=================FOR THE EYES OF THE IMPERIAL SENATE ONLY=================
YEAR 5004 AD
To the most Illustrious Senators on Byzantium Secundus, Greetings.
I am Father Arcadius, assistant to the Grandmaster of the Brother Battle sect in service to the Stigmata Garrison, and I have been tasked with bringing to you the first official report on the Stigmata Quarantine Zone to be presented outside the offices of the Regent and the Garrison Commander.
First let me give you a brief report on the nature of the enemy we face, The Symbiot from the archives of Bishop Xavier Holst.
Information beyond the actual frontlines facing these monstrosities is scarce, perhaps buried in the libraries of Holy Urth or the secret databanks of the Guilds on Leagueheim we may find more, but what I can provide is from first hand testimony of the brave men and women who have battled these horrors all their lives. The Symbiot is the very stuff of nightmares, creatures composed of living weapons, claws and blades that can tear through power armor, strange corrosive projectiles that melt through ceramsteel and blasphemous psychic powers that pierce your soul and obliterate your form.
But the most dangerous capacity is their shapeshifting capability, too often a patrol returns and welcomed deep into our safest holds only to twist into ferocious beasts spreading their infection and dooming everyone inside to a fiery death from orbital bombardment. That is why the Quarantine must be maintained, perhaps forever, for who can know when a trusted comrade is not secretly a demon just waiting to sink its teeth into you.
The Garrison is based on Stigmata, the gateway to the Bazaars of Leagueheim and the inroads to the entire Empire. Only recently has Caliph Saladin al-Malik(May He Reign Forever!) ordered expansion into the rest of the Zone to mayhaps destroy all vestige of the Symbiots and began the Campaign of Apshai.
(Forgive the awful, awful resolution and planet map. I just happened to start invading on a friggin' seam) Apshai, cold as the heart of an Inquisitor and far more deadly. A few years ago we started our landing operations against one of the more isolated hives of the polar region in the southern hemisphere. After purging the nest of all life inside, engineers erected the first few citadels to support the invasion, now all operations are directed from this safe barrier between the crossings at Fort Penitent and Fort Righteous Bulwark and the edge of the arctic wastes to the East.
(Imagine those stacks to the left of the screen in each hive. I cannot wait until I try to attack ALL that.)
After destroying another hive some distance north of the fortified landing we encountered a group of natives, surprisingly untouched by the Symbiot infestation. Initial meetings with the inhabitants and their leader (who called himself Baron of the Abominable Snow People) proved to be fruitless, they would not relocate to a safer location and the heathens even refused conversion to the Orthodox Church. Naturally the ruins they called home were cast to the ground and the impudent noble killed in battle. From there our Blessed Army came upon the main hives.
This is our current situation. For now the Garrison Commander has called for a halt to the advance while more troops are brought in, and the mighty guns in orbit of the SGFC
Prophet's Fury and SGFC
Unfair Height Advantage reduce some of the enemy in this area. I wish the Senators a fine evening and hope that this has shed even the tiniest light upon the morass of darkness that is the Quarantine Zone and the activities of the Garrison.
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