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« Reply #45 on: September 25, 2011, 11:12:21 AM » |
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as the warriors talons started to move down towards his head, Kiron watched as the warrior was shot in the head by someone beyond his vision, and narrowly avoided the sharp claws as they still posed a threat. he kicked off the dead alien, and stood up, and saw the large swarm of gaunts coming towards him from his left. he quickly scooped up his chainsword and rushed straight into them, as if he was not even in danger a mere moment ago.
Devont shot the aliens head and it slumped down, missing the space marine beneath it. then the marine just ran up to his feet and in a fluid movement picked up his chainsword that had come tumbling down with him and charged into the gaunt swarm ahead of the stormtroopers. he resumed firing into the gaunts, aiding the marine in his rage inside the swarm, thinning its numbers with every slash.
soon there was no more gaunts in the hallway living, and the captain turned around to watch the stormtroopers behind him that he had, without his knowledge, saved. he nodded at them as a sign of gratitude, and then they joined togheter and kept clearing the entire hallway of spore pods that had unleashed gaunts and other vermin into this holy ship.
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« Reply #46 on: September 25, 2011, 11:22:50 AM » |
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for 2000 years, he had served under Lord Belgor, and had become the lords personal bodyguard, one of 9 others given such honor. he was entrusted with parts of the plan, as per usual, so even if one bodyguard was broken and told imperials of the plans, he never knew the whole picture. Gelro had been into many wars, but compared to Belgor nobody in his company came close. regardless, Gelro was a accomplished warrior and leader, and many speculated that he could replace Belgor should he fall, or even create a warband of his own someday.
"lord Belgor"
"what is it, Gelro?"
"we have found a Imperial ship closing on this planet"
"that was poor news, but i belive our work here is almost complete, am i correct?"
"yes lord, we are almost done with the search. the regiment we were looking for was deployed to another sector just shortly before we arrived, but we have located their last known position"
"where is it at?"
"they were wiped out defending their position, lord. it is known to the locals as Feet's Plains"
"then that is where we are heading next"
Belgor returned to the holographic map and studied the terrian around their location, where they held the comand structure and all the higher imperial generals around safe, so that the tyranid swarm could be defeated. it was paramount in their plan that the imperials succeed in their fighting against the tyranid, thus they had aided the guards in their most dire need when they were close to being overrun, making sure that the guardsmen could fight on for a little longer, until they had retrived the atrefact they were looking for at least. when they found it, they would leave the planet on its own, to be consumed by the swarm. as per the plan set up a long long time ago
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« Reply #47 on: October 02, 2011, 12:14:10 AM » |
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Colban stood at the viewin panel as he watched out towards the planet before them. he would search out a rumored chaos space marine warband. traitors millenia old, and yet showing no sign of being weary of war...
"10 thousand years of warfare, and still hungry for more. heretics and traitors, each and everyone of them and their followers and their masters. they cannot be reasoned with. they cannot be bribed. they cannot be converted. all there is is to burn their souls, and praise the Emperor as you do so..."
"Lord Inquisitor, Captain Kiron wants to speak with you" a stormtrooper informed him.
"let him in"
as Kiron walked in, Colban could not help but almost laugh at situation. "Kiron, my friend, when i told you to report back to me as soon as the boarding was dealt with, i did not mean you had to skip washing all that gore off your armor."
"i came at once, as instructed by you, lord, and i personally dont mind the aliens gore, it is the sign that they are purged. the ship is secure again."
"good, i expected nothing less than that my friend. now go wash off that filth, and prepare to go planetside. we are on a hunt this day..." and as Kiron vanished from the room, Colban turned around and looked through the viewing bay again.
"soon death will strike them... soon..." and then he too walked out of the room.
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« Reply #48 on: October 02, 2011, 12:21:16 AM » |
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Belgor and his brothers walked among the remains of the battlefield, searching for the prize they needed for the plan to succeed. they had been warned that a man would oppose them, and they had found him as a notoriously alert Commisar, who had inquired why the marines wanted to go to a dead battlefield "where the dead defend" as he had put it.
he had been a thorn in their side for a long time, and he had finally been removed, the last object in their path was removed, and before them lay only glorious victory and revenge on a hatred foe. they just needed to find, as Gelro had put it, "a bloody banner on a bloody battlefield in bloody nowhere"
his brothers searched the area carefully, but the banner was nowhere to be found. they had located the others ones, but the one they wanted was not there. Belgor was growing impatient and worried, feeling time slipping away without anything being accomplished that would further their cause.
"Gelro!"
"yes lord?"
"tell the men to leave this area, the banner is not here. we need to find out where it has been taken, and by who, quickly. this place is not its resting place. here lay only dead men"
"understood lord"
and as Belgor turned around to walk back to the transporting Rhinos they used, he glimpsed up in the sky, and saw the thunderhawk coming out of orbit and entering the atmosphere.
"they have arrived..." he thought before entering the vehicle.
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« Reply #49 on: October 02, 2011, 12:33:09 AM » |
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Verik stood as the honor guard for the Lord General that arrived. he held his lasgun steady, and stood straight, just as a guardsman of the elite regiment he was part of. but to call it a regiment would be a overstatement, as it was only 3 men alive in it at the moment.
as the thunderhawk landed, the general was greeted by the local generals who would now transfer command to his excellency who would give the guardsmen their deserving victory at long last. thats what they had told the soldiers, but Verik had a feeling he had heard the phrase a coupple of hundred times by now, giving no hope just yet until he saw what the general was capable of.
as the lord general and his staff, along with the other generals walked by him, he got a feeling he experienced before when something was out of the ordinary, yet cleverly disguised. he dared a small glimpse towards the train of men walking along the honor guard. he felt one of them was hiding something, but who and what?
he snapped out of the feeling and returned to his neutral stance, but something nagged his mind. and the feeling would not let go easily, he kne.w that
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« Reply #50 on: October 04, 2011, 01:16:18 PM » |
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while the Lord General went straight to the command center, Inquisitor Colban and his aide walked off to their private quarters, a makeshift place for their needs that was created from a small house. it was tiny and not really grand, but that suited the covert ideal they were keeping to not make their presence known just yet. if the foe did not know you were there, you had a great advantage.
Colban got to work at once, gathering all information files of the war so far made and compiled them into a folder, where the first, however slight, event were listed. from start to current, the war was there infront of him now. he started analyzing all his information, and slowly a picture cleared for him as to how the tyranid xenos had arrived in secret at first and then with grander status. they were weakend, but still deadly, and could very well pose a threat should they be able to re-organize a resistance fierce enough to fight back the guardsmen...
but he was not here for the tyranids, they were more a object in his path and a unpleasent one, since it could not be removed easily. he knew that from experience of them since before, and he counted on the tyranids to infest this system for a long time even if they were beaten here and now. years would go to clearing out small pockets and the planet was reformed to suit the xenos wishes and needs. the system would not look alike to its pre invasion image.
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« Reply #51 on: October 04, 2011, 01:21:09 PM » |
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as Verik stood guardpost at the top of a tower, he glanced out over the empty plains ahead, where there was still a lot of dead tyranid corpses that had to be removed. he saw the still smoking wreck of a Leman Russ tank that had been lost in the last battle, and had yet to be towed away.
but there was something out there that watched him and that thing or person did not want to be seen. spending so much time in this war and with the regiment he was part of, he had learned how to catch infiltrators. and he had a feeling there was one such infiltrator outside but also inside the camp. he had arrived with the group of retainers that the Lord General had brought with him, but Verik could not pinpoint who it was, and telling the commisar would end up giving him a quick note of his own execution for treason and causing doubt in the command staff.
until he would find out who it was, he would keep his eyes open. somehow luckily, he had been selected to act as a honor guard to the Lord General when he was at the frontlines, so he had been issued with security clearence into the command staffs HQ. he had all the suspects right infront of him all day long, he just needed to find out exactly who it was.
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« Reply #52 on: October 04, 2011, 01:26:41 PM » |
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as the general and his subordinates debated upon the next step in the plans, Verik watched them all with suspicion. he had noticed one adjutant in particular, who unusually often left to "handle a urgent matter". what could possible appear so often that required him to leave the HQ staff verik wondered and paid close attention to him. but the adjutant was a trusted man in this company, only Verik seemed to have suspicions that he might be hiding something. he had the guard outside the lord generals own room, so if he was a assassin, he had his target in prime sight all the time.
if he was a traitor, he had access to all sensitive data... but who would betray humans to tyranids? tyranids dont take prisoners nor do they reward any tratiors. they just consume, they are only for themselves, and nobody else. hence Verik was puzzled by the man. and now he left again, this time to "handle a commisars request of his presence" as he called it, the general dismissed him, and the man walked out. Verik paid close attention to anything that would reveal the adjutant, but nothing. he looked ordinary, and he was on his way towards the commisars housing. yet somehow, Verik knew he was hiding something...
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« Reply #53 on: October 04, 2011, 01:31:59 PM » |
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"Kiron, i am afraid we were correct in our assumptions. there are Chaos servants hiding here somewhere, but we cannot find them in the open. we dont have a chance to actually, they could be anyone, so we need to look for someone cowering in a corner behind a shield to find the prize we seek. they are here, somewhere, but i wonder where they are..."
Colban watched the map of the base, and saw a huge military installation. if there was even a hundred chaos cultists, they would be a needle in a haystack in a barn filled with haystacks...
he sighed, and reclined, to think over what part he had missed. he was a renowned chaos hunter, he had always found his prey by sheer luck sometimes, and methodical planning sometimes. theese cultists were harder to find though, he admitted, they were clever and did not leave many clues. he picked up a mental note of all the command staff personal they had arrived with since the Lord General had landed at first. there was literally a hundred new people here the last coupple of days, and Colban looked through the list in his mind regarding all suspicious activity...
and then he found the man he looked for. a survivor from a battle at Feet's Plains had been there as the honor guard that day. then he had been in the watchtower when Colban had serached the battlefield for some traitor hiding among the dead bodies. and now the man was stationed as a guard for the Lord General...
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« Reply #54 on: October 04, 2011, 01:40:49 PM » |
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the informant arrived at Belgors part of the base he had requisitioned, and he carried news every now and then that was of vital importance, but most often it was more danger to being detected than the news was worth, and Belgor had reprimanded the man and told him to be more careful if he wanted the favor of the chaos gods. he had stopped coming often, but was still a danger to the whole operation.
"listen well, Merid, for i will not repeat this one more time. we are here serving our masters in their search for a artefact we need. the artefact you know what it is, yet you cannot possibly locate it anywhere in this base? how can one small banner be that hard to find? you got access to the entire facility and all the command staff. find me that banner, and find it quickly. my patience is not limitless, so hurry up."
as Merid the information walked away with a shaken soul, Belgor sat down again from standing up while he had talked to the man. he thought he was getting rewards for it, and he would, but not the kind he expected. now that he was gone, Belgor tried to calm himself down and meet the Lord General to discuss a potential assualt the space marines could undertake. the fool wanted to know if the marines thought it was a good or a bad idea to stretch their already thin numbers. Belgor had thousands of years of experience, and he already knew of about 4 ways to defeat the tyranids, but he needed the guardsmen occupied, so he did not help to his full potential. he was here for the banner he still had not located, and the idiot Merid was of no help.
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« Reply #55 on: October 04, 2011, 01:47:16 PM » |
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days passed, and Colban had one of his spies assigned to the Lord Generals bodyguard and that spy had one clear order: keep a very close eye on the guardsman named Verik. he was a prime suspect, for he constantly appeared wherever Colban looked. the battlefield, the landing, the generals very bodyguard. somehow, this man was at the center of it all, and he knew that Verik had a part to play in this scheme. sure, he could not be, but he was of the school that 10 loyal peoples execution was outweighted by the one traitors execution. if verik was innocent or guily did not matter, but he was not the grand prize, not the head of the serpent. he was a mere part of the body, and Colban wanted to follow the body to the head and then strike it off.
Kiron had been kept onboard the ship, as his presence would reveal the mission, and was therefore kept on a standby to come planetside via drop pods at a moments notice. Colban needed but a moment to press a button, and his deathwatch team and several stormtroopers would arrive in a minute. perfect surprise assualt.
he smiled, feeling confident that he was on the right track. then he woke up from his thoughts from a large explosion that shook him down from his chair and onto the floor. he quickly grasped the situation and ran outside to make a clear picture of what was happening. and what he saw was unberable to his mind. this day would not go well he thought.
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« Reply #56 on: October 04, 2011, 01:54:00 PM » |
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during the time Colban had put his spy to watch Verik, belgor had finally found out where the banner was kept. he quickly assembled his marines from their missions and gathered them for a raid on the depot, and time was running out, so a cover option was not available anymore. the Celestial would arrive in system soon under cover of a warpstorm, pick Belgor and his prize up and leave as suddenly as they arrived. it would not take more than one hour for it to be done, so being there at the pickup point without the prize was out of question. the storm had already begun forming, and astropaths felt its potential build up.
as he and his marines approached the storage house, the guard there was both surprised and honored that the marines would come to his storage and in such large numbers. they must be preparing for some large mission and needed a lot of equipment.
"welcome my lord, i ho..." he had no more time than that until his life ended with a bolter round through his skull, and he fell down dead before the bolt detonated. quickly the marines setup a perimiter around the storage and started shooting to kill on any that approached, as Belgor and a few men set a charge at the gate and blew it open. this was now or never. they quickly rushed in and found the banner in a section very close to the door, so they were in luck. they grabbed it and made a run for it outside, where the fighting had begun.
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« Reply #57 on: October 04, 2011, 02:02:05 PM » |
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Colban quickly ran back inside as he had saw the marines there firing their bolters on guardsmen who rushed to the place, cutting them down before the guards returned, ineffective might be, fire to the marines that had just minutes ago been their allies. Colban grabbed his gear and hurried back outside to help the fight. he had pressed the button at once as the explosion occured, because he had feared that the servants of chaos was about to launch something, now that the warp storm had started brewing, he had known on a instinct that the base was now about to be attacked. and he had been right.
as the alert reached his ship, all stormtroopers and deathwatch marines boarded their drop pods and thunderhawks, strapped themself in and started their descent to the planet where their inquisitor lord was in danger, and they came soarding out of the atmosphere as angels of death.
Belgor had seen the Inquisitor appear and now he knew he had made the right decission to hurry the operations last phase. he held the banner in a tight grip as he raised his bolt pistol and fired off a shot towards the Inquisitor, who fell backwards. Belgor turned around and with his marine force, they started moving and firing at the same pace through the base towards the point where the Celestial would teleport them from danger to the safety of the ship.
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« Reply #58 on: October 04, 2011, 02:06:09 PM » |
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Colban had acted dead for a while as long as he knew the chaos rats were watching him. as soon as they left, he raised up and quickly followed the scum, without a scratch. the bolt shell had passed him by a small margin, but that was enough to be alive. he had acted on instict, and was now in pursuit of the chaos scum. and then he glanced up and saw the forces he had called for appear through the atmosphere as a bright group of lights, racing down towards the planet.
Kiron felt the drop pod shudder and shake as he readied his Stalker Bolter and when the pod smahsed into the group, no time was spared. the entire squad left the pod and quickly located the inquisitor and the men he chased and started pursuing them as well. they caught up and started firing their blessed weapons towards the traitors they had been betrayed by thoose many years ago. the holy bolter shells bounced off some of the unholy armor, but some made it through, killing chaos marines as they ran. but why were they running? and where?
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« Reply #59 on: October 04, 2011, 02:17:30 PM » |
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when they finally reached the beacon site they had prepared in advance, they turned around and fought back. it was well placed inside a small formation of rocks, offering cover, and they had secretly carried heavy weapons there and burried them in the ground so nobody would find them, now they dug them up and started firing back at the pursuers, who suddenly took heavy fire from the formerly fleeing marines.
Kiron almost took a autocanon round in his chest but narrowly avoided it and fired back against it but missed and hit the rock instead. the chaos servants fired back while Belgor recived a signal that the Celestial was in position.
"lord, are you prepared to be brought back?"
"yes captain, take us out of this hole"
and in a flash of bright light, the chaos marines vanished from the location, leaving the loyalists feeling stunned and confused. the Inquisitor decided it was time to throw all caution off, and he started marching towards the place he knew where he could find a way to extract revenge and information.
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