'Hold strong, Amberly. He is on our side!' the fearless Ordo Xenos Inquisitor whispered in her mind, focusing on the task at hand.
Once more, she had to write a report to the Aegida Conclave, and very likely the report would once again reach Holy Terra and the eyes of the Emperor himself.
"Hereby, I describe the events I have witnessed personally or by augur relay, during the Moebius Campaign.
As instructed, I still follow the life and deeds of Rogue Trader Pef Lancefire, now bestowed with other Imperial ranks such as Astartes Chapter Master, Terra Nobilitae and others.
The target of this campaign was a Necron crownworld, the capital of a Necron Dynasty called Nekthyst_Dynasty . These xenos had been engaged in a long war with an Ork Waagh, and thus were already on a war footing, also having captured or destroyed several Deathwatch Kill-teams sent to obliterate their leadership.
The planet itself was not a standard Necron Tomb World but a maze of hyperspace corridors which trapped and bewildered any attackers, which is how the besieged xenos had managed to survive the aforementioned Ork Waagh.
Did that stop Lord Lancefire? Obviously not!
While the Crusade fleet had less than 150 capital ships and 5000 escorts, it was sufficient to bombard the damaged planetary shields and defenses, and provide an entry point for the following ground invasion.
In a strange and uncharacteristic method for their usual deployment, the Lamenters attacked with their full chapter in force, often sword in hand, while their Lamenter Auxilia units followed at a sedate pace with heavy support from their Armed Sentinels
Although some use of Ork or Tyranid Xeno Auxilia was noticed, I believe Lord Lancefire simply used the Xeno Auxilia to enrage or distract the enemy while his Lamenter Astartes and their human Auxilia advanced at speed through the hyperspace maze, cutting down millions of Necron Warriors with unbelievable ease.
A small number of Titans and Imperial Knights forced the maze open for the troops to pass through, but they remained outside and waited for the expected victory.
And how did they achieve this victory? This time, the Lamenters and most of the Auxilia Armed Sentinel walkers were equipped with Phase-blades, although glowing a dull emerald green instead of the bright electric green used by certain assassin clades, such as the Callidus Temple.Could this be another archeotech STC discovered by Lord Lancefire? I do not know yet.
Over 4000 Lamenter Tech-marines and about 160000 Guardian remote walkers aided the rapid push, while proving a significant increase in accuracy and coordination, by using more Tech-marines to control the remote walkers. It was an amazing sight to behold, as if an entire Astartes Legion of old had returned through time to crush the humanity's enemy.
In a single day, the Moebius Campaign came to an end with a giant battle in a Necron Monolith, where the Necron Phaeron Oblis the Enslaver tried to use Deathwatch hostages and various booby traps in a desperate last stand, only to be casually clawed to death by Lord Lancefire's Fenrisian wolf called Canis. It is a giant wolf though, and his claws appear to also feature Phase-tech by their emerald glow.
At least a quarter of the Necron World still stands intact and will be bestowed upon the Deathwatch as a new Watch Fortress, now that the Necron inhabitants have been all destroyed with impossible ease, and three quarters of the maze had been returned to real space by some unknown means.
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Was is worth the lives of over 50 Blank Astartes and over a million Lamenter Auxilia? Most obviously so, now that Lord Lancefire had completed the second half of this campaign and obtained another Black Fortress for his chapter.
Startling still, the Lamenters Chapter appears to have returned to the full 1000 Battle-Brothers number not even a day after the fleet departed from Moebius, heading for a new target in this strangely named Demiurg Crusade.
Is the Crusade name connected to those rumored Tau allies that may have provided the Tau xenos with STC templates for their rapid technological development? I do not know, but I believe it so.
Further updates to come as the Crusade continues.
Amberly Vail, Holy Inquisitor for Ordo Xenos and Ordo {Redacted} .
Thought for the day "Compassion is reserved for servants of the Emperor: aliens deserve only our scorn."
The blonde Inquisitor sighed as she flared her new Alpha-level psyker powers and sent the psychic-link page directly into the mind of a Sanctioned Psyker at the Aegida Station.
She did not mentioned her own involvement in the battle, as self-praise was not appropriate, especially to the Emperor of Man. He would know of her giant lightning arcs and millions of Necron kills anyways. No need to brag.
Not to mention, because the Lamenters were immune to psykers powers, her lightning didn't cause a single injury to the front lines, unlike any other time when she had to intervene directly. Some young Lamenters even joked with her and called her 'Miss friendly fire'.
"Sniff" she heard a sound right behind, then she closed her diary and turned around, to find a giant wolf head staring at her from above.
"Canis, when did you enter my room?" she asked with a start. Sneaking up on an Inquisitor was nearly impossible, and one with Alpha-level powers even more so. And yet, this wolf did so, easily.
The wolf glared at her with intelligent eyes, then nosed her holithscreen, making the galactic map center on another star system. Then he emitted a low growl and vanished, again without trace of a Warp teleport or anything similar.
'Damn it! First it was a Primarch keeping his ghostly eyes on me, now a wolf?' she muttered inward with a shiver. She had always known the wolf was strange, and more intelligent than any animal had the right to be. I mean, the wolf even had a Mind Implant Unit, for Emperor's Grace! Not to mention a collar shield and now Phase claws.
She decided to avoid mentioning the wolf again in her reports, it wasn't worth it. Pef Lancefire himself was difficult enough, without involving a strange wolf that was modified by Emperor for who knows what purpose.
She still checked the new Octiss system on the screen, then began searching for more information in the cogitator banks. A dozen failed searched later, and after using her Clavis over-rides she found a hidden message: Colonel SP47 of Geno Seven-Sixty Spartocid 'suspected Alpha Legion presence, departing to investigate', followed by a date in M30. During the Horus Heresy? No other messages either, probably meaning that old Imperial Army regiment was doomed, and this Colonel had died without completing his report.
What was she involved in now? How did the wolf know about this? Luckily, she had Pef Lancefire and his impossible powers at her side. Even if this was an Alpha Legion base, and even if Primarch Alpharius was there and waiting, she was confident in victory. The man had killed a Primarch by accident once.