Having reached a temporary agreement to cooperate, Abaddon and Sage Furios soon began landing on the eerie planet according to their predetermined plan.
The available records indicated that the planet's atmosphere was saturated with highly toxic substances, most likely originating from some form of chemical pollution.
An Imperial Adeptus Mechanicus exploration team had discovered this place several thousand years earlier, and everyone who landed had ultimately been stranded on the planet. The expedition vessel stationed in orbit at the time had received some reports transmitted by the Exploration Team on the surface.
These included a considerable amount of routine information and several images.
Among the images was an ancient, completed ship amid numerous mechanical structures. Judging by its hull configuration and analysis of the materials that could be identified, the vessel had probably been built sometime between the 27th and 28th millennia.
For this mission, Abaddon dispatched his true elites.
Falkus Kibre of the Black Legion's elite brotherhood had once been an elite Terminator captain of the XVI Legion's Luna Wolves. He possessed outstanding combat skills, extensive battlefield experience, and a deep understanding of the Sons of Horus' tactics and strategy.
Accompanying Kibre to the surface were two Terminator Tactical Squads, comprising twenty-four veterans of the former Luna Wolves.
Not only that, Abaddon also instructed Lio Van Uqris to select several World Eaters Warbands whose members were somewhat less deranged and land them alongside hundreds of thousands of troops from renegade Mortal Regiments.
These renegade Mortal Regiments would assist them and ultimately bring the ancient vessel back for Abaddon.
After all, Abaddon wanted that ship, intact. And they still did not know exactly how large it was.
Lives were cheap. Sending down a few more was hardly a problem.
Little did he know that a landing on this scale was