The Death World of Gena Three.
Gena Three's surface was covered in a gray-blue shell of ice. Its atmosphere was thin and cold, and sunlight filtered through heavy clouds into a dim, grayish-white haze.
There were no oceans, no forests, no traces of life, only weathered metal shards and the skeletal remains of long-collapsed buildings scattered across the wasteland.
This had once been an industrial world of the Dark Age of Technology, but in some distant era, war had stripped the life from its surface, leaving only abandoned mining districts and structures buried deep underground.
Vast mountains stood at the edge of the wasteland, their surfaces covered in frost.
Now, those mountains were being blasted apart.
Explosives were packed into boreholes, their detonation gouging great chunks of rubble from within the mountains.
Explosion after explosion left enormous wounds in the mountainsides, sending fragments flying in every direction. When days of continuous blasting finally stripped away the thick rock, a colossal black archway emerged beneath the mountains.
It was a breach into the Webway.
It had lain hidden beneath ancient rock strata for untold millennia, its existence older than human civilization itself.
The archway was covered in a thick layer of black material. Though long ages of deformation and weathering had twisted it, its outline and structure remained clearly discernible.
It was large enough to accommodate heavy war machines. Structures along its edges had once supported some vast transportation system, but now only silent stone and metal remained.
Under Vashtorr's guidance, the Iron Hands Legion had found breaches into the Webway scattered among the stars.
The coordinates Vashtorr provided spanned several star systems.
They pointed to planets forgotten by the Imperium of Man, to death worlds and abandoned colonies on the fringes of desolate star clusters.
In those places, ancient Webway