++The Euripides Incident: A Joint Project Log++

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File nr. 229837-11; The Euripides Incident

>Date: 013.m31

>Segmentum: Solar

>System: Sol

>Locis: Europa, orbiting Jupiter

>Function: Mechanicum research facility

>Assigned Overseer: Genetor-Supreme Kykeron

++Ancient Pict-Reconstruction of Pre-Imperial Europa; date unknown, probably m3/m4++

Settled since age immemorial, Europa, like many of the solar moons, has served as a secretive haven for research most esoteric - it is here that Cult of Solex devised the first examples of darkfire weaponry, and it is here that the predecessors of the Empyrean Engineers would scrawl the first blueprints for Gellar Field Devices on everlasting sheets of platinum. That the Emperor, blessed in His wisdom, would come to desire such a trove of knowledge, appears self-evident even to us, who live in the shadow of His passage. It was thus then, that he would send forth his Angels of Death, the then-nascent Legio Primus - the Angelum Mortis - to root out the entrenched xenophile cults that had come to inhabit Europa by that point. The operation was swift, if bloody, and fiefdom over the stellar body would be ceeded to an enclave of the Helvetian Technocracy - an offshoot of the Machine Orthodoxy that had weathered the Age of Strife in isolation most extreme upon Terra.
Where then Deimos and Phobos of Mars would become the twin-seats of the martian synode of Beherrean, and Io became the heart of the lunar Simvulsean Complex, Europa would become home to the Ansilean Circle, a branch of the Technocracy responsible for the research of weaponization of warp phenomena. Due to the high-priority technologies developed and improved upon - research that held keenest interest among a number of the Emperor's subjects - the station had long been obscured from regular imperial authorities and been declared interditum absoutis to any and all who did not hold the appropriate seals of authority.
It is during the early stages of the Horus Heresy that elements of the Alpha Legion would conduct a series of assaults on the Solar system - most famously the grand assault on station Hydra, in the orbit of Pluto - and research outposts would prove to be some of their most favoured targets, both due to the wealth of material and knowledge that could be raided there, and the relative isolation in which they existed even in this most fortified of circles.
On the third day of the Septimus in the thirteenth year of m31, all contact from Europa would cease, prompting Lord Dorn to send out an investigative force of Imperial Fists to ascertain what had transpired and - should the situation require it - secure and extract any technology still present in the Ansilean vaults. It is to be noted that Lord Dorn was, at first, unwilling to send out any of his own men, for in those early days of the Great Fratricide many things had been uncertain and he - rightly so - feared more direct attacks against Terra and thus sought to hold back his own forces as best he could. It was only after a private audience with Lord-Hierophant Ecneon, master of the Technocracy, that Lord Dorn would relent.
The investigative force would quickly discover that a strike force of the Alpha Legion - henceforth termed Strikeforce 'Lintwyrm' - supported by allied Mechanicum and Militia elements - henceforth termed as Strikeforce 'Koleikos' and Strikeforce 'Sarthaccan' respectively - had disabled all communication in the facility and begun off-loading the present technology. It appeared then, that the stationed Helvetian forces had been seeded with operative elements of the Alpha Legion many years prior.


This is the documentation of the Euripides-incident.

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++Pict-Captures extracted from reconstructed Helvetian Cybergholam++

++Identity unconfirmed; presumed to be Consul-Delegatus Autilon Skorr++

We are not gods.

We are creations of science.

And therein lies our problem, for we are neither human, nor divine.

We are flawed versions of both.

Attr. to Primarch Alpharius, recorded by remembrancer Mikhael Bro'ok

Edited January 6, 2022 by The Observer

[Dosjetka]

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The Tip of the Spear

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Edited January 17, 2022 by Dosjetka

[TrawlingCleaner]

Colour me intrigued, looking forward to more of this!

[Marshal Rohr]

Very excited

[Dosjetka]

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Rogal Dorn's foresight meant that the VIIth, unlike the other Legions, had not ceased to use Terra as a recruitment ground to replenish its ranks: thanks to accelerated bio-chemical processes developed by genetechnicians still loyal to the Emperor and the suits of brand new Mark VI armour taken from under the noses of the rebels on Mars, the Imperial Fists had fresh warriors and wargear to replace those lost or damaged beyond repair in the first skirmish battles fought with the Alpha Legion in the outer reaches of Sol.

As Horus' war swept into the Sol System, the VIIth Legion of the Legiones Astartes were at the forefront of the battlelines. Jaded veterans and raw recruits were mixed into the same units and sent to the front lines with clear orders to eradicate the agents of the XXth Legion wherever they were to be found. The Emperor's Praetorians did so with brutal efficiency; where the Alpha Legion skulked in the shadows, the Imperial Fists brought the searing light of justice to destroy them.

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[strongbow]

This. Is. :cuss ing. Sick.

Edited January 19, 2022 by Slips
dont dodge the swear filter, even by self-censoring

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While the VIIth Legion was a close adherent of the orgnisational structures laid down in the Principia Belicosa, notable divergences had been noticed in the latter stages of the Great Crusade. Foremost of these was a high number of assault-configured units and auxiliary units armed to thrive in the lethal environments designated by Imperial strategists as 'Zone Mortalis'. The chief example within Dorn's Legion of this was the prevalence of Breacher Squads.

The 3rd Company, 74th Battalion present at Euripides in the Sol System was no exception to this tendancy. Despite the majority of its members being suited out with recently-produced and -reclaimed Mark VI 'Corvus' armour, which was largely considered unsuited for operations in Zone Mortalis environments, its members equipped themselves in no small numbers with Breacher shields and were quickly deployed to the front lines of the war against the insidious XXth Legion.

To support these assault-configured units were the backbone of any Legion force: the humble but nonetheless potent Tactical Squads.

3rd Company, 74th Battalions units were frequently equipped with additional close combat weaponry to give them maximum flexibility in their support role. The Imperial Fists' drive to kill their traitorous brothers in close quarter engagements was also a contributing factor to this.

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