Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Roleplay/@comment-4948356-20130818133646/@comment-7232811-20130821172713

Looks like I'm in trouble. Again...

By the way, for a force that small, I would say only one greater daemon would need to lead it, not ten of them. In fact, it is only in the most EXCEPTIONAL circumstances that you would have more than one greater daemon, & for the really small forces, (like this one) you would most likely have something like a herald leading it.

On Tartarus...

(I continue to trudge onwards towards my goal, guided by my witch-sight. There are fewer spirits here, though the whispers of Bale still hang in the air. However, there has been a marked increase in the number of daemons & warp beasts I have seen. The latter in particular I have had numerous encounters with; their ravaged corpses leaving a distinctive trail behind me as to where I've been. Just then, my senses prickle, & I turn around to see the figures of numerous red-skinned daemons bounding across the ravaged earth to reach me. At the head of the pack is a particularly large & deadly-looking specimen, with horns of brass & a vicious looking broadsword in his claws. I groan & mutter:)

Someone clearly seems to resent my being here. I guess I spoke too soon then...

(with that, I begin to sprint across the uneven ground, trying to put distance between myself & the bloodletters, while simultaneously getting closer to my destination)

Above Tartarus...

(Sakro & his fleet have escaped into the warp, yet are now temporarily forgetting about the gene-seed, & simply concerned with trying to escape Vulture. The fleet exits the warp, only to bump into more foes. It is not Vulture however, but one of the refugee fleets, trying to make its way out of the sector. & it is truly vast, composed of almost a hundred vessels, all of which are packed with terrified civilians...)

Cynjax (champion of the Terminators & Sakro's second in command): Should we engage lord?

Sakro: Yes. Ready the boarding torpedoes & attack craft. Destroy a few of them though, if only to prove a point...

Cynjax: I shall ready the forces sir. I am I right in thinking you intend to herd them?

Sakro: Very much so. We shall drive them directly towards Septimus. That ought to give them a little more problems to worry about...

(true enough, the small but deadly fleet closes in on the helpless vessels, & runs rampant within it. The ships nearer the fleet are destroyed almost instantly, their weak void shields bursting under the strain in mere seconds. Though many vessels are armed, they are designed for fighting off mere corsairs & pirates, & stand no chance against astartes warships. As the Legion's vessels spread throughout the panicking refugees, they release a veritable swarm of attack craft, boarding torpedoes, & assault boats into over half of the refugee vessels, & disgorge swarms of cultists & astartes into their hulls. The troops run amok within the ships, causing carnage before eventually withdrawing back to their own vessels. By this point, the refugees are well & truly terrified, & begin to scatter in any direction that takes them from the legion. But the escorts of the fleet fan out, & begin to herd the fleeing craft together until they all form one unified group, which they then goad with precise cannon fire until it flees in the direction that it wants them to go.)

Sakro: Nicely done brothers (as the vessels begin to flee into the warp). Avian is too noble to deny them aid. He would never be able to allow over a hundred thousand innocents to die at the hands of such terrible foes like Vulture...

(as soon as the last refugee vessel has escaped, the fleet disappears back into the warp, before Vulture can try to pursue them)