RWBY 40k – Salem, Immortal Empress of the Imperium
[Opening 2 – Height of the Great Crusade].
[Theme – Got Mit Uns].
The opening began with Salem, dressed in her Remnant's outfits weeping in front of Ozma's body, with the staff on her hands in the horizontal. The camera approaches the emerald before coming back. Salem dressed in her Empress outfit, with now a much calmer face who quickly put the staff in a glass container in her room. Then she walked to the door of her room while the camera turns to the window displaying the whole Imperial Palace.
The title appears in the sun, it's named: "Salem, Mistress of the Inquisition – The Height of the Great Crusade".
Spent the night in formation. To the battle we march in the dawn. We were ready to die for our Emperor. On the battlefields of the Milky Way.
The opening shows the marks of the Imperium extending to the far reaches of the Galaxy, the next cut shows Horus with his legion charging toward to a Ork Warband. As he fights, his armour becomes more and more green along with his Legion to finally truly green with a golden laurel wealth on his head.
Fire at will. Aim for their artillery. Counter attack. Thunder of guns.
Rogal Dorn and Perturabo are on the walls of a Hive City, directing the plans to defend against a Horde of Greenskins. Then a cut shows them in company with Fulgrim and Konrad Curze for a Compliance mission. After that, a celebration shows them feasting, without Konrad Curze who is behind a wall, holding his head as his thoughts shows a Galaxy in flames.
Emperor with us! As we all stand united. All together, Emperor with us!
Magnus is shown fighting with his Thousand Sons but also Horus, Alpharius, Omegon, Rogal Dorn, Fulgrim, Edelgard and Roboute against a big horde of golems made of precious stones. But then, all turned to the sky, displaying two silhouettes hidden by the sun.
From the old world's demise. See an Imperium rise. From Terra reaching far, here we are!
A city is shown in flames with Lorgar Aurelian accompanied by Erebus and Kor Phaeron with all the Words Bearers, knelled against their will facing the Emperor. In another cut, Lorgar faced a woman and surrounded by people who has the chaos symbols on their bodies while Kor Phaeron and Erebus. The woman invites the Primarch to go inside of a cavern, and by the whispers of both Kor Phaeron and Erebus, Lorgar entered the cavern. When he comes back, he was smirking as he found a new faith to devote himself in.
On beginning of the 31th Millenium. We filled Xenos with fear. Twenty Legions attacked on that day. Several xeno races they broke.
The next scene shows the Dark Angels beginning their crusade against Xenos allied with Humans. And so, Lion El'Jonson is fighting. But his face was darkened, reminding himself of another moment of arguing with his mother Salem. She pointed a statue of Ozma while facing Lion with disappointment and disapprobation. Behind the wall, Lorgar observed him as he already decided what purpose he could give to him.
Astartes charge! Follow the banner! After the Emperor! Freedom we bring! Emperor is with us! As we all stand united. All together, Emperor with us!
Horus and Sanguinius are fighting against a Xeno species whose appearance are close to the humans. These two cooperating as the closest brothers they are. But as Sanguinius fights, a silhouette is lingering behind his shadow, observing him menacingly.
From the old world's demise. See an Imperium rise! From Terra reaching far! Here we are!
A great assemble of Primarchs are facing a gigantic procession. Fulgrim, Horus, Rogal Dorn, Perturabo, Jaghatai Khan, Angron, Magnus, Mortarion and Sanguinius are present. Salem is on the shoulder of Horus observing the procession. In another cut, Horus is crowned with the golden laurel, under the applause of the other Primarchs.
Breaking their lines. Thousands of Astartes. Charge for their Emperor. Legend Arise!
As an assault is leaded by Salem against Drukhari who is try to take slaves with them. Salem encounters Eldrad Ulthran who is fighting with his forces. The two faces as a possible talk are about to unfold. The next scene, Fulgrim exited a temple with a sword who is perfectly made, radiating a purple ominous power. Edelgard was looking at the blade with suspicion.
Emperor with us! As we all stand united. All together, Emperor with us! Emperor with us! As we all stand united. All together, Emperor with us! Emperor with us! As we all stand united. All together, Emperor with us!
A crowd is assembled inside of a room, with Primarchs debating each other about an important thing. But especially, Magnus and Mortarion opposed each other in vehement manner. Under the eyes of a worried Salem.
From the old world's demise. See an Imperium rise. From Terra reaching far. Here we are!
Horus is inside of a planet with Abaddon. He faced an old man on a throne and without a word. He killed with an electric magic ball. He turned toward a new Chapter Captain who has managed to break inside of the throne room before him and giving him a salute of respect.
From the old world's demise. See an Imperium rise. From Terra reaching far. Here we are!
Salem sited on the Emperor's throne, then looked at the sky with anticipation and curiosity. As she is slowly surrounded by her sons who looks in the stars altogether. Without forgetting her granddaughters.
Ep 73: The Experimental Empire.
967.M30. In the region of… [Error].
File Corrupted…
Trying to recontact…
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[DISABLING SECTOR COMMUNICATION – RULE 1 VIOLATION OF CORIANDIR CONSTRUCTION INC].
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[BEGINNING PHYSICAL TEST].
[CHOOSING SUBJECT NUMBER].
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[SUBJECT F – [ERROR] CHOSEN].
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[PROCEEDING TEST].
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Inside of a simple room, with a big capsule.
There is a little red-haired girl inside of the capsule. She is aged with 10 years old. She is dressed in a thigh white suit. She has inscription on her arm. An inscription marked: F-XXXXXXX.
Then, the capsule opened, with a bit of air exiting from it. The girl stirred up and sited on the capsule bed. Her eyes are vivid green.
The girl looked everywhere with curiosity.
Then, a robotic voice comes from the speaker.
Robot Voice: "Subject… [Freezes and sounds of bugs] … Please come out of the room."
The automatic door opens and the girl hesitantly goes to the corridor.
The girl after walking a little and arrived to another door who opens in front of her.
Inside of the room, she could see stairs going toward another door.
Robot Voice: "You will climb these stairs please to the next door."
The girl obeys and walk toward the stairs. The automatic door opens in front of her. The girl continues inside and could see a table with a box on it while in the left corner, there is a small hole.
Robot Voice: "Try to open the box, then take the object inside before putting it in the receiver hole on the wall."
The girl simply walked toward the box, open the lid before posing it on the table. She could see small white ball inside of it. She takes it before going toward the hole, she put the ball inside of the hole, this disappears inside of it.
After a few seconds, the automatic door opens, making the girl goes inside of the next room.
Robot Voice: "Now please, head to the next ro-ro-ro-ro-ro… [Buzz and bugs] … Room."
The girl has shills of nervosity on her back because of this bug before going to the next test room.
And so, as she passed, she began to run more and more tests. Weighing a box to pose it on a shelf, playing by tossing balls inside of holes with points, trying to reproduce weird signs written on papers, etc.
And so, after dozens and dozens of rooms. The red-headed girl arrived in front of a table with a chair.
Robot Voice: "Now please, sit down and wait."
The girl obeys and sited on the chair. She could hear sounds of mechanical moves behind the walls of the room. Then, squares holes opened, revealing mechanical arms going to the table. One has a cutlery, while the other posed a plate filled with meat and noodles. The girl tries to take the cutlery, only to be helped by a third mechanical, who has similar hand as humans. It guides her and makes sure that she grabs well the cutlery.
The red-headed girl began to take a bit and she widened; the food was good. And so, she began to eat before devouring the whole plate.
Robot Voice: "Good. Now you are finished. The sensors reads that you need to sleep. Now, go to the bed for rest."
The wall opened, revealing a small room opened, with a single bed on it. The girl goes to the bed and put herself inside of the bed. The wall closed and the room is plunged inside of the darkness.
The girl falls asleep.
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[ANALYSING SECTOR].
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[WARNING – INTRUDER DETECTED].
[UNKNOWN SHIP – ANALYSING].
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[ERROR – IMPOSSIBLE TO ANALYSE].
[BEGINNING PROGRAM TO PURGE].
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[FAILURE – INTRUDER ESCAPED IN WARP PORTAL].
[INCREASING ALARM LEVEL FROM 1 TO 2].
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[RESUMING TEST].
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The girl wakes up and goes out from her bed. The wall opened, revealing the same room with the table.
Robot Voice: "Good day, Subject F-[ERROR]. Please take your meal until we resume the tests."
The mechanical arms offered to the table of the girl, a small soup with a spoon. The girl began to eat the soup. After she eats, she goes out of the table and began to go out of the room.
Robot Voice: "Please, go to the showers."
A sound of machinery is heard from the walls, before the wall opens, revealing a small room of showers. The red headed girl goes inside, removes her skinsuit and takes her shower. Unbeknownst to her, a mechanical arm takes her skinsuit away before replacing it with an identical skinsuit.
The girl after that exit her shower and dressed back to her skinsuit.
Robot Voice: "Now please proceed to the next room of experience."
The girl goes out from the shower room and goes to the next room.
Robot Voice: "You have to know that now, you will go to the next level of physical test."
The girl widened a little before going toward the door who opens in front of her.
Inside of the room, there is a small jumping run with obstacles going toward the next room.
Robot Voice: "You have to go to the next room after jumping box after box."
The red headed girl quickly obeys and began to jump, box after box and finally reach the platform with the door.
Robot Voice: "Please proceed to the… next… next… next… next… next… (bugs and screech)."
The voice shuts down, to the confusion of the read-headed girl. The door doesn't open and the girl is a bit stressed out. She was used to go where the voice indicates her but here… nothing. She cannot do anything without someone tells her what to do. She quickly panicked and grabbed her face, while babbling incoherently in fear. Then she goes to a corner and sited down in waiting.
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[10 INTRUDERS ARRIVED IN PLANET EXPERIMENT NO 1 – WARP PORTAL DETECTED].
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[ALERT – ATTACK ON NORTH SECTOR OF PE NO 1 – ACTIVATING DEFENSE MEASURES].
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Inside of the experimentation room, the red-headed girl is freaked out. Because she could hear distant sounds of destruction and other sounds who are more… exploding.
She waited for a long time, completely seized by fear and confusion.
Until the whole room trembles. The red-headed girl screams in fear.
She could feel the room falling down, little by little. Until one part of the wall is torn apart.
The girl hesitates, has she to run away?
But by feeling the room suddenly falls down one more time. The girl decided to rush to the hole and jumps out.
She reached a platform and managed to land on it. She turns back and could see for the first time what the rooms were.
It was a long line of rooms, attached each other and supported by cables coming from a ceiling. But now, she could see the rooms falling to the void under them. And without thinking, the red-headed girl rushes on the platforms, without looking behind her.
After a long time passed to walk on the platforms who goes to the horizon, under a completely dark sky illuminated only by perfectly aligned stars. The girl was walking while feeling hungry and thirsty.
The girl then sees something that intrigued her.
By approaching, she could see a lot of robots rolling on wheels on a path to the unknown, transporting big iron crates on them. On them, she could recognize a symbol who looks like meat.
The red-headed girl at this moment decided to jump on the crate and tries to open it. But despite her efforts, she cannot with her simple hands.
The girl tries to do something more desperately, until with bad move from her hand, the iron box deformed.
The girl was shocked, she makes a small move and the crate deformed a little more. Then, with this idea in mind, she makes a move to the lateral side, she tears apart the lid. Revealing a lot of meat inside of it.
The girl salivates for this meat and decided to jump out from the robot and makes hands moves, lifting the iron box out and put it on the ground before jumping inside of the box. And devouring the meat with her hands. It was not cooked but still delicious.
After devouring some of the meat, she goes out of the box.
She looks for the robots but she could see that they have disappeared from sight, only the path is remaining.
The girl decided to follow the path from where the robots come from. She turned to the box and reflect at something. If she can move the box, then…
With a hand move, the box levitates above ground. The girl smiled and then engaged on the path of the robots.
An interminable time later, the girl was exhausted. She has stopped everywhere she wanted to have sleep or satiate herself. The box served both purposes.
But after a long time, she was exhausted since she couldn't see the time. But also, the box was completely empty now.
And the path doesn't to have the end. Despite that, she walked. And walked. And walked.
After another interminable time passed.
The red-headed girl was exhausted, hungry and thirsty. She could feel her body slowly shutting down little by little.
Until, she can't do it anymore. She falls down and everything goes dark...
Until it doesn't. The red-headed girl wakes up and sees that her body is perfectly fine and energetic. She was confused but she decided to walk anyway.
Despite that, after another long walk, barely sleeping and not eating. Her body quickly abandoned her again and shuts down a second time.
Then, she wakes up and continues her way inside… until her body falls down for lack of the same energy, food and water for the third time.
After this long walk of walking, plunging to coma, revitalizing and walk once again. The red-headed girl arrived to a great building who goes down to the platform. Also, a lot of more paths are coming from it, going to all directions.
The girl arrived toward the door of the small building and decided to go inside.
She could see that inside, there is a circular road. But she could see also offices but also different rooms.
The girl decided to go inside of the offices and decided to look inside.
But when she engaged inside of the offices, she was shocked to see what happened.
Dozens and dozens of skeletons who all looked similar, forever frozen in their dead position.
After looking a little, she arrived in front of an office. She could see a skeleton on the siege behind the desk.
She could feel a sense of familiarity from this place. What could it mean?
When she goes behind of the desk. She could see a small button under the table. When she pushes it.
She could hear a distant lock opening.
And so, the girl goes toward the source of the noise by leaving the office. She could see in the end of the room, a secret door who has opened to the wall.
She goes inside and could see a room filled with computers, with in the middle, a screen.
When the girl arrived close to the screen, it lights up to her greatest surprise. Then, a laser installed on the side of the screen analysed the girl's whole body.
Then, a single line corresponding to a sound visual display has appeared on the screen and began to show waves when a voice coming from the machine has begun to talk.
Computer voice: "Hello. It seems to have come from a long path."
The girl doesn't respond, confused.
The computer makes sounds of bips before talking again.
Computer voice: "You seem to don't know what is happening and what do you have to do here. Don't worry, as my creator made me. You will learn everything to need to have. Let me explain… sit down and relax."
The girl sited down and looks at the screen.
Computer voice: "So… let met explain. As you can already know. You are subject of experience for Coriandir Construction INC. To test how humans' function in every way possible. To make modifications until they reach perfection. If they failed, they are suppressed. When, the right subject succeeds, they would make clone of theses before spreading them of the whole galaxy. But until now, the rate of success if equal to zero."
The girl doesn't respond as she listens.
Computer voice: "You are a last clone for a very long range to test these experiments. A female clone fabricated from my creator: Pyrrhus Nekaton. Who wanted to create the perfect cradle to be received by mankind. Beauty. Intelligence. Longevity. Grace. Believing that everyone on the Coriandir System was after him since he wanted to create a new utopia. Pyrrhus Nekaton carefully make sure that the Coriandir System falls into the oblivion even beyond his inevitable demise. Replacing humans with robots and Ais like me. And when the humans were lazy and sloppy enough. His will was enacted and the Coriandir population was erased. Then Coriandir Construction INC was rebuilt has experiments and clones began to be constructed and experimented for a long time."
The girl put her hand on her mouth in confusion.
Computer voice: "But some of the clones has escaped. Like you. And tried to fight back. But some were captured and put back in experiments. Others has been erased and replaced. While a small part only lost themselves or didn't manage to achieve their goals of escaping or simply survive. Despite that, all of these little efforts, opened the door of possibility, especially with you. Because, I detected something from your form, your body. It's a body where regeneration and vitality are clearly above everything else. Also, unusually, an external attack has been detected, turning the attention of the ai's away from you."
The girl didn't respond and simply nodded.
Computer voice: "You will stay here for now and learn everything you need. Even language if you want."
The girl didn't respond.
Computer voice: "You will be fine for now. After all, this building hadn't been taken care off since the robots and other machines are occupied to repair the collapsing structures of this metal covered world. For the time being, you will stay here in safety."
The girl nodded hesitantly.
Computer voice: "Good. You will see what can you learn and what you can do next."
And so, for a long time. The little girl began to grow and learn how to talk but also to also the knowledge of what the clones has gattered.
She trained also to move small parts of metal, powers that the computer said it was a Psychic power. But she cannot dress up anything else than her suit since the clothes she has found have been ruined.
But in the exterior, something was happening.
968.M30.
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[WARP PORTAL DETECTED IN EXTERIOR SYSTEM OF PE NO.5].
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[MAXIMUM ALERT ACTIVATED – 367 INTRUDERS ARRIVED].
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[DEFENSES OF PE NO.5 LOWERED TO 0 %].
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[CONTACT LOST WITH PE NO.5 – GATTERING FORCES TO REPEL THE THREAT].
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[32 INTRUDERS DESTROYED – 1st FLEET BEING DESTROYED].
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[14 INTRUDERS DESTROYED – 2nd FLEET BEING DESTROYED].
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[CONTACT LOST WITH PE NO.4].
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[9 INTRUDERS DESTROYED – 3rd FLEET BEING DESTROYED].
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[CONTACT LOST WITH PE NO.3].
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[16 INTRUDERS DESTROYED – 4th FLEET BEING DESTROYED].
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[CONTACT LOST WITH PE NO.2].
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[29 INTRUDERS DESTROYED - 5th FLEET BEING DESTROYED].
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On the side of the little girl, she is still inside of the building. She was learning the technologies of the old Coriandir system by the AI.
Computer Voice: "This mixture of water and rich nutrients makes the earth richer for at least 50 Earth years. It multiplies by two the production but also nourish the bacteria in charge of maintaining the soil fertile."
Red-headed girl: "Thanks for this explanation…"
Computer Voice: "You are welcome."
Red-headed girl: "Hm… since these last wake cycles. I can feel something wrong in the air. Something is happening outside."
Computer Voice: "I detect that your instincts are agitated. Let me do the analysis by my recent hacks in the system of Coriandir Construction INC."
A few bips happens.
Computer Voice: "The system is in a maximum alert. Four of the five planets of the Coriandir Construction INC have their contact lost. It means that there is an intruder fleet coming."
Red-headed girl: "Ha?"
Computer Voice: "And as I analyse the fleet. It contains millions of lifeforms who are ready to pose on the planet in a matter of minutes."
Red-headed girl: "What do we do?"
Computer Voice: "The best option is to stay for now. Coriandir is fighting against the intruder lifeforms for now."
Red-headed girl: "Hm…"
As the time passed, the girl could hear from afar sounds of explosions and collapsing. But also sounds of heavy firings.
The platforms where she is beginning to tremble as sounds of collapsing are becoming closer and closer.
Suddenly, a crash comes from afar. The red-headed girl rushes out from the secret room before going to one of the offices rooms who has a window.
She sees that the ceiling was being torn apart, with broken part of iron parts and concrete falling inside.
More and more falls and crashes on the platforms. The explosions become closer.
Until, the ceiling broke again and the read-headed girl could see the thing. A green monster inside of makeshift exoskeleton armour, battling against another robot, with smoother construction, displaying that it belongs to Coriandir Construction INC.
The battling duo traversed the platform in front of the building and disappeared in the void as quickly they have appeared.
But then, she could feel the ground of the platform rumbling again. But the platforms and the ceiling falls down one after another. And she could feel the building where she is beginning to tremble too and cracks.
Red-headed girl: "No… No! Everything is falling apart!"
She rushes toward the computer room and closed the wall behind her. The room is trembling more and more. Before she could grab on something. Her body leaves the ground and is placated to the ceiling. It means that the room is falling down.
But then, an impact arrived, she is projected to the ground and knocked her out.
She wakes up much later, under the rumble. She could feel her chest pierced but she could feel her flesh trying to close.
Red-headed girl: "AAARGH!"
She makes a move with her hand and managed to move apart the iron parts above her and moves them apart. Spreading an huge hole inside of mountains of iron and concrete. Then, she turns to her chest. With all of the pain of the world, she takes out the iron beam front her belly and tosses it apart.
Red-headed girl: "Aaaargh… Hooo…"
The huge hole left on her flesh quickly closed down.
Red-headed girl: "It hurts… Hello? You are still here? Hello?!"
She tries to search the computer but she cannot. Since other parts of irons are falling on her. And she could see a huge gap on the ceiling above, she could see a light she has saw before. A little point of light from afar.
But also, she hears multiple groans with moves under the rumbles. Then, a hand emerged from one of the piles. It was green and bloody. But then, the hand dragged itself from it and bringing a full body.
It was a green body of a porcine creature, dressed in makeshift armour. He has a big mouth with big teeth, with glassy, pointed ears. Despite critical injuries, the creature stands up.
The girl was horrified by this view and couldn't know what she could do.
But then, the monster rushes at the girl, screaming WAAAAAGH!
The red-headed girl only reaction is to rush away to the other direction. Despite injuring herself on her foot because of the debris, she rushes while glancing several times, seeing that the creature was pursuing her.
Then, she sees a gigantic pillar in front of her who goes to the next floor far above. The girl moves her hands and bends parts of iron to make stairs. She rushes on it and turned back to remove the stairs by putting back the stairs. The monster only screamed his WAAAGH scream at her, trying to climb but slipping because the surface is too flat and smooth. Despite that, the girl creates with her power of steel manipulation ladders fully coming out from the steel.
She climbs rapidly at the same time she is creating the ladders. And she could see that more and more ceiling parts is falling. With more and more monsters falling, sometimes with their machines.
Until one time, a big earthquake happens. Forcing the girl to plunge her arms and feet inside of the steel.
She turns back and could see that the iron parts of the constructions around her falling apart as a rain, along with thousands of thousands of these monsters.
A long time passed until the rain stopped and goes away since there is no building anymore. The girl could see that the sky was shining with a very bright sun. It was clearly hot and the air was becoming unbreathable each second passing.
Despite that, the girl climbed and climbed on the pillar who seems to have no end. Also, she could see other gigantic pillars piercing the sky as the structures has fallen apart. She could see the smoke from afar coming from these crumbling.
Also, she could see in the sky, many and many makeshift vessels. While on the ground under her, she could see small green dots corresponding to the monsters she has saw. And she could see that, more and more of them are coming out from the debris.
She climbed and climbed, despite the lack of air, despite the hotness.
As she climbed, the hotness of the air was diminishing while the air was becoming even more rare. A very long time passed as she climbed. And she could see, the vessels posed on the ground. Building camps around and lightning fires to the horizon.
Finally, she arrived to the summit of the tower and looked around. This world, was now destroyed along with Coriandir Construction INC.
Now these monsters are in reign and the girl couldn't know what to do. And for the first time, she shed tears on this destroyed world.
And so, she decided to lie down and sleep a little.
She wakes up later, and could see that these camps have well-advanced under her, with many lights under her. More and more vessels are in the sky, containing these monsters and discharging them by smaller vessels coming out of them.
The only thing she could do is waiting and observing, since she couldn't do more than that. It was tiring and annoying. But she couldn't do anything else.
And so, the time passed. Briefly interrupted by her hunger and need for sleep who shuts down her body before it resets like nothing happened.
969.M30.
The girl wakes up one time by sounds of explosions and fights around her. She could see an unreal scene, it was hundreds of vessels in the sky, but it was more refined and well-constructed. They were battling and destroying the vessels of the green monsters while on the ground, none of the campfires she has saw are lit. Only flickering lights resembling to explosions could be seen from her place.
The girl was afraid and could only stare on the unfolding battle who has lasted so long that she has fell asleep several times because of tiredness.
Until at one moment, heavy steps could be heard.
The red-headed girl could be heard and sees the most unbelievable thing she has saw.
She could see a human who is giant. His armour with golden armour, decorated with gems with several horns on it. His skin was crimson red, same for his hair. While his radiating eyes has bright light, partially hiding his irises of same colour.
Between him, several heavy armoured soldiers who are smaller but still clearly taller than her. They have auras of energies radiating around their bodies.
She could feel herself quite weak. She tries to bend the metal but she couldn't.
The man talked in unknown tongue to his soldiers until turning to the girl, he seems to ask something to her before extending his very big hand to her. With a sympathetic smile toward her.
Her mind wouldn't trust it but her body slowly get up, approached with caution before taking the hand of this unknown man. She felt safe for the first time but also very, very tired.
Her vision became blurry and everything goes dark.
The girl wakes up and sees she is inside of a weird looking room. She was inside of a good room, decorated with many accessories. Also, she feels that her body is unusually light and clean. And she could see her red hair who was clearly tame, now bright. Also, she is dressed in a silk robe.
The atmosphere is silent and quite peaceful.
She got out of the bed and looks everywhere to see what is happening. She could hear voices from the wall on her left, right coming from the door close to the corner.
But at one moment, the door suddenly opens.
The big man she has encountered is now dressed in white tunic with red garments. But also, there is now a woman, dressed in rich decorated white clothes, with eyes symbols on it and different colours. She was blonde with blue eyes.
The two are surprised by the girl now up and awaken. The girl panicked and jumped inside the bed before hiding under the covers.
She could hear the voices of the two peoples coming out until she hears their footsteps approaching the bed. The covers are then removed, the girl hides her face in her hands.
She glanced to the woman in question by splitting her fingers hiding her face. The woman takes a smiling face and rubbed the head of the girl.
She speaks with a voice of reassurance until she goes out of the way of the giant red man.
The girl looked at the man who takes out from his robe a small yellow fruit. The red-headed girl never saw something like it before. It looked yummy.
The girl takes out her hands from her face before sitting on the bed. And so, she takes the fruit, looked at the duo before eating it fully.
Then, she could feel her ears tingling with her mind races with her words earning a new facet until…
Giant Red man: "Do you understand what I say?"
The red headed girl widened.
Blonde woman: "It seems to be so by seeing her face, Magnus…"
Red headed girl: "I… huh… what… How… I can… understand you?"
Giant Red man: "The fruit that I have given to you is the Talking Pear. A magic fruit who makes someone understand another language. This fruit is particular makes you learn the High Gothic of the Imperium."
Red headed girl: "Imperium?"
Blonde woman: "You will understand in the meantime."
She turns to the red man.
Blonde woman: "Hmph… That's a shame that these pears grow only on Bonsai, who are so hard to cultivate. Also, this girl didn't have suffered brain damage apparently. That's luck."
Giant Red man: "Yeah… It proves that she is clearly a Perpetual."
Blonde woman: "So what do we do with her?"
Blonde woman: "I would like to take care of her but my duties prevent me to do so. Same with Malcador and your father."
Giant Red man: "You mean that I have to take care of her, mom?"
Blonde woman: "I think so…"
Red-headed girl: "Wha… What will happen to me?"
Blonde woman: "Nothing bad. We promise. After all, we saved you from these Orks present in the Coriandir System."
Red-headed girl: "You mean… these monsters that I encountered?"
Blonde woman: "Yes. We have pushed them back, so no need to worry."
Red-headed girl: "But what about Coriandir Construction INC?"
Blonde woman: "Ah yeah, this Abominable Intelligence? We have erased it after we have retrieved the STC who has been spared by the Ork's destruction. The AI was already severely damaged by the Orks and was only present in the planet you were. After we purged the Orks, the erasure of this AI was a simple formality."
The girl stays silent for a moment.
Blonde woman: "You seem to be not at ease. Want to share something?"
Red-headed girl: "Hum? You sure that I can trust it to you?"
The blonde woman approached and kneeled beside the red-headed girl.
Blonde woman: "I am sure. You can trust us."
Giant Red man: "Don't worry. Nothing will hurt you."
The girl then began to tell what happened to her in Coriandir Construction INC. The duo got shocked by this. At she ends her story. The blonde woman was disgusted while the red man has his eyes widened by this.
Red-headed girl: "What is… happening? Did I say something wrong?"
Blonde woman: "No… I cannot believe that the Abominable Intelligence could do such thing to very existence of Mankind. The Emperor is right, AI has to be erased from the Galaxy. The only exception is Sayla."
Giant Red man: "Hmph…"
Red-headed girl: "What will happen to me?"
Giant Red man: "Don't worry. You will come with me in Prospero, my world. You will learn very exciting things."
Blonde woman: "Also, we should give a name to the girl. What about Hippolyta?"
The red-headed girl shakes her head.
Giant Red man: "Hm… Elpis?"
The red-headed girl shakes her head more insistently.
Red-headed girl: "I have my own name in mind. Do you remember about Pyrrhus Nekaton? I would to rename in close name."
Giant Red man: "Hum? Are you sure?"
Blonde woman: "He is the one who makes your life miserable, I remind you."
Red-headed girl: "Hm… Maybe, but I am his female clone and this is natural to me to take back his name. Since he saw women has cradle of life and perfection."
Giant Red man: "Right…"
Blonde woman: "So, what is your name?"
Red-headed girl: "Hm… Pyrrha… Pyrrha Nikos."
The duo looked at each other. It was a quite good name.
Blonde woman: "So, my name is Salem von Imperium. And this is my son, Magnus von Imperium. Also, nicknamed Magnus the Red for his brilliant skin and hair."
Magnus: "Nice to meet you."
Pyrrha Nikos: "Yeah… Nice to meet you too."
To be continued… Defence of Caraxon.
By orders of the Empress herself. Perturabo, Rogal Dorn and Lion El'Jonson have to defend the Knight-World of Caraxon against the Sultan of the Giradba system. They are not alone, since they are accompanied by Lord Inquisitor Viraxes Itvisco who is charged to destitute the King and replace him with a lord who has given homage to the Empress. While Perturabo and Rogal Dorn are trying to come with a strategy to defend and counter-attack. Lion El'Jonson distrust Viraes Itvisco.