Lady's and Gents, boys and girls this is the next chpt. In which the Inquisition gets a wake up call, the Eldar repay their debt, and the 3rd fleet prepares to leave for a Sister of Battle Shrine World, one they are all to familiar with.
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Shattered Dreams, and Forging a New Path
Kronus Orbit:
Shortly following the Inquisition's declaration the UNSC began preparing for two different actions simultaneously. The first being to fight the Inquisitorial force, whether through stopping boarders or launching attacks of their own it mattered not. The other action was to prep for slipspace to any location out of Inquisitorial control. However they soon realized that the Inquisition's psykers would be able to find them no matter where they ran; so they had no choice but to fight.
And so the two fleets clashed. The UNSC's technological superiority and Elite forces dominated the fight in the beginning, easily crippling and destroying numerous Inquisitorial ships; however the UNSC was still badly outnumbered, and as such the Imperials easily closed to "knife-fight," nearly point blank, range. At that point the exchange rate became a bit more tolerable to the Inquisition, but not by much.
As the ships traded rounds the Inquisition launched thousands of boarding craft, ranging from simple boarding torpedoes to Thunderhawks, each carrying Inquisition loyal forces. As such dozens of ships became battlegrounds as UNSC Marines held the line against Inquisition force, ranging from Stormtroopers to Sisters of Battle and Space Marines as well as Arco-Falangets.
The 'normal' Inquisition led forces were easily stopped, but the Arco-Falangets were not. The primary reason behind the Falangets' success was that they seemed to ignore all wounds, even the fatal ones, so unless they were put down with the first shot they would keep going. As such the Falangets were able to rip apart the Marine detachments aboard several ships, forcing the commanders of those ships to detonate their vessels to prevent the technology from falling into Inquisition hands.
Among the ships lost were: three cruisers a Musai, an Intrepid, and a Tartan; six Victory class destroyers; three Halcyon, five Salamis, and two Argama class; and twenty Raven class corvettes. However thy had reduced the Inquisitorial fleet to 1/4th of its original size, now there were only five hundred ships out of the once massive fleet. But the UNSC was still losing; most of their ships had been boarded and were still receiving and would either be forced into submission or destroyed before the day was out at this rate.
It was at that moment that an unexpected event happened; the entire Inquisition fleet found that there weapons were unable to get locks on the UNSC's ships, in an eerily similar manner to the way Eldar craft would jam their sensors. It was at that moment that the UNSC were given the option to escape using the Webway by Taldeer; not only to repay her debt but to try and get tangible proof for the Seer Council that the UNSC exists, and that an alliance would be in the best interest of Ulthwe.
As such the UNSC accepted the Eldar's invitation; not much of a surprise really, it was either that or annihilation due to the fact that the Inquisition had received reinforcements right after the jamming set in place.
Space around Craftworld Ulthwe: one day later
The Eldar aboard the Craftworld were going about their daily business, when a Webway portal opened up next to their ship/home world. Out of the portal came Farseer Taldeer's Void Dragon class Cruiser, as was expected; however what came out next was not. The Eldar aboard the Craftworld were stunned to see the battered remains of the UNSC Third fleet exit the portal.
The Eldar defense fleet was obviously thrown into chaos, with a small c not Chaos with an uppercase C, but before they could scramble Taldeer informed them that they were guests, at least until the UNSC forces could repair their ships. She also requested the Seer Council convene so that the UNSC commander could meet them.
After some hesitation the council was convened, and for the first time in millennia it was to receive the leader of a powerful faction of humans. Because of the fact that they were helping that faction they thought they would be able to order the UNSC forces. However they were in for a rude awakening.
Something they found out when what they thought was the only force the UNSC had was revealed to be nothing more then the vanguard of a massive fleet, a fleet that served an empire much larger then that of the Imperium of Man. They quickly realized that there was an opportunity though; here was a power capable of outfighting nearly any force, out maneuvering any foe, and perhaps most promising of all what seemed to be a immune to the power of Chaos.
They asked for time to consider their options, but everyone knew what the decision would be. They would have to be idiots to discard their sole chance to eliminate Chaos once and for all.
During the negotiations the UNSC captured the surviving members of the Inquisitorial strike team, mostly Sisters of Battle, which numbered less then five hundred. Now they merely had to decide what to do with them.
But before either could be resolved, Taldeer received a vision. The Dark Eldar and their Chaos allies were planning a strike on an isolated Ecclesiasticary world where members of the Sisters of Battle were housed, a planet that the UNSC knew as Reach.
Chapter Complete
Adeptus Mechanicus File: UNSC "Titan" Designated Zaku II
Standing at a little over ninety feet tall the Zaku is an intimidating foe for non-titan class foes. Powered by an unknown power source that, if overloaded can destroy an area one mile in diameter. A Zaku is usually armed with one close combat weapon, sometimes a 'heat hawk' and others a 'beam saber,' and a long range weapon, either a beam rifle a 110 mm machine gun or a Beam bazooka. There are also secondary weapons that can be loaded on the mech. An example being 360mm grenades designed to vaporize a building. Another example is the Flamethrower; an extremely large flamethrower used to fire massive spurts of Thermite, a liquid so hot it can melt a Titan's armor if fired at the right spot. Much like our Titans it is well armored and armed; however, unlike our Titans the Zaku is a fast moving aggressor, capable of dodging nearly any of our Titan class weapons except the Mega-Bolters which are on our Warhounds. The Zaku is a lethal opponent, and more then likely we only know a fraction of the abilities of this war machine. For the sake of the Imperium we must develop an effective counter to this machine.
UNSC Briefing for Field Commanders: Quantum Lathe and Cloning Complex
One of the many marvels that we achieved with the discovering of the Vaults. The Quantum Lathe is for all intents and purposes a factory reduced to the size of a MBT, or smaller depending on the task the Lathe is created to do. All Lathes, no matter their purpose, use the same materials, one atom, to produce everything for a week. The Quantum Lathe actually causes a min "big Bang effect" to form the materials needed to make whatever it is programmed to.
The Cloning Complex on the other hand uses hyper advanced growth methods to produce new fully grown and battle ready soldiers in a minute. These soldiers sadly enough only hold together long enough for one week before dieing due to the advanced genetic manipulation in their DNA. However we are working on a method to eliminate that part of the cloning process, while still leaving the rapid growth and maturation to battle readiness. But until we do the Clone Soldiers are to be given preferential treatment because of how short their existence is.
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