Holy shit. Living without electricity for almost 2 weeks is goddamn boring. Anyways here are the reviews:
decemberblindseer: The only 40k characters are the ones that arrived on the ship, i won't be adding anyone else.
Guest: I've been waiting to write something like this for a long time.
Guest: They'll know about the relics and the other stuff in the future.
Guest: If you're comparing Spartans to the IG then yes, the Spartans are superior. But Astartes are clearly superior to them. If you are talking about the IG beating the shit out of Yang, then you clearly don't know the IG. They won't attack a person one on one, they'll just dogpile the person and then beat the shit out of them.
Guest: Not with a little psychic power, if you know what I mean.
Guest: Menagerie won't be nuked, but it's residents will be ********. Oh, shit I almost spoiled the story!
Foy dedker: Don't worry! Dark humor is best humor.
KapitanCyka: *wink* *wink*
GhostScorch: As i said in FotR English is not my first language, but neither did i receive education for it. I literally know my English from games and movies.
Artyom-Dreizehn: Considering there is only war there, yes they have stagnated quite a bit. But now with the Indomitus Crusade and Girlyman they probably are advancing quite quickly.
Ozpin was sitting in his office, contemplating the last few weeks. The relations with the Imperials was strenuous to say the least.
The stunt they pulled before they went away left quite a bad impression on the students. The student they beat up was Yang Xiao Long. If Ozpin hadn't arrived in time the Imperials could have killed her.
Her father Taiyang, was pissed when he heard that his daughter was almost killed. So pissed that after just an hour after he called him, he arrived on a bullhead.
First the father checked on his daughter. After that he came straight to Ozpin's office and demanded to see the man that did this.
Ozpin at first tried to calm the man but he wouldn't have it. So he just told him that they were the ones that kidnapped Amber and then brought her back.
He also told him they came from outer space. Taiyang didn't believe him and promptly left, all the while yelling curse words at him.
He didn't left Yang since he came here.
As for Amber, there was something weird about her. Usually she was kind and sweet to everyone around her. When she was alone and thought no one could see her, she subtly glared at any Faunus and muttered something quietly.
Did the Imperials do something to her?
When Sariel told him about his 'Imperium of Man', Ozpin had a feeling that he only told him basic information.
So far he knew that this Imperium had colonized 4 planets, had a population of 50 billion, one quarter of the population was the army and navy and that they had 100 or so ships.
Oh, Ozpin if only you knew.
They also worshiped someone called God-Emperor of Mankind. He recalled the zealous expression of Sariel when he talked about him. Frankly, he didn't believe him. A man over 40,000 years old that had the power to make armies kneel with a single word and summon powerful storms that swallowed planets? He scoffed at the thought. Ozpin knew that gods are real, after all the God of Light gave him the power of reincarnation.
But to make armies kneel and destroy planets? Not even the Brother gods could do that!
Anyways, a week after they left, they came back to get the plot of land he promised them. This time Sariel didn't come, a man that was covered in red priest-like robes and had many metal tendrils sprouting out of his back.
He talked little when he arrived , the only thing he did was introduce himself, Octavian, and as quickly as he came he left.
The land he gave them was just a few hundred meters from Beacon, he wanted to know what they would do with this land.
That was three weeks ago and now instead of tress that were standing in that land were gone. Replaced by landing pads, barracks and the like. Overall it looked like military base.
At the far end stood a huge contraption. Two odd towers of metal that were taller than the CCT towers and glowed weirdly, he didn't know what it was. Some kind of an automated defense system?
Unknown to him, his curiosity will be sated today.
In Vale the people of the city were marveling at thing that was descending from the sky. It was a huge ship of unknown design to them. The length was at least a kilometer and the huge cannons that were line up at each side struck fear in them. They were easily four times the size of a bullhead.
The ship slowly moved to the two towers and positioned itself just between them. The two towers started glowing and the ship powered down.
Then from the ship came dozens of smaller ships, they all landed at the landing pads. The ramps slowly lowered and from them came hundreds of soldiers and vehicles.
From one of the larger ships came a sound that had the people of Vale scared, it was the sound of something big.
Out of it came a tank, no, a fortress on tracks. It was the Baneblade. It's huge cannon that was pointed forward shocked the populace of Vale. This thing could battle a Goliath and come out unscathed.
In his tower Ozpin's eyes were widened considerably. The amount of soldiers poring out of the ships was more than the Atlesian army, not including the androids.
And the big ship that was floating above them was clearly bigger than any of their current ships. Even the newest Atlesian ships paled in comparison. And the guns! There were so many of them and if what Sariel said was true they could level Vale a hundred times over.
The huge fortress on track shocked him even more, he never knew that ground vehicles, that were so big, could be used for combat, but if they used it, it must be quite powerful.
Sariel grinned while watching the screen on the bridge of his ship. Octavian and the other tech-priests did a fine job constructing the two gravity pylons.
It's blueprint was recovered while the Astartes were exploring the ancient shipyard and it seemed to work perfectly. Well of course it was, it's origin was human after all.
The dates on the recovered blueprint dated back to the Dark Age of Technology. Truly, the Emperor has blessed them.
Octavian arrived at the bridge, he was sent by Sariel to count the remaining forces of the Imperium.
"Octavian, I see you're back." Sariel said turning to the Tech-priest. "What have you learned?"
"Our forces currently consist of:
Around 5 million guardsmen
12000 Light Vehicles
11000 Armoured Personnel Carriers
8600 Tanks
300 Crassus Armoured Transports
2 Baneblades
1 Banesword
1 Stormlord
1 Shadowsword
Along with other support vehicles."
"What about the Astartes?" The Rogue Trader asked.
"They have 30 members remaining along with Thade, who is interred in a Dreadnought. 8 of the Space Marines are Terminators. Their vehicles consist of 2 Predator Annihilators and Land Raider, Phobos pattern."
Sariel nodded, he was pleased that the ships carrying his troops and vehicles weren't destroyed during the skirmish with Chaos.
"Are the shipyards factories working correctly?"
"Yes, while blessing the Machine-Spirits took a while, the factories inside the moon are working perfectly, just as expected of human engineering."
"Also, Sacristan Lucius Irynblud informed me that the Freeblade Vortigan is yearning for battle once more."
Ah, yes. The Freeblade ended up with Sariel after a botched mission on Gallea VII. The Ork Waaagh! almost destroyed the PDF and the Freeblade but Sariel arrived just in time to get the remaining PDF and the Freeblade off-planet. That was a few days before the governor contacted them.
"Then if he's yearning for battle, I shall entrust him a mission."
The mission in question was annihilating a White Fang base that housed most of their resources for the forces in Vale.
As for how they acquired the location of the base, it was all thanks to Nox.
A Week Earlier
Nox watched the small White Fang outpost silently. He was sent here to gather information and to purge the unclean.
This place was relatively easy to find, while the forest around them protected them from unwanted visitors, the same could not be said if you looked from above. The idiots couldn't have picked a better spot for the assassin, just 400 meters from the outpost was a cliff overlooking almost half the forest.
The outpost itself was nothing noteworthy a couple of tents and trucks with crates on them.
Currently Nox counted 46 mutants. They were casually conversing, not knowing they were being watched by the Vindicare Assassin.
His black bodysuit blended quite perfectly in the night, not even the mutants could see him. His Exitus rifle was aimed at the two mutants guarding the entrance.
Nox squeezed the trigger and the round shoot forward at top speed. It turned the upper bodies of the two mutants guarding the entrance to red paste, while their legs flopped to the ground.
Two for one.
The sound of the legs hitting the ground alerted one of the mutants in the tents. He went out to check what it was, only to find 4 legs in a blood puddle.
He screamed before another round disintegrated his head. Now the whole camp was on alert. The were getting in defensive positions in front of the entrance, not knowing their enemy is behind them.
Another round, another body and only after five more of them dead they realized that he was behind them. Their cognitive abilities were lacking apparently.
The mutants in the camp were panicking as more and more of their brethren were getting killed. The panic grew and grew until one of them started shooting all around the camp, hitting and killing some of the mutants.
Quite a display for the Vindicare. Never in his 157 years of life has he seen this amount of panic. He wondered what would happen if an Culexus Assassin was here instead of him. They would probably die from shock.
The crazed member was put down by a bigger mutant that had a different mask but one of the shots hit him and an invisible force deflected the round. One of their 'lieutenants' if he had to guess and he also probably had that Aura thing that Sariel told him of.
The big one shouted for him to show himself. Didn't he know he was a Vindicare? They never show themselves to their prey.
The Vindicare assassin continued shooting and soon only the big mutant remained.
Nox decided to experiment on him. He loaded in his Shell Breaker Round, a round that bypassed even an Eldar Warlock's Rune Armor.
The assassin then took aim and shot the mutant. The round bypassed the so called Aura and went through the head of the mutant. He uselessly flopped to the ground like a sack of potatoes.
Nox nodded to himself, proud of the work he's done. He stood up and went to the outpost.
The blood of the mutants was beneath his feet as he walked through the outpost. It also painted the white tents to red. Nox went to the biggest one. He figured this is where they stored all the information.
And indeed it was, the tent was full of maps and folders. He took all of them and moved outside to set explosives on the trucks outside.
Once he was done he put what remained of the bodies in one of the tents and put up a sensor that was wired to the explosives all around the outpost.
Nox arrived at the back entrance and started walking back to the cliff. He heard some vehicles drive into the town and just as he arrived at the cliff, the outpost went up in massive explosion that shook the earth around.
The Vindicare called for extraction. His mission here was complete.