Primus crusade: Aquarium

 

And so it came to be that a great darkness engulfed the blessed planet of Necromunda; the light of the Astronomican was snuffed out like a wind-blown candle and the entire planet fell to chaos and infighting as hordes of heretics rose up in blasphemous riot. Not all was bleak in those darkened days, and the Emperor smote down the corrupt Gerontius Helmawr, a declared enemy of the faith that had unjustly persecuted the Redemption for centuries. Blessed Klovis, of glorious memory, saw a chance at purifying the world once and for all during that time of trial, and after sealing a pact with house Ko'Iron he launched an all out crusade to replace the cancerous leadership of Hive Primus.

The first target of the Redeemer's wrath was the main water recycling plant of the hive. For too long had its bloated guilders grown fat with the toil and suffering of the masses, no longer. Their water hoarding days would come to an end severed by our eviscerators, and the precious liquid would fall at last into the hands of the faithful

The plant was guarded by a gang of brutish goliaths, who following their slave mentality had thrown in their lot with the parasitic Helmawrs

As ever the Redeemer led us from the front, dispensing justice with his Sword of Persecution

A highborn lady joined our efforts, closely guarded by one of the most recent converts to our cause: sister Celestine

The crusade traded long range fire with the foe, moving ever closer from cover to cover

Prescient as efer the Redeemer had secured the services of Alpha, a reliable bounty hunter that had proved instrumental in furthering the cause of the church in many a past purge

The first foes fell under Klovis' fiery wrath, paying in pain their errant, and sinful lives of heresy

Ever at his side I engaged the monstrous enemy, pitting true purity against the unwholesomeness of their genecrafted bodies. And lo behold, the light of the Emperor descended upon me and surrounded my weapons in holy fire, flames divine that engulfed the goliath bully in a fire that burned more than any earthy conflagration: devouring his flesh and eating away at his sin-riddled soul

Alpha was eager to join the fray, and pushed by her frenzon collar charged into the infidel lines, blasting them with accurate bolt pistol fire 

Launching a rage-fuelled scream of hate, she pounced on their prone forms, ending their lives with savage blows from her mastercrafted powersword

With the goliaths set ablaze, the templars advanced into them, liberating the chests that contained the pay of the plant workers

And one by one were they hunted and brought low, their muscled-up frames and brutal weaponry proving useless against the sword and shield of the one true faith

It was Alpha the one that gave them the killing blow, securing the last chest and with it the loyalty of the misguided workers of the plant, that threw down the chains of their oppressive overseers to embrace the divine light of the Redemption. Praise be

We moved in to secure the great reciclators for house Ko'Iron, who bestowed many a blessing on the crusade. And with this first blow came Necromunda closer to becoming a gilded orb of faith, in eternal service to the Master of Mankind, to whom we devote our lives and our souls