The hive world of Angelenos cried into the churning void for aid and many heroes of the Imperium answered, among them the Black Templars. The dark-clad Astartes charged themselves with the defense of the world's most sacred locations, using them as mustering positions and rallying points against the enemy. Wherever the sanctified edifice of a Land Raider Crusader crawled, heretics died by the dozens.
Unfortunately, the loyal weren't the only souls to hear the wretched cries of the Angelenans. Lucius the Eternal and his coterie of depraved followers hearkened to the pleas of the damned. It was such delicious music to their ears. They cut swathes through the meagerest of enemy positions, many defenders turning coat mid-battle, overcome with the joy of pain and slaughter.
The Emperor's Children drove their assault straight to the Sanctum Basilicum of Saint Hermine where the Black Templars were mustering for another assault. They did not have much warning of the approaching enemy, but they didn't need it. Rather than dig in and await the attack, the garrison launched themselves into the enemy spearhead. Astartes and unaugmented humans alike died by the dozens as the forces carved into each other with chainsword, bolter, and lasgun.
The Black Templars' battle focus was broken, however, when the the Emperor's Children Noise Marines unpacked from their Rhino transports and spat a cacophony of high-frequency sonic doom into the Astartes positions. There was nowhere to hide from the deadly tones which split ceramite and skulls alike with jaw-rattling squeals and brain-hemorrhaging thuds.
As the Noise Marines approached the entrance to the Basilicum, Black Templars reinforcement smashed through the remains of a rotting administratum building. The Land Raider Crusader shredded the enemy with a hail of bolt shells. Meanwhile, A squad of Terminators from an orbiting Strike Cruiser apperated into reality near the Basilicum and took a defensive position. High Marshal Helbrecht and a squad of sword-brethren stormed out of their Land Raider through the steaming piles of enemy corpses and ran to help defend the Basilicum.
The assault ramp of a noise-belching Land Raider at the center of the Chaos assault banged open. Lucius and his bodyguard stormed out of it under a curtain of supporting las fire. They crashed into Helbrecht and his men, cackling and carving into them. Their attacks at first seemed crazed and haphazard, but the ancient marines' movements were well-honed, practiced, precise, and deadly.
The carnage and pain on display at the doorstep of Saint Hermine was a clarion call to the beings lurking beyond the thin veil between the Materium and the Immaterium. Daemons of all sorts tore through the tortured skin of reality and ripped into the defenders, devouring both flesh and soul alike. In the end, the assault proved too great for the Black Templars to hold off. The remaining Imperial forces fell back into the Basilicum and prepared for the assault within.
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