Terror Nihil by C Z Dunn

Author:C Z Dunn [Dunn, C Z]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Black Library
Published: 2012-10-02T12:47:52+00:00

Terror Nihil

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To reinforce the Sergeant’s point,

Jorachiel strode boldly around the next

corner only to be met by a traitor heavy

weapons team aiming a missile launcher

directly at him. Laboriously, he raised

his weapon to fire but failed to unleash

his shot in time.

FX – whoosh of missile launching, followed

by explosion.

At such short range, the missile could

not miss such a large target and the

warhead detonated against Jorachiel’s

chest, staggering him backwards and

almost bowling over his four battle

brothers following him around the bend.

Frantically, the traitors attempted to

reload but, in the face of the Space

Marines’ vengeful barrage, they were

soon rendered to nothing more than

crimson stains coating the smooth Palace

walls.

FX – really ramp up the weapon fire

here almost to the point where it’s

uncomfortable to listen to.

The crater in his chest still smouldering

from the detonation, Jorachiel grimaced

and turned to Ptolemius.

JORACHIEL: ‘Seems I’m not ready to

join the ranks of the fallen just

yet, Brother Librarian.’

Traitors were spilling forth into the

corridor at a rapid rate and Jorachiel

charged, firing and swinging wildly,

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felling two or three enemies with every

shot or blow.

Ptolemius gave a knowing sigh before

following him into the fray.

SCENE EIGHT – INT. DREADNOUGHT CHAMBER

OF IN EXCELCIS

ATMOS: BACKGROUND RUMBLE OF ENGINES.

FX – sound of a service lift descending

a deep shaft.

NARRATION: Deep within the bowels of In

Excelsis, the most ancient warriors of the

Angels Encarmine slept the slumber of the

ages ready to be woken from their stasis in

the hours of the Chapter’s greatest need.

So rare were these calls to arms that not

a single living battle brother had seen

one of their own Furioso Dreadnoughts

take to the field. Even Zargo himself,

entering his sixth century of existence,

had only known of one Angel Encarmine

who had ever witnessed their venerables

at war and he had perished at the hands

of the Eldar some half a millennia ago.

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Just as the number of battle brothers had

dwindled down the years, so too had the

Chapter’s Dreadnoughts.

The last of the Death Company Dreadnoughts,

Quiesco Eternus, had fallen at the very

dawn of the 41st Millennium, the Black

Rage coming over him one final time as

he valiantly took down three Helbrutes

in the colours of the reviled Emperor’s

Children Traitor Legion. Of the ‘ordinary’

Dreadnoughts, none bearing the winged

blood-drop icon of the Angels Encarmine

had been fielded since the great Haematic

Fury vanquished the daemon Korbatherite but could not escape being dragged through

the rent in the warp torn open by the

fiend’s slaying.

That left only The Pent.

Five Furioso Dreadnoughts who had given

their lives in service to the Emperor many

thousands of years ago only to be reborn

as avatars of war, kept alive in a suit

of armour more akin to a mobile fortress

than the power armour they once wore so

proudly and with such distinction. Though

the truth of the matter had long since

been obscured by the passage of time, it

was whispered that the Furiosos predated

the foundation of the successor Chapters

– even those of the second founding –

and that all occupants of Furiosos fell

alongside Sanguinius during the Heresy.

When the great Primarchs Dorn and

Guilliman divided the legions following

the galactic civil war, the Furiosos

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