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-Illustrum Crusade-

Is the era of the grand Primarch and Lord Commander Guilliman, the forces of Chaos encroach over all the dominions of humanity..but not everyone is depending on the Primarch and his grand crusade. In the Castellus System a crusade in a much smaller scale is beginning..their first target Zeta Quadra Station, the last artifice before entering dark space in the prime system for the sector. (A small side note is attached to the side of the first paragraph, and it reads "This station almost planetoid in it sheer size reminds me of some of the constructs i saw during the Emperor's crusade..perhaps it will be worth investigating it in the future")

The battle for the station was bloody..but not in the Emperor's sons but rather the local cultists who had sacrificed themselves under the tutelage of fallen astartes followers of Khorne..Bloodletters assaulted the teams during their cleansing operations but even tho they were battered and sustained wounded and some casualties the Knights of Arandor managed to push through..the deeper they went..the darker the scene turned..it sounded impossible that so close to a spotless system orbitated a station with such horrors hidden within them...the story was slowly uncovered as the brave sons of Castellus Secundus advanced in their quest to rid the galaxy of this foul ritual that had enveloped the station...the inhabitants had not always been orbitating the system they now did..it turns out this station was a colony from the dark ages..plunged into the warp during the turbulent times prior to the Emperor revealing himself..the story was grusome even tho it started well enough considering their situation..the inhabitants had what they required to survive, renewable food, water, oxigen...but as we all know nothing is everything perfect in this galaxy of ours and soon a small group of them started banding up..heading to one of the observation decks..they claimed to have seen..something.. (Another anotation reads "Oh Emperor..they were foolish enough to stare into the warp...and it...stared back")
They thought little of it at the beginning, humans of science as they were..but soon things started happening..dreams..screams...demands for sacrifice..in their heads..names of a being they had never heard about..it promised the group power...why should the weak and less intelligent rule..when they were the best?..they tried to resist of course..but unknowing as they were..it wasnt long before the first murder happened..it wasnt clear who had comitted it..the group started accusing one another in their secret hideout while watching the warp....those eternally twisting and chaotic tides...another person was murdered..this time it was a young couple..their bodies missing their heads...the group started getting even more suspicious of one another..but they tried to remain together..if anyone could find the culprit it was them...of course the rest of the inhabitants werent idly sitting by as this happened..they demanded from their leaders an answer..they demanded justice..another murder...and another..and another...who knows how long they were in the warp..but for what it seemed to be a year for them they had lost half their population to this..murderer..the group..it laughed..claiming the murderer was too scared to go after them...(A note says "Heh..scared? It was them!") in the end...the last remaining survivors tried to isolate themselves..to no avail..people bearing strange markings lowered their station shields...the crops were the first to notice the change...as they wilted and dissolved into puddles of blood..the corpses of the people who had been killed..they hadnt even been moved after a certain point..all their heads missing..their blood forming pools all over the station...from there..beings arrived..first they were a few..red of body and with a fire as soul..they butchered the last remaining sane people on board..what was left but to welcome the change fully they assumed..as soon new inhabitants arrived..tall beings clad in red armor..only marks to their dark god visible in their armors..amongst them many craved battle and fought with the beings on board the station..others..collected the survivors..and taught them how to honor their new lord..amongst them they chose a single being for what they claimed to be ascension...it was after all the first murderer...the original one who had seen the warp and had formed a group to do the same..he laughed for what had been promised was delivered...now those that survived served him..scarred..covered in blood from their victims..their patron was happy..for what it had used to be a place of knowledge and something one of his hated brothers would have loved..had turned into his very image...and so the man was rewarded..and a Daemon Prince was born...

His name -REDACTED- terrible as himself..from his rituals more and more bloodletters appeared...and now he was facing the warriors of Castellus..several of them fell in combat..but soon the Grandmaster Augustus Cassus and his Honor Guards joined the fray..the combat was hard for the forces of the imperium but the tide started turning..for you see..the Knights of Arandor are almost in their entirety blanks..and soon the Grandmaster was able to gain the upperhand in his battle against the beast..slicing and shooting, jumping and moving..his forces dealt with the bloodletters as soo many...oh so many times before they had done since the Horus Heresy...soon the last remaining bloodletters managed to come out of their portals only to be dealt quickly by the Honor Guards..the Daemon Prince stumbled back in his fight against the Grandmaster..and him not a novice tackled him into the depths of the station..as soon as he saw the being start to fall he ran after him..knowing full well the beast had wings he couldnt let him escape and so he jumped right after him..sword in hand after eliminating a pair of bloodletters with his wristbolter..the fall would have killed a normal man..but not Augustus..he used the body of the prince to shield himself as he drove his sword straight into his core..unable to vanish him permanently he did manage to destroy his very essence from the place..as in the very bottom the circle he had created ages ago laid with the remains of his once group of followers and all the heads of those unfortunate enough to have been living in this station when it was thrown into the warp..The body collapsed..and the Grandmaster's sword pierced it completly reaching the ritual beneath..in his last moments the prince showed no remorse..only taunting the Grandmaster claiming they'd see eachother again..Crusades are long..and many worlds still lay ahead of him.

With the Daemon Prince's death chaos was banished from the station..perhaps the presence of so many blanks aided substantially to accomplish that....to not let the same thing happen once more the station was moved in system..once within it was turned to pieces and reforged..no trace of warp left in it..and so..it was moved to ensure it remained in orbit with the Castellus system forever....now it would serve a new purpose that being of surveillance station and first warning against future invasions into the system..while the Engineering guild dispatched expeditions to it depths to recover all the dark age of technology they could..of course a small detachment of sisters of battle and an inquisitor were asked to run an investigation into the station and fortunatly for all those involved..they came back having found no remaining traces of the warp..and so the plans were carried out reinforcing the station with macro cannons and lances capable of breaching through heavily shielded vessels along with smaller AA emplazements and internal security systems in case of boarding, the latter crafted by the most proficient artificers of the Squats in the system. (A note reads "Curious..perhaps this could be a way to push back the warp rifts..")

-Remembrancer Aurora Bellatis in "Illustrus Crusade Part 1 'The Castellus System last threat'"-

((I hope you all enjoy it and like it ^^ it was a bit of a headache to finish up the lens flare for the image but i think it turned out nicely in the end! as always comment if you'd like and ill be happy to answer questions or simply say hi back ^^))

((Knights of Arandor belong to me and so do all their characters and the Castellus Sector .))

Description
-Illustrum Crusade-

Is the era of the grand Primarch and Lord Commander Guilliman, the forces of Chaos encroach over all the dominions of humanity..but not everyone is depending on the Primarch and his grand crusade. In the Castellus System a crusade in a much smaller scale is beginning..their first target Zeta Quadra Station, the last artifice before entering dark space in the prime system for the sector. (A small side note is attached to the side of the first paragraph, and it reads "This station almost planetoid in it sheer size reminds me of some of the constructs i saw during the Emperor's crusade..perhaps it will be worth investigating it in the future")

The battle for the station was bloody..but not in the Emperor's sons but rather the local cultists who had sacrificed themselves under the tutelage of fallen astartes followers of Khorne..Bloodletters assaulted the teams during their cleansing operations but even tho they were battered and sustained wounded and some casualties the Knights of Arandor managed to push through..the deeper they went..the darker the scene turned..it sounded impossible that so close to a spotless system orbitated a station with such horrors hidden within them...the story was slowly uncovered as the brave sons of Castellus Secundus advanced in their quest to rid the galaxy of this foul ritual that had enveloped the station...the inhabitants had not always been orbitating the system they now did..it turns out this station was a colony from the dark ages..plunged into the warp during the turbulent times prior to the Emperor revealing himself..the story was grusome even tho it started well enough considering their situation..the inhabitants had what they required to survive, renewable food, water, oxigen...but as we all know nothing is everything perfect in this galaxy of ours and soon a small group of them started banding up..heading to one of the observation decks..they claimed to have seen..something.. (Another anotation reads "Oh Emperor..they were foolish enough to stare into the warp...and it...stared back")
They thought little of it at the beginning, humans of science as they were..but soon things started happening..dreams..screams...demands for sacrifice..in their heads..names of a being they had never heard about..it promised the group power...why should the weak and less intelligent rule..when they were the best?..they tried to resist of course..but unknowing as they were..it wasnt long before the first murder happened..it wasnt clear who had comitted it..the group started accusing one another in their secret hideout while watching the warp....those eternally twisting and chaotic tides...another person was murdered..this time it was a young couple..their bodies missing their heads...the group started getting even more suspicious of one another..but they tried to remain together..if anyone could find the culprit it was them...of course the rest of the inhabitants werent idly sitting by as this happened..they demanded from their leaders an answer..they demanded justice..another murder...and another..and another...who knows how long they were in the warp..but for what it seemed to be a year for them they had lost half their population to this..murderer..the group..it laughed..claiming the murderer was too scared to go after them...(A note says "Heh..scared? It was them!") in the end...the last remaining survivors tried to isolate themselves..to no avail..people bearing strange markings lowered their station shields...the crops were the first to notice the change...as they wilted and dissolved into puddles of blood..the corpses of the people who had been killed..they hadnt even been moved after a certain point..all their heads missing..their blood forming pools all over the station...from there..beings arrived..first they were a few..red of body and with a fire as soul..they butchered the last remaining sane people on board..what was left but to welcome the change fully they assumed..as soon new inhabitants arrived..tall beings clad in red armor..only marks to their dark god visible in their armors..amongst them many craved battle and fought with the beings on board the station..others..collected the survivors..and taught them how to honor their new lord..amongst them they chose a single being for what they claimed to be ascension...it was after all the first murderer...the original one who had seen the warp and had formed a group to do the same..he laughed for what had been promised was delivered...now those that survived served him..scarred..covered in blood from their victims..their patron was happy..for what it had used to be a place of knowledge and something one of his hated brothers would have loved..had turned into his very image...and so the man was rewarded..and a Daemon Prince was born...

His name -REDACTED- terrible as himself..from his rituals more and more bloodletters appeared...and now he was facing the warriors of Castellus..several of them fell in combat..but soon the Grandmaster Augustus Cassus and his Honor Guards joined the fray..the combat was hard for the forces of the imperium but the tide started turning..for you see..the Knights of Arandor are almost in their entirety blanks..and soon the Grandmaster was able to gain the upperhand in his battle against the beast..slicing and shooting, jumping and moving..his forces dealt with the bloodletters as soo many...oh so many times before they had done since the Horus Heresy...soon the last remaining bloodletters managed to come out of their portals only to be dealt quickly by the Honor Guards..the Daemon Prince stumbled back in his fight against the Grandmaster..and him not a novice tackled him into the depths of the station..as soon as he saw the being start to fall he ran after him..knowing full well the beast had wings he couldnt let him escape and so he jumped right after him..sword in hand after eliminating a pair of bloodletters with his wristbolter..the fall would have killed a normal man..but not Augustus..he used the body of the prince to shield himself as he drove his sword straight into his core..unable to vanish him permanently he did manage to destroy his very essence from the place..as in the very bottom the circle he had created ages ago laid with the remains of his once group of followers and all the heads of those unfortunate enough to have been living in this station when it was thrown into the warp..The body collapsed..and the Grandmaster's sword pierced it completly reaching the ritual beneath..in his last moments the prince showed no remorse..only taunting the Grandmaster claiming they'd see eachother again..Crusades are long..and many worlds still lay ahead of him.

With the Daemon Prince's death chaos was banished from the station..perhaps the presence of so many blanks aided substantially to accomplish that....to not let the same thing happen once more the station was moved in system..once within it was turned to pieces and reforged..no trace of warp left in it..and so..it was moved to ensure it remained in orbit with the Castellus system forever....now it would serve a new purpose that being of surveillance station and first warning against future invasions into the system..while the Engineering guild dispatched expeditions to it depths to recover all the dark age of technology they could..of course a small detachment of sisters of battle and an inquisitor were asked to run an investigation into the station and fortunatly for all those involved..they came back having found no remaining traces of the warp..and so the plans were carried out reinforcing the station with macro cannons and lances capable of breaching through heavily shielded vessels along with smaller AA emplazements and internal security systems in case of boarding, the latter crafted by the most proficient artificers of the Squats in the system. (A note reads "Curious..perhaps this could be a way to push back the warp rifts..")

-Remembrancer Aurora Bellatis in "Illustrus Crusade Part 1 'The Castellus System last threat'"-

((I hope you all enjoy it and like it ^^ it was a bit of a headache to finish up the lens flare for the image but i think it turned out nicely in the end! as always comment if you'd like and ill be happy to answer questions or simply say hi back ^^))

((Knights of Arandor belong to me and so do all their characters and the Castellus Sector .))