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This is a combination of all the nuggets of chapters that I did.
Just to let you all know, I have changed a few things on the Chronology of Events part in the prologue so check out that one, also I'm not 100% of an expert of the Warhammer 40k universe, I only know some of the events that happened, so if there seemed to be a historical mistake, please correct me on that.
Oh, and just to let you know, that the New Sith Empire is situated on the South-Eastern part of the Veiled Regions. Just wanted to clear that up about their Location
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Chapter 1 - Re-emergence
The Grigoria System.
A System located on the south-eastern outskirt part of the Veiled Region.
It is a System that wasn't unexplored by the Imperium of Man thanks to the status of the Veiled Regions being that it is a vast unmapped and uncharted part of the Imperium, due to its vast dense Nebulas and newborn stars that suffer from waves of radiation alongside discarded stellar matter whilst being cloaked in stellar dust.
It serves a perfect place for hideouts, like the Orks, who made perfect use of the Region's features for their hideouts and bases.
It also served a good purpose for the Sith Remnant, who are now called the New Sith Empire, or the Sith Empire for short. The Veiled Region served well for the Remnant as it helped masked their presence from the majority of the vast unknown galaxy that they now call home.
The Grigoria System as mentioned before was once a base of operations for the Ork Space Pirate SkarSnappa and his soon to be Ork Waagh Armada, but his dream for a good Waagh did not come into frutations as suddenly out of nowhere the Sith Empire appeared and destroyed the Ork Captain's dream. A battle raged on both the planet of Gigoria VII's orbit and on the planet's surface, and in the end the Ork lost everything, including his own life.
Now the Planet of Grigoria VII, as well as its other planets in the system, now belongs to the New Sith Empire and its ever expanding territory in the Veiled Regions.
High above Grigoria VII in orbit was a large Fleet of ships belonging to that of the New Sith Empire. The Fleet consisted of 5 of the new Harrower-Class Dreadnaughts, which pack more firepower, are more larger and have more space capacity than the original Harrower-Class Dreadnaught. 3 of the Venator-Class Star Destroyers, which had a little bit more armor and weapon systems than that of the old Venator-Class Star Destroyers, but haven't lost its role as a multi-purpose role craft due to the slight small changes, and acting as the Capital Ship of this fleet was 1 Executor-Class Super Star Destroyer, the largest Starship that the Sith Empire could construct.
Aboard the Executor-Class Super Star Destroyer, or better known as The Calamity, looking through the large viewing window of the Bridge stood a young man with black hair with tints of red in his hair and brown eyes. He wore black and red armoured robes.
This young man, is Darth Karna, the 8th Sith Emperor of the New Sith Empire, the apprentice to Darth Darius, who had him and his little sister cryofreezed, so that he and his sister would have a better future for the both of them. Now, here he is, no longer was he the young 8 year old child that watched the Sith Citadel on Dromund Kass burned but now a 20 year old Sith Warrior, who is a very skilled combatant in both the force and with his lightsaber, just like his sister.
"My Lord" said a voice behind the young emperor. Karna glanced behind him to see his Clone commander; Gawain walking up towards him. Gawain wore the standard Phase II clone armor of the Clones, which is white and black with the symbol of a black sword on his shoulder, signifying that he belongs to the 77th Imperial Legion or the "Darksabers" as they were called due to the fact that the entire legion uses energy blades, thus receiving the name, and his helmet had macro-binoculars attached to it.
"What is it, Commander?" Karna asked him.
"Our Drone detected a warp energy signature from the neighboring System. It seemed to belong to that of the Orks"
Karna sighed "I thought they had enough already"
"Orks never get tired sir" Gawain answered, handing him the datapad "Especially for a good fight as we learnt from our battled with them. Anyways, they were seen thanks to our drone to be jumping somewhere. The Drone latched onto their hull before they left, and got their co-ordinates"
Inperial Drones don't just scout out new territories and enemy positions for the Sith Empire, rather they can also attach themselves onto the hull of an enemy's ship and can either hack their systems to gather information or deal major damage to their systems. Courtesy of the Institute of Imperial Armaments.
"Whats their destination?" Karna asked the clone commander
"It seems that they are headed to an Eldar Maiden World in the Aranis system" He answered Karna.
Karna pondered at this information, weighing his options. "Would it hurt the security of this frontier world to send an Executor, a Venator and 2 Harrowers to defend an Eldar Maiden world, Commander?"
"I don't see why not" Gawain replied him, shaking his head "Besides the planetary defenses are enough to defend this world as well as the garrison"
"Then set course for The Arenis System" Karna ordered him
"Sir yes sir!" Gawain saluted as he went off and gave out the order. Soon the Calamity, accompamied by a Venator and two Harrower jumped into Hyperspace.
Biel-Tan
Deep within Biel-Tan, sitting in front of the Shrine of Khaine meditating, sat the current Farseer of the Eldar of Biel-Tan, Macha. She suddenly opened her eyes as she sensed two physic emanation; a strong one and one that she could not comprehend. She closed her eyes and concentrated onto the two emanations.
The first emanation, the strong one, was a malevolent force of rage and anger, clearly identifiable to the Eldar Farseer as the Orks. Concentrating more on the Emanation, she could see that they were headed towards Arina IV in the Arenis System.
Arina IV, located in the Arenis System is the 4th planet of the Arenis System and is part of the Eranus Sector. Arina IV serves as an agriculture world, producing food to help feed the remaining eldar. It is also an Exodite world.
Exodite worlds, to the Eldar of Biel-Tan are crucial parts of their plan to rebuild their fallen Eldar empire. These worlds are their staging grounds, and they guard them fiercely and and jealously, slaughtering those that would dare take them away from them, and that is what she will do.
She then concentrated onto the second emanation, the faint one, but to her surprise she couldn't see anything. No matter how hard she tried she could not even catch a simple glimpse of this second emanation.
Not wanting to waste too much time as a planet is in dire peril, she sent a psychic summons to Warlock Tellurin to come to her presence.
After a while, Mauryon arrived and said. "You sent for me, Your Eminence?"
"Please, Mauryon there's no need for formalities when we are alone, I have have told you of this" Macha spoke softly "But there is no time for talk at this moment. An Ork force is currenlty heading towards Arina IV, one of our Exodite worlds"
From beneath his helmet, Mauryon gritted his teeth "Orks dare to make a bold move on our Exodite worlds?"
"So it would seem" Macha said "I want a strike force prepared to deal with the Ork threat when they arrive. We'll crush them for daring to do something like this"
"And they shall, Farseer Macha" Mauryon nodded "What kind of a force is headed?"
"A small Ork Armada; a battleship, two cruisers and an escort ship"
"Strange that a small ork armada would decide to attack, especially with a force like that, however they are Orks, they are not smart sometimes"
"So it would seem" Macha said "But there is something strange about the ork fleet"
"What is?"
"That it is damaged, as if it has seen battle recently, but now is not the time to be speaking of such things, Mauryon prepare the Strike force immediately!"
Mauryon nodded "Yes, Your Eminence"
Meanwhile, on the Calamity...
"So you let the Orks escape? Darth Xalek?" Karna was speaking to one of his Sith Warriors; Darth Xalek through a Holo Communicator on board the Calamity.
"Sorry, Emperor Karna" Darth Xalek apologized "But that Ork captain used one of his asteroid ships as a shield while he fixed his damn engines during the battle
"Could you not send out a bombing run to finish the Ork Captain?" Questioned Karna
"Not if there was too much flak fire Emp" Xalek replied.
"Haven't I told you to not call me Emperor?" Karna said
"Nope! Never will, Never stop!" Xalel replied ethusiatically, making Karna sigh "Besides, Its more fun anyways!"
"More fun than slaughtering an entire Imperial ship? While singing Hide and Seek?"
"Yep!"
"How are you not in Therapy for your crazed mind, Xalek, I will never know. Maybe I should have put you there" Karna muttered that last part to himself
"So, need any assistance?" Xalek asked Karna
"No thanks. My troops got it anyways, besides I have an Executor" Karna said smugly
"And I have an Assertor!" Xalek shot back with a frown
"That is nothing compared to an Executor" Karna shot back, smirking "Now good day!" With that he cut off the communication line to Xalek
"Admiral, how long till we reach our destination?" Karna asked the Admiral
"In Nearly 5 minutes general" The Admiral told him
Karna nodded as he opened up the communications to Gawain.
"Commander, is the troops ready?"
"All set sir" Gawain told him "Thorn's men too"
"Good, once we breach a hole in their formation your gonna have to quickly fly in and help the Eldar forces on the ground"
"Roger that sir!"
Meanwhile on Ork Flagship
"Dem Damn Imperial Scum'z!" The Ork Kaptain of the Ork Battleship, GorRippa cursed "De've destroyed my ships! Now we'zed forzed to Run!"
"What we do now Boss!?" GorRippa's lieutenant asked
"Now we go raid differant world!" GorRippa declared "I'ze dezided on the Eldar World!"
"But boss!" his Ork Lieutenant exclaimed, "Wouldn't da pointy ears respond?"
"Of courz the'za will!" GorRippa said "Wich is why I called in a few more Boyz for the Fun! More Boyz mean more Pointy ears! And More Pointy Ears meanz more smashing and fighting!"
"Haha! Yez! More Fighting!"
"WAAAGH!"
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Arinus IV
An Eldar Exodite World in the Arenis System. The world served as an agriculture world to help feed the remaining eldar that are still alive for the past millenia, for many years after the fall of the once mighty Interstellar Empire.
Now, on this day the peaceful and calm Exodite world will burn.
It was the Orks, out of the three that arrived first to the planet. Meeting no resistance in space, they were quick to begin launching their fighta planes and teleporting the ork troops onto the planet's surface. Once they were on the ground, the Ork boyz, along with Fighta plane support would begin enacting Chaos and destruction to everything in their path.
The Exodite Garrison was quick to act against the Orks. Their Ranger squads made short work of the Ork boyz from a distance while small Dire Avengers squads and Vyper jetbikes finished off the Ork boyz, but as the more elite and better Orks were dropped off, the garrison began to find it more difficult to defend their position. They were soon starting to feel overwhelmed as they fell one by one; One Dire Avenger pelted a group of Ork boyz with his Shuriken catapult before being knocked down by an Arrd Boy; a more tougher version of the standard Ork Boy. The Eldar Warrior attempted to get up only to be met with a chain axe to his face. Off in the distance, a Vyper bike manouvered past some Shoota Boyz and was coming around to shoot them behind their back, only for a lucky Loota boy armed with a rocket to luckily shoot the hoverbike down.
Then, to their hearts content, reinforcements from Craftworld Biel-Tan arrived, led by Mauryon and Macha herself, bringing in more Eldar Forces to help stop the Orks from advancing. Kaptain GorRippa, who was busy cutting an Eldar Ranger in half horizontally with his chain claw saw the newly fresh eldar forces, and grinned. All is according to plan.
The Ork and Eldar forces clashed against one another, both forces stubborn in their objective. For the Orks to claim this world, and the Eldar to Defend it. The Orks were beginning to lose this one, clearly so that GorRippa had to send forward his Bomba Squiggs and Killa Kans, but even so the Eldar held fast. But that quickly changed however when GorRippa's reinforcements arrived from Warp Space, bringing about freshly new waves of Ork boyz and War machines.
"Hahahaha! Datz Right! Move up dem War trucks! And da Battle Wagon! Hahaha!" GorRippa laughed, watching his war machines and ork boyz advance forwards "Teach da Eldar a lezzon!"
"Farseer Macha!" Cried a Warp Spider, talking to Macha through the comms whilst fighting in the frontlines "We are beginning to be overrun! The Orks have increased in number!"
"Hold on!" Macha told the Warp Spider "Reinforcements is on the way" She turned to Mauryon, who was slashing his way through some Rocket Boyz who managed to get behind two squads of Dark Reaper. "Mauryon! Get some troops to the front! Now! I'll call in more reinforcements from the craftworld!"
Mauryon nodded as he motioned for some Swooping Hawks, Dire Avengers and Howling Banshees to follow him to the front.
"The Ork threat seems to be more of a threat than we thought" Macha muttered, jamming her spear into an Ork's neck.
"They seem so, Farseer Macha" Alyndra, a Howling Banshee Exarch answered, looking at the frontlines "They are beginning to become one"
"Then allow me to help"
Macha after hearing that, turned around, her spear ready only to be met with an Imperial Drone; the same Imperial Drone that latched onto the Ork Kaptain's hull. The drone settled down onto the ground as it began transforming into a large holo communicator. Soon the image of Darth Karna appeared, but this time he was wearing a sith helmet.
Macha stared at the cloaked figure "Who are you?" She asked him
"Greetings, honorable Eldar, I am Darth Karna" Karna introduced himself, his helmet distorting his voice "And I am here to help"
"And Why should we trust you!?" Macha shot back, clearly showing her distrust to Karna "When you Mon'Kaigh would rather see us burn!"
"Would you rather see your Exodite World burn?" KarnaQuestioned her "Or would you see it saved, and a hundred Eldar souls here saved too?"
"Anyways, I am here to help, whether you like it or not" Karna told her "Just, have your brethren stay clear of the frontlines"
Outer-space
The moment that Karna cut communication with Macha, his fleet had come out of Hyperspace. To the Orks still stationed on the large barges of scrap, they were never expecting a 19 Kilometer ship to suddenly appear out of no where along with some more ships, or the fact that all 120 turbolasers and all of the smaller guns are all aiming at the first battle barge in site and range.
The only thing those Orks on that battle barge would see is a massive storm of Turbolaser fire as it ripped the small barge apart. The Orks were quick to respond aa they turned the rest of their ships to face the new ships that had entered the system.
"Launch all fighters Admiral" Karna ordered the Admiral "Have the Bombers be armed with Seismic Charge, just in case they made them hunk of junks out of asteroids"
"Yes General" The Admiral nodded
Soon the starships began launching their fighters; from the new Supremacy-Class starfighters and Extinction-Class Bombers , to the Alpha-3 Nimbus or the V-wing starfighter as it is more easily called, and the new TIE-Strikers, but they are few in numbers due to them being still tested on. In less than a minute, the Starfighters swarmed onto the Ork barges; their laser cannons doing damage onto the hulls of the ship, not surprising since they were built out of scrap
The Ork barges responded by firing their flak cannons and other guns at the Sith Starfighters, but couldn't shoot most of them down due to their immense speed.
An Extinction-Class Bomber dropped a seismic charge near a Savage Gunship. The charge exploded, emitting a seismic blast wave, obliterating the Gunship.
"There's a hole in their rigid formation" The Admiral pointed out
"I see that," Karna said. He Activated his communicator "Commander Gawain, go now!"
"Yes, sir!" Commander Gawain replied. He then contacted the other gunships to launch, in which they did.
Planet's surface"Boss! Boss!" An Ork Nob shouted to GorRippa as he ran up to the Ork Kaptain
"What iz it! Ya gob!" GorRippa shouted to the Ork Nob
"Boss! Da Imperial Boyz! Dey'za here!"
"What!" GorRippa shouted in anger "How dey get herez!"
"Boyz!" GorRippa Addressed his troops "Get your choppa and shootas ready! We'z got a new fight coming our way!"
"Farseer Macha, there in the distance!" Mauryon said, pointing at something approaching them fast from a distance over the large lake next to their battlesite. Macha looked out into the distance and saw in the distance strangly shaped fighters heading towards them
"Deza here!" GorRippa shouted out, his shout could be heard even by Macha "Dem Sith Hummies are here! Get da Gunz ready!"
Macha looked on as the Ork surged forward towards the shoreline of the lake "Its them"
"Who?" Mauryon asked Macha
Meanwhile rapidly approaching the Ork/Eldar lines was an entire squadron of TIE/Strikers heading towards them. Leading the squadron was a Clone Pilot by the name of Ace.
"Go straight at them!" Ace said to his fellow Pilots "Let's teach them who's a better pilot!"
"Roger that!" said another Clone pilot named Jericho
"Were with ya brother!" Kozmo said too
In response to the incoming Strikers, some Ork Fighta jets turned their attention to the incoming starfighters and attempted to go toe-to-toe with the Sith starfighters. But a thing to note, is that the TIE/Fighter is an experimental air superiority fighter, meaning that it performs well in in-atmospheric conditions meaning in other words it fights a lot better inside a planet atmosphere.
And not surprising since the Orks have crappy planes, to begin with, the Ork Fighta planes were reduced to smouldering dust and scrap. but despite their crappy design, they do make it up for their immense firepower. They shot back at the speedy. more nimble TIE/Strikers, damaging some and even knocking down one out right of the sky with a well aimed shot to the cockpit.
The Orks on the ground also began firing at them, shooting their rockets and their heavy guns at the TIE/Strikers but due to their superior speed, they werent able to shoot any of them down. Some TIE/Strikers went ahead and shot some of the Ork's war machines like the Killa Kan and some Looted Tanks and War Wagons, reducing them to smoldering wrecks. While some other TIE/Strikers, which were modified to also act as bombers came in next and bombed the frontlines, blowing away alot of Orks in the process. No Eldar were hurt as they were smart to pull back.
Then as soon as the TIE/Strikers finished their runs, the Sith Gunships; which were LAAT Gunships arrived. They fired off some rockets, killing more Orks before landing in front of the Eldar troops. The doors of the Gunships opened up as Squads of Clone troopers began pouring out of the gunships and began firing their blasters at the Orks.
"Go! Go! Go!" Gawain ordered his men, leading the charge against the inorganized and disorientated Ork ranks. His men followed the Clone Commander as they began pushing the Orks back.
"They don't seem to belong to the Imperium" Mauryon stated, looking at the white and black Clones fighting the Orks. He was confused as were the other Eldar "Whats going on Farseer?"
"Someone is helping us with this fight" Macha told him "And as much as I want to know who he is we need to go assist our temporary allies"
Mauryon nodded as he ordered the Dire Avengers, Dark Reapers, Howling Banshees and many other Warrior Aspects to move up and support their new but mysterious allies.
GorRippa gave out a loud cry of WAAAGH! As he led the ork charge against the Charging Eldar/Sith forces. The Clones stopped a few meters from them as they continued to fire as the eldar surged forward past them and at the ranks of the Orks, giving them supporting fire. Just before the Orks and Eldar could meet in combat, the TIE/Strikers bomber variants came back round again for another short bombing demolishing the Ork lines once more, breaking their momentum as the now weakened Ork lines soon cracked down to the more stronger Eldar offensive momentum.
A Howling Banshee stabbed and slashed her way through the Ork ranks before she was pushed down to the ground by an Ork Shoota boy. Just as the Ork was gonna pelt her with bullets, she was saved by a nearby clone who pelted the Ork with blaster bolts before the Ork dropped dead. While at another part of the frontline some Clones armed with Z-6 Rotary Blaster Cannon stopped a full-on charge of Orks, who tried to get into close quarters.
"Rocket Boyz!" GorRippa ordered, motioning for a large contingent of Rocket Boyz to fly up and attack from the air. The Rocket Boyz gave a loud battle cry as they shot up into the air.
"Incoming!" Gawain shouted, pointing to the Ork Rocket Boyz. Soon, every Clone armed with a form of Heavy Blaster or Blaster Cannon aimed their weapons up at the Rocket Boyz, and began peppering them with their shots, taking out as many Orks as possible. Some Dire Avengers and Dark Reapers even helped out the clones as they aimed their weapons at the Rocket Boyz.
Seeing his attack fail, GorRippa led out an angry and frustrated cry as he led his remaining orks into battle. GorRippa smack his large chain axe at a Clone Trooper before hacking the weapon at some Swopping Hawks, butchering them. It was then that he looked up and noticed a large black shuttle coming down from the air and landing a few feet behind the eldar and clone infantry. He growled as he knew who might be here.
The shuttle door of the shuttle opened as Darth Karna stepped out of the shuttle, accompanied by two Death Troopers, each flanking his left and right.
Growling once again, he took his axe out of the head of a Howling Banshee, he motioned for his remaining Nobz to follow him.
"My Lord, enemy heading towards us," The Death Trooper to his left told Karna, pointing to GorRippa and some Nobz heading towards them. Despite the Death Trooper's helmet distorting their own voices, Karna is able to understand him.
"I see that," Karna said, using the force to get his Lightsaber into his hand. The two Death Troopers aimed their guns at the charging orks and with deadly accuracy and rate of fire, managed to snipe out many of them before they could reach them. 3 Orks managed to get close to Karna and when they were gonna strike the Sith Emperor down, He activated his Lightsaber, and with swiftness, he cut down the first Nob that reached him before he cut down the second Nob. The remaining Nob attempted to wack him with his mace, but Karna simply sliced the weapon in half before proceeding to cut the Nob in half.
"Sith Scum!" GorRippa shouted out, charging towards Karna. This got the attention of Macha, who watched as the Ork Boss charged up to the masked man. With a loud cry he heaved his battle axe and slammed it down at Karna, who just sidestepped out of the way. Karna dodged the following swings of the Ork Kaptain's weapon before cutting the weapon in half with his lightsaber. This intrigued Macha, who had never seen something like that happening before.
"Grrr, damn you and you cheap pointy glowing stick!" GorRippa cursed, throwing away his ruined weapon.
"Glad to make a lasting impression, Mr. Ork" Karna mocked sarcastically with a bow. GorRippa attempted to punch the Sith but Karna wasn't letting that happen as he cut the Ork's hand off making GorRippa cry out in slight pain. Taking out another Lightsaber; A Crossguard Lightsaber, he activated the blade and slashed the Ork's abdomen with both blades, shredding and scorching the ork's abdomen with scorch marks, and with a final swing he cut the Ork's throat, killing the Kaptain and ending his life. Before the Ork's body would slump down dead however, Karna force pushed the dead corpse all the way to the remaining Ork forces, making them panic and routing them completely.
"Go on" Karna ordered his Death Troopers "Make sure no one else dies" The Troopers nodded as they went off and joined the others in the clean up operation.
Karna sighed as he deactivated both his Lightsabers and placed them back onto his sides. He then glanced to his left, where Macha was approaching him aling with Mauryon and some more other eldar. Once they were in range of hearing his voice he told them
"Well, guess you want answers now, don't you?"
End
So whatcha think? Good? Bad? Let me know if I made a mistake somewhere or anything.
Oh, and just to let you know as well.
•Sith Empire will take part in the Kauruva Campaign.
•Sith Empire also take part during the events of Dawn of War II and III.