Summary: With their empire in ruins, Darth Darius, along with many followers of the dark side, as well as allies decide to leave the galaxy in order to look for a
new home to recuperate themselves. Now, 300 years later, in the grim future of a distant galaxy, a new power emerges from the corners of the galaxy.
Timeline: Before events of Dawn of War.
Disclaimer: Do not own Warhammer 40k or Star wars. They both belong to their respective owners.
Chapter 1 - Emergence (1)
300 years later, Illyria, Illyria System, Phobos Sector, Veiled Region
Above the feral world of Illyria, a Lush Jungle World located in the Veiled Region were 8 ships; 1 Adeptus-Mechanicus Battleship and 7 Adeptus-Mechanicus Cruisers emerged from their travels through warp space.
These Adeptus Mechanicus are apart of the Imperium of Man; galactic, and highly religious empire, who mostly control nearly all the corners of the milky way galaxy. Created by the Emperor of Man, they have existed for countless millennia, although at this current time and age, they are suffering from both external issues; being the many wars that they have waged against many of the other races of the galaxy from Orks and Eldar to the forces of Chaos, and Internal issues, being corruption and hidden foes present within the Imperium.
In the bridge of the mechanicus battleship, in which the metal protectors which covered the windows, were being currently retracted to allow those in the bridge, view of their destination. Amongst crewman that serve on the bridge, was the leader and head of the Explorator Fleet; Magos Explorator Argus.
Magos Explorator Argus, is what one, who originate outside of the Imperium would call a cyborg; half human, half machine, and yet he looked more of a machine than human. This is due to their dedication to their god; The Machine God, that they have forsaken their human parts and have replaced them with machine parts in order to emulate the sacred form of the machine. Argus wore a bright red cloak, which is a common thing worn by members of the Adeptus Mechanicus. He held an Arc Lance in one hand, which is unusual for a Magos like Argus, and has an Arc Pistol that was in its holster at his side. He had a Servo-arm on his back as well, along with another servo-arm, only that it had a drill instead of a mechanical hand. His single right eye was replaced with a bionic one, that glowed bright red and his mouth area was mostly covered with a mechanical mask, hooked up by some tubes and wiring. Argus is accompanied by some Servo-skulls who act as his familiars.
Argus turned to a Tech-Priest, who had accompanied him on his explorations for nearly 40 years now, and was a dear close friend to Argus. Nicholas Kotov, was his name. Like him, most of his body was replaced with mechanical parts, and he wore white robes instead of the bright red that the mechanicus mostly wear.
"After a long, difficult journey we have arrived at our destination, old friend" Argus said to the tech-priest. "Navigation was difficult, as expected of the Veiled Region, but in the end it is worth it"
"What makes the Veiled Region so important to our exploration?" Nicholas asked the Magos "I know we are here to explore and chart the region, but what makes the Veiled Region, especially important for us to spend a lot of time here, despite the dangers present in this region?"
"In time the resources of the Imperium would become spent" Argus explained to his friend "Although we are currently having no problem with resources at the moment, there will come a time when we do finally run out of them-"
"So we come here to look for worlds that have rich supplies of resources for the Imperium" Nicholas finished for him
"Precisely" Argus nodded "This exploration is to help find worlds that can supply the Imperium with resources for the next many years to come, should current world's who's mines would become exhausted in the future, and this world shall be the first to be explored for its secrets and values"
Nicholas nodded "Well then, shall we begin with an Auger scan of the planet?" Nicholas suggested
"Of course, activate the Auger Array" Argus ordered the crewmen on the bridge. They complied as they began activating and flicking various switches for the Auger Array. The scanner activated and began scanning the planet and its surface. Once they completed the scan they were surprised at what they found
"It seems that this world possesses a lot of valuable resources" Argus said, reading the information provided by the scan
"And not to mention there are pockets of humans here, I say Feral, as there are no cities of advance structure or technology here" Nicholas added
"And it seems that there is also a crashed ship located here" Argus said "We shall start there"
"Hopefully that ship has something of value in it"
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It wasn't long till Imperium shuttle ships began descending down towards the surface, and towards the crashed ship. 3 Valkyries accompanied by some Lightning Fighters as escorts, as they made their way towards the crash site. Inside the lead dropship were both Argus and Nicholas, who were accompanied by some Skitarii Rangers. There were also another squad of Skitarii Rangers in the other gunshi and a squad of hypaspists in the other gunship.
Once the gunships were in atmosphere and that they were clear of any threat, the Lightning fighters turned around and began making their way back to the Battleship, their assignment already complete, leaving the gunships to make the rest of the journey, not that there was anything in this feral world that can threatened them. It didn't take long for the valkyries to finally come into view of the crashed imperium ship.
It was a large ship, if you piece back the broken parts of it together. It is approximately as long as a Devastation-Class Cruiser, a cruiser used by the Forces of Chaos. Its designs and shape, was ancient, something that Argus instantly noticed as he hopped off his gunship. Never had he seen a ship in design such as this in his entire life as a member of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Ideas began surfing through his head as he though many hypotheses about the ship's origins.
Was this ship from the time before the Age of Strife? Was it from the golden age of humanity? So many thoughts and ideas flowed through his head, and Argus was going to make sure that every single one of them was answered.
"Begin setting a perimeter" Nicholas told the rangers "And begin setting fortifications for a base. We're gonna be here for awhile, and I think you all know that"
The rangers chuckled in response, knowing the sense of adventure that their Magos had, and so went off to do their assignment; unloading materials off from the valkyries. The valkyries soon left the site, flying back to the ships to bring in more troops and supplies for their base.
"What do you think that we would find in the ship?" Nicholas asked Argus "Some STCs perhaps?"
"A whole load would do to be honest" Argus commented, earning a chuckle from his friend "To start the adventure off you know, and thus, I claim this world in the name of the Imperium of man and of the Machine god"
While work was going on, their arrival however, did not go unnoticed by feral tribes, who followed the ships to the crash site, and were watching them from the shadows of the trees.
"What should we do?" Asked a tribesmen to the tribal leader "They are not of the empire"
"Yes, they are the ones that our masters have warned us about" The Tribal leader said "I believe that we should send a message to them, that machine men have landed on our home"
"Yes chieftain" the tribesmen obeyed
"And it is best that we too prepare, it is time to earn our new masters favour by aiding them in this upcoming skirmish"
Morrigan, Morrigan System, Sith Core Worlds, Greater Hyperious Region, Hyperious Region
300 years ago, this world was once a desolated and broken world, a wasteland in which nothing could live. However, when the Sith came after their long journey through the Hyperion Highway, they had the world terraformed in a suitable world for them to colonise, using terraforming technology developed by Archimedia during the journey.
The world became a lush, green but most importantly livable world, it's climate similar to that of both Naboo and Dromund Kaas, and thus the world became the new capital of Darius reinstated Sith Empire, and the once desolated world was given a name.
Morrigan
In honour of someone that Darius once knew.
From then on, the Sith would expand out rapidly from Morrigan, taking new territories and worlds with each conquest and war in their new home. The Hyperious, Umbria and now the Veiled Region have been claimed by the Sith Empire, with an expeditionary force in both the Halo Stars and the Eastern Fringe. Their conquests, however, did not come without sacrifice and loss. Their wars and battles have cost them many lives, their wars were difficult and brutal, with the most brutal and difficult of them all, was the Necro-Sith Wars, in which the Arotepk Dynasty nearly invaded Morrigan if not for the sacrifice of many to stop them. Of the sith that had come to this new galaxy, only Darius remained
Darth Darius, the Wise as he was called, had for the past 300 years, had been living for as long as 275 years already, and this is thanks to his strong bond with the force and the wonders of advance medical science
The planet in which the Sith had declared their capital, is double the size of Terra, or Holy Terra as the Imperium call their homeworld and capital planet and is surrounded by two moons; the volcanic, but industrial moon of Nemain and the fertile, lush plain and mountainous world of Badh.
Morrigan City, Morrigan
Ever since the planet was made as the capital of the Sith Empire, the population of the planet prospered. What started as a small city quickly grew into a planned mega city that sprawled the entire continent that it was built on. The buildings and layout of the city were reminiscent to Dromund Kaas. The city contained many important buildings including the The Sith Trade Center, The Sith Academy, and The Emperor's Palace, or commonly known as the Sith Palace.
It is here, in the Emperor's Palace, that Darius himself is currently sitting on the throne. He is now 275 years old, but actually looked to be in his 60s. He wore clothing similar to a Sith Acolyte, with the exception of a face mask and that there were more armor on him than a typical Sith Acolyte and that the composition of the armor was of Mandalorian Iron.
He was currently resting on his throne, in deep thought of the empire that he had worked so hard to create. After 300 years of constant struggles and wars, he had finally carved out a strong sith empire; an empire that could at last, destroy the Jedi and all that they had built, but that won't happen within the next 200 years, as the highway that they had came through would not open for another 200 years. For they, they would build up their strength and develop new technologies such as Disruptors and Graviton guns, although they could not duplicate the necrons technology at least they could develop something out of their advance techs, techs that would prove useful against the Jedi, when they finally are purged from the galaxy, should that time ever come.
Darius was also in deep thought about his position of Emperor, should he at last give up the throne and give it to his most worthy heir.
Arion, commonly known by other sith lords and warriors as Darth Karna.
Darth Karna had spent a majority of his time being kept in Cryo-sleep, as well as his sister, as Darius told them that their time wasn't right. He wanted to make sure that the empire that he had built would be strong and stable for Karna, should Darius finally give the throne to his adopted son. Unfortunately, this does not come without opposition to the throne. A rival of Karna, Darth Lucifer plans to take the throne should he himself ever die, but for as long as he was alive, he would make sure that Lucifer won't take the throne. He knew what kind of person Lucifer is, as are the other oppositions to the throne; Darth Malphas and Darth Lupus. These kind of people would only bring destruction to the empire that he had worked so hard to build, and so he would do everything in his power to keep them away from the throne.
He would have thought more about them if not for the doors to his throne room, being pushed opened and a single Sith Acolyte stepped forward, getting his attention.
"Hail Emperor Darius, the Wise" The Acolyte addressed the emperor, kneeling.
"Arise, loyal warrior" Darius told the Acolyte "What news do you bring to me?"
"Last remnants of the Veiled Region are being subjugated by Sith legions; 120th, 345th and the 87th. The Rak'Gol are no more. The 12th Expeditionary Force in the Halo Stars made sure of that. The 180th Sith Legion have defeated the Necrons at New Centares and Legion 666th have crushed the Dark Eldar rebellion on Erudas"
"I see" Darius nodded, coughing a little bit "I suppose you have more to say?"
"Yes my lord, it seems that a Mechanicus Fleet had arrived on Illyria the Sith Acolyte said "they haven't moved on, as they are searching through a ruined imperium ship that we already searched, but soon they would, and if they do-"
"We would be discovered" Darius sighed "We are not ready to reveal ourselves just yet"
"I know my lord, which is why we must send the 125th Sith Legion to Illyria, they are the nearest legion to Illyria"
"No"
"P-pardon, my lord?"
"The 125th have suffered heavy casualties against the Necrons, and thus, they will remain on Rorak Prime to replenish" Darius explained "Send the 666th legion to deal with the trespassers"
"But isn't Lord Karna-"
"I know my son is currently stamping out a treacherous rebellion with one of our client states, but even with his absence, the dark eldar would think twice of raising their arms against us or against my son's legion, Now send him the message, or I will find someone else to do it"
"Y-yes my emperor, r-right away!" The acolyte panicked as he rushed out to do just that
Darius sighed in response, leaning back against the throne
Erudas, Erudas System, Kaal Sector, Lesser Hyperious Region, Hyperious Region
Erudas was a world located in the Lesser Hyperious Region.
Here on this rocky and sandy desert world, reminiscence to that of Tatooine, that the Dark Eldar of the Sundered Heart are located. This world was given to them by the Sith Emperor as a sign of trust and good intentions between them. However, things did not last as some of the Dark Eldar Client states began breaking their vows and attacking the Sith Empire. The Sundered Heart were one of these client states, who had broken their pact, by enslaving an entire town of people on the world of Agamar and so the Emperor had sent not only a Mandalorian Contingent to Agamar, as a large population of Agamar were Mandalorian, but also the most fierce and feared of Sith Legions formed throughout the years; Sith Legion 666th, or commonly known as Trihexa's Wrath.
It didn't take long for both forces to simply destroy the rebelling Eldar, making sure to have them remember what happens when you betray the sith. Karna made sure of this, by having their flagship, with their Archon and others with different positions of power inside, and using the force, crashed the ship into another dark eldar ship before crushing them both. He then did something, that he had read on an ancient text that he found some time ago, something called Decimation; in which every tenth man, eldar in this case, were taken out of the ranks, and those that weren't were made to beat their comrades to death, not that Karna think they are close to one another anyways. Any dark eldar that didn't do as they were told, were either fed to one of the Sith beasts, or were subjugated to Darth Plato's current experiment; Subject: Blackwing. In which they would experimented in front of everyone.
No eldar dared to do rash against them.
Darth Karna sighed as he leaned back into the chair that he was sitting on.
Due to he and his sister being cryo-freeze a lot of times, they were a lot younger than everyone else, with some people who were once in their age group when they first arrived being 280 years older than them now. He is now 20 years old after all this time, with medium black hair and sulfuric yellow eyes; a trait shared by all sith. He wore armour similar to that of Darth Revan, with the exception of added armor on his legs and arms. It was black and red in colour; the traditional colour of the Sith Empire.
Karna sighed once more, as he reached for his datapad to look at the influx of messages that he is receiving. As of right now, they were boarding the prisoners to be given to their more trusting dark eldar allies to do what they want to them.
Orks wiped out on New Klatooine and Cerea
New Sith Academies built on Oberon, Anzat and New Castell
23rd Sith Corps and 45th Sith Attack Battalion reorganized into 476th Sith Legion
Colonisation beginning soon on Felgaria,Telemachos, Malia, New Sarka and New Bespin
With each new message, Karna deleted them, as they were irrelevant to him. The door to his room slid opened and a Sith Blackguard stepped forward
"Lord Karna" The emotionless, feminine tone of the Blackguard addressed the young sith "We have finished transporting the survivors to the dropships to be brought to other loyal Archons and their Kabals for use"
"Thank you for telling me , Seilah" Karna thanked her "Anything else?"
"Emperor Darius has sent us an assignment to destroy an Imperium expedition force at Illyria" She told him "No survivors and any traces of them being there"
"Seems that Lucifer is getting rusty" Karna chuckled "He was meant to make sure that the worlds he has taken are reinforced with at least a small garrison. Guess I have to clean up the shit that he left behind. Disgusting" he muttered angrily, getting up "Tell Gawain that he is in charge here while I'm gone. Send a message to Plato that I'll be needing the Crippler. I have some lost 'tourists' to take care of"
"As you command my liege"
End
1) I looked this up and it is true. Humans in the star wars universe can live as long as 300 years due to advancements in medical science and technology. It is longer however, for force users. Yoda for example, lived for 900 years thanks to his strong connection with the force. But I am not sure on looks in these ages so if I did something wrong please pm me about it and I will fix it.
2) Morrigan, Badb and Nemain, are named the three figures; all sisters called 'three Morrigna', from Irish Mythology.
3) Sith Core Worlds, are located in the Greater Hyperious Region, near the Hyperion Highway. They contain the main core worlds of the Sith including Morrigan, New Mandalore, New Ziost and Agamar
4) Blackguards were originally a Sith organization but were reorganised into being the Sith Emperor's Elite bodyguards. They are almost as strong as the Custodes and this is due to the genetic enhancements and augments that they have received during training.
5) The Kabal of the Sundered Heart is a Kabal that I have made for the sake of this chapter. They are a space-faring kabal who settled on the world given to them by Darius only to betray him and thus their betray had lead to their destruction.
6) Kabals have their own regions of influence in Commorragh, according to Lexicanum, with the exception of one or two who are spacefaring or exiled.
Wasn't exactly long like I wanted this chapter to be, but I'd want to make the rest of the chapters coming forward a little more longer for now on (As close to 5k or 6k as much as possible). This chapter and the next will be an exception.
Client States
Kabal of the Sundered Heart (Destroyed)
Kabal of the Jade Knife (Destroyed)
Kabal of the Poisoned Heart (Punished)
Kabal of the Pierced Eye (Destroyed)
Kabal of the Black Rose (Punished)
Da Angry Choppaz (Destroyed)
Black Skullz (Destroyed)
Allies
Kabal of the Severed
Kabal of the Obsidian Rose
Children of Thorns
Cult of the Impaled
Cult of the Red Grief
Bad Moons
Ork Empire of Octarius
Blood Axes (Gorgutz)
Waaagh! Ghazghkull
Farsight Enclave