[dramatic music]
[rapid g*nf*re]
Cut that one down!
[energy crackling]
Kreld!
Hear the laughter of the gods!
[laughing maniacally]
[tense action music]
[distant g*nf*re and explosions]
[groaning]
[straining]
[shouts]
Your tricks shall not save you.
[grunts]
[groans]
[groans]
[heavy footsteps approaching]
This tomb of a world is ours.
Your resurrection machines are ruins.
You end here.
I offer an exchange.
What could a creature like you offer us?
Power, glory, conquest.
Power, glory, conquest.
The empty promise of a doomed xenos.
[groaning]
Reality.
In an agglomeration of dead ships,
far from here there is an artefact
made by our ancient enemies, the Aeldari.
It let them tunnel beneath reality
and create their paths
between the stars, their webway.
This artefact
would allow you to do the same.
This artefact
would allow you to do the same.
We have never been able to unlock
the mysteries of the webway.
If we did...
Armies could be marched
across the galaxy at will...
It will be yours if you wish.
We wish only for your annihilation.
Let him speak.
[ominous music]
[heavy footsteps approaching]
[heavy footsteps approaching]
[suspenseful music]
[thunder rumbles]
The treasure is here...
In what your kind call the Crucian Depths.
You will go and find
if this artefact exists,
and if it does, you will bring it to me.
By your will, my Warmaster.
[Abaddon] And in exchange for this gift,
you will have the only mercy you deserve.
[low rumbling]
[engine sounds]
Augurs to maximum.
Find the artefact location
and lock teleport coordinates.
Lord, we see...
Lord, we see...
our eyes see.
The topography matches the data
given by the Necron-entity.
[Augur sl*ve]
Teleportation close to the artefact
is not possible.
[Witch sl*ve rasping]
[Witch sl*ve rasping]
There are clouds in the sacred waters...
shadows, absences.
The place you seek is a black space,
the hands of the gods
cannot place you within,
and once inside,
they will not be able to aid you.
[bitter chuckling]
This does not bode well.
What is that?
What is that?
[Hesiod] Enhance and identify.
[beeping]
[scoffs] Drukhari raiders.
Are their ships active?
[Augur sl*ve]
The xenos craft are inactive.
Life signs and energy signatures
read as negative.
The Drukhari have the means
to make truth seem false.
Veils of shadow and lies
cast over our eyes.
Those ships could be
powering up right now,
Those ships could be
powering up right now,
and we wouldn't know it before they stung.
I've seen it done.
My masters, the Drukhari raiding craft
are marked by micro damage
from long term immobility.
[Kreld] Meaning that they have
been there for some time.
I don't like it.
Dead ships on the side of a mass
of dead ships?
I can think of no better place
for them to be.
I can think of no better place
for them to be.
They are not part of the mass.
They are docked.
Are you afraid now, brother?
Should we turn and run?
I have slain more Drukhari
than you have ever glimpsed,
and left their corpses for carrion eaters.
Do you wish to join them?
[Hesiod] Enough!
We are brothers of the Black Legion,
oathed to our Warmaster's will.
Nothing else matters.
Nothing else matters.
As you say, brother.
Suspicion has kept us alive many times,
but boldness has brought us victory.
The Warmaster has commanded,
and if we fail,
then it would be better
that we find death.
There is no choice.
We go.
[crackle of energy]
[whirring]
[auspex beeping]
[Hesiod] The artefact lies ahead.
[Hesiod] The artefact lies ahead.
Advance.
[heavy footsteps]
[auspex beeping]
[auspex beeping rapidly]
Targets front!
[shots spanging]
[shouting]
[groans]
Do you wish my mercy?
You will not reach what you seek,
lie-slaved warrior.
There is no way out...
[screams]
[auspex beeping]
Keep moving.
The xenos are between us and the artefact.
Their ship has been dead and inactive
for an age,
and they're still alive?
[chuckles] These ones are dead now...
[loud ping]
There!
[ominous music]
Vanished.
First Drukari that should be long dead,
and then Necron phantoms.
Do you still think all is as it should be?
Stay alert.
[heavy footsteps]
[Kreld grunts]
Where is the power
for the lights coming from?
A power reservoir left active?
With enough power to be still running now?
This wreck is millennia old.
A lifetime of w*r in the Eye of Terror,
witnessing the powers of daemons
and the miracles of Dark Gods
and this seems a mystery to you?
[loud ping]
[suspenseful music]
[grunts] What is this sorcery?
[gasps]
Kreld, forward.
My pleasure!
[suspenseful music]
[shrieks]
[ominous music]
[heavy footsteps]
[snickers] It is ours...
These are bolter and power weapon kills...
[Kreld] Wait!
[Kreld] Wait!
[discordant music]
[strobing music]
[click]
[click]
[click]
[click]
[click]
[click]
You came very close this time.
-[click]
-[g*n c*ck]
When the Necrontyr shed flesh
and left death for lesser creatures,
we thought only of freedom from fear,
and making kingdoms that would never die.
and making kingdoms that would never die.
We did not think of what else
immortality would entail.
We thought in terms of wars,
of destruction,
of conquest,
but eternity also requires
what you would call entertainment.
[Trazyn] For my part,
I find infinity allows me to observe
the myriad ways
in which matter
and consciousness manifest.
in which matter
and consciousness manifest.
I collect them:
objects, life forms, moments.
This is one of my favourites,
a device that can create roads
under the skin of reality.
Worth risking anything for,
but nothing
compared to what it has brought me.
This moment is locked
in a tesseract labyrinth,
a pocket of space where events
play out again and again.
Sometimes you reach this moment first,
sometimes others do.
Each instance is different
in countless, beautiful details.
Each instance is different
in countless, beautiful details.
[grunts]
[Hesiod] You will free us!
[Trazyn laughs] You can free yourselves.
All you need to do to leave
the labyrinth is never enter.
You are given that choice each time.
I am not your jailer,
my wonderful relic of mortal pride.
You are your own prisoners.
The look on your faces
is my favourite part,
The look on your faces
is my favourite part,
and I have enjoyed it
a thousand times already.
[Hesiod] No!
I don't like anything of this.
Then what? Turn back?
No.
Suspicion has kept us alive many times,
but boldness has brought us victory.
[crackle of energy]
[Hesiod] The artefact lies ahead.
[Hesiod] The artefact lies ahead.
Advance.
[heavy footsteps marching]
[tense ominous music]
[chuckling]
Perfection.
[tense ominous music continues]
[tense ominous music continues]
[footsteps]
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