Void Keeper Wars - Warhammer 40K

This is a crossover between Warhammer 40K and StarGate, StarWars, StarCraft. I always wanted a new race for Warhammer 40K. The new race is an amalgamation of the Galactic Empire of StarWars, Goa'uld Empire of StarGate, and the Terran and Protoss from StarCraft. I will be using the Clone Wars era for the StarWars, and post Ori-invasion for the Goa'uld, and units from both StarCraft and StarCraft 2. I don't own anything from Warhammer 40K, StarGate, StarWars, StarCraft. I am just writing it for fun.

This chapter will feature Terran Seige Tanks, Goliaths, Jaffa, Jaffa staff cannons.

Chapter 7: Enemies Down Below

Even from afar, they could see three large ships, floating about a hundred metres in the air. Under those ships were a lot of small dots, obviously the enemy soldiers. Jonas ordered the Thunderhawks to fly low as to not be detected by the enemy as much as possible.

The Thunderhawks and the transport shuttles landed behind a ridge of hills and began to spew out troops and vehicles. The Basilisks lined themselves up and the Imperial Guards began to construct tents and small outposts. Followed by the sergeants of the Space Marines, Jonas and Gilmore walked up to the tent where the Commissars and colonels gathered. The Imperial Guards saluted Jonas and then saluted the Space Marines. Jonas looked at the map laid down on the ammo boxes.

"Hmmm… The enemies are beyond these hills. I am uncertain as to whether those ships can fire. If they can, our battle will be short."

Gilmore loaded himself with two bolt guns and tied his power hammer on his back in a holster made for it. Jonas brought out a broad belt with three bolt ammo clips held on the side of his thigh by some device. He whispered into his suit.

"Reload."

The device that held the first clip sprang to life and the clip stood up so that Jonas could just smack his gun on to the clip and get it reloaded. Jonas put the clip back into its original form and patted it gently. As the officers got themselves ready and the Space Marines sergeants returned to their units, a scout unit sergeant came into the tent. He saluted. Gilmore nodded.

"What is it, scout?"

"We have found the enemy and they are placing troops on the ground. They have about four and half thousand troops. They seem to very ill-equipped, sir."

Jonas and Gilmore raised their heads. Gilmore ran his finger over the last ridges before the wide open plane where the enemies were.

"We are moving out. Have everyone with snipers to take the point and sit on these ridges."

"Yes, Lord Librarian."

Jonas issued his own orders to his officers and Commissars.

"Prepare the artilleries and have tanks ready to rush in through these areas between the hills. Infantries and the Sentinels behind the Space Marines."

"Yes, general."

Jonas turned to Gilmore.

"Librarian Gilmore, will you come with me to look at these enemies?"

"Of course."

Under the three giant ships were thousands of enemy soldiers, but these were not the 'white armours' or the 'marines' or even the 'black armours'. These were soldiers wearing crude metal armours and tattoos on their forehead and hold a blunt staff that might be a weapon. Jonas zoomed in with the binocular of an Imperial Guard who was crouching behind him. The soldiers were setting up some sort of camp. A large square structure was being built and it seemed as if it was growing. There was some light glowing on the top layer of the structure and when the light moved on, the structure grew. By the scaffold, Jonas concluded that they were building a rectangular pyramid with square base.

The soldiers were also setting up defences with giant versions of their staffs. Then Jonas saw something interesting. Several beams came down from the ships and strange rings came down and hovered above the ground for a moment and with a flash, more soldiers appeared inside. The rings went up and the soldiers moved out carrying boxes. In their place, three soldiers stood where the rings came down. Then the beam came down again, and the soldiers were placed with boxes. Jonas assumed that those rings were the transportation between the ship and the ground. Unfortunately, the bulky armour of the Space Marines, who were the best at boarding, would not allow more any more than three to fit in the rings.

Gilmore also watched them and recorded the view with the camera on the armour. He sent the image to Lantexia.

-My lord Librarian, can the Eldar identify these soldiers of the enemy?-

Lantexia went back to the interrogation room and plugged the data chip into the console. The photographic image appeared. Lantexia pointed at the image.

"What are these soldiers? What do you know of them?"

The Eldar raised her head.

"They are the Jaffa. Slaver warriors of the Goa'uld, and the mainstay of the Star Gate. They are stronger than normal humans but nowhere as strong as your Space Marines."

Lantexia left the chamber and immediately contacted Gilmore.

"Librarian Gilmore, those soldiers are the Jaffa of the Star Gate. They will be no problem for the Space Marines."

-Yes, lord Librarian.-

As Gilmore was communicating with Lantexia, a group of dozen spacecrafts came down from the sky. They seemed like transports, and they were. The ships landed and from them came out tanks and several 'marines'. Half of the transports set down four tanks, and each tank had single double barrel cannon and didn't seem to have any guns to be used against infantries. The other half of the transports landed strange bipedal machines with missile pods and multi-barrelled guns under them. These machines were surrounded by about two hundred forty 'marines'.

Jonas tapped Gilmore on the shoulder. He looked at Jonas.

"Librarian, I fear that as the time passes they will have more reinforcements. I don't think we can wait for them to install this 'Star Gate'. If we simply wipe out the ground forces, then perhaps we can stop them from installing this infernal device."

"Agreed. However, I think you and I should wait with the hover bikes and the Assault Squads. If we simply attack, these ships might leave and we might not be able get into advantageous positions we have now. When our forces attack, I believe that they might try to block our soldiers while quickly install this 'Star Gate' to summon more reinforcements. When they do that, the Assault Squads and the bikes can quickly manoeuvre and stop them."

"Good plan, Librarian Gilmore, but I think once we find which ship is carrying this 'Star Gate' we can board that ship before the Star Gate is lowered and move it to a secure location where we can stop them from installing it altogether, and perhaps our tech-priests could find some weakness we can exploit."

"Agreed, Lieutenant General. Though I do not relish the idea of capturing a xeno ship, but if what the Eldar spoke is true, that Star Gate would supply and reinforce the enemies. If the instantaneous travel from the galaxy is possible, they would easily swarm us like the Orks do. We will enjoy much violence and battle in fighting for the Emperor and the Imperium, but that would mean that we have allowed the enemy to form a foothold on this world. That is not acceptable."

Jonas nodded. He gestured to the Imperial Guard behind him.

"Get the troops attacking and ready the artilleries."

"Yes, general."

When the trooper relayed the message, Commissar Dorvinus, the head of the Commissars under Jonas' command, and a trusted advisor and second-in-command, nodded from afar. Then Dorvinus stood up, and took out his sword and laspistol.

"Men of Imperium! Soldiers of the Emperor! Charge!"

With a great roar, the Imperial Guardsmen charged forward firing their lasguns at the Jaffa down below the hill. The Space Marines with sniper rifles picked off their targets from the top of the hill. The Jaffa responded by firing orange plasma shots. The Jaffa staff weapons matched the Imperial Guards' firing rates as both side began to cause casualties on both sides. The Space Marines rushed suddenly, firing their boltguns, easily tearing apart the Jaffa. The plasma shots merely singed the powerful armour of the Space Marines.

The Space Marines gathered momentum and crashed into the ranks of the Jaffa, sending them into the air and mowing them down with chain blades and power swords. The heavy weapons made short work of Jaffa. Flamers and Heavy Bolters killed the Jaffa in scores. However, the Jaffa were not completely useless. The plasma gun emplacements that looked like a large version of their staff weapon fired a large plasma shots that knocked down the Space Marines, but they still little damage, except for singeing and melting of the paint.

The Space Marines laughed as they killed off Jaffa after Jaffa. They revelled in purging the enemy of the Imperium. It came to them as a shock when their massacre was suddenly halted by the enemy. The bipedal machines that came with the marines and tanks came upon the Space Marines. Their mini-guns ate through the power armour eventually killing the Space Marine within. The Space Marines tried to get to the machine as they fired upon them, but the sheer force of the enemy's high calibre ammo brought down the Space Marine before they could get to the machines. The marines of the enemy did damage as well. The grenade launchers that did not care for their Jaffa allies caused the Space Marines to be knocked down and then to be attacked by the mini-guns.

Jonas ordered the artillery and sent in the tanks. Great shells bombarded the wide battlefield, hitting the mini-gun wielding machines and the enemy marines. Some of the Space Marines got caught but they were few. In response to the Imperial Guard's artillery, enemy tanks began to move. Except four of them, the rest of the tanks turned their backs on the Imperial forces, which Jonas thought was strange. When the enemy tanks began to transform, it came as a surprise. A tank that can work as a tank as well as artillery was something that was not thought of by the Imperium. The power of their artillery was also surprising. The shockwave would fling the Imperial Guards high into the air and instantly turn everything in the immediate impact zone into a bloody pulp.

The Imperial Guard tanks rushed into the enemy ranks, unhindered by the Jaffa's gun emplacements, and crushing them. The enemy artillery destroyed several tanks, but the battlefield was wide and there weren't enough of the enemy. Meanwhile, the four tanks that did not transform went after the Space Marines.

Sergeant Krimox gripped his bolter and fired three shots into the helmet of the enemy power armour before driving his chain blade into the cracked helmet. He felt tingling of enemy's low calibre rifle on his back. Quickly turning around, he saw the enemy. He used the momentum of turning around to throw his blade at the enemy. As soon as he threw it, he moved against the enemy, firing the remaining four rounds of his bolter. Stumbling from the chain blade breaking through most of the armour in the abdomen, the enemy 'marine' faced the four huge rounds of the bolter and one got through the helmet and blasted the head.

Krimox quickly reloaded his bolter and picked up his chain blade, just as a Jaffa came running at him with the strange plasma weapon. The Space Marine was hit by five shots of the plasma weapon but he scoff off the attack as it did nothing. Raising the bolter, he fired once. The Jaffa toppled over, with a large hole in his chest. He turned left to see an enemy marine aiming its rifle at a Space Marine who was knocked down by something. Krimox aimed and fired six shots, all of which hit the marine and knocked it over. The sergeant ran to the enemy and smacked his blade at the marine. The marine used its rifle to block the blade. At the fourth hit, the rifle broke, and as the sergeant lowered the blade, the marine took out a pistol and fired at the Space Marine. The chainsaw of the blade ground its way to the marine's skull.

Blood spew from the crack of the helmet. Suddenly, Krimox heard a loud noise and he was flown into the air, toppling and rolling across the dry ground. When he raised his head, he saw a large tank, with this double barrel now aiming at another Space Marine who was setting five Jaffa with fire. Krimox tried to stand up, and found his power armour badly damaged. Most of the left shoulder and front armour was gone, with only the innermost layer remaining intact. Growling, the hardy sergeant brought himself up and began to move toward the tank. The enemy's tanks, just he expected of a non-believer's technology, did not have anti-infantry weapons to stop what he was about to do. The sergeant jumped up on to the tank and went up to the hatch on the top. He fired his remaining bolter ammo on the lock, and put his blade to use.

Finally, the hatch creaked open, and he could see the dark, red glow of inside the tank. One of the pilots looked up and pointed at him with a pistol. Krimox brought out the three remaining frag grenades and removed the safeties. The pilot fired and it hit the sergeant in the chest. He could feel his life fading. He dropped the grenades with a smile on his face. He would die knowing that he died in destroying the enemy of the Emperor.

I hope it was fun. Anything to fix, then post a comment, thanks.