01x01 - Sacrifice

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The Tithe: part 1
Translated by BigLui

The Sacrifice [Sacrifice]

He hated us so much.

This hatred was the only
virtue they had.

A loremaster in the chancery believes,
that these were once living creatures.

If so, I wonder what
they must have sacrificed to become like this.

Could it have been a deliberate victim?

Opposition to foreigners is completely
was pointless.

Just like their victim.

No sacrifice is pointless.

I see.

Lieutenant Vayla.

The rescue operation is going ahead as planned.

So far we have not found our brothers and sisters
no trace of our brothers.

The enemy presence is minimal,

but referring to the colonisation of Nekron
evidence of Nekronian colonisation.

Understood and acknowledged.

You have sixty-five hours left to
before the final withdrawal of our forces...

my lord.

Your questions about strangers

are a bit disturbing.

It's like you've been charmed.

You must know your enemy
to defeat them.

So says the code.

But not only this old teaching
I detect in your voice, Salamander.

As if the stench of compassion
of the smell of the stench,

and the sword of sympathy
the edge of compassion.

Shall I quote teachings too?

To survive in this galaxy
sacrifices must be made.

This is what the Empire demands of us.

Worlds from their resources
pay us a tithe.

Intentionally or unintentionally,

but for power, that's the price you pay
humanity must pay.

We can make our own decisions
our own sacrifice, don't we?

A tithe is a necessary sacrifice,

to test the purity of our genome.

And remember, Salamander,

that Ultramarines ensure
the survival of the Empire.

Out of the four, three castes are in the
come from our gene nuclei.

Our blood is very important.

I was not talking about the tithe from the Chapter.

It's about our home world.

They don't give us a tenth of anything.

You are partly right.

But they provide us, the
our most nutritious raw material.

Minket.

The human material that
we cannot create.

Because we do this, our human part
we sacrificed on the anvil of w*r.

Repentance is a sin, and this is the
is from the litany of hatred.

I don't mind anything.

But I know about what,
what we have sacrificed.

And if our legends are true...

then our loss could be true.

I think...

a bit over the top
overthinking it, Sa'kan.

This kind of thinking is ultimately
will cause its downfall

for your great chapel.

Are you hurt?

Where have you been?

I turned to the west.

I would never leave you alone, Brutus.

Many stories circulating about salamanders
lack of courage.

But, I never believed them.

But, now I'm wondering if it's not
I was witnessing just now.

I've seen whole worlds in
become the prey of the lags.

I breathed in the cremated cities
and I knew...

I knew that I was also breathing their ashes
of those I had failed to save.

My honour is vividly demonstrated by the
the scars and wounds I bear.

But me, I'm still fighting.

I understand the importance of your mission,
and I will fight for it with you,

to get your brothers and sisters
inheritance, but...

NEVER AGAIN DARE TO DOUBT
MY SUPPORT, Ultramarine.

I am grateful to your Chaplaincy and
and please accept my apologies.

Your apology is accepted.

According to my instruments, here we are
at the scene of the ninth attack.

But...

There is no one here.

It's been five hours and nineteen minutes

since the beginning of the occupation,

and it was the main attack twice
confirmed location twice.

Where are the fallen, Sa'kan?

Where have my brothers' bodies gone?

The most obvious answer, unfortunately
is also the most disgusting.

Our enemy took them with him.

But why?

I've recently come across the xenos
the leader of the Xenos invasion.

The behaviour of this creature so far
I think, analysing the past behaviour of the creature,

to experiment on our fallen.

His meanness knows no bounds.

I have taken a blood oath and I will finish it.

- There are five of them.
- We can handle five.

We don't know how many of you there are
beyond that passage.

It doesn't matter.

The ugliness of this ugliness here
and I will end it now.

- Lysander's game? - A bit bold
a bold play, given our options.

Prefer Bellerophon fourth
attack of the fourth.

So be it!

Courage and honour, brother!

In the heat of battle...

To the anvil of w*r!

Sacrilege...

Four bodies are here.

They can no longer be resuscitated.

Terminal sus-an via trauma-t
I have to perform on them.

You have to buy me time.

Forgive the disrespectful
my work, brother.

What about the other unfortunates?

Forgive me for that, Salamander,

but their life and death
are irrelevant to us.

Most of them have been injured
too serious anyway.

We could not save them.

Oh, the most glaring anomaly.

With your understanding,
I have the following question:

What do you hope to achieve with this...

Stop it!

That is quite obvious to me,
that you're quite desperately trying

some kind of genetic engineering
to carry out an intervention

on these dead bodies.

But why did you swear revenge, anomaly?

Did you really make an emotionally based
promise to k*ll me?

This gateway brings you to me.

Leave your partner there.

Come here!

Sa'kan...

fulfill your tawdry little oath.

Your sword!

Sa'kan...

now you can... take them home.

Brother Sa'kan to Lieutenant Vayla.

Sa'kan Vayla!

Sa'kan? Answer me!

We could not locate...

We sent reinforcements to the last
known position.

Repeat! Too much interference! Say again!

This is Captain Ixiom speaking.
of the Seventh Ultramarine Squadron.

Take cover, Sa'kan.

Thunderhawk is coming.

Wear the mantle of the hero. Inspire me where
where you can. But never forget,

that we are the angels of death,
not of mercy or salvation.