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[Moonreaper666]

Anime about the Siege of Alaitoc

 

(Though with more forces on both sides!)

 

 

-ALL of the Phoenix Lords

 

 

-Death Watch, Grey Knights and Titans join the Imperial Offensive

 

 

 

Episodes 1-2:

 

-Alaitoc Navy decimates the first wave of Imperial Ships using precog and Eldar Tactics

 

-Fuegan, Irilyth and Maugan Ra destroy an Imperial Navy Battleship on their own!

 

-Baharroth starts slashing Guardsmen transports like crazy!

 

-Drastanta destroys several Drop Pods with his OP lance!

 

-Imperial offenseive stalls as they wait for MOAR reinforcements

 

 

Episodes 3-6:

 

-Death Korps, Cadians and Titans spearheaded the landing on the craftworld and it succeeds!

 

-Death Watch, Sons of Orar and Scions decimate Eldar Tanks and Guardians

 

-Rangers and Dark Reapers provide cover fire while the Eldar defenders retreat

 

-Maugan Ra destroys 6 Terminators, a dozen Dreadnoughts and a freaking Scout Titan!

 

-Fuegan destroys a Strike Cruiser!

 

-Grey Knights appear and allow the Imperium to penetrate the second line of defense

 

-1 company of Raptors and another company of White Scars join the fight!

 

-Maugan Ra obliterates Anvil Thrawn SO HARD that it takes him six months to fully regenerate from the duel

 

-Jain Zar evicerates the company of Raptors

 

 

Final Episode:

 

-The combined Eldar fleet arrives in time to destroy the Imperial invasion, no survivors!

 

-The Craftworld, Exodite, Harlequin, Corsair and Dark Eldar rally under Biel-Tan and launch their own Crusade against the Imperium!

 

-It was all just a nightmare by Eldrad

 

-Eldrad convinces the Grey Knights, Death Watch and Ultramarines not to get involve in the conflict

 

-Kairos tells Eldrad that he can't delay the inevitable

 

-Eldrad's response is 'Bring it'

[librisrouge]

A typical Everyman citizen of a hive world gets caught up in a situation above his head (I like a genestealer cult.) As he tries desperately to survive, he’s pulled into the retinue of an inquisitor. Slowly, the larger scale is revealed as the character is increasingly forced to make decisions that favor the whole of mankind over the wellbeing of individuals. By the end of the first season, he is well on his way to being an interrogator for the inquisitor and has been exposed to various particulars of the setting via the retinue (psykers, deathwatch, even an Eldar.)

[OPTIMVSCHRISTVS]

Here's one: a hive rebellion against the Imperium, for a seemingly good and reasonable cause- protagonists are a group of regular citizens, all of whom have been brutalized in some way or another by Imperial authorities. And of course, background aside, the way the Imperium responds to these sort of things they'll be the obvious antagonists.

 

Over the course of the series, there will be a slow buildup as the protagonists become increasingly unhinged and turn to ever more esoteric methods of fighting their enemy, until at the last moment you get a look at them from the point of view from the invading Imperial forces and realize that all their shouting about daemons and heretics was a far more literal than the viewer was initially led to believe...