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Casting this out to the Dakka community for opinion and criticism. Here is my entry to the Forge World Win a Titan contest earlier this year. While I felt my story was a good entry, I did enjoy reading all the winning entries, and feel they earned their prizes. Hope this is, if anything, a bit of fun reading for those willing to give it a look. Enjoy

The Titan, after this conflict, would be renamed "Celestial Wrath".



"Dawn was an hour distant when the colossal Mechanicus ship approached. The massive hive world’s Planetary Governor had succumbed to heresy, and had ceased the required shipments of provisions and manpower. The Astra Militarum forces assigned to remedy the situation had been unsuccessful. The advancing ship carried the Imperium’s answer to the conflict: a Warlord Titan.

The carrier approached the designated drop zone. Suddenly a volley of missiles raced to meet the ship. Reports had claimed that the planet’s orbital defense platforms had long been disabled, but apparently the apostasy had even poisoned the Astra Militarum’s own informants. A dozen missiles smashed violently into the ship’s shields. The Captain shouted emergency orders, but another round of missiles prevented those orders from ever being executed. Shields fell, and the command deck burst into a spray of shrapnel. Heavy ordinance pierced the ship’s hull, flooding the interior corridors with waves of fiery death.

As the crumbling ship careened towards the planet, the Titan inside awoke. Its machine spirit quickly commandeered the ship’s remaining systems.

Smoldering engines roared as the Warlord swung the ship around and steered it towards the fortress palace of the Planetary Governor. It wrenched open the bay doors and was greeted by cascades of flaming debris. Another blast bathed the behemoth machine in searing flames, reducing its ancient banners and honor markings to a shroud of ashes. Undaunted, the Titan redirected every last joule of energy from the ship’s few remaining reactors and charged its volcano cannons to a level far beyond reason or practicality. Capacitors quaked under the strain. Defying the torrent of fire and smoke, the Warlord’s machine spirit saw true. It took aim and fired.

Apostates on the ground watched in dismay as the ship plummeted. Instead of victory, they saw the clouds part as a glorious beam of blinding fury shot forth from the flaming wreckage. The blast struck the fortress’s void shields. Generators overloaded, exploding into ruins of arced lightning and melted circuitry. The void shields collapsed .

Shattered debris from the Mechanicus ship rushed to meet the unprotected fortress. A catastrophic shock wave erupted from the impact, bestowing death upon untold numbers of heretic forces. Silhouetted against the rising flames and wrapped in a patina of scars and ash, the Warlord rose triumphantly from the ruins and fire. With insatiable wrath the Titan advanced and opened fire.

The war ended that day"

Corpse-on-a-throne! That was so epic!

Honestly there were a couple of lines along the way that felt a bit cluncky but by the end my mind was so blown I just don't care. What an entrance!

Now all we need are some massive speakers playing some suitably heavy-metal entrance music. Fantastic!