Heh, I smiled as I watched the recorder being active. After spending a month recovering from Kerrigan Assault. I fully recovered and the paparazzi is swarming me. It took me a week to heal and assuaded the public that I am doing fine.
And I ordered a crusade against the UED.
And the public support agreed with it.
Especially the ones that suffered by the UED onslaught.
There are plenty in the recruiting office.
By this time, I am leading three fleets to tossed against the UED, to me...
I have no hatred towards them...
Since they believed they could attack me...
It is normal to fight back.
But one thing...
When I captured Dugalle ship, the Techpriests were busy like bees, they dismantle a 500 meter ship in 5 minutes....
But the reports of their examination made me rushed the crusade.
"There is Warp technology embedded in this UED ship. Especially the weaponry called the Yamato cannon and the FTL drives... But it is akin to a... Disposable tool. We had the thousand sons to scan this... Error." The magos handed the report to me.
There was a picture of a internals of the Yamato Cannon, it held sigils and symbol of the denizens of the warp.
After reviewing the interview from Dugalle, the leader of the UEd expedition, it was more darker.
"I don't know." Is all that he said.
He spoke to me that he only got the ships that was given by the UED government. And they were retrofitted with the newest technology. After poking around, I understand, that he was just the higher up that didn't know what the engineer is doing in his back.
I paled. Because I can give others lasguns, tanks if I am generous... In lend leasing.
But never the warp and gellar technology as they are exclusive to my people.
And there is someone in UED is manufacturing Warhammer Tech. And that tech that may be a time bomb.
I mulled the people would do such a thing.
And it wouldn't be rushed when one of the Iron Warriors that inform their situation that noticed my report.
"High Lord... This sigil... Is Vashtorr."
"How did you know that?"
"My Forge Father worked for him during the imperium while we remained Traitors.. where did you get this ?
And hearing that... A crusade is forming, there is no way I allowed Chaos into this galaxy. And UED manufacturing chaos weaponry, without learning the implications?
I have to attack the the UED before the technology spread across the Galaxy...
I can't risk the Zerg or the Protoss and much less the Dominion of man to get that technology.
I don't want Zerg know the secrets of the warp, and that blasted Amon forces as well...
Psyker fueled attacks is a nightmare for me, and I am still weak from my little skirmish with Kerrigan, why she kept flirting with me is absurd.. didn't she had Raynor to look forward to?
With the report, that would explain, why the first two planets I owned was burnt to the ground in such a quick pace. It was by dumb luck that the rest of the planets was put into wartime...
Dumb luck...
I sighed.
They are playing with wildfire and they don't know it yet.
Three crusades fleets were formed.
That was the one-fifth of the military reserves I could sustain normally. The rest of the fleets is to patrol the borders, let none of the Zerg and Protoss of my little incursion in the Sol System.
And with the invasion fo the UED was the excuse of getting retribution, it was another issue.
I order the science centers to be captured to check what the eggheads cooked up.
And my fears confirmed.
They are experimenting Warp technology and even if they hide it from the Techpriest, the Iron warriors knew it, they played with the warp and stuffed demons into siege engines, they knew their supposed patron god..
Crucio siege tanks used Warp shells, Ghost Body suits used Warp to cloak their users.
And one such science centers made me puke that I forced to kill every scientist in that facility. And nuke it from orbit.
They managed to singlehandedly open a rift in the warp as we about to take over the planet.
And by Imperium standard protocols.
Exterminatus... I signed the death warrant.
We gather all the survivors in our held territory and evacuated them... Those that was in the enemy lines...
I pity them... They opened Pandora box and the unaligned demons bursted forth and devoured the defenders within... Killing everything.
I... For the first time in a while... Pressed the red button to end the infestation... I could hear the screams of the UED defenders... But... I glance at the now chaos infested planet.
"IT.HAD.TO.BE.DONE."
Was the thoughts in my head that is not my own.
I shudder that influence is still etched in my soul.
And with the Chaos God Vashtorr being the patron of the UED, we had a time limit.
But I realize that after we sieged their inner colonies, they were... Different, many of the planet was... Emptied out. As if they been evacuated in advance.
Even the evacuation bunkers by their standards were found empty.
But in their place was filled with blood and gore. Symbols of the Nine Pointed star was etched in the bunker walls.
Many of my soldiers were sent to the chaplain and priest to remove the taint..
I made my decision. The majority of the fleets to resume capturing the planets and I took the first fleet into the heart of the UED.
Sol system, that is once my home, is tainted with chaos. The Iron warriors and psykers sense it.
The we could feel the taint, even from Jupiter.
I had enough of stupid people taking technology beyond their understanding and decided to play god.
And I taken the 714th Cadian regiment. Because this would be also a propaganda piece for the people at home.
That a High Lord is fighting among his men.
I understand the outside perspective, and it helps the image of a strong leader.
I would had dropped in orbit with my baneblade or my mech, but there is a sentimental value of leading my men...
I missed leading soldiers in the front.
Even if I had changed for the worse... I'm still human...
When I gave my speech, I... Understood the weight of responsibility. Those eyes filled with expectations... It slowly ate me up inside... When I told them that I will remember every faces... This was many times I did in front of my men... And it slowly beginning to haunt me.
How many soldiers is not coming back home?
I knew it, they knew it... Sometimes it was a burden that I am willing to bear.
I know, not all of them will come home, they may not be with me when I make a new Cadia for them...
But, I will keep my word.
Their faith and duty is more worth than all the gold...
And we have a galaxy to save.
As we landed at a American state we called Ohio. And the rest landed at Sweden, South Africa, turkey and Cambodia...
And the Catachan regiments decided to jump into a now warp infested Australia.
Courtesy of a braindead idiot of unleashing a warp portal on earth. And it devoured the defenders and the citizens, but somehow... The animals and plants fought back.
And we managed to stopped its expansion by using the Necron Pylons to close the rift and marked the location for purity and consecration.
But the effects still remained.
There were reports of warped kangaroo have armored plating that blocked .50cal and shoot flamethrowers from their mouths.
And the Damm spiders evolved to 60 meters tall, can be invincible from sight as they used the warp, their bites can break the composite baneblade armor that was 5 times thicker armor than the regular, forcing psykers on the ground.
And the bacteria evolve so fast that teleported severely injured troops died before medical aid is administered.
Despite the fact that it is a version of the UED, it held the same geographical topography of all the earth... Aside Holy Terra.
We conquer the cities, we anticipated riots, since we are the invaders... But when we first met them ... They looked at us as saviors.
People were suffering severe malnutrition that I could not differ who is the man or women, that I... Could not believe the insanity.
"My son was drafted." They said... As a man with sunken eyes, no similar to those that lived in the underhive of the Imperium that I left... A dead man walking.
Every city later as we conquered. There was more corpses than humans, critical infrastructures like trains station and docks was sabotaged. Hindering the logistical standpoint of a reasonable standpoint.
But we are not reasonable...
No... This planet would be under Imperium rule. And there is not a single warp infested freaks stand against it.
How many towns passed by that I see the dead outnumbered the living, there are survivors, desperate to surrender to the imperium...
And more research facilities that was hastily abandoned, and their research made me hanged the scientist.
Psyker commisar cyborgs: training 6 years old psykers as commisar and body modification to make them cyborgs. Their brains and stems is removed and placed into a machine and program to be loyal to the state.., incomplete because of our arrival as it was slated to production in next year.
And only a prototype was made and several test subjects were still alive. We gave the corpse, a burning and placed the child Ashes in a urn.
If Magnus was here... He would definitely burn UED to the ground with his legion alone. He cared more about psykers. And he would see their talent like what my friend would had planned.. And would be horrified, as this research is...even disturbing even when they were chaos legions.
That facility was burned to the ground.
The research is to be chained, never to be research... The Techpriests that were with me, had their memory databanks erased, they looped their memory as if they travel with me and there was no base in that day.
Another project made me think of SCP-5000
Where SCP foundation messed with the human consciousness and gone insane.
Alvus Corpus project, a Bloody hivemind project, unifying humanity consciousness into a single hive mind.
One of the research bases, one of the reports came in. And it held a cell block that contain a mass of flesh and skin. And the recipient are all from the local towns and villages nearby...
It stated that it convulse and groaned with our arrival.
I ordered the Emperor mercy... Even when they died... The spirit of the thing was more messed up. It was as if they played god not just the living... But the dead as well.
The reason why we managed to conquer fast... It was variable of factors, my insertion of the preacher and priest of the God Emperor religion and... This unnatural famine, And illegal experimentation.
As I spoke with the leaders that survive the war, this earth was supposed to be self-sufficient against our assault. But with the conquest far exceeded their expectations, the UED drafted all body abled to be their soldiers. And requisition all the resources.
They allowed to feed the those that joined the war. And those that refuse with a bullet or starved to death.
Soldiers that didn't receive the orders surrendered... I understood...
They were people defending their homes. At least... I gave them a choice of surrender.
Everytime I passed my troops in town...
I was expecting a Molotov cocktail tossed at me, or some fanatic rushing towards me with explosives... But it was just... Empty stares.
I...did wanted to usher in a better reign than the UED... But how can they demoralized the population that fast? Even the IRS wasn't that fast to make people weep.
As we headed to the capital. More and more research centers held more, brutal experiments...
I actually found them experimenting Amon Hybrids... But this one is more sick. Instead of using Zerg essence and Protoss flesh, this experiment is using human corpses alone... But the thing is powered by the warp. And a scent of a warp god.
It taken out a Chimera, and a Knight and damaged a Iron warrior formation. Before it was purged.
I had the scientists in charge killed, no pleading, when I scan their souls, they were devoid of life and they believed that their god is coming.
Their insanity is beyond the limits. How can they twist a form of a human to be like that? The Mechanicus may be insane.... But that thing... Is beyond my understanding...
And more dead and dying outside the capital borders of the UED.
I could sense the warp energy is heading towards the capital. And... It was like a Warp being ripped open.
Before me and hammer and scalpel of the imperium stood a city that warp energy is accumulating...
Vienna.
It is a bitter irony, that such a country is a den of infestation and evil.
I remember the last time a Vienna held my territory of America in Warhammer, they had me by the balls during the golden age of humanity, and now, they are tinkering with something beyond their understanding.
And that something is never meant to exist...
They gave me a addendum... A lone UED Marine arrived and handed me the message.
After he confirmed that is what the entire UED wanted, including him.
This is the first time I actually shoot the messenger because of the sheer stupidity or blatant arrogance?
That I should surrender to the Might of the UED and hand over the technology I wielded.. or suffer the consequences.
I laughed...
They are holed up in the last city on the bloody planet. Their defenses is in shreds, their regiments either surrendered or ended by our boots...
Their orbital Cannons are all but destroyed, saved for their Capital. That tall barrel is like a blip of flickering light.
I send them a message.
"I only surrender to one man alone... And he sits on the Golden throne that tied our fates to him...
I will never be a emperor, only his steward of his ever growing empire as a High Lord of his Imperium... For he is better than the imperfect me.
For he is the man that humanity needs, and I am the herald of his glory, gracing his embodiment of his will to this galaxy...
His vision is my orders, his plans is my fate. I suggest that you surrender or I will make your last bastion the final culling! I will bathe that city with your blood and hang you with your entrails and stuff your throat with your own shite, traitors of humanity!
You Damm your own people for a glory that's never yours!"
That was the transmission.
When I spoke to the soldiers before. It was just lip service.
I never intended to leave this monsters alive.
I rained hell. I have no remorse to the remaining defenders they are the fanatical ones than the desperate.
I given them time to surrender months before and now they made their decision. They chose to die with their masters.
And they died where they stood.
I didn't care of their pleas or mercy.
They had none. Any forms of empathy I had for them is dead.
While we wage war, I sent the Alpha squads to invade the depths to capture the leadership and disabled whatever they are doing..
When we breached the walls.
It is a ghastly state...
Blood. Dried blood stained the streets.
Long before we even arrived.
And I see half eaten ghosts wandered around. It took the psykers and priests to sanctified the city.
And gathering the data from the ledgers of the city hall.
It supposed to housed a half a billion... As refugees flooded in, many noticed there were disappearance.... Hundreds of people just gone daily.
The locals did asked the police, but they were indifferent, then they hired independent detectives and they too disappeared.
My rage is bubbling as below the city hall was a mega research facility and held the last remaining civilians...
And the rest was being experimented upon and used for their final battle.
We saved the surviving test subjects, and I found something was wrong with them...
Half of their soul is eaten.
Parts of what was their souls that reflected their bodies was devoured. Like a..bite mark or being chewed, but the recipient didn't know it and their mind is braindead. As if unintentionally making blanks?
I grieved.
When the Alpha legion managed to get the bastards....
I didn't care about their begging...
They have to die, all they left me is a planet that is ruined, a population that is scarred and broken. A kingdom of ashes.
And cities that is warp tainted...
Burning them is the only solution...
Fire, purify the soul... But as black-hearted as them? They deserve to burn and be devoured by demons...
I found the Vashtorr handiwork... But the false god is no longer there..
I question... How long did his influence embedded in this faction? How far did they went and proliferate this... Half-baked technology? And did he met the false god in the void?
The Iron warriors would be the custodian of this... False terra. I just name it to T1-Earth. To define as Terran earth...
Too much corruption of the warp and it would take years to cleanse the taint and bring the population to sustainable levels. And find how much of this tech is spread across the local factions... And if there is a whiff.. that is a excuse needed to invade.
I believe that we would had a conventional warfare... It was mistake... The UED left it in ruins and a lot of bills to be paid.
By the coffers alone... I just glad I was a man that have plenty of rainy day savings...
And that last note... That Human Hybrid...
Why do I get a feeling... That it held a semblance of me?
When I fought it... It was like facing a version of me... Albeit a weaker version, but stuff with steroids and drugs to keep up with me.
If it gets to the Zerg... We are focked.
I don't want my men to die by a cheap copy of me...
I better ready my... Xenos Allies...
I think Trazyn is busy, he is unable to be connected... I have to drag another Friendly Necron...and the Eldar better ready their forces... The end war of this realm is inching closer...
Perhaps... the Storm Lord I would bring into this Galaxy?
Well I going to need... That guy.
I smiled as I know who to pick.