Adeptus Ridiculous - Captain Titus Returns to Kick Some Necron Ass | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: March 4, 2026

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://shop.orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousToday, Bricky and DK are diving headfirst into the new narrative campaign, "500 Worlds: Titus". The events of Space Marine II are in the rearview mirror, and our boy Demetrian Titus has officially secured the bag: getting promoted to Captain and Master of the Watch. Bobby G has tasked him with an incredibly ambitious (and maybe impossible) goal: reclaiming the lost 500 Worlds of Ultramar.​Titus heads out to the Vespator Front to secure a spooky planet called Novamagnor, a world so cursed that even Hive Fleet Leviathan actively avoided it. What Titus thought would be a "poggers" little speedrun to drop a vortex bomb in a sleeping Necron tomb immediately goes completely off the rails. We're talking Hexmark Destroyer ambushes, a literal Necron civil war spilling onto the surface, and the arrival of Nekrosor Ammenthar, the horrifying Patient Zero for the Destroyer Curse.​To make matters worse, Titus has to deal with Archmagos Wytbor Oct, a massive C'tan cultist who literally holds the door open for the Necrons because he wants to free a Nightbringer Shard from a massive Tesseract Vault. It's a pyrrhic victory of epic proportions, capped off by The Rock pulling up to the outskirts of Ultramar with a cryptic text message that simply reads: "Brother. We need to talk".Support the show

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Just us. Just the two of us. We can make it if we try. Yep. Just the two of us. You and I. Mm-hmm. I get it.

Good stuff. I'm old. Good stuff. Good times all. I mean, I know. I know you are. But that's okay. Thanks, dude.

Yeah. Really? Love it. Love it here. Listen, man. I'm aging at the same rate you are. yeah but i am i am further along the game true true i suppose that's suppose that's true any reminder of that is unnecessary also fair uh well uh today i hope you're i hope you're excited

hope you're hope you're ready i hope you are preparing yourself to get yourself a good little bit of a delicious fruit a do i do are you excited for fruits decay are you excited for fruit. Yeah, I mean, fruit is great. I, I am a big fan of fruit, whether it is the food or the creator. I, big fan, big fan. Are you a big fan fan of blueberries? Oh, boy. Zing. Oh, boy. I mean, I, I, I, I, I, I, blueberries are great for you, full of what, antioxidants and such. I've actually been a bigger fan of blueberries that are full of anti-Zenos. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. So every blueberry in 40K then.

Indeed. Today we get to do something that we don't get to do a lot of. And for a couple of reasons. Reason number one is that, well, Games Workshop doesn't send us anything. They have never reached out to us. They have never contacted us. We don't get shit. early. So we're never quite able to get lore out at a relatively soon time frame.

So because of that, while it is new, we are still late to the party. But it is time to talk about the lure dropped in the beautiful 500 worlds. The new Titus-based, God, they just shoving them everywhere nowadays. He's just freaking everywhere. He's everywhere. He's the poster boy for Warhammer now, which, I mean, fair, because Space Marine 2 probably got a lot of new people into Warhammer. I mean, it probably did, you know, the game sold a ton. I mean, I guess he's somewhat recognizable, but he's all, like, God damn, is he generic? Which I guess makes him a perfect fit for all the Ultramarines, but I don't know.

like I've always, I always kind of wish it was a guard character or something. Like I wish it was like Yark was. Wow, really? Ricky wishes the poster boy from Warhammer was a guard character. Listen, dude. Ain't no way. Listen, I could have taken anything besides main ultramarine guy. But anyway, he is, he is the man now.

He is the guy. He is our main, our main dude. And in the new 500 World's expansion, There is another new narrative leap, which is good because we have not had a lot of expansion in the hobby in the universe. Yeah. We normally talk about old stuff or like side stories or things like that. But in this scenario, this is actually lore that is furthering the plot of Warhammer, which is a bit of rarity, but always kind of fun. Yeah.

Hell yeah. Let's go. Blueberries. I'm okay with them now. I'm somewhat. But the 500 worlds goes, there's a little quote that starts on it. It says, the Primark Reborn demands the impossible, but only in death does duty end. So he's good old Gilliman is Talentitis something.

And he's like, he demands the impossible, but good God, I'm going to do it. Yep, yep. Oh, Gelleman. Life's not great for you, still. Still. So, as we all know from the fairly consistent game release, the two biggest narrative leaps that you see in the 40K setting have occurred at the very beginning of an edition's lifestyle

and also at the very end. Now, in 9th edition, the end of 9th, we ended with the arcs of omen books, if you remember those. Oh, yeah, those were great. Saw lots of really interesting things happening, including the reintroduction of the lion before the release of 10th edition. And now with 11th edition, mostly being teased very soon and a potential drop over the summer, we are going headlong into the edition's end game.

And so two big narrative campaigns have been announced. Actually, I believe this was as written by Possum, but I believe there's actually a third narrative campaign coming out as well. So the first one being good old the 500 Worlds. And the second one has just been launched, which is the mailstom. drum book covering the Red Corsairs and our favorite tax evader here on Blackheart. A third one was announced, I believe, today, which was an Iron Warriors-based one. I don't actually remember the name of it, but the reign of iron.

Of course, it's called the Rain of Iron. Of course. It had to be something iron, right? And there's a bunch, apparently they're doing new rules for Apocalypse, too, which is really neat. Go, go Apocalypse. Oh, nice. Apocalypse is the one where you can just bring anything, right? There's like not really a limit.

That's like where they do like all that they bring all the knights and stuff and they have like the gigantic tarmat fields. Pretty much. It's like a pocket that's like 10,000 points or something like that. Anywho. But so those are the three ones now. Now at the moment obviously of writing there was only the big two. But the first one is the ultramarines and their attempt to reclaim the worlds that were lost when Gilliman had died and revived. So 500 worlds, colon Titus, not only introduces a big step forward to loyalist, but it's also the first true introduction Titus has had to the tabletop.

And at this point, the events of Space Marine II are long in the past. Long in the past. Oh, okay. We are way past it. Is there like a specific? I guess it doesn't fucking matter how long ago it was. It was just, it was a long time ago. Yeah.

I mean, basically, I'm not sure if it's a couple of years or. or if it's like 20 decades, 20 years, two decades. I don't know. I'm sure that there's a number there somewhere that people can see, but I don't know. And I don't later. It doesn't matter. But so Titus now has his new role with the Ultramarines,

and he has a very ambitious goal set forward by Gillamim, which is both parts figurative and literal, which is reclaiming the 500 worlds of Ultramar, figurative as in Ultramar, champion of 500 worlds. and literal as in like save 500 worlds literally go get 500 worlds yes titus well i mean who better for the job i guess i can think of actually a few people but like i'm you know i mean i'm glad that he has a lot of trust in and tight ass because i i got to be honest i feel like there's a couple other ultramarines out there that might be a little bit better at this job but you're right we should send calgar as always you're right

You're so right. I mean, you're making a joke, but I'm actually agreeing with you. He probably would conquer them pretty quick. Yeah, I was making a bit of a joke. It's always a Calgar, but yeah, kind of. Yeah, I would, I would definitely go through, go through with Calgar. But anywho, now, to really understand Rabute's focus on the 500 world, I think I'll go back in time a little bit to his time of McCrog and the focus on the building of Ultramar.

So McCrogg fared pretty well During the age of strife Because of how far away it was from Terra If you don't remember McCrug is actually like Very far away from Terra Like the bottom right of the Ultima sector From the Ultima Segmentum

It kind of borders the fringe of the tau But Oh okay Trait Yeah it's like really far Because I mean Giliman was the shit 13th I think 13th prime

I think it always means you a 13th Yeah well I knew it was far away I didn't realize it was bordering on like tau space though. It's way out there. And so back there, over there, you know, trade was done, industry continued, and the worlds that neighbor in McRogg generally survived the age of strife. Now, under Gillamim, McCrogg in these worlds would end up thriving. And before long, the neighboring worlds and eventually the subsector would be unified. And that unification and the sheer size of his little mini empire would be one of the main reasons why the ultramarines were such a gigantic

take lesion and the strength of the 500 worlds of Ultramar. Now, 500 worlds is something that is not to be taken as literally as 500 planets. It's actually more of a figurative term. Oh, so it basically describes the strength of a unified front that is, that's as opposing as Ultramar. Now, they probably, they're probably like a 500 worlds at somewhere that are fully populated at its height, but it's not like they stopped as soon as they hit

500 worlds or something like that, right? Got you. So they have significantly more than 500 worlds. It's just, you know. They've got a damn lot. But like, the idea is just, you know, it's a strong, you know, good stamp and staple on it, 500, you know? 500, yeah. Even though there's more, it's like, these are the big ones.

This is the 500, yeah. Right. Now, regardless, the large number of unified plants would assure that Ultramar would stand relatively firm during the events of the Horace heresy until the events of the Shadow Crusoe. Now, the ruin storm that was created by Lorgar and released by Arabis during the Battle of Calh would cause navigation in the war to become unstable and forced a division in the Imperium led by the uncertainty of how everyone else was faring. See, Gileman's uncertainty resulted in him forming his own bastion of humanity in the event that Terra itself had already fallen.

Now, this would result in the creation of what will be known as the Imperium Secundus with the strength of the 500 worlds of Ultramar. Now, due to the activation of the pharaohs, wayward refugees from the Shadow Crusade were able to find McCrague and were able to stand united with their fellow imperial citizens. And for a while, Gilliman was doing this alone, but he wouldn't be for very long, as another Primark would have find, would find him. And, you know, Bobby G. was less than thrilled as to which one it was saying explicitly, of all of them, why did it have to be him who found his way

through this storm? Now, you. Gilliman, Gilman admired his brother, but he always questioned the motives a little bit of good old lion. Mm-hmm. And if we were referring to good old, you know, heresy era lion,

Heres Sierra Lion was a bastard. Yeah, he kind of was. No, you can, no, let me bomb that planet. My mother's there, man. Stop it. Also, you know, whenever the emperor was like, I need you to quietly, like, slit the throats of that whole planet. The lion's just like, sure, dude.

Bet. You want me to get the surrounding systems, too? I get all of them. It's like, no, no, no, yeah, yeah. Chill. Yeah, just the planet lion. Like, are you sure? I got to, can I firebomb them anyway?

I can exterminate the whole planet and get the guy you want me to stealth kill. Like, no, no, no, easy, easy, buddy. So now, the feeling was mutual as the lion would confront Gilman and be like, I want to trust you, but I've always been wary of your ambition. And ultimately, the full story

is probably for another day or for people who read the Horace heresy books, but eventually the Imperial Imperium Secundus would be ruled briefly for like five years by the triumvirate of Rabutei, aka him, the lion, and Singuinius, but it would be abandoned once it became clear that Terra had lived.

And the resources that were keeping the Imperium Secundus around were refocused to Terra. But the actions of Rabutei were seen by both the Emperor and Malcador and the idea of what Rabouti was doing was far from a surprise to both of them. If you would like to, this is a little quotey quote thing here.

Oh, did not go the way I wanted to. Let me try to control, shift. this one. It did not help. When, um, boy, when that cicatrix maledictim happens, Ultramar kind of gets surrounded, doesn't it? Yeah. You know what?

Never, this is a bunch of quotes. Forget what I meant by that. Basically, the bolding words, which you can't see because discord sucks are our emperor-based stuff. And basically the emperor and Malcador kind of like talking about like, oh yeah, there goes Rabute.

He's like, like, it's Gileman. What do you think he's doing over there in the ruins storm. He's building his empire. Of course he is. Of course he is. What else is he going to do? Yeah. And so, yeah, like, oh, like, what do you think Rabute is doing over there? It's like, he's probably like handling weapons logistics. Like, you know what Gilman's doing. Just focus on Conrad. Yeah, focus on Conrad over there eating that surf. Like, we got to focus on other stuff right now. Only the one, huh? Now, even though the Imperium Secundas didn't last, Gilliman was eventually view with

a bit of suspicion from his brothers after that, but the end of the heresy would result in changes to the Imperium as a whole, including the idea that space marians were not to rule over humanity, and the size of Ultramar would be reduced substantially after the heresy, and even more so after the death, quote unquote, of Gilemon. Mm-hmm. Now, do you want to read what the hell of this says? You want to give us one a shot?

Oh, my God. the concilius imperatis ultimar. Yeah. That's all I got for. That's my best, that's my honest to God best attempt. Good luck. Good luck.

So after Gilliman was revived, he would see the stay of the Imperium first hand on his tearing crusade. And the events of this crusade, as well as the chaos of the plague wars, would cause Rabouté to create an exhaustive plan called the Constilian Impertian. Herodus Ultamar and would declare that the borders of Ultramar need to be restored to their former glory of the 500 worlds days by whatever means necessary. So he wakes up and sees the pyramid.

He's like, God, I'm going to do it my own way like I did before. So much like before, the idea is not supposed to be taken literally, but even in his note, he stresses that the strength of a full unified Ultimar could consist of even more than 500 worlds. So he's pretty ambitious here. Now, some of these worlds that were formerly a part of Ultramar will be a bit easy to reclaim because they just kind of fell over with time and just need to be reconnected and have their oaths reupt, while others were just sitting there like completely abandoned. But inevitably, there would be some that would need to be taken by force, thanks to the presence of Zenos, or uncooperative humans that feel abandoned. Uncooperative humans, huh? In old Ultramar. Okay.

Even in the 41st millennium, we're still going to planets and we're still like, listen to me or die. Yep. Yep. Also, what Zenos are hanging around here? Is this like? Who knows? Tau, orcs, trachari, necrons, tyrannidate, fleet invasion, pick one, dude. Well, my first assumption would be Tao

because the tower just right there. Right there just a little northeast of McCrack. You got the Tao. And I was just like, well, if Ultramar was weak and Tao was like, oh, hey, we can take them. Just fire off a few rail cannon shots. Oh, we got them. Yeah, we can reduce it down to that kind of brass tacks if you like.

I guess it's still ultramar. It's not that easy. It is still ultramar. But in order to do this. this properly, while Alston carried the Imperium itself, Gilliman would restore the rake of Tetrarch, which was essentially a ruler for each of the large segments of Ultramar space outside of inner Ultramar. Now, the four fronts are known as the corner front of the northwest, the Protos, or Protos probably, front of the southwest, the Vespotor front of the northeast,

and the Attermong front of the southeast. Another thing they'll be heavily leaned on for this would be the 10 shield chapters of Ultramar, being the Aquilian Brotherhood, avenging sons, Doom Eagles, Nova Marines, praetors of Ultramar, the Reborum, the sides of the emperors, the silver skulls, the sons of Orr, and, of course, the Ultramarines. Of course.

Every time it's Ultramarines and you say, oh, it's the shield thing, I always picture those shield guys in Space Marine 2 that are coming along with Calgar when he first shows up, and they got those like Aquilin helmets. They got that big eagle on the bottom of them of them. Ah, the Vitrix Honor Guard.

Yes, the Honor Guard. Yeah. God, they're so cool. They are extremely cool. They, uh, unfortunately, they ruined the game for like a few months. Oh. So it gets a little bit. That's a controversial statement on my part, huh?

Yeah, no, they, they were like insanely busted. Like, insanely busted. So time, times. certainly were interesting back web. Hell yeah. I'm glad they were busted because they're cool. They are cool. But with that, of course, in addition, they had the full strength of the Ultramar defense auxilia. And this plan is something that Gilliman knows is an almost unfathomable undertaking. But this does not mean it is impossible. As outlined at the end of the Constellius

prelude, you may read this one this time for actual actuality. Oh, right. I have planned this campaign in detail, built in every viable contingency, provided practicals for every theoretical. It will not be easy. It is undeniably a gamble. For all that it is a necessary one. I entrust it to you, safe in the knowledge that you, of all the emperor's loyal servants,

have the wisdom, fortitude, and strength of spirit needed to make my vision a reality, no matter the odds. Reclaim our realm of old. Let Ultramar stand tall, a bastion about which all the Imperium might rally. Do this, do this thing for me, my sons, with courage and honor. Courage and honor. Yeah, I was, damn, again with the courage and honor. Say it's so many times in Space Marine, too.

It's just ringing in my brain. They love the courage and honor line. Love it. That's their thing. That's their tagline, you know? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So though this was viewed as a huge W for the Ultramar's people of Ultramar, this was viewed externally with a lot of skepticism.

Imperial officials were viewing this as favoritism in lieu of a more broad imperial focus, while one inquisitor was going as far as to believing that this is an attempt being made by Bobby G to overthrow the emperor himself. Ooh, that's not good. there was always a bit of skepticism when Gilliman went to go start the the Imperium Secundus because in a sense you could almost consider it like breaking off from the Imperium and so they were always like

careful there Gilliam but then now he's doing it again yeah I could see how they'd be like that's just a hair away from secession from the Imperium brother you're walking a dangerous tightrope

it is very funny that in universe people are also being like the ultramarines are getting too much stuff which in our meta world is also true the ultramarines are getting too much too much stuff yep i don't even play the tabletop and i'm like come on we can do other stuff right there's so much of it and i gotta say they it's kind of funny for them to be like hey like because you know you know a bunch of like ecclesiastical random High Lord of Terror like Giliman you're taking a lot here and you're not really following our doctrines put in place

God bless the emperor like yeah and Gilliman's just like yeah that's because it's a bunch of fucking bullshit so again Bobby G is busy doing other Imperium stuff so he's a bit of hands off and even Calgar apparently is a bit busy he's making his way back from the battle of Bastille at the time of these events but the campaign

needed to happen, even if it was done without either the Primark or Calgar. So, the responsibility fell onto Captain Talos, or T-A-E-L-O-S, so Talos, Captain Farin Arios, Captain Uriel Ventris, Captain McAil Fabium, and Mr. Demetriand Titus specifically. Titus was promoted to captain, again, after the deaths of Captain Akron and Chiron, who both tragically died of Ligma previously in an online article. That's just crazy that they just killed them off camera. I just, how do you, how do you live with yourself, Gdub? How do you live with yourself?

I don't get it. So here's a little possum note. This should not come as a surprise, but the book does not expand on their respective deaths at all. All we know is that Chiron was apparently promoted to lieutenant before he and Captain Akron would go to the planet of Trigg. T-R-Y-G-G and sacrifice themselves to Savagin's to their cult from expanding. Like, don't get me wrong,

Games Workshop tends to kill characters off in, like, random books and things like that all the time. But normally they aren't the side character squadmate of an entire game, especially a game where it was so popular that you promoted the main guy to Big Boy 500 Worlds crazy dude, you know? Yeah, it's wild to me that they just, killed them. Like,

like we said, Space Marine 2 has probably made so many new Warhammer fans. And those are probably after Titus, two of the most

recognizable ones. And it's like, why would you just, why would you just off scene? No explanation. It's really doing. It's really weird.

I mean, there is a world where they will have like a cut scene or something, maybe in the third game or maybe some kind of mission, referencing it,

later, but it is, at that point, you would just not tell people. Yeah. And then you would do it for the emotional way and be like, oh, damn, they killed like, ah, that's weird. Anyway, so Titus's promotion within the second company's captain means he also gained the title of Master of the Watch, which means he's not doing it from death. That means that the, that means that the responsibility for the sanctity of Ultramar's borders as well as oversight of this reclamation effort fell strictly to his shoulders.

So when we joked about like we have other people for that, turns out they're busy. Yeah. Well, get a promotion. Good for you. Yay. So the primary focus for this episode is going to be the Vespitor Front, which is commanded by Tetrarch, Decimus, Androdinus Felix or Felix. I don't know.

I pronounced it felix because I, I, just kind of thought that it would be pronounced differently after all those other freaky words, but it's just Felix. So that name will come back later in the series. But this front is the largest of the four non-central ones, the Vespotor front, and has a lot of resource-based worlds that are necessary to the 500 worlds. And Felix is spread really thin. So Tyos is a bit more involved here in other sectors.

Now, there's a heavy Zenos presence here, and we enter with Tyos fighting back high-fleet Leviathan in the agri world of Adaris. And after a few days of fighting and him 1B wanting a Tyrannid prime, the world was saved. Yib-by! I, listen, who else are you going to send to fight the tyrantids other than Titus, huh? Like that man, he is well-seasoned at killing Nids. He is, yeah, that's true. Not to mention he was part of the Death Watch and therefore has a really large amount of

intelligence when it comes to killing Nids because killing Zenos was, kind of their thing, you know? Yeah, because it's kind of in the job description, yep. So eventually, after he saved that world, the best way to figure out which one to do next was where the remnants of the high fleet were at. And there are plenty of other worlds that are bountiful for a hungry tyrannid, particularly one known as Nova Magnor. Now, Titus noticed something weird.

The tyrantids that fled outright avoided one world in time. entirely called Nova Magnor. Just ignored it. Now, to some who think it might be a fluke or an anomaly, that would be, sorry, some might think it's a fluke or an anomaly, but for a death watch veteran like Titus, he meant one thing. The High Fleet was avoiding this world for a very specific reason that is likely buried underground. Yeah. Oh, no.

If you recall, when Titus launched with his box, what else came with him? I don't think you actually know. Wait, when he launched with a box? So in the game, I remember there were necrons and there's thousand sons that were all. No, no. Do you remember what his new miniature came out? Oh! Not really. I don't really remember what came out with the box. I thought we were talking about like what came with like in the game or like something like that because I was like, oh, you know, there's there's the, I guess I was thinking the relic was like the box you were talking about. And I was like, oh man, that's like thousand sons. The nids were kind of, none nids weren't really after that. There were sort of necrons were sort of attached to it. I was like, oh, God, it could be any of that. And you meant the actual mini stuff that came out with like that box. Okay. Yeah, that I have no idea.

Okay, well, it's necrons stuff. So we basically got to the same point. Oh, okay. So I was on the right track thinking it was necrons or thousand sons anyway. That's fine. Okay, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, I mean, deep buried underground.

So, you know, Tomb Worlds. Yeah, two worlds. Now, a reason that could really screw up this whole 500 Worlds thing would be that the things underneath the service decided to wake up. And so because of this, Nova Magnore became a huge priority for Zenos purging. And Tyos assembled the wardens of Ultramar on the righteous fury to discuss what to do next. Now, the Wardens of Ultramar is that other box set of minis that came with Titus. It's the, it's Gadriel who has now become an ancient. You've also got what's his name, the veteran sergeant Mataris, which was in the secret level episode,

as well as a gaggle of little humans that actually look sick as all hell because they're just super cool minis that I I'm going to turn it to guardsman. Of course you are. Of course you. I'm a simple man. I'm a simple man. Emphasis on simp. What do you mean by that?

No, me, no. Just, you know, just. What are you trying to say? Trying to say you really like the garden. It's very obvious. Well, yeah, that's true. There you go. So, with the goal was to go to the Capitol,

checking on the planetary governor, and then work to purge the planet of any and all necrons that were busy napping. The planet was covered in a very thick fog, so it's difficult for them to see what's going on my normal means, and standard communication with the service is relatively difficult. So they'll have to fully amass forces planet side for it. And of course, this means he's got to do some pals to do along with him, aka Commodore Gaius, Sergeant, Veteran Sergeant Mataras, as I mentioned, and Company ancient Velorum Gadriel. Now, this became a bit more complicated due to the fact that censors picked up a mass. necron vessel leaving the surface, but in like a really unnatural manner,

as in the ship was heavily damaged, and Titus had a bit of a, oh, hell no moments, and quickly dispatch some forces to stop it from fleeing. After cutting down the forces on the ship, the thing was claimed, but the necrons on board that were in a surprisingly rough shape were really focused on protecting a very strange

and very big artifact. And due to how important the Necron's thought this artifact was, Titus just wanted to straight up, rig it with explosives and detonate it. As Titus thought tends to do, yeah. You know what? I'm going to give him some credit here.

As a lug-headed maneuver goes, so with him on that one. Necron's defending something like crazy, blow it to bits, pipe bomb, pipe bomb. Especially with his experience with dealing with strange, probably Xenos artifacts, why would he take any chances with this shit?

Like, yeah, just line that thing with C4 and light its ass up. Yes, I'm cool with that. However, in typical fashion, he was dissuaded by an Archmegos by the name of Whitboreacht, who urgently told him that it was a very bad idea. God, who else? Who else? Who else? would vie and defend keeping Necron tech specifically to try and study

than a fucking archmegos. God damn it, Admec. I love how often the admec are just like really annoying. Yeah. It's funny. Like before Space Marine 2, I was like, man, Admec are so cool. Sometimes they get a bad rap in books and stuff and, ah, it's fine. And then like after the Space Marine 2,

game and then like after stuff like it's like god damn it ad me stop fucking everything up it's it's just it's so hysterical to me how often the ad me just show up and like ruined something everything it honestly makes them like them like them more there's something there's just something about the ad me constantly like no i got to study this thing and then they're like oh no i've unleashed horrors beyond my comprehension yeah oh zezino's artifact sorry guys there's a warp storm above us now. Oopsie, poopsie. It's like, can't again.

Good stuff. Anyway, so the Archmegos clearly knew what this was and 100% told the truth to Titus and his mem. This was a weapon that is potentially very dangerous and needs to be studied by him. But fortunately for them, Nova Magnor had a mechanic come forged shrine on the surface in the capital area of First Brand. So if they were to transport to the shrine, then he could get to studying it. not thinking this was suspicious at all,

Titus agreed to the plan, and they worked on studdling the ship before enacting the service plans they outlined. Now, Titus on nothing suspicious about this at all. He was just like, oh, yeah, sure, Archmago's, yeah, I'll, I'll just follow orders. This is, Titus is not, listen, he's, he's,

Titus is a blunt force object and I respect him for it. Because that's, yeah, that's how he avoids chaos, is he's just built different. However, I would almost argue that Titus sees this Abmet guy and he's like, fucking whatever, dude. Just leave. As long as you stop talking to me, take your damn artifact and get away from me. So they began to move it to the surface, and it was very evident that Cron's

with the process of waking up. But this wake up was a little strange. They had some structures rising up, but not all of them. And there were some areas that didn't have necrons marching around. at all. And those necrons that were were very disorganized, which is highly unusual. So regardless, the human forces already on the planet were supported by the forces sent down by Titus while he sought out the planetary governor for an audience. Now, judging by everything on the surface so far, it was fairly easy for him to assume that they were a bit early and that

the damaged ship was actually attempting to wake up the planet. So they had the upper hand. Now, Titus was able to speak with the governor who is exceptionally out of her. element due to the scale of the chaos on the surface. Sure. Now, she confirmed that this whole conflict had just started him and that the primary tomb complex, it's called Sight Umbra, had not had even a single Nekron pop out of it yet. Now, this seemed like the perfect opportunity for a preemptive strike before the planet was completely covered in Nekron.

So the focus shifted to Sight Umbra, and Titus had a very strong desire to put a vortex bomb in the center to have a total destruction. Because bomb. Sure. Yeah. I mean, that's, hey, that's what those vortex bombs are made for, right? Cracking moons and destroying Necron. Sure. This is the second time now that Tyus has seen anything Necron, like, related or important and said, bomb.

I mean, that's a fair answer to when you see what could potentially be a Necron Tomb World. Let's just bomb that shit. So, Titus. that's a great answer. So Tyos was in for a bit of a rude awakening as the Necron awakening was actually happening a hell of a lot faster than he had realized thanks to the Necron who had some very specific reasons for being on this world. You see, as this was all going on, Weith Boar Ocht, the Admet guy, was able to get to the Ford Shrine and was able to get a much better look at the large device though it's on the damaged ship. Now, he didn't fully lie

when he called it a dangerous weapon, but he did lie. about what it truly was, as this was not your typical average weapon of war. This was a vault. In fact, one would call it a Tesseract vault. And the Archmegos was a worshipper of the Khatan that was inside of it. I see. See, the Archmegos a long time ago had fallen to a cult that worshipped the dragon of Mars.

and believed that it was as well as the other Catan, the machine god's angels. And he pledged himself to the Ultramarines in the hopes that would bring him closer to Necron worlds during the Ultramar Reclamation efforts. It was heavily implied that he is far from the only one, and that cults surrounding the Catan of Mars might be increasing, which could mean that there's been a degree of new activity in the Noctus Labyrinth on Mars and the Void Dragon itself. but this is a bit of a mystery. However, what it is known is that the Archmegos is a cultist that worships Catan

as the Catan are seen as angels sent by the machine god. God damn it, Admec. Just when you think they can't get any more loony and you think they can't fuck anything up more, they go and they start worshipping the Catan. They out here. I mean, you know, I'm not going to lie. haven't heard much.

Yeah, haven't heard much about that. However, I must admit, there is a really enjoyable and interesting concept to make out of this where you end up having some kind of person, you know, in this case, Admec, worshipping Katon as the machine god's angels, because it's not that much of a stretch.

Like, it's generally, yeah. It's generally believed, of course, the Noctus labyrinth on Mars is a void dragon situation. Mm-hmm. And so the idea is that the Admec's religion came from a Catan. And so, yeah. And things like that. So it's like, it's not too far-fetched as a concept.

Yeah, it is actually a cool concept, Catan worshipping Admec. That's a really, really dope concept. Trying to think, how would you, if you were going to put that in the tabletop, how would you do it? Or just would you not make it an actual? paint all my necrons or i do one or two things i either play necrons and then swap on my warriors for scotarian stuff or i would play ad meck and just paint their asses green oh fair yeah yeah and field a void dragon with them mm-hmm so unfortunately though the ad meck are not the only ones that are a bit off their rocker worshiping katam because there's another one another necrone that is also really into it as well So if you, of course, you remember, obviously, necrons slumbered for millennia, and their engrams were vulnerable to a whole bunch of different versions of corruption. One of these corruptions was that the necrons could have the sickness of the destroyer curse.

Now, the necrons that succumbed to it find all life to be aberrant and nothing more than something that needs to be destroyed. And it is said that necrosaur aminthar was the first necron to ever. succumb to this flavor of madness, which is that guy. Oh, sick. Destroyers always look so goddamn cool. And, mm, love that, love that art. Hell yeah. Also, he was a really, really awesome character because his miniature, if shy can post it,

is also insanely cool looking. I was going to say, if his mini-lawful. looks anything like his art, that's going to slap like hell. I mean, there it is. I mean, he's not holding an ultramarine in his hands, but it's still pretty cool. Oh, yes, very cool.

God damn. Yeah, so. That might just convert me to playing Necrons if I was ever like, like, oh, you were considered playing the tabletop? Yep, no, I'm going to play Necrons. Well, luckily for you, Necrons are the best time in the game right now. Let's go.

Oh, because, well, not for any good reasons, because the Khaton became way too overpowered. We believe in Nekrosur. Necrosur, Amintar, though, he is really good also. Very good. So, super cool guy. Anyway, all that aside.

Necrosor Amentar is said that he is the first person to ever succumb to the Destroyer cult virus. And it's pretty hard to prove him wrong because his existence, is so ancient that there are no records of his origins. But he's known and justifiably fear, not just because he is fully corrupted by the destroyer curse, but specifically because he has retained his ability to function throughout it. He's not like a world eater-style blabbery lunatic that just like tries to murder everything in sight.

He's generally intelligent and keeps his sanity while still being like, kill all life. Oh, yeah, that's no good for anybody else. That's a potent mix. Now, of course, the obsessive belief in the destruction of all things will lead any Necron down a dangerous and devastating path. And at the end of that path is the belief and worship of a god. In this case, that god just so happens to be a Catan by the name of the Nightbringer. As a symbol.

The Nightbringer, eh? Yeah. As a symbol of total obliteration, Necrosora Mentor has become enthralled with the worship of this particular being and his goal is extremely simple. Collect all the shards of the Nightbringer, combined them together to fully revive the Nightbringer and wipe out all life in the universe. He just got a mini, right? Or a mini upgrade, I want to say. Yep, that's the one. Yep.

God, that clock is so fucking cool. the little digital shit at the end of it with the scarabs. Oh, it's so cool. Also, that image is on the bottom there is actually his magic cards. Oh, he has a magic card. Let's go. Also, he is torching those poor space marines. I don't know if those are ultramarines.

I'm going to imagine they are because I'm petulant that way. But, who. Hell yeah. He's blasting them. He actually has a really cool ability. So he's eight-mana black, which is, a lot of manna. Yeah, that's a lot.

He's an 8-8 flying, but his ability is when he enters the battlefield, if you cast it as a, you know, paid the mana for it or whatever, a opponent, pick one, loses half of their life rounded up and you gain half. Oh, God. That's dirty. It's like, it's expensive, so it's not necessarily going to be like the most insane thing in the world, but he's pretty cool. It sounds like, yeah, it's expensive, but it's worth it.

You get what you pay for. Yes, it is very fun. Anywho, so most other Necron's disagree with this plan for like every reason you can imagine. Yeah. But he really doesn't give a damn, and he figured out a way to bolster the Detroit or Colt numbers. So his legion has spread through the southeastern part of the galaxy due to his habit of fighting tomb worlds and forcibly waking them up while still. corrupting them with a destroyer curse.

It's even state that his mere presence is capable of causing some degree of corruption to necrons that stand around him for too long. And it's believed that this corruption he radiates can affect the master program of tomb complex as he stands him. Therefore, the dynasties really hate him for this. And they fear him quite a bit because of how successful he's been. He's got to be like Necron most wanted number one. Like he's got to be at the.

top of the list of like we have to deal with this guy. Otherwise, like, Tomb Worlds not only don't wake up, they wake up as destroyers and then they just kill everything and us. Yeah, he's, he is number one most wanted, right? Yes. I mean, him being there is like, yeah, I'm going to bypass all the, the dynasties and just absolutely get rolling on this type of thing, which is very, very funny and also just quite, quite difficult for those around him.

Mm-hmm. So now, going from this, his last conquest had Embra's converting a large amount of forces to his legion, and then upon finding a couple of portals, he was able to slip through space and appear deep underground in Nova Magnor, where Titus and his gang were approaching. So, in sight Umbra, there are necrons thrown about everywhere, and the walls are covered in scorch marks, but none of the necrons down there look like they're awake yet. Now Titus thinks this is, as they put it, pretty poggers. And he believes this means they can speed run the whole tune, place the damn bomb, and then win without a single side of conflict.

Now, right on cue, a whole bunch of Hexmark destroyers beam in and start just blasting. By the way, Hexmark destroyers are the Glocktipus. It's the sixth pistol one. Okay. The Glocktipus? I like it. I like it. Have you ever heard me call it the Glocktipus before?

I don't think I have. I know who you're talking about, but I don't remember hearing the Glock. That feels like something I would remember. The old Glocktopus, yeah. Yeah, Glockawk. Glockock? God, they're really cool.

I guess I was thinking of some, like, maybe it was an ad mech that looked like it was very Wild West six-shootery. This is not the guy I thought, but damn, he's cool. The Glocktipus is dope. There's the, Keller Morph. That might be what I was thinking of, yeah. I might have mistakenly. been thinking of the Kellermorphism.

Actually, you might be thinking of the Cerberus Raiders, because they're admec dudes with two revolvers on like a big dog horse thing. Maybe. Anyway, this guy, dope. And how many of these pop in? A lot. A lot of them joined him. And then a bunch of Scorpic destroyers join the fray.

And then the once down necrons begin to rise up with a pure madness in their eyes. So the ultramines are ready to bail and take the bomb with them. but the imperance of necrosora mentara puts a firm stop to this because he blasts the last tech priest that was in tow that wasn't busy what the hell what the hell you mean by this possum he blasts the last tech priest that was in tow that wasn't busy wool lull ling at the first brand workshop it's just a little undulating at the workshop

isn't that what we're doing Wolololing at the first brand workshop. This is a reference lost on me. Same. Like I said, it sounds like just written Anamonopoeia for undulating. I don't know what Wololol is. No.

Same. I got no idea. I got nothing. This posthism is above us. This paustism is far above us. Mm-hmm. So this means, though, with no tech priest, that the vortex bomb they brought is useless and can't be set off.

So Titus Oras a retreat And the bomb is left behind And he hopes they'll be able to reassess on the surface Now you hit them now With the Always Sunny title card of He was not able to reassess on the surface Yeah Also they just left the virus bomb

Or not the virus They just left it Because the tech priest is the only one that can activate it And we'll set it off like You can't just like I don't know No no This is 40K There's not just a single goddamn button

You need three things of incense, two separate servitors, and like 13 minutes of dedicated prayer to set off your goddamn vortex bomb. You don't just push the big red button. This is an orks. I just thought there would be some sort of like detonator or something or, you know, like he'd have like the joystick with the big red button that you just now you die. And then, you know. No, you got to do your priests. Oh, the Wololo priest voice line and age of. empires to convert enemies to friendlies. I played Age of Empires, but that one was lost on me.

I didn't have that one. I didn't play it. So, I was, maybe they could have hit me with the, the Starcraft One dark arc on mind control. That one would have gotten. Anyway, that one either.

So the journey to the surface revealed that destroyer Colts had taken oversight umbra. And as the Marines fled on Thunderhawks, it was clear that the large destroyer armies were popping up across the surface and overwhelming imperial holds without much resistance. And even worse, there was something else on the planet causing quite a stir. Here's a quote for you, D.K. Oh, no.

Yet it was the scythe-wielding horror that wrought true devastation in those desperate bloody minutes. Shells and energy beams struck it with no more effect than a zephyr of wind. Sweeping forward with its robes whirling, the monster swung its side, scythe into the flank of the repulsors with such cataclysmic force that the tank was not only all but clovenin two but was also sent crashing

and rolling through the ultramed lines before detonating. Whomp, womp, womp, the nightbringers here. Yeah, the nightbringer cometh. Now this is realistically a pretty justifiable reason to get the hell off the planet and bomb it from orbit.

However, exterminate. this time. How's the bring on the tabletop? I assume OP, as you say, Katan are good. So the,

okay, so, okay, we're going to, we're going to do a little bit of a sidebar here because shy's asking. So currently on the tabletop, the Katon, along with the New Nightbringer model, got a update to their stat lines because they wanted to more represent the, the units.

Now, this means that Katon are currently, they made them a lot, they changed up a lot of their stuff, but they made them tougher and also a bit more powerful. So before, what they would do is they would have the amount of damage that they would take. And they would also think of a feel no pain. Now, they actually only reduce the damage they take by one instead of having it.

However, they gave them more wounds. They gave them more movement. And they also made them a bit stronger in terms of damage-wise. So, unfortunately, this didn't translate entirely to the amount of points they should be. So currently, there is actually a detachment called the Pantheon of Woe, and they are running rampant. Turns out killing Necron is actually quite hard with their current stat line of T-11, 16 wounds, and a four-up save, and a five-up pillop payment. So basically the best way to kill, yeah, 16's a lot for what they are. And so basically the best way to kill Neckiton is either, A, tons and tons and tons of like AP1,

one damage shots where you're like, okay, okay, Necron's, I know you got all this stuff, but here's 40 saves. Or a boatload of very high damage stuff of like D6 plus four damage, which means like you roll on average like a seven, it goes to a six. And then they save a couple. And then you get him and a few of those. Problem is, is that they have a four up inval, so you might just like that. Yeah.

So a lot of people are running like two caton and then a bunch of other stuff. and they are just, like, you can kill one Caton, that's fine, but you either can't kill the second or the rest of the army will beat you to death. Yeah, I was going to say, what do you do about the second one and all of their friends? And yeah, good luck. You're basically, you're basically playing knights, but for Necrons. It's actually, it's actually incredibly unfun and like a horrible way to play the faction. And I hate that it exists.

And I'm really, really hoping they get points increases like they're supposed to. Or I would honestly take a limit where you can only take, like, one Caton. maybe yeah, some like that, but I don't know. I don't know how they're going to do it because it's, holy, isn't too powerful right now. It is a problem. It's actually hysterical because that means that most people are simply teching to kill Katon. Everyone is like, I need to make my list to kill Katon, which has therefore

create a hysterical counter list where people start taking tons and tons of infantry because then people are setting up to kill Katon. and instead you just drown them in infantry, which is a different, it's very, I don't know, it's very interesting. Yeah, that's unfortunate for any game where there's like such a crazy meta that it's like, oh yeah, you're either playing the meta or you're playing the faction specifically to counter the meta. And it doesn't leave a whole lot of room for like fun builds

or just having fun in general. It's just very centric around one really, really, really, really strong thing. That sounds kind of awful. Yeah, it ain't great. But anywho, all that aside, the necrons, however, despite all of this, like, obviously there's a very big reason for you to get off the planet. Titus, however, built different, built wrong, and determined that the lost of this planet would be a death blow to the morale of other ultramarines, and it would cause a domino effect. So he really, really wants to play it back and not nuke it from orbit. So, then he realized something.

hit him like a sack of bricks. That damaged necron ship that had the weird ass weapon on it wasn't trying to wake up necrons on the surface and botched the awakening process. That ship was trying to flee the chaos on the surface. And it was taking that weapon with it for safekeeping. And now that the weapon was sitting comfortably on the surface, he needed to get to the forge, try to have a little bit of a chat with the archmago. So he ordered some reinforcements on place around the planet and it can result in an easy victory for them and help balance out the odds. And so he would work out his way of the shrine. Now, in the process of making's way of the shrine, Titus and other forces found themselves to be in the center of something else.

A staging ground for the continuing Necron Civil War. Just what you want to be in the middle of? We're appearing on the surface and we're engaging with the large forces of the Zerican dynasty. that's the Silent King, by the way, that we're now pouring out of sight Umbra. Some of them were fighting, but it was very clearly one-sided. And as time went on, these Necron forces

would start to co-opt one another and start to fight side by side. Now, so due to this surface fighting, Tyos remember something very important. The vortex bomb, he left. Ah, yes, that is a very important thing. That's still just sitting there, not really doing anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So all this big surface fighting meant that it's likely just sitting there completely untouched. So he decides to shift his gears a bit and make a judgment call. All focus from the ultramarine forces should shift underground, so they can put a stop to this once and for all, all the while some sort of distraction goes on top side. He would bring with him a bunch of tech marines this time so that they could successfully press the button on the bomb as well,

as a bunch of tech priests. And due to the size of the tomb complex, there are multiple entrances that connect to the primary site. So they could probably pull it off if there's enough of a smokescreen. Fortunately, Necrosora Amentara is currently being distracted as the planetary governor is personally operating a bane blade and facing them head on. Which I'm going to give the planetary governor some props loading your ass into a bane blade and being like, get him. It's kind of fucking awesome. that's more than what most planetary governors would do.

In most of these stories, planetary governors just, you know, sitting in there high throne, sipping on some Amrasek and just being like, why isn't it done yet? And then probably falling to chaos and getting eaten by Slanesh or something, that she actually just loaded up into a bane blade and is going ham on some Nekron is very based. It's extremely cool. Not to mention it's a bane blade, aka like the coolest suit, funniest tank in the game. So unfortunately, Necrosora Mentar manhandled the Bainblame, and because he's insane, and decided to spare the planetary governor from a mercy killing and instead turned his full

attention to the Ford Shrine because he realized some things were happening. Now, during all of this, the Archmegos, you guess it, was refusing to call for assistance at the Ford Shrine and left it intentionally voluntary. whether it's just his Caton obsession acting alone or if he's actually corrupted, we're not quite sure. But what is clear is he is quite literally holding the door open for the Necrosaur. Jesus. All right. Now, some of the Archimago's hoped would be seen is a great thing, an opportunity to come together for a common goal for the Caton.

And this is how it turned out. Oh boy. All right. I will read this. He begged the alien monster to work the will of the Omnisiah and offered whatever aid he could in the unshackling of the machine god's fettered angel. With surprising gentleness, Amantar enfolded one of ox thin shoulders in the massive fingers of its unmaker gauntlet. Then, with a single vicious motion, it flung the arch magos into the mists of its followers. Ox shrill static lace screams did not last long. He would not live to see the hyper-onk conclave unlock the complex mechanisms of the Tesseract vault or witness the dread spectacle of the Nightbringer shard

rising like a specter of death from its local prison. So as expected, the necron was like, thanks, dude, fling. Also, I love that the necrons have something that's literally called the unmaker gauntlet. Yeah, that's the necrosaur's weapon. That's his main melee weapon is. You love to see it. You do love to see it. It does what it says on the tan. So, meanwhile, underground, the bomb has been rediscovered.

and is currently secured by a scorepack necromb by the name of Nemesor Onhutek, who defends it very violently. So violently, in fact, that she almost kills, I guess it's she, she almost kills Gadriel, but Titus is there to avenge his injured brother, and after a few blows, Titus ends up killing the necromb, allowing the tech marines to properly finish their work when it comes to setting off the bomb. The ultramarines were successful and now had to get the fuck off of sight Umbra, so they They would have got caught in a vortex bomb explosion.

Yeah. Oh, wow, Gw. You don't want to kill Gadriel off camera either? Nice. They almost did. They almost did. I was like, God, they can't. They can't.

Now, upon returning to the surface, the bomb did go off, and the entirety of the underground network of tombs collapsed. And they won in a classic, we did it, Patrick. We saved the city. Peric Imperial Vig. Peric Imperial dove, let's go. Let's go. the planet was a mess

and Titus would learn that the governor eventually succumbed to her injuries and died. Went out like a champ though. Went out like a champ. The planet was still covered in necrons and worst of all the Ford Shrine was completely overrun and while they were all

busy underground, Necrosaur Mentor was able to slip out through a gate with the Catan Shard in tow almost entirely unscathed. One more step closer to fully awakening the Nightbringer and wiping out all life in the galaxy. So Tyos' work is far from dumb,

and so is the work of the rest of the fronts during this operation. Well, oh boy, yeah, yeah, that is pretty much the definition of a Pyrrhic Imperial dub, isn't it? Yes, sir. Yeah, they got the Nightbringer shard, they made it off, and now there's tons of necrons just floating around everywhere, and tons of the planetary governor is dead. You lost a ton of space marines, but her. Array, we set off the vortex bomb.

Thanks, Admec again. Fucking Admec. Stop ruining everything. I feel like at this point, the Imperium needs to enact some law where it's like if an ad mec asks for anything to do with NecronTech, you tell them fuck off and you destroy it anyway. Just stop it. How many times do we have to do this? How many times should it teach you this lesson old man?

Man. So while we were mainly focusing on one of the four fronts, though, campaign, the other worlds were having a less than enjoyable time. On the Konaugh front, they had a really frustrating combination of heretics dealing with word bearers, as well as an orc free Buddha's fleet was being led and dealing with some issues. Over on the Kornor front, you had Alpha Legion and Death Guard going around. and the proto's front is haunted. Lots of chaos. Great. You hear that and it's like, wow, maybe Titus got off easy

just having to deal with necrons. It is, yeah. So things over there aren't doing great either. But at the very end of all of this, we see a coded message that came from the agro world of Dastori Ultex, which was recently recruited. reclaimed by Captain Halvaros of the Nova Marines. The message was heavily encrypted,

and it came from a source that was suspicious to the tech priest involved with transferring the message to its intended recipient being Rabutea Gilamam. This message is coming from a gigantic fortress that is rapidly approaching the planet and is less than 0.05 light years away. A senior Magos is able to verify the legitimacy of the source, and the message in transfers it to the mass. of Ultramar directly, and the message simply reads, Oh, no, brother, we need to talk.

And in no time whatsoever, the rock fortress of the dark angels will arrive in the outskirts of Ultramar, which has been reinforcing in a way that was familiar to something that happened centuries beforehand. Whether this is the reason for the message or not, it is a lot. unknown. All we know is that the lion is interested in an audience. Oh, with Gilliman, this, that, that should be one hell of a reunion. Been a deja vu coming out here. But, hey, we know Lion is way more chill now post-heresy after Sons of the Forest, you know. He's, he's all right. He's, he's chill, I think it'll be

I think it'll be nothing bad is going to happen. I'm going to stop you a bit on the chill part. Chiller? That's better. That's a lot better. I'm a much bigger fan

of that part. But chill, I mean, I guess you're still a prime mark so they're never really going to be just, oh yeah, we're just chilling, five and no problems in the universe, right? But yeah, he's better than he was. He's better than what he was.

And that's where this little bit and piece ends. Hell yeah. Obviously, they've been teasing the line of a boutet for like three years now. So we're finally going to be able to get that, which is very cool and very, very fun. From there, you know, obviously, there's lots to be discussed there. After this, we have the brand new era with Huron and the Masters of the Maelstrom. And then directly after that, we have the reign of iron, also known as the Eye of Terror section from the Iron. And I'm not going to lie, I really think Perchirama was next up.

At first, I was so sure, but I do actually think he's coming back next. Let's go, Perterabo. Let's go! I'm actually, I was a little shocked by it, but it looks like it. Also, the, obviously this narrative is going to have big old crazy apocalypse stuff. And if you'd like, I can read this up real quick here. The destruction of Cady at the height of Abidon's 13th, the Black Crusade brought unimaginable woes upon the Imperium, creation of the great lift, yada, yada. But the eye of terror of great numbers.

the Cadian Gate has not truly fallen. Imperial bastions of Forge World so desperately hold out against the tide. Chaos cannot truly begin its grinding march towards Holy Terra until they are dealt with. The demon primark Perchirabo's grand plan for the conquest of the Imperium has taken thousands of years to formulate, and its first step is to bring the Cadian Gate under his complete dominion. Those imperial worlds that remain there, including the mighty Forge World Agrippina, have been able to hold on until now. But the Iron Warriors must conquer the sector if Per Chirabo's plan is to begin in earnest.

Ooh. Now, all that... Thousand-year plan by Per Chirabo, good luck. All that aside, however, this month we actually have a very fun series together. This is the start for the 500 Worlds campaign. However, we are going to be working with Kirov on something a bit smellier. A very, a very popular series, Plague Wars is what we got going on this time around, a very commonly enjoyed series. It's something that does relate as it was very important for the Gilliman campaign.

Okay. Hell yeah. I feel like I have heard Plague Wars talked about, but never about what actually happened in it. So I am sufficiently hype and anxiously awaiting with me. baited breath. Or that might be because the smell from the plague wars. I'm not sure, but yeah. I'm hoping your breath is baited regardless.

Well, you know. Brush and floss, everyone. Brush and floss. But yes, that's the time. That's where we're at. 500 worlds. Titus, awesome necrons, explosions, bomb, ridiculous admec,

got it all, baby. The whole nine yards, brother. Let's go. God damn. Admit. Can you just be normal for once in your life? No, no, they cannot. It's just not in their programming. You're right. You're right. Silly me. See you all next week for when we talk about the Plague Wars.