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Created page with "Matt Ward is indeed an Ultramarine fanboy. Which can be okay, but not when you're writing what is going to be canon. If he was a fan, then that could work, but his work has th..."

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Matt Ward is indeed an Ultramarine fanboy. Which can be okay, but not when you're writing what is going to be canon. If he was a fan, then that could work, but his work has the characteristics of a fanboy.

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Oh how the ruinious powers will delight in the coming downfall of your attacks on the tyranid fleet! The Black Legion eagerly awaits for our moment to strike down what's left of your army of weaklings! Death to the false emperor and all of his slaves!

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He certainly appears to be in favour of glorifying them to a huge extent.

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Me boyz are ready an willin, right near Octavius. We've found a load of nids ere, dere cumin ta engage, jus a minute...

Venenum Temple

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Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-Bokisok-20130516215639/@comment-Bokisok-20130520202653

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Created page with "its a new plauge of smurfs arrogance! where is that grumpy old inqusitor when we need one? and is it not that the matt ward loves the smurfs?"

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its a new plauge of smurfs arrogance! where is that grumpy old inqusitor when we need one? and is it not that the matt ward loves the smurfs?

Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-Hakazin-20130520181215/@comment-Sindri Myr-20130520194731

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Created page with "Who knows barring the Eldar themselves, it's so long ago. Several things I'd like to see done to the Eldar are the following: 1: Give the Avatar a bit of beef up. It's too we..."

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Who knows barring the Eldar themselves, it's so long ago. Several things I'd like to see done to the Eldar are the following:

1: Give the Avatar a bit of beef up. It's too weak at the moment.

2: Get a Phoenix Lord for ALL the aspect warriors (warp spiders, shining spears, I'm looking at you) & improve those that already exist

2: Put more of their units in either finecaste or plastic

Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-Chris046-20130511210709/@comment-DANNYD99-20130520194028

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Created page with " *Out of character: Okay dark eldar, got it. <p style="font-size:13px;line-..."

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*Out of character:

Okay dark eldar, got it.

*In Character

Exactly the talk expected of corrupted xenos. The main matter here is that I don't trust you. And I promise you, after the tyranid Threat has been dealt with, My chapter will once again devote considerable resources to finding your dark city and Destorying it. But until then, I will tolerate your presence. For the sake of the imperium.

That being sai, I would not even trust our own scientists with these plague, almost simply because of how lethal it seems to be. I will say this though. You may have more luck selling to an inquistor of the ordo hereticus or mallaous. But not to the Chapter Master of Senitnels of war, Who have lost fifty marines to you vile slavers, fifty of my own battle-brothers of the 9th company.

So... My answer is no. My chapter will not scarafice Its morals simply to defeat an enemy. For we are Space marines, loyal to the Emperor, Defenders of Humanity and the emperor's Angels of Death. We Will NEVER condone to this Heresy.

Go ask an inquisitor, I'm sure one will agree with you.

Moving on, I would like a progress report on all units currently ready for our attack on leviathian.

I must retire briefly, for I am needed. Should this meeting continue elsewhere, some send an vox message to my private vox.

Emperor be with you all.

Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-Chris046-20130511210709/@comment-Tomj8937-20130520183242

2013-05-20T18:32:42Z

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Your pitiful race seems content to cling to outdated values put in place by weak men after the death of your god, hasnt the stagnation and slow death of your race been enough to prove to you that you need to evolve.

Your god is dead, yet you still listen to the sweet nothings whispered by those who claim to be his voice.

The Warp is capable of affecting the Tyranids, many times they mand the chaos daemons have been seen to wage war against each other, usually with detrimental effects to the Tyranids, who invariably msot die from their mutations.

This technique kills trillions, to save trillions of trillions, will you make this choice?

The glass plague is rapidly mutating, faster than the tyranids could, there is no possible counter to the glass plague once it has taken hold of a subject, one drop into a digestion pool whilst it connects to a ship, and the 2 connecting entities both become inert glass. With the sample, you have a hope of trying to unravel the contagion and weaponise it for your own gain. It cannot be weaponized by the tyranids because there is no biological parts to harvest, any attempt to assimilate the virus ends in the consumer turning to black crystal.

And in return, all we ask for is slaves to keep the dark city alive.

M'Shen

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Me weirdboy ad an idea. If ya ovarload da big boss nid wit WAAAGH! energy, e shuldn't be back fer awhile. (Me wierdboy finks dat da lord uzes sum sort o regeneration fink dat transferrs is smarts inta da new body. Ow else wuld ya explain da whole lookin different but defeating me old taktiks?)

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2013-05-20T18:12:15Z

Created page with "I was just at the games workshop site, and found a new video at WDD. New Eldar apear to be coming! When was the last release, the 90s?<ac_metadata title="New Eldar!"> </ac_met..."

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I was just at the games workshop site, and found a new video at WDD. New Eldar apear to be coming! When was the last release, the 90s?<ac_metadata title="New Eldar!"> </ac_metadata>

Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-Chris046-20130511210709/@comment-DANNYD99-20130520180743

2013-05-20T18:07:44Z

Created page with " *out of character, could you post exactly who you and who you are representing please? You seem dark eldar, I think... Now all we need are people for Adeptus mechanicus, A..."

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*out of character, could you post exactly who you and who you are representing please? You seem dark eldar, I think...

Now all we need are people for Adeptus mechanicus, Adeptus Sororitas, tau, and necron.

*In character

I take it the dark eldar have arrived, or a far more human hating Eldar craftworld, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm rather pleased to say neither option is at all possible or wanted. For one thing, Your first solution would require the deaths of Trillions of humans, something the imperium cannot and frankly will not accept. SImply considering the thought of mutation itself is heretical!

As for your second solution, Humanity will never allow itself to pay tribute to a Xeno.

Even so, the first would never work, as the tyranids themselves produce some psychic anomaly known as a shadow across the warp, that effectivily blocks all psychic attacks and messages. Who is to say that the eye would effect them?

While the contagion seemed promising, the hive mind would become aware of it at the first use of it. Worse, it may even develope a countermeasure. And even IF we had it and used it successfully, Would their be even enough to use? I believe both of these would be short term at best, and useless in the long run.

So unless your military forces are willing to help and plan, I don't see how this will work.

-Chapter Master Avian.

*Out Of character:

Okay, so, this thread is getting big. Like Shas said, we should make a part two, but do we post in general or Roleplay? Roleplay seems more appropiate for this actually, so who should make Part 2? I'll do it if no else, but where to place? RP or General?

Kryptman

2013-05-20T17:27:59Z

‎Kryptman's Cordon:

Tyran

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‎First Contact:

M'Shen

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Emperor's Peace

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Armenneus Valthex

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Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-Chris046-20130511210709/@comment-Tomj8937-20130520165540

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Power Blades

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Warp Spiders

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Tyran

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Screaming Vortex

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‎The Flaming Tomb:

Plasma Storm Battery

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Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-Marivs-20130517084538/@comment-Aresius King-20130520165840

2013-05-20T16:58:41Z

Created page with "In the time of the Old Ones, it was calm because they were the first sentient and psychic species of the galaxy. Then they decided playing alone with the universe was boring a..."

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In the time of the Old Ones, it was calm because they were the first sentient and psychic species of the galaxy. Then they decided playing alone with the universe was boring and promoted the apparition of more intelligent species, giving just some nudge there and there and letting evolution do the rest. This led to the apparition of hundreds of species, among which were the Necrontyr and who knows what else. We don't know if those species were able to influence warp, but the ones created during the War in Heaven were, since the C'tan were defenceless against the warp power. Like you said, the fact that we only know of the Eldar and the Krork doesn't mean there were no more (Lexicanum mentions the K'nib and the Rashan). If they had to fight against the zillions of Necrons and the power of the C'tan, they couldn't be just a few, and they couldn't be powerless. Imo, their losses during that extremely long war could have been powerful enough to accumulate enough bloodlust, honour, fear, mercy, ambition and hope to give birth to Khorne, Nurgle and Tzeentch.

Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-Chris046-20130511210709/@comment-Tomj8937-20130520165540

2013-05-20T16:55:41Z

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For all filty mon Kiegh slaves who hear this, I wish to offer 2 solutions.

My first is to seed worlds with hypersteroids, converting the once baseline humans into malformed and swelled giants. Previous encounters have shown that Tyranids will divert their course to another world if it shows an abundance of biomass. Using this technique, we create an intergalactic breadcrumb trail to the eye of terror, where many of the tyranids will die from exposure to the mutating power of chaos.

My second plan is far simpler, we will sell you a sample of a contagion that blighted my species, a transmutating virus called the glass plague. With this I will allow you to, providing your feeble brains can comprehend it, examine this deadly contagion, allowing you to mass produce it and distribute it to hive fleets, turning ships and organisms to inert black glass and crippling the hive fleets. In exchange all we wish for is tribute from every world of the Imperium.

Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-Chris046-20130511210709/@comment-DANNYD99-20130520165501

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Created page with " *Out of character: Its alright Harbinger, mistakes happen. Thanks for taking Eldar btw. -Danny D99 *In character Yes Chris, that seems to be the case. We also arri..."

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*Out of character:

Its alright Harbinger, mistakes happen. Thanks for taking Eldar btw.

-Danny D99

*In character

Yes Chris, that seems to be the case. We also arrived at this conclusion. It also seems to confirm that the orks are indeed bogging them down, since scout reports have indicated that the Swarmlord is leading thw tyranids against to orks in Octavius. If the swarmlord escapes, then it would take a great deal to bring him out again. Perhapes Alhendors has a way to destroy it for good.

I must say your taking this well Ultramarine, I was almost certain you would be more agressive at its mention, considering the foul beasts deeds.

Additionally, our own fleet grows. 20 battleships, 40,000 cruisers, and well over 5 billion escort vessels have come. Its getting somewhat crowded here to be honest.

Also, any forces you can muster should also head to tallarn, to link up with the Sun warriors and guard elements gathering there. I would also suggest sending your own chapter forces to elysium, where they can link up with my own forces.

Now then, Welcome Autarch. Since you are late, I would advise reading over the full record of this meeting. After, I would like your opinion on all of this, and if you own craftworld would join.

-Chapter Master Avian of the Sentinels of War Chapter

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Kryptman

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‎Kryptman's Cordon:

Tyran

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 Like the other temples of the Officio Assassinorum, the Venenum Temple was originally the Venenum Clade, created some time during the [[Great Crusade]] in the late 30th Millennium. The clade was created at the behest of [[Malcador the Sigillite]], the Regent of Terra, who was secretly the Grand Master of Assassins, and the Venenum Clade's first Director Primus, who was known only as Siress Venenum. The Venenum Clade was established in a secret location on [[Terra]] at the direction of the Grand Master of Assassins and was tasked like all of the other Assassin clades with killing those who opposed the formation of the [[Imperium of Man]] and the will of the [[Emperor of Mankind]]. The Venenum Temple is located in a secret complex known as the Orchard, comprised of an ancient house that was thousands of years old. This house was surrounded by a verdant tropical jungle that contained thousands of specimens of flora and fauna used to concoct the various exotic poisons used by Venemum operatives.
-During the Horus Heresy, the Assassin Clades were given the monumental task of assassinating the Traitor [[Primarch]] [[Horus]]. Each clade threw their most gifted students into a proverbial meat-grinder, sending them in blind and half-prepared. Every strike against Horus was broken, and he shrugged off these attempted assassinations without notice. In all the history of the Council of Assassins, there had never been a target whose retirement required more than one mission to prosecute. The Horus problem eventually claimed 8 Officio Assassinorum operatives across all 6 of the primary Clades. The Sigillite demanded a solution to rid the Imperium of the Emperor's turbulent and wayward son.
+During the [[Horus Heresy]], the Assassin Clades were given the monumental task of assassinating the Traitor [[Primarch]] [[Horus]]. Each clade threw their most gifted students into a proverbial meat-grinder, sending them in blind and half-prepared. Every strike against Horus was broken, and he shrugged off these attempted assassinations without notice. In all the history of the Council of Assassins, there had never been a target whose retirement required more than one mission to prosecute. The Horus problem eventually claimed 8 Officio Assassinorum operatives across all 6 of the primary Clades. The Sigillite demanded a solution to rid the Imperium of the Emperor's turbulent and wayward son.
-The veil of secrecy preserved all that the Officio Assassinorum were. Its operatives continued to work in the shadows of the Imperium, at the margins of the Emperor's knowledge, and for good reason. They served Him in deeds that he must never know of, in order to maintain His noble purity. The deployment of an Assassin was a delicate matter and never one taken lightly. In this period, some clades had fielded two or three operatives in a single mission when the circumstances were most extreme, but then always from the same clade, and always after much deliberation.
+The veil of secrecy preserved all that the Officio Assassinorum were. Its operatives continued to work in the shadows of the [[Imperium]], at the margins of the [[Emperor]]'s knowledge, and for good reason. They served Him in deeds that he must never know of, in order to maintain His noble purity. The deployment of an Assassin was a delicate matter and never one taken lightly. In this period, some clades had fielded two or three operatives in a single mission when the circumstances were most extreme, but then always from the same clade, and always after much deliberation.
 With the approval of the Master of Assassins, the founders of each clade devised an audacious plan to provide members to the secret Imperial [[Execution Force]], an elite unit hand-picked for the task, that contained Assassins from all 6 prime clades of the Officio Assassinorum to try and eliminate Horus upon the world of Dagonet. Deploying six Assassins at once, one from every prime clade, was unheard of. The Emperor would never sanction such an action. But Malcador reasoned that the Arch-Traitor had displayed no such qualms about violating the so-called "rules" of war. He had bombed his sworn brethren during the [[Istvaan III Atrocity]], his own men, into obliteration. No action was beyond the pale for him. Unfortunately, the mission to Dagonet ultimately failed, much to Mankind's ill fortune.

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 The video-log then shows M'Shen leaping forward, although the kill was never confirmed, as the video feed cuts out right before she struck. After the assassination, M'Shen cut off the Night Haunter's head to take to her masters in the Callidus Clade as proof of her kill and many of the Primarch's personal items and trinkets (including the ''Corona Nox''). En route to her ship to escape off-world she was confronted by the Night Lord Apothecary [[Talos (Night Lord)|Talos]], and declared to him that she would forever after be remembered by historians as the "Godslayer." The Assassin and the Night Lord Astartes briefly fought one another, but M'Shen managed to flee and escape.
 ===Death===
-M'Shen's death had been foreseen by Night Haunter's precognitive visions. He knew that although his Legion would allow her to escape, Talos and then the entirety of the Legion would disobey his final orders and pursue the Assassin in the name of vengeance. M'Shen was relentlessly pursued by Talos the "Soul Hunter" across the galaxy. She eventually met a grisly fate at the hands of the former Apothecary of the Night Lords' 10th Company; despite initially holding Talos at bay, he blinded her with acidic spit, deafened her with an augmented scream, impaled and disemboweled her with his [[Chainsword]], and finally tore her body to pieces. Despite her death, the video-recorder built into her vambraces somehow managed to reach [[Terra]], containing the recorded final words and the imagery of the assassination of the Night Haunter.
+M'Shen's death had been foreseen by Night Haunter's precognitive visions. He knew that although his Legion would allow her to escape, Talos and then the entirety of the Legion would disobey his final orders and pursue the Assassin in the name of vengeance. M'Shen was relentlessly pusued by the Talonmaster, Zso Sahaal and Talos Valcoran. She eventually met a grisly fate at the hands of the former Apothecary of the Night Lords' 10th Company; despite initially holding Talos at bay, he blinded her with acidic spit, deafened her with an augmented scream, impaled and disemboweled her with his [[Chainsword]], and finally tore her body to pieces. Before she was killed she faced Sahaal but their fight was interrupted by the untimely arival of the Eldar. Despite her death, the video-recorder built into her vambraces somehow managed to reach [[Terra]], containing the recorded final words and the imagery of the assassination of the Night Haunter.
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 *''Soul Hunter'' (Novel) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
 *''Nemesis'' (Novel), by James Swallow, pg. 23
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-Yet the Leviathan continued to carve its bloody path through the Imperium. Perhaps Leviathan's greatest triumph was the destruction of the vital [[Forge World]] of [[Gryphonne IV]], home of the ''[[Legio Gryphonicus]]'' ("War Griffons") [[Titan|Titan Legion]]. Kryptman knew he had to slow down the Hive Fleet's advance to buy time for the [[Imperial Navy]]'s Battlefleets Solar and Tempestus to muster. With grim finality, he ordered a cordon to be established, and decided to implement an almost sector-wide "scorched earth" tactic to prevent the Tyranids from multipling beyond the Imperium's capacity to deal with them. Every world within the reach of the Leviathan's advance was to be evacuated and undergo immediate ''[[Exterminatus]]'' wherever possible, so that its biomass could not become new grist for the Tyranids' production of new bioforms. With one stark, callous decision, the Inquisitor had inflicted the Imperium's worst act of genocide upon its own since the days of the [[Horus Heresy]]. Kryptman was denounced as a [[Radical]] and a Traitor at the highest level of the Imperium and even the Inquisition; when migrating [[Orks]] claimed a score of the former human worlds that had been evacuated, he was declared "''Carta Extremis''" by his fellow Inquisitors: neither a Heretic nor a Radical warranting execution, but too unstable and eager to use destructive means to be allowed to continue to operate as an Inquisitor. Kryptman was summarily stripped of his title and its rights and responsibilities by the Ordo Xenos and cast from the Inquisition by his brethren.
+Yet the Leviathan continued to carve its bloody path through the Imperium. Perhaps Leviathan's greatest triumph was the destruction of the vital [[Forge World]] of [[Gryphonne IV]], home of the ''[[Legio Gryphonicus]]'' ("War Griffons") [[Titan|Titan Legion]]. Kryptman knew he had to slow down the Hive Fleet's advance to buy time for the [[Imperial Navy]]'s Battlefleets Solar and Tempestus to muster. With grim finality, he ordered a cordon to be established, and decided to implement an almost sector-wide "scorched earth" tactic to prevent the Tyranids from multipling beyond the Imperium's capacity to deal with them. Every world within the reach of the Leviathan's advance was to be evacuated and undergo immediate ''[[Exterminatus]]'' wherever possible, so that its biomass could not become new grist for the Tyranids' production of new bioforms. With one stark, callous decision, the Inquisitor had inflicted the Imperium's worst act of genocide upon its own since the days of the [[Horus Heresy]]. Kryptman was denounced as a [[Radical]] and a Traitor at the highest level of the Imperium and even by many members of the Inquisition; when migrating [[Orks]] claimed a score of the former human worlds that had been evacuated, he was also declared "''Carta Extremis''" by his fellow Inquisitors: neither a Heretic nor a Radical warranting execution, but too unstable and eager to use destructive means to be allowed to continue to operate as an Inquisitor. Kryptman was summarily stripped of his title and its rights and responsibilities by the Ordo Xenos and cast from the Inquisition by his brethren.
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 As the Mechanicus outpost on Tyran continued to file reports of its discovery of a large cluster of Dead Worlds, [[Hive Fleet Behemoth]] drew ever closer. The Tyranids had to that point consumed only isolated planets that were home to no intelligent life forms, using the biomatter they absorbed to replenish the reserves the Hive Fleet had expended during the long journey through the extragalactic night. Now refreshed and replenished in number by the new stocks of organic materials, the [[xenos]] descended upon Tyran Primus. This was only the first of the Imperium's worlds to fall to the Great Devourer but would be the place from which Mankind would name this new threat to its continued existence. That the outpost on Tyran had any warning at all of the impending attack was only due to good fortune. A survey starship, returning from a survey of yet another Dead World, encountered a cloud of unidentified objects as it entered the edge of the Tyran System. Though crippled by what seemed to be mines made of organic tissue on the very edge of this cloud, the Explorator vessel managed to limp back to the Imperial base in orbit of Tyran Primus and carry its dire warning. Several days later, the first full invasion of an Imperial world by a Tyranid Hive Fleet began.
-Yet the main outpost on Tyran Primus would not fall easily to the extragalactic predators. Located deep within the ruins of an ancient chain of volcanic islands, the Imperial base was heavily fortified to resist the fearsome storms and massive sea creatures of the Ocean World's savage seas. Also, given Tyran's position on the very edge of Imperial space in a very dangerous and unexplored frontier region of the galaxy, Tyran had been wisely provide with armament deemed adequate to deter the attacks of raiders or aggressive xenos. Four giant planetary defence lasers protected the Tyran outpost, each protected in turn by hardened [[Ceramite]] silos and [[Void Shield]] generators. The amount of firepower was further supported by 36 [[Autocannon]] and [[Lascannon]] interceptor emplacements, an overlapping network of defence bastions and ''Proteus''-class bunkers. The Imperial garrison deployed on Tyran Primus was also formidable. In addition to the [[Skitarii]] bodyguard of the outpost's Adeptus Mechanicus commander, Magos Varnak, Tyran boasted 3 full wings of the [[Imperial Navy]]'s [[Thunderbolt]] fighters, 3 [[Endeavour-class Light Cruiser|''Endeavour''-class Cruisers]] and an entire infantry regiment of the [[Imperial Guard]]. This was a standard garrison for an Imperial frontier outpost and had been proven to be effective against most of the adversaries faced by isolated Imperial troops on the galactic rim. Yet against the Great Devourer, this garrison would prove to be little more than a brief obstacle to its endless hunger.
+Yet the main outpost on Tyran Primus would not fall easily to the extragalactic predators. Located deep within the ruins of an ancient chain of volcanic islands, the Imperial base was heavily fortified to resist the fearsome storms and massive sea creatures of the Ocean World's savage seas. Also, given Tyran's position on the very edge of Imperial space in a very dangerous and unexplored frontier region of the galaxy, Tyran had been wisely provide with armament deemed adequate to deter the attacks of raiders or aggressive xenos. Four giant planetary defence lasers protected the Tyran outpost, each protected in turn by hardened [[Ceramite]] silos and [[Void Shield]] generators. The amount of firepower was further supported by 36 [[Autocannon]] and [[Lascannon]] interceptor emplacements, an overlapping network of defence bastions and ''Proteus''-class bunkers. The Imperial garrison deployed on Tyran Primus was also formidable. In addition to the [[Skitarii]] bodyguard of the outpost's Adeptus Mechanicus commander, Magos Varnak, Tyran boasted 3 full wings of the [[Imperial Navy]]'s [[Thunderbolt]] fighters, 3 [[Endeavour-class Light Cruiser|''Endeavour''-class Light Cruisers]] and an entire infantry regiment of the [[Imperial Guard]]. This was a standard garrison for an Imperial frontier outpost and had been proven to be effective against most of the adversaries faced by isolated Imperial troops on the galactic rim. Yet against the Great Devourer, this garrison would prove to be little more than a brief obstacle to its endless hunger.
 ===Invasion===
 Tyran's planetary defence lasers opened fire on the foe the moment the first alien bio-ships entered orbit over the Ocean World. For more than an hour, the perpetually stormy skies of Tyran were ruptured again and again by coloured blasts of coherent light as the base's gunners desperately sought to drive back the descending xenos invaders. Then, just as the defence lasers had begun to glow white hot and overheat from the sheer number of targets, the invaders suddenly withdrew.
-Buoyed by overconfidence in his own forces and ignorance of the true scope of the threat, Magos Varnak ordered his small fleet of Imperial Navy [[Cruiser]]s to harry the withdrawing bio-ships, but this strategy proved to be mistaken. After penetrating the spore cloud that masked the sheer size of the approaching alien fleet, the pursuing Imperial starships discovered that less than a dozen of the strange organic spacecraft had been destroyed out of the thousands present in the fleet that had entered the Tyran System. Having successfully lured the Imperial Cruisers away from the support of the planet's defence lasers, the bio-ships suddenly changed direction and fell upon the Imperial vessels like hungry sharks. The ''Emperor's Fist'' was the first Imperial starship destroyed, its hull shredded by a voracious swarm of organisms vomited forth by a much smaller vessel. The ''Righteous Destiny'' did not last much longer as a cluster of grasping tentacles dragged it into the gaping maw of a [[Hive Ship]]. Only the ''Sword of Warriors'' lasted long enough to transmit a warning by Vox to Tyran. Before the message was completed, the leech-like pseudopods of another Hive Ship gnawed through the starship's [[Adamantium]] hull plates and unleashed a horde of vicious [[Genestealers]] onto the spacecraft's bridge and lower decks. The entire crew was overrun and slaughtered within minutes and the Cruiser was left to drift in space unmanned, its precious biomatter already dissolved into the Hive Fleet's reserve stocks.
+Buoyed by overconfidence in his own forces and ignorance of the true scope of the threat, Magos Varnak ordered his small fleet of Imperial Navy [[Cruiser]]s to harry the withdrawing bio-ships, but this strategy proved to be mistaken. After penetrating the spore cloud that masked the sheer size of the approaching alien fleet, the pursuing Imperial starships discovered that less than a dozen of the strange organic spacecraft had been destroyed out of the thousands present in the fleet that had entered the Tyran System. Having successfully lured the Imperial Cruisers away from the support of the planet's defence lasers, the bio-ships suddenly changed direction and fell upon the Imperial vessels like hungry sharks. The ''Emperor's Fist'' was the first Imperial starship destroyed, its hull shredded by a voracious swarm of organisms vomited forth by a much smaller vessel. The ''Righteous Destiny'' did not last much longer as a cluster of grasping tentacles dragged it into the gaping maw of a [[Hive Ship]]. Only the ''Sword of Warriors'' lasted long enough to transmit a warning by Vox to Tyran. Before the message was completed, leech-like pseudopods gnawed through the starship's [[Adamantium]] hull plates and unleashed a horde of vicious [[Genestealers]] onto the spacecraft's bridge and lower decks. The entire crew was viciously executed within minutes and the Cruiser was left to drift in space unmanned, its precious biomatter already dissolved into the Hive Fleet's reserve stocks.
-With the Imperial Cruisers lost, the Hive Fleet then returned into orbit of Tyran and this time the Imperial defences proved inadequate to stop them. Thousands of [[Mycetic Spore]]s hurtled down onto the world, and though the defence lasers managed to still destroy many of the lethal pods, countless more crashed into the stormy seas. All around the Imperial outpost, the waters boiled as the invaders burst from the spores and tore their way through the powerful maritime predators of Tyran's oceans, who were no match for the savagery of the Tyranids. Then the xenos scaled the walls of the Imperial outpost. At first, disciplined volleys of laser fire from the Imperial Guardsmen managed to drive the voracious creatures back, as amongst their numbers were veteran Guardsmen from the jungle-covered [[Death World]] of [[Catachan]], long-used to battling the similar monstrous fauna of their own homeworld. The Guardsmen fought through the constant, pouring rain and their firepower scythed out massive holes within the alien line. The hides of the smaller bioforms offered little protection from concentrated laser fire and were no match at all for the Autocannons of the interceptor grid erected around the base. Wave after wave of [[Hormagaunt]]s and Genestealers were torn apart and their corpses began to choke the carefully laid-out killing zones that lay between the outpost's bastions. Thunderbolt fighters soared through the skies above the base, destroying any incoming spores with precision fire before darting away to find new targets. And there were always more targets...
+With the Imperial Cruisers lost, the Hive Fleet then returned into orbit of Tyran and this time the Imperial defences proved inadequate. Thousands of [[Mycetic Spore]]s hurtled down onto the world, and though the defence lasers managed to still destroy many of the lethal pods, countless more crashed into the stormy seas. All around the Imperial outpost, the waters boiled as the invaders burst from the spores and tore their way through the powerful maritime predators of Tyran's oceans, who were no match for the savagery of the Tyranids. Then the xenos scaled the walls of the Imperial outpost. At first, disciplined volleys of laser fire from the Imperial Guardsmen managed to drive the voracious creatures back, as amongst their numbers were veteran Guardsmen from the jungle-covered [[Death World]] of [[Catachan]], long-used to battling the similar monstrous fauna of their own homeworld. The Guardsmen fought through the constant, pouring rain and their firepower scythed out massive holes within the alien line. The hides of the smaller bioforms offered little protection from concentrated laser fire and were no match at all for the Autocannons of the interceptor grid erected around the base. Wave after wave of [[Hormagaunt]]s and Genestealers were torn apart and their corpses began to choke the carefully laid-out killing zones that lay between the outpost's bastions. Thunderbolt fighters soared through the skies above the base, destroying any incoming spores with precision fire before darting away to find new targets. And there were always more targets...
 But the Imperial defence began to crack when the northern planetary laser finally fell silent. Thousands of [[Gargoyle]]s had thrown themselves on the [[Hive Mind]]'s order into its barrel, clogging the gigantic beam projectors with their own blackened bodies. Moments later the eastern planetary laser was destroyed when a [[Carnifex]] penetrated its steel walls and ripped apart the massive weapon's coolant lines. Despite their valiant efforts, the Thunderbolts eventually fell from the skies, their engines choked by spores or their pilots torn shrieking from their cockpits by [[Harpy|Harpies]]. As the Imperial defence network collapsed, the Mycetic Spores began to fall onto the outpost itself.

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-[[File:Apothecary_Emperor's_Peace.jpg|thumb|200px|An [[Apothecary]] of the [[Ultramarines]] Chapter administers the Emperor's Peace to a severely wounded [[Space Marine]]]]
+{{quote|No! The man was mortally wounded, I had [[Chaplain]] Clausel hear his confession and administer the ''Finis Rerum'', as befits a loyal servant of the [[Emperor]], and we buried him with his kin!|[[Captain]] [[Uriel Ventris]] of the [[Ultramarines]]}}
-{{quote|No! The man was mortally wounded, I had [[Chaplain]] Clausel hear his confession and administer the ''Finis Rerum'', as befits a loyal servant of the [[Emperor]], and we buried him with his kin!|[[Captain]] [[Uriel Ventris]] of the [[Ultramarines]].}}
+Over time, the term has passed into common Low Gothic usage, where it now refers to any necessary euthanasia of a loyal servant of the [[Emperor of Mankind]] for any reason.
 ==Final Service==
-The genhanced body of a superhuman Astartes is a marvel of resilience and healing capability, but it has limits, and some wounds are simply too terrible for a Space Marine to survive. When a Space Marine's wounds are beyond the [[Apothecary]]'s skill to heal, he will speak a few words of comfort to his dying brother before delivering a merciful coup-de-grâce that will end his suffering.
+There are multiple ways for the Apothecary to do this; the two most often applyied are either a violent removal of the affected [[Space Marine]]'s progenoid gland, which destroys both his hearts and lungs in the process; or the use of a euthanasia tool known as a Reducto[[Narthecium|r]]. This wrist-mounted device that is part of an Apothecary's [[Narthecium]] incorporates a powerful spring-loaded piston, which is applied to the wounded Astartes' temple and depressed, caving his head in and causing massive damage to his brain. In both cases, death is almost instantaneous and causes no further suffering to the dying Space Marine.
-[[Apothecary|Apothecaries]] always administer the Emperor's Peace with a heavy heart, but accept that the harvest of the [[Space Marine]]'s vital [[gene-seed]] will ensure that the dead Marine's legacy lives on through the future of the [[Chapter]].
+[[Apothecary|Apothecaries]] always administer the ''Emperor's Peace'' with a heavy heart, but accept that the harvest of the [[Space Marine]]'s vital [[gene-seed]] will ensure that the dead Marine's legacy lives on through the future of the [[Chapter]].
 ==Sources==
 *''Codex: Space Marines'' (4th Edition)
 *''Codex: Space Marines'' (5th Edition)
-*''Ultramarine Omnibus 1'' (novels) by Graham Mc. Neil
+*''The Ultramarines Omnibus'' (Novel) by [[Graham McNeill]]
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 ==Wargear==
-*'''Indynabula Array''' - Valthex was entrusted with an ancient relic known as the Indynabula Array, a relic that had been handed down through the centuries as a symbol of the office of the Astral Claws' Honoured Patriarch of the Forges. Believed to predate the Chapter's [[Founding]], this ancient machine was a servo-mechanical system of insane complexity and wide-ranging ability which far superseded the standard systems carried by normal [[Techmarine]]s. Not only was Valthex able to master this mysterious device, he was also able to reverse retrofit it to a powerful [[Conversion Beamer]] of his own construction.
+*'''Indynabula Array''' - Valthex was entrusted with an ancient relic known as the Indynabula Array, a relic that had been handed down through the centuries as a symbol of the office of the Astral Claws' Honoured Patriarch of the Forges. Believed to predate the Chapter's [[Founding]], this ancient machine was a servo-mechanical system of insane complexity and wide-ranging ability which far superseded the standard systems carried by normal [[Techmarine]]s. Not only was Valthex able to master this mysterious device, he was also able to further add to it a powerful [[Conversion Beamer]] of his own construction.
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−	For all filty mon Kiegh slaves who hear this, I wish to offer 2 solutions.	+	For all filthy mon Kiegh slaves who hear this, I wish to offer 2 solutions.

	My first is to seed worlds with hypersteroids, converting the once baseline humans into malformed and swelled giants. Previous encounters have shown that Tyranids will divert their course to another world if it shows an abundance of biomass. Using this technique, we create an intergalactic breadcrumb trail to the eye of terror, where many of the tyranids will die from exposure to the mutating power of chaos.		My first is to seed worlds with hypersteroids, converting the once baseline humans into malformed and swelled giants. Previous encounters have shown that Tyranids will divert their course to another world if it shows an abundance of biomass. Using this technique, we create an intergalactic breadcrumb trail to the eye of terror, where many of the tyranids will die from exposure to the mutating power of chaos.

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-'''Power Blades''' are a form of [[Eldar]] [[Power Weapons]] currently only available to [[Warp Spiders]] [[Exarch]]s, ordinarily being mounted on the forearm or retrofitted to the vambrace of the Warp Spider's armour rather than being hand-held. The term also applies to the small dagger-like Power Weapons used by many Imperial military forces. They are easily concealable and often used on infiltration missions by assassins and stealth operatives. Power Blades rely on the strength of their built-in power field to maintain the integrity of the thin blade upon a strike.
+'''Power Blades''' are a form of [[Eldar]] [[Power Weapons]] currently only available to [[Warp Spiders]] [[Exarch]]s, ordinarily being mounted on the forearm or retrofitted to the vambrace of the Warp Spider's armour rather than being hand-held. The term "Power Blade" also applies to the small dagger-like Power Weapons used by many Imperial military forces. They are easily concealable and often used on infiltration missions by assassins and stealth operatives. Power Blades rely on the strength of their built-in power field to maintain the integrity of the thin blade upon a strike.
 ==Sources==
-*''Codex: Eldar'' (4th Edition)
+*''Codex: Eldar'' (4th Edition), pp. 36, 65
 *''Black Crusade: Core Rulebook'' (RPG), pg. 163
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+<gallery widths="200" columns="3" spacing="small" position="center">
 File:Eldar_Warpspider.jpg|An [[Eldar]] Warp Spider [[Exarch]] of the [[Saim-Hann]] [[Craftworld]]
 File:Warp_Spiders_Aspect_Warriors.jpg|Warp Spiders Squad on patrol

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-'''Power Blades '''are a form of [[Eldar]] [[Power Weapons]] currently only available to [http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Warp_Spider Warp Spider] [http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Exarch Exarchs], ordinarily being mounted on the forearm or retrofitted to the vambrace of the Warp Spider's armour rather than being hand-held.
+'''Power Blades''' are a form of [[Eldar]] [[Power Weapons]] currently only available to [[Warp Spiders]] [[Exarch]]s, ordinarily being mounted on the forearm or retrofitted to the vambrace of the Warp Spider's armour rather than being hand-held. The term also applies to the small dagger-like Power Weapons used by many Imperial military forces. They are easily concealable and often used on infiltration missions by assassins and stealth operatives. Power Blades rely on the strength of their built-in power field to maintain the integrity of the thin blade upon a strike.
 ==Sources==
-{{stub}}
+*''Codex: Eldar'' (4th Edition)
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 The people of Furia exist on the knife-edge of oblivion, fighting a battle for survival against the vile daemon leviathans that rise without warning from the glass-calm seas to drag entire floating towns to their deaths. Thousands of sucker-clad tentacles rear up from the waters and diamondsharp beaks snap and rend. Only those floating communities that have managed to salvage and repair functional ranged weaponry have a chance of surviving such attacks, using rusted old [[Heavy Stubber]]s and guttering [[Lascannons]] to keep the beasts at bay another day longer.
 ===The Flaming Tomb===
-Beyond Furia, the boiling energies of the Warp Storm intensify on the approach to the so-called Lower Vortex. The last of the major worlds of the Inner Ring encountered before reaching that boundary is the Flaming Tomb, a planet of blackened
+Beyond Furia, the boiling energies of the Warp Storm intensify on the approach to the so-called Lower Vortex. The last of the major worlds of the Inner Ring encountered before reaching that boundary is the Flaming Tomb, a planet of blackened rock islands afloat on oceans of flaming lava. The air is filled with clouds of noxious gas so dense in places they can kill with a single breath. Tsunamis of raging magma rise up to swamp what little solid ground exists and when the tides of the Vortex wax and the screaming obscures all other sounds, beings of solid lava are said to rise from the searing seas and stalk the land, their footprints glowing orange in their passing. Needless to say, life on the world known as the Flaming Tomb is a brutal and often short affair.
 The population exists as feral refugees, each determined to hold on to what little territory they can win. The tribes of the Flaming Tomb are aided in their ceaseless battles by a caste of pyromancers able to manipulate fire in all its forms, and use it as a weapon against their enemies. The most powerful of these Sorcerers are able to summon firestorms capable of razing the lands of their foes to ashes and calling

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 [[File:Untitled.jpg|thumb|250px|Plasma Storm Battery, dorsal view]]
-A '''Plasma Storm Battery''' is an ancient form of [[Plasma Cannon]] utilised only by the [[Dark Angels]] [[Space Marine]] [[Chapter]] and the Successor Chapters of the [[Unforgiven]]. This relic weapon was long held in the armoury of [[Rock, The|The Rock]]. With the discovery of the [[Standard Template Construct (STC)|STC]] for the [[Land Speeder Vengeance|Land Speeder Vengeance in]] the [[M36|36th Millennium]], the Plasma Storm Battery was mated to that deadly variant of the standard [[Land Speeder]]. The Plasma Storm Battery is essentially two large Plasma Cannons mated together to fire in synch, much like a [[twin-linked]] weapon. With this formidable weapon, the Land Speeder Vengeance is able to deliver devastating volleys of potent plasma against its foes. It can fire in two modes: a rapid burst mode, or a slower, supercharged mode that emits a toroid of plasma to explode over a larger area for higher damage to the foe.
+A '''Plasma Storm Battery''' is an ancient form of [[Plasma Cannon]] utilised only by the [[Dark Angels]] [[Space Marine]] [[Chapter]] and the Successor Chapters of the [[Unforgiven]]. This relic weapon was long held in the armoury of [[Rock, The|The Rock]]. With the discovery of the [[Standard Template Construct (STC)|STC]] for the [[Land Speeder Vengeance|Land Speeder Vengeance in]] the 36th Millennium, the Plasma Storm Battery was mated to that deadly variant of the standard [[Land Speeder]]. The Plasma Storm Battery is essentially two large Plasma Cannons mated together to fire in synch, much like a [[twin-linked]] weapon. With this formidable weapon, the Land Speeder Vengeance is able to deliver devastating volleys of potent plasma against its foes. It can fire in two modes: a rapid burst mode, or a slower, supercharged mode that emits a toroid of plasma to explode over a larger area for higher damage to the foe.
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	At the end of Void stalker, Talos' successor was named Decimus in the same naming convention as the other slaves, it also implies that Decimus is the child of both Septimus and Octava. Perhaps this should be mentioned on the page as well. [[User: Tomj8937 \| Sadness eclipses Happiness]] 15:42, May 20, 2013 (UTC)		At the end of Void stalker, Talos' successor was named Decimus in the same naming convention as the other slaves, it also implies that Decimus is the child of both Septimus and Octava. Perhaps this should be mentioned on the page as well. [[User: Tomj8937 \| Sadness eclipses Happiness]] 15:42, May 20, 2013 (UTC)
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		+	Nah, this page covers the members of 1st Claw, to which Decimus isn't part of. However, it might be worth mentioning him on the actual Night Lords page. [[User:Solomus-BlackWing\|Ave Dominus Nox!]] ([[User talk:Solomus-BlackWing\|talk]]) 16:25, May 20, 2013 (UTC)

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 [[File:HydraFlakPlatform00.jpg|thumb|250px|A Hydra Flak Platform of the [[Imperial Guard]]]]
-The '''Hydra Flak Platform''', also known as simply the '''Hydra Platform''', is an [[Imperium of Man|Imperial]] weapons platform dedicated to anti-air defence. The Hydra Flak Platform is armed with an anti-air turret outfitted with a [[Hydra Flak Cannon]], which consists of two sets of [[twin-linked]], long-barrelled [[Autocannon]]s, for a total of four barrels. The Hydra Platform is usually used by the [[Imperial Guard]] as a static weapons emplacement, placed in close proximity to Imperial artillery formations in order to protect them from enemy aircraft. Hydra Platforms are also placed next to important strategic targets, such as bridges, command posts and airfields. The Hydra Platform, much like the [[Earthshaker Cannon]] and [[Manticore Platform]] makes use of the common [[Phaeton]] Pattern Imperial weapons platform that possesses four stabiliser legs. These legs can fold up and motorised tracks can be attached so the platform, and its mounted weapon, can be towed into place. These platforms are usually towed by larger Imperial support vehicles such as [[Trojan]]s, as smaller Imperial support vehicles, such as the [[Centaur]], are not powerful enough to tow the weight of the platform and its weapon. The Earthshaker Cannon can also make use of the wheeled [[Lucius]] Pattern weapons platform, although it is unknown if the Hydra Platform or Manticore Platform can also make use of this pattern. Each Hydra Platform is crewed by several specially trained [[Imperial Guard]] soldiers, usually a commander, a gunner, and up to three loaders. The crew will ride in the Trojan assigned to their platform when it is moved. The Trojan also carries some of the weapons platform's ammunition. Hydra Platforms are usually deployed to the field in groups consisting of three Hydra Platforms, their crews, and three Trojan utility vehicles to tow them.
+The '''Hydra Flak Platform''', also known as simply the '''Hydra Platform''', is an Imperial weapons platform dedicated to anti-air defence. The Hydra Flak Platform is armed with an anti-air turret outfitted with a [[Hydra Flak Cannon]], which consists of two sets of [[twin-linked]], long-barrelled [[Autocannon]]s, for a total of four barrels. The Hydra Platform is usually used by the [[Imperial Guard]] as a static weapons emplacement, placed in close proximity to Imperial artillery formations in order to protect them from enemy aircraft. Hydra Platforms are also placed next to important strategic targets, such as bridges, command posts and airfields. The Hydra Platform, much like the [[Earthshaker Cannon]] and [[Manticore Platform]] makes use of the common [[Phaeton]] Pattern Imperial weapons platform that possesses four stabiliser legs. These legs can fold up and motorised tracks can be attached so the platform, and its mounted weapon, can be towed into place. These platforms are usually towed by larger Imperial support vehicles such as [[Trojan]]s, as smaller Imperial support vehicles, such as the [[Centaur]], are not powerful enough to tow the weight of the platform and its weapon. The Earthshaker Cannon can also make use of the wheeled [[Lucius]] Pattern weapons platform, although it is unknown if the Hydra Platform or Manticore Platform can also make use of this pattern. Each Hydra Platform is crewed by several specially trained [[Imperial Guard]] soldiers, usually a commander, a gunner, and up to three loaders. The crew will ride in the Trojan assigned to their platform when it is moved. The Trojan also carries some of the weapons platform's ammunition. Hydra Platforms are usually deployed to the field in groups consisting of three Hydra Platforms, their crews, and three Trojan utility vehicles to tow them.
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 Yes Chris, that seems to be the case. We also arrived at this conclusion. It also seems to confirm that the orks are indeed bogging them down, since scout reports have indicated that the Swarmlord is leading thw tyranids against to orks in Octavius. If the swarmlord escapes, then it would take a great deal to bring him out again. Perhapes Alhendors has a way to destroy it for good.