Warhammer: Empire Reboot

However, in Slaanesh's ritual runes, the ring formed by six red stones represents the perfection of the senses.

"Sedorak".

Taiwa said coldly, "You are lying to me. Traitors should be executed!"

puff!

The Guardian Spear of Teyva was beside him one moment, and the next it had pierced through Sedorak's chest the next.

Sedora looked down at the spear shaft that had pierced his chest, and opened his mouth as if to say something.

Taiwa did not give him a chance to speak.

The spear shaft rotated forty-five degrees, widening the wound, before being withdrawn.

The Brass Dragonflight Chapter Leader, Sedorak, fell backward.

Falling to the ground means death.

The brass dragon warriors on the landing field reacted the instant the warband fell, raising their explosive rifles and pointing them at Tawar.

"Kill them!"

They didn't have time to pull the trigger.

The twenty-four Imperial Guards had already formed a battle formation the instant that Taiwa made his move.

The Guardian Spear's bomb gun modules fired in unison, and golden bombs covered all the brass dragon warriors with their guns raised on the landing field in half a second.

The Imperial Guards' combat power was overwhelming compared to that of the Brass Dragon Warriors.

A very short time later, all the brass dragon warriors on the landing site collapsed to the ground.

Teva shook off the bloodstains from the Guardian's Spear.

He coldly ordered: "Enter the fortress, cleanse them all, leave no survivors."

The Emperor's Claw allied forces advanced into the fortress.

The fighting inside the fortress lasted for about forty minutes.

Four hundred brass dragon warriors, about a third of whom were visibly corrupted, with Slaanesh markings on their shoulder armor and weapons.

The other two-thirds showed no obvious signs of decay, but Teva didn't care about such distinctions.

In the law enforcement logic of the Imperial Guard, there is no distinction between degrees of corruption.

If your chapter master carries the runes of Slaanesh, and your brothers bear the mark of Slaanesh on their shoulder armor, then your entire chapter is corrupted.

Regardless of whether you are personally infected or not, your genetic seed comes from the same source, you breathe the same air from the same fortress, and you obey the orders of the same traitorous warband leader.

If the probability of infection is not zero, then it is equivalent to one hundred percent.

Then they should all be killed!

Forty minutes later, the last warrior inside the Brass Dragon Fortress was pinned to death by the Guardian Spear of the Imperial Guard in front of the Gene Seed Vault.

Taiwa stands in the gene seed bank.

The warehouse contains all the genetic seeds that the Brass Dragon Legion has cultivated and stored over the past two thousand years.

Thousands of cryogenic chambers contain genetic templates from the bloodline of the emperor's son.

Taiwah ordered all of them to be destroyed.

Then, the Shield Guard Company Commander walked out of the fortress.

On the landing site, 320 original Forged Space Marine recruits stood beside the shuttle.

They heard the sounds of fighting inside the fortress the whole time, and they knew something was wrong.

But they did not move, because they were loyal.

They had just undergone implantation surgery and were wearing Primal Forged Power Armor personally designed by the Great Sage Kaul. Their minds were instilled with the Emperor's teachings and absolute loyalty to the Empire.

They only knew that the Imperial Guard was carrying out some kind of mission beyond their comprehension, and that the Imperial Guard's actions did not need to be explained to any Astartes.

Taiwa walked up to the 320 new recruits.

Three hundred and twenty young faces, the paint on their power armor still showing no signs of wear from the battle.

The oldest of them may have had the implantation less than five years ago.

Their eyes held confusion, tension, and awe of the Imperial Guard.

Teva looked at them and said, “Your mother organization, the Brass Dragonflight, has betrayed us. Chapter Master Sedorak is a follower of Slaanesh, and the fortress is filled with Chaos runes. The Brass Dragonflight has been declared an extreme heretic, and all members have been executed.”

A new recruit stepped forward and tried to explain.

“Company Commander, we are Proto-Forged Space Marines. Our gene-seeds come from the cultivation project of Archsage Caul and have undergone Terra’s most rigorous purity testing. We have not had contact with any member of the Brass Dragonflight, have not set foot in their fortress, have not…”

"Your genetic seed originated from the Third Creator."

Teva interrupted him: "The bloodline of the Emperor's son is of the same origin as that of the brass dragon."

"Same origin does not mean same crime..."

"For me, it's equal to!"

The recruit company commander's lips moved slightly.

He wanted to say something, but he didn't get a chance to say anything.

Because Tawar has already turned around.

"Clean!"

The Guardian Spear's bomb gun module fired again in the same second.

Three hundred and twenty original Space Marines.

A brand-new power armor, a pure genetic seed, and absolute loyalty to the Emperor.

None of that mattered in the face of the Imperial Guard's explosives.

There is only one important thing: their genetic seed comes from a bloodline that has already betrayed them, and no risk is acceptable.

The massacre lasted less than a minute.

The original Space Marines were powerful, but they were new recruits, facing a combined force of elite Custodians with three thousand years of service experience and the anti-psychic Sisters of Silence.

Moreover, most of them died without fighting back.

Because they are loyal, and loyal warriors will not raise their guns against the Emperor's royal guard.

This is the price they paid for their loyalty.

The landing site was covered with fragments of brand-new original forged power armor and blood that hadn't yet flowed far.

Three hundred and twenty corpses.

Some of them fell while still standing at attention, because they were following the order "not to fight back against the Imperial Guards" until their last breath.

Taiwa walked among the corpses, not a single drop of blood staining his golden armor.

He didn't think he had gone to extremes; it was his duty.

Although the Brass Dragon's data center was partially damaged by the shockwave from the Imperial Guard, its core storage remained intact.

Taiwa had his accompanying mechanical instructors extract all of the battle group's communication records, mission logs, and personnel deployment data.

The data was compiled within ten minutes.

The defection of the Brass Dragons Chapter is not a recent event.

According to communication records, the warband had already begun contacting the forces of chaos at least three years ago.

Slaanesh's followers developed a core group of members from within the chapter, and then spread outwards like a virus.

But this is not the most crucial information.

The key information is that the whereabouts of approximately six hundred soldiers in the Brass Dragons Chapter are marked in the communications log as "executing an external contract".

The client of the contract: Fabius Bayer.

The six hundred soldiers of the Brass Dragon included the entire force of the Third, Fifth, Seventh, and Eighth Companies.

For the past two years, they have been acting as mercenaries for Bayer.

They are responsible for protecting Bayer's laboratory network, hunting down Imperial and Chaos forces that attempt to track Bayer, and providing genetic seed samples and live experimental materials for Bayer's "New Human" project.

In return, Bayer provided the brass dragon with the genetically modified blessing of Slaanesh.

Chapter Commander Sedorak and his core officer corps came into contact with Slaanesh through Bayer's channels.

Taiwa shut down the data terminal.

The concept of "killing only half" does not exist in the Imperial Guard's dictionary.

The Brass Dragons have been declared an extreme heresy.

This means that every member of this warband, whether on their home planet or on the other side of the galaxy, is a target that needs to be eliminated.

Six hundred Astartes rebelled and were working for Bayer.

Bayer himself was a traitor wanted by the empire for ten thousand years.

Two targets, one kill order.

Taiwa walked back to the landing site.

"The entire fleet is assembled."

"Target: Fabius Bayer and the remnants of the Brass Dragonflight. Hunt them all down. No time limit, no distance limit. Until the last gene seed of this chapter is burned to ashes."

"This time, I'm going to kill Bayer completely!"

The Imperial Guard fleet set sail from the orbit of Casseldul.

Three gold-painted warships changed direction and leaped into subspace.

…………

Alert star, command center.

Good news poured in like a river.

Dante's Blood Angels army recaptured three star systems outside Nakmonde Pass, and the double-headed eagle banner was raised again on seventeen Imperial worlds.