Lu Jin stood in the breach in the gun deck of a Red Corsairs escort frigate, gazing at the Dark Eldar flagship in the far distance.
A Macro Cannon stood beside him.
The Dark Mechanicus crew and deeply Chaos-corrupted Mortals operating it opened the loading bay and began the firing sequence.
They couldn't possibly aim at the flagship, but the Dark Mechanicus crew didn't dare tell Lu Jin that. They just wanted to launch him as soon as possible and send the killing machine as far away as they could.
"We have a communication signal."
Killer Tool checked the communication equipment inside the Saturn Terminator.
"It's from the enemy ship."
Hearing that the signal came from the enemy, Lu Jin nodded silently.
A communication window appeared in his field of vision, showing a gray-skinned Dark Eldar.
The Dark Eldar was enjoying itself aboard its flagship.
Lu Jin saw the humans around it, forced together on a vast, open deck.
The Dark Eldar was probably an Archon of a Kabal.
In other words, the leader of a band of pirates.
When the Archon saw that the communication channel was open, it gradually came to a stop. It gestured for those around it to drive the humans farther away, then said to Lu Jin, "If I could torture a Blind Kai like you for pleasure, I reckon I and my first hundred generations of descendants would be spared the Dark Prince's corruption."
The Dark Prince was a title for Slaanesh.
Blind Kai was the Aeldari's derogatory term for humans.
"Surrender," the Archon said, revealing its intentions. "Otherwise, I'll kill every human in my hands, in the cruelest ways imaginable."
Lu Jin saw the Archon raise its two pistols on the communication screen. The humans behind it immediately ran, glancing back as they