Emperor's Furor Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Got my copy today and finished it, wasn't a bad book. I'll put some thoughts and spoilers below with a general outline of the story. The marines on the cover are indeed techmarines in training, the central figure is the Raven Guard whose nick name is the Carrion, which was brought about by Night Lords who made light of his injuries when he pulled his legless and one armed corpse back from a mission and further enhanced when he was able to syphon off energies. The Salamander is a good craftsmen as usual. The Imperial Fists has an affinity with machine pains and so is quick at battlefield repairs, the Ultramarine comes across as totally inept, he can't get his bolter to work for a while. The Iron Warrior is the Raven Guards friend, he's the best of them and the Carrion thinks he'd easily stand out amongst the many other warsmiths that the Iron Warriors have. Brief jump forward, Raven Guard thinks something is going on (this is set just as the heresy is breaking out, about the time Mechanicum is set) keeps seeing manouvers, Ultramarine says it's probably just in reaction to Horus's new warmaster powers and asking for more man power. The techmarine teachers have all gone missing, the Iron Warrior turns up and throw some slates at each of them, it shows information of the recycling of parts that are genecoded to their teachers, they've been killed or turned into servitors. The enemy attack the tower they are housed in, all of them die (it's a very well written piece, the battle I mean imo) Salamander sacrifices himself, Ultramarine has his head blown off, Imperial Fist gets peppered as they try to get to the elevator and is then used as a shield by the Raven Guard (who I think suffers from that rage Raven Guard had describe in the forgeworld books, Dust blindness or something) Iron Warrior throws the Raven Guard off the tower to save him from being blowing to pieces by a Warlord titan. The Raven Guard survives and eventually gets picked up by Camba Diaz of the Imperial Fists. It then jumps to Terra, Dorn pretty much just wants to exterminatus Mars, the new Fabricator General begs him not to, Malcador suggests sending the Carrion back (he's now a Knight Errant), as the Carrion knew of a heretic who had been imprisoned with an army of semi sentiment Kastelans that was "corrupted" by a small machine that came to the conclusion humanity had to be purged. The idea was to use this heretics original plan of knocking out the southern polar machine that helps create a magnetic field for Mars, which if stopped would allow all biological matter to die due to the stellar radiation leaving nothing but machines left. This would at least keep the infrastructure in tact. They eventually agree and the Carrion returns to Mars. Some small battles occurred between himself (who has help from 2 servitor companions including a tech raven) with a tech priest specialised in hunting down heretics but it seems the scrap code has completely took him over. Eventually the Raven Guard frees the heretic priest a long with his small army of automata and they set off towards the south pole, along the way they go in weird directions fight random battles which the Carrion believes is down to the heretical device which can predict things very very well. They get to the south pole, it's defences have been improved greatly which worries the Carrion. The priest sends the majority of his automata out to confront the defences (which include three warhounds) whilst himself and his automata lead by the Carrion "infiltrate". They get through some ambushes until they are confronted by the leader of the force that has been attempting to stop them over the last several days. It turns out it's his old friend the Iron Warrior. His body was badly damaged but the traitor priests took what was left, exposed him to scrap code which basically corrupted him (they also told him what had happened with his legion) then built him a massive decimator like suit which had the power of magnetism. The Iron Warrior gives the Carrion the chance to join him but he refuses, a battle ensues and the Carrion is mortally wounded, all but one of the sentient automata is left, the heretical device is destroyed by the Iron Warrior who turns it to molten slag and throws it at the priest killing him to. The last robot backs off heating himself so he can't be magnetically pulled by the Iron Warrior and makes his escape (the machine inside of him is self replicating so it's possible the device will return in future). The mission is a failure the last we see of the Raven Guard is he's not responding to his cyber raven which is poking him on the head. It jumps back to Dorn, the Sigilite and the Fabricator General, they think it's failed and hopes he's dead rather than being tortured for information. The fabricator general begs Dorn to send his forces to cleanse Mars (he wouldn't before because it would waste resources for the upcoming siege) Dorn seems to relent and requests his Captains meet him. So it's possible this chapter is not over and is opening a way for the fists to take the battle to Mars prior to the siege. There's only a couple of points I didn't really take to. One being the fact the Raven Guard had the ability to syphon off energy and then using it like force lightning, I dunno it just didn't sit right with me. The second was it was mentioned these were veterans and they had "younger" brothers down at the bottom of the tower and they were supposedly warned but then we heard nothing about them after, it felt like a loose thread. The final point was the "end boss" i.e the Iron Warrior which became a giant decimator with some sort of magma reactor on his back that allowed him to channel magnetic energy, it felt like another force ability again it just didn't sit right with me. Overall though I enjoyed the book it explained the inclusion of the recent Kastelans models and was kind of a step that linked the current models with those of the forgeworld models (castellax were used more because they were simpler whilst Kastelans required more "programming" basically. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer, like wise if I've got any information in correct or read it wrongly feel free to correct me Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/311617-cybernetica-spoilers/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atia Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 can we add this to the cybernetica thread pls :)? http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/311090-new-hh-novel-cybernetica/page-3 Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/311617-cybernetica-spoilers/#findComment-4131874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor's Furor Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 can we add this to the cybernetica thread pls ? http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/311090-new-hh-novel-cybernetica/page-3 Sorry! Edit: Would you like me to copy and paste my original post into that thread or wait for a moderator to do it? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/311617-cybernetica-spoilers/#findComment-4131879 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sothalor Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 So it's there to shoehorn in GW's Baymax robots? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/311617-cybernetica-spoilers/#findComment-4132187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Reyner Posted July 30, 2015 Share Posted July 30, 2015 So it's there to shoehorn in GW's Baymax robots? How did I not notice that before? I need me some robots now! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/311617-cybernetica-spoilers/#findComment-4132277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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