Chapter 2
In the morning the body of the imperial solider was found attached to the lift mutilated and stripped bare of armour and only a word cut into his chest Chaos.
Over the following days the government was trying to deal with two major problems, firstly the murder of a Imperial solider and the word Chaos had sent the public into panic, people were saying it was Medusa IV all over again, and secondly how to tell the people, if at all of the oncoming Warp storm. Which will with no stopping it destroy the planet.
"We must tell the people, it is our duty" said Governor Soloman as he sat around a large metal table surrounded by other governmental people from different hives.
"With respect Governor we can't tell the people as our late insider has told me that that was what the rebels were thinking of doing" said the man from the other night
"Commander Glossvell I will not keep secrets from my people or we risk another Schism happing" said the Governor
"We will cause another if we do this I give you my word it will happen" said Glossvell
At this some of the people at the table were looking distressed at all this talk about Medusa IV and the slaughter of all those people
"Ok Commander I will go with you on this one but……" the Governor tried to say but was cut off by some news from one of his other men
"Men we have a big problem, I have just received news that Ygethmor has turned he eyes to Medusa V and is coming with Four Black Companies"
The people were shocked into silence and sat in their chairs still as statues
"Governor Soloman we are not prepared to fight the Forces of Chaos, we have no real army" said Commander Glossvell
"This is not the only problem, we have received word that the Tau are coming to investigate the warp Storm, the Tyranids are on there way as we feared, Eldar and Dark Eldar are coming for some unknown reason, Orks have been interested in our mining for a while and are coming and the Necron colony we feared was on Medusa VII has awoken and found that we are worth harvesting, in a matter of days Medusa V will be involved in a war the likes no one has ever seen" finished Governor Soloman
The room was overwhelmed with terror at this thought, their eyes were full of sadness and fear at the oncoming danger.
"This is overwhelming, we will be overrun with Necrons, Chaos Space Marines, Tau, Orks, Eldar and Dark Eldar all we have are miners, civilians and the odd solider, we have no way of stopping this storm of troops, are we having any help from the Emperor? Are they sending troops?" asked Commander Glossvell
At this question the Governor was silent with no reaction of any kind until the answer came
"As you know we are plagued by storms which block our communication and at the moment we are at the back end of one of those storms we will be able to send for troops within the day and they should arrive before the armies of the other races do" explained Soloman
The committee departed the room leaving one man remaining, a small man sitting at the back of the room; he picked up a small clip off his arm and began to speak into it
"Salie it is time" he said as he stood up and left the room
Later that day a rumour spread across Medusa V thatthe armies of the galaxy are coming to destroy the planet and that a Warp storm will also if it cannot be stopped. Chaos spread through out the streets and anarchy ruled, people left there homes and headed to the nearest space port to try to leave but there were to many 4,500,000,000 people all trying to leave overwhelmed the ports and slowly banners declaring allegiance to the chaos gods were unveiled and the true evil was reviled. In the Hive Euryales Governor Soloman was drastically thinking of what to do.
"What do we do banners are going up all over the hive declaring alliance to the God of Chaos, the people and turning from the light in the face of the disaster" said Soloman desperately as he passed around a table full of commanders and Governmental people
"We have the Schism of Medusa IV happening here, what can we do against such odds?" he asked
An eerie silence swept over everyone and no one said a word
"Answer!" shouted Governor Soloman
"Governor we have no way of stopping this storm of Chaos sweeping out planet, the only thing I can suggest is that we send out troops to fight the Chaos followers and restore order" said Commander Glossvell
"How can we do that when we have so little troops?" asked a small man to the left of him
"As far as we know no other hives have been affected which gives us a chance to stop t happing all over the planet, and we can do it we will conscript civilians to help in the name of the Emperor" said Commander Glossvell
"Well go and do it then" shouted Governor Soloman as they hurried out the room