Nimrod, Never Heard of Him

Antimatz Sector, World 33-59.

After the Hive World had submitted without incident, black Transport Ships descended from the sky and disgorged their cargo.

The legion serfs obeyed The Monarch's command and drove Termite Drills into the sea of sand between the hive cities.

The Squats also answered Nimrod's request and deployed Centaur All-Terrain Vehicles.

After receiving their mission, two Centaur All-Terrain Vehicles drove out through Hive City Three's heavy steel gates.

The Centaur formation the League of Votann used during exploration was the same as the two-vehicle coordinated tactic they employed in battle.

The two vehicles drove down a garbage mountain piled with steel scrap, heading toward the target rune-designated area.

The young void-dwarf driver had come to a Hive World for the first time, and he peered outside curiously.

The vast inner arc of the ring-shaped illumination system refracted dazzling light under the star's radiance, like a glittering diamond, illuminating the hive city shrouded in thick brown smoke and scorched-yellow exhaust fumes.

In that reflected light, the two Centaurs traveling side by side swept down the slope piled with steel scrap and drove onto the main road leading to the shantytown encircling the hive city.

After countless vehicles had driven over it again and again, the industrial sludge had become a mire. Sewage poured down from the Hive City and covered the ground, while shabby, filthy buildings surrounded it.

The void dwarf checked the images the sensors had captured on the video screen.

To the west of the shantytown, the rooflines of the hive city's buildings rose and fell in winding waves, while the light of countless streetlamps adorned the garbage mountain.

To the east of the shantytown stood the shantytown's agricultural processing plants, chimneys and factory buildings piled over one another, and mountains of filthy fungal colonies grown