Reviews:
Forge Master 00: The rubble from the ruins of Atlas will shake at the Imperial Knight's battle REEEEEEEE! Thanks for the review! As for your second review; all of the questions will be answered later, don't want to spoil it. Your second review helped a lot!
Guest: To be honest I am only the major plot ideas down, for example when Pugnus lands on Remnant. Other than that I am just winging it on the fly. Your review will be taken into consideration, even if there was a necron tomb it would take a lot of probing to for them to fully awaken.
Votes:
Kill Atlas [4]
Cease Fire Until They Find Penny [3]
Spare Atlas [1]
(Voting will end next chapter)
Speech Syntaxes:
-Speech- Lingua-Technis
"Speech" Low Gothic/English
Notes: I am moving this up to here to try it out. Looks like Atlas is doomed to their fate, but what is the sentence of the others cities that aided them in the past. They will pay for their crimes against the Omnissiah for all will bow to his might! There may be polls in the future to determine what will happen to the story. Also thanks to Astral Dreadnought for helping me with the naval powers that Pugnus has in his fleet (one Dictator Class Cruiser, one Defiant Class Light Cruiser, and three Endeavour Class Light Cruiser). He is currently writing a story about a Rogue Trader Fleet that ends up on Remnant, go check it out.
Chapter Three: Scheming's of Flesh and Machine
Ironwood sat at his desk filing thru paper work, as all headmasters should do in their free time. But the general did not want to call out his coffee addicted friend who texts with his alcoholic pawn all day. But that is not important right now, the real problem was that his squad he sent to the ruins with Penny did not return at the designated time. His calls toward the squad leader's scroll resulted in voicemail, this was concerning. Doctor Polendina has not come to rampage thru his office, that means that at least Penny is alive. Which also confirms that the squad completed one of their missions, even if it is the secondary one.
A singular knock came from the door, hopefully this is some good news. "Come in," ordered the general. The door slowly creaked open to reveal an Atlesian soldier standing up stiff. He marched up to the desk and saluted me with a worrying greeting, "Private Ian of the Atlesian Squad sent to investigate the ruins, acting squad leader." The general glared at the private for a moment, causing his left hand to twitch a bit. "Acting squad leader?" questioned Ironwood. The soldier gulped before answering, "Hans Schwarz and three other of my squad are KIA. His last orders was to destroy the entrance of the bunker trapping their bodies and the cultists. We did not have the resources to push into the bunker or siege out the bunker, so I ordered an RTB after a long and rigorous discussion with my squad mates."
Ironwood rubbed his temples as he slowly questioned, "Do you know what killed your four squad mates in the bunker?" Ian suddenly found the general's desk interesting to a higher degree than making eye contact. "Penny received a line of code that repeated over and over again in a language that she did not know. The only phrases that were not translated were Atlas and Adeptus Mechanicus. Once John cleared out the rubble blocking the bunker entrance, the line of code stopped emitting." The soldier stared at the desk to inspect every inch of it as the headmaster sighed and buried his face into the palms of his hands.
"So you are assuming that they were not killed by the White Fang, or Grimm. But instead put the blame on a newly found cult just because a line of scrap code the Penny's transmitters picked up? Did they teach you nothing during drill camp!" berated the general. Ian calmly asked, "What shall we tell their families? Because the story of how he collapsed a bunker controlled by the White Fang on top of themselves to stop their operations, sounds a lot better to the news. Rather than that half a squad of soldiers were mysteriously slain by a mysterious cult that only want the death of Atlas." Ironwood rose from his chair and jabbed his finger into the breastplate of the soldier. "I already have that problem solved! What I am concerned about is you lack of tactile sense! Do I need to send you all back to boot camp so that you can learn to use your fucking heads!" yelled the general at the top of his lungs.
"Only following orders sir," responded Ian. Ironwood slapped his across the face, "You were following the orders of a person that just got himself killed! Which allowed you to create new orders that override the retarded old ones!" The headmaster walked away from his desk and looked out of his window. The private followed the general's eyes to see the city of Atlas. Ironwood gave a long sigh before stating, "Looks like this mission proved the incompetence of my soldiers which the only way I can fix that is military reforms and sending you all back to training in waves. Tell what is left of your squads that you will be the first in line to reenter boot camp. Have fun."
Ozpin sat at his office quietly sipping his warm coffee he stared out of his office window. The students under his command had finished their incursion into Forever Fall Forest today, which yielded interesting results. The underdog of the first years managed to slain an Ursa in single combat, suspicious for someone who forged their transcripts. But his partner informed the heiress and the silver eyed teen that her semblance is polarity, which she used to help Jaune. In his personal opinion she should use her semblance more in combat, it would make her a threat to anyone with a metal weapon. Ozpin was brought out of his plotting when he received a text from another headmaster. 'I have found a new terrorist organization, will talk more about them when I arrive in Vale.' A brand of terrorist? Perhaps a certain crow should look into them after he is done with his current lead.
Magos Dominus Pugnus sat at the conference table along with five other adepts, two Dominus (Domini or Dominuses?), two Enginseer, and a cybernetica datasmith. Pugnus addressed everyone currently in the room, -We are halfway to our destination, and thankfully the Gellar fields are still holding strong. When we reach the planet, a patrol detachment will be sent to the surface. It will be more than what Dominus Malleus had, but don't expect much. Does anyone volunteer to be part of the landing party to start diplomacy with the local and organize a secure landing point for the rest of our forces? - One of the Dominus' hand shot up, two Enginseer hands slowly followed.
The Cybernetica Datasmith commented, -I am fine with going to the planet or staying on in orbit as long as I am with the blameless machines. So that they can exterminate the enemies of the Omnissiah at a faster rate, but it will never be fast enough. - The Dominus that did not raise his hand informed the datasmith, -We know that already Cyber, all you care about is the Kastelans and that is okay. - The newly named Cyber turned his head to glare into the Dominus' lenses, an aura of malice raided off of the Datasmith. -How many times have I told you to use my forge given name, Datasmith-1721. Or do you want me to start calling you Quin Decium? - threatened Cyber. Quin countered, "I have been trying to get you to call me by my name, instead of a bunch of numbers! Ira has been trying to do the exact same thing! - The other Dominus waved at the mention of her name.
Pugnus broke up the argument with the sound of his eradication ray charging. -We can only send three of you to the planet because more than that will be a waste of men. Datasmith-1721 is definitely going with Kastelan Unit Alpha. Ira will also leave because she raised her hand first, that leaves us with one spot left. And they will need to be able to handle diplomacy because the other two are more suited toward combat.- The Enginseer turned to each other and started playing servo-arm omnissian axe omnispex shoot (their version of rock papers scissors shoot) to figure out who would probably be sent to the surface to die in the name of the Omnissiah.
Quin asked, -Are we not already at war with the primitives? - The Magos Dominus explained, -We are at war with the feudals that identify themselves as Atlas. That means that there is a chance that there could be other feudals under different banners. We gathered that information from Malleus' second message, two months after he landed on the planet surface.- -But what if the planet is united, similar to all other lost colonies that the Adeptus Mechanicus has encountered?- interrupted the female Dominus. Pugnus gestured to his eradication ray, which cause the Ira to smile slightly. She always had the habit of turning to her ways as a Graian Tech-Priest even after her mind was been wiped during the trade deal.
-After a rigorous debate. We have concluded that Enginseer-8873, otherwise known as Eights, will be on the patrol detachment heading landing on the planet, - informed the two Enginseer in unison. Pugnus announced to the room, -So it has been settled, Dominus Ira Ferrum, Datasmith-1721, and Enginseer Eights will be sent with patrol to the lost colony. They will lead Skitarii Unit Charlie, Skitarii Unit Foxtrot, Kataphron Unit Charlie, Servitor Unit Alpha, Sydonian Unit Alpha, Sydonian Unit Beta, Kastelan Unit Alpha, and Onager Unit Alpha. It is up to you whether or not you want to exterminate the Atlas heretics, but be ready to give a highly detailed report when you do.-
Note: The Ad Mech part could be confusing, if it is I will write a list of names and ranks in the next chapter's notes.