The Emperor’s Angel of Death

“The Crippled King.”

Sochoyan paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, then suddenly he realized something and looked at Andar.

Although the current Chapter Master of the Tiger Claws Chapter looked calm, Sochoyan still saw something – Andar was an ambitious man, he must be unwilling to depend on others, and the Tiger Claws he created could not really become vassals of the Star Knights. His mention of these things now is to lay the groundwork for leading the Chapter to develop in the Jericho Sector in the future.

Although the Achilus Crusade is an unhealable scar for the Imperium, the severe war situation and complex forces, coupled with Andar's own network of relationships established during the Achilus Crusade, make that complex war zone a suitable base for the currently “semi-illegal” Tiger Claws.

After all, only fools would deplete themselves in a war of attrition, while smart people would find opportunities in it. Andar is such a smart person.

Thinking of this, Sochoyan smiled slightly.

“Sounds like a Necron Phaeron.”

Although Andar had served in the Deathwatch, the Deathwatch's understanding of Necrons was not much better than that of ordinary Tech-Priests, and they knew nothing about their internal system. Therefore, when Sochoyan said the title “Phaeron,” Andar seemed a little surprised.

“Phaeron? Is that their unique term for king?”

“This race often gathers in the form of dynasties. A large dynasty will have many tomb worlds. The Overlords manage these tomb worlds, you can understand them as kings. But at the same time, the dynasty will also have a crown world, where the entire dynasty's master resides, the Phaeron. They are difficult to detect during their slumber, and once they awaken, there will be a lot of movement. But from your description, those Necrons seem to have found a way to conceal the movement of their awakening.”

Andar stroked his chin and nodded slightly.

“It seems possible. The Necron activities in the Jericho Sector are relatively cautious.”

“If there really is a potentially awakening Necron dynasty in the Jericho Sector... I don't think we should ignore it, but the strength of the Deathwatch is too weak.”

Instead of waiting for Andar to bring it up, Sochoyan simply made it clear.

“Brother Andar, you have served in that area for hundreds of years, and you have advantages in terms of familiarity with the situation and interpersonal networks. If you plan to lead the Tiger Claws back there to develop in the future, I am willing to give you a fleet and an armory as assistance in fighting the Necrons.”

Hearing Sochoyan say this, Andar looked a little embarrassed and said with a dry laugh:

“The Tiger Claws are not yet ready to be seen, and there are not many people, mostly recruits. I still need to take them to train for some time. This is too far in the future...”

“There is nothing we cannot say between us. You are an excellent commander and political expert. Going there can be more effective than staying here. I am not a narrow-minded person. As long as we can fight against the Necrons and other enemies of mankind, some external things are nothing.”

Agreeing to the Tiger Claws Chapter's future development in the Jericho Sector does feel like working for them in the short term, but from the perspective of a full-scale confrontation with the Necrons in the future, this may have a miraculous effect. At worst, it can provide an intelligence channel on the edge of the Segmentum Ultima. That area is also where the Necrons most frequently appear. We need the Eldar's intelligence, and we also need humanity's intelligence. Combining the two can reveal some easily overlooked clues.

Afterwards, Sochoyan asked Andar where he planned to take the recruits for training. The other party replied that he planned to conduct adaptive training on the planet first, and in a year or two, he would participate in combat training with the Eleventh Legion.

After returning to the Nyson System for some time, news from the Eternal Court attracted Sochoyan's attention again. Some important matters forced him to return to the Garden of Eden through the hidden portal in the monastery fortress.

One of the major events was that Morgala, with the assistance of the Court's power, finally found his lost homeland, the Craftworld of Autunsa.

The Autunsa Craftworld was a sister ship to the Ulthwe Craftworld. In scale, it was a very small Craftworld. They survived the birth of Slaanesh and were not buried with the ancient Eldar empire, but were sucked into the Eye of Terror.

During this time of isolation, this Craftworld had been facing the onslaught of Chaos alone. These difficult years forever changed the residents of the Autunsa Craftworld. They became a fully militarized system with universal conscription. There were no longer any non-combat profession paths. All Eldar from the time they understood things had to receive military training. At the same time, they would try to find the relics of the former Eldar Empire, and obtain powerful relics and holy objects from them to fight against the enemy, and change the color of their armor to reddish-purple, to always remind them of the sea of blood shed in the defense of the Craftworld against Chaos invasion and the piles of white bones of their ancestral warriors.

Morgala was able to find the Autunsa Craftworld because the Craftworld encountered a terrible invasion. A Khorne warband united with a Daemon Prince vowed to take this treasure into their possession. The skulls offered by destroying an entire Craftworld would even be enough for that champion to gain Khorne's favor and ascend to daemonhood. To this end, they planned for a long time, and specially found an opportunity when the Craftworld's protection system was weakened due to warp storms, and launched a swift invasion.

After breaking through the shield formed by the Craftworld's protection runes, the Khorne champion also summoned a Bloodthirster and its legion of Bloodletters with a contract. Faced with such an offensive, the Autunsa Craftworld, which had supported itself in the harsh environment for tens of thousands of years, was obviously exhausted. Its remaining seers could only try their best to send out a distress signal. In the past, even if the Craftworld encountered danger, it would not dare to do so, because before the psychic signal was received by other similar people, it was more likely to be received by various Chaos heroes with malicious intentions, but at the critical moment of life and death, they couldn't care so much.

As a result, the first to receive the signal was not Morgala, but Veronica, because the location of the Craftworld at that time happened to be near an Exodite World, and that world happened to have an abandoned Shrine of Isha. As a result, the psychic signal of the seers accidentally activated the main offering brazier in the shrine. As a result, Veronica was resting, and under some kind of guidance, she heard Autunsa's cry for help and immediately woke up.

Veronica contacted Morgala as soon as possible and described the cry for help she heard in her dream. Morgala immediately determined that this was the distress message from his hometown and was about to set off to rescue it, but Veronica calmly stopped him. She told Morgala that Autunsa was in the Eye of Terror where the Webway was broken. To go to rescue, just walking there would mean that by the time they arrived, the Craftworld would be finished.