hello there, I am taking a break from everqueen for now. it will be back, and next time it will be the first of its tts episodes. and on the actual tts episodes, I would love to do them, but I don't have the scripts, and I have neither the time or patience to transcribe them myself. if anyone has a copy they could send me, that would be great.
the arrested fall is made by lord lucan
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The next file was put in, and many of the primarchs wondered how a slannesh dedicated eldar empire would effect the timeline.
Faction Two: The Insurgency of Mankind
The Emperor muttered darkly, and all Eldar in the galaxy suddenly felt as if a second god like entity wanted them dead. It was jarring, especially considering they could tell that this one was opposed to Slannesh. The feeling vanished as quickly as it came.
"For all the might of their grand armies, the eldar cannot undo what was woken upon Ullanor. Two hundred years in the planning, the insurgency of mankind is like a many-headed hydra; cut off one head, another two shall rise from the ashes. Horus and the Emperor (May his golden thread pass through us all) have kindled rebellion in a million worlds, a thousand empires. Their forces are phantoms in the mist. Our banners are secret, our allies widespread. Though the eldar possess such mighty weapons that they sear the soul to behold, they cannot kill us all. And those worlds they defile, those they destroy, breed hatred amongst our brethren born of inhuman loins, just as readily as they insight further rebellions across the galaxy. The eldar call this a human heresy, but this is not so. If one race can be put to the sword by the empire of false gods, then any can. Unite or perish, smite first or be smote; these are the options left. Humanity chooses to smite!" - [From the new creedo of the Manifesto Alphus]
Roboute muttered something about how of course the alpha legion was playing a big part in this rebellion while Alpharius/Omegon had very smug grins. So smug that everyone could tell they had them despite the twin primarchs wearing helmets.
History: The Insurgency of Mankind began, aptly enough, in the cradle of mankind itself.
Rogal, in a stunning display of understanding, kept his mouth shut. Perturabo pouted a bit at this, as the joys of hitting Rogal had helped immensely in reducing his hatred at his lot in life.
The world is known as Terra to humanity, Vul Keighli in certain eldar dialects, and 'Human Habitation Biosphere-1' by Noosphere, the cold and merciless Artificial Intellect that governs the Iron Martians.
Ferrus was troubled at the mention of the Iron Martians.
During the Age of Strife, humanity's fledgling empire was sent reeling and shattered when the Iron Men, for reasons unknown to mankind at the time, attacked their worlds, starting with a vicious siege of Terra. In the time of Strife, civilisation collapsed on Terra, falling further than any other settlement of that great empire. Techno-barbarians fought over the ruins, forming their own petty empires across the surface. Elsewhere in the galaxy, humanity and the Iron Men fought to a stalemate over millennia, separate stellar empires barely managing to hold onto their territories in the implacable face of mechanical aggression.
The understanding Rogal had gained couldn't last forever and he said, "So far the same." Perturabo then hit Rogal.
After millennia of war, the Iron Martians gave up trying to slay humanity, and withdrew to their Factory Worlds, their goals as enigmatic and inexplicable to mere human minds of meat.* Humanity was bloodied, but unbowed. Humanity continued on in isolated, yet battle-hardened empires across the galaxy. They hoarded what Golden Age Technology they could, and after millennia of isolation, they became insular, caring little for their fellow humans, half a galaxy away. There were renaissances in technology in those times, but without unity, these technologies couldn't proliferate to the wider human species. This worked in the favour of Mankind's rivals, for they had free reign to rule the galaxy as they saw fit, and the human empires paid fealty to the eldar like all the other subjugated xenos of the galaxy.
Fulgrim was surprised at this last statement and asked the Emperor, "Father, is that true?" The Emperor nodded, "SADLY YES. LUCKILY FOR HUMANITY AND THOSE OTHER XENOS THE ELDAR TURNED INWARD SOON AFTER THE AGE OF STRIFE STARTED."
But there were some who did not forget. Secret shadow orders of human cultists lingered in human societies across the galaxy, led by strange warrior priests; in the urban myths of mankind, they were called 'Perpetuals', or 'Sensei'. Some attributed these with miraculous powers of healing and reincarnation. They themselves referred to their Cult as The Order of the Hammer. They preached that the eldar were mortal, and that humanity had no need to bow before such tyrannical creatures, for humanity had luminous souls, and that the eldar souls were damned. They also preached that mankind should unite, and not be divided by petty monarchs, who only cared about maintaining what scant power the eldar allowed them to have. No one had ever seen the master of their order, and such was their secrecy, the Order never named Him to others. He was said to be even more powerful than the Perpetuals; even more powerful than an eldar ancient. He was a shifter of shapes, and could pass unseen amongst the worlds of mankind. Those who saw the Order as a mere religious joke mockingly referred to this legendary leader figure as 'the Emperor of Mankind', for this demagogue was obviously pretentious enough to believe he alone could rule mankind.
Angron asked, "Aren't the sensei those being who.." The Emperor cut him off, "YES. AND I TAKE OFFENSE AT THIS ORDER BEING RELIGEOUS IN NATURE." At this assertation the tech priest prepared to run in case the Emperor freaked out.
Precisely who this 'Emperor' is or was, is uncertain, but he was a scientist foremost, leaving politicking to his second in command, the genius sorcerer-scholar Malcador.** The Emperor's desire to unite humanity was not some ideal promise made by a religion seeking patrons, but was one he intended to back up with military might.
The Emperor nodded approvingly and the Tech priest stopped his preparations to run.
The Order of the Hammer manipulated factions across Terra into building the machinery of war for them. Only when the time was right did the Emperor's minions activate their armies across the planet. These posthuman warlords were devastatingly powerful, and soon conquered the disparate enemy tribes of Terra in fifty short years.
The screen showed the Thunder Warriors and Custodes fighting Techno-Barbarians.
Malcador went further. Apparently at the behest of this 'Emperor', Malcador had his pet scientists create for him twenty one magnificent sons. Living avatars of stolen warp power, housed in biologically perfect shells of divine meat, the Primarchs were to be the ultimate generals and living weapons of the fight back against the oppressive eldar.
While they knew that this was there origin, those primarchs decidedly against the warp (Mortarian and Russ foremost amongst them) were still uncomfortable at this information.
However, spies for the Eldar King brought word of this blasphemous warp-science, and he lazily sent a force to destroy these creatures. Sensing their approach, Malcador destroyed his labs, and cast the Primarchs across the galaxy. The Eldar assumed they were killed, alongside their mon keigh witch of a father.
Vulkan spat out a hateful, "Arrogant knife ears." This surprised the tech priest, as it always did when Vulkan expressed his hatred. It just didn't compute to the tech priest that Vulkan was even capable of hate.
But Malcador and his Perpetuals were not slain. In the confusion, they slipped away off-world. Malcador carried with him a precious cargo; the last two Primarchs. They were a miracle; twins, in a single birth pod. Malcador took this as a sign of favour, and determined to raise them as his own. The twins were named Alpharius ad Omegon, and they were perfect. Malcador raised them on the run, always moving from world to world, never settling. They were not generals, but spymasters. Each of the brothers was a genius, and consumed knowledge at a rate at which even Malcador marvelled. Through their aid, the Order of the Hammer spread across the galaxy. The brothers even created their own Cult of the Hydra, a massive espionage organisation formed around their Alphus manifesto.
Alpharius and Omegon wore smug grins once more.
Everything the Perpetuals and the Twins did had to be done in secret, as they had to hide from the Imperial Eldar's sinister secret police force, known only as the Mandrakes. False leads and decoys were constantly in play, evading and confounding the half-daemon eldar huntsmen at every turn.
The Emperor's power flared, and all the Mandrakes in Aelindrach suddenly felt like they were exposed to sunlight blessed by pure faith in humanity's supremacy.
Almost every human realm was visited by the Insurgency of Man's cells, alongside some of the more reasonable xenos planets, from the high G words of L'Huraxi, to the monstrous swamps of Groevia, to the foreboding forgeships of the Demiurg. Deals were brokered, oaths sworn, and all the while they were undercover.
The Emperor felt a bit of shame at the fact that his xenos tolerance laws had come so late, and those worlds where these allied xenos lived (at least those who still lived) experienced boons. Said boons would turn against them if they dared to fight humanity, but none of them would.
This was to pave the way for the single biggest human mission in the history of the species; the Secret Crusade. The moment the Eldar Civil war began, Malcador and his armies across the galaxy set to work. Their missions were to finally cement their alliances and find the scattered Primarchs. The Aegis Astartes, Malcador's elite and secretive Legions of superhumans, cultivated from his surviving samples of Primarch DNA re-engineered, fought at the vanguard of countless wars during this 200 year crusade. They drove out the chaotic forces of the Diaspora that were ascendant during the chaos of the Eldar Civil war, they routed evil alien tyrants and ork pirates, defended beleaguered colonies from being harvested by Iron Martian Expeditions, and generally attempted to eliminate the most pressing non-eldar threats to their burgeoning alliance. The reason for this was three-fold. First, they could not afford any secondary threats to attack their supply routes during the coming Heresy. Second, their actions showed that the galaxy did not need the eldar to protect them; the space marines could be their shield, and their sword in the grim darkness. Thirdly, and most importantly for the Twins, it gave them a chance to hunt down their brothers, and determine if they still lived.
The Emperor nodded, but was slightly worried. Had he died in this timeline?
What they found heartened them more than they could ever express. Their brothers did live, and they had for the most part conquered their local systems,a nd formed empires of their own; empires which readily allied with the Insurrection once the Primarchs were reunited with their Golden Father. Only Angron and the Lion had at first struggled to subdue their birth worlds, for chaos had a strong foothold there and would have eventually destroyed them both. However once their Legions, formed of their geneseed sons, arrived, they crushed all opposition and installed their fathers as masters of their own empires.
This caused some concertation amongst the Primarchs. For Angron, he was worried that Nuceria had some Chaotic taint, while others were curious about these empires there counterparts had forged.
Their personal Astartes legions were handed over to each Primarch in turn***, and they began immediately preparing for the coming war. The war plans were devised by the firstborn and most brilliant of the Primarchs, Horus Lupercal.
Horus was confused, "Do they mean first-found?" Sanguinius commented, "Probably."
Using the Order of the hammer's Astropathic network, he orchestrated a coordinated galactic rearming strategy, forming the Insurrection into a unified human/xenos alliance the likes of which the galaxy had never seen before. He also brokered the non-aggression pact with the mighty Ork Overfiend, Gharkul Blackfang.
Horus was once again shamefaced.
Once the trap at Istvaan V had been sprung, Horus and his brothers passed on the rallying cry to every corner of the galaxy, setting into motion plans two hundred years in the making; "The Eldar have stolen your galaxy from you. They believe themselves immortal. They have forgotten how to die; rise with us, and let us teach them how! Rise! Rise! Rise!"
The tech priest recorded this line for later usage, specifically the part after the Eldar have stolen the galaxy part.
Thus began the Human Heresy. Thus began the war, which would see the galaxy burn. *(When the Iron Martians return to the field of battle, after the Secret crusade, their targets once more seem random. Why they destroyed hundreds upon hundreds of seemingly barren worlds across the galaxy seemed insane, until we learned later the true nature of the Iron Martians, and their ultimate goals.)
Corvus stared, "Knowing that the Iron Men almost certainly follow the Void Dragon, it cannot be good for organic life."
** (There is some debate amongst scholars about the Emperor's actual identity. Some claim Horus was the true master, and the Emperor was a fiction designed to unit mankind. Others claim the Emperor was malcador, again using a figurehead. It is possible, however, that the Emperor really was the superman of myth. Or perhaps Malcador was but one of the many forms the shape-shifting 'Emperor' possessed?)
The Emperor considered this.
***The Aegis Astartes Legions were named thus: 1. The Cthonic Wolves – Horus Lupercal
Sanguinius noted, "I guess they didn't" in reference to his earlier talk with Horus/
2. The Blood Angels – Sanguinius 3. The Iron Hands – Ferrus Manus 4. The Gladiators – Angron 5. The Frost Giants – Rogal Dorn 6. The Space Wolves – Leman Russ 7. The Phoenix Guard – Fulgrim 8. The Raven Guard – Corvus Corax 9. The Ultramarines – Roboute Guilliman 10. The Dusk Raiders – Mortarion 11. The White Scars – Jaghati Khan 12. The Dark Angels – Lion El'Jonson 13. The Salamanders – Vulkan 14. The Iron Warriors – Perturabo 15. The Word Bearers – Lorgar 16. The Night Lords – Konrad Kurze 17. The Alpha Legion – Alpharius 18. The Omega Legion – Omegon
Alpharius/Omegon commented, "I guess" "We get" "Two legions." Meanwhile, Magnus looked slightly worried and asked, "Where am I in all this?" Perturabo said, "You're probably somewhere else." This didn't comfort Magnus, had Tzeentch corrupted this version of him like so many others?
Forces: The Insurgency has a wild variety of militaries and soldiers to call upon. By far the most elite and power are the Aegis Astartes task forces. Genetically engineered using the remnants of the Primarchs' genetic codes, they are supremely powerful individually, and this is only enhanced by their advanced, Golden Age fighting suits, ships and weaponry, the designs of which were stolen during raids on Iron Martian Manufacturing Planets and subsequently modified by Insurgency scientists, both human and alien. Astartes Aegis armour is a beautiful intermingling of Golden age Technology and over a dozen alien technologies. Each powered suit can fly, possesses exotic banks of sensors, and bear integral internal weapon systems, ranging from mass-reactive bolt missiles, plasma guns, pulse arrays and graviton pulsors. Their gauntlets may spring with energised claws, or retract to allow the marines to wield handheld specialist weapons on a mission by mission basis. Aegis is highly customisable and modular, easily converted into heavy Terminator plate, void-capable Icarus plate, stealthy Hololith plate and oceanic Leviathan plate.
Many of the more technologically skilled Primarchs decided to take a crack at mass producing this Aegis armor.
There have been experiments on creating xenos astartes, but these plans are in their infancy by the start of the Human Heresy. However some of the more humanoid xenos have been given customised variants on the Aegis suit, to allow them to contribute to the greater war that now rages across the stars.
The video ended on the uncomfortable idea of xenos Astartes, and through the modified brain of a roach cam, one of many hidden throughout the Glorianas and other important imperial ships, Fabius Bile spied on the family. It was this spying that allowed him to escape Fulgrim's justice. He chuckled to himself, "Now there's an idea."