The Tartaros-pattern Terminator of the Shadow of Order, Vastly Different from the Empire
Warships painted with blue wave patterns scattered Drop Pods like rolling waterfalls.
A torrential downpour tore through Galatia's dim sky and hammered the north side of the Forge World's Third Temple.
Jorginho, First Company Captain of the Ninth Chapter, stepped out of a Drop Pod and looked toward the distorted body emerging from the city wall in the distance.
Several Mechadendrites coiled around his head, hissing as they swayed like snakes.
His arms were covered in tightly fitted, bizarre faces, as if flayed skin had been pasted onto them.
The skulls on his shoulders clicked and turned, flickering with ominous red light.
His Servo-arm bent, and a distorted face spat out a blazing beam.
"Ocean Singer" Jorginho was wreathed in a gale, and his black armor rose into the air.
The crimson beam surged up like a giant python, tracking the black-armored warrior's body.
With a thought, Jorginho awakened the thousand-plus metal plates linked to his Neural Cortex.
Micro-fiber Bundles unfurled, carrying his agile body through rolling turns in midair as he evaded beam after beam.
The Dark Mechanicum Magos Dominus stared with his green augmetic eye at that strange Tartaros-pattern Terminator Armor, and lines of text scrolled by.
[Overall structural match with Tartaros-pattern Terminator Armor: 92.36%. Armor component divergence from Tartaros-pattern Terminator Armor: 85.71%. Material unknown—. Searching Archives---- Similar to the properties of premium Squat Leijin Alloy, similarity: 74.09%. ----]
A string of hexadecimal Abominable Intelligence spilled from his throat. "Shoot him down. I want his armor.
The Shadow of Order's Tartaros-pattern Terminator Armor looked similar to the Imperium's on the outside, but it had many unique qualities in terms of materials and technology, making it extremely valuable for research.
Jorginho saw the distorted machine soldiers raise their arms in unison, their flesh twined with metal components like cables.