Both the Emperor and the Gold Justicar were astounded and overwhelmed by what they were witnessing. Though they couldn’t feel the energies that flowed through her, they could easily feel Orsethii’s growing presence. It threatened to choke both of theirs out of the room itself. The Gold Justicar p
The fighting down below was still incredibly fierce. The Sanguine Fundamentalists had concentrated on sections of a few walls and literally blasted short tunnels through them. Many had even begun to charge through the breaches, but typically met concentrated defensive fire from all of the security f
But this time, as it sailed away, it was struck by a disintegrator shell and ripped wide open. The pod itself was split open violently, and most of the passengers inside were blasted apart. The one passenger who survived the shell instead tumbled out of the sky and plummeted towards the ground far
Later that cycle, the screens of every citizen in the Imperium was filled with the reports from the deadly attack. In fact, every omnicast covered the events of the attack as best they could. Some did so in great detail, others only with mere mentions. Regardless, no matter who it was, they talked
Numerous defensive channels had been wrenched open, which exposed numerous security forces inside. Their bodies had also been ripped apart by all manner of weapons fire, equally as vicious and violent as what befell the Sanguine Fundamentalists. Their body parts littered the channels while their bl
The screen flicked over to the drones that were high above the tower itself. They showed a wide view of the very top of the towers. Particularly, they centered on the tallest tower, where its topmost floor had been blasted open. Whatever smoke and fire had long since been extinguished, and the onl
Five Years Later Towering flames engulfed nearly a quarter of the city. Its once-beautiful skyline had become jagged and uneven and blackened with soot. Many of its tallest buildings had been turned into its largest piles of rubble instead. More critically, many of the city’s blocks had been utter
“Wait!” said a panicked civilian. “If you dig too fast, you’re gonna make it all fall down on top of us! Think about what you’re doing!” “Yeah? Well all the more reason to dig faster!” screamed one of the others. “Are you insane? Are you all gonna kill yourselves just for one or two people?” Ange