Chapter 248 [Black Heart] Huron
This is a world shaped by pain.
Don’t think this description is crazy. It is not some false poetry or twisted metaphor. The crust of this planet is made of painful breaths, terrifying dreams, and the eternal echoes of the gods.
All of the above flowed out from the subspace, and finally formed a wasteland like withered bones.
If it were me when I first entered the Eye of Terror, such a scene would definitely make me very excited.
It is said that if you touch the bone ground with your bare hands, you will feel the unconscious blood echoes of the dreamers and victims - it is their pain that shaped this place.
Even without touching the bone-white earth, you can still hear whispers emanating from the cracked surface filled with the stench of bone marrow.
They will mention one name repeatedly -
The Eye of Hell.
This is a disordered, chaotic world full of twisted creations of the subspace. It is also the home of a group of exiles and Avengers.
Those exiles who were once the guardians of the great empire beyond the warp are now its plunderers and destroyers.
They call themselves the Red Pirates, but they once had another name.
Star Claws.
No one can imagine what kind of crazy fantasy created such a world?
Was it Huron's sinister spirit that shaped this place to his will, or was it just the energy of the void materializing, the filthy torrent of the Warp washing away without guidance and changing a world?
However, for a world overrun by demons, the climate and landscape of this nameless planet are quite stable.
Only occasionally, the lies of the past will turn into boiling blood and pour down. The blood-red storm often has corrosive properties that are enough to melt ceramic steel.
Due to the turbulent corrosion caused by supernatural forces, part of the world's surface has been destroyed into a wasteland strewn with ashes. The tyrant Huron's fortress stands in such a bone meal desert, half buried here. Beneath the dust that erodes nightmares.
Its crooked tower points to the sky, shrouded in a haze of highly toxic chemicals.
On the side of the tower, the ugly and huge exhaust vents discharge toxic gases into the nearby desert, forming another line of defense.
Even so, this fortress is still a holy place of pilgrimage for the beasts and mutants who inhabit the planet - thousands of corpses in various degrees of decay are scattered in the surrounding desert.
In this world, most creatures no longer care about time, because time is meaningless to them, and it is almost impossible to record the changes of the sun, moon and year.
The only life here is breathing, bleeding, breathing again, bleeding again, forever flowing in the cycle of killing and death.
Only the existence at that moment is real, either dead or alive.
This is the nature of chaos.
Time is a mundane concept, a product of the material universe, and its constraints have no effect on anything in the subspace.
After entering the fortress, you can see huge indoor arsenals and slave prisons everywhere. Various mutants with guns guard every key intersection and passage. A large number of automatic turrets and laser arrays form the defense system of the fortress. At its core is a huge monastery-like hall - just like the Star Claw's former home.
Some people say that this was Huron's mockery of the hypocritical empire.
Some people say that this is a reminder of the past.
But no matter what, now it has become a heart overflowing with venom.
Entering the church, the carved window lattice originally decorated with stained glass is now just an open hole. The panes shattered into millions of colored diamonds covering the ground, depicting a scene that is now a secret, while a row of golden statues on either side became a swaying phalanx of defeat scattered among the ruins.
A huge white stone double-headed eagle once spread its wings and perched on the high wall, but now it turned into rubble and fell on the stairs, replaced by a blood-smeared The eight-pointed star of chaos.
There are corpses wrapped in white robes everywhere. Their robes were torn by sharp claws and dyed black with blood.
The condition of these corpses is far from ideal. Each corpse has part of it melted into the wall, as if absorbed by the world that has become their tomb, but suddenly stopped midway.
They are all priests of the state religion, 444 in total, who were captured here by the red pirates and sacrificed to the dark gods in the most depraved rituals.
Just to keep a withered life alive.
Now, that withered life is sitting high on a huge black iron throne.
He was like a huge shadow, hovering over the even larger church, his entire body covered in scarlet armor full of cracks and strange symbols.
But the body looks uncoordinated. The right side of the body seems to have shrunk due to illness, and is slightly smaller than the left side. The original arm has also been replaced by a huge mechanical claw.
A large number of tubes wrapped around his neck, and the only exposed face was like a wax figure that melted and then solidified again, covered with criss-cross scars, and his wide-open eyes were bloodshot, like smoldering briquettes in the shadows.
He is the former guardian of the Maelstrom, the chapter leader of the Star Claws, and the current leader of the Red Pirates, [Black Heart] Luft Huron.
The Star Claws was founded in the mid-M35 as one of the Expeditionary Chapters. The purpose of its establishment was to help stabilize the empire that was slowly collapsing during the transition period of New Terra.
After Huron became Chapter Master, he and his troops were sent to patrol the Maelstrom, a meeting point between the Warp and the physical universe in the Ultramarine Segmentum and an important trade hub for the Imperium.
Soon in 587.M41, the Great Vortex Watcher Alliance was officially established.
In order to deal with the threats in the Great Vortex area and protect the resources and waterways of the Empire, the Space Marine Alliance, which was formed by the Earth's Supreme Lords Council, requested that several Space Marine Chapters be permanently stationed in the Great Vortex.
This alliance is led by the famous Star Claw Chapter, and leads several other war groups to form the Watchers of the Great Vortex, responsible for the stability of the Great Vortex area. Initial members included Chapters such as the Star Claws, the Lamenters, and the Mantis Warriors.
At first, the Star Claws did a good job, and Huron was even awarded the title of Guardian of the Maelstrom. However, as time went on, the flaws in Huron's character began to be revealed.
Although he was a heroic and resourceful leader, he lacked the iron faith and selfless devotion necessary to be a Septon Astartes, so as the glory on him increased, Huron's Arrogance also grows.
With the Badab Sector becoming more powerful and stable than ever before in history, the Star Claws Chapter began to expand externally, even launching a campaign against other nearby alien-dominated sectors. They looted and achieved great results, once gaining control of nearly half of the whirlpool area.
After being dazzled by the victory, Huron sent his servants on a pilgrimage to Earth, and attached a detailed plan, mentioning that if the Great Vortex and nearby star areas could be completely conquered, the Empire would gain more power. To achieve this, we can apply for the Empire to send more Space Marines to support the Great Vortex Sector, and we can even consider building an army specifically for this plan.
Unfortunately, Huron's proposal was rejected without being seriously studied by his superiors. The empire's needs elsewhere were much more important than the expansion of the Great Whirlpool region.
After the request to reallocate resources to the Great Vortex region was rejected, Huron began to stop paying the tithe of Badab Prime to the Ministry of the Interior, and also closed the trade routes through the territory it controlled. To protest against the Empire for not giving him and his allies enough resources to defend the Maelstrom.
This behavior seriously affected the production of refined ore in the Badab sector itself and the production of Pale sector crystals from the Maelstrom area; in addition, the void lanes near the main planet of Badab, as well as here The ore supply chain in this important area has been cut off.
Huron characterized this action as his authority as the defender of the Maelstrom area, and requisitioned all these industrial resources and labor to increase the defense capabilities of the Badab sector, while deploying more fleets and An important world fortification controlled by a tyrant.
In the Badab sector, Star Claws enhanced the defense capabilities of the space and created the "Ring of Steel" defense system.
This interstellar channel blockade caused serious damage to the trade in neighboring star regions, and also laid the foundation for the subsequent war
(End of this chapter)
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