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"An Emissary?" Kais asked stunned. "But why? Why me? I am broken, weak."

OOC:

Just a short one, sorry again...

"You shall recover... that is why I brought you here... far from the Anathema... far harm... a haven for rest... for great things lie ahead of you... the voice enigmatically wove it's way through the Tau's mind.

"Those visions... those memories... are important... focus on them to find yourself... " the whisper faded, " and you will find me... "

"It will deactivate the defensive field around the titan once the Chaos herertics are able to properly understand it, I doubt they won't be able to do so. We should hurry, if they gain the Titan. We are doomed, and lack the proper weapons to even pierce it's armour."

Gausse looks amused.
"And your sending your commanding officer down to do your work for you? There may yet be some room for you in the Imperium Greystone. Allright you heard the man I want you all ready to hit the planet in 20 minutes were not letting those wretches get hold of that artifact, lets nip this in the bud people move, move,move!!!!"

"My lord, your plan is working. The Imperials have taken the bait, soon we shall gain favour from the gods of Chaos. We have forces on standby, what are your orders?"

The Sorcerer keeps his distance, he bows to the Chaos lord who chuckles;

"Wait till the Inquisition lick spittle has defeated the Emperors Children warriors and ready the Cultists, and prepare a portal. I want this to be a quick extraction."

The Imperials quickly board Valkaryies while the ship begins to enter low orbit but keeping it's distance from the Chaos Guns, Greystone, Gausee, the Commisar and the Guardsman enter a personalised Vakaryie which Greystone quickly enters. The ship drops from the massive Inquisition ship and dives towards the planet before quickly stopping and entering a steady pace;

"We'll be landing a quarter of a mile away from the Slanneshien positions and begin a heavy bombardment before a head on charge, I heavily doubt any of you will survive and I'm happily going to take any glory you gain. I imagine you would do the same, so be ready to die in his glorious name. And a point of interest, if you ever see X'carhis do not engage. I don't care if you're higher than me, you better listen."

Nah uh, Im taking my stormraven, its why I have it. And my retinue thats the three npc storm troopers, Warork adn his npc and lord of change and his Npc, will be coming with me. I thinks.... best wiat for them to confirm or otherwise

OK, though it may take a bit.

I don't think they are going to post anytime soon but some good news!, I've got a week off school and more posting time.

>.< Im just about to go back to school for my last term.

Ah, but still where are you WARORK your our only hope to continue posting?

Yes warork where are you? and you lord of change

I believe they would follow you ether way, should I just continue?

Sure I guess, just make it a nice long post.

I'll start writing, I'm not the fastest at typing long posts.

Arrrgh...lots of school stuff for me...unfortunately that leaves me with less time for posting...seems like a lot of our major players are in that situation...

Sounds like to me that this is going to have to be put on hold...

Soon i will be in exam week and consequently have very little time to post...

The Ships drop from the massive Inquisition craft, only splinters compared with the massive craft. A multitude of fighter craft accompany them in order to allow a safe passage for their officers as Chaos fighters appear, each a spiked and bladed engine of evil that opens fire against the Imperials destroying several craft instantly but quickly fleeing as the Imperials return fire destroying most of the craft. The ships quickly move towards the planet leaving the others to engage Chaos fighters and enter the atmosphere, passing the thick black clouds and storms that cloud the planet and staring down on the bleak and frozen world. Soon the craft are able to begin landing around the objective, Greystone instructing groups of Storm Troopers and other Elite troopers about the enemies tactics leaving Gausee to instruct his own men while a far fouler leader watches the Imperials, X'carhis and Karon the Sorcerer observers the Imperials with great interest.


"So the lickspittle have some nerve? Let us test them, Karon create a portal. I must see an old friend."

The Sorcerer turns to the Apostle, seemingly concerned;


But the Imperials could know of our plans, and may even be plotting against us should we not wait?"


X'carhis knocks the Sorcerer to the ground and snarls;


"No, we must wait. Know create a portal!"


The two vanish into the mist as the Imperials advance towards the structure, a massive triangular structure that is surrounded by pillars and statues of strange serpents and among the dark grey and black structures stand the brightly armoured Emperors Children who laugh and snarl at the Imperials as they open fire with their sonic weaponry but soon themselves are assailed by a mass of artillery and tank fire as the Imperials begin to form a tight noose around the Children.

I will be posting an extremely long tactical and plot post soon. Please bear with me.

Fine with me

just finishing the vacuuming then ill get the post sorted

OMGOMGOMGOMG the emperor calls chaos the anathema... gathering storm referred to chaos as the anathema...
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

41.381.8.15 Personal log of Inquisitor Helmian Gausse
Aboard the Amoneo Obscurum Subsector 11.9.Alpha

Alot has happened in a short time since my last entry, Inquisitor Greystone and his new requisitions were tractioned onto a pirate vessel and their extraction was my prime concern upon returning to the Amoneo Obscurum. I have placed Inquisitor Greystone as of this moment under official observation for delection of duty and suspicion of Heresy. His actions of late have been bordering on heretical and perhaps this probabtion will serve to bring him back on track. I simply hope that his corruption has not run to deep or I will be forced to purge him. The Inquisitor mentioned a friendship with the Archon that was aboard the vessel until said Xenos turned against us and I was forced to initiate grappling and bombardment orders in spite of the proximity of the vessel. Fortunatley all Inquisition parties were extracted from the vessel and the Amoneo Obscurum took no immediate damage. Although her weapon batteries will require time to recharge fully before anouther such salvo can be made.

The planet itself in badly protected and myself and the three stormtroopers in my retinue were comfortably able to defeat several chaos space marines that attempted to hinder our advance. I suspect that the planet is better protected in other places and the traitors on the planet do not have the resources to mount a planet wide defense. As of yet we have only met sparse resistance and thier commanders are either incompetent or unwilling to engage us fully as they are throwing their warriors away for no gain. And with the current state of thier planet I cannot see any tactical or strategic gain from this. I shall keep this log updated with my findings as time goes on. However at this point in time this Inquisitor lord cannot find any reason to escalate the engagement to a planetary conflict. However if things do begin to escalate I will not hesitate to send for reinforcements from nearby Inquisitorial elements.

I inducted four new members into my retinue this past hour. A commissar and his personal aide and a Captain of a Inquisitorial Stormtrooper detachement and his second in command. Inquisitor Greystone found these men (and woman) in his recent recruitment drive. However with Inquisitor Greystone currently on probation I see no reason for these new members of the Inquisition to stay under his command. Emperor wills it they will not become corrupt as I suspect of the Inquisitor.

We have been mae aware of a Artifact on the planet that may be used to activate the Chaos Titan currently named "ct001" it is of our primary concern that this artifact not be allowed to fall under chaos control.

My tactical anaylisis of the mission can be found below.

Tactical Report Lord Inquisitor Helmian Gausse 41.381.8.15 Time 1440 hours local. 0005 Terran.

Target: Planetary artifact. Positioned some 82000 miles from the equator on a bearing of 180. Position entrenched by traitor chaos marines. Other traitor chaos marines have been spotted in the area, at least one target in terminator armour. He will become a target later. Artifact designated "chaoshammer" protected by self proclaimed Emperors children noise marines. Warband intact and defensive with infantry and LAPC's only. Position untenable.
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Our forces will descend to the planet post haste, we expect to meet only light resistance from chaos spacecraft as thier supplies of useable ships have been sorely depleted by constand barrages of orbital fire on pathos emplacements. Our forces will make planet fall in approximatley 45 minutes, ETA to primary target one hour disincluding combat time. Horizontal distance from drop zone one kilometre. Practical distance 1.375 kilometres.

Artillery will perform shelling on outskirts and force the Noise amrines deeper. Our infantry will stay out of range of their range weapons. Especially the weapons dubbed "Blastmasters" as these could potentially be a real threat to the advance. Leman russ battle tanks backed up by a pair of hellhounds for every 5 LR's will advance in staggered formation and will keep the heads of the noise marines down. Our chimera squardons will take a secondary role and will stagger their advance in 30 second interludes to give a constant stream of Stormtroopers hitting the breach at all times.

Inquisitor greystone will oversee the emplacement of Hydra flak tanks and manticore artillery emplacements alongside basilisks and medusa's. I will lead the forward elements from my command vehicle. The rhino APC that currently resides in my personal stormraven. We will disembark and organise our battle plan from that point. Once the AA batteries are in place we will have a vendetta squadron make a fly by to eliminate the LAPC's of the defenders and myself and my retinue will enter the Artifact and try to determine wether it can be safely destroyed. As of yet the exact purpose of such an artifact is unclear although the intellegence I have suggests that it may be used to allow the Chaos traitors on this planet to access their titan. Understandably the artifact cannot be allowed to fall into enemy hands under any circumstances.

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Gausse leant forwards in his seat as the Angelus Umbra rapidly made its way to the surface of the planet. All around them thunderhawk gunships, valkyries and thunderbolts were firing bursts of quad into the chaos fighter squadrons nearby them. A stray autocannon shell ricocheted of the hull of the stormraven and Gausse flinched. He hated flying. He saw the commissar in a similar state and grinned behind his helmet.
"Have faith commissar, the Emperor will not allow such devoted servants of his holy will to fall in such a pathetic environment. When you fall whenever that day comes it will be standing on a mound of dead xenos with your bolt pistol blazing and your powerfist demolishing those that threaten you. You will not die in such a vessel."

The commissar nodded seeming heartened and his aide nodded to Gausse in thanks. Helmian shrugged his mighty shoulders and held his Glaive encarmine tightly. If astartes did not have fear he would have sworn that was what this was.

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The planetstrike went to plan the thunderhawks dropping of the vehicles they would need for the engagement then flying up into the upper reaches of the atmosphere to keep the chaos fighters and bombers away from the eemplacement. Soon Helmian and his retinue were inside the rhino that had come to be named "The Rhino of Godly power" by the laid back Stormtroopers. One had even taken the time to neatly spray paint the name in High Gothic onto the side of the hull. Helmian did not mind the stormtroopers mild defilemtn of the vehicle. It was not blasphemous and it kept morale up, who was he to interfere? The Leman russes ahead of them stopped and began to unleash volleys of firepower deep into the chaos lines, Helmian slammed the flat of his hand against the door to Nathan's driver's cockpit. The rhino lurched to a halt and the doors slammed open. Seconds later as the Retinue made its way out they were greeted by a truly spectacular sight. The artifact was huge, dwarfing the trenches and Marines hastiyl scrambling back towards its massive bulk away from the fire of the tanks. Helmian shuddered to think how large the titan would be that was ensconced somewhere beneath the planet. Probably not here. But if this was the size of the Artifact required simply to activate it then the titan itself must be massive.

The commissar came up beside him with the captian on the other. Helmian drew his infernus pistol and sword and looked around him. Squad upon squad of Stormtroopers were sprinting towards the Artifact, hellguns lighting up the entranceways to the building like strobelights. Helmian raised his massive sword into the air and bellowed
"FOR THE GLORY OF THE IMPERIUM, CHARRRRGE!!!!!"

Gotta admit Marta...that was pretty cool...

"Rhino of godly power"

Tyranic Marta wrote:OMGOMGOMGOMG the emperor calls chaos the anathema... gathering storm referred to chaos as the anathema...
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG

Wait...

Does that mean GS is voicing the Emperor?!

It was pretty cool indeed, I had fun doing that post.

Yes the rhino has been named... The ROGP it shall now always be!!!!

o.O and yes I know right? Such a scary potential.

Thade briefly thought about the man on the ship's words to him as they entered the atmosphere. He was quietly impressed with the self confidence the man could project, and thought if nothing else he would have made a damn good commissar much like himself.

The ship landed and out wheeled the Rhino, Helmian was accompanied by Thade and the rest of his retinue and took to the field. Thade had mere moments to look over the astonishing battlefield and gaze upon the huge artifact that they sought. Thade wasn't sure why they were here for the object but he was a Commissar that had fought the Ruinous powers in the Eye of Terror for most of his life so it didn't take much for him to guess that whatever it was was important to the heretics and that alone was reason enough to take it from them.

The Commissar's stormcoat blew in the breeze and rustled upon him as he strode next to Helmian and the rest of the retinue, the chaos forces were close in sight and Thade found himself scowling at the sight of him. beside him, Pask stood still as a statue, awaiting the signal to enter the breech...

And then it came from the bellows of Lord Inquisitor Helmian. Thade already had his bolter and chainsword in hand and raised the sword up into the sky as Helmian did, crying a battlecry of his own.

"Sons of the Emperor, rejoice! For today you do his divine will!" Thade shouted as the stormtroopers charged forwards. Some were cut down but these casualties were barely noticed by the righteously angered might of the Inquisition's armies.

Thade emptied his first clips into any cultists he could see, knowing the marines used them as nothing more than cannon fodder. As he did so, he and Pask were assaulted by a ravening bunch of melee weapon wielding cultists that flung themselves upon the two in a bid to overwhelm them. Thade's blade was a flurry of gnashing blades and grinding blood, the blade was stained red with crimson and sprayed his coat with splotches of the dark liquid as he swiped to and fro. Soon the cultists were in retreat and Thade looked about himself to see Pask, finishing off the remaining cultists with quick shots that slammed them into the ground. The two nodded at each other, standing defiantly on the open field even as return fire whizzed about them.

Thade looked about him catching his breath when he saw a peculiar sight, several stormtroopers were in cover behind an embankment, a few were looking at him puzzled that he was not dead yet with bullets and whatnot whizzing all around and even at his aide who also stood smartly beside him but seemed not to care about the fire he was receiving.

"You men!" Thade called out. "What are you doing? Cant you see the rest of us are advancing?!" He shouted, glaring at them all. The winced and one, apparently their leader, spoke up.

"We cant reveal ourselves sir! That bloody tank has us pinned!" The trooper said pointing over the embankment at a Leman Russ that had been covered in crudely etched chaotic runes that made Thade retch. Thade turned to Pask.

"Join those troopers over there. once I take care of that tank, bring them with you and well move by it." Thade said nodding, his tone of voice suggesting that he'd done this sort of thing before. While he quickly whipped out his power fist and stowed his chainsword, Pask moved to the other group of troopers who were clad in a different color armor than his black suit and huddled with them.

"How does he think he's going to get close to that thing?"A trooper asked Pask.

"The Emperor protects." Was all he answered.

Thade waited until the Tank's turret was not pointed at him, he waited until all of the guns were pointed at other targets no in his general vicinity, watching the beast ever so carefully, Thade stood up from his spot behind cover and gave a roar.

"For his glory!" He yelled defiantly, blasting infantry with his bolt pistol and waving his power fist in the air as if it were a banner, its field sparked and blurred into full power and Thade curled his hand into a fist. The Stormtroopers watched in astonishment as the Commissar ran by, untouched by any round and slammed his fist into the tread of the tank, braking them and causing it to come to a halt, he ran around and slammed his fist into the tank's side armor as well, ripping a big enough hole for him to shoot inside. As he reloaded his clip he called for Pask, who came running with the rest of the troopers and surrounded the tank. The crew tried to exit or surrender but each of them were cut down without so much as a twitch of reluctance. When this was done, Pask affixed melta bombs to the tank's engine and set them off at a safe distance. Thade looked to the troopers who looked at the stained and dirty Commissar with awe.

"Lets go, we cant keep the Inquisitor waiting." Thade said as he marched away with his bolt pistol held high.

Helmian had sprinted forwards bolter shells and lasbursts skittering off of his heavily armoured form. The artificer armour he wore gave him nearly as much protection as Tactical Dreadnought armour and he was doubly thankful for this now. A squad of Stormtroopers took it upon themselves to join up with him and they charged forwards by his side, the commissar and his aide had been swept away from him by a pack of cultists, yes Helmian considered them a pack, and Gausse hadn't seen the men since, however he had more pressing matters to worry about ahead of him a massive defiler of the chaos gods was storming towards him. Crushing Stormtroopers in its iron claws. Helmian was not want to put others ahead of himself so he charged in without delay.

The defiler screamed at the astartes with a mixture of rage and pleasure, clearly this was a mechanical beast of Slaanesh. The deaths were driving it mad with battle lust. It swung heavily at him with a free claw but Helmian saw the swing and raised his Glaive encarmine. The blade sheared through the claw's center pin with one mighty swipe and Helmian dug his heels in feeling a furrow ground out in the dirt as he was forced backwards by the inertia of the blow. The two halfs of the co-axial claw skittered to either side of him and he rushed between them drawing his infernus pistol. As the daemon engine swiped at him again he threw himself forwards and down under the blow, hacking sideways as he did so. The claw was rent from its pivot and the arms above him writhed madly as thier clawless state frustrated the daemon bound within the ceramite hull. Helmian saw the arms quiver and then slam downards in a pistoning motion trying to stab through the astartes armour and impale the Inquisitor. He rolled first to one side as a clawless metal arm slammed down, then forced himself backwards with a mighty shove just clearing the arc of the second. The defiler's other two weapons were occupied dealing with the storm troopers who were still trying to get to thier commander. But the defiler had one more weapon at its disposal, the arms came up and slammed down either side of the astartes locking him in place and its center torso leaned over the prone figure. As its battle cannon began to clank and whir Helmian brought his infernus pistol up and without hesitation pulled the trigger.

As flames rushed from the barrel of the weapon down the waiting maw of the battle cannon Helmian used his free arm to shield his face, his blade had been knocked from his hand while evading the clawless arms. Helmian gritted his teeth and clenched his muscles moments later as a massive explosion rocked the defiler splitting the hull in two and engulfing the astartes in flames.

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Thade looked on in horror as the Lord Inquisitor fought with the daemon engine and was about to charge forwards to help his commander even as the explosion ripped out. The commissar was thrown from his feet but was caught by Pask and anouther trooper who hit the deck under the weight of their esteemed leader. Thade got unsteadily to his feet and watched as the smoke cleared to see Gausse getting to his feet covered in soot but very much alive, and as he walked through the gloom with his sword reclaimed and the barrel of his infernus pistol still glowing. He did not walk back to his retinue. No, thankless he relentlessly continued forwards to enemy lines. As if the Defiler was a mere speed bump.

He stopped momentarily and looked back to his troops.
"Dont just stand there soldiers, lets show these flea bitten cowards the might of the Emperor!!"

Several sonic blasts sent Gausee flying backwards before crashing and reganing his footing, the Inquisitor looked at the main direction if the blasts Where several Noise Marines advanced from a small bunker and picked out several Storm Trooper targets before blasting them to pieces, screaming with glee and foul joy. Gausee Rose and graves his Glaive before charging into the unwary Noise marines, decapitating the first with a swift blow and the others quickly hacked into lumps of flesh but something was not right. He spotted for only a second a tall figure, a snarling hissing snake which instantly removed itself from the presence of reality as Gauess turned his attention to the charging Sonic Chmapion who opened fire with his Plasma Pistol.

Thade charged with the Storm troopers towards a mass of Chaos Cultists carrying grenade launchers and Auto-guns, the servants of Chaos took aim and opened fire on the Imperials crushing and obliterating several but hastily missing the quick Commisar who sliced apart several still re-loading Chaos Cultists and decapitating those desperately trying to attack him with their weak and broken blades.

Kaais thought about everything he had gone through, all of the pain, all of the hardhsips, all of the fights he had won, and few he had lost.
He focused on himself, and allowed himself a sigh, before having a grin form on his face.

He remembered who he was completely, but all that was gone, and this was who he was now.

An Emissary?

"I have found myself. Now, I have found you," Kais said coolly. "What must I do, now?"

Sorry for such short posts, but I'm kinda busy with Blood Moon and with Crawling Dark, but I'll still try and get the occasional post to move this along for Kais and [censored]...

... however short they are...