FARSIGHT ENCLAVES by Games Workshop Ltd

Author:Games Workshop Ltd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Games Workshop Ltd
Published: 2013-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

The battle that unfolded between the battlesuit commanders and the Tyranid swarms was the stuff of legend. Ob’lotai 9-0, the Broadside battlesuit operated by the AI engram of Farsight’s old team leader, bulls-eyed dozens of Tyranid leader-beasts from his vantage point atop the research station. The seventh Commander Brightsword’s fusion blades blazed bright as they cut through the giant battering-ram monsters that assailed the gates, alien ichor evaporating into choking clouds around him as he felled one, boosted away, then slashed through another. Wise Arra’kon moulded complex firing solutions to defend every new ingress, coordinating the flamer blasts from Sha’vastos and Torchstar to consume the greatest number of the lesser weapon-beasts wherever they scuttled through the rocks.

When a towering monstrosity killed Shas’O Varg’ha with a blast of bio-electricity, burning him to death inside his Riptide, Commander Bravestorm, long interred within his life-supporting battlesuit, charged underneath the Tyranid Bio-titan’s mid-section. Powering his ancient Onager Gauntlet to maximum, Bravestorm punched out its thorax in a gory salute to his fallen comrade.

Meanwhile, Farsight duelled with the hissing leader-beast at the swarm’s heart, matching the Dawn Blade against the hive creature’s crystalline swords. Even O’Vesa was able to join the fight at the last, remotely accessing the interface of the fallen Riptide and bringing its weapon systems back online in order to deliver the deathblow to a squat-bodied broodbeast that was birthing lesser Tyranids straight into the facility’s corridors.

Suddenly, a great cloud of dust whirled up, obscuring the combatants as the Manta missile destroyer Or’es Por’kauyon hovered above them. O’Vesa signalled to Farsight that he had summoned the Air caste’s finest to extract them; the deed inside the facility was as good as done. One by one, the battlesuits boosted up into the air and boarded the Manta. Below them, the research facility was buried under leaping Tyranid bodies as the Tau made their escape. Of the brave Earth caste scientists, only O’Vesa survived.

Over the course of the next few cycles, the world of Vior’los was stripped bare of every last shred of biomass. The ribbed mouthparts of the hive fleets had descended to feed, hungrily sucking up the rendered-down gruel of their conquests from the many digestion pools below. Farsight and his commanders monitored the vile spectacle from high orbit. As the twin flames of grief and anger twisted in his gut, O’shovah began to doubt the course they had chosen. When he cast a questioning glance across to O’Vesa, the wizened scientist just smiled and pointed back towards the bio-ships themselves.

Farsight saw nothing at first, but soon, a black stain began to spread across the chitinous flanks of one of the Tyranid vessels. Within a matter of only a few moments, the affliction had spread to a second ship, followed swiftly by another and then another, until none were free of the malign tendrils. The bio-ships shuddered and writhed as the discolouration blossomed outwards to cover them entirely. One by one, the fleshy Tyranid vessels fell into themselves, rotting and falling away like a piece of fruit decomposing in a matter of seconds.

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