RWBY 40k – Salem, Mistress of Inquisition.

Ep 39: Salem's Counterattack.

916.M30. East of the Galaxy. System of Bordomer.

The system of Bordomer is an emerging civilisation under the Imperium compliance since a decade. This small empire has always difficulty to sustain its colonies in the other planets but since the arrival of the Imperium. Bordomer was flourishing again and its colonies were growing fast.

Two ships were traveling in the borders of the Bordomer system to find new planets to colonise. It was a small Orion Class Star Clipper cargo transport of the Bordomer civilisation accompanied by a Cobra Destroyer of the Rogue Trader Militant.

Inside of the bridge of the Orion Class Star Clipper was the captain of the ship. A black-haired man in his 30s, accompanied by a brown haired a pregnant woman also in her 30s.

Woman: "Dear? Where is the planet of the future colony? I am impatient; this is only a matter of days before our baby comes."

Captain: "I know. But I repeated several times, this is hard to find a suitable planet. (turn to the crew). So, you have found something?"

Crewmember: "We are still searching with the detection."

Captain groans in frustration.

Captain: "This has been 2 months we have leaved our planet and you still haven't detected something?! I already hear the Rogue Traders in the other ship grumbling."

Crewmember 2: "This is hard to detect captain. We swear we are doing our best!"

Captain: "(Turn to his wife). Sorry dear."

Captain's wife: "Unbelievable. I am about to get birth and my baby will be born inside of this smelling shell named a spaceship."

She was about to leave the bridge when suddenly.

Crewmember 3: "I have detected something!"

Everyone in the room look to the crewmember, the captain jumps from his seat and goes to the crewmember computer.

Captain: "Tell me everything."

Crewmember 4: "At 780.000 kilometers in front of us! A new planet!"

Captain: "Let's hope it's not desertic. Contact the Rogue Traders ships."

Crewmember 4: "Yes captain."

He sits down to his place.

Captain's wife: "I hope this is not another disappointment…"


And so, after long hours, they approached the planet. They were pleasantly surprised to see it was a planet completely green and covered in forest and dreamlike plains.

Captain's wife: "Oh… I cannot describe it…"

Captain: "Any dangerous Xenos?"

After scanning the planet.

Crewmember: "No dangerous creatures. No Xenos. The planet… it's beyond anything we have seen before."

Captain: "This is it? Our reward after so much research?"

Captain's Wife: "I want to believe it…"

And so, they approached the planet and entered the atmosphere. The sight was even more beautiful and striking.

Captain: "I have the found the colony we have deserved for so much time. Be are installing here, dear."

His wife smiles brightly.

Captain's wife: "I hope so…"


A few days later, the colony was being built on this planet they named Bordoma, named after the protective goddess of Bordomer.

As the colony was growing rapidly. An event was happening in the colony. It was the wife who was in labour.

Doctor: "Push! Push and breath!"

Captain's wife: "AAAAAH! It's hurt! I am feeling it!"

Captain: "Don't worry. I am here!"

Doctor: "Continue! I see the head of the baby."

The wife screamed in agony and a second scream is heard.

Baby: "WAAAAAHHH!"

Doctor: "You are a beautiful daughter."

Captain: "Let me take her."

He takes the baby after cutting the umbilical cord and cleaning her before present it to his wife.

Captain's wife: "Oh, my little girl. I am here now… Sh... Sh… Sh… It's okay I am here…"

The baby calms down and falls asleep.

Captain: "Who will be her name."

Captain's wife: "I am thinking about…"

But suddenly, a soldier enters the room.

Captain: "What? What's happening with this intrusion?!"

Soldier: "My lord! A gigantic ship is in the sky!"

Captain: "What?!"

Captain's wife: "What did you say? It this the Imperium?"

Soldier: "I am afraid it's not."

Captain: "I can't believe it, Xenos!"

He rushes out from the room and then the small, still under construction hospital. He was truly shocked from what he sees in the sky. A gigantic, sky-covering, golden ship with heavy decorations, with bulges containing cities.

Soldier: "Who are they?"

Captain: "I don't know…"


A month later… Terra. Imperial Palace. Sanctum Imperialis.

Salem was inside her office. A baroque, gothic style decorated office of 5x10x10 meters. She has a lot of bookshelves with different kinds of books she has written or received in the last century.

She was reading written or hologram messages from the agents of the Corpus Inquisivitum.

A lot of them were demanding a better structured organisation of her institution and hierarchy, with the constant arrival of new recruits and branches makes difficult to structure the teams of infiltrators and investigators.

Salem: "Hm… Let's see."

She opens her original book of the Corpus who is more a book of Notes and Ideas than an actual book of laws.

She reads about the demands and try to guess where she has to change her rules and notes it on her book.

Salem: "Hm… I should divide to better conquer… Let's see."

She began to write her ideas.

Salem: "Me as the Mistress of the Corpus Inquisitivum of course. A Council of Representatives for the global vision. Just under them, Grandmasters to run a sector or a sub-sector who watch multiple conclaves. Master for senior Investigators to guide activities to their conclave. Lords Investigators to maintain the cohesion Investigators in local level and guide the simple Investigators. I should advise to them to have acolyte. Conclaves to better organise of all this in the most stable region because we don't know if there is a threat. Cabals for investigating for a specific matter. Cells for coalition against a real hidden threat. Also, two main bodies. One for Xenos and one for Chaos. That will be good…"

She closes her book and reads the next letters again. Until she reaches a letter with an "Calamity Urgence". This is a system of gradation of urgency going from "Threat" to a single planet, "Calamity" for one or multiple systems and "Disaster" for an urgency including a whole Sector or more.

Salem: "Why a letter like this could be in my office? What happened?"

She opens the letter and began to read. As she reads her face contorted to shock and horror, especially when she sees photos. She couldn't believe it. She has to see with her own eyes.

She opens her hologram and contact the captain of her flagship; he was dressed in casual outfit and was cooking.

Captain: "Huh? Ho, mistress! What unexcepted call! What's happening?"

Salem: "We have to go immediately to the Bordomer System. Something horrible happened there!"

Captain: "Oh… When I was cooking for my wife…"

Salem: "I'll reserve you vacation after this search if you want but we have to go!"

She closes her hologram and exits her office.


A few weeks later. In the Bordomer System. On Bordomer-1.

Salem: "We have arrived too late."

Salem, surrounded by the Inquisitors couldn't believe what's happening before her very eyes. Bordoris, the capital city of the planet and the system was no more, only ruins and rotting corpses.

She walks inside of the city, ruined everywhere. She could see corpse of young, old and others. Moms holding their children in a death embrace, or even babies. When young men and adult men were death, weapon in hands to try to defend themselves or their family from a threat that no one could fight and Salem couldn't know for now.

After hours and hours of walking. Salem could feel anger rising to her. And she arrived in the courtyard of the palace of the deceased High King of Bordomer. She turns back to her Investigators. They were shocked to see her face, contorted by cold anger and hatred, something rare happening with her they say but the simple look could frighten even the most courageous of the Investigator.

Salem: "Who was the responsible? Who?"

One of the Investigators approaches her, with a messenger on him, he opens it and take out a green and white helmet from it. Salem recognizes the helmet of an Asuryani, the wandering Eldars who inhabits gigantic ships named Craftworlds. But it was any Craftworlds. Salem sees a symbol on it, the symbol of Biel-Tan, recognizable by its heart above an Eldar rune.

Salem was shocked at first before this vision before being seized by an even more intense anger.

Salem (cold anger tone): "This is… despicable. They will pay… all of them."

Investigator: "But how Mistress? Biel-Tan is a gigantic wandering fortress with millions of Eldars inside…"

Salem: "It doesn't matter. I decree that from now, track down if you can, any Biel-Tan Eldars. It doesn't matter how much time it will take. It could be entire generations, millenias or even more. But at the end, I want this Craftworld being nothing more than a ruin and carcass. Do you understand me?"

All of the Investigators nodded.

Investigator: "Mistress Salem. We have an information who could give us a hint."

Salem: "Yes?"

Investigator: "A few months ago. The Bordomer system discovered a new planet, an entire green planet. Literally a paradise. When a new colony was installed, this was the moment where enemy exited a portal and began its genocide."

Salem: "Hm… I see. Let's go there."


And so, one month later. Salem arrived in front of Bordoma. All the Investigators were impressed. Salem remained calm.

Salem: "A Maiden World. I understand more now."

Investigator: "What is a Maiden World mistress?"

Salem: "A Maiden World is a world terraformed by the Eldar Empire from the past. A lot of them are scattered across the Galaxy. If we can colonize them in certain occasions. There is always an Eldar force to bother us. Because in their eyes, we are lesser races who have to pushed back from their 'Pure' planet, they don't want us to 'soil' it."

The investigators were outraged by this.

Investigator 1: "This is so disgraceful!"

Investigator 2: "Disgusting!"

Investigator 3: "Despicable!"

Salem: "Indeed. The Aeldari doesn't want to learn that the Galaxy is now ours and they have to accept it. Now, I will take my revenge. Conduct an Exterminatus on the planet, now."

Investigator 1: "Are you sure mistress? Destroy a beautiful planet like this…"

Salem: "I want to teach them a lesson. Burn it."

Investigator 2: "Huh okay…"

And so, the Maiden World was destroyed by Exterminatus, leaving a big pebble with nothing on it.

Salem: "They will have no other choice to come to me. And here, the instigators will know their destiny…"


And so, several days later. Salem discovers that a force belonging to a Biel-Tan was attacking and try to exterminate the planet of Vaerdon. Fortunately, the Forge-World of Vaerdon Prime has come to defend the planet.

Salem's fleet was coming to join the battle by travelling through the Warp. Salem was dressed in her silver armour, waiting impatiently in the bridge of the Infinite. She was holding the hilt of her katana in a tight grip, with the itch to draw it out.

And then, the fleet comes out. Salem could see the planet being under attack by a small fleet of Eldar vessels. The planet was defended by the Mechanicum forces and the planetary defences.

Her hologram opens and Salem could see an Arch-Magos, leading a great force a force of Legio Cybernetica in battle.

Arch-Magos: "Salem from the Imperium. You have come to help against the Xenos Hereteks."

Salem: "Of course… Helping is good."

Arch-Magos: "Someone is leading the invading force, an filthy eldar named Mauryon. He tries to massacre the planet. The Machine-God bless you to stop him."

Salem: "Don't worry. I will."

The hologram cuts.

Salem: "Let's go! There is no time to waste!"

The fleet of Salem goes on the planet side not invaded by the Biel-Tan force. The soldiers of the 6th Expeditionary Fleet exits with their vehicles to engaged the fight against the Eldar.

Salem on her side exited her ship, the Blood Katana in one hand. Magic in the other.

She rushes to the battle and launched herself on the first Eldar she crosses. She smashes against him with her katana, engaging a furious hand to hand fight. With millennia of experience, she managed to overcome and kill the Eldar facing her by a brutal strike with her Katana, breaking his armour and cutting from the shoulder to the chest. The death Eldar falls to the ground.

Then a second comes to her, Rifle in hand, trying to shoot at her. Salem managed to avoid his shoots by keeping a safe distance. She could see that the Eldar take a shining stone attached on the armour on his death comrade.

Salem: "No you don't!"

She rushes at him and delivers a devastating blow to his helmet, shattering the face part and forcing the Eldar retreat a few meters, he has released the stone by pain from his hand, falling to the ground. Salem approaches it and crushes in hundreds of pieces by her feet.

Salem: "One less wraith for you!"

She pierced the Eldar with her Katana, killing him instantly. Salem seizes the Spirit Stone of the death Eldar and crushed it with her hand.

Then a Wraithblade comes to her, axe in hand. Despite being mechanic, its movements were fast and unpredictable. Salem narrowly avoided them all, she holds her Katana in two hands, his blade becoming black, engulfed with dark magic. She strikes the axe of the Wraithblade, destroying it. She strikes a second time, destroying its attached shield. Then the third move was the last, cutting the head of the of the Wraithblade. She crushed it with her feet, along with the Spirit stone inside.


She continued on and on. Killing Eldars, destroying Wraiths. They are skilled but Salem managed to always outsmart them, delivering two fatal blows (first to their body, the second on their Spirit Stone) who leaves their souls devoured by Slaanesh in their death.

She progressed profoundly inside the Eldar division and sees from afar, Mauryon the instigator of the Bordomer Genocide, recognizable by his richly decorated armour. She will not miss him, even if he is an Autarch.

When she was only 10 meters away from him. The Autarch sees her. Salem couldn't see his face hidden inside his helmet but his body language shows his surprise and anger.

Salem: "There you are… You despicable killer."

She rubs her katana on the ground, leaving small sparks on the ground before pointing the Katana to Mauryon.

Mauryon: "A Mon-Keigh? No… You are not like the others… I can feel the power of the Material inside you! Who are you?"

Salem smirked.

Salem: "Salem, High Lady of the Senatorum Imperialis, Mistress of the Corpus Inquisivitum. To say this, I am impressed. You managed to massacre with all your might. An entire system of humans who never ask anything but flourish."

Mauryon stay calm but Salem could feel his anger emanating from him. Salem then stops smirking.

Salem: "All of this lives, dreams and ambition destroyed by the will of thousands. Who cannot bear to see a bit less plants on a forgotten planet. Even the Orks have the excuse to assume their massacre because this is fun to them."

Mauryon: "What are you implying, Mon-Keigh?"

Salem gritted her teeth.

Salem (tone full of hatred): "You will pay from what you done, filthy Xeno! With your life! And I will ensure that your soul will be eaten by Slaanesh!"

Mauryon: "Giving my soul to She-Who-Thirst?... You… YOU…!"

He lights up his sword with his psychic power.

Mauryon: "HOW DARE YOU, MISERABLE MON-KEIGH!"

He launched at her at full psychic speed. Salem managed to just counter his sword with her Katana.

And so, merciless fight began between the two fighters. Salem could see this Autarch was very close to her power. All time she attacks, it was dodged or countered. All the time he attacked; she blocks Mauryon. More they fight, more their hatred manifested each other.

After a new clash, the two struggles to overpower the other. Salem using her magic force when the Eldar use his psychic might.

Salem: "Not bad! You have deserved your reputation, Eldar!"

Mauryon: "You stinking Mon-Keigh."

Suddenly, he plunges his hand on Salem's belly and unleashed his psychic power. Salem is seized by incredible pain, a pain she has not feel since a long time. Salem knows very well that Material Magic and Warp Psychic are opposed each other and hurts each other. She is reminded right now of this cruel universal rule.

Salem: "WOUUAAAAHHH!"

She is punched in the nose by the Autarch, sending her to a wall. She feels the pain in her body, and since she is immortal, she could feel it everywhere because when her immortality is touched by psychic power, it reactivates the actual pain that an immortal suffers from healing.

The Autarch approached her, his hatred burning inside of his armour.

Mauryon: "This is your end. I will shatter your soul and your body will be an empty shell! You have lost."

Salem: "No. NO. NO! You will die!"

She forms a ball of dark magic and launched rays to the Eldar but Mauryon managed to stop them with his sword. No matter, Salem continues.

But more she projected her magic, the Eldar sword absorbs it and launched psychic rays back to her. Hurting Salem more and more, penetrating her armour. Her skin and her flesh turning to shreds before regenerating back. And so, the pain to Salem becomes unbearable and she stops to do it.

Salem: "Aarrrrh…"

Mauryon: "A dangerous Mon-Keigh less, the better is for Asuryani."

Salem: "My sons will avenge me if you do it… Arrrh…"

Mauryon lift his sword on the air, his blade shining with psychic fire.

Suddenly…

Captain: "Don't!"

He rushes at the Eldar, Mauryon has not time to react and by a swift move: his hand is cut with his sword falling to the ground.

Mauryon: "AAAAAHHHH! AAAAHHHH!"

Salem is shocked and delighted to see her devoted Captain. She smirked because now, she has won. In one second, Salem irises become red and the sclera of her eyes becomes black.

Salem: "POWER!"

She forms again a big ball of dark magic that projected big rays of to Mauryon. Electrocuting him magically. She stands up from the wall and concentrated more of her magic in her ball. While Mauryon screamed in agony and pain. Under the horrified eyes of the captain.

Salem: "DON'T UNDERSTIMATE OUR… POWER!"

She projected even more power, rays becoming more deformed and bigger. So much power that the armour of the Autarch shattered, then his skin and flesh is turned to shreds. After a time, the body of the Autarch falls to the ground, dead and burned. Salem takes the Spirit Stone from him and shatters it with her fingers.

She turned to her captain, who was still shocked and horrified.

Salem: "I have an order to give you."

Captain: "Huh? Yes, mistress?"

Salem: "Order the troops to retreat. Because…"

She lights up her hands with dark magic.

Salem: "I won't restrain myself on this fight."

Captain: "Yes! I will go now!"

Salem: "Take my sword also!"

The Captain runs to the back of the front with the Katana in his hands when Salem rushes to the battle once again.

A lot of Eldar has not time to react when they were already killed by rays of magic, big balls of magic, spiky earthquakes and other things. Another part tries to fire at Salem but they were killed in a brutal way by Salem, to the point of her hands were covered in blood.


In a matter of minutes, the Aeldari progression was replaced by tries and fails to runs away to their ships or Webway portals. All because of Salem, killing one after another, shattering their Spirit Stones, condemning them to be devoured by Slaanesh.

Salem on this fight let her hatred against the Biel-Tan soldiers coursing her body and veins.

At one moment, she is facing a Exarch who was protecting a whole group of Aeldari seriously wounded.

Exarch: "Stop! I order you to stop! You won't massacre us anymore!"

Salem: "Why not? I am just avenging my kind because you massacred them after they wanted to take planets who belongs to Manking for now on!"

Exarch: "Our Maiden Worlds are pure and no one will soil them! No Orks, No Mon-Keigh! Nobody!"

Salem: "Too late. Bordoma will be a Forge-World instead!"

Exarch: "You will die from that!"

He runs to Salem with all of his speed.

Salem: "WE HUMANS ARE THE NEW DOMINANT RACE! DON'T UNDERESTIMATE US!"

They fight fist to fist one after another, punching themselves with devastating blows. But Salem gained the upper-hand by striking at great speed multiple punches to the gut and the helmet of the Exarch. Shattering the helmet of the Eldar and punching his face.

Salem: "ROOAAAAH!"

She plunges profoundly her right arm inside the gut of the Exarch. The exarch pukes his blood, spilling on the head of Salem. They stay still for a time.

Exarch (weak voice): "Curse… you… you… miserable Mon-Keigh."

Salem lights her hand, without saying anything, looking through the eyes of the Eldar. And she delivers a powerful blow of magic, piercing the body from one side to the other, a gigantic ray of light exiting from the back of the now dead Eldar. So much, that his body was projected meters away before crashing to the feet of the survivors Eldars warriors.

Salem cannot their face hidden behind their helmet but she feels their fear by their body trembling and their soul full of abject, animal terror.

They look to Salem a moment before running away, with their tails between their legs.

Eldar 1: "Run for your lives!"

Eldar 2: "Mother Isha, help your sons and daughters!"

Salem rests her feet on the ground launched at great speed towards them.

Salem: "DIEEEEEEEE!"

They turned their head to her while running, their last view is this female Mon-Keigh about to purge them all…


After a moment, a younger Eldar, much smaller than the others. Dressed in a slightly damaged armour was trying to hide inside the ruins. His helmet was missing, showing a face of a teenager, with blue eyes and long dark hair, covering a part of his pointed ears. He couldn't escape because the Webway portals were destroyed and the ships also destroyed. He was trapped on this planet to the mercy of the Mon-Keigh he has learn to despise but now he is learning to fear and respect.

He opens up his hologram and try to contact.

Eldar Young Soldier: "Biel-Tan. Please. I am Ilil Swiftseeker. Young Eldar of the troops of Autarch Mauryon! I am the only survivor! Please, save me from the Mon-Keigh! I am begging you!"

The Hologram is silent, the young soldier was alone and scared to the highest. Scared to death when he shouldn't but he cannot deny the reality anymore. He couldn't fight the Mon-Keigh, nobody can.

He tries to hide from the Mon-Keigh soldiers and the Mechanicum. To the point, he cannot do anymore.

Imperium Soldier: "An Eldar! Here!"

Imperium Soldier 2: "Shoot! Shoot!"

They fired at him, the Eldar narrowly avoid the lasers and bolters. He turns left, Mon-Keigh. He turned right, even more. And after a small run. He was completely surrounded, by hundreds of Mon-Keigh and their vehicles pointing their weapons to him.

With no other choices, he drops his weapons and lift his hands in the air.

Eldar Young Soldier: "I surrender!"

Imperium Soldier 3: "No Mercy!"

Imperium Soldier 4: "Down with the Aeldaris!"

But as they were about to shoot.

Salem: "Stop!"

Everyone turns and Salem exited the crowd. Walking with a slow footstep towards the young Eldar. The Eldar was much smaller than her, with a teenage height when he was facing a woman who measures 1.77 meters.

The woman facing was dressed in a damaged silver armour, the young Eldar sees her face. Implacable expression, with her blue eyes looking at him like an insect. He was so scared that he loses his balance and falls on his back. She bows to him to better look at his face, contorted with fear.

Salem: "That's a shame. Sending a young boy like you in the fight with no experience. Biel-Tan is truly monstruous."

The young Eldar feels insulted but he is too scared to respond.

Salem takes his chin and look through his eyes.

Salem: "Unlike the others of your kind. You have learned a lesson today. Never underestimate the Humankind. Even you should return to your mom. Indeed, where is your mom?"

The Eldar face contorted with contempt.

Young Eldar Soldier: "She is… a… whore… She has given birth to me… before leaving me alone… to Commoragh… Everyone hates me in Biel-Tan… I joined the Warrior Path to make myself a name… but now… Just kill me…"

Salem was quite surprised but now has an idea and smirked.

Salem: "Oh… You are all alone my little boy? Nobody counts on you? That's really sad… No child should know that… A small Outcast inside this city of idiots…"

Young Eldar Soldier: "I don't want to take the Path of the Outcast ever! I won't surrender to you… Just kill me already…"

Salem: "Your elders never teach the value of life?"

Young Eldar Soldier: "Yes, but I don't see the point anymore… since I am surrounded now and all alone…"

Salem: "I have seen enough bloodshed for today and you catch my interest my boy. You can be saved from this destiny of perpetual hatred against everything. And so, I can teach you a lot of things, much more interesting than the Asuryanis path. Because all you knew in your gold cocoon have their equivalent in the Imperium. A bit less elaborated but still here."

Young Eldar Soldier: "No I won't! I won't listen to your lie! I won't listen to… a… a… Mon-Keigh!"

Salem sighs.

Salem: "You have a lot to understand. Now, go to sleep."

She presses her fingers to the neck of the young Eldar and put her hand on the mouth of the boy.

Young Eldar Soldier: "Hmmphh!"

He tries to debate but his brain simply shut down because the lack of blood. When he falls unconscious. Salem takes the boy in a nuptial way.

Catapin: "What do we do Mistress with him?"

Salem giggles.

Salem: "This is our first step for peace with the Eldars."


To be continued… The Golgothan Slaughter – Episode 40.

The World Eaters Legion launch an attack to the stellar wasteland of the Golgotha Sector, close from the Maelstrom. Here, in the part named the Sarum Sector, with the Forge-World of Sarum is besieged by the Abhuman empire of the Brotherhood of the ruin. This massacre will soak the mantle of the XIIth Legion.


A New Member in the Family – Episode 41.

Ilil Swiftseeker, the new hostage of Salem is forced to live in Terra. Of course, he faces so much contempt and hatred by the humans. He hates this new perspective of living except the arts and culture. A weakness that Salem will exploit to make him more docile.