THE THIEF INQUISITOR EXTRACTIO EXTREMIS
When Inquisitor Gao of the Ordo Xenos brings a Necrontyr Through their Rogue Trader contacts, the Deathwatch are
datacane with him to Fort Volossia, he unwittingly seeds its demise. alerted to the presence of a Space Marine captain in the
The Necron Overlord Zhanatar the Vengeful descends upon the blood sport arenas of Commorragh. Kill Team Aldric, after
watch fortress at the head of a hundred Night Scythes. He brings seeking the wisdom of the Salamanders 1st Company, finds
overwhelming force against the Deathwatch garrison before a method of entering the webway. By smuggling their Corvus
disappearing, with datacane in hand, taking Inquisitor Gao now Blackstar within the damaged hull of a corsair starship, they
trapped in a tesseract labyrinth with him as a cautionarylesson. enter the Dark City. There they fight into the arenas holding
pens. Though it costs the lives of all bar Aldric himself, the
gladiator captain is freed in time to catch the corsair ship as
THE KRYPTMAN GAMBIT it leaves, still unaware of its Imperial cargo.
After seeing the destruction meted out by Hive Fleet
Leviathan across a wide frontage of Imperial space,
Inquisitor Kryptman orders a cordon of worlds in its path
laid barren or actively destroyed to starve the Tyranids THE VAULT OF AZAGOROD
of sustenance. This drastic measure sees Kryptman A shard of the Ctan codified in Ordo Xenos records
excommunicated, with many calling for the death sentence. as the Destroyer is found in the Gulga system, its
Meanwhile, the Inquisitors Deathwatch allies stasis-capture psychic shadow so dark it is picked up by long-range
a brood of Genestealers from a space hulk and send them astropathic reverb choirs. The Deathwatch sent to
into the Octarian empire, an Ork stronghold coreward of investigate find the system rife with undeath, both
the main Leviathan tendril. The gambit is vindicated when mechanical and biological. After many months of
the Hive Fleet follows the psychic spoor of its Genestealers warfare involving forces from three watch fortresses,
into the biomass-rich Ork Empire, buying the Imperium the Ctan vault of Azagorod is finally destroyed by
time to regroup as xenos fights xenos across the system. a sustained lascannon bombardment from massed
Land Raiders and Blackstar dropship wings.
THE GHOSAR QUINTUS ANOMALY
Chaplain Ortan Cassius leads an Aquila Kill Team
to the backwater mining world of Ghosar Quintus, THE GREAT USURPER
only to find an alien infestation spread not only On the island world of Tharsis
throughout the planet, but the Segmentum and Prime, a Lacrymole shapeshifter
possiblybeyond. posing as the paranoid planetary
governor Icos Blaille is finally put
down after a gruelling war with
the mercenary Kroot tribes he
CROWN OF THE BEAST has hired to protect himself.
Whilst on a destabilisation raid to the war-torn Empire
of Octaria, the Kill Teams of the Eye of Octos witness
a Mekaniak invention that disrupts the synaptic control
linking Tyranid organisms. Appearing much like a crown
of electricity, it is used by the self-appointed King Mek
Baddkrasha to break swarm after swarm. The Kill Teams
wait for the two xenos armies to decimate each other before THE AMBULL INVASIONS OF TRIYIXTERT
diving in, their Furor teams cutting through to Baddkrasha
before escaping with his decapitated head crown and all
for further study.
DAMNOS REVISITED
The ice-locked world of Damnos, scoured of
human settlers during the awakening of the
Necrons in the events of the Ultramarines 2nd
Companys greatest defeat, is revisited by a full
half of the chapter. Lord Marneus Calgar and
Captain Cato Sicarius reconquer the planets
surface as a team of Deathwatch infiltrate
the primary tomb complex and destroy its
lords ability to regenerate before striking the
finalblow.
THE ENCLAVES STRUCK
With Commander Farsight and his
subordinates joining the war for Agrellan, the
Deathwatch make an opportunistic attack
on the Farsight Enclaves. They causeuntold
damage on the Enclaves command structure
before Commander Farsight returns,
vengeance foremost onhis mind.
RISE OF THE ALIEN
The Imperiums armies are spread thin by the ever-
escalating threat of Chaos. Across the galaxy, thousands of
xenos races that were once content to bide their time now
launch full-scale invasions, encroaching upon the borders
of the Emperors realm. The Deathwatch find themselves
stretched to breaking point and beyond.
WAR UPON THE BRINK
As the 41st Millennium draws to a close, the shield of the
Deathwatch has been shaken, shivered and brought to the edge
of destruction. Never before have so many threats to the fabric of
Mankinds realm risen up at one time; never before have so many
powerful xenos races sought to take the galaxy for their own.
A thousand horrors gnaw and tear at the fabric of destiny,
foes old and new emerging to take their chance as Mankind is
torn apart by its long war against Chaos. The Eldar fight for a
resurgence ten millennia in the making, taking no prisoners as
they seek to burn brightly before the end. Their vile Commorrite
cousins intend to line their larders before the apocalypse
breaks, raiding in never-before seen numbers to leave once-
thriving worlds empty of sentient life. The Necron dynasties
awake faster than the Deathwatch can put them down, long-
buried armies lurching to life as ancient overlords attempt to
restore a lifeless order to the era of mayhem that greets their
awakening. The Orks, a threat long turned upon itself by the
Deathwatchs surgical raids, are finally uniting under the
prophet of Armageddon. Their green tsunami of violence is set to
drown the stars. On the Eastern Fringe the tech-savant armies of
the Tau Empire expand aggressively, their invention of the ZFR
Horizon Accelerator Engine pushing them across the Damocles
Gulf to steal worlds from the Imperium at a shocking pace.
Further out drift the numberless bio-ships of the Great Devourer.
Hive Fleets Behemoth and Kraken push their rapacious tendrils
further coreward with every year, leaving nothing but scoured
balls of rock in their wake. A dozen others encroach upon the
Imperiums borders, their living bio-ships creeping from the
void in numbers beyond sane measure. Perhaps it is Leviathan
that should be feared the most, for its splinter fleets emerge from
under the galactic core to menace Segmentum Solar the seat of
human civilisation itself.
With every year more requests are levelled unto the wider
Adeptus Astartes by the Deathwatch, citing ancient oaths to
claim tithe after tithe. Yet the Astropathic messages flow both
ways. Hundreds of Chapters are formally requesting their
brothers be discharged from their Long Vigils and sent back,
despite the tarnishing of their honour that entails. In this time
of woe, every Space Marine is vital in the war against the dark
powers that seek to capsize reality itself. Whether Humanity will
survive to see in a new age is unknown, but the Deathwatch are
fighting with every iota of their strength to ensure it.
HE WHO ALLOWS THE ALIEN TO LIVE SHARES ITS CRIME
OFEXISTENCE.
- Inquisitor Apollyon
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