[wind howling]
[thunder rumbling]
[footsteps approaching]
[gunfire]
[screaming]
[crashing]
Burn the heretic!
Kill the mutant!
Purge the unclean!
[gunshot]
[orchestral music]
[lasgun fire]
[explosion]
[Coro] We are almost at the beacon.
[Sangrael] And still they come. The city is infested.
[rapid gunfire]
The Xenos must have overthrown the ruling powers years ago.
-The civil war... -Those loyal to the throne failed.
This place belongs to the cult.
[gunshot]
Brother Melchior, cleanse us a path!
Your will, Brother-Sergeant!
[explosion]
[roaring flames]
[screaming]
Advance!
[rapid gunfire]
[gunfire]
Hostiles in the loading hold, we cannot...
[grunts]
[rapid gunfire]
[yelps]
[servos whirring]
[alarm blaring]
The docking limb release is non-responsive...
The hostiles have almost reached the void shield plasma conduits.
Our defences around them need reinforcing.
Irrelevant.
Hold perimeter around the enginarium and weapon decks.
They cannot fall.
Aye, mistress.
They want to take this ship. We shall deny them.
Open a vox channel to Techmarine Hadrael.
[gunfire]
Ah, Ship Mistress Solken.
I am preoccupied.
I doubt it has escaped your attention that we have enemy...
[grunts]
...on board.
I had noticed, lord.
Speak.
The enemy is attacking through the loading bay.
We cannot break from the tower.
The docking limb must be disengaged but the anchor release is not responding.
Compliance. I shall see to it.
[gunfire]
Pict feed to the loading bay established, Ship Mistress.
-Its distorted and intermittent. -Show me.
[muffled grunting & gunfire]
Abominations!
Ship Mistress, more ships have broken with the flotilla
and are closing on us at speed.
Unleash our broadsides. Burn them from the void.
[explosion]
Ship kill,
but were unable to adjust the firing angle to target the rest.
They are still closing.
They are manoeuvering to board us.
Ordnance, make ready to fire on the promethium hauler.
At this range we may be caught in the blast wash.
And if there are any innocents in that flotilla...
Who among us is truly innocent?
Target that ship.
Prow battery ranged and loaded.
Let fury be our voice.
Fire.
[explosions]
All hands! Make ready! Brace!
[blaring flares]
-[Coro] High atmospheric explosion. -[Sangrael] Not the Sword of Baal?
That is not a warship detonation. That's a battle.
The Sword of Baal is engaged.
The enemy are using the tower.
This is the cult.
The Genestealer is a parasite. It will subvert.
It will subsume.
Now that this world is theirs,
there will not be a shadow in which they do not lurk.
Then we purge them all.
[shriek]
They rally for another attack.
Let them come.
[gunshot]
Multiple detonations. Light and heavy arms fire.
Overwhelming close assault.
They were ambushed...
[suspenseful music]
Secure the site. Kazarion, to me.
Brother Leonas...
[Rafael] He fought and died well.
The signal that brought the Captain to the surface,
what was the source?
Unknown, brother Kazarion.
But it was of the highest encryption, and validity.
It cut through the signal interference to reach us.
Just like the Captain's beacon...
They bring us to their mouth a piece at a time...
The attack did not begin here...
[machine whirring]
We will come back for your gene-seed, brother.
You will live on.
[Sangrael] Buried under such filth.
This is no end for an Archangel.
It is unworthy.
These hybrid abominations will engage anything
when they have the numbers to do so.
They care nothing for the nobility of such warriors.
They moved to this tunnel opening to shelter from the weapons fire.
No. They were trying to get out of the tunnel,
to reach the Thunderhawk.
Better to face the enemy in the open,
than to die in the shadows with your back against the wall.
But why would the Captain move from the gunship in the first place?
Because there was someone else here.
Tell us what you see, Brother Kazarion.
Look for yourselves.
A lure to pull them away from the Thunderhawk
-and to the killing ground. -[Kazarion] No.
[Ancaeus] They were protecting it.
[Sangrael] That makes no sense.
It does if the Servitor came to meet the captain.
Servitors seldom act alone.
The cult tried to prevent them meeting.
-Then what are they doing now? -Watching.
Waiting.
[Coro] You know their nature well.
-[Coro] Genestealers! -[Kazarion] Purestrain form.
[suspenseful music]
Maintain utmost vigilance.
This is a foe that can lay the strongest of us low.
Orpheo's signal...
The path continues.
[Rafael] We shall bring light unto the dark
and burn it away with righteousness.
[growling]
[wind blaring]