WARHAMMER 40,000
HIS ANGELS OF DEATH
HIS ANGELS OF DEATH
> INITIATE ASTROPATHIC RELAY
> INITIATE PSALM OF DELIVERANCE
> BY HIS HOLY WORK WE SHALL SPEAK HIS TRUTHS
> BY HIS BLESSED HAND WE SHALL GIVE WHAT IS REQUIRED
> ASTROPATHIC RELAY ONLINE> BY HIS BLESSED HAND WE SHALL GIVE WHAT IS REQUIRED
> SIGNAL STRENGTH: STRONG
> SILENCE PSALM OF DELIVERANCE
> RECEIVING SYSTEM REPORT
> SYSTEM REPORT RECEIVED
> ORBITAL STATION TERGATUS I REPORTS FOLLOWING STATUS…
> ONE SUPERMASSIVE BIOMASS IN ORBIT OF TERGATUS MAGNA
> -ERROR- BIOMASS ENTITIES IN VICINITY OF SUPERMASSIVE BIOMASS
> -ERROR- BIOMASS ENTITIES ENGAGING ASTRA MILITARUM DEFENSES
> ORBITAL DEFENSE STATIONS THREE, FIVE, SEVEN, EIGHT OFFLINE
> ORBITAL DEFENSE STATIONS ONE, TWO DEGRADED
> BATTLEFLEET TRECENTIS REPORTS FOLLOWING STATUS…
> ORBITAL STATION RAMOS REPORTS FOLLOWING STATUS…> -ERROR- BIOMASS ENTITIES IN VICINITY OF SUPERMASSIVE BIOMASS
> -ERROR- BIOMASS ENTITIES ENGAGING ASTRA MILITARUM DEFENSES
> ORBITAL DEFENSE STATIONS THREE, FIVE, SEVEN, EIGHT OFFLINE
> ORBITAL DEFENSE STATIONS ONE, TWO DEGRADED
> BATTLEFLEET TRECENTIS REPORTS FOLLOWING STATUS…
> TWO BATTLESHIP GRADE DESTROYED
> SEVEN CRUISER GRADE DESTROYED
> THIRTY ESCORT GRADE DESTROYED
> FIFTY PERCENT OF ALL WARSHIPS REMAINING DEGRADED
> BATTLEFLEET TRECENTIS REMAINS IN CONTACT WITH XENOS FORCES> SEVEN CRUISER GRADE DESTROYED
> THIRTY ESCORT GRADE DESTROYED
> FIFTY PERCENT OF ALL WARSHIPS REMAINING DEGRADED
> RUITEGIER ASSETS REMAIN UN ENGAGED
> RUITEGIER DEFENSE FORCES DECLARED PRIORITY EXTREMIS
> NO DETACHMENT FOR TERGATUS MAGNA DEFENSE AUTHORIZED
> CONFIRM ALL TRANSMISSIONS ACCURACY> RUITEGIER DEFENSE FORCES DECLARED PRIORITY EXTREMIS
> NO DETACHMENT FOR TERGATUS MAGNA DEFENSE AUTHORIZED
> ACCURACY CONFIRMED. THE OMNISSIAH PROVIDES
> ASTRA MILITARUM ASSETS INBOUND. ASTARTES ASSETS INBOUND
> MISSION DECLARATION…
> DESTROY OR DISABLE SUPERMASSIVE BIOMASS SIGNATURE
> DESTROY ALL XENOS INFECTIONS PRESENT IN SYSTEM
> ADDITIONAL INFORMATION…> DESTROY ALL XENOS INFECTIONS PRESENT IN SYSTEM
> TERGATUS MAGNA RESEARCH FACILITIES CANNOT FALL
> RUITEGIER RESEARCH FACILITIES CANNOT FALL
> IF THREATENED, NO DESTRUCTION AUTHORIZED
> IF THREATENED, EVACUATION OF RESEARCH MATERIAL AUTHORIZED
> BE ADVISED: LONG RANGE ASTROPATHIC TRANSMISSION IMPOSSIBLE AT THIS TIME
> THE OMNISSIAH PROTECTS. THE OMNISSIAH PROVIDES> RUITEGIER RESEARCH FACILITIES CANNOT FALL
> IF THREATENED, NO DESTRUCTION AUTHORIZED
> IF THREATENED, EVACUATION OF RESEARCH MATERIAL AUTHORIZED
> BE ADVISED: LONG RANGE ASTROPATHIC TRANSMISSION IMPOSSIBLE AT THIS TIME
> TRANSMISSION END
Gulf Marchers III Company
Strike Cruiser Rulior Braeces Tagates
Karia System Mandeville Point
Strike Cruiser Rulior Braeces Tagates
Karia System Mandeville Point
Gellar fields rending and screaming, the hull groaning, the armored shutters of the bridge vibrating, the Fleetmaster felt all become still once more. It was like passing through a veil, a cold and clammy shower, to become real again after so long in the dreaming sea of warp-space. The helmsman gave a barking report, hoarse Low Gothic mixed with the high, staccato tones of astrological Techna-Linguis, as the armored shutters drew away to reveal the Karia system.
Warp Jump successful, he had said. The Fleetmaster, stood as he was at the command station, was neither pleased nor displeased. The warp jump was a fact of reality, of life, of his station and of his command. It had to be done often and with care, lest the whole of the action be made impossible and the duty of the Chapter made to heretical sluggishness. His face was impassive behind his Heresy-era helm, his armored gauntlet lax against the railing. It simply was. Fleetmaster Amocis had performed the act hundreds of times previous, and would do so hundreds of times again if the Emperor willed it. Reports flowed over his displays from the ship and from the fleet, personnel and equipment and ship statuses, and at that the Fleetmaster did allow himself a portion of satisfaction. They had not lost much.
Before him, though, the distance of the Karia system stretched far. Above that fifth world of the system, above that hive world of Tergatus Magna, he could visually see the threat that they had hunted before. It measured but sixty kilometers in length, curved slightly with long spines and sensory devices Amocis had heard referred to as similar to that of crustaceans. Hard chitin covered much, while vents protruded here and there. They boiled out black-fly swarms, masses that wept acidic concoctions freely in their wake, all while the Fleetmaster could see the Battlefleet Trecentis at a distance, attempting to fire into the creature.
He did not know what it was. All he knew was that it had killed a world before and required its own death.
“Launch sensor probes. Maintain course and speed.”