tremendously exciting to have a very clear Direction what you're working on what are the goals? What are the objectives and of course We could go into any number of details But you know we mentioned one of them the fact that we are this year going to Probably reach one trillion dollars GDP size for the first time in our history the fact that Saudi Arabia with all of the challenges that this region presents is the fastest growing economy in The world that we are on track to being the fastest growing economy in the G20 for the next five years according to our estimates the fact that we have Plans in place that will likely mean that we are by 2030 in the top eight economies in The world all of that means that it's a tremendously exciting time to be part of the government under the leadership of The king and the crown prince and it means also that we have a lot a lot a lot of expectations to live up to But you know we have a fantastic team We have a fantastic energy within the government to work that and most important if you you know We hope you can visit us in the kingdom and there all of you here You can see the energy in the kingdom and that energy is infectious You can see people really being excited about the future. You can see people being Engaged and in in the future Unemployment numbers are down how ownership numbers are at historic highs You know we are now Already very long around on the path towards diversifying our economy away from a dependence on oil All of these targets are moving steadily ahead and that is contributing not just to the success of the kingdom But also we hope and we believe to the regional success Do you of course the country is extremely young as you reminded us, but do you still have? Resistance some kind of social resistance from the older oldest generation So as one of that older generation, I can tell you that I am talking to my generation, for instance My generation of Saudis. Yeah, you would be surprised. This is something that's I think Everything that the kingdom is doing because we are doing it in a very very well studied way because the leadership Has taken care to study every decision and based on a clear logic a clear logic of numbers a clear logic of Of necessity Everybody understands and everybody is excited even the older generations You know people that are older than I people are very very engaged and I hope you know when you visit the kingdom Terry You will see how engaged everybody is across the board Everybody will have their opinions, but in the end the energy the prospect of Moving towards the future. I think what you will hear most is of most people is we've been waiting for this for many years And we're just so happy that we get to see it So a very last question we could spend a lot of time with you, but you already were very generous But a very last time that would bridge the two topics that is foreign affairs and domestic affairs. There is a Very classical subject very much discussed by Professors that is the relationship between domestic And foreign policy. So in your position today, how do you see this relation? Absolutely key. So I alluded to it earlier my mandate from my leadership is very clear Saudi Arabia's foreign policy is a tool for its domestic prosperity. That is the top priority How can we deliver? Sustainable prosperity for the Saudi people everything we do on the foreign policy issue must be focused primarily on that and that of Course means protecting our interests building partnerships, but it also means building a stable secure region because you cannot Build prosperity in a turbulent region It also means working with our global partners to ensure global stability because as we have seen from the conflict in Ukraine a Crisis anywhere in the world can have impacts all around the world So we must if we want to protect our pathways to sustainable prosperity We must be engaged in the world So one of the results of that mandate is that we are trying to be more engaged Not just in our immediate region, but globally in a way that serves our interests But the serves the interests of the wider global community with a focus I have to say really on the developing world because for us, you know We feel very strongly that the developing world's voice has not been Heard enough and we are of course part of the developing world still You know and we see that the global agenda historically has often been set in a way that has ignored the interests of developing countries Most of the time out of the best intentions, but still They have not served really effectively the developmental path of those developing countries in a way that is most effective So we want to be part of the global conversation In a way that ensures Everybody has a pathway to prosperity because we you know even in the regional context We have taken an approach that it is absolutely key that our immediate neighbors are not just stable They are also prosperous because if they have a growing economies if they have Growing markets that is for us an opportunity and vice versa if we are stable if we are growing we provide a great market for them So that's the key focus for our foreign policy You know at a different scale. It seems to be that the formulation Your formulation is very close to that that we had yesterday to this similar discussion with dr. Anwar Gagrash on the UAE Foreign foreign policy, so you Your general philosophy is quite similar I Think if you talk to any GCC foreign minister, yeah, you will hear the same message. Yes, and this is just a reflection again That we are very much a strong unified block that we work together very effectively that we have very similar Visions our leadership in the UAE in the sign Kingdom Saudi Arabia You know our various countries leaderships are very close to each other. They work together They work towards ensuring prosperity for not just their countries, but the region and we're gonna continue to do that I will ask our European Union friends to follow your example We are happy to share our experiences Well, it's time to end this session Thank you very much. I think you were great if you allow me to speak in this way excellent discussion and I wish you all the best for you personally for your country, and I hope that Saudi Arabia will be more present in the world policy conference in the For coming years Thank you very much. Have a safe trip back, and I hope you will be back on time In Riyadh for this dinner to which I am not participating Well, thank you very much Terry. Thank you all


Statistics and Excel. Wages, data, box plot, or box and whiskers versus histogram. Get ready. Taking a deep breath, holding it in for 10 seconds, looking forward to a smooth, soothing Excel. Here we are in Excel. If you don't have access to this workbook, that's okay. You can either go back to a prior presentation where we basically built this practice problem from a blank sheet, starting with a blank sheet from there. Or you can create your own data set as we focus in on the creation of a histogram for this part of the practice problem. If you do have access to this workbook, there's three tabs down below. Example, practice blank. Example, in essence, answer key. Practice having pre-formatted cells in it so you can focus on the heart of the presentation. The blank tab is where we build everything from, in essence, a blank sheet with just some raw data to start out with. Let's go to the example on the left-hand side. In prior presentations, we're taking our raw data of simply the wages, and we created the box and whisker to get a visual representation of it. Then we did some calculations to try to identify some areas of the box and whisker. Now we want to create the other type of graph, which is quite common to be visualizing that being the histogram. In Excel, histograms are great to be able to use because they give you a really good kind of spread of the data. I think it would be a little bit more difficult prior to having Excel to obviously chart things out in a histogram format by hand. The box and whiskers might be a little bit easier by hand, but they both have their uses and we can compare and contrast them. We'll be doing a lot more work with different kinds of histograms to see how data plots on the histogram and future presentations. Let's go to the blank tab. We have a little bit different format at this point because we added some of the numbers on the box and whiskers, for example. But the general idea being the same. We've got the data on the left. We created the box and whiskers. The way we created the box and whiskers is we simply just selected the entire data, which you could do with the dropdown like this. We went to the insert. That's the tab up top. We went to the charts. In this dropdown, you'll note that that's the home of both the histograms and the box and whiskers because those are going to be applied to similar methods or two methods that will have similar usage. They grouped those things together. We put in our histogram last time and then we did some formatting to the histogram. Remember, our data represents basically just wages that we might see at a company. Now, let's add the second bit, which is going to be the histogram. Now note, if you don't have this data wages, you can look up wages if you want to. You can also use a random generator. If you wanted to have random wages and then add a few outliers just to have some data to work with, you could say equals random and then random between. Our data set is basically between 65,000 and then comma and the top is like 75,000. If you use the random generator, Excel can do that. Random numbers between those points. Copy it down and then maybe add some outliers. This one would be like 85,000. Now it's outside of the range. Obviously, it's great to have real data because our goal is statistics is to oftentimes see what the difference is between the random data set and the actual data set in real life to give some glean some insights as to what's going on with the data. That's one of our strategies, of course, which we'll talk about more later. But that's one way to generate some data if you just want to then practice putting in a histogram. Once you have your data, we can select the data. You can highlight the data this way, dragging down. If you have the table data in a table format, you can put your cursor on the top of the table, select this way. You can also put your cursor on it and hold down control shift, and that'll take you down to the bottom of the data set. If you want to go back up, you can hold down control and backspace, not delete backspace, and that's another nice way. Note that you'd like to be at the top of the data set usually when you're going to be inserting the whatever charts or graphs you're going to put in. Otherwise, the chart or graph will be shown at the bottom and you're going to have to pull it up to the top. I want to be up here because I want to be able to pull the graph like right around here. Let's go ahead and now insert tab up top.


In his Notes Towards Marshal Codification section 4.1.9, the Primarch of the Ultramarines, Rebut Gulliman, remarked that, Battle is not a state to be entered into lightly. Battle is always painful, and always comes at a price, so the astute commander never commits to battle unless no other options remain. Once that commitment is made, once the phase of execution or primary condition has begun, it must be done with the utmost efficacy, a rapid application of overwhelming force to obliterate your enemy as quickly as possible. Do not give him the time and space to react. Do not leave him with any material or opportunity that he can use in a rallying phase. Annihilate him physically and psychologically so that his threat is entirely removed.  Utterly annihilate him with your first strike. This may be considered the application of attack in its purest form. The irony of such an understanding, given what was to unfold, is lost to none, certainly not even he, who committed it by stylus to record. Penned at a time when the Great Crusade was at its zenith, notes towards martial codification is a preparatory work for the Primarch, which is not to say it is not robust. Quite the opposite, it is one of the finest works of the era, entering easily into military theoretical canon, alongside surviving works by Antaxas, Makulius, and Von Kloswitz. It is in many ways a highly foundational step upon the 13th Primarch's road to his defining work, the post-heresy Codex Stardes. It is also an embodiment of Gillibans' detached clinical writing style, the treatment of the chaos, insanity, and sheer bloody horror of war, as a problem to be solved by the application of a stern mind and keen will, bereft of any of the emotion that actual warfare sets aflame within any human the moment they fire a gun or pick up a blade. It is redolent of Gilliman writing from a place of absolute surety, both in the theoretical practical mindset adopted by him and his legion, in the supremacy of his tactical mind, and in the security of the world he inhabited and his place within it. Codification is a relic of a time when the Primarch looked forward to days where such a document would be simple theory of a necessity long since past, of hopes of a galaxy without war, where a mind such as his could be bent to the building of a civilization, rather than its imperialistic military expansion. That Gilliman died, along with the ideals he once dreamed possible, in the fires of a great betrayal, alongside the sons he sought to uplift. That Gilliman, burned in the fires unleashed by he who he thought brethren, those who he thought kindred. That Gilliman, he who penned notes towards martial codification, is lost to us forever. The imperium he dreamed of, even more so. Know then, that this is a record of the vengeance of a legion, of a crusade cast in shadow, of the death of a dream, a record of the betrayal at Calth. The betrayal at Calth has nothing in the way of a single beginning. It was myriad of ways, products of decades of emnities and bitterness, plans and machinations, and detached strategic necessities. It was a confluence, a meeting of demands emotional, military, and arcane. This macro alignment, a pleasing thing indeed to those who planned the atrocity, and their dark patrons. Looking out the strands of these beginnings is necessary for as complete an understanding of the catastrophe as possible, but when doing so one faces a myriad of barriers. The complexities of the pieces in motion, the devastation wrought on history by the passage of this war, and the vested interests of those who catalog the records in its aftermath. The sources one draws upon for this chronicle were in large part saved due to the habitual diligence of the Ultramarines, 13th Legion Astartes, committed as they were and yet remain to learning all possible lessons even an atrocity of this magnitude could provide. From the battle itself, its aftermath, to the years of rebuilding and scouring that followed, the eventual cessation of hostilities in the volume, the 13th Legion extensively documented Calth and all combat actions that took place in and around the Veridia system, in the hopes that future generations of Imperial citizens may avoid such calamities as had been committed against them. One particular source, the foundational one for any discourse regarding this event, Funnilyaaf comes from a glorianatlas battleship named the Chronicle of Ash, bound to the 17th Legion word-bearers, captured by the Ultramarines in 017 M31, three years standard after the Siege of Terra. The ship, defended by a mere handful of support cruisers, had seemingly spent the entirety of the heresy and the years since, weaving its way through the eastern fringe. Her capture was a boon to the Imperium in many ways rather than simply ending the threat that she posed. Her massive internal halls were covered in their entirety with what appeared to be the sum total history of the word-bearers Legion and their accomplishments, penned in spidery runes of dead caulkists. For years, the earliest members of the Inquisition painstakingly catalogued the writings, parsing out secrets hitherto unknown to the Imperium and transcribing them into tomes that would later be sealed under maximal security protocols and inviolate memetic defences, lest the taint so profound amongst members of that damnable Legion be transmissible through their runic language. Few commented on the profound and twisted mirror the Chronicle of Ash represented. Just as the Ultramarines had endeavored to learn all they could from Calth, so too had the word-bearers sought to document and record their own history of the event for purposes altogether of more dread intent. For the word-bearers, the origins of Calth are twofold. First and most natural is the drop-side massacre at Istvan V, at which the Legion was present and, according to some apocrypha, the first to open fire upon the unsuspecting iron hands raven guard and salamander's loyalists they had been meant to reinforce. On that world's black sands had the opening salvos of the heresy truly been fired, the warmaster Horus Lupercal breaking the compact of brotherhood that had been the Legionia's astartes and plunging the galaxy into a civil war the likes of which had never stained the stars. Despite the breaking of three whole legions, despite the scattering of their shattered remnants far and wide across the Imperium, despite nine legions firmly at his beck and call, the warmaster yet held no decisive military advantage. The disaster of dealing with loyalist elements within the original four traitor legions during the betrayal at Istvan III and the defiance of the surprised yet furious loyalists at the drop-side massacre had stymied the warmaster's progress, just enough to deprive him of the total surprise he would have needed to seize core imperial systems and terror itself with minimal resistance. The delays coupled with those loyalists that had managed to flee the massacres, most notably those aboard the heavy frigate Eisenstein, meant that the Imperium and the Emperor would eventually come to learn of the treason, sooner than Horus could reach terror. There would be no quick victory, once roused the Imperium would raise mighty armies in retribution and shore up its defences against him. Potentially billions of loyal soldiery would stand between the warmaster and the walls of the Imperial Palace to make no mention of Horus' brother Primarks and their own legions. Of those that had fallen on Istvan, the 10th Legion Ironhands and their now dead Primark Ferris Manus was a grievous loss to the Imperium indeed, but for all their loyalty, they and the sundered 19th Legion Ravenguard and 18th Legion Salamanders were never the largest of the legionnaires astartes, the latter two in particular ranking as amongst the smallest in terms of numerical disposition. Posing Horus would now be the largest of the legions that were not pledged to him. The blood angels rivaled his brother Pertorabo's iron warriors in size, and Horus knew within his hearts that the warriors of Sanguinius would, in a straight fight, likely be worth more than the dour corpse grinders of the fourth. The lions first legion dark angels, despite still recovering decades after their mauling at the hands of the Xenos Rangda, were lethal beyond the capabilities of any other legion, and yet formidable in numbers besides. And then there were the Ultramarines, the noble thirteenth of Rebut Gulliman, vast beyond all others, some 250,000 astartes at least, and possessing an industrial and recruitment base that could be ramped up to astonishing capacities in scarcely any time at all. These were paramount threats. The Loyalists had lost one Primarch, missing two more, and were deprived of three entire legions, yet numerically, the remaining were more than enough to tip the scales against Horus if left unchecked. The Warmaster had, of course, foreseen this potential eventuality, and had bent his machinations to tempering the threat that Loyalists could pose to him. Knowing he, nor any of his traitor kin, would not possibly be able to sway the loyal brethren that yet remained to his camp, he sought instead to ensure their ability to reap vengeance against him was compromised in the fullest of ways. To the Dark Angels, he assigned Purgatian operations in the Thramas reaches, far to the Galactic East, at the very edge of the Emperor's light, seeking to simply remove the lion and his sons from the board for as long as possible, by placing them as far away as possible. The Space Wolves had already been maneuvered into the burning of Prospero, bleeding them horribly, and were currently licking their wounds, wandering into the coils of the traitor Alpha Legion, who were also attempting to pin down their mercurial 5th Legion white scars. The Blood Angels were dispatched to a grand trap in the Cygnus Cluster, arranged in concert with the Warmaster's never-born allies from beyond the Vale of Reality. The Ultramarines required a far more direct approach. The 13th Legion had, since their reunification with their Primarch expanded massively, creating for themselves an impressive empire within an empire, the 500 worlds of Ultramar. Despite its location in the further eastern Galactic volumes, the realm of Gilliman was perhaps the most successful of any within the Imperium beyond the core systems surrounding Terrae itself. The Primarch's peerless logistics, acumen, and vision had seen him play the statesman as much as a military leader, concerning himself with the work of building a society within his father's empire as much as winning worlds for it. Ultramar was a shining light in the dark, the proverbial city upon the hill. It brought colonists to the eastern fringes in astonishing numbers, buoyed by healthy land allotments promised to Imperial Army servicemen mustering out of their tours, as well as inviolate borders protected from Xenos Reavers by the unassailable might of the 13th Legion. It was in many ways the promise of the Imperium made manifest, a safe, stable, and prosperous realm where all worked for the betterment of the whole, delivering to those loyal a life free from the generational terrors of old night, albeit at the cost as with all Imperial worlds of bulldozing non-compliant populations with genocide and cultural obliteration. Because of all this, it provided a phenomenal base of operations for the Imperial military. The Ultramarines had a wider base for recruitment than any other Legion, not even speaking to the genetic stability of their gene seed and the subservient populations. The colonial might of the 500 worlds additionally supplied millions of troops to the Exertus Imperialis. Numerous night households were pledged to the realm, and several Titan legions, foremost amongst them the Honourable Legio Presagius, maintained close ties with the Forge worlds of the Volu, Conor, and Gantz. Horus was keenly aware that, once word of his rebellion spread, Ultramar would function as a loyalist fortress, within which potential billions of army troopers and tens of thousands of Astartes would be raised and set against him. The geographic location in the Galactic East placed it on his flank for any push towards terror from the Warmaster's holes in the northern reaches. Ultramar and its Legion must simply be broken. This was a task the 17th Primarch, Lorgar Aurelian, and his Legion, the Word Bearers, were only too ready to commit to. The enmity between legions 13 and 17 was decades old, born of the actions of the Word Bearers and the role of the Ultramarines in bringing them to task. Subsequent to their reunification with Lorgar, the 17th Legion, once the Imperial Heralds, had been rechristened the Word Bearers, transformed from the Iconoclasts burning with the fires of the Imperial Truth into the proselytizers of the worship of the Emperor as Divine. While this history will be elaborated on in greater detail in a subsequent record, suffice it to say that, at least initially, the annals of the Great Crusade record the Emperor as having offered no rebuke to Lorgar's behavior, even though it was in direct violation of his own writ, his own laws, and his plans for the human species. Or rather, that this was not done openly. Writings from Lorgar's brothers recovered from this time reveal that the Emperor had shared his disquiet with the 17th Activities with his son privately, yet to obviously no avail. The situation appeared at least tolerable until the pace of the Word Bearers across the Great Crusade began to slow, eventually grinding to a near standstill, as the Legion invested ever more time and effort into compliance operations that focused nearly entirely on converting the population of rediscovered human worlds to religious worship of the Emperor and his Imperium. By the time Word had spread amongst the Divisio Militaris of the 17th Legion's violation of both Imperial Law and their commitments to the Crusade, the Emperor was already moving. In 963 M-30, he dispatched the Ultramarines, with Gilliman at their head, to raise utterly the city of Menarchia on the planet Kerr, an icon for Lorgar and his Legion of all they had accomplished in the name of the Imperium and their god Emperor. The Legion, summoned to the ashes of their work, were forced as one by the Emperor to kneel before him in censure, the shame announced by their god and before the eyes of the Ultramarines who stood above them in judgment, a mirror held up to their weeping faces of the Astartes they should aspire to become. The censure became widely known following the raising of Menarchia. It was no doubt meant to be, publicly visible shaming in full view of all, a reminder that the Emperor's grace had its limits, even for those he counted as his sons. The Word-bearers were now cast as low as any of the Legion as the Astartes had ever been, save for the total purgation that had befallen the 10th and 11th legions, only thanks to the Emperor's mercy. Forever now they were the bearer not merely of his word, but also his reprimand. As far as history records the aftermath, Lorgar withdrew into contemplative seclusion, long enough that there were rumors that the Emperor would rebuke him yet again, but eventually emerged in possession of a fervor hitherto unseen in the 17th son's actions. Few thought anything of this, but we of the dark future know the truth. In that seclusion, and thanks to his subsequent pilgrimage, Lorgar Aurelian had turned to new gods, old and terrible, ones he deemed worthy of his worship. The primordial annihilator, Chaos, the dark gods of the dread Pantheon. The shame of Menarchia, the arrogance of the Ultramarines, those burned within the hearts of the Primarch and his sons, even those who had not yet knelt before the master of mankind. The raising had entered legion myth as the greatest crime committed against them, the resentment fueling their apotheosis into devotees of the greater intelligences of the warp. It is likely the plans drawn up for Calth and the 17th's advance into Ultramar in general were developed between Lorgar and Horus acting in concert. It was of course mutually beneficial. Lorgar knew well what drove his emotional tempestuous brother and sought to yoke his own plans to it, while Lorgar saw the perfect opportunity to advance the aims of his warmaster, his gods, and the reaping of vengeance against his hated brother in one singular swoop. Just as the 17th Primarch had been instrumental in the corruption of Horus and the eventual enactment of the dropside massacre, so too was the planning for the betrayal launched far ahead of Istvan 5's Black Sands. Orders for the grand muster of the 13th Legion were issued to Gilliman as early as 005 M31. Warp horologues record the Primarch as having departed Saturn, only scant months before the Eisenstein brought word of the warmaster's betrayal to that same system. Owing to the chronological vagaries of the warp and the fell influence of Horus's new patrons, word from the wider Imperium bled away as the Ultramarines forged a slow and winding path from the Imperial core back to Ultramar. Appearing for all the world as a markedly severe, but not entirely unprecedented upsurge in immaterial storms, Gilliman paid the disturbances little heed. Assured that the Imperium and his 500 worlds had many a contingency for the continuance of operations in times of raging, aetheric storms. Passage was slow, but manageable, and communication yet possible with the disparate elements of the 13th Legion, now ordered by their warmaster and Primarch both to gather at the planet Calth in the Viridian system in their near totality. The muster was, of course, purposeful. Intelligence had reached Horus, he claimed, of Xenos' threat, that of the gashlack Orc Warboss and his empire. Bordering that of Ultramar and the Viridian system within which lay Calth and her shipyards. Having suffered the predations of the Orc menace in decades past, this was a credible reason for concern. That Gilliman, the Ultramarines, and any of the Ultramarian military strategos had scryed little Xenos' activity on their realm's borders, was raised by few. The intelligence came from the warmaster, and the military leader of the Imperium would of course have access to more detailed reports. The Ultramarines would preemptively annihilate this Xenohold, and they would not do so alone. By Horus' order, the Purgatian expedition would be conducted in concert with the word-bearers. The reasons behind this were obvious to any who beheld the simple outline of the operation. This was a move by the newly minted warmaster to cement his authority, who else would have the goal to order the Ultramarines to gather in their entirety, the largest and nearly most successful of the Emperor's legions. And then there was the history of the legions concerned, well known, well established. The Primarks had little love lost for each other, and neither did their sons. But after all, was this not a new imperial era? The Eleanor campaign had marked the end of true existential threats to the Imperium. The Empire and its Estartes were looking forward now to the future, and to what form that future would take. Was it not time to bury past disagreements and forge new brotherhoods? The Warmaster was taking two legions at odds, and forcing them to work together despite their apparent wishes. It had all the hallmarks of the blunt, well-meaning, and at the same time keenly observant Horus Lupercal. Here was the perfect opportunity, no doubt, to bury the proverbial Gladius. Feelings amongst the Ultramarines at all levels were quite mixed. The more idealistic of the legion looked forward to an opportunity to move beyond the years of the past. Some openly delighting in what they may learn from the 17th Legion, a force that had appeared to have truly changed in the decades since the censure. Others were more caleric. This was pageantry, they opined, or worse, charity, granting the wordbearer as a chance to win some glory on the coattails of the 13th Legion, who would of course be doing the real work of the campaign. Yet others, of a more practical mien, decried the ludicrous overkill the upcoming pregation represented. There was simply no way the Xenohold of the Orcs required the material strength being committed. Not merely two legions, but their primarchs as well. Whatever the political considerations, surely this was simply too much. The politics of it all were obvious, and simply paved over. Gilliman saw this all for what it was, and nevertheless resolved to its commitment without protest. Seeing the value in renewed brotherhood, and ceding to the authority that his brother Horus was still clearly needing to project. Of course, the true intent behind the muster was only made obvious in dreadful hindsight. Indeed, the Gashlag Xenohold, as presented by Horus to the Divisio Militaris, has a massive threat to Ultramar Sanctity, is likely to simply have never existed at all. Investigations subsequent to the heresy revealed little in the way of evidence for any orc infestation in the volumes outlined by the Warmaster's Missives. At best, several Xenos raids on the fortress world of Galsoria can be verifiable across records at the time, but of the supposed Warboss Gashlag, nothing can be verified in documentation that did not have Horus' direct involvement in creating. Given what occurred, it is likely that the threat was entirely fictitious, serving to simply justify the removal of Gilliman and the bulk of the Thirteenth Legion from the Imperial Core Worlds, and placing them in the path of Lorgar and his own schemes. That the Imperium would be warned of the treachery of the Fallen Legions was an eventuality now assured. Despite his fury at being robbed of complete shock, Horus was well aware that this had been a possible outcome, and had taken such into account. The first terrible acts of the heresy at the Istvan system had been accomplished. The traitors yet possessed the element of surprise, and a phenomenal capacity to affect confusion and disinformation in order to prolong the early stage of advantage. Fragile communications infrastructure of astro telepathy was vulnerable to both capture, with traitor operatives ensuring the largest choirs in the surrounding volumes were silenced, and aetheric disturbances, which were brewing at frightening speed and intensity in the aftermath of the Istvan atrocities. This, given Horus' new gods, has been supposed as being a part of some dark compact. The greater intelligences roiling the currents of their realm to speed the passage of their minions and deny that of their foes. The disturbances spreading from Istvan's position in the galactic north reached further and further outwards, smothering the furbile dreams of Astro Pat's galaxy wide with a fugue state of nightmarish phantoms and malign portents. The surest word of treachery was carried, essentially alone, by loyalist craft fleeing the catastrophes that had befallen them, and these were ever dogged by ravenous traitor pursuers. Sometimes even in instances where they had managed to reach loyal worlds, too often did they find no means of passing their tales of betrayal to higher authorities, and that traitorous ships breached the warp impossibly soon after they themselves had only limped back into real space. By 006 M31, the hand of Horus began to emerge, stretching over systems in the galactic north in the first moves of building his dark empire. Even as the first steps of the warmaster on his long, bloody road to terror were being trod, a combined armada of the 17th legion wordbearers and 12th legion world eaters was making astonishingly good progress towards Ultramar. Under the command of Lorgar and the 12th Primarch Angron, they made a segmentum breaking force, even despite the wounds suffered by both at the Istvan atrocities. The world eaters, as partipitators of the ground war during Istvan III, had bled significant manpower, but those that remained were truly hardened killers, not to mention now twice blooded in combating fellow astartes. The wordbearers supplemented their cousins' material strength considerably, having utilized the years since Monarchia to vastly swell their numbers in an effort to match that of the hated Ultramarines. They had also ensured to amass one of the largest void fleets of any legion, possessing at this stage over a hundred capital ships, including nine Glorianatlas, several of which had only recently been captured as prizes from the now shattered legions, in titanic void clashes above the dropside massacre. To supplement this were three Abyss-class super battleships, the Tresagion, the Blessed Lady, and the Furious Abyss herself, considered to be amongst the most powerful void ships ever constructed by the hands of mankind. The fleet of the world eaters was somewhat lesser in terms of sheer tonnage, but had a storied reputation for aggression, and was outfitted accordingly, favouring viciously fast frigates and pursuit vessels armed with the vicious iconic Ursus Claws, designed to ensnare and deliver legionaries in bloody boarding actions. Created by the 17th Fidelitas Lex and the 12th Conqueror, the Armada carried some 300,000 Astartes and innumerable auxilia, both in the form of imperial army regiments and degenerate warp cults inducted by the word-bearers. Their route is... distressingly easy to trace. Their path was marked by a string of totally devastated systems, gruesome waypoint markers for the passage of the traitor brothers. There's little discernible reason for the choice of worlds the Armada was unleashed upon beyond simple proximity to their route. No capture or conquest was undertaken. No forces were left behind as garrisons. Populations were simply slaughtered. What slaves were taken appeared to be few. The fate of these poor worlds were marked either by butchery at the hands of the world-eaters or human sacrifice by those of the word-bearers. Death was either fast, a body broken in two by a chain axe, or slow, skin flayed and blood drained atop an altar to eldritch powers. A great number of profane ritual arrangements of corpses constructed by the 17th Legion served to mark precursors to the atrocities committed in Ultramar, and it is highly possible that these gruesome votive offerings were undertaken to speed the fleet on its way southwards. As history records this, the first Ultramarines to die at the hands of the 17th and 12th so-called Shadow Crusade were a garrison force on the world of Anorum. A military outpost initially seized by the 12th Expeditionary Fleet on its long march to Ultramar. The world had later been fortified and manned by the Ultramarines as a way station for the movement of Crusade fleets throughout the Galactic East. It was heavily manned. Its garrison consisting of a full company of Ultramarines, enough to capture an entire planetary system with ease, as well as several regiments of solar auxilia, recruited from the advanced industrial cities that dotted the world. A robust, flexible force, the envy of many a Crusade-era operation. They died in less than a day. Angron was recorded as having personally led the attack, demolishing all resistance before him and putting the world to the torch in under 24 hours. But the killing dragged on for weeks. Blood-mad world eaters hunted down survivors alongside the Galvorback, the so-called blessed sons of the word-bearers. Glutting themselves both in human lives and armament stock, the armada of the two primarks at this point disappears from recognizable imperial space. It is presumed that the route they took forward passed through the Forbidden Region of Galactic Space, known to the Cartagraphica Imperialis as the Dominion of Storms. Such a route would ordinarily only be undertaken by the mad or suicidal. The volume is riven with warp disturbances, currents, and anomalies of exceptional ferocity and unpredictability. That the fleet's passage was even possible at all is entirely due to paranormal interferences and patronage. Even still, the records of the Chronicle of Ash attest that the journey was fractious. Angron and his legion, growing weary of the lack of victims for their bloodthirst, wasted excessive time hunting for worlds to prey upon. Lorgar and his brother almost came to blows on more than one occasion as the Urizen sought to keep Angron on target, only to be saved by an attack mounted upon the Armada by Eldari ships in the depths of the Xersinia Prohibited Zone. In a stark and unexpected boon, the Chronicle of Ash penned it as a gift from the Dark Pantheon, for Lorgar was gifted with prophecy by an Eldari seer, albeit unwillingly, concerning the fate of Angron and Aurelian's own part within it. That, however, is a dark and terrible tale for another record altogether. By 007, M31, the borders of the Xersinia Prohibited Zone had been reached by the ships of the Shadow Crusade. The volume, the nominal border of the Dominion of Storms and Ultramarian Space, presided over by Calf herself, was an ideal staging ground. A quarantine zone enacted during the Great Crusade by the Titan Legio Tempestus, Xersinia was a plague region. An ancient and utterly lethal Xenos pathogen had been inflicted upon the Crusade fleet that had attempted to purge Eldari maiden worlds therein, capable, seemingly, of circumventing void shields and atmospheric locks. No ship was permitted access, under penalty of destruction by Ultramarian picket fleets that regularly patrolled the border. Lurking within, the traitor fleet avoided detection utterly, but simply absolutely no one was looking for them. Dates here are uncertain. It is quite likely that the fleet emerged fairly staggered, as even by a passage sped by patrons unnatural, no armada of this size could maintain coherency of formation for that long a journey, making a period of consolidation quite necessary. As a greater fleet reassembled, river flotillas were doubtless dispatched into Ultramar border regions. A sudden upsurge in missing ships at this point in history, logged as disappearances, chalked up to warp anomalies, have been revised historically as victims of the Shadow Crusade. Some recovered logs even attest to navigators being lured off course by false beacons, assumed now to have been Wordbearer's warp craft meant to usurp the etheric site of these mutants and trap imperial ships to their doom. Those captured were utilized for intelligence gathering. Their bridge crews, mined broken by Wordbearer diabolists, the traitors extracting as much as they could about the status of Ultramar's shipping patrols and Calt's defenses. Well aware that by now, even with Gilliman delayed, the muster would be well underway. The information was vital to shoring up the traitors' plans for the system. While the defenses of the world and of Ultramar itself were no secret to the legions, them still being counted as brothers in arms, no legion would ever fully divulge its entire strength, especially after the burning of Prospero. Calth, of course, was not the only target. With hundreds of captive captains shorn of all intelligence they could render, the Shadow Crusade began to subdivide. The two furious Abyss class ships, Trusagian and Blessed Lady, formed up with the Fidelitas Lex and the Conqueror to make the core of one of the main thrusts, set against the war world of Armature, the most fortified planet in the entirety of the 500 worlds after McCrag itself. The hub of the region's military might, Armature was the center of the Ultramarine and Exertus Imperialis mustering and training, making its destruction as central to the entire traitor agenda. Lorgar and Angron themselves would see to this. Calth was left in the hands of Erebus and Core Phaeron, first chaplain and first captain of the word bearers respectively, bleeding the majority of the word bearers fleet with all of its Gloriana class ships. A hundred small flotillas were dispatched across all compass points, formed of the pack hunters of the world eaters and what remaining destroyers and barks could be spared from the word bearers. All with the intent to winnow and bleed whatever Ultramarine or Navus Imperialis ships they encountered and inflict as much infrastructural and population destruction as they could. There would be in all cases absolutely no attempt made to capture territory, nor even any efforts to strike at strategic targets. Calth and Armature were the only ones of note and the only ones in play. The Shadow Crusade was unconcerned with worlds like Conor, Eax, Gantz or Espandor. Not when there were hundreds more agri-worlds industrial centers and fledgling colonies with nothing in the way of defenses for them to glut themselves upon. Its first and foremost aim was death, bloodshed and terror. Every cruelty, every crime, every ounce of malice must be committed upon the civilians of the 500 worlds with as much psychopathic creativity as could be mustered by those enacting it. The suffering of Ultramar's people was the aim. Fuel for Lorgar's sorcerous schemes and vengeance for a legion still holding in their hearts the shame of Menarchia. As a fleet separated to bring about their murderous rampages, Erebus aboard the Destiny's Hand and Corferon aboard his own capital ship still broadcasting her old ident tags of rapturous wrecks made wake for the muster at Calth. The betrayal would soon begin in earnest and it would do so with but a single ship. Before that tale can be committed to record, one feels that it is time that these legions involved will be explored in their totality. Until such a time as I may render those records to this archival stack, Ave Imperator. Gloria, Minix Celsus, Terra. Otherwise please like, subscribe, comment, let me know your feedback and as ever thank you very much for watching.


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