"Execute Exterminatus!"
The cold command echoed through the Bridge of the Lunar-class Cruiser Unyielding Ideals, devoid of emotion, carrying only iron resolve.
Ship Captain Cassius's face looked especially hard in the blue glow of the star chart. He had just received the final transmission from the Planet's surface.
Vanado Hive City had fallen completely, and black death was devouring the entire Planet.
"Deploy Cyclonic Torpedoes! Target the planetary surface! I repeat, extermination-grade weapons are authorized!" His voice carried through the ship's communications system to the entire small Fleet.
Beyond the Bridge's immense observation window, Derrick, once a murky yellowish-brown, was changing at a terrifying pace.
A deep, ominous blackness spread across the Planet's surface like ink dropped into clear water, rapidly contaminating the entire atmosphere.
They could not wait any longer.
Every second of delay could allow this horrific creation to gather more energy and spawn an even greater threat.
"Torpedo bay reporting! One Cyclonic Torpedo ready!"
"Fire!"
At the Ship Captain's decisive command, a Cyclonic Torpedo carrying a mission of utter destruction roared from a launch tube beneath the Cruiser. Trailing blazing exhaust, it shot toward the darkness-shrouded Planet like a spear of judgment.
The torpedo struck its designated coordinates with precision.
There was no flash of a conventional explosion. Instead, something far more terrifying unfolded.
The surface of the target region ignited instantly—not with flames, but with a lava-like radiance that seemed to rise from the Planetary Core. It spread rapidly, vaporizing rock in its path and turning the land into a churning sea of Magma.
"One Virus Bomb ready! Fire!"
A second Exterminatus weapon—a Virus Bomb—was launched immediately afterward.
It carried one of the most horrifying creations in the Imperium's Armory: the Life-Eater virus.
This virus was a terrifying culmination of Imperial technology, capable of penetrating and