The council and Imperium

The Fateful Meeting

Horus: Father we have news of the human colony you sent us to take.

Emperor: What is it?

Guilliman: It is one of our lost brothers.

Emperor: Really? What is his name and "home world"?

Horus: His name is shepherd, and his home world is a hive world by the name of Adrumbia Primaris, he has united the world through Asymmetrical warfare.

The Emperor seemed to be processing the information given to him, one of his sons have been found and he lived on a hive world, he wondered if he would be like Konrad Cruze, Corvus Corax, or even Horus. None of that matters now, he would meet his son and bring the II and X legions for they are the ones still missing the Primarchs.

Emperor: Take me there, now.

3 weeks later

Sanguinius: Father why have you called us here?

Emperor: Another of your brothers have been found, the Primarch of the second legion. The voiceless.

Fulgrim: Them? Do you wonder what will happen once we set them lose? They are cannibals and mad men for heaven's sake!

Emperor: Yes I did think of that, that's why we are moving their home world to Adrumbia Primaris.

Ferrus: But at least we have another brother correct?

Vulkan: Yes Ferrus, a new brother would be excellent to the crusade.

As they made planetfall they noticed something, the cities power was fluctuating for some reason. More so when the more Psychic of the group touched the ground. Then what they assumed was their son/brother came to greet them they were honestly surprised. He wasn't pae or had blood all over him, no he looked like a civilized person not unlike Fulgrim and Robute. He came to the Emperor and knelt at his feet.

Shepeard: I pledge myself to you father, for the glory of humanity and the imperium.

Emperor: Rise my son and receive your legion. The Voiceless is their name.

Shepeard: I thank you my Emperor.

50 years later.

The Voidless have been renamed to the Sons of Malice for their ferocity in fighting and their cannibalistic tendencies. They like the Ultramarines, made themselves a semi independent mini stellar empire, from Seculus to Shanxi those worlds have been shown the imperial truth and some submitted without a fight, the ones that resisted were either extermanatus or campaigns were organized to take the planet. Another way the Sons of Malice have distinguished themselves is by naval warfare. They are masters at it none save maybe Guilliman, the Emperor, Malacador can match them in ship to ship combat. But despite all these glorious things the peace in the sector is about to end, for Xenos device has been found and the Mechanicum have activated it, and have drawn the ire of a race who is a stagnant yet still somewhat mighty race.

Location, Shanxi Prime capital of the Shanxi system

PDF Guardsman[AKA meat shield]: My lord, pardon my interruption, but a unknown fleet has just entered the system and is making their way here as we speak.

Planetary governor: Alert all PDF forces on the planet now! Call the Sons of Malice they might save us!

PDFGM: Yes sir!

Turian fleet

Turian commander: Look at these primitives brother, breaking council law. They have to be punished.

Saren: Agreed Desolas[forgot his name correct me if i'm wrong] they shall make a good client state though.

Desolas: Agreed. Now go prep the invasion force, we need to subjugate them quickly so the council won't make a fuss about first contact.

Unknown to them the imperials already know of their coming and are using the servitors to build the trenches, now the Arbities are arming the local underhive gangs with bolters or lasguns because they are experts at asymmetrical warfare and masters of the local terrain. When the Turians made planet fall they expected an all out assault but got nothing, when they pressed onward they met the trenches all 2739 kilometers of it and so began the Shanxi war/skirmish. The Planetary defense forces held out long and hard while having little to no training due to them basically being conscripted militia, they had the more numbers and technological advantage over their invaders and the Tuarins wouldn't do orbital bombardment for this is a rare garden world. So they were locked into a stalemate for several days, each time the Taurians attacked the PDF repelled them, each time they punched through a trench there was another behind it laying covering fire, but the PDF was no better for every mound gained or secured they lost up to maybe hundreds or thousands of people per attack, their minimal training being part of it. The fact that the tech-priest are also trying to "awaken" the Machine spirit in the Baneblades[2 of them] also the majority of the systems Tech-priest are on the xenos artifact. But that is about to change for the Sons of Malice have finally arrived to join the fray of battle on their battlebarge the endless void. It was like Gullimans Macragge honor, the Herfankle, a ship only equaled by the emperor class battleships and the Phalanx. When they arrived the resident warp energy disabled any and all element zero powered vehicles/weapons/ships [that's why the planets power was fluctuating when Emps went to get shepard]

On Turian flag ship

Naval officer: Sir! We have seemed to have lost all mechanisms in the ship!

Desolas: What!?! How is that possible?!

Officer: We have no idea sir. By the spirits.

Desolas: What are you talking aboutttt.......All hands brace impact!

But the endless void did not collide with the the ship but instead was about to but never did. Then in a blinding flash of light the officers and commander saw 3 individuals clad in heavy armor while one had a strange staff in hand and they were giving off a unsettling aura around them, wordlessly they started their attack. The officers tried to use their firearms most didn't work, but the ones that did simply bounced off the armor of them. They grabbed some of them and crushed the officers skulls in their hands. While others pulled out guns and started to fire, kinetic barriers did nothing to stop their bullets from piercing their bodies and splitting them in half. Then the one wilding the staff grabbed Desolas by the throat and started to strangle him to death it felt like until he passed out then the soldiers clad in armor silently moved to the command deck and sent a code of binary to the techmarines on board that they have taken the vessel and the scout marines are capturing or killing the remaining crew. On the service Saren was in charge of the ground operations but something was happening, he stopped getting reports from the vessel in orbit. Something was definitely wrong here.

Saren: Back to the ships! We can't win, this must be their strongest army. Fall back!

But as they made their way to the ship what looked like a meteors came from the sky and stopped them from using the ships for it crushed the ships under their collective wight. As it turned out those were no mere meteors but rather drop pods and out popped the armored soldiers and unlike in the ship there was enough light to see what they look like, they have a black and white color scheme and a skull painted onto their shoulder pads with a black and white theme to it as well, one was larger than the others though and carried a sword that crackled with energy and a two barreled gun with two drums on the bottom of it. In a futile attempt to kill them the Taurians tried to get their rockets and tanks to barrel down on the enemy but they had their own rockets, and from behind Saren he heard something and when he looked he was scared, a 11 gun heavy plated tank [ Baneblade] was coming towards them and the rocket teams were taken out and the enemies in armor charged at them. Never uttering a word. In a matter of minutes they lost the majority of the exploration legions.

Saren: FALL BACK!! INTO THE WOOD WORKS!! GO GO!!

And they did, the remaining soldiers knew this wasn't a tactical withdrawal. But instead a retrate order which they abandoned common collective cool for mere individual survival and the battle for Shanxi has been won. But there will be more battles to come.

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