Post by redshirt2375 on Nov 7, 2010 20:22:16 GMT -5
According to Imperium records, Draxsis IV was a lifeless, barren rock with no resource value of any kind. It was logged as a dead planet and therefore had been lost in the bureaucratic archives since the early days of the Emperor's Great Crusade. No one thought to question how a world that showed no signs of excavation or mining could be completely devoid of minerals.
The series of strange arch-like rock formations located along what appeared to be a extinct volcanic range where logged as irregular formations and not deemed to be worth further analysis.
It was a dead planet and was not worth a growing galactic-empire's time and so had been ignored. Such an inferior species couldn't have known what they had found, but would soon regret their ignorance of it...
The series of large, arch-like rock formations that covered a vast span of one of Draxsis IV's continents suddenly began to hum. The lack of any Imperial, or other Xenos, presence on this dead planet in a far-flung system at the edge of known space meant there was no one there to notice the anomaly. The humming slowly grew louder and began to pulse and within the centre of each arch a small dark void suddenly opened.
With each pulse the hum grew louder and the voids grew wider. As the noise reached a scream-like crescendo the voids suddenly expanded to fill the arches. The arches had become gateways of pure darkness and from that darkness came an evil far greater than the Chaos Gods themselves.
Raiders filled with Kabalite warriors and Wyches came roaring out of the gate followed closely by Ravagers. Reavers sped past both while Hellions swooped amongst them all. Then came the foot soldiers. More Kabalite warriors strode through the gateways with the shadowy forms of Mandrakes weaving amongst them and moving out into the lifeless wastes. Shambling after these came the abominations that had been crafted by some of the most skilled of Commorragh's Haemonculi along with the Hamonculus masters who'd created them.
The vast army that came through moved with purpose towards the many caves within the rock faces of the surrounding mountains and made their way down into the vast underground complex that was at the heart of the planet, which had remained hidden due to vastly superior cloaking technology the likes of which few had ever seen outside of the Dark City itself.
A lone figure stepped forth from one of the portals and took a long, deep breath and looked up at the stars that shone in the sky above. At seeing the vastness of space arrayed above him he let out that breath in a deep chuckle and a shake of his head.
"Hello galaxy. How I've missed you. Have you missed me? Well it's time for you and I to become reacquainted. My name is Let'Visera Kell. I'm here to rule you."
With that said the figure moved to follow his army into the underground base on a planet he'd had constructed in a time just before the Fall. A base from which he would launch his raids on the unsuspecting worlds of the lesser species and one day rule the galaxy from.
"Vect can have Commorragh. I have much bigger plans in mind."
...on a far off Craftworld a single Farseer's eyes suddenly snapped open, pulling him from his meditative state. He quickly rose to his feet and hastened from his Meditation Chamber and made his way to a seclude room within his home. Once in that room he went to one of the walls and made a series of gestures which cause a section of the wall to dissolve to reveal a small alcove. With a deep sigh, he saw that the item within the alcove was pulsing with a dark, sickly light.
"He has returned. I must prepare for what is to come."
Thought I would announce to everyone that I now have the new Dark Eldar Codex in my possession with a nice little narrative. Once I've read through all the wonderful fluff I've waited over a decade for, I will hopefully be playing 40K again on a more regular basis and I learn what works and doesn't work with the new book. Hopefully it won't take me too long to find a nice balanced list that proves as enjoyable as my old one.
(hope you like my little reference to our tag-team fluff Matt
Hopefully it will be a foreshadowing of things to come now that I finally have a new book)
The series of strange arch-like rock formations located along what appeared to be a extinct volcanic range where logged as irregular formations and not deemed to be worth further analysis.
It was a dead planet and was not worth a growing galactic-empire's time and so had been ignored. Such an inferior species couldn't have known what they had found, but would soon regret their ignorance of it...
The series of large, arch-like rock formations that covered a vast span of one of Draxsis IV's continents suddenly began to hum. The lack of any Imperial, or other Xenos, presence on this dead planet in a far-flung system at the edge of known space meant there was no one there to notice the anomaly. The humming slowly grew louder and began to pulse and within the centre of each arch a small dark void suddenly opened.
With each pulse the hum grew louder and the voids grew wider. As the noise reached a scream-like crescendo the voids suddenly expanded to fill the arches. The arches had become gateways of pure darkness and from that darkness came an evil far greater than the Chaos Gods themselves.
Raiders filled with Kabalite warriors and Wyches came roaring out of the gate followed closely by Ravagers. Reavers sped past both while Hellions swooped amongst them all. Then came the foot soldiers. More Kabalite warriors strode through the gateways with the shadowy forms of Mandrakes weaving amongst them and moving out into the lifeless wastes. Shambling after these came the abominations that had been crafted by some of the most skilled of Commorragh's Haemonculi along with the Hamonculus masters who'd created them.
The vast army that came through moved with purpose towards the many caves within the rock faces of the surrounding mountains and made their way down into the vast underground complex that was at the heart of the planet, which had remained hidden due to vastly superior cloaking technology the likes of which few had ever seen outside of the Dark City itself.
A lone figure stepped forth from one of the portals and took a long, deep breath and looked up at the stars that shone in the sky above. At seeing the vastness of space arrayed above him he let out that breath in a deep chuckle and a shake of his head.
"Hello galaxy. How I've missed you. Have you missed me? Well it's time for you and I to become reacquainted. My name is Let'Visera Kell. I'm here to rule you."
With that said the figure moved to follow his army into the underground base on a planet he'd had constructed in a time just before the Fall. A base from which he would launch his raids on the unsuspecting worlds of the lesser species and one day rule the galaxy from.
"Vect can have Commorragh. I have much bigger plans in mind."
...on a far off Craftworld a single Farseer's eyes suddenly snapped open, pulling him from his meditative state. He quickly rose to his feet and hastened from his Meditation Chamber and made his way to a seclude room within his home. Once in that room he went to one of the walls and made a series of gestures which cause a section of the wall to dissolve to reveal a small alcove. With a deep sigh, he saw that the item within the alcove was pulsing with a dark, sickly light.
"He has returned. I must prepare for what is to come."
Thought I would announce to everyone that I now have the new Dark Eldar Codex in my possession with a nice little narrative. Once I've read through all the wonderful fluff I've waited over a decade for, I will hopefully be playing 40K again on a more regular basis and I learn what works and doesn't work with the new book. Hopefully it won't take me too long to find a nice balanced list that proves as enjoyable as my old one.
(hope you like my little reference to our tag-team fluff Matt
Hopefully it will be a foreshadowing of things to come now that I finally have a new book)