Win A Titan Short Stories

[SpawningDoom4u]

Well since it's the end of the month, and all the 400 word stories are due today for the Win a Titan competition, I thought I would start things off by posting my Titan's short story and I hope everyone that submitted a story will share there's on this thread as well.

[SpawningDoom4u]

ii (a) Choose a name for your Titan.

 

Velox Nex and Velox Ictus

 

ii (b) In 400 words or less, tell us how your Titan earned its glorious or infamous name

 

The Warhound built up his speed, charging from the rear of Legio Griphonicus’ battle lines. He was in lock step with his twin Warhound, operating in complete synchrony.

 

“Now Velox Nex.” Chimed the vox

 

Velox Nex shifted direction at the last moment and, with its massive form, shouldered the back leg joint of one of the Legion’s Reaver Titans. The joint crumpled under the pressure of the impact. His brother, Velox Ictus, focused fire on the damaged joint and sent shards metal and hydraulic fluid raining from the Reaver’s wound.

 

“Traitor!” cried the Reaver’s Princeps, as the damaged limb propelled the larger Titan into a clumsy collapse. Titans from Legio Fureans seized the opportunity, as if they anticipated the Warhounds’ actions, and delivered torrents of heavy firepower into the collapsed God Machine. The Reaver was engulfed in flames as void shields failed and plasma cores detonated.

 

Before the smoke from the detonations cleared, the twin Warhounds were already building up speed towards their next target. Both Titans unleashed hails from their Laser Destructors and Plasma Blastguns into the flak of another of Griphonicus’ Warhounds. Their former brother collapsed, as if a fiery comet falling, as the twins sped past the conflagration.

 

The Two Titans closed with their final target, the sole remaining Warlord Titan on Paramar V. The battle lines had already begun collapsing on the War Griffons, the enemy forming a crescent around their position. The twin Warhounds raced to encircle the Warlord as super heavy Alpha Legion tanks erupted amongst the enemy Titans. The XX Legion unleashed the full might of their payload into the Warlord, Vulkite beams and massive lasers sheering the armor plate off the God Machine. Volcano Canons and Laser Destructors returned the favor, turning multiple Super Heavies into molten piles of slag. Before a second volley could be fired, the twin Titans charged the rear of the Warlord. At Maximum speed, Velox Ictus collided into the legs of the Warlord as Velox Nex jumped, cleared his brothers head, and crashed into the back of the Titan. The Warlord began his slow descent, as its massive form met the rocky surface the God Machine imploded on itself. The ensuing detonation sent massive heaps of metal flying hundreds of yards away. The Warhounds narrowly cleared the explosion.

 

“Proceed to check point Omega,” a voice ordered over the twins’ vox.

 

They responded as one, “Yes Harrowmaster.”

[Brother Dallo]

Like I said in the last thread like this, it doesn't officially close until 23.59 tonight. I'd suggest hiding your post until tomorrow, otherwise someone could enter with your work, and no doubt invalidate both entries.

 

Dallo

[Iduddy]

Here was my entry:
 

Name: Sono Eximium the Banshee of Terra
Legio Fureans
Princep Nero

Princep Nero maintained close correspondence with Chief Apothecary Fabius Bile throughout the Great Crusade.  The Primogenitor and Nero would spend much of their translation in the Immaterium debating the finer points of Human perfection and the augmentations of the Mechaninicum.  At the outbreak of the Horus Heresy when the Legio Fureans declared for the Warmaster, Nero quickly followed suit.  Following Horus's war to Terra, the Sono Eximium routinely was attached to the Third Legion due to Nero's relationship with the Primogenitor.  This had heavily influenced the crew since the whispers of the Dark Prince was strong with the Third Legion.

 

During the Siege of Terra Sono Eximium grew impatient at the lack of progress that the Legio Mortis had made on the Walls of the Imperial Palace.  When the Third Legion disengaged from the siege to pillage the population of Terra, the Sono Eximium followed.  The Sono Eximium turned its guns on population centers to drive the civilians from their homes.  Armed with exotic and unknown sonic weapons similar to those carried by the degenerate Kakophoni, entire spires crumbled to the ground.  The inhabitants' internal organs liquidifed into corrupted ooze, while their bones were pulverized into a fine powder.  Structural steel became malleable from the sonic assault.  In the semi-liquid state, the steel could no longer support the billions of tonnes of the hive structure and collapsed.  Terror spread throughout the Terran hives as the banners of the Third Legion were herald by the disharmonious blaring of the Sono Eximium's sonic cannons.  The impending approach of the Sono Eximium presented the civilians the choice of being annihilated a God-Machine or to flee into the Emperor's Children.  Much of the population chose poorly.  Ignorant of the depravity of the Third Legion, entire hive spires fled into the waiting Emperor's Children.  The lucky died in a cacophony of agony to the blades of the Third Legion, while millions more were taken for the experimentation of Fabius Bile.  

Following the death of the Warmaster by the Emperor's hands, and the Traitor Legions scattered retreat to the Eye of Terror.  Sono Eximium remained with the Third Legion during the withdrawal.  Countless worlds were emptied as the Sono Eximium's sonic assault drove the population into the Third Legion.  However Imperial forces during the Scouring were always too late, either by fate or unholy divine intervention by Slaanesh.  All that remained of entire cities were the distorted skeletons of buildings; tainted, corrupted, and unfit for Imperial life.  

Upon fleeing into the Eye of Terror, Sono Eximium took residence on the now corrupted Eldar Maiden World of Eidolon.  There the Sono Eximium laid dormant, and forgotten by the Imperium's citizens.  The physical scars from the Siege of Terra and the following retreat were demolished and rebuilt over the millennia.  Dogmatic legends remain in the minds of the Imperium of the events of the Heresy in the twilight years of the 41st Millennium.  Yet for the first time in ten thousand years, the fusion core of the Banshee of Terra is burning as Abbadon the Warmaster unites the warbands of the Long War for his Thirteenth Black Crusade.  Sono Eximium now walks and looks in the Chaotic skies of Eidolon, and in the brief moment stares at the fortress world of Cadia.