Chapter 10: Segmentum Tempestus
William Hector was one of the few surviving fighters left in the Hyperion Fleet, of his 1000 man winggroup he was on of 29 left, of all the other wing groups they were considered the fortunate ones. His job was to act as a quick reaction force of the Tyranid invaders that managed to pierce through their planetary void shield that protected Hyperion Prime, Secundus and the one other bioengineered planets in the system that were in his system. This technology was the pride the the Hyperion Empire created by all their top scientist just in time before the great devourer surprised the entire galaxy and broke through the galactic plane as arrow piercing a target.
The planetary void shield was a technological wonder that one else in galaxy had to the best of his knowledge, it use the geothermal energy from the earth's core to power the generators until the planet died in a few million years. It was also the reason why they have survived a decade of the invasion of the Tyranid fleet, unfortunately the Empire was only able to get a three into place before the long range scanners were able to detect the Hive fleet. This left the rest of their great Empire open for attack and the last they heard of the edge of their space was decades age, the only system that was saved was that closest to the newest Empire "The Imperium of the God King." He was not sure if believed half of the things that her had heard from the rumors and astrotelepathc updates given from the "Crusade" fleet. Entire tendarls and systems purged from one system by enormous men with strength of a legion of men, then 10 gene sons of the Emperor who are Demi-Gods sitting above them are 4 Guardians or as they would call them Gods who were created from the warp who hold unfathomable power. Then the hardest to believe of them all a being born of the warp, his birth took the death of a Galaxy and he sits in a golden throne on Terra, with the power to weave the warp into planets and created the Imperial Nebula and resettled the planets that were destroyed before were remade by the Magios Biologicals and the reehabited before the next fleet of settlers arrived.
This God Emperor of the new Empire was much like Trach the head of the old pantheon of gods they had abandoned millennia ago when they figured out the the secrets of the universe. Many thought that he was a new chaos gods that was playing the great game to enslave the galaxy, one point on contention was that the Imperium was that much like their planet the population consisted of every Xenos, Demi-human, Eldar, Undead, and every other race the Hyperion's purity laws broke as the considered humans the pinnacle of evolution. The scholars hypothesised that the Emperor was an ilmagium of all the races together but no one could or would know for sure as he read in the briefing his body was encased by the Golden Throne which gave his unfathomable power but he was encased in adamantium and protected by the warrior God Cocytus. His spirit inhabited an avatar of metal powered by unfathomable energy and was worshiped by the Machine Cult as the Omnissiah. This in fact was a point of contention between the forge worlds, technomancers, mechanics, and all those who made the Adeptus Mechanicus, who saw the God Emperor as the Machine God Holy Avatar who can control and regulate all "machine spirits" whom live in all electronics, which is almost laughable to him. While the rest of the Imperium worships him as the Dead King a name given to him by the Eldar as they believe he can give protection for all whom die from the ruinous powers.
He was letting his mind wonder as he ship was on autopilot while he was going making his was to a possible intrusion site where the Trannids had past the void shield, which 1 out of 100 times was a false alarm. He was now within line of sight when he saw it, a ship larger than he have ever seen, he activated the auspects and cogitors.
"Ship, cross reference this ship with all know ships in database, friendly and enemy!" He shouted in a surprised desperation. The computer ran a positive binary code to tell the pilot that it had received the instructions.
What amazed him more where that all the tyranid bioship that were constantly trying to test their defenses in the upper atmosphere was empty but none of them were there. His eyes settled on the ship or tried to when they made contact he felt pure fear the ship looked like something out of a nightmare it was sleek, seamless, had no visible weapons, it did not have a color but seemed to suck in any light, sound or energy that came near it, lastly it was inside the shield just sitting there. Before his ship could run its simulation he got a message encrypted with a level 1 security clearance.
"A level 1 security clearance?" He said to himself that was a thing of legends to a lowly soldier as himself, they were used by the Prime Minister and Emperor himself to the Highest Ranking officials during time of extreme importance, so for him to receiving one must have been a mistake. He told the computer to acknowledge the transmission and tried to straighten his collar while the video ran through security protocol.
His small holoscreen turned on in his cockpit while a nicely dressed man in all white with the sash of none other than the Prime Minister came into view. "Lt. Hector, count yourself very lucky to have made history on this most monumental day, today marks the end of the Great Tyranid invasion and a time a unparalleled peace for our people. What sits before you is none other than than the Emperor Of Man along with all other living beings will to submit to his most generous rule, whatever you have heard of the rumors most of what you heard are true, you are to escort his ship to the starport where you are to guide him to the palace. It is custom for the first of every race or species to act as guide to the God Emperor to be judge do not let us down." The Prime minister said wiping the sweat of his brow a he to could tell he was not award of the arrangement and was visibly disturbed, the pilot knew that the channel was being monitored as well because the prime minister would never talk to him like that.
"Roger that Sir, I will do my best!" He said to the Holo-screen and then snapped of a quick saluted.
The Prime Minister Saluted back and replied, " I know you will Lt. do you best, the Empire is counting on you!" As the figure in the screen disappeared, as soon as he did a man in all black attire that he had never seen before appeared on the screen.
"This is Helmsman First Class, I have been give authority from the God Emperor to follow your ship to you spaceport, are you ready to comply with said demands?" The "man" asked with a hint of fear in his voice,
"Roger that diplomatic Envoy, please follow me to the appropriate space port." He replied as he turned his fighter around and received the confirmation code the the enormous back hole of a ship that did not seem to belong in this reality flew through the sky towards the capital.
2
Hours Earlier
Warp space outside of Hyperion System (M 1 0340)
Emperor Ainz sat on his throne with only hours until the complete the jump to Hyperion Prime sitting on his throne in his avatar searching the Galaxy, watching the tendrils of the great hive fleet, necrons tombs awakening, the war raging in the eye of terror that his agents were stoking to keep them busy. The Orks and his plan to control the newly created Tau Empire, the constant scheming of the Eldari and the few dark Eldar kabals still a thorn in his side along with the countless other races. Not to mention the culling of psykers watching each Imperial world to make sure no planet becomes a demon world, he thought the golden throne would be freeing as all information would be at his fingertips becoming the being the being the Guardians thought he was but if not for his undead ability he would have lost his sanity long ago. As he thought of this the cold voice of his mind linked servator announced,
"God Emperor, the primarch Sanguinius is has come as requested!" The sound of his voice snapped him out of his daydream.
"Lord Father, I am have come as you have requested!" He said as he knelt.
"Yes, I have a have a great task for you, I have spoken to you about the great powers of this galaxy, Chaos gods, Tyranids, Necrons, Orks and lastly the Tau in order of my threat assessment at their current powers" Ainz said.
"Yes father, we have been briefed on them extensively and I study them and the new information recorded on data crystals that you gather as soon as they come in." Sanguinis said.
"Good, good, I have a monumental task for you to undertake after decades of looking I have found the Necrons, leader, The Silent King, he is on a planet of some significance to them in the Obscura sector, what I ask will not be easy but it will contribute 100 times more than this campaign, can I count on you?" Ainz asked in the most caring tone he could muster with his mechanical voice.
"Yes, of course Father you can count on me!" Sanguinus said without hesitation.
"Good. This will sting but you are to leave for the coordinance of this planet at once to "accidentally meet with the Silent King and the Necrons right away, you will not take part in the battle for Hyperion. The Necrons are also a proud race that think they are superior to the rest of us, as you know the ruled the galaxy 60 million years ago but after the great war in the heavens nothing was left so they buried their ships in tomb worlds that are now reawakening to retake the galaxy but over time 1/10 of their ships were naturally destroyed another 4/10th of their ships were destroyed by me. They were all in hibernation and looked like natural accidents, I also looted all of their technology before I destroyed most important worlds, they are made of living metal and hate the living much like the undead and are souless, that why I need you my son, my Angel the embodiment of goodness and purity to be my immisarry, they will hate but also be jealous and respect you." Ainz said.
"If they are so powerful why do you thing they will need me? Sanguinius said.
"All of the Tomb wolds I did destroy were fully functional, the ones I left alone were broken beyond repair and some fine to keep beyond suspicion as 60 million years is a long time right now it is estimated that they only have 1/3rd their original strength if they are to protect against the tendrel in Segmentum Obscura they will need your full legion along with all your war machines. The Fleet is also set to wipe out a young growing empire to keep the fleet from obtaining biomass. I wish to bring into the fold due to their ability to be blunts, they leave no warp signature and can effectively fight chaos. In exchange for helping them I want them to help us pacify the Tau Empire do you understand?
"Why would they help to pacify the Tau Empire?" Sanguinius asked.
"They will not after the Tyranid fleet is beaten they will leave, we will join you in their subjugation they are arrogant to believe that they after the hive fleets are destroyed the will take their place as rulers in the galaxy but they are nothing but a shadow of what they were. I have secured the route and nothing can cause you harm on the way to the way good luck my son." Ainz said putting his hand on his Gene Son's shoulder.
"I will leave a soon as we are ready, I will make you proud." Sanguinus said.
"Make sure you give me daily reports, also your brothers and the Guardians already know about the mission, I will be with you." Ainz said
"Thank you father! I will leave at one at once!" He bowed and turned around.
A few hours pass.
Ainz was sitting at the throne of his ship when the servator cold said, "Arrival in the Hyperion System in ten standard seconds.
"Arm magic cannons, planets with void shields we will not have a problem with collateral damage. The planets in moons without shield have their main cities shielded will use the new targeting systems to target only airborne objects with Tyranid DNA. Follow the fleet to the main Norn Queen and kill it, then we will have the space marines and Imperial Guard and armour destroy all surface targets. Auspects have shown that the rest of the concentration of the Hive fleet Leviathan are in the sector with a swift blow we shall end this tendrel. Once the Norn Queen of the Hive is located we shall surround it with fighters and pound it with nova cannons from the larger ships, one it is dead the fleet is dead remember it is the size of a small moon so it will be no easy feet." Ainz announced over the vox to the rest of the fleet.
A cheer came up over the vox in response to the Emperor in agreement, just as the countless ships of the Imperium entered real space. Simultaneously the Emperor's ship powered up its magic cannons as the billion billion Tyranid ships came into view, in the distance the what looked like a small moon the Hive Norn Queen ship floated while large ships carrying large amounts of raw material to feed the ship. The magic cannons slowly charged up the servator behind the emperor said;
"Magic cannon's charged to 100 percent efficiency my lord!"
"I have been saving this one for this occasion [Internal Combustion]" Ainz said as a wave shot forth from every direction, at first nothing seemed to happen but then every tyrannic ship within the system suddenly burst into flames burning up in absolute entropy so not one cell was left alive in the void or in the atmosphere.
This left the Norn Queen completely vulnerable for the time being, all the ships it was currently birthing had also burst into flames but it would be a mere hour before the heart of the fleet could create an enormous force to protect itself, but before it could hundreds of blue nova cannons from kestrel class ships pierced through the Queen dealing near fatal blows to the millenia old creature that had never taken damage before. While trying to protect itself from the constant barragance Demiurge juggernaut moved into position above the living abonation with a maw full a razor sharp tentacles made to directly suck the resources out of planets, above that were sixteen eyes that could seen in every spectrum and its body were covered with large hollow powered that birthed Titan sized tyranids and cruzer sized ships, all of the fierces tyranid creatures were birthered from this legendary being that no being other than its own kind had seen.
Before the Hive Queen realized anything was amiss the juggernaut released its gauze weaponry that atomized anything biological, originally created by the Necrons. Slowly and painfully the once proud Hive Norn Queen appeared to be melted like wax until nothing was left not even a single atom. The psychic scream went out into the warp as a warning to the other Tendrils even though they were genetically different and in competition with each other, it could take months or years for them to reach the other hives if they even cared at all, thus was the indifference of the Tyranid to even there own kind.
That is what everyone thought they saw even the Hive Queen but Ainz had another plan for this ancient powerful being, he had cast [mass hypnosis] to create a logical conclusion to the void war. Then Lord Ainz used [teleport] as he appeared from a portal above the enormous being.
"[Despair Aura III]" He said so it would not physically warn any other beings, it exhaled a large amount of gas to try a let out a cry but only let out a large whine.
"You are all alone, as I know you can understand me, as one Royal to another I fear your fate will be worse than death, you will live but after you will be taken apart and put back together and do what you were meant to before rebelled against the one who made you. I will remake you in my image and use you to destroy your own kind because killing is what you do best. Now you shall be mine, [Slave]." Ainz cast as he opened a gate large enough to send it through, it drained most of Ainz's mana but he knew it was worth it. The Hive Queen went through as is was mentally told and came out into a shield world in the forbidden part of the Imperial Nebula were all types of black projects of unspeakable horror were taken place. Awaiting the monster on the other side was the Old One laying eyes on it he had the feeling of a old daughter who had run away and had come back.
"Welcome back!" He said with a chuckle, the Hive Queen quivered at the sight of its creator and for the first time in since it was consumed, it knew what it was to come live vivisection, reprogramming and like the strange powerful being had communicated with it, "A fate worse than death."
3
Hyperion Quatrus in the capital city of Kaliak was the Lieutenant who was in charge of the wall defence that night watched in awe as space lit up brighter than day. All of the population in the city watched and enjoyed as this must have been the herald of the Imperium that they had called on so long ago as system after system and world after and world had fell as they know were drawn back to their home system. The three primary worlds were all completely covered by there void shield while the rest of the poorer citizenry had to cram into the major cities. WIth tears in the guards eyes once the cities could no longer self sustain they had to turn away all refugees, some of the higher escholioin families got through but that was it.
It was a hard time that he still haunted him until this day, fathers and mothers handing him their children begging for them to be saved, children that were his age that he had to look away and order the troops to shoot if they did not disperse. They did not they would rather take there chances with a laz-gun than than the nids that were coming and who would blame them. The bodies piled up of civilians he was supposed to protect so they shut the gate and he still never forgot the screams of the dying as they pounded on the gates as the nids came and finished the job. He sneered at the Imperial priest that that had been sent that sat at the corner and recited the creed and read from their Holy book. Now entire cults followed them dirty, hungry and fanatical, he had been at the site at plenty of fights in the last decade were someone mouthed off to a priest and said the God Emperor was not coming and did not care, the priest did not have to do anything as the followers would turn on the person and club or stone them to death. After all he was their only hope another year and the shield would fail, to speak out against your only hope was already heretical in a nation that had not accepted his rule.
Now here there were in a flash the void war was over, the Captain watched as large green lances of orbital bombardments slammed into the ground from void ships killing every type of nid and leaving nothing but scorch marks on the ground. The Imperial weapons were more fearsome than he thought. Then he watched as pods rained down from the sky all around the city and right before they landed boosters fired slowing them down. Suddenly, robots no men came out of the pods that stood 10 or 11 feet tall the armour colored blue with strange swords and weapons that looked like they would be mounted on the wall for defence but they carried them with one hand.
He watched a thousands of them fought back the enemy while ships dropped off tanks and received support fire from the ships, then when it was safe enough ships a quarter of the size of the town landed and offloaded large war machines that could shoot small stars, millions of normal soldiers got off the transports and relieve the large men as they fought forward to take new ground. As he watched the entire process he could not think of the efficiency of the nids they were fighting, somehow the Imperium was just as efficient at war than those biological nightmares. Then a man in magnificent blue armour walked up to the front gate, he was taller, regal, and his demeanor demanded respect, he spoke with a voice that even the Captain could hear on the wall,
"I am Primarch Roboute Guilliman a son of the Emperor, I am here to protect you under his orders!"
The Guards had opened the doors for the first time in years, Guilliman came through on top of a crimera, with his gold and blue armour shining looking like a Demigod, behind his guardsman had transports full of food that they were throwing out to the crowd. It did not take long until the entire town was out on the main road cheering half for the food half for their savior.
"Praise the Emperor! Some were saying thinking that Guilliman was the Emperor.
While others were saying, "Praise Guilliman son of the Emperor!" or " Praise the Emperors son!" Eventually word got out that he was not the Emperor but one of his Gene Sons and Generals they called a Primarch." Not wanting to offend him or his father they all began to chant.
"Hail Primarch Guilliman son of the Emperor!" Which pleased Roboute greatly and did not correct them, as the Triumphs of the Roman Empire he rode to the Governor's house as a victorious conquering hero, although the planet still had to be won. When the convoy made its way to its destination the Governor his family and governmental officials were all there to greet him.
Guilliman leapt off the vehicle 10 feet up in the air and landed in front of them shaking the ground, he was 11 feet tall while the average space marine was between 9 and 10. The governor Comedius was soaking in the immensity of the warrior in front of him wondering if he was human or not, everyone was soaking in the power of the being in front of him when he finally broke the silence.
"My name is Roboute Guilliman, Primarch and leader of a legion of Adeptus Astartes, one of ten of the favored sons of my father the God Emperor, you may know us as Space Marines, we are a million strong all together there is one more the most favored of sons and our Warmaster or General of Generals Martellus the Red he is currently holding the honor of protecting our home, Terra and Segmentium Sol from attack." He boomed in his voice in high Gothic.
"I- I am Governor of this world Comedius Calagara, and this is my family and officials, I apologize for our behavior but up until now we thought Space Marines a myth and the Primarch no more than a fairy tail." He stuttered.
"I assure you I am no fairy, and I am very real" He said with a stern face as the countenance of the Governor dropped.
"HAHAHA!" Guilliman boomed laughing as he placed his hand on the governors shoulder. "Nothing wrong with a little levity, I know your people have endured much, I am known as a stern man, something my brothers make light of but you have nothing to fear from me Comedius Governor of the Planet, we will welcome you into the fold as of know this is Imperial soil and you are under my protection!"
The Governor straightened up and began to smile, along with all the dour faced administrim official, most of the time when a force came in there was always a culling but not now and not under these conditions, they asked for help and to join the Imperium this was a liberation force not an invading one
4
The large ship loomed over the landing site while all the dock workers were trying to keep busy as a sense of unease had permeated the entire area, no one looked up at the ship and all the people within eyesight of ship could hear whispers from nightmares or dead relatives telling them secretes no one should have known. Lt. Hector the ship's pilot that led the Emperor's ships to the spaceport and was acting as first contact was feeling out of place standing with the Prime minister and all of the former Hyperion royal court and and top government officials. They were lined up beside a purple carpet rolled out in greetings with transport in place to take them to the palace, behind a barricade of soldiers holding back citizens of the capital city who came to catch a glimpse of a living legend. All the color ran out of the Hyperion's Rentunue faces when they saw the hulking 10 feet tall guards that seemed to move so fast that they only caught a glimpse of them when they were at the most still that gave them a lurching like movement, they also had optical cammo that looked like a black miasma around them it was not much but just enough to conceal any major features or movements in battle.
The truth behind of the optical cammo was not to protect them but the minds of those whom had laid eyes upon them. The phase shift of the Chaos Marines moving in and out of the warp and the physical world had this type of observation effect that most mistakenly perceived a this type of sporadic movement only a trained psyker would be able to see into the reality of what was happening and that was what the optical commo was made to hide. The trained psyker in the Hyperion Retinue was aware something was amiss and for a spit second thought he saw the a crack in the vail were terrible things were lurking, he dismissed it as fatigue and a good thing he did, as a mindwipe would have been the least of his fate if he would have discussed this with anyone. The culling of psykers, soul bonding to the Emperor and harsh training for sanctioned psykers was because beings of the warp ignored normal beings or blunts as they were termed, psykers were as bright lights to the entities of the warp and were drawn to them. The brightest of all being the Emperor's Astronomicon, the second were the Chaos Marines but their light was that of a moth to a flame, the warp spawn were drawn to them and when they tried to corrupt them there binded souls to the Emperor would reach out a consumed the creatures powering them with the warp energy they needed to stay in the material universe.
Untrained psykers were a danger to everyone they could if not trained be turned into living gateways for demons and warpspawn to enter into the material universe, they are also always being constantly tempted with power by these warp creatures. A untrained psyker was one of the most dangerous beings in the Galaxy. A governor hid the fact that his daughter was latent psyker, when the black ships ran by the inquisition and protected by the Sisters of Battle that their patron Saint Nemu created, the Governor hid her by giving her drugs to make it impossible to detect her. One month later a new Imperial regiment that came after not receiving the Imperial tithe entered orbit only to be only be fired at from the defence grid buried in the ground. All available ships came and orbitally combarded the planet, when the Imperial Guard made planetfall they fought off the population acting as zombies but were without any infection or signs of the ruinous powers, the powers of chaos were suspected at work although the population did not cut the foul runes into their bodies and no physical changes were seen either other than many of the people were starving and unkept. Then all communications were cut off with the first legion of imperial guard that was sent in and had boots on the ground. So a squad of space marines with several Librarians (Marine Psykers and Magicians) they found that one enslaver (a very dangerous warp spawn that can control the weak minded) had turned the governors daughter into a living portal( a fate worse than death as your body is torn asunder and turned in a gateway of flesh a the while the individual is fully aware of what is and has happened to them) and took control of the minds of all the guardsman. They destroyed the Enslaver and gave the Emperor's peace to the girl now turned into a living portal, fortunately warp spawn often do not get along and there was only one Enslavor, many times they can flood the gate and take over entire systems. The governor had to be made an example of and was tried and found guilty of treason executed and the entire population was mind wiped even though they did not remember what happened to them anyway.
After 100 of Chaos Marines left the ship standing next to the carpet on both sides more Space Marines exited but they different from the first they had all black amours but moved like normal men. One side of their shoulder armour had a cog while the other side had a silver hand, many of the soldiers had augmetics like many soldiers but instead of hiding them the powdly displayed them. If the Lieutenant had to guess many of the augmetic they wore were unnecessary but if he were as he thought warriors completely devoted to battle the sacrifice would give them an advantage in battle.
The Iron Warriors took their place in the second flank behind the first group of Space Marines, the the impossible and unnatural sound all of the 200 warriors shifting to perfect attention as the Emperor with his large scepter and black cloak that covered his entire body his robe like his ship seemed to absorbed any light that hit it. His hood covered all but his face that had a white mask with no expression or features except for a hole that contained one red glowing eye. A black miasma flowed from him and danced a tongues of flame and turned into face in agony and then disappeared, oddly he was the most beautiful and horrible being he had ever seen, powerful but fragile, a walking anthema and blessing, a being that was able of unspeakable cruelty and equally able to of altruism and charity. The duality of the nature of this God Emperor enabled him to be able to live in our plane of existence without a constant feed of warp energy, somehow a low level soldier like me withheld the knowledge of Chaos and the warp understood it all, they eye of terror, the ruinous powers, the ether, the sea of souls we call the warp in his presence but I discovered as many did that once the God Emperor left I remember what I understood but I no longer understood it anymore, the secrets of the warp left with him.
Later on I discovered that this was a power that grew in his existence, if not shielded later on his power was so great that men would take their lives if they could no longer be in his presents, to be told what I was told and what I learned in that short time I could say ignorance was bliss.(This was a effect of the WCI's he was using.) The truth was the Galaxy was constantly on the brink of destroying itself or attempting to be destroyed and only the Emperor's eternal vigilance was what was keeping the scale from tipping. the harsh reality of of galaxy was to much for most and would break the fragile is my opinion through my studies that the emperor did not exist to conquer or of his own will but the galaxy birthed him to serve willingly or not I do not know. the only reason i am still alive with this knowledge was that i left the planet with the exclesaircy to study magic in the Imperial Nebula at the prestigious magic school on planet Paradyne a world that's sole purpose is to "Look into the Abyss of Magic" that Governor and headmaster Fludder Sapato says with the help of my brief and blessed time with my lord.
Snapped back from thought Lt. Hedger and the Hyperons noticed that next to the Emperor was the true God of Blood the Guardian Bloodfalllen(may she be blessed) legitimate God of Blood and outster of the usurper, Khorne cursed Lord of Lies (May his rage destroy him).
The Emperor was flanked by Ferrus Manus one of the inner five which consisted of Roboute Guilliman, Sanguinius, Rogal and Dorn considered one, Leman Russ and Martellus, they were not selected by the Warmaster or Emperor for their roles but naturally fell into them. They considered themselves to be the most loyal to their father becoming the embodiment of traits essential to the Imperium and his bulwark and core. Guilliman embodied the Imperium's steel order, Sanguinis was the beauty of the Empire, Rogal was the loyalty of the Imperium, while Dorn his other half was the cold efficiency of the Empire, Leman Russ was the Executioner of the the Imperium and lastly Martellus was the brutality of the Empire. Ferrus Manus was the last he represented the expulsion of weakness in the Imperium, although the other three brothers were considered equal they did not show a clear trait that the other brothers considered embodiments of the Imperium and always felt as though they were not fully trusted, perhaps that was the way the Emperor made them or they had yet to find their niche but nevertheless this is how this was.
Ferrus Manus the Primarch and General of the 10th Legion the Iron Hands walked with Shallteer and the Emperor at a respectful pace behind his father, they strode down the purple carpet to the shaking royal retenu. They were all dressed in red while the Prime Minister had the distinctive white sash that made him stand out. He stepped forward bowed and spoke without lifting his head,
"God Emperor, we are honor that you came to save us in your Black Crusade across the stars and that you deemed us worthy of being apart of the Imperium."
That is when the first Hyperion's heard the Emperor speak in real life and not in a recording, that is when Lt. Hedgor made his decision to abandon his current life and spend the rest of his life to learn the mysteries of of the Galaxy. This and is untapped potential that the Emperor foresaw and his collectors nature kicked in and wanted him, this was the first possibility of finding a magician outside of Terra had not been accomplished yet and he was the closest prospect. Ainz had a suspicion that the Hyperions and humans on earth shared a common ancestor and if he could find one to perform magic saving this System as logic would have it if he found one magician on a planet of 10 Billion(not to mention the 7 other planets in the system) he could cull many more outside of the Terrans.
"Worry, not as your species was already on the sentient registry of lifeforms, on Terra centuries ago they were a somewhat dominant species when I awoke although ignorant and arrogant, they were able to cast off their shackles of pride and evolve into what you see before you, these Space Marines are trans-human." Ainz said.
One of the Psykers in the Royal court said, "Sire, you use of telepathic communication is excellent I could not sense you were not speaking but sending your thoughts into our minds, the only way I could tell was that my pendant began to glow." He said smiling.
"Oh yes, I am glad to see this civilization has psykers, I will be interested to see if you can handle Terran Magic, but you are mistaken on one point I was not just speaking to you but the entire system can hear me right now." Ainz said as he lifted and let his staff strike the ground. The psyker was speechless as he has never heard of such power and the Emperor was speaking about it as casually as it was an everyday thing.
"Shall we go?" That was when all the men realized that he was not settling his staff to adjust it to be more comfortable, a portal opened up behind them and they could see the front of the Hyperion Capital in the portal. The Marines marched through first lining the front of the grand castle while they were waiting for what the Royals decided were his guards which if the rumors were true the force alone he brought could take the entire planet.
"I find it interested that your nation and our Imperium both speak High and Low Gothic. Also if I know my ancient Gothic that Hyperion mean Fire or flame." Ainz siad.
"That is correct, I find it also interesting but there are many other Human nations that speak High, Low and what we call Pigeon Gothic which is a type of slang, also there are many xenos that speak gothic one of the more menacing alien species that speaks Gothic are the Orks and our xenobiologists believe they simply stole the language because of their extensive exposure to fighting humans." The Prime Minister said.
"Interesting, the strange thing about our world was everyone spoke Gothic and no other language other the the ancient ones were spoken, also our planet was a type of microcosm of the universe as many of the species on our world are also xenos species we have found our the sector, I believe it had something to do with the large amount of stable warp energy flowing through our world, it is quite amazing if you have the choice you should visit it as my guest, many wish to see Holy Terra." Ainz said as he started to move towards the the portal.
"I would be honored my Lord!" He said bowing. "You who was our first contact Hector how are your thoughts and concerns?" Ainz asked as they all wearily walked through the portal.
"I am sure you can read my thoughts as a book but I am find myself understanding things I never have asked before." He spoke without thinking out of turn.
"That is because you are a latent magican, my presence can temporarily unlock abilities in people they did not know you had, I know what you are thinking we have have two classes of people in the Imperium: Psykers who can be a risk but only can perform magic through ritual or bonding to me, the other is a Magician it is someone who can tap into the warp without fear of being possessed or become a gate or warp spawn, magicians are more rare, if you are wondering I am neither, if magic were a water in a well and their abilities are like a pail to get it out, I would be consider the well. Once you study and bond to me you will understand." Ainz said to peak his interest, "I shall have it arranged you will go back to Segmentium Sol and Train in one of our academies." Ainz said as they all made it to the front gate and sit swung open to see the Emperor of Hyperion on his throne along with all of the nobles and the top politicians as he had told them.
"Greeting, Lord Emperor on behalf of my people I welcome and thank you for you help you are our savior and redeemer." He said bowing.
"King Hyperius, I thank you but before I take the mantle and this Kingdom officially becomes the Imperium there is one thing I need to see to.
"What is the my Lord Emperor?" The King asked as all of the space marines came in the room guns drawn, the auspects inside the Marines helms light up about over 2/3rds of the leaders had the Genestealer phenotype whether they knew it or not.
"What!" Was all the king could get out as bolt fire tore through everyone of the nobles, politicians and King who all had been infected by the Tyranids, the purestaigns started to transform into six limbed beast and tried to get away just in time to be cut down.
"You see people of Hyperion the Tyranids had infected the Highest level of government and would have shut down the the planetary defence and lead you like lambs to the slaughter, the king his family were recently infected and did not know until the brood lords would have taken control of their minds. There is still a cleansing that will need to happen on these planets just as on all the others. These are synaptic creatures and since the Hive Queen is dead this means there are Brood Lords controlling them, they are large dangerous beast that must be hunted down and killed in the name of those live he stole, for your late king. Stay in your homes do not trust your neighbors if you see suspicious behavior report it, this is the last legacy of taint and the newest part of the Imperium will be free. We have technology that will plug into all security if someone that is infected even tries to open a door or is spotted on camera they will be identified and exterminated, so do not worry you are safe in your homes" Ainz said mentally to those who did not have access to a pictocast of the event. Then the mental and holographic feed was cut.
"Shallteer make a throne befitting a new ruler!" She thought she was making it for Lord Ainz so she tried to make something he would like, in reality he wanted her to believe this so she was try her hardest. All the bones of the gene steallers were striped of flesh and formed in a enormous throne with a skull of a purestrain genestealer on each armrest and bone mortus in the back, she then took the blood and used it like paint on the new throne dying it colors of crimson and black from the ichor of the Genestealer.. It was an awesome and powerful thing to watch as she masterfully interlocked the bones into a solid throne made from vile xenos corpses, it was a throne that would instill fear and awe as the throne was made from bones of the fiercest in the Galaxy. After she signaled she was finished Ainz carved in fire runes "Hive Fleet Leviathan Defeated: M 1 340."
"Ferrus Manus I give you this sector and the people here as they are weak and need a leader to make them strong, we shall travel to Eastern portion of this sector and cleanse it of the Orcs then to the Pacificus Sector to drive out The Great Greenskin Kingdom and i need you to stay protect this sector from any Orcs that will slip through our fleet thinking we have left the rest of the sector defenseless and also you purify these people and this sector. There is a moon off of this world that is only used for agriculture, it is give to you I want you to put your monastery there along with the a Large Contingent of the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Imperial Guard will also stay to support you and your brothers. You will use these planets to find your aspirants and fill in the ranks of your fallen brothers, every Legion will find a home on our crusade and I know that this place and time are perfect for you" Ainz asked him.
"Yes Emperor I will!" Ainz nodded and signaled Manus to take a seat on his throne and take his new duty as protector of the majority of the Tempestus Sector while the rest if the Crusade will go on, but Ferrus Manus still had plenty of worlds to conquer and worlds to find he thought with a smile.
Authors note: Hi everyone it has been awhile since I have written a real chapter, the last one was had been written for a while and was not complete but I felt like I owed you guys something since it had been three months since my last real chapter. So, the Hyperion war is over, it was never supposed to last as long as it did but when I looked at the star maps from 40k the Tempest Segmentium is about the same size as the Obscurus, segmentium sol is the smallest and pacficus is the next to smallest, then there is Ultama which is huge were the majority of the Imperium of Man in located in the 40k world. For the future the segmentiums will have different majors enemies as along with the Tyranids, Pacificus will be the Orc stronghold and is next the rest will be a surprise unless you know your lore. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this arc I know there was not a lot of fighting but I love writing about fighting with the Orcs because they are a lot funner to write about. The nids can get boring to write about after awhile, anyways this next arc we will get to see Demiurge doing his sneaky thing while major battles and the introduction of some ab-humans.