A/N: First of most likely many, MANY Hyperion chapters.
Hyperion 1
Sitting inside the conference room Jim noted a curious sense of unease that had been brought by the current situation.
"It's a mess cowboy," Swann said.
"all of the companies are still in the process of re-organizing and we still haven't re-equipped them as was planned."
Jim sighed, he knew this would be a problem if the zerg attacked, which they did. Having established a permanent base in the sector, the whole top brass of the Raiders had unanimously made the decision to take a look at what other groups and factions in the sector had come up with, be it technology or military theorems.
The re-organization was still underway, having started a year prior.
"Which companies do we have"? Jim asked.
"We have 10 companies excluding the first," said Matt going through how many companies the 5 colonels had.
"Right, Samuel take your 4 companies, make them into a battle group and start hitting back against the zerg, Aelfred I will put you and your three companies in command of what will be called our 'home defense fleet'. It will contain about a third of our fleet strength. Keep our folks out of trouble. The rest will assigned to their own designated garrisons. Remember Avernus station is top priority," Jim said with each of the commanders nodding in acknowledgment.
With that the transmission was cut leaving Matt, Stetmann, Swann, Tychus and Jim in the conference room.
"Swann," hearing his name the master of the forge seemed to straighten slightly.
"i will come with you to the armory, I hope those upgrades you promised are ready."
Getting a nod Raynor turned his attention to Stetmann.
"Stetmann go to the Lab and make sure that all the proper security measures are followed with the artifact, I will meet you there once Swann and I are done," ordered Raynor as he rose from his seat.
"So unless there is anything else it's best that we get to work, it is a whole sector out there with billions needing our help". Said Jim with finality.
"We can't save everyone but we will at least save as many as possible," added Matt receiving a nod acknowledgment from the others.
With that the 5 Raiders went for what ever they deemed most important. Tychus decided that he needed a drink at the cantina. Raiders were, certainly, going to be busy.
With a hiss the relatively large, thick door opened and the two Raiders made their way to the armory's primary cogitator.
From the corner of his vision Raynor spotted kachinzcy giving a lazy salute while holding a Rotary gun in one hand. One of the new weapons designated to the new koprulu auxiliary of the Imperial guard.
Having reached the cogitator Swann pressed the screen a couple of times opening the files that held the specifics of the modifications and upgrades he had promised.
"Here they are boss," said Swann to the commander who leaned slightly in to look at the screen.
"First order of business new shields for our breachers".
The words drew the commander's attention to a 3D image of a standard CMC marine moddelled wearing a shield on its pauldron.
"I took a look at it and using the same bonding method I was able to make the shield lighter and slightly thinner, of course we didn't scrap all of the old shield. Their mass could still be useful," told Swann.
Jim agreed with Swann's assessments. He could already see the use for retaining both shields.
"Good find, add the light shield to the Company armory. The heavy shields will of course be useful for boarding actions." Said the commander.
"Anything else? You told me about some new medical tech suitable for our medical units?"
The Techmarine went for the console before anwsering. "Yeah actually the new more stable and efficient nanites have shown that the little buggers deploy 25.1023% faster and consume 33.33356% less energy to do so. The first battlefield models have just been finished… and, Oh! Also Stetman whipped up a biochemical compound based on the Lhariman's cells that should increase the mending capabilities of the nanites when bonded to them".
Jim actually arched his eyebrow at that and smiled.
"Swann you and Stetman have once again outdone yourselves."
"Hey Don't mention it just doin' our jobs." Replied Swann with a slight grin on his face clearly pleased with himself.
"And I'm certainly not complaining, keep up the good work." replied Raynor as he turned to leave the armory.
Stetman didn't need to turn around to know who just walked in. Putting the last few commands to the console he turned towards the commander.
"Sir, the Xel'naga artifact is secured and contained." Said the head Scientist gesturing at the stasis pod.
"Good, so what's the gist of it?" Asked Raynor promptly.
"Well," sighed Stetman taking a look at his dataslate, "beyond the fact that it is a psychic device of Xel'naga origin, it is mostly the fact that it is at least a billion years old. Maybe even older. Compared to any other previously recovered alien artifacts it radiates energy at a ten times the magnitude compared any previous ones that have been recovered. There is some traces of radiation but all our examination indicate that it is harmless." Told Stetmann.
"Alright, keep an eye on it, moebius foundation wants this thing for a reason and we must find out why." Replied Raynor to which his head apothecary simply nodded.
"Now, anything else?" He asked.
"My Research on the zerg has yielded some useful developments." Said Stetman as he lead his commander towards one of the containment tanks.
Inside was some kind of zerg membraine that hung from the top of the tank, even before Raynor saw it's pulsing, he could already feel it's meager life force through the warp. He arched an eyebrow.
"I thought it was dead." He said.
"It was sir but after incorporating the samples you brought during your journey it was some how resuscitated." Explained Stetman.
"I have been taking samples from it and have been able to map the genes of all known zerg variants. They yielded some interesting results." He continued.
Jim turned his head to look at Stetman. An implicit suggestion to continue.
"As I said, using this subject I was able to map some of the Zerg strains. The Ultralisk strain proved particularly interesting." At this Stetman turned towards what was considered to be the primary research console. After a few button presses an image of a standard bunker appeared on the screen. Before highlighting some of its armored plating.
"The strain gave me a better insight into the durability of the Ultralisk, specifically the carapace. With this knowledge I was able to create a material that could at least double the durability of our bunkers".
Looking at the specs Raynor scanned then quickly, then smiled ever so slightly.
"Good work, send these to Swann, see if we can try them out". He said.
Stetman gave him one last nod and Raynor left the Lab.
In many other ships the arrival of the captain would be announced to the bridge crew, not in the Raiders or on the Hyperion which was just fine by Raynor.
There were more important things for him to do. That in mind Raynor turned his gaze towards his XO. The sorcerer turned towards his commanding officer with a grim determined look. It was a Familiar look to Jim. Carried when ever there was something big, like a large alien or chaos invasion, underway. Something that required action, and he had arrived to the bridge to be the herald of just such action.
"Matt give me our general status." He ordered.
"The 1st is running at 100% with our auxiliaries are being at 87.3%, some of the logistics and fire support units are still yet to be properly formed". Matt reported as he stood up from the command throne.
"Otherwise, the fleet is ready and awaiting orders."
Nodding Jim went to the map table, It was time for a new, bold unstoppable plan.
Koprulu Auxiliary
Formed by the raiders during their crusade in the koprulu sector, on the surface, it resembles the imperial army formations subordinated to the original Legiones Astartes. Formed from the merging of several different anti-dominon militias to the raiders and peoples of disenfranchised worlds.
Consisting of a mix of Koprulu sector vehicles with Imperial weapons the Power armored infantry is transported in the large Dracosan armored transports or standard terran dropships. Supported by Arclite siege tanks and Goliath walkers. As air support the standard¨
air arm of the auxiliaries consists of wraith fighters.
Infantry
Assault squad: 10 men all with power armor. Armed C-14 rifle. Other weapons include, large Imperial flamers and grenade launchers and a boltgun.
Heavy squad: 10 men all with power armor. Armament consists of a rotary cannons (minigun), plasma guns, rocket launchers and a heavy bolter.
Specialist team: 5 man team all armed with down sized boltguns as standard, other weapons include melta guns, plasma guns, volkite chargers and BOSUN FN92 sniper weapons.
Recon Team: 5 man long range sniper team: Armed with C-14 rifles and BOSUN FN92 sniper weapon.
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