In
the aftermath of the Horus Heresy and destruction of Caliban, the First Legion
had desperately salvaged what was left of their home world to create The
Rock. Essentially a mobile fortress made
of the remnants of Caliban and used as a base of operations for the Dark
Angels, the sons of Lion El’Jonson began their holy quest to hunt down those
they had once called brothers. Where
once they had fought side by side and would have gladly given up their lives
for, now all that is left is bitter hatred that can only ever be quenched
through retribution and blood-shed.
The
Dark Angels traveled tirelessly across the stars to see through any possible
leads that may lead them to The Fallen.
Guided by the Legion’s Inner Circle, they mercilessly pursued those that
had betrayed their gene-sire through treachery and deceit. As The Fallen spread further away from
Segmentum Obsurus, the Dark Angel’s hunt became ever more difficult. Even with the aid of the Legion’s Epistolaries,
it seemed as if their quarries had vanished, leaving not even the slightest
psychic trail behind for them to track.
As
the Angels will realize, most of The Fallen have taken refuge within the Eye of
Terror. The renegade Dark Angels waited
patiently within the warp, guided by their Chaos gods. They waited for centuries, anticipating for a
sign as to when they may come out of their hiding. Despite their newfound faith, the starships
that carried the traitors were not immune to the Immaterium’s voracious powers. As time passed, the Gellar Field Devices installed
to allow starships and its occupants to survive the extremely hostile
environment of Warpspace would weaken and eventually collapse, allowing the
denizens of the Warp to tear inside the ship to reach and consume the souls of
all living things aboard. As for the
ship itself, the adamantium hull and superstructure would be similarly
distorted and warped into a mangled mass, floating lifelessly within the Warp
until by chance it collided with another ship to create a space hulk, before
returning to real space.
c.
580.M40
Chief
Librarian Ezekiel received a distressed call via astropathic communication
signaling a massive space hulk sighting.
Traveling dangerously close to a commercial route used for industrial
trading by the Imperium, complete annihilation through fire would be disastrous
as the debris left in its destruction may hit and destroy numerous merchant
ships not built for space warfare. The
most disturbing aspect was that the communication was immediately lost after
transmission and never recovered, despite the combined efforts of the Chief
Librarian, senior Epistolaries as well as the other astropaths and psykers
aboard The Rock. Not only was psychic
communication rendered impossible, but the use of their latent powers became
more difficult by the minute.
