Early 36th Millennium, dawn of the Plague of Unbelief
Over uncharted world in the Deep Reach
Heavy Lander

After Moneka met with the Captain of the Void Skimmer and learned of an Exodite world that the voidship had visited, she made arrangements for the vessel to lead The Resolute through the Warp to the planet. At that point, the Veiled Strike left under Sirsay's command and headed for Cassius 6 while The Resolute followed the Void Skimmer in search of the Goliath. Upon reaching the system, The Resolute launched a heavy lander from behind the Exodite world and then set a course for the Goliath-class Factory Ship which was closing with the blue star at the solar system's core.

Basil and Lerriksen stood side by side in the cockpit of the Heavy Lander, each dressed for battle in their black carapace armour with visors up. Basil's armour bore the Inquisitorial icon on his chest while he was armed with a bolt pistol on his hip and the Aeldari golden bow on his back with a quiver of flightless arrows as well as his Imperial Force Stave in hand. Lerriksen was armed with a power sword and a bolt pistol.

Basil pieced together in his head the many pieces that were in play and his thoughts turned to Abalus. These Mechanicus have been acting in concert with Masina from the beginning. Sirsay is returning to Cassius 6 with the Veiled Strike and Ansgar to seek out Draegoth. They will investigate if her closeness to the incident warrants action and then meet with her over Abalus. His thoughts quickly returned to the immediate situation before him. The Mechanicus onboard the Goliath ordered Matthias' assassination and they are seeking the Condenser which they must be prevented from taking custody of. Destroy those on the surface looking for the path to the world where it is hidden and they neither take custody of the Condenser nor infiltrate the Webway. Destroy the Goliath and the Mechanicus will be unable to retrieve it even if they succeed planet-side. He took a deep breath. There is more but I can't see it. Chaos hides things in darkness.

"You sure are thinking hard about this, Commander Cadmus," Lerriksen said. "We are going to take out the Tech-Priests and servitors on the ground while The Resolute is going to destroy the Goliath orbiting the star here. War with the Mechanicus. Are you having second thoughts?"

"No," Basil replied. "We are doing what has to be done. This faction has turned traitor."

Emotions filled Basil's head. He felt Sorrow. Anger. Pain and death. Suffering. All welling up from the planet's surface. The fools! Basil snapped in his mind at the Mechanicus on the planet. Then he felt something else. Something powerful. Something he had felt before and its name sprang into his head. Caorthannach.

The Keeper of Secrets had arrived.