The City was in Chaos as the burning objects that appeared earlier that day was from a damaged Tau ship. What was left of the ship slammed into the Balkal forest, which was nearby the city. Survivors where already getting geared up for war but their numbers where unknown. While the local Guard where already evacuating the Capitol in case the Xenos move up to the city. While the Inquisitor was trying to clam the Assembly down, her Commander Hazer, Force Commander Victorn and Chris had sent their scouts to analyse the situation.

To lessen the chance for the Tau detecting them each one sent one squad of five each in different directions. Capitan Dalvrann of the Ultramarines came in from the west with his sniper team. He and the other two groups had communications with each other in order to communicate what they can see. The Capitan moved up slowly with his team making sure they move slowly and calmly in order not to be detected by the Tau.

Back at the capitol the three where looking over a holotable at the Administratum which they where using as a makeshift HQ. The the scout teams where already moving ad they would get updated on the situation.

"What are the Tau doing here?" Hazer asked.

"Well I used to be a Tau player when I was back home. They wouldn't venture out this far unless it was important." Chris said matter of factly "They want to expand yes but they want to take their time at it."

"Interesting." was all Victorn said hearing this before looking at the holotable. "Intel incoming."

The table lit up as images of the different units represented by the force emblems that he saw in Imperial codex's. The crash and the treeline was visible for them to see.

"Their setting up a defensive line next to the crashed ship." Hazer said looking at what was happening.

"I don't know the sept colours, or emblem but they maybe trying to get ready for an attack and call for backup." Chris said. "Now I don't know about you two but I think we can at least salvage something from all this. But I think it best that we at lest beat them into submission, make them surrender then get whatever we need from them. Expendable troopers and intel."

"I like your thinking Chris." Haser said.

"I don't like it." Victorn said looking down. "But I see the logic in this. We will do your plan."

Chris looked at the Force commander and nodded. "Ok what I might suggest is this, we use the local Guard Valkyries and take out the distress beacon. That will cut off their contact with any of their allies in this system and allow use to take them head on with the knowledge that they have no support to call upon."

"Sounds good to me, move in in full force once we take it out a simple but sounds effective." Haser said with a smile impressed.

"That's not all. When we attack I thick we should use our forces in a kid of three-way split. Two from these two directions and the third and the final coming from the north. This will lock them and force them to surrender."

"Let's do it." Victorn said.

OOOOO

With the planning out of the way Chris made his way to his command tent that his personal force set up. He walked inside and all eyes turned to him, it was deathly silent. He could tell the command team from their uniforms which he'd knew he have to change to represent their new loyalty. The Vox caster looked at him, he was at least slightly older the he was, the medic had white hair and what could be said as tanned skin. The weapons specialist had his hands on a plasma gun on his lap looking at Chris with hard black eyes as if he had seen too much combat. As the the standard bearer, from what he could tell was that she was a she, he couldn't see her face thanks to a chain mail veil covering her face. But her curvaceous body told the story.

Chris looked to each one before speaking. "Ok so you all don't trust me, I get it. Having the nobles who ordered you round arrested can be... awkward but lest get passed that for now. We've got a job to do."

"Yeah so I've gathered." said the weapon specialist who stood and walked over to his new commander.

The two just stared at each other. The other three didn't know what to do as the two just stared at each other, the old grizzled face of the specialist was hard seeing many battle in his life.

"You're nothing more then a wimp." he said. "I'm outta here."

As he took one step Chris spoke up. "Coward."

The man slowly turned and looked at him. "Take that back."

Chris turned and looked at the man. "No."

Gritting his teeth the man then grabbed him by the collar and looked at him. "Take. It. Back." he demanded once again.

"Not unless you work for me."

"I'll never work for a punk like you."

"Then I won't take it back."

Rage ran through the man as he looked at him with his eyes almost bulging. He took out his pistol, a flintlock pistol and pointed it at Chris jaw.

"What are you going to do with that? Kill me?" he asked almost mockingly. "Kill me and you kill your family." this made the specialist even angrier but then a loud click sounded making him look to the side.

A shotgun was pointed directly at his head his eyes widened as he looked down the barrel of the gun. "Drop it." a female voice ordered.

Chris smiled as he could see Kimsa from the corner of his eye. "I said drop it or your going to end up without a head."

Taking in a deep breath the specialist dropped the weapon and just looked at the cultural specialist with a hard look. "He called me a coward."

"From where I'm standing, I don't blame him." she said.

The other three of the command team just looked onwards in a mix of shock and fear. They didn't want to get involved as while they had no love for the specialist as well but they knew the rules the Imperium had.

"Good now then, what's your name?" Chris asked.

"It's Dalvan." he muttered.

"Ok then Dalvan do you know the penalty for leaving before a battle and pulling a gun on your commanding officer?"

"No."

"The plenty is death," he said not making any kind of impression on the soldier. He was clearly ready to die if needed. "But that's not all, all the equipment you are using, will have to be paid by your family. And given that the advantage people earn is not enough to buy everything thing that you haven then there's only one place they would go."

"The street's." he said in fear before looking into Chris' eyes. "You cannot let that happen."

Chris turned away from the specialist and looked at the other's of the command team. "There is a way around it." he face the specialist again. "It involves you following my orders and for your eldest daughter to be my servant for the rest of her life."

The man's eyes widened in shock and horror. But he closed them and nodded.

"Good." Chris said as Kimsa lowered her shotgun, he then turned to one of the guards. "Go to his house and arrest his eldest daughter. If I die execute her." the soldier nodded and left.

Dalvan wanted to say something but he kept his mouth shut.

"Ok people let's move out."

The other three just stood an saluted.

OOOOO

Chris and Kimsa with the command team minus the standard barer moved up with the scouts while the others stayed behind waiting for their signal. The jungle was dense allowing for them to move unnoticed by the Tau forces. The crash sight was huge and took away most of the forest but that left digital blue camo hull wrecks that would give the Tau quite a bit of cover. They could see them move around fas trying to get supplies form one place to the other trying todo something. Chris looked to one of the scouts beside him.

"Soldier can I borrow your rifle?" he asked.

The sunned scout looked at M3 with wide eyes and handed him his rifle. Taking the handle of the weapon and looked down the scope before switching his ear bud on.

"Victorn, Haser can you both hear me?"

"Yeah." Haser said.

"I can hear you well." Victorn said.

"Good I got eyes on the Tau, I can see heavy vehicles I got eyes on at least two hammerhead tanks, and three broadside battle-suits. At least around 200 troopers, but that's all I can see right now."

"I hear you." Haser said. "My scout's have got eyes on a few battle suits of three different types."

"My scouts have got their sights on mostly infantry units here." Victorn said. "Valkyries are on the way. 60 seconds incoming."

Chris handed the rifle back to the scout. "Get your men into a line, give us cover when we move."

The man nodded and the Scouts moved into a line behind the trees as the Veterans came up.

"What's the plan sir?" the lead asked.

"Get ready to move up get into cover, they have tanks an I want the lascannons and Leman's to get a clear shot at them."

The man nodded and revved up his chainsword while Chris took out his power sword and bolt pistol. The sound of aircraft met their ears and alerted the Tau to their presence. The Valkyries came in fast and fired their rockets at an antenna severing their connection to space.

"CHARGE!" Chris yelled pointing his sword in the direction of the Tau forces.

Aside from the aircraft the Tau forces where taken by surprise and fell from the mix of las fire. A Tau hammerhead tired to fire them but clearing the way for the Leman Russ' allowed for their battle cannons to get the attention of the anti-grav tanks. The mix of lascannon's hand heavy shell fire cause the tank to explode and Tau forces to fall back. The crash sight was large allowing for the Tau to move back more. But that as the idea as the Space marines came down from the north and the Inquisitor's forces coming in from the south east to corner the xeno's forces.

The surprise attack caused the Tau to become disorganised and react poorly making them fall back and leave key positions to the Imperial forces. The militia advanced to what looked like an engine allowing for cover against two broadsides and three crisis battle suits that advanced on their location. One of the Leman russ came up and fired at one of the battle-suit teams. One of the crisis suits exploded tocking the other two out while a railgun shot from one of the broadsides knocked out on of the Leman's treads.

That was a bad move as one of the lascannon teams fired at the head of the battle-suit taking out is optics and causing it to shut down. Dalvan then took his change and came out of cover and fired a fully charged plasma shot at the last battle-suit. The shot impacted the suit melting the front of the hull showing the pilot. Chris came out of cover and fired a round from his bolt pistol at the pilot taking him out with ease. They advanced further, as Chris moved up a stealth-suit got a lock on him but before the Tau could do anything a pole slammed on his gun arm. M3 turned to see the standard barer using the standard like a spear as she thrusted the bottom half of the pole to take out the Tau's optics. She had a calm good aura about her that made everyone around her clam.

Chris and the Command team joined up with Haser's command team, the two forced the Tau into the middle of the crash sight while the Space marines came down from the north. The Tau where quickly cornered.

"Surrender." Haser ordered.

With that the Tau forces dropped their weapons.

OOOOO

With the battle over and the Tau ship being dismantled for scrap or whatever the Mechanicus did with alien metals. Chris was in his room on the Inquisitors ship while they sorted out survivors, he and Dalvan waited for the Specialist's daughter to arrive. A few moments latter two of the Cadian soldiers came in with a girl around the same age as Chris. She wore a long green dress with a flower patterned on, she also had long raven black hair and deep purple eyes. As per procedure her hands where bound in shackles to prevent her from going anywhere and taking anything. She looked from her father to Chris.

"Ok old man what's going on here?"she asked but Dalvan didn't say a thing.

"Your here as payment for your father's crime." Chris spoke up in an emotionless voice making her brow raise.

"What are you talking about?" she demanded.

"Your father, pointed a gun at me and tired to leave before a battle. Thus making him a coward." he said making the specialist look away in shame. "While killing him would give his honour back, I cannot kill a specialist like him. So there was another way."

"He...ugh he wants you as his servant Isis." Dalvan said looking down.

Isis smiled before outright laughing. "Hahahaha your kidding right? Just kill the Malki (bastard) he deserves it."

"He would but..."

"But, the price of his armour, training, weapons and equipment... well let's just say that you can say goodbye to that house of yours." Chris finished

She looked at him with wide eyes. "Wait your saying that we'll be on the street if you kill this frager?"

"That's the penalty, it's ether work for me or your family end up on the street."

Isis looked from one to the other before sighing. "So being free but end up on the street, or be a slave to my father's commander but keep my family where they are. Well then looks like I'm the slave to the commander then." she said not taking long to decide.

Chris then signalled to the Cadian's to remove her shackles. Once they where off she then spun round and punched her father in the jaw. She just looked down on him like an animal and he couldn't blame her. Chris then came up to Isis and fastened a black leather collar around her neck.

"Hey!" she said before trying to pull it off. "What is this?"

"It's an explosive collar." he said making her stop pulling on it and look at him in shock. "Call it insurance in case you decide to run. It's also linked to my heartbeat, if you or your father decide to kill men then you die. Understand?"

"Yes sir." she said standing up straight.

"Good, now you have till tomorrow pack all your things." he said before walking back to his desk. "Your all dismissed."

The four then walked out. Once they where out he took a deep breath and sighed.

"Just like Overlord build your own army, gain people through questionable means. Ha, well hopefully he'll fall in line now." he said before taking some files out and began to read them.

Each file he was looking over his command files on the leaders and Veteran's in his militia. Unlike the games he needed to gage their personality and get them to trust him. The one he mostly needed to trust him was the command team. He already had their files out and rad them, their past, personality strengths and weaknesses.

The files came to him thanks to the local Administratum who demanded to record everyone across the planet and from every nation. This made it easy for him to get the info on his command team and Veterans.

The first file he looked at was about the standard bearer of the militia, Mileena, a tanned woman from one of the southern nations, a good soldier. But she had an aura about her that made men around her feel... weird in a good way. He couldn't deny that, after all she did stay close to him. Her file said that she used to be a tribal dancer before she was chosen by the elders to become a militia soldier. The tribe had an agreement with the family about giving them their best warrior. Since he may not be coming back to this planet he would need to remove that little agreement from their records.

She was well trained with a spear which explained why she used the standard like it was a spear. He made a note to make a new standard pole into a spear otherwise her skills would be useless. Before he could read further there was a knock on his door.

"Enter." he said and Mileena entered.

Unlike her combat gear, she wore a short red top with gold trim and a long red dress with gold trim. She also wore a golden chain around her belly and had a blue gem where her belly button is, a golden arm band was wrapped around her bicep and her hair was out in full as she had let it down. What's more was that she didn't have her chain-mail veil on but a tight red veil that she brought down as soon as she entered. She was beautiful to say the least.

"Master." she said in a surly voice. "I am here to please you."