Hello everyone. I am going to be updating less to create longer chapters. Sorry for the wait we are having our house appraised so some work had to be don't like my carpet and electrical. I have a couple reviews to answer:grey: mass effect armor uses a synthetic weave with ceramic plates over the non-flexible parts of the body. Also five hundred thousand men isn't too much of a stretch. I see it being two fully manned regiments. The Warhammer universe has a truly massive scale of warfare. I am including everyone from troopers to vehicle crews and command staff, Intel officers and order runners. Warhammer 40k: space marine mentions over a million Orks invaded. So I see regiments needing to be massive to fight efficiently.Also the use of Exterminatus weapons are monitored so they can't just fling them around.reboot opinion: seriously? Also what the fuck does deep even mean.
Oniele: Damn good guess. maybe.
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A dozen Heavy Landers descended upon Abellio with a fighter escort carrying four hundred Guardsmen along with accompanying armour, twenty Chimeras, sixteen Hellhounds, and sixteen Leman Russ battle tanks. They were being supported by the Imperial Knight Warden Blade of Zeverox.
This was the second wave of Landers as the first kept the slaver's attention by bombarding the city with barrages of Basilisk shells, Bombard mortars, and Medusa Siege engines. A hundred soldiers defended the artillery as they waited for a response from the enemy.
Inside the city STG operator Jarisk Solus was standing in a slave auction building with crowd of various species with his partner Vestok Bamin. There had been whispers in the dark depths of the Extranet about a new species being on the auction block at Abellio for sale.
They had come to see if the rumors had any truth to them. What they found was beyond even what they had expected to find. A little over a thousand people were being held in cages as they waited to be sold to some alien species they had never seen before.
It seemed that no one expected potential slaves to fight back. Several guards were attacked passing the bars and one woman who had been taken to be the barrack's toy had broken her hand to slip from the chains holding and proceeded to use it to strangle seven of them to death before she was discovered.
The first Human was being brought up to be sold when the first shell hit. The explosion rocked the building as they could hear distant hits. Jarisk hacked into the limited city defense grid to find out what had happened, discovering that an hour ago an unidentified fleet had arrived and started to destroy the fleet above. They set up artillery and now were pounding the city with shells.
A massive army of defenders in IFVs and tanks went to push back the artillery position and possibly take more slaves. Neither Jarisk or the defenders never that was what the imperials wanted.
Above the raging war was the Iron Hands Strike cruisers. The warriors hailed from the third Clan Raukaan. They had prepared for this moment since the start of the attack.
"This is General Romanoff of the White Hand, the Hammer is set, Bring the Storm upon these Xenos!"
With those words ten drop pods detached and fell towards the battlefield as seven Thunder Hawks flew towards the city with twenty escorting Valkyries.
The field was awash in gunfire and screams as explosions tore at vehicles and the earth beneath them. A group of Batarians charged the defenses only for three of the ten to die as they assaulted the line.
They jumped over the defense line only to meet chainswords and died screaming. It the midst of the charging Xenos came five drop pods impacting in the midst of them, dozens were flung away as the heat charred away armor and flesh.
The large doors dropped open to reveal forty large warriors decked in great armor and one massive machine that made the YMIR mech seem small. The warriors stood tall as rounds pinged off armor and rebounded from the pods.
"FOR THE EMPEROR! PURGE THE WEAK!"
Bolter fire roared as they strode forward with no regard to the guns firing at them. They gave no heed to the bodies they marched over as lascannons fired at any vehicle that tried to stop them as the Guardsmen ran forward to support the Astartes' advance.
Furnous strode at the head of his brothers roaring a chant as his assault cannon fired in streams of bullets.
"In war and abandonment, be my shield and my steed. Be thou retribution, and I shall be Your hand in the darkness.
Light from the shadows, death from the dying, vengeance from the lost, and from the Void shall rise only the Pure!"
The slavers and pirates continued to fall back as the army crumbled against the Astartes and Guardsmen. General Romanoff watched the battle from his command tent and turned to an aide.
"Send in the Shivs."
The "Shivs" were actually thirty Sicarian Ruststalkers who immediately sprinted on their long legs towards the battle, quickly catching up and passing the Iron Hands.
Charging into the slavers with abandon they swept into them with transonic blades blurring as they ran past the first ranks they left them standing still for a second before sprays of blood erupted as they slowly fell apart in pieces.
The Killclade continued cutting a massive bloody swath of death. A lucky shot hit a Sicarian in the leg damaging the servos causing it to stumble for a split second before secondary servos came to life as the others stopped for a split second in mid step to keep the Killclade together.
The Guard moved forward with Skitarii moving with them as Onagers marched beside Leman Russes. Rangers ran forward in lockstep beside troopers.
in the city five drop pods hit the ground at the major auction houses for slaves. The Thunder Hawks and Valkyries swept over the city dropping Iron Hand Assault Marines and White Hand Stormtroopers.
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Two Valkyries separated from the rest and hovered over a massive complex. Tiberius stood inside one Valkyrie with Neela and two of her marines. Behind them stood half his combat retinue, Brother Volkmarr and Hash stood at the very back with Sergeant Callen Kuninskavich and one of Tiberius' personal Kaskrin. Callen had served with him for twenty years and hundreds of battles, he carried a Minerva-Aegis pattern with a underslung grenade launcher.
In the other Valkyrie was eight more Kaskrin armed with Minerva-Aegis Lascarbines and Nari stood carrying a scoped Kraken pattern Bolter. Behind them was Artisan Decius, he was Tiberius' personal tech-priest who had served him for a hundred years. He carried a Volkite charger and a macrostubber.
Beneath them was the largest slave containment facility on the planet where slaves were to be prepped for sale. The Valkyries landed in the street before the structure. They rushed inside as the airships started to circle the area.
Tiberius strode through pulling a Bolt pistol and put a round in the head of two guards as they tried to shoot him. His Kaskrin spread out putting anyone not in a cage down permanently.
Volkmarr and Hash held the front doors as a squad of Batarians came up the street only to meet Heavy Bolter fire. Hash stood ready with his slab shield in one hand and his Ripper gun in the other.
Tiberius stood in the control center with bodies laying all around him as Decius hacked into the system while he prepared a Rubric. Three containers were pushed inside filled with weapons taken from the slaver base, this act was being duplicated in every auction house taken.
Tiberius gathered Warp energy around him as he prepared to unleash his Rubric. Neela and the Quarian marines could see the ethereal energy gathering in bright ARVs of light, they could also hear quiet whispers and there was frost covering areas of the room.
Tiberius spoke in a hushed tones in a language none of them could even begin to understand as there was a flash and a feeling of a wave brushing against them and then all was still until the prisoners started to get riled up.
Decius released them as they grabbed rifles, pistols, and any weapons they even pipes. They ignored the Humans and entered the streets, creating an impromptu slave rebellion.
Former slaves started running gun fights with Batarian Slavers and any pirates they could find, dozens died every second but they ignored their losses due to the Rubric Tiberius created.
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Jarisk watched this happen until the ceiling collapsed from an armored soldier crashing through, the large figure stood tall even surrounded by enemies. He could see what appeared to be scraps of paper fixed to the armor by wax and symbols engraved into the armor itself, hinting at status or possible religious indicators. The figure carried a long Chainsaw blade in it's hands.
Before anyone could do anything the figure turned towards the stage, revealing a massive jetpack. It saw the Human chained to the floor and turned back to them.
"You dare enslave His people, you shall not live past this day!"
At this four more descend from the hole and slammed into the crowd with rifles roaring. One used a flamethrower as the leader used his massive blade to literally chew through the bodies of his enemies. Blood was flung across the room as screams erupted, pieces were sent flying as they fell before the Marines.
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Battles raged across the city as former slaves attacked their tormentors and Imperial forces advanced despite losses. Auction houses were emptied of any Humans and Quarians while any who tried to plead for help were ignored or forced away.
Valkyries fought against pirate gunships and fighters as tanks fought down the streets. Entire multilevel structures were destroyed and filled with gunfights between slavers, slaves, and Imperial forces.
Private Fresno fired a burst of las rounds down a corridor at a group of metallic bird-like aliens as two men in his squad moved forward under the cover. Two frag grenades flew over head from behind him, killing three "birds" as they were called by the men.
They were clearing the building of aliens so the courtyard could be used for extractions of the liberated. The enemy held firm but they slowly lost ground and bled men like a sieve.
Suddenly a wall burst as two Assault Marines wielding Eviserators came through the wall roaring a challenge. The fight quickly ended as the enemy couldn't withstand the two Marines or troopers.
The city was being evacuated as the fights started to die down enough for Landers to come in to grab people and gear to take up.
Ranger Alpha Omicron-51 fired his Galvanic Rifle at a target Xeno eighty meters away hitting it in the eye mid stride causing it to collapse while he switched to a new target. A tank turned the corner only for a neutron laser blast from an Onager to blast it to bits even as a rocket hit the Dunecrawler from a nearby building.
A Leman Russ fired a shell into the building as gunfire hit the Imperial line, killing a dozen men. Chimeras fired their multi-las into the buildings as they roared past while gunfire was traded between buildings and streets.
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Charyze Myala ducked behind a crashed air-car as a barrage of mass accelerator fire hit the car. She had been held in a cell to be sold when the invasion had started.
She had watched as a group of the invading soldiers tear through the building and was confused when they had pushed crates of weapons into the room and a robed man spoke strange twisting words as energy curled around him.
Most of the prisoners started to yell and rage in their cell but stayed still as the cells opened and the Humans and strangely the few Quarians were taken from the cells. After which they left and she watched as prisoners and slaves rushed to the weapons.
She saw two Turians and a Krogan remained calm unlike the rest. She grabbed a discarded SMG and walked over to see the Krogan grab a shotgun while the Turians grabbed assault rifles.
"I think we need to escape the planet, whatever they did to the rest probably isn't all they can do. We should be able to find a space worthy vessel at the spaceport."
They headed down the alley ways to avoid the worst fighting. They had gotten caught in the middle of a heavy street fight between Humans and pirates.
The pirates were holding a barricade with heavy weapons against two dozen troopers and three of the larger Humans. They had taken cover near some destroyed air-cars when the ground started to tremble.
A massive vehicle that was 6.3 meters tall with a length of 13.5 meters, covered in thick armor plate and several cannons. The main cannon fired and the resulting explosion tore open the barricade and sent body parts flying.
The Humans charged the decimated pirates and they executed the last defenders. The massive tank continued forward, crushing the remains of the barrier and any vehicle that was in its way.
Soon Charyze and her group continued, near the space port they found something that surprised them.
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In the center of the city was the Hegemony Representative's palace. It had a large garden surrounding it, the once beautiful garden was now just a mass of holes and craters from artillery, rockets, and crashed aircraft. The palace contained a strong dreadnought classed kinetic barrier protecting it from long ranged shelling and the sheer amount of machine guns and missile launchers that seven assaults had failed, four from the slave rebellion. Three Chimeras and a Leman Russ had been destroyed by the masses of missiles fired.
Representative Barak was watching the war devastating what he considered his domain. Just a couple hours ago he had been awoken in his bed as he was alerted to an unknown fleet that arrived at the system's edge, far away from any Mass Relays.
He had watched in horror as enemy vessels far larger then even the Destiny Ascension. The defenses crumbled before the enemy with little losses. After they secured the orbital lanes they started landing forces.
Barak had considered escaping the planet but after watching everybody who tried get blown out of the sky by a impressive amount of anti-aircraft fire.
He was watching the last attempted assault by the newcomers as they tried to weather the guns by using the tanks and craters. Suddenly a scanner blared and an operator looked at him,
"Sir, I am reading a large increase in seismic activity in the area but there's an anomaly. There seems to be a rhythm to the quakes."
Then someone yelled out and pointed at a monitor, one of the taller buildings at the edge of the park crumbled as a large metal hand gripped it and pulled causing it to fall. The hand was connected to a forty feet tall red and bronze trimmed humanoid machine carrying a huge machine gun on the opposite arm.
The machine strode past it's allies and the shield that protected it held under the storm of bullets and missiles fired at it. It retaliated and fired the machine gun and the large missile pod on it's back.
The kinetic barrier flared as it tried to deflect the rounds and missiles fired at it while the machine fired a beam of energy that tore through the barrier and started to melt the very walls of the palace.
While this was happening a hundred Guardsmen charged along with dozens of Stormtroopers. Hundreds of lasgun bolts fired at the building, a couple hitting soldiers in the windows or walls. A few Guardsmen fell in the charge but most of the enemy's fire was directed at the Blade of Fury Warden Imperial Knight.
The Kinetic barrier broke as dozens of Human soldiers stormed into the building firing lasguns and shotguns. Barak was firing an assault rifle at a group from behind a barricade in a hallway. The fight was brutal dead bodies from both sides laid across the ground and stairways.
Bullets and lasers flew across the air as the fight raged until surprisingly the Humans started to retreat, grabbing their dead and dying. Barak and his remaining men watched in shock as they saw in the distance aircraft lifting off and leaving the planet. They cheered as they celebrated the victory, but if they had known what would happen next they would have fallen to their knees in despair.
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Tiberius stood in the observation deck as the last of the forces on Abellio were pulled out and arrive on the fleet. The Slayer if Shadows hung over the planet like an executioner. A single two-stage cyclonic torpedo was launched.
The torpedo hit the planet and dug into the planet and minutes later blew a massive Melta charge causing the planet to crack and shatter.
Barak stood numb as he watched the earth break away as the tide of earth and metal came towards him(Like the death star blowing up the planets on Rogue One). The planet lasted five minutes before it couldn't maintain cohesion.
The fleet stayed for a short while then left to find the Migrant Fleet. Ten minutes after they left a small glint appeared as a small craft fled the debris field that once was a planet.
Inside was Jarisk and Vestok, having been saved by Charyze and her group, both were very disfigured from the fight off planet. Vestok had lost his left leg and his right forearm. He had heavy burns across his back.
Jarisk lost his right leg knee down from a bolter shell hitting his ankle. He had shreds of skin hanging of his chest and lower back.
He knew he need to alert the Council immediately but the ship they took was not really built for Relay jumps and the injuries they had suffered would delay them.
The ship activated the Relay and kept away from the star system at the same time the Imperial fleet warped away. As they warped away Tiberius had the feeling that he had forgotten something but he shrugged it off as he sat in his office listening to reports and status updates.
"We have suffered four hundred Imperial Guard losses and five Chimeras and three Leman Russ tanks. The Skitarii have lost twenty-five Rangers, thirty Vanguard, and five Ruststalkers."
Decius told him as a Enginseer Biologis rrished into the room and stopped before Tiberius.
"Lord Inquisitor, I have important news about the Quarian's DNA samples. We have discovered Human DNA signatures."
Tiberius was shocked as he looked at the Cogitator reader the Enginseer handed him.
"What are the possibilities of this discovery being true?"
"There are three distinct possibilities: one is that they are Humans who had to genetically modify their DNA to survive their world. Second is that they were created by humans during the Golden Age of Mankind. Third is the very remote chance of this being coincidence but that is a mere thirteen percent chance. The first possibility has a thirty six percent chance while the second seems most likely at forty nine percent."
Tiberius pondered this for a few minutes,
"For now we keep this to ourselves until we can confirm this. I don't need panicked reactions. We will need to plan the reveal very carefully."
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Two weeks later the Slayer of Shadows was waiting in an out of the way system for the Migrant Fleet to appear. Neela had told him there were ways to find the fleet's path if you knew where to look, it was how Pilgrims would return.
A small part of the Patrol Fleet had jumped into the system to check for threats before the rest jumped through. Several frigates and three cruisers scanned the system.
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Captain Hera'Zinis vas Laazay was sitting in the command chair on the scout destroyer on the edge of the Flotilla. She was frankly bored as very little ever happened in these system scans, the most likely thing to happen was a node of resources to quickly mine or a abandoned ship was found floating.
Suddenly alarms sounded and sensors and scanners blared and screamed warnings of a massive object headed their way. The ship was one point nine kilometers long and point zero three kilometers abeam at the fins.
Hera was awestruck for a second until she remembered that it was a potential hostile. She looked at the read outs and froze. The unknown was generating enough power to power the Citadel for a year.
Then they were hailed by the vessel before them even as other Quarian ships edged nearer. The voice shocked her as it was a Quarian.
"This is Captain Neela vas Cadash on the Slayer Of Shadows. I am here with Lord Inquisitor Tiberius to speak with the Admiralty Board and the Conclave."
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I intended for this chapter to be longer but the next will be. I am also hoping for a friend to be my Beta reader but if he decides not I will be looking for one. Now enjoy the chapter and review please.