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 mostly 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.
There will be a mention of a laptop and Warcraft III in here.
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Chapter 27: Ork King Named
Augusta woke up with a massive headache. His vision was blurred and his body ached greatly. As he tried to pick himself up, he found he was no longer wearing his armour. He frowned as he looked around. Pains around his body told him the extent of his injuries. Both of his legs were broken and someone had placed splints, and his right arm was broken in several places, which was also held together by a splint. Sitting up, he found himself in a strange architecture, which he assumed to be Eldar structure, which he had seen before. The 'Wraithbone' they used were distinct. A sound came behind him. Augusta tensed. An Eldar saving him was strange, and the Eldar would have some reason for this.
When his saviour came up in front of him, Augusta gritted his teeth. It was an Ork. Stranger and stranger. Why did the Ork not kill and devoured him? The Ork noticed Augusta sitting up. The Ork spoke.
"You have awoken. I sorry for your armour. It was badly torn."
The Ork did something and the room began to light up. Augusta saw his armour on the other side of the room, and it was almost entirely destroyed. The chest plate was blown wide open and the legs and the right arm were crushed. It was the armour that saved Augusta's limbs. The Ork spoke again.
"I not smart enough to fix shiny armour. I fix you though."
Augusta narrowed his eyes.
"You do not sound like other Orks."
The Ork grunted as if Augusta had spoke of something embarrassing.
"I am not. I am weird. I was a nob once. Then I found this place. The Eldar machine did something. I changed. They said I look like green coloured humie than Orky. They tried to kill me."
"Where is this place? What is this place?"
"In the jungle. Can't see from outside. Underground. You hungry? I found humie food."
The Ork brought out a tray of food. It was a slab of boiled meat. Augusta raised an eyebrow.
"Where did you find that?"
"The wall gave me. I say meat, and it gives meat."
"I see… what is your name?"
"My old name Sharfteef. Now I got no sharp teeth. Small teeth like humie."
"What do you call yourself now?"
Augusta thought that this Ork was different. It would not kill him yet, so he could use it to escape and perhaps lead the Imperium to this place for study. The Ork answered.
"I found humie computer and it had Orks in it. Story of Orks. Very good story."
Augusta sighed. He was foolish to expect that much intelligence and attention span from an Ork. The Ork continued.
"Good Orky story where the Warchief lead Orkies to freedom. I like his name. We Orks slaved to the simple Waaagh! I want to free them. So I name myself like the Ork Warchief in the story. I name myself Thrall."
Augusta was surprised that the Ork, Thrall, explained his name. This Ork was a pioneer to his kind. Almost like the Emperor. The Ork then asked a question that surprised and pleased the Grey Knight.
"I saw from Eldar machine of humie Emperor. Great humie. Great Warboss of all humies. I wanna hear about him."
The pious Grey Knight enjoyed telling the stories of the Emperor and spreading his greatness. Augusta nodded. He was in no shape to kill this Ork without resorting to using his psychic powers, which he had rather depleted in killing the Warboss, and the Ork Thrall was not about to kill him. There was nothing to do until he was healed. So he began to tell the Ork about the Emperor and his cause and works.
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It must have been days since he woke up in the Eldar structure. Augusta had continually told the Thrall of the Emperor, the Crusade, the Space Marines, the filthy Chaos Gods, the great betrayal and the ongoing war. The Ork was very impressed by the Emperor and his works. To unite one's own race throughout the galaxy and form the most powerful star empire. It was truly inspiring. The Grey Knight was please with the Ork's rapture as he heard of the story of the Emperor and he was also please with the rate of his healing. He began to walk once more, though his arm was still some time from healing.
Meanwhile, Thrall's treatment of him was getting better and better. After telling him of the Chaos Gods, and the chapter of the Grey Knights formed to fight them, the Ork was fascinated by the honour the Grey Knights had. One day, Augusta, found a way out of the quarters and into the control rooms. The Eldar computers were strange and did not interest him. The Techpriests and Techmarines would deal with these. However, when he found a vault he was fascinated. It was clearly a human design, pre-Emperor, or not of this galaxy at all. He has the knowledge of the Grey Knights, and that included significant scientific knowledge, and knowledge of the past. What was in front of him was a portable computer from an age long past. The Eldar must have found this long time ago and had brought it here to study. It was plugged into a power source. Augsta turned it on.
There was a small device that was attached to the machine, and he assumed correctly that it moved the small white cursor on the screen. The seen had various small pictures with ancient Earth language of English written under them. Then Thrall's voice alerted Augusta.
"That's where I found the story of Thrall. The Eldar computer said that this human computer is from another 'dimension'. Here, this one."
Thrall moved the cursor and selected a picture of a green skinned Ork-like creature. The screen went black for a moment. Augusta soon noticed that it was a game of a kind. A simulation and a fiction. However, the Ork Thrall thought it was a story of the Orcs made into a game. Thrall banged his chest.
"I will be like Thrall and I will lead my people to freedom. The Chaos will no linger subject us. We are Orks, and I will lead the Orks to a new destiny, just as the Emperor did."
Augusta sighed, but he continued to play as the story interested him. The story went on and showed that conflicting races of Humans, Orcs and Night Elves united to fight a legion of 'demons' called the Burning Legion. Augusta felt that it was somewhat of a similar situation in the 'real' world. The humans were fighting the daemons of Chaos, and the Eldar fought them too… then there was the Orks. An idea flashed in his mind. Using Thrall, he could perhaps rally the Orks against the Chaos, possibly destroying both. It was a possibility. If he could teach Thrall of the benevolence of the Emperor and the evil of the Chaos, he could establish the Orks as cannon fodder against the daemons. The ferocious Orks fighting the daemons instead of fighting the Imperium and thus saving many valuable human lives.
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The human-made portable computer was found to be an important artefact that was in the possession of the Magos Explorator Gilimus, once a prominent Magi of the Adeptus Mechanicus who was sent to Idrical III to recover some of the lost artefacts of the Golden Age. Unfortunately, he and his guardians met the Eldar who had established a small scientific outpost. They fought each other until they realised that further conflict was unnecessary. Before they could withdraw, the Orks came upon them both and destroyed them.
A few Eldar had survived, and they attempted to escape, but they were stopped by the Orks who had captured the webway gate. Settling down, the Eldar had captured several Orks and began to experiment with them, turning them more like the Orcs they found on the human computer. They quite enjoyed the game, and they liked the Dark Elf and their similarities to the Eldar race. After a while, they were found by the Orks and were killed. It was quite a while after that Thrall stumbled upon the Eldar lab, and was zapped by the experimental machine, changing him permanently.
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The fortress of Nubo Salvo still stood even after several weeks. However, it was heavily damaged and the survivors were few. The mountains of Ork corpses were the evidences of battle. The survivors were surprised when Augusta came back alive, and with an Ork helping him no less. The weeks of battle made them bitter about Thrall, but after Augusta explained his plan to the Justicar and Inquisitor, they approved.
Later that day, by a miraculous chance, the rescue fleet arrived and took them off the planet. From that day, Idrical III was designated as an Ork planet and a planet to be retaken and the Orks Exterminated.
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The Adeptus Mechanicus was very delighted to have the mobile computer returned after so many years, and to have found how to work it, thanks to the Eldars recharging it. So when the Ordo Xenos opposed Augusta's plans, they supported his proposal. With the support of Ordo Malleus, who saw this plan to use the Orks against the daemons appetising, the High Lords of the Terra decided to approve this extremely controversial project with condition that each of the three inquisitorial orders dispatch their best agents to keep an eye on the project as well as participating in it.
Thrall was given the trainings of all three orders as well as that of a Space Marine. They trained him like a Grey Knight, embedding holy marks under his skin and teaching him the verses of Liber Daemonica. A few years had passed. Augusta became Justicar and came to see Thrall once in a while. After ten years of training and brainwashing, the Inquisition decided to unleash Thrall upon a daemon.
A minor daemon lord on planet CR4-D1 who was leading the forces of Chaos against the local Imperial Guards was the target. Dispatched along with Justicar Augusta, Thrall fought against the daemon. Using the power hammer given to him, he smit the daemon again and again, somehow drawing its essence into a physical form. At this, they found that Thrall had a great psychic potential. At a lengthy study, they realised that it was the Eldar's machine that forced Eldar-like psychic power within the Ork and the Ork's natural immunity to the direct contact with the warp, it allowed Thrall to draw in the daemon's powers and using it to drag the daemon into a corporeal form.
This discovery excited those who participated. With the success of defeating the first daemon, Thrall was given further training, and several companies of a Space Marine chapter were sent to Idrical III to secure the Eldar laboratory. Thrall was a great success. He banished several daemons as his skills and power grew. His psychic power began to tap into the warp and he became immensely powerful. Unfortunately, the rate of his growth alarmed the handlers. Despite his success, the members of Ordo Xenos began to doubt Thrall. The trouble happened when Thrall was dispatched to a planet where a company of Minotaurs was stationed. Sent to banish a daemon named Vriikaalisa, a minion of Slaanesh, the conflict caused several of the Minotaurs' battle brothers. During the aftermath, a fight broke out between the Minotaurs and Thrall, where Thrall, thanks to his natural strength and his training, killed an entire squad.
This caused much stir as Ordo Xeno declared Thrall a possible threat. They claimed that with his growing psychic power, he might become influenced by the Chaos and may become a great enemy of the Imperium. Finally the decision was made to eliminate Thrall. Despite his protests, Justicar Augusta was sent to personally eliminate the threat he has caused.
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Thrall huffed as he cut down another Space Marine. Before him were Augusta and six Space Marines of Minotaurs. Thrall growled as he fired his bolter at a Space Marine who was coming at him with a chain sword. The powerful self-propelled bolt punched into the helmet and exploded the Space Marine's head. One of the Assault Marines came upon him, firing the bolters. Thrall, using his psychic power and his training, dodged the attack, and returned fire, killing him. Augusta moved in silently. He swung down his halberd. Thrall blocked it with his power sword, but the sheer impact forced Thrall to his knees. Thrall gritted his teeth as the Space Marines aimed their bolters and surrounded him.
"I have served Imperium faithfully, and this is the reward. I think I can imagine why betrayal is the most heinous crime in the Imperium. I think Emperor felt similar pain when Horus turned traitor."
A Space Marine rebuked the Ork.
"Silent, xeno scum. You cannot possibly imagine what a human being feels."
Thrall chuckled.
"I beg to differ, you mindless drone of a Space Marine. Justicar here has been the first being to accept me since my change, and he has accepted me, an Ork who was shunned even by his own kind. He brought me into the Imperium. He was the only family I had. I know that you are without emotion, Justicar, but I felt them. Now, it pains me more than ever."
Still pushing down with his halberd, Augusta nodded at Thrall in acknowledgement.
"I apologise if I made you feel that way, Thrall. However, the order is given, and I will end you."
Thrall's eyebrows furrowed.
"I think not, Justicar. You underestimate me. I will avenge this. I will have my revenge on the Imperium that has betrayed me!"
Then with a mighty flash, Thrall opened a Warp portal and entered it, using his considerable psychic power to form shield against the daemons. Augusta and the Space Marines watched helplessly as Thrall escaped.
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