Warhammer: Start with a dog

Orbit of Holy Terra

mountain fortress

a little later

Danat Lysander indeed has a legendary starting point and a model battle story in the chapter's history over the past thousand years.

When a person has already had one of the following experiences: Pilgrimage to Terra since birth, escaping the attacks of Greenskins and Chaos, finally joining the war group from a special channel as a son of revelation, and then hundreds of people who have traveled through the subspace. Survived in the middle of the year, fell to the Chaos Space Marine planet, and rescued two comrades with his bare hands and escaped. After coming back, after several months of internal and external scrutiny by his Chapter Chaplain and Think Tank brothers, he was finally declared to be "every cell. "pure as a new Imperial Fist", well, even if he occasionally seems to be a little wrong later, everyone is always more inclined to believe what he says instead of going through another few months of review, generally speaking Is that right?

So it shouldn't be difficult for me to stay here for a while and then find the right opportunity to join an expedition and then sneak away after the battle and have them declare me missing in battle, right?

Generally speaking, with the frequency and intensity of the Imperial Fist's expeditions, although his plan is very simple, it is quite credible and executable.

Lysander wanted to convince himself so.

But if you have to be the chapter leader of a founding group - this once meant a sacred and noble task to him, full of pride and an appointment to lead the chapter forward firmly, so that he repeatedly declined it several times. , thinking that his abilities and character have not yet been polished, and he is not enough to serve as it - but now it is simply a death talisman for "Chaos Champion Danat Lysander of the 1st Company of the Silver Skull Chapter", which is more terrifying than death. Horrible: Accepting this position in front of all the Chapter's monks, the elders of the Monastery of Terra and the Hill, the Chapter Masters of all Chapters and the attending representatives from other high divisions, he will definitely be watched by the Emperor. , surrounded by a host of consecrated objects and sacred rituals.

——Not only would this reveal on the spot the fact that he had devoted himself to serving Chaos, but it could even go a step further and serve the Lord of the Iron Warriors and the corruption of the Praetorian Guards of Terra, thus shaking the entire Imperial Fists lineage. The legal foundation of the Order of Tate - even the Imperial Civil War -

Lysander used the excuse that he needed to think and meditate quietly in order to purify his body and mind before the ceremony. After receiving a lot of praises, he was finally able to hide alone in the corridor of memories for a while. Now he was in a solemn half-kneeling posture. It seems like I'm deep in thought here, but my mind is filled with a bunch of messy and increasingly bad deduction results.

When I think about how terrible and implicated things will be in the entire empire after my identity is exposed, it will make the empire's... no, no, how ecstatic it will make my current "companions" search and purge. With massacres, there may even be fleets and battle groups that are unaware of the expedition and return to the empire, scarred and exhausted, but what greets them is only irrefutable attack and destruction——

Lysander became desperate again as his terrifying deductive imagination developed, and then shook his head to shake these thoughts out of his mind along with the unreal and distant laughter. Fortunately, there was no one else here. The company commander had already driven away everyone else, including the robot servants.

So why do you have to recommend me to be the leader of this chapter? It’s impossible not to do it, right? ! But I really can’t do it? ! At that time, due to the relationship between the Imperial Fist and Holy Terra, the Ecclesiarchy, the Tribunal, the Adeptus Custodes and other organizations will send people to watch the ceremony on the mountain formation. It is almost certain that you can't even say, oh, I decided to hold it in a low-key and simple manner, so Let's not invite anyone. It will also be regarded as a serious provocation and hint, and it will still bring great follow-up trouble to him and the Imperial Fists.

How hypocritical, Danat Lysander! You have embraced the steel wholeheartedly, yet you are so hypocritically concerned about the safety of the stubborn stone...

I never knew I could be such a buffoon, he smiled wryly in his power armor.

And if we follow the premise that "everyone must come back to watch the ceremony, and all the sacred objects will be sacred, and the venue will become temporarily sacred", then their identity will definitely be revealed... Then a series of terrifying reasonings will come true one by one... …

The deductions that have been started over again have not yielded any better way to break the situation. The option of suicide has been considered from the beginning, but his body full of secrets will also reveal many facts. We can keep it and his betrayal inside, and pass it down as one of the eternal dark secrets of the Imperial Fists... If that doesn't work, pilot the Thunderhawk and pretend it is tainted by Chaos and rush into the sun...

However, Lysander's experiences and content of conversations with "that Rogal Dorn" and the Lord of Steel clearly made him realize when this choice came up that with today's "Chaos Champion Danat Lyshan The actual identity and status of "De" within the chaotic system. It is very likely that the moment he committed suicide, a subspace crack would be opened in his neck, and then a very terrifying thing would jump out on the spot and cause chaos in the center of the holy empire...

Wait, wait, Lysander.

The former Captain of the Imperial Fists murmured in his meditations the prayers he had known since birth, and at first glance it sounded like he was reciting the most popular confessional text to the Emperor in the Empire... …

No, no, think about it differently, Lysander.

First of all, it seems that there is no second you here, so whether it is a substitute or something else, you are here as "Danat Lysander, candidate for First Captain and Chapter Master of the Imperial Fists"; secondly, finally The important point is that this time in the Imperial Fists Chapter he was in, Chapter Commander Pew did not die. And according to what he learned later, the Battle of Magor Rift and the Thunder Expedition here were The battles in the first half of the period also happened and ended as scheduled, but there were a few details that made him feel strange and his heart was tightening when he thought about them one by one.

1. Pew seemed to have narrowly escaped the Norn Queen's fatal blow this time. However, the witnesses at the scene and the members of Pew's Terminator team were all in a coma now. The power armor's The sensor part was destroyed by some kind of strong magnetic field or wave. No one knew what happened in the last minute before they woke up. Pew's answer to this was very ambiguous. Lysander felt that this feeling was familiar;

2. According to his memory, after the Battle of the Insect Nest, plus the previous ones, the total loss rate of the monks in the Chapter during this expedition should have reached more than 25%, but this time he learned that the number of deaths was surprisingly less. , only a few brothers who were really not lucky enough died of force majeure, and there was no casual death. This is very, very, very wrong;

3. He remembered very clearly that the word "Haidos" on the armor plate of the ancient ship was the clue to their pursuit of the culprit "Shanto, the War Blacksmith of the Iron Warriors"... because this was exactly what happened in the past. When he was still a prisoner of Shanto, this bastard told him stories all day long -

Lysander frowned and began to think about the meaning of the image of the armor plate in the information he received this time: in addition to the word "Hados" that was exactly the same as in his memory, there was also a line of small words written below that looked gaudy.

"We're in big trouble, but surprise."