The Crusade was scheduled to depart from Forge World , are you injured anywhere? These filthy beasts are poisonous."
The woman crashed to her knees and drew a deep breath. "I saw my death...but I was saved. The Lanters?"
"Yes, Inquisitor. We only have three Battle-Brothers, including the Master...although he's not a real...well. He does a great job, and he sent and the Sisters here. Don't worry you're safe now." the man declared in a proud voice, while his Guardians walking turrets fired volley after volley of lascannons and torrents of multilasers with incredible accuracy.
"... Then, I shall have to offer my thanks to your Chapter Master, Lanter. So those black voids of nightmare were Silent Sisters?" the woman asked, holstering her useless pistol and glancing after the Leviathans with a shudder.
I smiled inward as I focused my attention back of the fleet deploynt. Generals Reila and Regina had the ground warfare part covered, while Colonel Jenit was heading down with 3 Auxilia armor regints and 60 more techmarines, to set up defenses for the main Hive City of Lordsholm.
Of course my Chapter's armor regints were nothing like the normal Astra Militarum units, with 20 tis more warmachines, and lots of drones and ground-attack craft in support.
A couple of different Chapters Astartes Companies were already on the surface and knee-deep in blood, brutally quelling the rebellions while my techpriests and servitors were also preparing to deploy and use the captured rebels and cultists for Omnissiah's work, converting them into more servitors and digging trenches, setting minefields or simply being marched out as forward artillery observers.
We still had a month til the main bulk of the Hive Fleet arrived, quite enough ti to drag a hundred asteroids for a minimal array of orbital forts, and hit-and-run attacks by Nova Cannon cruisers.
In the grim future of the 41st Millennium there is only war, and I learned to love it.
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