MISSION ONE REPORT FROM ACOLYTE ECHO +++ To waiver is heresy +++ +++The alien mechanism is a perversion of the True Path.+++ Taken
to Scintilla, before the Lord Inquisitor who would soon be our new
master. I was expecting a double of sorts, that was not the case her
presence a lone screamed of power. I told of the story of the Cog’s
Monolith, and it’s tragic tale. Telling her of my knowledge in art of
war and destruction. Viktoria, “Surely the Emperor was with you.”
“Inde..ed….” I have no love for the emperor, no tech-priest truly
does. She saw right through my feeble lies, but no matter I still live.
She must not of had any hope for a tech-priest to share her misplaced
faith. The Dusker spoke next telling of his faith in the Emperor,
his homeworld, and of Tranch. His elegance surprised my Lord, and you
could see her eyes light up. Bloody psyker she be, that or some foul
xenos taint that has touched her. The Preacher spoke next of his
training in the progenium. Of singing, training and love for the
emperor. I have seen his kind before. Week long annual crusades
killing any suspected of being a mutant or harboring mutants, even
tech-priests would be the same as a mutant in their eyes. Acolyte
Lamark would lead us to the industrial sector of Sibellus. There we
would meet Judge Revon and Arbite Joan they would complain of their
hive, and speak of their incompetence. I think of Magnagorsk, they
would not last till dark. It seems the Dusker, was thinking much the
same. The Preacher would find a trail to the south. The green liquid
would later be discovered to be digestive fluid of xenos origin. A
Noble Pontius Phrenz would block our path, no matter what he would not
listen to reason. He locked us out or so he thought. Do not estimate
me, I am not some lowly enginseer. Attacked by servo skulls and
servitors we made our way through the industrial sector. There I saw it
biotech. This stinks of tech heresy. Preacher, “ We should contact
Lamark.” Dusker, “Yes. No wait, we might be intercepted.” The dusker
is paranoid, I have to respect that. We next find Red Fang looters.
The Preacher kills one. I was able to get the other one to talk.
Apparently all the gangs are to provide a sacrifice for the Prime, when
the Spire strikes. I would also hear the name Mordikai, the traitor
shall not escape. Going through multiple doors we reach a cultist. The
Dusker throws him against the wall. The Preacher scares the cultist
witless. His eyes glow green. “Be judged by the Divine Light of
Sollex.” Afterwards I gut the cultist, it seems he is possessed by a
xenos organism. The death of the beast splattered digestive juices
everywhere First down the elevator, I see Morikai and that lowly
noble consorting with xenos. I am seen. I fire my Sollex IX. Mortikai
escapes and I go after him. A xenos explodes in front of me, it
appears the Dusker and Preacher are not far behind. The air turns a
shade of green, no matter, my mask is used in worst. All that matters is
getting through these doors. Before going through the doors Amps sees
the battle with the xenos raging behind who wins, I shan’t know. Door
through door I went. Cultists, I push one into the gears below I have
no time for this. The other killed by lasfire, it seems the others
survived. The final doors open the traitor and the xenos Queen.
This situation I have seen before. In over a decade of fighting, a
traitor amongst us and a xenos parasite. The ones I fought in the space
hulk Labyrinth were much tougher, quicker, and cunning. What they
didn’t have were numbers. My eye was lost, Amps lost his mortal flesh,
countless others were killed. Afterwards I would bestow upon the
nameless a soul, and the name Amps. I would retreat from this beast,
carrying the Dusker who fainted after seeing the Queen. The preacher
far behind, wounded to near death. It seems it is up to me. The
beast charges I fight, the Preacher seeing triple from rotgut and blood
loss, does not hit the bloody huge beast. Mordikai awakens after being
thrown to the side by the beast his plasma pistol in hand fires at the
Queen. “It must be stopped.” “ I do not need the help of traitors.” I
stab him with my bayonet, barely alive he falls. The Queen taking the
opportunity sweeps my leg, I fall all hope is lost. At least the traitor
has fallen. The Queen readies for a final blow upon me. The Preacher
leaps striking the beast with his blade shouting his warcry. “ My butt
itches!“ I hear screams and lasfire behind me, miss by a large margin.
It seems my journey will not end today. I yell, “Stop bleeding and
fight back.” Surrounding the queen one became two, two to three. The
queen was soon felled. We retreat it seems the beast still lives.
Against my better judgment I say we capture the beast. The Preacher
keeps his laspistol on the captives. I study the venerated plasma
pistol. The Dusker calls for help. The Queen strikes, the Preacher
still under the effects of rotgut, misses. The Dusker throws his sword
at the beast killing it. I would notice that in death it would still
regenerate. What a foul xenos, death to all of them. An intact
servo skull’s log, Amps pict recordings, the Queen’s carcass, and a
Tech-Heretic. I did not keep one of the little xenos, it burnt straight
through the backpack. The heretic would not speak to the inquisitor no
matter what she did. Then one day the heretic let out a single word,
“Tech-priest“. “The tech-priest I will speak with him.” I was brought
before the traitor, we stared at each other for a while, once all
cameras were turned off he began speaking. He spoke of the Queens home
of Karrik, how it had been purchased by a beast house, and how it had
freed itself. He spoke of his heroics, and how it had been his
Emperor-given duty to give sacrifices to the beast to save the many. He
spoke of knowledge he had gained, how it could be used. He spoke of
how he had planned to kill the beast, and how he had found a weakness.
He spoke that if the Queen killed, other of the xenos would turn into
queens making the situation much worse. That one queen was better than
many. The traitor spoke of many such things. The heretic speaks
of lies and half-truths. Servant of the Omnissiah, I think not. He
brought ruin to Sibellus hive. Among the pistols presented as a reward,
a S-Venom pistol was among them. Hidden from all, it took all my will,
not to kill the heretic now. “Death is to good for you traitor, know
that all you have done and learned will be destroyed, I will make good
and sure of that.” “My lord, Inquisitor at the very least all the gangs
are involved, Judge Revion of the Adeptus Arbites is likely involved,
as well as many of industrial workers. The under hive must be
completely purged no matter the cost. I’ve seen this before, if a
single one escapes you will one day be overrun, not knowing enemy from
ally. If you do not act now. It will not just be the underhive, but all
of Scintilla.”
