ZedevThe st month has beeic, to say the least, and if he didn't have his emotions chemically suppressed Zedev calcuted he'd have had a high ce of dying from stress induced heart-attack. First es and Inquisitht out of the Ordo Xenos who are most likely to cut him down where he stood if they caught the slightest whiffs of what he's been doing in his hidden boratory but that turned out to be a surprising positive in a series edies. The Inquisitor turned out to be a woman of simir is to himself, he could tell it when she id eyes on his expansive colle of samples, she wa all. He could respect that, he khe only reasoill had his head on his metallic shoulders was his knowledge and capability to provide the Inquisitor with rare samples. Now, with that mororaying the captain he lost all of his samples, his fury nearly overtook his suppressors but they fulfilled their tasks in the end, and his fury was kept suppressed. Finding the ruin and the Inquisitor managing to open it was the silver lining, if he lived he could restart his experiments, like any Magos worth their weight all of his most important knowledge was stored only in his head and with him not being on the ship his secret boratory would implode on itself after a week. He didn't waste pity oech-priests unfortunate enough to be near it when it went off, security riority. His gaze never left the peculiar Eldar walking a few steps in front of him, Zedev had dissected dozens of Aeldari corpses and even a few that were still alive but this one was different, he could tell. The Xeno had ahereal quality to him and his buried instincts told him not to fight him, to hide or run if he wao live. Zedev disregarded those, he learhat those instincts while useful were animalistid bestial, he'd include them in his calcutions but not rely solely on them. Ahing in his calcutions was the anomalistic battle prowess of the Inquisitor, he'd been rather distracted ba the ruins but all unications were logged and he had time to review them during their walk. Biological drones, shapeshifting, bio-armor of such a quality that eveyranids couldn't pierce it, regeion, psychic powers eled through the drones and the intelligence most of those 'drones' showed as they fought. Zedev had never heard of such a thing before and while he knew some Inquisitors were capable of mystical feats, the records spoke of them, but this was a bit much, especially ing from an Inquisitor he'd never heard of before. You shouldn't mistake his re-evaluation of the Inquisitor for suspi or fear though, Zedev was a being beyond those 'humaions, he only saw his objectives and the people around him as either obstrus or useful tools to reach his goals. With the re-evaluation the woman known as Ea quickly rocketed in importance, he pced her survival as a main priority only behind his own. Zedev reted all the readings he got from the bio-armor the woman gifted to the ex-captain, it gave simir readings to a Hive Tyrant sample he once had the fortune of studying together with some of his fellow xeno-biologists. The woman has shown the capability to recreate absorbed or studied biomaterial and to his knowledge she shouldn't have had the capability of replig a hive Tyrant. Was she fooling him during their iations? Could she have had that material even back then? Then why did she need such menial samples that he gave her? The Ambull was somewhat iing but the rest should have been useless in the face of a Hive Tyrant. Another possibility came to him, even if the assigned probability of it was small he still sidered it. He remembered the woman asking for two of the Thunderhawks to escort two of her drones deep into spabsp;Then, she had the capability to replicate the armor of a Hive Tyrant not long after. 'Assign presumed danger level Alpha+ to individual Ea.' I felt a shift in Zedev's behavior, the araagos carried himself with a calcuted alertness while before he'd been rather id back as he eyed uide up and down. Doesn't matter, I shrugged. I didn't even bother pushing into his mind and start trying to break through his encryption, he'd lost his one leverage over me and in the Webway he was just another loose Magos, I could easily make him disappear without the Meicus ever suspeg a thing. He was a smart man, thing, I had to admit even if I was relut to give any praise to the teophiles of the Meicus. To me he erversion of sce, they all were, they hoarded knowledge and valued an individual based on the size of his hoard like damned dragons from a fantasy book. For a moment I wondered whether that was the influence of the Void Dragon, their oh-so-preae God, I shook my head a bit. It doesn't matter. I shook my head as I threw my arm over Selene's shoulder, going through the myriads of new geic temptes and cataloging them while also pig out the useful ones was such a chore but it had to be done, I needed some time for my mind to recharge. "So all this walking is getting kinda b," I said as she raised an eyebrow at me, "tell me something iing," I started twisting one of her midnight bck locks around my fingers on my left hand. "Alright fiop that," she said as she shrugged my arm off of her shoulder but I didn't fail to notice a tint of reluce slipping into her aura as she did so, "what do you want to hear about?" "Hmm," I put my index finger on my cheek as I thought hard about her question, "Have you met the Tau before? Weird blue Xenos with a slit across their fastead of a nose?" "Yeeeees," she drew it out, my prompt must have freshened up some unfortable memory, "I did meet them a few times, they are one of the easiest to trade with and they are close by." "Mhmm," I nodded, "funny little things," I smiled. "Funny?" she arched an eyebrow. "Did you know they tried to iate with the Tyranids?" I raised my own eyebrow, leaning in to whisper into her ear, "Not onot twice but three times." "You are pulling my leg," she looked at me incredulously but with a smirk on her lips. "I'm not," I smirked, "I heard there was one whatever caste diplomat who learned Orkish so he could finally establish peace with the Orks, he eveo them with a nice bundle of ons, as a gift." Now she looked at me like I was making shit up, I pouted like a kid at her. I was telling the truth, it wasn't my fault that the Tau were the naive moron archetype in this gaxy. "Well, my story is for sure less iing than that but I guess it's better than walking in silence," she shrugged and my pout was wiped off my face as I smiled at her, "so we were out our way to trade with this one world at the edge of the Imperium..." She talked and I listened, sometimes I asked into it but all in all, it was mostly her talking and me depressing to her melodious voice. Gods knew I really needed some depressing after all the shit that happeo me. Boss Zogga Bonecha"Boss, me and me boiz found som Humiez sniffin' round the pce," Rokk said with a wide smile on his toothy lips. "How many?" Boss Zogga asked back as he stared adly at a weird dakka in his hands. "Don' 'now, four?" Rokk shrugged, "One of em was all metal and stuff, the others were tiny fleshy things." "Go beat 'em up," Zogga said offhandedly, "get me some of em ki, this new dakka needds testin." "Sure boss," Rokk nodded and then he was off, shouting all over the pce to collect a hunting party a into some good grumpin even if their enemies were only a few Humiez it couldn't be worse than those spiky Eldar that'd been annoying them for a while now. "Oi," Zogga shouted, his grizzled eyes log in on a Gret running around the hall, "e 'ere you little shit." The gret froze up and slowly ambled towards him, fear and subservience clear in its jagged movement. "Boss?" it asked o was at the foot of his thros head bowed deep. Zogga didn't answer, he raised his new dakka and levelled it at the Gret. It was a long thing with most of it being clear metal and strange markings but almost grimaced at the unnatural green colored lights ing off of it. He pulled the trigger and the green light densed into a beam and struck the gret not a blihe wretched thing screamed as his body dissolved molecule by molecule, atom by atom. Zogga watched on with a widening grin on his face, with a final cresdo of blood curling stream the gret went silent, nothing but a pile of atomized ash remained. Zogga has lived his whole life in this shitty Eldar temple, he started out as a lowly grunt but it only took him a few years until he beat the previous boss to death and took his throne. He led his group of Orks on many hunts throughout the mazelike halls of this pce, the hunted spiky chaos boiz and the Darkies that ahem so mubsp;Still, the one hunt zogga was especially proud of was when they beat a group of Tin Headz to scrap and took their stuff before it could go to fuows where like their dumb metal corpses. His new dakka was the single w dakka they found among the scrap, Zogga had to bash in some headz to get it but it was more than worth it. Zogga was itg to test how Humiez sounded when they got shot with it. P3t1