999.M41 Few days after the fall of Cadia ||The Dark Cells; Holy Terra; Segmentum SorLockwarden Borsa Thrusk read through the list dispyed by his data ste for the sed time to make sure he has not misread the first time. His ever-present frown that would frighten weaker men darkened as the news set in. Cadia fell. Half of the Imperium has lost the light of the Astronomi. Insequential o the Lockwarden. His duty didn't y in proteg citizens or ps from the horrors crawling out of the . His duty was to keep whatever horrors were locked away uhe imperial Pace by the Emperor himself stayed there. He and his predecessors rarely left the Dark Cells and he could t the times his Shield-Host has left the phroughout the st ten millennia on one hand. He wouldn't even be reading this report were it not for the fact that he failed. He has failed the Imperium. He has failed his Emperor. The horrors have escaped their Cells and he couldn't figure out how until now. The Immaterium has iwiself even deeper with the material ph the catastrophe called the Cicatrix Maleddictum and the perfectly calibrated Ward that prevented -based travel or anything of the sort have either failed or suddenly proved insuffit. Not ohroughout the history of the Dark Cell did so many prisoners escape. A stain on their honour.He snorted. Honour, a useless thing.Duty. That he failed. The duty of the Shadowkeepers would be to hunt down all of the escapees to the st from now on. He still had a duty to guard those who didn't mao escape. Merely a fra of the horrendous things kept here mao slip through the guards. They still had to guard the rest. He would have to dispatch hunters for each of the escapees. He ghrough the list taining all the cells that have been fouy. His gaze darkened. He would have to lead a hunting party to secure a few of these. Mohat have crawled out of aerran myths now once again haunted humanity. Toward the end of the list, his gaze paused. This part taihe Artifacts that have gone missing, curious. Some were se while others were so tainted by the wicked powers that they would have been pulled through the immaterium the moment there was a othing too out of pbsp;His gaze stopped at the st item. The small picture depicted an Orb he ko be only the tainer of the 'thing' inside. There were many things dowhat remained because destroying them would have been far too dangerous or even impossible. Even in an age when the Emperor still walked among them. Then there were the ohat were far too useful to destroy even if they inated in the accursed past of humanity, the Dark Age of Teology. This thing was one of the few such artefacts that the Emperor himself forbade the destru of. The Lockwardehrough the description even if he already k by heart. It would barely be a threat to anything other than a feudal world if it were let loose by itself, a mindless mass of flesh that ushed by an endless hunger. It was recorded to have absorbed the entire ecosystem of a p onbsp;Its use didn't e from its destructive capability or even its use as a on. This was a tool. In the right hands, it could create monsters more dangerous than any other. He tapped his fio the side of the data ste, his metal-cd fingers king on the simirly metallic tablet. How did this psychically i, soulless artefact disappear from its Cell, now that was a question he was quite eager to find an ao. He set his data ste down and stood. He had to gather his shield-host. There were moo hunt. 999.M41 Few days after the fall of Cadia || Folx IV; Segmentum UltimaMy narcissism warred with my pragmatism as I sidered growing hair out all over my body like fur to make up for my missing clothes. A tough decision but in the end another cold breeze made a strong case on the side matism. Only until I find some salvageable clothes here, I swore as I suddenly resembled a primate and not the beauty I was moments ago. In my perfectly objective opinion of course. The light I noticed before wasn't flickering like the cold led lights below, it was steady if a bit darker in shade. More simir to reflected sunlight. The hundreds of distrag thoughts that have pgued me for the st hours blessedly left me alone as I religiously followed the light. Who knew half a day spent under flickering artificial lights would make seeing sunlight again so liberating? The hallway I ended up in was a bit different thaerile crete one down below, the floor had tiles, the walls had some decorative paint and the ceiling had more than a hanging lightbulb every fifty meters. Not that the lighting worked so I guess those bulbs were just built differently. The source of the light turned out to be an open doorway out of the building, it lead to a baly of sorts. I speedily exited the building and took in the sight before me. I was very high up. I didn't think I was overly afraid of heights before but as I looked down into the dark depths between this building and the I found myself instinctually sinking my fingers into the wall, desperate to hold onto something. The buildings were made of the same dark aallicrete as this ohe very definition of a dystopia. Soviet architects would have a hard-on for this sight, even if they couldn't design a building this ugly and oppressive. I robably somewhere he top of this building as I was overlooking most of the other buildings in this dire, they were steadily getting smaller and smaller the further they were from me. My inner sci-fi nerd was giddy at looking at such a dystopian city. Well, it wasn't very inner, I loved sci-fi and sbsp;Not that I was too good at the tter but I kept up to date with ret discoveries and such. The first picture of a bck hole, disc new subatomic particles and new astrophysical theories was my passion. Even if I didn't uand the underlying calcutions and theories that resulted in them I loved the future they painted. This city resembled an arcology. Well not quite. Arcologies were perfectly pnned out megastructures while the creation of this city didn't seem to involve too muning. Just many buildings with the bare minimum of structural iy to hold, thrown together, and expanded whenever needed. This was more like what would happen to a city when they just tio expand it. Upwards and outwards to the limit. Like a Hive. A Hive City. P3t1

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