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Author:Dawn of War Omnibus
Language: eng
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Published: 2012-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

C. S. Goto «The Blood Ravens»

'Your strategy seems sound, sergeant,' said Gabriel, striding up to the Terminator's shoulder from the direction of the monastery

behind the line. 'I approve.' He nodded his helmet, communicating his admiration efficiently.

'Thank you, captain.' Tanthius turned to greet his captain, finding him at the head of a startling group of Battle Sisters,

accompanied by Prathios and Father Jonas, all in full combat armour - a glorious and inspiring sight, even for a Terminator Marine. 'The theatre is yours.' He bowed crisply.

Gabriel stood for a moment, staring over the rim of the long sand bunker that Tanthius had constructed in a crescent around the

monastery. It wasn't rockcrete and it certainly wasn't an adamantium barrier, but it would serve its purpose. The eldar assault

appeared to have stalled, and their transports had pitched themselves into the ground. From the north and south of the Blood

Ravens tanks, vicious and relentless salvoes of fire lashed against the downed vehicles from the Devastator and Tactical squads,

chipping away at their armour and blowing great eruptions of sand out of the desert around them. The gun turrets on the roofs of

the Serpents were still active, but the clouds of monomolecular projectiles being released were largely being absorbed by the sand banks around the Marines.

'Is this it?' asked Gabriel, disappointed. He had come to expect more from the eldar; they didn't appear to be trying. 'Where is the witch?'

As he spoke, the sand in the bunker wall started to tremble and shiver, as though something vast and heavy were approaching from the distance. Fine cascades began to slide and shift down the bank, drawing Gabriel's attention from the eldar force in the desert. Gradually, the shuffling sands started to crackle with friction, sending little sparks of static arcing between the grains. After a few moments, the sparks had begun to coalesce and merge into pools of flickering energy, dark and shimmering. As Gabriel watched, the pools were drawn into streams running up the bank against gravity, merging and blending with others to form rivers and veins of pulsing darkness, spidering out across the desert towards the eldar like a great web.

Looking out into the desert, Gabriel could see that similar tendrils were being emitted from the eldar barricades, pulsing out towards the centre of the battlefield.

Suddenly, the sky seemed to crack and open out into space, as though some terrible god had reached down and ripped a gash into the planet's atmosphere. A great javelin of darkness spiked into the contested desert between the Marines and the eldar, merging and impenetrable. with the black lattice of tendrils in the sand, superheating and crystallising it instantly, rending the shifting tides suddenly solid

As one, the Blood Ravens and the eldar stopped firing, all eyes turning up to the heavens to find the source of the unearthly blast. High up in the mesosphere there was a small, black starburst, like a jagged hole in the atmosphere itself. Beyond it seemed to glimmer an impossibly distant light, as though it were a window to the stars themselves.

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