The Blue skin Compliance, Tiamat Nightmare
As the Warfront of Humanity pressed on and Roboute have deemed the Indominatus Crusade go.
Final preparations of the enormous fleets now stationed in Luna port ready to heed their call for Terra...
Roboute knew it was a gamble of a lifetime...
Despite the League is holding the Frontlines and supplying reinforcements, The Ultramarine Primarch calculated the risk factor as the League population that filled the gaps of what the Imperium lack is dwindling at a faster rate...
So the Indominatus Crusade was inevitable as he deemed that becoming the status quo... May not be the most viable... As the Necron and Eldars have given breathing room for the Imperium to divert their enormous resources to the more vital Frontlines, Tyrannid have been gaining larger victories and news of Calth have fallen to the Tyranids horde is heard in the Imperium and Orks green tide is swelling out of proportion, despite the daily cullings that carried uout in the name of humanity, they propped several sectors that belongs to the imperium and control it and a danger to not only Imperium Supply lines but also the League, and the Last of All, the Black Legion still remains a threat as the Traitor fleet grew ever more as worlds fallen under their banner, the loss of the Traitor Primarchs have not stiffled them but emboldened them to make attacks even more violently in Imperial controlled worlds, the Indominatus crusade was much more larger and well prepared compared to the original as many willingly joined the fleets to take back humanity birth right...
From from the Underhives to the spires of hive worlds people signed up en masse.
But the gamble is high, but with the Light of the Astronomican shine ever more brightly than before, that chance was needed to take the controlled planets is possible as the Warp have calmed down since the death of Slaanesh and the revival of the Emperor...
This Crusade was not one of desperation, of a final gasp of humanity, but one of vengeance... With fury ready to burn the stars of their grievances.
9 great fleets each set on their own task set of in different directions with Terra as the center point of their departure... It contains the dreams of seeing the nightmare to end.
Xeno that betray humanity is under their sight, the Eldar Raids now became more vague as the news of the Eldar and Humanity alliance have spread in the void of space making the pirates of Eldar descent not stick their head out as the anti-piracy is intensified that it is more profitable to trade than steal, Traitor planets among the Materium realm are now under siege by the Loyalist... And those within the warp tremble by the amount of bloodshed no less than the great crusade of old...
With the traitor primarchs under the League jurisdiction and Only the possessed Angron still still at large across the stars with bloodshed planets in his wake... In a sense Humanity of this doomed universe have a chance of survival... For ten thousand years they waited for that whimsical hope, that elusive kind that is so far from their grasp... Now... That hope have arrived and for the first time after a millennia of darkness. A glimpse of a sunlight, dawn upon the wounded imperium, healing its pus filled wounds and sores that accumulated... No longer it was a false belief that a better future have come for humanity... But now a reality...
In the false Celestial Orrery .. Different species observed the battle that is ongoing... Necron, Eldar, Squats and Humans observed the ongoing battle... With Roboute sitting on a Throne overseeing all with Yvraine and Alexander by his side... Some of the Nobility may looked at the Primarch with hostility but they knew better than to express their thoughts with the High lord standing next to him... As they know who would be on the next chopping list and be executed by a Power Bat is more humiliating than a guillotine...
But after a day observing the situation both the High Lord and Regent retired to their quarters...
As Alexander return from the eye of Terror and his deeds of destroying Commorragh, Alexander started another purge... This time to removed the corruption and the bloodlines that bound by their misdeeds... panicked as they sought to make a faction to counter the Two of them...
The Old Imperialis faction was meant to counter the two other factions, As Roboute Moderates that want change slowly and slowly tiptoe around the red tapes and Alexander Progressive as they wanted to change the Imperium and be the shining example and even grander before the Golden Age with the League technology to assist their Ascension and the Old Imperialist want the old way of life where they were but bloat to the imperium sucking its resources like a parasite ... They didn't last long as the moment they started a rebellion which is poorly prepared than the high lords... The leaders was apprehended... And the associates are given worse crimes.
Those captured by Roboute is cruel as he dragged the criminals through the streets of Terra, flogging them naked, Alexander is even worse... If they were not killed outright by public executions to appease the masses, they were put as a experimental test subjects for the war effort... The traitor blood have already filled the streets of Terra and from the source is the Golden Palace that flowed blood continuously...
While many looked to Roboute for support, he turned a blind eye as he saw the pro and cons of another purge of bloat and his silence was confirmation of the purge... The Imperium War Engine, now Oiled with the blood of the Traitors and Opportunists... Is now roaring to its output even more than the great crusade of old, Ancient shipyard of Mars is churning out ships with the resources that flowed from the league by the day, That some forge cities worked overtime to process the materials..
Luna port is constantly filled with ships and Navy is constantly drilled as if there is no tomorrow until they joined the Indominatus fleets as reinforcements ...
Logistics now being strengthen as the purges made people live in fear and commence their duties faithfully and double checked their orders in fear of the executioner arriving at their station for their crimes of slowing down the crusade... As this time the reaper is now breathing on their necks.
However there was some comments that the High Lord and the Regent was juicy gossip among the Nobility... Those that didn't partake in the coup was left alone. Happy with their way of life as if they assist the imperium, they were rewarded immensely, and they get the wealth that the Traitors owned, as both do not need a blood stained thrones from a sinner.... And many began to see the benefits of aiding as trade have flourish and money continue to pile in their coffers... Many turned a blind eye from their compatriots death screams as long as they were rewarded with their fallen adversarial wealth it is enough.
And the rumors of them having a Xenos Wives from the Eldar... That was the gossip among the females Nobilites.
Many debated that the reason why Yvraine was handed over to Roboute in a Ribbon gift by the Eldar was a Political necessity and Survival as many of the Nobles felt their ego stroked as the Eldar knew the power of the Imperium... And glad they saw reason... But the League... That's even more mystery as they never knew about the Priestess of Isha as Alexander didn't show her in the noble circles .... As gossip goes they often quiet down when Alexander was around....
(Roboute office, Golden Palace)
A Heated debate was ongoing...
"You surely can't be serious Roboute? Making the Tetrachs to be the sector governors?" Alexander was seating in face of the Primarch as he drank a recaff...
"I believe it is necessary the important as the governors that you somehow purged, have left plenty of the sectors in critical condition..." Roboute simply stared back as he drank another set of Recaff... Having a Headache as the purges may have help the imperium at the long run, but not the short term...
"Fair point, Well at least the imperium is running even better before... We have the governors ready to take charge of those missing sectors...and which Geneseed stock is needed to oversee the governorship of the missing sectors?"
"I believe my sons are suited to handle the affairs of governors..."
"Oi oi you surely can't mean your blueberry Bois handle the affairs of baseline affairs? That was Ten Thousand years ago when they were trained to be diplomats not governors... And this batch is absurd. I do read the remembrancers report of what your sons did, Poster boy." Alexander sighed... He recalled the song that came out of Macragge "Ultramarine is Greatest of them All" and it irked him how much of the lines that claimed that their Genefather have a Xenos wife... And they have to follow the codex Astartes to a tee .. with the Vox Caster of a space marine singer screaming in the background... And one could imagine the tears of blood dripped from his eyes...
"I can't help my sons if they actually felt that way...oh no..." Roboute watched as a Xenos Cat came in... With Yvraine at the door wearing a robe....
"Did I come at a bad time?"
"Roboute you frakkin serious..." Alexander eyes widen as the Wych was appeared fresh from a bath...
"We had some... Decent Negotiations. She is good at massages." Roboute smiled at the wych as she disappear into the corridors.
"If you do, it do it at Macragge! Even Constantine is disturb by the noises you made!"
"I do not want to see mother like this..."
"At least not in the golden palace, even the pilgrims call that the Moaning of the grieving Primarch that lost his brothers in the warp!"
"Her massages was great for my weary bones."
"Might as well let Vulkan Hug you for bone therapy."
"..."
"Speaking of my brothers in the warp... How are they?" Roboute changed the subject...
He knows most of the Traitors Primarchs is now in the league away from prying eyes...
"Other than you almost killed the clone of Horus to death and now in a ICU... The rest are doing okay... Mortarion is still comatose... Angron is undergoing therapy, Konrad is just working as a Arbites at the moment... Magnus is at the refugee planet that housed the descendants of Prospero, Perturabo? He was overseeing his Homeworld being rebuilt. "
"I see... Will they able to come back to Terra?"
"No... That is almost impossible the deed they have done is so damaging that if they appeared here... Even my reputation would not save them. Unless if I do a Galaxy wide Propaganda like what I did to my league for ten thousand years, that the traitors was clones of the Primarchs and they were held in stasis... It is impossible"
"But at least they are still alive... Unlike Sanguinius..."
"I will see to it to awaken our feathered brother... Or the first? As Fulgrim, Magnus and Corvus have wings now..." Alexander groaned as he distinctly see the winged Primarchs complaining how to care for their wings... And the trio is comparing notes on how to take care of their feathers...
"I supposed you have a lot of things on your plates as well?"
"Well, hard to juggle family and work at the same time .. and don't you dare promote my daughter with your authority... She need the experience not be a bootlicker." Alexander barked back as the purges did killed a lot of corrupted officers but they did have decent experience...
"Fine... She would be delegated to handle the Ork affairs. Now we move to a more important issue at hand..." Roboute opened his office desk and a map that shown the Galaxy was spread across the room...
"At the moment the Indominatus fleets is making good progress... And the allies you have gather is sufficient enough to barely turned the tides and the supply line is no longer hinder by pirates, Traitors and Xenos... The Tyrannids have taken Calth that much is a dire news as they been making headwind towards my Homeworld, Maneus Calgar is task of defending my home and I am aware of his abilities... But Your task is much more simple..." Roboute directed to a familiar sector...
"T'au have been making progress in the east...and your job is to capture, assimilate or outright exterminate them... As you have the resources that you didn't exactly presented on the Senate?" Roboute smiled as he knows how Alexander skimmed the funds to make more ships but the amount that is being sent along with the Indominatus fleets is not the same he actually have within his League... The League and the Votann is enough to feed the forges of the Imperium, but Roboute needed more than that.
He need the T'au to create more weapons and jumpstart the technology advances in the Imperium. He couldn't rely on Alexander forever.
"Seems like you know me well, I do have plans for the T'au Empire... But I am going to need one of the locals of making them totally compliant." Alexander smiled.
"Who is the person that you have in mind?"
"Commander Farsight of the Farsight enclaves..."
"That Xenos Warhero?"
"Yes, but he is at head against the Ethereals that is shadier than our old family Macaldor... And if we could make his cause just... And without having enormous resources spent to conquer the entire T'au empire, I am planning to devour them from within. "
"A Civil war?"
"A Liberation war, Roboute... Seem like they talked shit about my league and my living standard for my people is even lower than the Imperium? Their already started a war. And my victory is probably a wedding present for the both of you. And a rat that I must do another purging" Alexander smirked at the figure that is listening behind the door... As if the person realize they were being discovered they fled from the room.
[???]
Ephritta Hyde remember the time when he came to Mina as a Guardsman always jest about his life... Now his figure was the one thing that somehow she felt safe... As she faithfully waited for his return, She could always sense his anxiety... But somehow he also seemed distant... The newest addition to the family is arkward in speaking Gothic... But she welcomed her sister just the same...
Her adopted daughter have grown up now making a name of herself using her stepfather old Unit the 69th Dust Hounds to survive in this cruel Galaxy... Oftentimes she sent Vox messages and Picts back to her and her wellbeing...
When she met him again for the first time for ten years lost in the warp... How he hugged her with such longing... Such warmth in her arms must felt like a lifetime... That smiling Guardsman she used to remember now a grizzled High Lord of Terra, but to her, he is always her Guardsman...
She often worried about his health... But somehow she knew he would always come back to her...
This time... She believes that the Emperor have blessed him on his journey...
She look at a window that saw the Valkyrie carried his figure to the stars...
"Stay safe... Beloved." She spoke with a soft voice as she wander in the Golden Palace Garden... Accompanied by Alexander Honor Guards and In the distance was a Squad of Alpha Legionaries that was awakened in the golden palace...
Most of the Alpha legion was sent to retrieve their brothers that have mixed messages implanted in them throughout the millennia... And this group drew lots to protect the High Lord Consorts.. which is a easier job as several Aquilan Shield hosts was nearby at a moment notice of any danger... And their only task is just observed the group in the distance. While avoiding the Raven Guards that is observing them for any signs of treachery... Horus was left behind and served as Liason of the League...
Roboute was sitting in his office after Alexander left, reading the records of Alexander.... After reading Lorgar Book and him being revived from death after the Plague wars... He would been dismissive ten thousand years ago... But when you see demons in reality and people that used faith... He shook his head as he tried to logically reasoned the events especially his revival that happened twice... But after conversing with the High Lord... He noticed several moments, Alexander was not what he claimed he is...as if he was empty... He may laugh and he may jest with the Primarchs... Roboute knew the Emperor is healed and is more friendlier... But in exchange ever since Alexander arrived from the warp... It was as if he was standing next to a void with a light that barely glimmer from within...
A flesh golem that is slowly breaking apart...
The High Lord may no longer be the family he once knew... After conversing with Magnus in Prospero after Alexander set of in T'au space, and learn the truth about his supposedly "brother" identity in Macragge... He realized just like the first time he met the emperor when he returned from Macragge, Cold,Calculating, Almost like a Machine.
Alexander is even worse, using memories to play other people emotions and make them yield without firing a shot... Roboute gritted his teeth as all the time his brother in Macragge was just a Soul piece of the High lord... And he didn't heard about it?
"Alexander must have done something to have his soul shattered like that...what price did he paid for us to be free?" He muttered as he watched his favorite pastime of paperwork is minimal by what he originally estimated...
Thanks to the purges conducted by Alexander the Bureaucracy was hastened in fear who would be next...
Upon discussion with Magnus... There was a way to make him whole again... Just as Magnus and his sons made a ritual to bind his shards together...
They could to the same for him ....
Though they could not guaranteed if he was still the same, unlike Magnus souls that was shattered by Lemn Russ and the Emperor... Alexander soul is willingly separated and now encased in relics that is close to them... And they needed to find relics that was close to them sending off on a unknown crusade... Alpharius and Omegon have sent them trail crumbs for their brothers to find the relics... Some interaction as hostile to some while being friendly towards others... They managed to gather all the relics... Now they needed the person to returned to commence the ritual...
The Traitor Primarchs while they are supposedly in the League in "Custody" were also sent to gather Alexander relics and Roboute made several loophole for them to exploit as they disappeared in the void to gathered his remains... It was a painful moment as they have to revisit the Istvaan system and the Homeworld that have exterminated... Especially for Angron as he visited his old Homeworld that in his madness that inflicted by the Butcher's nails, drenched it in blood of his brothers and sisters... He wept until no more tears was in his face... There he met one of the World Eaters standing Infront of the monument of the people that died on the planet...
"Kharn..." Those words almost a whisper and a chain axe was on his neck...
The Astarte looked at his Genefather face and found that the nails no longer in his skull...
"Father..." The figure growled.... His tattered remains of what was once the heraldry of the World Eaters...
Horus returned to his Homeworld was not destroyed but remade in a better image...
He was troubled with his last conversation with Alexander and prayed that Alexander predicted would not come to pass...
Konrad Curze for the first time, returned to Nostromo it was a memory that he spent... Often times he wonder... After his supposedly resurrection if he is forgiven... The Palace and his former home managed to survive the test of time... But sometimes... He looked at the rain that now fallen upon his landing it occured to him that last memory of this place... Tht Gunshot that took his brother away.... But his mission as the Arbites of the Night... Must presevere... The Night Haunter no longer surrounded him... And his vision is clear... He could not deny that he would have been that person if he chosen that path...
As promised... Sanguinius was awaken with Alexander made a brief stop in Baal, with the Alpha legion that spent in the Vengeful spirit to gather his soul remains, they met Alexander for the first time in a cafe of Baal with people unaware of the trio presence, still looking young and smirk and Alexander still recognize Alpharius despite the two tried very hard to mimic one another, they given Sanguinius souls fragments and disappear in the crowd ready to do the next task ahead of them, Alexander went to the Stasis pod and unleashed the content and the souls of Sanguinius returned to him, for once in a millennia the Primarch eyes opened... And the people of Baal celebrated the returned to another Primarch turn into the Imperium fold... Chapter Master Dante for the first time in his life saw the Primarch awaken from the stasis pod and his wounds healing...
"Milord I-" his mouth was touched by the Sanguinius finger and was hugged by the feathery angel...
"Thank you my son... For carrying on my memories..." Dante Mask of Sanguinius did not deter the tears that he kept within himself...
Alexander stood by and watched as the revived Primarch hugged him and whisper a message for him alone..
"Brother, I fear that that you are heading a crossroads For our future, I can't force you... But I hope you make the right decision..." He let go of Alexander and smiled to his people... Leaving Alexander with mixed feelings about what he said...
When the return of Sanguinius, the Black rage that infested the blood angels is slowly subsiding but it is still there... But they could see their Primarch for the first time in the flesh, realizing that their suffering is enough... And the winged angel promised to heal them as possible... Several Death Companies followed Sanguinius as Dante with renewed vigor, stood vigil defending Baal.
And the Lamenters for the first time in their lives managed to see their Genefather and he appreciated their work and sought to repeal their penitent crusade... How many wept and lamented that the brothers they lost will unable to see their Genefather... Now standing before them...
And it was ironic that Sanguinius resurrection have raised the Echlesiarchy fanaticism to the heaven... As pilgrims that were faithful in their journey in that event have been blessed by in their lives that the Angelic son has returned... Pilgrim fleets turned makeshift battle flotillas flocked the Blood Angels Fleet as they returned to Terra to greet his brothers... Carefully guarding a priceless treasure that would break any time... And Alexander separated from Sanguinius as he have another task at hand.
Roboute sent Alexander on a Crusade to compliant one of the T'au that is needed for his plans. It seems that the League is a ally at best... But what happens if he breaks down or that thing that kept him sane is taken from him? Roboute weight the pro and cons if the Imperium have to fight the League of Ten Thousand... And he found it absymal to even fight them... If news that the Imperium did fight against them... They would rally behind Alexander instead...
As his contributions to the Imperium outweigh any Primarchs news of their return as they were still distrustful of him due to his origins, and they could relate with Alexander more as he was literally named the "High Lord that cared" by the Daily Imperium...
While he may be the Primarch Roboute of the poster chapter for the Imperium... He was the Whip that is generally disliked due to his heavy streamlined taxation, while Alexander was the carrot that at least opened a Soup kitchen and provided decent jobs... As Roboute is a Politician in nature, making deals with the elites, Alexander is a Entrepreneur knowing what the people truly wants...
Yvraine enter the room with curiosity, While they were forcibly married for politics... She was concerned about Roboute... And that is something that is beyond his measure...
She managed to stealthily approached the deep thinking Primarch and she noticed he was reading about the High Lord Bio... A memory invoke in her.
She and Dimh-Yriel met... The supposedly Priestess of Isha...
"Tell me what did you actually see in that man Soul?"
"I tell you this... That man that Isha feared... He is at his breaking point..." Dimh-Yriel spoke as they were discussing in the golden Palace garden...
"I originally wanted to know more about him... But when I saw his true nature... He is broken man..." She sighed as she dipped her drink with a Eldar bread...
Many attendee was just a mixed Imperium and League assets watching over them... Some imperium bore veiled hostilities while League just don't really cared as long as they get paid.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Several part of his soul was akin of being devoured... And he is literally dying inside..."
"And can Isha at least heal him? Didn't she done so for the Emperor?"
"No... The Emperor was like a fractured glass that he could be cured, Alexander... It was as if it was constantly ripped apart by some beast and it was leaking... I believe that it was due to the injuries that was made when he dueled with Slaanesh... And Nurgles realm... His physical looked normal... But with the damage accumulated In his soul? She order me to be a lifeline... To prevent him from falling..."
"So you didn't married out of conscience?"
Dimh-Yriel laughed sadly...
"We are both similar... You were married out of Politics, while I was married out of necessity for the fate of the Eldar existence in the event if he truly pulled the trigger and ended this galaxy... But I hope I could do more to support him..." She sadly stared deep in her drink as if searching for answers..
Yvraine softly touch the weary Primarch hands and decided to inform him of her idea to save his brother...
Several Servitors exited the Primarch office carrying hidden messages to a destination unknown...
Such a thought from Alexander wife brought shivers to the Avatar of the Emperor that is overseeing the Golden Palace now working in his labs below Tthe Golden palace... Constantine, Roboute and Alexander was only aware of his return to the mortal realm... As he wanted to see if humanity have a chance to survive without his guidance... He is able to split his consciousness and formed a living avatar that is in flesh and bones, while the original is still on the golden throne...
For throughout the years that he waited in the shadows of history, guiding humans to the technology prowess... When he deemed that being a tyrant was the only means to conquer and unite humanity through bloodshed and violence... As humanity innate nature is chaos, it was order with bloodshed that needed to bind them, he met Alexander in his journey during the Golden Age of Terra that challenge his vision... In a Company that jumpstart the progress of humanity without bloodshed...
It was by a whim of fate or so he believed...
Meeting the man that become not only become one of his closest friend and allies that followed his shining path he envisioned for humanity, despite many of his perpetual associates distance themselves from him for the things he have to commit for humanity survival, Alexander stayed behind and supported him and soon he was a part of the family in his long years, he lived among the primarchs, and understood that they have their lives plans ahead of them, they spoke to him about their dreams, that brighter future that they wished to paved, Revelation looked at them as a weapons grow beyond their parameters of a tool and becoming human, a family... Until the heresy happened...Even when Alexander had the chance to invade the Imperium when his favorite son fell to chaos... He stayed and remained loyal till the bitter end... How he still propped the Imperium despite it's failing system he still slowly changed it for a better path... Still believing in him... That vision that he shown on that very same room ... The Shining path for humanity...
He didn't believed in gods... As he knows better than the ones of the four, now three that torment him every single second, he stolen from the Deep warp, Using gods essence that slumbers in eternal sleep Into the weapons, a tool...but see them as his sons.... But there is something more stronger than the fate dictated by the gods he see in Alexander...
He smiled from the depth of the golden palace into his laboratory that hadn't have a visitor since several millennia, away from the prying eyes of his pious believers... Wishing the Name he held so long ago... Come to reality....
"Alexander... May your journey be fruitful..."
"Father... A Journey is not a Fruit nor does it contains any chemicals needed to be a fruit..." A Imperial Fist Centurion that was stationed near the labs voiced his concern...
"Dorn... You sure know how to be a rotten sport..."
"Father, Sarcasm is not your forte..."
(??? T'au Fleet?)
A Fight was ongoing between the T'au fleet that wore crimson.... Against the Ork Waaagh and Black Legion that is chasing after them...
A Crimson T'au Exosuit carrying a Sword observed the battlefield...
Commander Farsight knew that fighting a extended war between two factions is a folly mistake as they are more insane going after his fleet... The minefields he set out was plowed through by both forces forcing him to retreat.
The T'au empire sent a message as they did several times before, for him to surrender and his men would be spared... He was aware of the T'au empire lies of peace and sought to create his own enclave...
Many of his supporters that still remains in T'au empire gave his group outdated weaponry from the warehouses and Museum that is undermanned and low security, but he was grateful for their support but each month is dwindling their contribution of supplies and weapons is getting less and less... As more supporters for his cause is being sent to reeducation camps...
Supplies is difficult..
Shadowsun gave him Commander Shas'O Or'es'Ka from the Kaurava Conflict and heard tales about high lord and their place in the Galactic stage...
Such thoughts was interrupted as the Farsight was aware that his could not divert the fleets away from him and he picked a planet to make a stand, It was on this planet where he got the Famed sword that made his immortality, the Battlefield was almost in his grasp and his army managed to staved off the attackers... he knew it was a folly to think that he could handle this without support... and when the T'au messenger drone arrived, they
wanted to help in exchange for his surrender...
But as the battle raged on more and more of his people died on the battlefield believing in him... He began to grow desperate...
He nearly almost begging on the ground, asking the T'au Empire to save them in exchange for his Surrender... But the next message broke his heart,
They lied to him... They had no intention of letting him and his associates to escape... And they left him to die on that planet...
Grudges, hatred and injustice flowed through his mind... And now he beginning to see the brass bells and rivers of blood and almost fallen to khorne and about to summoned bloodletters... And a bronze door waiting for him to open with whispers of power to overwhelm the enemies before him, Until a image of his mentor Puretide halted him in his track and reminded his duties... He stared at his sword almost aware of the deed he was about to commit and a Message of old Shas'O Or'es'Ka codes he used in the Kaurava Conflict was emitted in his Exosuit... He rather take the chances... To save his men... Upon opening the message...it was a Human figure... And he was more decorative showing a Higher rank... When he spoke Farsight found that he could speak in his tongue...
"Commander...It seems that you are busy? I have proposition that benefits both of us...and your men..." The figure spoke
"Please no more... I already disgrace myself begging for the Ethereals for help... Why should I bow before you?"
"You were a Disciple of Puretide? I know how important your people... But begging rather standing as a warrior? That is not the way Puretide spoke to you... Farsight... I come for with tidings of a alliance with you and you alone and in return I want you to be the head of the T'au empire..."
"How can I be the leader of the T'au? I barely able to survive by the Tyrannids! You planning to use me as a puppet?"
"Did I mention anything about puppet? I am not like those Ethereals, I see you as a potential ally... They lied to you and your people... And I am your only real ticket out of this mess... Don't think when you release that door to hell would solve your woes..."
Farsight weighted his pro and cons but the battlefield was getting intense... That he heard his companions screaming for his name...
"Alright... I will be your ally... As long as you save my people!" The figure in the message smiled as if he already got a good contract and a deal... And Farsight found himself in a bind... He hope that any aid would be necessary...
"It is already done." The figure grinned as if he found new toy and message stopped. As explosion from orbit was seen from the ground below.
From the skies came imperial aircraft and orbital bombardment that rained non-stop and the T'au Defender look in wonder how much of the attackers was left... And the planes began to unload their medical staff to attend the injured... Many was stunned of the good fortune... But only Farsight was grim of the implications...
Alexander smiled and signed a physical contract and with the aid that was now flooding into the Farsight Enclaves... Weapons, Supplies shipped by the tonnes that every Tau that lived in the enclave had at least several ion rifles and food... And Power armors with Tau aesthetic were more advance than the ones they received is shown how much Alexander cared about the alliance...
Message Drone was sent from Farsight... It bore two sentence...
"I lived bitch and the League of Ten Thousand is coming for you." And the message was sent to the high council of the T'au how they dismissed the message that contain in the droid, not knowing that there was a Warp charged Scrapcode that managed to infect Ethereal Supreme Aun'Va ai core...
And the T'au Empire was dismissive of his claims, believing that the League is much lower than the Empire they built...
But the Echoes of Humanity golden Age now spoken in their territories and the human auxiliary was aware of the legends of the League from their forefathers... They could not riot or rebelled against the Imperium heartless policies that they joined the T'au out of necessity or fear of their Gunboat diplomacy...
Many wished to join the League in the past and some did regretted joining the T'au...
Now they are facing a Crusade lead by the first leader of the League, High Lord Alexander Hyde as League fleets and Imperial Battlegroups that served as reserves now joined them to gather experience and glory.
And a Large fleet was inbound in their territories...
The T'au Automated Defenses that they prided now began to failed them as they turned upon their creators... Disabling their fleets per Farsight request as the invaders march ever more deeper into the Heart of the Empire... The Ethereals panicked as among the fleet that invaded their empire was ships that held symbol of the Farsight Enclaves...
Alpha warband that is near the location have contributed to the sabotaging of the defenses
Many ethereal gritted their teeth as they were aware of the danger is heading towards them... But they have one artifact that was given to them by a stranger... And was specifically meant for Alexander..
Another city planet that was destroyed... Farsight sighed as he watched the defender was escorted out by Farsight and League Soldiers...
"Am I doing the right thing?" He wondered...
"Of course you are... You heard about my League and it is more better than this false illusion that the Ethereal cast upon the people..."
"Am I right of destroying that illusion?" Farsight bitterly watched as now he watching his soldiers is accompany the invaders overseeing the prisoners...
"Farsight, even that illusion must come to an end... Or the reality will be much more painful if you ignore it so long... Did you honestly think that the Imperium would be so kinder than me? Do you honestly think that the Ethereal would even tell the truth?"
Farsight looked back and recalled the insanity that the Imperium have inflicted... He knows that they would kill those that converted to the Greater good outright and their culture that they raised up be destroyed... But from what he seen, the League help rebuilt what they destroyed... At least they assured the citizens of the T'au have a choice to remain in the T'au or joined the League...
Alexander beckoned him to follow to his ship...
And activated the warp drive....
For the first time the T'au commander ventured in the warp... Wondering what was Alexander reason... A Figure approach the ship...
"This is the truth of what the Ethereals are hiding...Commander Farsight meet the Goddess embodiment of the Greater Good T'au'va..." Alexander beckoned the figure to approach command deck and it agreed and Farsight...
"How? Why?"
"We met in the warp...Farsight Champion of T'au'va, you were not the first... It was Shadowsun that have deemed by her as her Priest... If you claim that you are godless... The auxiliary isn't. She protected you when you nearly converted to Khorne... And Puretide lives within her..." The goddess caring tendril embrace Farsight invoking the memories of his mentor...
He wept for the first time that he seen the god...
After the ship returned to realspace, Farsight mindset was not forlorn and despair but of conviction that he needed to free his people...
"The T'au Capital Planet is under attack..." Was the transmission that echoed in the home space of the T'au...
Many defender that is loyal to the Ethereals dug in and waited for their foes... Their famed skyscrapers was littered with railgun sniper and their Exosuit thrummed with energy in their hidden hangars...
It was ironic that some sectors, erected a extensive trench lines... Mirroring the Imperial tactics of prolonged siege warfare.
Many of the planets before the invaders fell in record time... And those that are fanatically loyal to the Ethereals now guarded their Homeworld are all that remained...The Kroots was convinced that they could find better prey and the Vespids was granted citizenship and provided a better life... And those that did voiced out openly that facing the league was a mistake was sent to reeducation camps...and come back with a fanatical look.
It wasn't like the Imperium extermination group that ran out supplies and have a enemy to kill that is more important than them, or that the T'au managed to them sent off... No it was the League that approached their borders... And they are not arrogant like the Imperial Navis... No, they are not ignorant like the nobles believing that war is just as quick... But they systematically removed every defenses in their way... Many Tau in their planets before the Homeworld have given a choice to surrender and with Farsight speaking for them to lay down arms... Only a many planets of their forces surrendered but few stood defiant against the call of surrender... And how Farsight closed his eyes as those that didn't join and still fanatically joined the ethereals... Their comms was filled with scream and gunfire...
But now a continuous ships and supplies flowed into the Frontlines making the T'au even felt more pressure than before...
Many tried to supply raid the Logistical effort but no avail as the supply fleets are heavily defended as if they were actually a fleet joining them... And their legacy of their raids was a supply lane that is filled with debris and hull wreck of their folly.
They believed that the League was just a extension of the Imperium... A mere myth spoken by the G'uela to comfort themselves from the horrors of the Imperium... Now they witness firsthand how much that myth was a reality...
Weapons that collapse the suns, soldiers that shoot across continents, Titan that is small but could fly in space, ships that shoot black holes and moved at speeds unheard off... Metal men that uncaring of their injuries as they trampled on their soldiers...
Many of the Earth Caste tried to reverse engineering the ruined vehicle or weapons that they barely managed to smuggled out from the controlled planets only for them to self destruct out of the machine spirit spite... And the Technology that they managed to analyze briefly was that in the aspect of technology, they were facing a more advanced civilization of the human race...
[Planet T'au, Homeworld of Tau]
Their planetary defense fleets stood defiantly against the League forces... Their ship gunners nervous.
As soon as they saw something that was amiss they would immediately fire at the general direction... It was ironic that now they use the Imperial tactics of shoot anything in the general direction and hope it sticks, Instead of their calmness... As if the roles was reversed...
The first ships that appeared in the battlefield... enormous in size, that eclipse their fleets, uncaring of the shots being pummeled into their Void shields... There were two abyss class battleships of the fifteen that was originally patrol the League territory was sent earlier to smother the defense fleet.
The Defense fleets is beginning to feel desperation as the ship that they were attacking is more durable.... A single shot from the invaders have severely damaged of their ships in its path... And that was just the shot passing by and managed to hit the intended target... A Black hole erupted from the center of the fleet dragging those that was nearby to their unfortunate ends... Many of their famed attack craft released from their remaining carriers hoping to damaged the ships what ever they could, Ion shots, missiles and plasma rounds slammed into the impregnable shields...
And in return they were met by a heavy intensive anti-aircraft coverage that almost darken their screens.
Missiles that flowed endlessly, Lasers and antimatter anti-aircraft battery was thrown against them. As if it was freely loose with the ammunition as Fabricators and Replicators endlessly repeat the ammunition that was inputted into them...
Yet despite this the tattered defense fleet continue to yield knowing behind them is the heartland of thejr civilization.... Until the League fleets arrived in time... And the T'au realize that what they fighting with the ships before them was just a cannon sponge... And the fleet behind the abyss release all their aircraft and Mechas into the defenses...
They never know how a Titan is flying in space... But now they regretted it as several Imperator Titans Teleported on several of their ships and unloaded its armament into the command module and sending it crashing into planetside like a makeship drop pods... Making the first wave the most devastating as they crashed in the industrial sectors of the planet and unloaded the teleporter beacons with the size of a Apartment that unloaded a dome shield in its surroundings ... As they strode forward unleashing hell on the T'au defenders on the ground...
For the first time the League now use a new method of warfare that is perfected in the warp... Before they would simply used transport ships and drop pods to bravely faced the orbital cannons and Anti-air Defenses... Now they simply just teleported on the ground bypassing the necessities of a meat grinder landing...
Battalions of Soldiers calmly waited in their ships as their number was called... As their group is teleported into the safety zones... And began shooting outside the domes and killing the defenders.. vehicles and power suits now flowed out the dome shields and began to expand their operation of control. As the last anti-aircraft Batteries were silence by Raven Guard that accompanied Alexander, the skies was blackened by the sheer numbers of missiles that rained on them and followed up by drop pods that unleashed Thunder Warriors and Men of Iron, Valkyries and Laats swept down in the hot zones unloading horde of soldiers ready to unleash wrath of humanity...
The T'au this time ran out of their luck. And there is no plot armor to save them.
"Sir, we are now in the civillian district, what are your orders?" A Commander overseeing his operation sector called Alexander for further orders.
Gunfire is still heard across the place.
Many of the Civillians were evacuated but those that were fanatical and took up arms was killed.
"Have Commander Farsight lead the way and ensured no further casualties among the population... He would convince the Fire caste to not shoot at us"
"What if they rebel?"
"You have your orders... Carried them out if they deemed a threat. Make way into the Earth Caste District and capture any of the Earth Caste... If they prove uncooperative, I leave it your discretion... I will take my veterans to the T'au palace and end this charade of a empire..." Alexander smiled as the commander knew what to do next...
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A T'au pathfinder was fleeing from his defensive post, he desperate tried to hide behind a ruined building as swarms of Metal soldiers marched by... The fire warrior squad that ventured first ahead of him was squash by a Baneblade that had Meat Grinders on its front and it was protected by a Shield that none of their weapons could penetrate...
He cursed a bit of what the Ethereals have done... As he looked back from the direction he came... He sighed a relief until he bumped into a Golden Giant that stared down at them... He shaking aimed his pulse rifle at the now grinning giant and shot out of fear...
The shot was disapated by a Conversion shield...
And the Giant Slashed down his power sword with such force and what remained of the T'au was a splat of Blue blood across the pavement....
The Thunder warrior looked at his blade now stained by T'au and felt disgusted that this foe is not worth of his blade and now he ventured forth behind enemy line to wreaked harvoc... Many situation like this happened across the planet, preventing many of the encircled squad to regroup and made a better defensive position...
They were bears of war that been equipped all the advanced technology the league have made and even Primaris would better take a step back when facing them....
Titans now roamed the lands and unleashed their arsenals on military industrial sectors...
Follow by a flood of Soldiers wielding Volkite and Hellguns that trampled the dirt.
13 regiments of Krieg came on the planet and unloaded and trenched down on the supply zones... Though one of them was experimental that used Sandevistan cyberwares to make them more "fast".
This wasn't just a liberation war but also a Experimental site to test new technologies and prototypes... If the ethereal found out of Alexander intentions they would have fainted...
Both League of Ten Thousand and Farsight Enclaves soldiers evacuated the civilians from the population centers... Making the population realized that the invaders is not truly the evil that the T'au Propaganda proclaimed them as...
The Ethereals have gathered in their palace... With their still fanatical loyalist defending them for their lives...
They knew the war is now looming on their heads and they could not deny the reality now facing them...
Shadowsun is unable to come to their aid... The T'au Fourth Expedition fleet is now under attack as Tyranids splinter fleet and a chaos warband is attacking them and the last leader of the expedition fleet have order to kill the human auxiliaries of fear of the temples they erected. Shadowsun forced to return that leader to aid the defenses only for his fleet to ended up as a target practice...
And their ai Copy of their leader Ethereal Supreme Aun'Va is corrupted and now giving nonsensical orders causing the chain of command to go into disarray...
"GET ME ICE CREAM"
"MY BUTT'S BEEN WIPED" Was the one of many confusing orders...
As one of the defender show a image of Alexander marching into the palace they began to prepare the machine in the throne room...
(Alexander pov.)
I watched the city burning down, before, I do have qualms... Now I felt empty as heard screams, I walked in the ruined palace... something in me changed...
Before... I would have been concerned with the casualties we inflicted... But now? The screams are one thing to remember that I am not the same person that had a Dream...
This galaxy changed me... For the better or the worse... I realized that shedding my souls to some of the selected Primarchs.... Was a Costly mistake, but knowing the Blueberry...he knows something is wrong with me and will try to find a solution even if he have to begged Lorgar to find a answer... At the start I hope that what I have to face, may not truly be my last...
[Numbers to Homeverse verse ETA limit: 20 years]
That time is so close... With the ever increasing amount of Tyrannid and Orks... We must fortify this galaxy lest I would be consumed and what powers I have be gone and I am unable to defend my family... I held my plans... But not all of them are pleasant...
As I march to the heart of the T'au empire...
"Why don't you find a better path?" A Image of myself when I was Guardsman sitting on a wreck of a Hammerhead hovertank... Still smiling cheekily as I still remember...
"I come this far... There is not another path..." I stopped as my men took defensive actions... Unaware I was conversing with the forgotten parts of myself...
"That is a load of Feth... You know that path you are threading on is more worse than the Emperor undertake his ascension to the golden throne right?" A Weary Imperial Colonel appeared from the shadows...
"Perhaps it was the better choice... As I know that it would be the better ending for all..." I muttered as a T'au railgun was shot next to me... Only for my Guards shot back in full force...
"We travel a bit in the multiverse... And you got the gall to just sacrifice? What about the gals of yours waiting for you in night city... What would Sasha think if you willingly become the next Dark King? What would Rebecca and Judith see you? Didn't you promise them that you will be back?" The Rippadoc Mercenary sat on a nearby cafe seat... Drinking Amasec from a whiskey bottle as the Sounds of explosion was heard in the distance..
"What should I do? Time is running out! We are almost at the end of this universe?" I felt pain within myself as the emptiness that was once parts of myself sent to the Primarch is now devouring me... Fighting against two chaos gods have taken toll on my mind... And damaging that Nurgle pot of plague is slowly affecting me, I must remain strong... Lest the humanity fall into anarchy...
"Then what about Ephritta, Dimh-Yriel and your stepdaughter that is important to you? Would they be so willing to put a dagger into your heart? Would the brothers that you went directly to hell to retrieved them only to face you?" Image of Horus appeared by my side... A friend...
"That power is needed to save us all..."
"But not yourself right?" A Director of M.A.R watch me from the second floor of a destroyed skyscraper having a cup of recaf... Humming as a Thunderbolt swept by and chased down a Manta fighter in the narrow streets... The dust from the street clashed against the golden shield that surrounded the persuing aircraft...
"What should I do?"
"Power isn't everything Alexander... The God Emperor fell for that trap and you about to do the same..." The Guardsman smiled.
"I envy this version of myself that already got the Emperor as part of the family... At least I don't have to pray to him every hour!" The colonel jest...
"Remember you have at least 20 years Alexander... Not 6 years..." The director smiled...
"While you shed that part of your soul to save them during the age of strife is commendable...but stupid... How can I blame you, when you are me?"
"Thanks..."
A Major approach me...
"Commander, what are your orders?" He asked as I was just standing for a brief moment...
Shaking my head I ventured forth... Into the T'au Palace...
[Careful partner... Something is wrong in here...]
"Tell me about it" I complained as I slained a Captain of a Fire warrior...
[Usually the T'au would have a sense of conscious but the closer we are to the center...they are like puppets... But this Tau... Is different... Check the skull...]
Without hesitation I dissected on a nearby Tau... In in place of it's brain.. it was more like a parasite that taken place of the brain function...
The parasite screamed and jumped over me as if it attempted to possessed me...
It was incinerated as it as it was shot by my soldiers nearby my vicinity...
"Calling all forces, make sure you double tap any Tau forces in the skull that you slain and have the Medicae's and apothecary scanned if there is a parasite in the civillian Brains!"
The order carried out in haste as several of the squad that surrender have a parasite in their bodies and attempted to cause damage...
And the soldiers marched on the reeducation camps...
And the Civillians that was in the reeducation camps had many of their skull implanted with the same parasite that I saw... They could only gave a emperor mercy as they began to slaughter everyone in the facilities...
While the deed is done, I ventured forth in rage... What deals did the Ethereals make? What did they done to their own people? Mind controlled is one thing but planting those parasites into their own citizens?
I rush into the ruins of the palace and opened up the place where they supposedly convened...
And found them surrounding a structure with the Earth Caste workers nearby working for dear life...
"Hurry, he is coming!" One of the Ethereals screamed.
As they noticed me they slammed the machine panels and it began to activate...
[This is bad.... That thing is going to grab you to the deep warp!] My partner yell as the light engulfed me... I saw a Six armed demon grinning in the light as his hands was almost covered my being...
Just before I was engulfed....
"Execute Order Noah Ark..." I gave my orders to my faithful soldiers....
It was a last case scenario if I was under fully control or possessed by a individual beyond the powers that was granted by the Emperor...
My orders from now on is no longer valid and what forces, Assets I have goes to the Regent of the Imperium and whatever forces I led to this soon to be hell scape will retreat to Terra... May Roboute find a way to save me...
"Emperor...Old friend...forgive me." I smiled sadly as the light now envelope me.
In a picosecond the system of Alexander began to work in full force...
[Warhammer System corroded ...purging skills and perks from host body... transferring to Akashic Records]
[Warhammer system shutting down...]
[Separating Subverse to *Eden*]
[SYS:\Imperium_Final_Dawn\1©×};9';?@9;_?#+_+82!]
[SYS:\Experiment_Scenario_AZCx56829-5917\STATUS:Lost]
[SYS:\Recommencing_Experiment\Selecting_New_Candidate....ERROR]
[SYS:\Location_Of_Candidate_Found\Revoking_Lockdown]
[Time remaining before self destruction: 9 seconds]
[ADMIN OVERRIDE REVOKED]
[Sending Warhammer System 6.0 (Prototype) to Current User....Complete]
[Rerouting Skill and Perks from Akashic records into the package...Complete]
[Farewell....Partner]
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After the light ended several ethereal peeked out.
"Is it done?" A Ethereal peeked behind the machine as he saw the figure standing silently...
His soul now suck out, His men fled and news of the League now retreating in full force...
They cheered as the danger of the League is no more... With the end of the deal they will transfer the machine to their associates beyond the veil of the milky way and the T'au empire will be better...
As signs of exhilaration... They found their chest was burst forth...
They had a few seconds to see a man that they would defeat was replaced into something else and is accompany by some giant... That flaming sword is crimson red as if it was bleeding of the deed they have done....
Their body's and souls was consumed in the now cursed flames...
Their skins shrink on how much heat.
And after they are all dead...
What was once Alexander Hyde was replaced by a malevolent entity...
He no longer wore the Armor but wore a classical suit with a top hat.
"Pity... You make a fine puppet sadly, your services are no longer required for my amusement... But this Blue skin planet is perfect to vent my frustrations..." Said the Figure now smiled as he played with the dead souls of tau... And used them as a bowling pins.
A Ultramarine Primarch appeared from a portal beside him he was wearing the Omega sign with spike on it...
"Ah yes... Roboute.....You are from the Dornian Heresy or Your heresy? Don't tell me it was the Lionel heresy or that blasted Leman Russ? Memory is a fickle thing after all.."
"My Heresy Milord.... Plans have been set... And the Numbers have been aware..."
"Numbers? Bah they can destroy this universe as many times, gather any allies as they want, but they can't stop the inevitable...The Void Consumes all...even Chaos itself... How is this Test subject forces willing to follow under my command?" Alexander smiled...
Chaos Roboute shake his head...
"He was well aware what might happen and he made all his forces unable to follow you..." His words made figure frowned....
"Then we have to use the old fashion way at least I know where are the weapons caches he left behind... Are the Chaos Androids and the Legions ready?"
"A Trillion units is ready and nine hundred quintillion more on the way milord...the Legions are ready to march under my command..."
"That's the answer I want! Send the chaos androids out now, And Roboute remember to get others ready?"
Portals emanated behind him and the drones that was famed for his duration in the Golden age of humanity now cursed and corrupted...
Chaos Androids now scoured the premises and killed anyone that get in their way... And Followed by them is Legion of Astartes firstborn...
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While the League was confused of the retreat orders as they already secure the city, they carried out faithfully of the last orders and evacuate the citizens of T'au... The first roar of gunfire emanated from the T'au palace... Breaking the silence of the battle that had occured.
The thunderous monotone of metal clanging on the ruin pavement came forth machines that were different from the Men of Iron... They have no Datalinks to ascertain if they were Allies and fired upon the first enemy they see...
The Thunder Warriors that guarded the entrance roared out as they remained in ranged stance as their conversion shield is protecting any shots given by them by the endless tide of metal....
The Tide was overwhelming but they held the ground as they were teleported out of the location...
As the Last League and imperial forces left the planet... Tau turned into a Landscape what they called hell...
A Daemon world is formed...
One that is due with gears and flesh...
As if somehow the warp is growing stronger that the League Psykers order the fleet to make haste..
Commander Farsight lamented the fact that his Homeworld was destroyed...but they managed to evacuate the majority of the citizen and soldier that was not infected by a Brain bug...
And a Psychic Scream echoed the stars, a challenge... Making every factions turned their eyes on the fallen planet.. The figure looked out at stars from the palace as he sent that message...
"Now Solair... let's see if your faith in the Emperor and those tools is not misplaced..." He grinned as he turned around and met Chaos Version of the Loyal Primarchs waiting for his return, each of them came to be fallen due to a single moment of their life, a single choice ... And now they will test to fit the Primarchs... To see if this Galaxy deserve a happy ending.
Ephritta was having tea with Yvraine until her cup was shattered to pieces... She pardoned the Eldar wych as she gotten another cup, Yvraine Eyes furrowed as a familiar Psyker scream echoed the cosmos, Roboute barged in to gather Yvraine... And they met in the Terra Celestial Orrery...
Ephritta got a dark premonition that Alexander was in danger...Dimh-Yriel gasph as her soul was forcibly returned as if Isha Prediction of Alexander fall become a reality...
As the Duo enter the Room where the Celestial Orrery, many was confused of the situation...
Alexander fleet Id was retreating in full force and in its place was a fleet with a tag that is filled with question mark and error... Now beginning to assault both League and tau held territories
"What is happening?"
"Order Noah ark have been given... Now all League assets is now under your command...Milord" A League officer calmly handed the Primarch with a dataslate as he scanned the dataslate...
"What does it entails?" Yvraine asked.
"Alexander Hyde have fallen... "
It was a Uproar among the species that was kept safe by the League... And Both Eldrad and Silent king watch the primarch in blue of his decision...
What ever he makes would either break the Thin alliance or kept it standing...
Roboute made a decision...
All the policies that Alexander have make is still kept... While Alexander forces joined with the Imperium without changing their military structure... And the Alliance that Alexander painstakingly made is still honored upon... As The Imperium doesn't need more enemies....
Both Loyalist and Traitors Primarch made haste to gather their preparations ...
And added more bad news... And a good one.
News of One of the Indominatus fleet was corrupted by the Blood Rage created by the Possessed Angron... And their duties is slowly forgotten as their infectious rage slowly permeate their destruction across their path.
Which made the Imperium suffered as now it is surronded by all sides...
But in the depths of despair, News of Lion El' Johnson have returned to the Imperium and now seen in Imperium Nihilus... And is making his way toward Terra as soon as he is done dealing with Angron.
A Unknown figure, A Corrupted Indominatus fleet, A Ork Waaagh, a Tyrannid rush towards Terra and a Black crusade... Roboute was grateful that Alexander left something just in case... But now he focused getting Alexander back as he knows that it is important .... But first he needed to see one person... No..two person that is knowledgeable in the current event....Magnus and Emperor of mankind...
In a System called Tiamat, a Tyrannid fleet was defending it intensively due to the immense structure on the planet... The Echoes of a Psyker scream was heard that many of the hive fleet tendrils halted their advance towards imperium space and now breaching into into Tau territories...
They found a enemy for their Ascension.... A Threat... It is not chaos... But it is something more devastating.... End...it will devour all and no matter how much genetic manipulation the Tyranid can achieve, no matter how much evolution it can contain the chaos.... That is the destruction that it could never hope to achieve.
And the Structure on Tiamat demands it. For it need the threat to be defeated for it's survival .. It needed a place to lick it's wounds... Now another threat is grows in the eastern side of the Galaxy...
With a psychic scream no bigger than the one that came from T'au, whatever Tyranids forces outside the milky way made their way in full force smashing past the fleets Alexander sent out and defended outside the milky way to the galactic east...
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(Mars, ???)
In a Location that held a Ancient Hangar a Machine that sat for a millennia stirred from its slumber...A legend that the Techpriests spoke of its might... Now convey in whispers.
"What is this God Machine Doing? Get the Fabricator General!" Screamed the Magos that attended the maintenance of the machine as the AC Alexander Left behind for over a millennia now active and began to moved on its own, ancient valves and coolants pipes now slowly drifted from the machine... And the light flicker to life... That machine spirits that surrounded the Mech have heard the task of its attention and they respond with their own by enabling it to escape...
The candles slowly flicker as the purity seals of the machine now slowly burnt from the casing...
The weapons now aged began their diagnosis and confirm their active use...
The Techpriests that tended to the machine now realize that it was heading to a destination... As it belonged to the high lord... They could only oblige to opened the Aged Hangar doors and released the Raven...
The Foxeye now pilotless found its pilot in danger... Disappear into the void to the destination it seeks.
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Abaddon is tired from the constant nagging of the four chaos gods now turned to three... He have a partnership with Vashtorr to learn the secrets of the Webway and in the depth is a passageway that leads to the deep warp where the chaos gods feared to thread...
He heard of the Psychic scream and he amused that another pawn have now entered on the chessboard of fate...
He order a fleet to make way towards the location while he focused on the task of destroying Terra...
On the Planet T'au it have become a Battlefield that will be the deciding factor of the Galaxy itself...