Mixed Army

The fleet arrived above the planet. Auspex satellites orbited the world, and combined with the Aeldari seers' prophecies, the situation on the planet became exceptionally clear.

There were two hive cities. One had already become an arena meant to please Khorne, with the heads of the defeated impaled on steel bars, pillars, spears, and other objects throughout every corner of the hive.

Half of the other hive had already fallen. Skull-harvesting squads were everywhere, human heads hanging from their waists. They carried crude, heavy axes in their left hands and triangular bayonets for bloodletting in their right.

A mixed force of 37th Regiment soldiers, Space Marines, Aeldari warriors, and T'au Fireblade warriors descended upon the surface.

The Aeldari warriors used psychic arts to teleport directly to the planet's surface, swiftly and stealthily reaching the anti-air macro-cannon emplacements.

The instant the anti-air macro-cannons exploded, the Space Marines' drop pods were launched. They smashed into the hive's labyrinthine structure, searching for foul shrines of Chaos.

The far more numerous 37th Regiment moved somewhat slower. Battalion after battalion arrived in the wilderness beyond the hive aboard troop transports and established field command posts.

"Alright, soldiers! Restore peace to this planet! For The Emperor and our ideals!"

"For The Emperor and our ideals!"

The soldiers answered in unison and activated their Personal Aegises. The small chapel above them played hymns through golden horns, surrounded by sixteen staggered spires.

Eight of the spires were fitted with Disintegration Arc Generators, capable of producing green arcs that broke down armor and flesh.

The other eight spires were fitted with Blackstone-enhanced Gellar Fields.

The hive's massive gates had been sealed with chains, with bisected corpses nailed to them. The soldiers of the 37th Regiment had no time to set up artillery positions, merely calling for the chapels to