Adeptus Ridiculous - FALL OF CADIA: THE PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD DID

Episode Date: May 19, 2021

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And before this episode gets started, Bricky, I think you have a couple announcements, eh? I do have a couple announcements. So a few things. First things first, I want to make sure we get the goddamn book club in now. So we don't forget it and have to discuss it later on in the episode. So for those of you who are not known, we are doing book clubs once per month. We are starting it in early June and the book is the infinite and the divine about Trazen and Oricim. If you haven't read or listened to it, please do so you can be prepared.

for said book club. I would highly recommend it on Audible because I think the VA does a really, really good job with the characters and all. Yeah, it adds a lot to the actual book. So I'd recommend it on there. The second announcement is, while it did come a little late,

we do, in fact, have new merchandise, and it is in the form of Doge Van Dyer's sticker packs. So we promise we do Doge Van Dyer merch, a little hard to get certain parts of it, So we settled for something a little bit easier and simpler. We are doing sticker packs. So there's a fun pack of three. There's three different stickers.

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So, Wahoo. And the last thing I wanted to mention real quick, because this is actually more of a question for shy. So, uh-oh. So, uh-oh. I don't like where this is going. She's like, what, what do you mean? So, okay, so a bit, okay, so for a while, our highest paycheck on tier was 50 bucks, right? It was the fabricator general tier.

which gave you like a big ass, like bright pink name, the Discord. It was, it was very like Emperor's Children's style, Big Dickus, you know, brother of, what was that called again? Big Dickus, brother of like something else. Oh, like, he has a wife. I forget what the wife's name was. I already forget the gag. But he has a wife that's like something big boobess or something. I don't remember what it was.

Big boobah. Big, you know. That's his daughter. Big Boba. Lady Dimitrescu, husband's a big dickens. Anyway. Off the rails already.

So we had quite a few fabricator generals and I was like, you know what, we should make like a tier above that? Just like a ridiculously high one. Just saying that like it doesn't give you anything else besides a different Discord name. But you know, just in case like one or two people really want to go that high, right?

Because why not? You know, might as well. Yeah, why not? You want to support, support you. So she made the high lord tier. And one person, well, I think we have two, but one person got it. And then immediately went into the Introduce Yourself section of the Discord and said, you are all of you beneath me and posted a sheer amount of among us twerking crewmate gifts.

Oh, no. Courtesy of yours truly. But I noticed something. I noticed something. So, so the first thing they did was Post Among Us crewmate. The high Lord's tier is, of course, there. But the color is turquoise. Okay.

Color's turquoise. Shai, did you purposely make the highest patron tier an Alpha Legion meme? Oh. Shai, was that intentional? I didn't even consider that. Did you create? I don't like that. That smug emoji.

You know what? I will bet you that she wasn't even thinking about. Now she's just trying to take credit for it because it sounds cool. I would take credit for it too. It's just like, yeah, you're a high lord of terra. Here's the Alpha Legion color scheme because Bricky forgot what the fuck the Alpha Legion was for like a solid 10 minutes in the last episode. To be fair, people fucking love that, dude.

The irony of not knowing the Iron Legion because that's their thing. The Iron Legion. Or not the Iron Legion. the Alpha Legion. It's somewhat early for me. God damn it. The Iron Warriors are Perchioravo. He builds mazes and shit. Oh man. Now I'm going to get memed on this episode. Fuck. The Iron, the Iron Legion. Iron within. We are Alfarious. Anyway, so we've got a bit of a fucking episode today. I wanted to ask her that because I was a little bit like, I wish she was going to do a ruse on me, but, um,

big day. Big topic. It is the fall of Kadia itself. Now, this is, I think, told over the course of three to four books, full

novels. And so, similarly with the Horace heresy, let me just, let me just be honest with this one. I do not know if I'm going to be able to cover like obviously, we're not supposed to cover everything that's not the point of the podcast. Right.

But holy shit, is there a lot that goes on into this? I was scroll, you know, like, there's a good meme where you're learning about

the Horacee and you're reading it on the wiki and then you look to your right and you realize that the tab cursor hasn't moved. You're like, wait a minute, and you scroll there,

you're like, oh my God, there's 400 fucking pages of Horacee. So you think this might require a part two? No, I could probably do it, but I'm just saying like, there's some stuff.

Strap yourselves in, pack a lunch, yeah. Pack a lunch. Like, there's some things that you might be like, oh, I'm going to talk about this. Like, no, Aramon assaulted the Eldar Webway and is trying to get into the Black Library. That's cool. I don't really know.

We're not going to talk much about that today. We're going to mainly talk about the big things. We're going to talk a little bit about Lord Creed. We're going to talk about Abidon, of course, and a lot of the big boys. I'm also going to do a couple of flashbacks during this. Because like I'm gonna I'm gonna get to a point and then I'm gonna flash back to some backstory and then I'm gonna go forward Okay just just so I can explain things a little bit

Well a little bit easier So we know Abidon we talked about Abidon that was the prior episode Cool pretty cool not as as bad as a villain as I think everyone gives him credit for I think he's kind of neat He's memed on way too much like I think he's been that bad he's cool Like, come on, give him a break. Yeah, I think he's, I think he's cooler than a lot of people expect. So, Kadia is part of the Kadiens.

It's the Kadia system, the Kedia sector, right? Okay. And very similar to us, we're in the soul system because our son is named Soul. This is our amalgamation of planets, you know, Earth, Mars, etc. Now, Kadia in the Kadian sector, is a multitude of planets. And actually, quite a few in this, in this sector. There's actually, it's got a lot of planets in this whole, this major, like, Acadian sector. It's got a lot, a lot of planets.

And also in there, of course, is Cadia Prime. Now, Cadia Prime was a fortress world, which is basically a, this thing is as close to Earth as I think you can probably get. It is a classic terrestrial world, lots of water, lots of land. It is a classic fortress world. Now, the reason why Kadia is so fucking fancy is that, obviously, you can go into the warp and go out of the warp with Starship drives and everything. But remember the eye of terror? Yes. I do remember the eye of terror.

Okay. I'm sure Shai will provide supplementary imagery. Yeah, yeah. The eye of terror is the giant zipper of the galaxy, right? It is a crack in the real space directly into the warp itself. it is the only place in the galaxy that has a direct like go from one thing to the other

basically like that kind of thing it's the only thing that you can just because you normally have to teleport into the warp and the out of the warp for travel this is just a giant fucking like someone punched a hole in the dry wall and inside the walls is the warp now if you look at the map that Shai sent you

on the bottom right hand corner do you see Cadia it says a little circle Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh. Cadia is on the fucking doorstep of the eye of terror. It is on the front door. It decided to bring out a white foldable chair talking devil may cry of Virgil style,

sat like and planted its fucking ass right in front of the front porch of its arch nemesis, basically. Oh, is that why Katie is so important is because it's just like, it's right there. and it's just easy access into the... Yes, that and Kadia is the largest export of guardsmen from the Imperial Guard. If you look at the classic, and I mean this classic style, the green and the khaki, this is Kadian guardsmen. This is a Kadian-based guardsman.

And Kedians are, like I mentioned it before, they're like six, at six, at six, they know how to shoot a lasga at 12, they know how to disassemble it. At 16, they're doing howitzer drills for 24 hours straight, right? Like, Katie and guardsmen are drilled to perfection. They are extremely, like, you know, high class. So you said, Kadia is where the most guardsmen come from. So it's like, so Katie is like one of the most heavily fortified, like, Imperium planets? Oh, yes.

Or is it just the most guardsmen come from there? I'm assuming, okay, I'm assuming it's that way because of its close proximity to the eye of terror and it's like, yo, if we're going to fortify someplace, it better be that place that's on the warp's doorstep because who the fuck knows what's coming out of there? A bit, yeah. So it's a combination of this is just, Kadia is where a mass export of guardsmen are. The entire planet is like a hive world entirely based in military. They're exports of guardsmen can be seen across the galaxy. Like there are other Cadian-based planets around the galaxy that export also Cady and Guardsmen. Like their influence has spread massively. Prior to the actual, like, death of Cadia,

there were 850 million guardsmen or million population on that planet. Oh, wow. A lot. but actually A couple people Yeah Jesus

Wait 850 million That's actually not that many Maybe it might be the amount of guardsmen Yeah Just guardsmen Well we have seven billion Don't we on on earth Well

I mean that is That's that's terror That's like home base right That should have no I mean like Don't we have seven billion On earth our earth right now Oh oh oh oh you mean like In the real life

Not oh I have no idea I think we have a lot like 7.4 billion or something. Maybe that's 850 million guardsmen, or maybe Kiyush is a bit smaller than the average. Could be a little smaller planet, so yeah, sure. Whatever the reason. It's a lot of fucking people on this planet, all right?

And they have lots of guardsmen. But it's also because the Eye of Terror is a really great place for chaos to move. It's like a main lane to send out fleets. back and forth. It's much easier to get into. It's much easier to work with. And because of that, having a gigantic planet whose sole purpose is millions upon millions of guardsmen, ships, manufactorums, the Adeptus Mechanicus have a huge presence there. It's a giant roll block. It is a bottle. The goddamn eye of terror is like a bottle. And chaos is trying to get out of it. And Kadia is the cork. And it's just plugging them up. It's, it's plugging them up.

It's making it really difficult. In fact, you can even see the aorta from the sky. Like, the sky is this bright purple and pink color. Like, here's a great, a great quote. From Inquisitor General Nevei. It's like, this is Cadia, you silly fool. Cadia! Right on the doorway of chaos, right in the heart of everything.

The seepage of evil is so great. I have a hundred active cults to subdue every month. This place breeds recidivists like a pawn, breed scum. This is Cadia. This is the gate of the eye. This is where the bloody work of the Inquisition is done. It has this very like,

this is Cadya, motherfucker. Like, you're gonna try to deal with us. Like, this is Detroit, my dude. Jesus. Oh, Shai said apparently people who grew up on Cady have eyes colored the same color as the eye of terror. Yep. Often a lot of Cady and Garzman

have like a purple-tinged eye color. because of the eye of terror. It's so cool. And she posted a picture of it and it's like the way you can see the eye of terror from the sky is so dope. Like, oh, what of you?

Like living on Katie would suck because your whole life is a hive world like constantly doing military, etc. But that's a view. That is a damn view. You know, if you happen to have a guardsman girlfriend that you want to take on a date, that's a hell of a sunset to watch, eh?

Hey, you know, we would joke that no one fucks in 40K but guardsman fuck plenty. They need to. They need some kind of release from all that fucking madness that they endure. Yeah, you gotta let him have some fun, right? Hell yeah. Consensual fun, damn it. Yes, not the murdering fun. Well, I mean, yeah.

Ah. Ah. It's 40K, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. It's all right. Fun can be murdering other people. It's okay. Anyway, just look at the Dracari, right?

Yes, they're having plenty of fun. Too much fun. So, Cadia, that's Cadia. It is a bastion of humanity. It is a shining light. And through the last 10,000 years since the Horacea and the Eye of Terror and all this stuff, it has held it the entire time. It has never been lost.

It is like... That's pretty impressive. The Eye of Terror. arrived like what like 27,000 or whatever the year is like whenever the Eldar butt fucked whatever the time frame but ever since the Horace heresy like it has

held the goddamn eye of terror back for 10,000 years it has kept it back and it's like that alone from a planet of guardsmen of dudes just dude meisters

yeah is bad ass so it's crazy that's crazy that's crazy that it hasn't fallen ever. And it's just, it's, it's right there. You would think that they're just constantly, like, under siege and that they've held it back for that long is mind-boggling, considering all the horrors that are, that are coming out from the warp and they're coming from the other side, it's fucking insane.

It is. It's pretty, it's pretty awesome. So, the fall of Kadia begins was a bunch of spacehooks. We talked about space hooks, right? Like an amalgamation of fucking ships. all like twisted together, drifting towards the Cadian sector. Lots of them. Lots of them.

Now, it can be, it's, there's a lot coming. And as they're making their way up, some of them are destroyed by orbital defenses. Some of them are boarded by Astardis and dealt with. Not all of them though. And a lot of them immediately smashed right into Imperial strongholds, naval bases, and other orbital defenses. as like gigantic battering rams.

And then, and then, there's this chaos vessel that was known as the plague claw. And the plague claw was sighted for a bit by some of the naval officers. And they were like, whoa, wait a minute.

That's a really important fucking fleet. Oh, shit. And they went to go try to track it down and destroy it. And it led them right into something known as the terminus est. The terminus est is known is the flagship of the Lord of the Commander of the Destroyer Hive,

Lord of the Death Guard Typhus. I was going to say, I remember that ship. I was like, that's Typhus's furry moldy ship, right? You know it. Oh, that's cool. The disgusting mold ship, and it led right into that imperial, an ambush with the Terminus S

and a large majority of the Death Guard fleet. And that Imperium fleet survived. fucking barely. Like they lost like 99% of their ships like the main admiral was able to scaddle. Jeez. I mean it is a death guard so that doesn't surprise me too much.

No, and they are continuing. With the major naval fleet like destroyed, Typhus had full rain and he released pestilence upon pestilence on many of the other non-Cadian worlds in the Cadian sector. This was known as the plague of unbelief because a combination of a bunch of giant spacehooks slamming into the planets the pestilence writhing its way through the planets

poxwalkers and zombies spreading it further and large amounts of people were like the emperor is fucking abandon us holy shit we need everything is gone to hell we need to deal with this and then they started going to like the higher ups and the nobles of the planets to take over and all the nobles are like have like lung rot and shit and they're like

I can't fight back. I can't fight like a bunch of peasants are starting running up and like stabbing them with pitchforks and shit because they can't they can't handle it. That is, oh my God, that's a hell of a way to start a campaign. Jesus Christ.

Yeah, it was nasty. How, like, I was going to say, how do you recover from something like that? Like, Typhus has free reign. There's plague and pestilence and unbelief everywhere, the death guard are...

What happens after that other than everybody dies? Well, remember, this is lots of other planets, but not all the planets, because Typhus doesn't have like full range of the entire Acadian system. He's got some plants he's able to fuck with. But not all of them. Because besides, like,

as bad as the pestilence may be and all the problems that might happen, you know, a giant suit of Starry's power armor makes you pretty safe sometimes. Some, sometimes. Sometimes. But with lots of them, like, kind of these unrest occurring, rebellions breaking out across the planets, resistance groups, cults, cults to the plague emperor,

or plague emperor, plague god, Nergel, because lots of cults would spruce, like, please, I'll fucking do anything if you just stop this pain of, like, this pestilence. And then they'll become, like, Poxwocker, or they'll be, like, ascended into a demon or something. and many things, like, infestation caused a lot of problems. However,

during this period of time, Cadia remained mostly untouched. They still had a massive naval fleet. They had massive, like, orbital stage, battle stations. You know, Typhus has causing problems. A lot of problems. But not everything has gone downhill yet. However, the planetary governors,

the main higher-ups are like, okay, we're under attack. the fucking typhus is here he's got his death guard okay let's we need help so they started bringing in new amounts of regiments of guard and like a lot lots of regiments of guards started coming in over and over again you're going to need them including this really high elite one called the volscani catafrax and they were they're like top tier they're prime cut these these Like, if you think Katie and Guardsman are special, like, these guys are so good. They held a goddamn, like, welcoming parade.

Like, wow. These dudes, like, the governors are there because even they're like, oh, we, like, we got to salute these guys. Because these dudes are, like, kings. Hardcore. Okay. They're super hardcore. And that was a mistake. Oh, no.

As it turned out that prior, because Avedon's a smart motherfucker, uh, turns out the Vosconi catafracts. had all turned to chaos. And immediately, and immediately after disembarking, they flew the flags of the despoiler and opened fired upon all of the Acadian forces around them. Their gunships, their tanks, their men, bombs, everything.

So shit has gotten really, really bad. Not only is Typhus just running around, spoiling everything and pox-walkering and pestlings. They call in the best of the best, their elite guard, and even they've turned to chaos, and even they're fucking them up. Mm-hmm. If you, uh, shy,

a very famous Imperial Guard poster that Shai just posted is the one, is, uh, that's the battle. That's them leading their, uh, their assault. Or against them, that is. Like, there's the gigantic fucking regimental ship in the background. Yep. Now. So how do you recover from this?

So. So. Typhus is already fucking. You're elite or fucked. What, how do you? Okay, go ahead. Go ahead. All right.

Flashback. Okay. Flashback. Okay. One of the things that I really liked about Aaron Dembsky Bowden when I, when I read Soul Hunter, is that often he'd do this thing where he'd go on this like nine paragraph tangent, providing backstory for like a random character. And then the night lord just fucking kill them.

but it's kind of interesting because it gives you like it's like lore flushing you know yeah so there's this man his name is Lord Castellan Usakar E. Creed

are also known as just Creed now he's 50 years old he's the supreme commander of military forces of Kadia now Creed as a young man

he was an orphaned boy in a burning ruins of this place following a Kadian attack on Ketian a chaos attack on Cadia. And as an orphaned young child,

all he had was a copy of the Gloria Macarius, which I believe was the glory of Macarius, the old Warmaster. Sorry, high solar macarius, because he chose not to take the title of Warmaster because he hated horse. And a single service pistol.

And he was alone during the Cadian attack, and he hid in the burning ruins for weeks and he would never speak of what happened during those days no one would ever know

but they were the 8th Cadian Regiment was so impressed by him at this like 8 year old fuck you or not 8 year old he was the 8th Cady Regiment but this young child in these burning ruins to survive with just this book and a pistol where so he eventually was taken in

by the 8th Cadyin Regiment and he was drafted very early age into the white shields, which is basically a bunch of fucking child soldiers. And then he survived. He excelled as both a soldier and a really good tactician. So eventually he was able to earn his own command under, under like as a young kid, he earned his own command of these white shields. And that's where he met a buddy named Jaron Kell.

Also known as Color Sergeant Kell. You know how like Neumersar Zandrek and Oval? are like best robot boys. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. This is the same. Gotcha. Honestly, these two guys share massive similarities.

Creed is an older man who is an incredibly esteemed general and he has a sergeant to his side that is like undoubtedly loyal. Right. Okay. Now, God knows what Creed has like

dealt with. The sheer amount of things he's had to fight. He's led armored companies he's led, guardsmen, like, drops. He's, the man has gone to such an insane degree, rising through the ranks that he eventually reached the rank of Lord Kestellum after a plot to assassinate the, um, uh, Kadian governor, the Kadian primus governor.

And much of the high command during that period of time, that's when, that's when he finally was able to make the rank of Lord Kestellan and therefore be created as the new, planetary governor as all the other Katie and High Command were killed by those catafract guys Right, okay

Now normally the Katie always had two governors There was the primus and the Secundus And now with the What? I was just, I think it's funny that the second one is called the secondus

Why is that funny? It's second us I thought I thought you were going to make a I thought you were going to make it. Oh, you thought I was going to suss it? You thought I was going to suss it up? Well, I was not going to be Suscundus, or it was going to be like amogus secundus.

Now, I'm not the one that does the Among Us memes, Pricky, am I? No, no, I suppose not. No, I'm not. Of course I'm not. You might have thought that because you do them, but not me. I've got culture. I only do anime memes. Oh, my God.

Okay, so anyway, with the KDatian High Command Dead, Lord Creed and his insane tactical prowess now actually took the rank of Lord Kestellum, a special rank that made him both the Primus and the Secundus. He was the main new planetary governor for Kedia. And the first thing he did with his fucking gigabrain was lead a counter-assault with all the remaining troops against this major assault by the catafrax. And by God, did he fuck them up? he leaded them back immediately.

His counterattack was incredibly skilled. His tactical genius, like, he knows an initial assault when he sees one. He, like, Space Hulk slamming into things, deathguard killing off populations, an immediate assassination of the high command. He knows a goddamn war when he sees one. Yeah. So he's like, mm-mm, no way. And he took out all the catafracts, led his full.

counter assault secured the surface of Cadia and immediately started getting forces rallied for like full-blown war because this dude is a gig of brain damn so so he fought off the best of the best guardsman that had turned to chaos if you look in the first

image that Shai showed us look in the way back he's got that shad ass trench coat there he is lording over all the dudes dude in in game he's like he's literally tactical genius the dude the fucking dudes got two high powered pistols that he wields like a

goddamn double pistol like Rambo motherfucker and he's like not very tall I think he's like five six or something he looks kind of stocky he's a little stocky like most guardsmen are like pretty prime cut dudes so like six

foot six three but creed is like he's this little stocky dude, but the man, he's got a fucking trench coat, that collar is popping. Oh yeah, he's not, he doesn't even have his arms in the sleeves, he's such a Chad. There's a story that we might cover one day,

there's a joke where Creed beats Zinche and chess, like the God's Zich, and there's also another meme, back in the old day, a 40K, Creed used to have an ability called Tactical Genius where you could take any

unit in the game. For garden and you could outflank it because you hit it. So the joke is that Creed would like take skyscraper size Titans and like hide them behind stop signs because he was so fucking smart

and he'd be like, Peekaboo I see you, die traitor scum. Oh God, where did that Titan come from? Oh my God. It's pretty great. Could have been hiding behind that little tree. His old rules were fantastic. It's like those it's like those memes were someone who's

way bigger than a side of a tree walks out behind a tree. It's like, ha ha, I've caught you. It's fucking great. Anyway, anyway, so Creed led the counterattack. And then they decided to eventually, or they were able to, after setting out astropath help signals, they were able to get imperial forces such as the Astardis and a few other imperial guard and stuff

to eventually answer the call to assist them. And they eventually scouted out the eye of terror in order to see what might be coming for them, which was a trap. Of course it was, because Abadon also has Gigabrain, and all of the scouts were then stranded on a demon world, which then, like, imploded because it's a demon world,

so, you know, I mean, physics, who needs them? Yeah. But then, then, after it imploded on itself, the real 13th Black Crusade fleet arrived. a couple hundred chaos ships, spacehooks, transports, the Plague Claw, the Terminus East, the entire fleet of the Death Guard, two separate blackstone fortresses,

and the vengeful spirit with Abidon himself aboard it. Oh, boy. Oh, I, before this, I was like, wow, this creed guy, he sure sounds like he could, you know, put a stop to all this nonsense. Now it's just like, yeah, you're fucked. You're fucked. Like, you got everything spewing out from the eye of terror. Typhus is still on the other side fucking everything.

I mean, good luck. Good luck. Good luck. But this is Cadya, fool. This is Cadia. But, I mean, that's a lot of chaos. But what? I don't know nothing what you're talking about. It's not like it's called the fall of Cadia for a reason or anything, right?

Well, well, I mean, that's, that's, that's different. That's a different story, yeah. We'll get there. Okay. All right, we need more, we need more bricky quotes. Here's a fantastic one from Creed himself. He says, let me make one thing clear, gentlemen. We are now in the fight of our lives.

The arch enemy has come to our home with greater force and fury than ever before. All that stands between him and victory is us. Us, gentlemen. It is we who must stand before the enemy and turn him back. Why? Because we're here and no one else is going to do it for us. So if any man here believes he cannot do his duty to the emperor, then he should present himself before the regimental commissars and stop wasting my time.

you know what's something cool about creed in cancadia the most like whipped fucking planet of all time if you're a planetary general if you are like a major high officer if there is a speck of fucking dust on your boot

you're going into stocks like you have your uniforms pressed you are clean you need to look the fucking part like this is katia fool this is katia fool creed Bad ass speech though.

Creed has a dirty jacket. He smokes cigars. He's got fucking cigar dust on his uniform. He's, he like spits on the ground. He probably has, as a tobacco chew. He, at least probably.

He wears dirty three-day, like non-wash uniforms because he's too much of a Chad because no one dares like get against his command because he is the physical definition of function over form. Remember what we talked about before a while ago

about the whole like the dirty mechanic shop? Yes. Where like the dirty mechanic shop is preferred because you know that they actually work. You know they've been doing stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got the crime under their fingernails and everything.

Yeah, yeah. He's the physical embodiment of that. It's good speech though, right? Like he's like no nonsense. Oh, yeah, dude. Oh, yeah. That's a rallying speech right there. So if we weren't,

weren't done yet. An admiral in his fleet decided to engage the chaos fleet to buy time for reinforcements. They all died horribly. This is probably like 60 pages in a book, but I just skipped it like that because this is what we have to do

in these episodes. Then the other planets around KDO were then fighting the Death Guard and Plague Marines because they constantly were crumbling from the Imperial, the Imperial defenses were crumbling to the full might of the full-on death garb.

And then the emperor's children attacked another planet. And then the night lords attacked another planet and started spreading fear throughout the entire sector. And then the Alpha Legion were like, surprise! And revealed themselves to be hidden

in cells of space marines and started to beat a bunch of fucking loyalist space marines. They were like in a jack-in-the-box like, surprise, heretics. Babah-bub-bub-pah! Pop! Goes the heron. Dude, I need a fucking Alpha Legion and it sounds like a jack in the box.

And then they pops over the bolt turns like, surprise, Loyalist. And he starts gunning him down. So, oh, man, can it get any worse? Like, I mean, of, that's true. I guess it does. We haven't hit the end of it yet, have we? No. Oh, this sounds like peak awful, but yeah.

So that wasn't done. More chaos came. Greater demons, Titan legions, chaos. chaos cultists, chaos imperial guard, kept on Goem, and while the planets just started falling like mad, destroyed by the chaos forces, Abidon and his fleet made their way to Cadia specifically. And with the devastation of huge amounts of the Imperial fleet,

the destruction of the Cadian High Command, and the destruction now of a ton of Cadian orbital defenses, Abadon had a clear, clear shot to Cajian. At the same time, way farther away in a sector, Abidon also sent a massive amount of forces to Medusa, which is the homeworld of the Iron Hands. And because the Iron Hands recruit specifically from Medusa, they had to take all of their fortress monasteries, all of their major Iron Hand forces away from the Acadian battle in an attempt to stop the massive amount of things. attacking over at Medusa. This included like 10,000 Schrader guard tanks and Astardis.

Like, I mean, don't get me wrong. Abedong probably would have been stoked if he was able to take Medusa, but that was not the goal. The goal was get the iron hands away from the fight. Yeah, thin the ranks out a little bit, get the iron hands away, and then make your job a lot easier.

Hell yeah. And then, after that, the invasion of Cadia had finally begun. This started off, a fierce, fierce orbital bombardment from God knows how many ships. I don't know if you know this, but in Warhammer there's these things called void shields. It's a fancy-pancy shield that covers big things, like really large vehicles, Titans, and like aircrafts. Oh, like starships. Lots of planets have these over their structures.

And the reason is to stop orbital bombardments. because like there's always the question why do they even do ground battles just fucking or really bombard them right because they have voice shit so you gotta do on the ground exactly um this being said certain areas were like not even able to handle it

because he bombed them so fucking hard after that he sent chaos Marines thousands of traitor guard and demons directly to the surface to a point where they were being held at bay by the 13th company of Space Wolfs, as well as, of course, the sheer volume of Mechanicus and Guard on the surface.

Because there's a lot of them. Yeah, there's just a couple guardsmen, yeah. Oh, he's not done. Abidon's got more. He's a warmaster. He's got more plans. Of course, of course. Now, we're going to talk about our boys.

Our boys, our Italian, pizza man, war bears. Oh no. Hey. Hey. Hey. We're bringing the words. A. You know who's the most famous word bearer of all time, D.K.

Who's that? It's Arabis. And Arabis. Arabis. Aribis. He's going to make dark rituals on a planet they captured, and they're creating giant warp storms and terrible hordes of demons across the sector. And now by creating giant warp storms and summoning demons,

large amounts of the Sons of Malice and Dark Angels were now completely unable to help Kadia because of these giant warp storms cutting off their planets. Ooh, boy. God damn. Good old Arabis, it was like, hey, yo, demons, here's, we decide to steal about like a couple million civilians from these planets that Typhus fucked up.

We're going to sacrifice them to you now. Can you do our bidding a little bit? Can you cut off some of the ways? Get some warp storms to stop any imperial reinforcements. And the chaos gods were like, I got you, homie. Thanks for the snack. I got you. I got you.

Nergo had like a face full of pizza. He looked like pizza the hut. And he was like, hey. Hey. Oh, man. This, God, it, it sucks to be on Kadia right now. It's, God damn.

It's, yep. It is not a good time. However, thanks to Creed's gigabrain, those demons and things they sent down to the surface were actually starting to be held back because of him and a large amount of white scars. We're able to slowly force back the encroaching enemy But then, in a blast of fantastic luck, about a couple dozen chapters of space marines finally arrived as reinforcements.

Not from those areas that were blocked off, mind you. I was going to say, how'd they get through those warp storms? But they finally fucking made it. The Dark Angels and Space Wolves were then dealing with the threats of Typhus and his plague legions, the Black Templars, the Imperial Fists. The Inquisition and the Grey Knights, who we haven't talked much about yet, have arrived to stop Abidon. Imagine the Grey Knights as like a super secretive

fucking Space Marine organization that are entirely about killing demons. Oh, so Chaos does not want the Grey Knights to show up. That's probably the last thing they won. Yes, but Grey Knights are very, like, small. They're very specific. They know, like, the true name. of demons.

That's like words of banishment and shit like that. The thing about Grey Nights is like they'll arrive, they'll fuck up a bunch of demons and then they'll just like, they'll look at you and they'll just fucking teleport away

and be like, peace. And if you know about them, like no one knows about them. Normally you get killed if you know about them. Oh shit, they're that secretive? Yes.

Yeah, they do like memory wipes or they just kill you if they think you have a demonic infestation. Gray Night lore has been handled really bad. It's better now, but in the day, oh my God. We'll talk about them later in their episode.

They are pretty cool looking, though. However, this is like the big time when they finally might have a chance to turn back the crusade, right? Like all these space marine chattlers have arrived. All these big, fucking, like, groups have come to the assistance of Kadia. In Kadia, the actual service themselves

were being held back. Creed and his gigabram was actually finally able to really, push back the chaos forces. They were doing a great job. And not only that, but even more things arrived. The sisters of battle, the order of our marty lady, and she

herself, St. Celestine, had joined the battle. There's an image that Shai showed right there. That's her. Bright as a fucking son. Coming through flying and killing the demons with all that holy light. Jesus Christ.

Like the sisters, the black Templars, the, like, all of these people are here and assisting. Like, everybody's here. When you said this was endgame, you were not kidding. Like, yeah, everyone, and I'm not even dumb. We've got more characters to talk about. Like, Arabis is here, man. Arabis, let's go.

Yeah, that motherfucker, Arabis. So, as, you know, all these things, right, like, the Inquisition, the fucking great-eynes. Like, everyone's fucking here. Um, and like, like I said, this is like four goddamn books that are, that we're going through right now. Um, but then things got worse. Of course. They always get worse. Erebus's ritual finally came to its completion. And then he created, he was able to create warp storms to cut off the entire area of Cadian system. It was, it's all a warp storm now. That means if you're in Cadia, you're stayed. out, yeah.

And no one else can help you. That's the end. You, right now, you are like, you're there. If you're there. That's how many reinforcements you've got, if this doesn't work out. You're fucking there now. Nobody else is coming to save you. Now, as interesting as this was, and as good old,

Creed was holding back all of the insane forces, it was starting to really get on Habon's nerves. And now that the typhus and the death guard were now able, now they had a giant area of closed off space. They were at their full peak. They were like, okay, you're all stuck here. Plagues. Plagues, plagues. And good old Abinom was making his way to Cadia with a few things.

A giant chaos ship known as the Planet Killer, which, ironically enough, can destroy planets and... No kidding. Is that why they close the planet killer? They do. And of course

the Blackstone Fortress itself, which is... I don't think I was able to truly like, truly let you know like the power of a Blackstone Fortress.

Well, you said it was like a Death Star but stronger so it could absolutely blow up a planet. Right. But like if you combine three of them together, you can supernova a star. and and he had two. Oh.

Well. Yeah. Huh. That's a, that's quite the little, that's quite the, the little armada, he's,

he's, he's got a fucking fleet is what he's goddamn got. He is, it is nuts. He has a wave, a tide of traitors. He,

he, like, like, okay, Abidon, everyone memes on him, of course. Of course. I could maybe understand a little bit more of the meming prior to the fall of

Cadia, but I feel like the fall of Cadia like cemented him a little bit more because he went all fucking out for this. Yeah, it certainly sounds like he had everything planned out to where it's like you can't fail. There's no way you'd lose this. The only surprising thing is that it took him

as long as it did to actually like, I think the only surprise is that Creed has lasted as long as he has. It is.

He's a fucking amazing gigabrain Chad. If Creed was not there, KDia would have fallen in the ground battle because Creed is such a goddamn

giga Chad. But, continuing, Abidon then is leading his attack on the full on on KG themselves. And what he's doing,

good old, good old Abby, our man himself he is taking so the name of the blackstone fortress is called the will of eternity and as the will of eternity was making its way to Cadia

Cadia's shields were down and that's because of Avedon's attacks and it required a couple of days in order to get those shields back up to block the Blackstone fortress now flashback

flashback flashback there is a a man. His name, you might know him, just a little bit. His name is Trazen the Infinite. Oh shit. Yeah. High Archivist of the

Salemness Galleries, overlord of the Highlac dynasty. And good old Trays in the Infinite had this bell in his possession called the Bell of St. Gershtal. And for thousands of years, this bell sat silent upon its nice little pedestal in stasis in the large galleries of solemness.

And this period of time, it eventually started fucking banging. It started banging like mad. The first note split the ceiling of the Bell Stasis chamber, having a bunch of coolant dissolve a whole bunch of priceless artifacts in sand sculpture. The second one caused a logic cascade to wrongfully have the commands and Necron warriors to come back a life and stays asleep and start shooting shit. The third one

some reverberations throughout the it kept on banging and it fucked up his like a huge amount of his gallery and he was like it did and it went and and chimed 13 times exactly 13

and 13 Black Crusade and now to say that Trayson was fucking pissed would be an understatement. Yeah. We know... He does not like it when his gallery gets fucked up. If you mess with his gallery, that's...

Oh boy. Nothing worse. Nothing worse. I mean, we've been reading the Infinite and the Divine. We know for a fact he is not pleased when you mess with his gallery. No, no, no. He does not like his priceless artifacts to be touched and messed with. Nope, nope, nope, nope.

So naturally, this bell was Stasis. So it can't move. Yeah. Like, shouldn't. Why in the fuck does it chime? It shouldn't move.

And as angry as Trayson was, he was also like, that's fucking weird. I should figure out the hell's going on. And so the first thing he did was throw that bell into the deepest depths of the Eldar Webway, hoping that it would inconvenience them as much as it inconvenient as him, because he's such a douche. What a dick.

He's just like, man, that's annoying. Here you go. Yeat. It just throws the bell into the webway. He's like, maybe the Elzar will be bugged by it instead. All right. So he made his way to Thanatos. And through the use of the celestial aurari,

which is that thing that can like, boop, star explodes. Yeah. He was figuring out what in the goddamn hell was going on. And he was finding out the 13, you know, chimes was the signaling of the 13th Black Crusade. And the bell was tolling, I don't know, warp fuckery or whatever. So he made his way, sensing some real interesting, interesting stuff to take, on his way to Cadya.

And as the Blackstone Fortress was firing up its major weapon and the Mechanicus were trying to get the shields online, a certain man with a certain large amount of scarabs, decided to play the hero and charge up the Cadyan shields to block the Blackstone Fortress's planet killing shot. Oh, wow. So Trazan himself,

using a bunch of scarabs and a bunch of Xenos tech, was able to overcharge the reactors of the Mechanicus and save Cadya from death. Wow. Without Trazen, Cadia would be a fucking, like, ash in solar winds. Wow. I would not expect Trazen to overload the shields and say, well, I

guess that's not entirely true because, like you said, he probably he probably wanted some artifacts. He probably wanted to steal some stuff. He probably wanted to grab some stuff for his gallery. And he can't really do that if Katie is, you know, ash in just solar ash. So I guess it would have sense. It wouldn't work out well. But, I mean, Trayson, you know, he wanted to play the hero a little bit. He was curious.

And he's like, I like to fuck around. We do a little trolling. You know, we do a little trolling. So with that being blocked, naturally Abadon kind of pissed off. So he decides instead to continue with his major ground assault. The first ground assault was also involving like a bunch of demons. And it didn't work out thanks to the intervention of St. Celestine and a bunch of other people. So he's like, fuck it.

I'll do it myself. And so then he sends just like, like traitor warships, traitor like drop pods black into the goddamn sky, just never-ending transports of demons, guards, starities, everyone. And he himself, along with his personal guard of like, I think they're Terminators, decided to teleport, because Terminators have teleportation devices, directly into the high spire.

of good old Lord Creed's command station in order to deal with Creed himself. And you know who was waiting for him there at the spire? Creed? Nope. Color Sergeant Kell,

Creed's most loyal servant and lifelong friends. Creed was nowhere to be seen because he's got such a gigabream and he already expected this to have. happen. Of course. Why wouldn't he? He's such an absolute Chad, man. I love Creed. I suppose that's the most obvious thing to do when things are like, oh, you know, we've been holding them back for a while. What are they probably going to do? They're probably going to come after me. So where should I not be in the one most obvious place for me to be? Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. So Color Sergeant

Kell instead held the line in that area with a whole bunch of, I think he had a whole bunch of other like guardsman forces to try to use it as almost like an ambush to deal with good old abadon himself um can confirm it did not necessarily work because abadon is an absolutely horrifying goddam person yeah yeah can confirm might not have worked might have been slaughtered um abadon pretty strong big claw, big evil sword probably can confirm that they got fucking destroyed. Yeah, okay.

Yeah, and that was the main thing. It's like, they were realizing that Abidon was doing this. So, Creed was basically going to evacuate. And he wasn't, like, he wasn't, like, just not there. Like, he was on his way to get the fuck out of there by the time he arrived.

Right, right. And so they were able to get Creed onto a Valkyrie in order to get him to flee away. but unfortunately Kel himself was not able to evacuate in time and Avedon snatched him before getting on the Valkyrie

and the last words that Keller Sergeant Kel said before he was fucking bodied by Avedon was Cadya Stans Ah Cadia stands Vada Bing, Bada boom Cadius Stans

Cadius Stans and then Coler sergeant fans and then Color Sarching Kel got absolutely destroyed. Yeah, I'm sure he did. He probably just got squished like a bug. Yeah, pretty much. And that's

the unfortunate part. But at the same time, at the same time, you know, Color Sergeant Kel, I'm underplaying this a little bit because we didn't talk enough about Kri, but like this is like a lifelong friend. This is like a personal bodyguard and the closest friend.

This is big fucking pain for Kree. But Kri got away. He was able to make it out. And so with all of that, and with the attempts on Creed's life and with all the battles going on, the surface, they were starting to have some problems and they were starting to lose a bit of this battle. The actual, like, forces were kind of making their way in. They were getting ground. They were getting ground. Things were getting rough. However, let's do a little bit of back skipping once again. Why not? Oh, flashback.

Flashback. So before the Will of Eternity fired its big Blackstone Fortress fuckoff gum, there was this contingent of space wolves. And these space wolves decided to do their very best to hold off the Blackstone Fortress so they could get time to fix their shields. They didn't get enough time. Thank you, Trazen. But what they did is they had a whole bunch of space wolves fight against the Blackstone Fortress.

And there was this guy, the leader of it, Known as, if this isn't the most space wolf name of all time, I don't know what is. Zven Bloodhound. Wow. I love him already. Zven Bloodhound. Zven Bloodhound was a Chad. He was like, all right, we're going to deal with the will of attorney however we can.

So they fired a whole bunch of boarding pods into the Blackstone Fortress to try to cause problems from within him. Unfortunately, the rest of the Space Wolf fleet got destroyed and killed, which is unfortunate. But that was their way to like buy time in order to get the shields up, which, you know, thank you, Trayson. But a bit ago, in a super bigger flashback, there's this man. His name is Arch Magos Call, Bellasarias Call. Oh. And Call. Big boy, call, let's go.

was speaking to some Eldar and the Eldar were like hey don't really like you you fucking freak but we've got some common cause right now exact quote

exact exact quote and they showed a whole bunch of these fancy fancy things which are these weird old pylons and they're strange because Cadia has this thing. They have these things called the Cadian Pilons,

these gigantic, super tall pilons that were present on Cadian system. And no one fucking knows what they were. Their heritage is like alien. No one really knows what they are. They're just these big pylons, and Katie just kind of built around them. And they're like, whatever, man.

So after enough time, Call was figuring out what these pylons were. thanks to the help of the Eldar. And thanks to the Eldar use of the Webway, they were able to bypass the warpstorms and get Call onto the Kadian system. Oh, okay. Because Eldar Webways are like, you know, the back alley.

Yeah, yeah. And Call met with Creed, and he said, hey, these Kadian, these pylons are alien, and the Abidon, the spoiler, has been going to multiple other planets in other areas to find these pylons and destroy them. And we don't know why.

Because like, why does he care? These are a bunch of alien pylons. This is strange. And Call found out, thanks to the Eldar, that these pylons actually hold back the eye of terror. Oh. So the eye of terror is an ever-expanding, growing thing. And these pylons are shrinking.

it and shoving or like at the same time so it's stuck it's keeping it closed if the Acadian pylons were to fall the eye of terror would spread open like a wound and make a gash into the galaxy

and then chaos a hole of terror instead of just an eye it would be like a fucking it would be it would be a giant slice through the galaxy yeah like chaos would have full rain like it would be catastrophic and apocalyptic

what would happen. Holy shit. So, Cadia, as if it wasn't significant enough for being on the doorstep of chaos, it is also literally one of the things that's keeping chaos from having free reign completely by just unzipping the eye of terror. The cork in the bottle.

Absolutely. Oh, my God. Katie is so important. Holy shit. It is. So call is like, okay, I need to study these pilons. I need to figure this shit out because if we can like turn them on, like act, because they're like inert right now, but if we can like fucking really turn them on hardcore,

we might be able to start shrinking the eye of terror itself. That would be nice. Which it would be really nice. So he starts, so he goes to the far bottom, way deep in the minds. And he's like, Hmm, steady, study, I'm called.

I'm a mechanicist man. You know, study, study, study. And then, you know, someone taps him on his shoulder, metaphorically,

I'm speaking. Yeah. And it's missed our boy, traising the infant. And he's like, hey, what's up, homie?

You know, what's up, fellow robot man? I'm, I'm the Nekron and calls like, you fucking abomination. What are you doing here?

And I think I've made, is that, that's the meme. That's the meme I showed you. Got you, got you, got you. That's from the, which video game was it from? Battlefleet Gothic 2. Nice.

Okay. As far as... I know the meeting now. Yes, the meeting between Call and Trazen. Now, naturally, Trayson's like, hey, call, how's it going, man? So, like, just, you know, how is it going? You know, you might hate me. I really don't give a fuck.

you and I kind of have common cause I don't really want the galaxy to be destroyed by chaos not a big fan of that and calls like hey fuck you you fucking bitch you don't know me

I don't know you get out of here and Trayson's like oh you don't want to know how the pylons work then you know the necron pylons on your planet and calls like Necron pylons? They're necron pylons. Oh shit! And calls like...

I was expecting that. Calls like... Excuse me, what? What? What? Oh. What did you say? It's like, wait.

Like, you comprehend them? And he's like, I was there when they awakened. Or perhaps I wasn't. You know, memory is such a fickle thing. He's such a little douche. I could just see treason. bathing in his

life, in that ego. He's just bathing it and loving and just oh God, what a smug piece of shit. He's got a really good he's got a really good quote in that one where he's like something about them being a like or something.

I forget exactly what it is. Or like he called him a call called him an abomination and he's and he's saying, I went to the biotransference in chains you seem to have stripped away your humanity willingly. That is true.

And it's like, what is it? The necrons are robots that want to be man and the adeptists are men that want to be robots. Pretty much. They couldn't be anything more different. They couldn't be any more different. Yeah, it's pretty interesting their little conversation. But a call let him fuck around with the pylons.

And he kept a bunch of goddamn Skatari with their guns pointed out. him the whole time but oh I bet Trazen didn't give a shit he's like oh shoot me what do you what do I care I'll just transfer to a new body yeah what do I what do I care not a big deal I've died before so as all the beepity boopening

is happening then came some more of like the major fucking ground battle and this is where things get a little bit muddled just because of time wise and so basically like three things are happening at one time okay they start the pylons but there's after the pylon things are going around

there's now there's the major ground battle on the surface itself and this is Avedon leading the goddamn charge this is him down there on the surface like wailing on people and he's fighting off the sisters of battle he's fighting off it's like Celestein

all this crazness is happening and even Trazen is also there and he and he has his fucking poker deck of little dimensional orbs and he's like random bullshit

go and he threw out like an old inquisitor and then he threw out he threw like a bunch of ultramarines that he stole and he threw

I think he threw out like a custodian and he's just like get them boys oh my god an inquisitor ultramarines and custodians

I think one custodian maybe I might be wrong on that one But he's just He's just like throwing out his Poca balls Like mad And he's just like here you go

Here you go It's a bunch of And like one of the Inquisitors The lady named Inquisitor Grafax She's actually a bit more of an important character right now She's pretty important But of course she had the mind shackle scarabs In her brain

She couldn't You know Fight Trazen But Trajan's just like Random bullshit let's go A bunch of fucking ultramarines And they like He stole

And then all of the ground forces are all attacking. It's a war 40K. It's a cluster fuck. Everyone is dying. However, in the air, or I guess in space, so speak, there is the giant's space battle. And the big thing going on right now is the imperial fists.

Remember how it said that Rogel Dorn is the equivalent of someone putting the square in the triangle slot from a kid's toy? Yes. So are there, It's so hard their ships So the Black Storm Fortress is big right It's pretty big The Imperial Fists come out with this thing called the phalanx

It's bigger It is It is the size of like an asteroid I truly wish I could I could Explain how big This fucking thing is It is the size

I think it's the size of a small moon It's like half the size of our moon Like Luna our moon It's like half the size of that It is a gigantic floating cathedral Yeah shy just posted a couple of pictures of it And holy shit It dwarfs the black stone fortress

It's like double the size of the black stone fortress How many of these do they have? I don't know not many. Point being, it's really big. Yeah. Because having... It's literally a cathedral.

Jesus. Having big fucking unkillable things is like the Imperial Fist's thing. Sure. Jesus. It is... Okay, so basically, you play this part in the game, by the way. But basically, you attack the Blackstone Fortress. And eventually, the Blackstone Fortress to shield.

randomly turn off. And you're like, wait, what? And you realize that, oh, those goddamn space wolves are still inside. And they've been, they've been going in and, like, causing fucking problems. They've been, like, being good old space wolves. And, like, oh, Sven Bloodhound is, like,

cracking open the areas and slashing all this shit. And the main guy who runs the phalanx, this guy named Tor Gerdon, and he's like, oh, fangs of fendris bite deep. And it was like, yeah, they fucking do. Damn. I had just assumed that like, I don't know. I guess I shouldn't have assumed that they die,

but it was just like we hadn't heard from them. The Blackstone Forteasters are still fucking shit up. Damn, though. Let's go, space wolves. I know. And so you know what they do with the phalanx? They fucking ram it. Of course they do.

Of course they do. They're like, we've got a bigger ship. Our dick is much large. and they just like ram the Blackstone Fortress. The Blackstone Fortress is the square hole. The cathedral is the triangle piece. Get in there. And this, this actually, one, works because the Blackstone Fortress's reactor goes critical.

And the thing explodes, not into a bunch of chunks, but like, it powers down and cracks. And for all intensive purposes is destroyed. They were actually able to take out the Blackstone fortress and really wreck it. That's a big deal. Now, following this on the planet's surface, a whole shitload of fighting is going on against Abadom. Abadon is currently 1v-1ing like 10 ultramarines, like one other dude. His terminators are fighting off the custodians, the inquisdians, the inquisition. and the guard are like attacking him and he's like

trying to beat their ass and he all during this time he's one v. one in St. Celestein and St. Celestine is like just going to ham and as this continues the pylons glow green and

together they all grab this big source of energy and they blast right into the eye of terror and the eye of terror and the eye of terror starts shrinking at a rapid rate Oh, so they actually Ooh, they actually succeeded in turning them on

Mm-hmm Okay, okay, okay Things are looking bad for chaos now, okay They are The Abidon is really upset He is spaghetti about this But during this During this fight

Selstein actually starts becoming incredibly weak Because there's an assumption That she gets her powers from the warp Because she's like an emperor demon, right? Oh So she like starts negative effect on her.

Yeah, she starts, like, fucking plugging her ears and screaming and, like, her wings, like, turn off and, like, she falls to the ground. And Abidon's about to actually kill her ass. And then you know who stops her? You want to know who stops her? Who stops? Is it Trayson? Can't be Tristan.

No. It's fucking Creed. No fucking way. Creed rolls up. He does, like, a goddamn baseball sly with his power source. and he trades like two to three blows with Abadon. Oh my God. What does Creed not do?

Well, win. Because because because like he traded like two to three blows with Abadon, which for a normal 50 year old man is a fucking feat. Oh yeah. But like after like two seconds of fighting Abadon, Abadon just cleans his arm off.

just fucking slice his Creed's arm off and like bats him away with this other hand because he's just a dude but right after it is but right after that Celestine gets a good fucking shank with her flaming sword into Abidon's stomach and Abidon is now like pretty mortally wounded

by this shit and he's like fucking furious so he immediately teleports away because he's not gonna he's not gonna die there But then as all this is going on, the forces on the ground, the demon forces are starting to die and they're getting pulled away.

The eye of terror is being closed. Like his exit point is being closed. The Marines, like his Blackstone fortress is destroyed. The Marines are coming back like things are not looking good. So Avedon does the last possible thing he has. And he takes a large amount of his. fleet, I think including his flagship, the eventual spirit, and he rams the Blackstone Fortress. Oh.

And he does turbo boost. He's like, you'll never catch me, Creed, not when I switch into maximum overdrive. And he, oh, that's right, Sponzo references, you don't get that. No. I'm so sad. But what he does is he takes the Blackstone Fortress and he throws it. And he chucks it at max speed directly into the surface of Kadia itself. Holy shit.

That's, uh, boy, that's a big boom. I'm assuming that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a good by, that's a good by Katie move right there. That is a goodbye Kedia move. He basically chucked a small moon into the planet and the planet cracked. And it, and bad things happen. Now, obviously some people, Celestein, well, first things first, the pylons were then destroyed.

And the Eye of Terror grew again. Selstein, some of the sisters, acquisitor, Grafax, and the like, were able to get away on their shuttles. Creed, being the chat that he was, has sustained six to seven shots, like bullet wounds in his, chest and lost a fucking arm.

And during this entire time was shuttling away survivors. He was getting crew and troops onto shuttles to get them evacuated as soon as he possibly could. Damn. And he didn't board one himself. He let everyone else get on instead of him. Oh, so he fell with Cadia.

Kind of. As he was laying down there, bleeding and dying, a large, tall metal figure stood over him. No. And said, this is not your time, Lord Creed.

Eternity awaits. Oh, no. And now Creed is considered MIA. Oh, no. Trazen ganged Creed and put him in the gallery. Creed's in the gallery now. Oh, no. After all that.

Now he has to spend eternity. And like, oh, that sucks. Well, Trayson really wanted Abadon in the gallery. He really wanted Avidon. But he is like, God damn, dude, for a fucking human, you held off Kadia. You traded blows with a despoiler and lived. You are literally a part of history. Like, you belong.

You belong in the gallery. It's like, don't worry, Creed. eternity awaits. Oh man. Creed probably would have preferred just dying. Oh, most likely. Exploding with Cadia. So, if Cady is destroyed

and the pylons are destroyed, shouldn't the I have Terra zipper just open and just let everything out? Shai, you got a picture for me? You got a picture to show the Sycicajic's maledictum. Because I'm sure you probably got one soon. Excuse me.

The Sica-picka-bick-a-maled-do-p-what? I think it's called the Sikadrix Maledictum. I think it's the actual name of the Eye of Terror. It's like the scientific name or something. I was about to say, this is no time to be dropping bars, but no time to be dropping your time of day. Creed's fucking rap. There it is. That circle part is the Eye of Terror.

And, oh, no, sorry, the Eye of Terror is on the far left by Cadia. and all of that green. So. Is that all just pockets that opened up? Yep. It split the galaxy in two. Holy shit. The galaxy is literally split in two.

The other side, the top side, is because of this fucking giant warp storm and stuff and all of chaos, you can't cross it. Everyone on the, The other side is alone. They are cut off from terror.

They are cut off from the Imperium. They are on their own. Oh, shit. So is that like Age of Strife 2.0 for them? Possibly worse. Well, age of strife is pretty bad. It's bad. That's no good.

That's no moss. Yes. And I would explain more about it. But the next, we probably should make this into a second part. Because what follows this is Call's resurrection of Gilliman, and Gilliman leading what's known as the Indomitous Crusade, as a crusade to assist with all the fuckery that just occurred, to help fix the Imperium.

But, yes, Cadia is destroyed, population 850 million, population now zero. Cree was able to help shuttle off 3 million survivors. But the main thing is that Cadyans and the Cadians there are still fighting. They're still holding off the horrors of chaos. And if I would be wrong to end this episode without saying not only Cadya stands, but the main statement that all the Cadians always love to say, every guardsman will run into a room, say this shit. shit, take a fat dump on the floor and then leave.

Where they say that even then, with the planet in pieces, the planet broke before the guard did. The planet broke before the guard did. The planet broke before the guard did. The planet is in fucking pieces and guardsmen are still fighting. The planet broke before the guard did. That's a pretty big thing for the guardsman. I mean, that's, doesn't get.

doesn't get a whole lot better than that. Well, if you won, it would have been a lot better, I guess. If you won, it would have been good. A lot of people see this as, like, Abidon's temper tantrum, because he took a damage, not destroyed, star killer, planet killer, and decided to use it as a battering ram. So a lot of people kind of had this feeling of, like,

that's like it worked but that's a bit of a waste I mean was it though because I mean no it wasn't a waste look at the map look at what happens to the map because he did that like I would say like it was it was a worthwhile sacrifice like yeah sure you don't have your uh black fortress anymore but the zipper done opened up

I mean you like you you've mission successful. It's more the idea of like, hey, you could have kept your planet killer and killed more planets instead of just throwing it at it. But it was fucked up. They were losing the battle. The aorta was shrinking.

It was like it was time. They needed to do it. Yeah. And that's okay. And that's okay. From the jaws of defeat. Basically. And I think that it was a perfectly correct decision because he put a lot of four

into this one. Mm-hmm. But, I, yeah, I don't know if we have time to go into this, but how exactly did he get all of,

like, uh, chaos to like band behind him? Because I mean, he's the Black Legion. He accepts everybody. Uh, but I mean,

it's not like chaos was like, happy, happy with each other at the time, right? It's not like everybody's like, oh yeah, sure, we'll follow you,

Abidon. Like, how exactly did he get, how did he orchestrate this? The Black Crusade in its own right is quite the endeavor and

Kadia is quite the target Oh so it was just the appeal of getting rid of Kadia and opening up the eye of Tara that everyone was like yeah okay for sure whatever If Tara is Washington DC Cadia was the Pentagon and

destroying it is quite the prize. Now he originally didn't want to destroy it and even wanted to take it Oh he wanted like his own home base Yeah, he wanted to take it A whole bunch of slaves Chaos loves their slaves

They take a lot of them Oh yeah Yeah But naturally You know Also it's also this thing where like Hey if you have a lot of like Things you can offer someone

Like hey emperor's children Here's a bunch of slaves Hey Typhus Here's a bunch of pestilis Hey hey world eaters Here's like the greatest battle of all time Hey night lords Here's a way to inflict terror

and fear. Like, give them what they want, and then they'll follow. Okay. Hey, hey, word bearers, here's an entire planet to create dark rituals. Hey. Hey, sounds good to me. So, that was the fall of Acadia. It's a long episode.

Long episode. This is a interesting episode, though. Like, for me, I, there's a lot more that went into this fall of Acadia than I thought like Jesus and there's more too when we talk about the era endomitous afterwards but that'll probably a shorter episode I hope but

the fall of Katie is a big deal for me as a big guard player it's a big deal for me too it's a very like it's a tragic yet it's tragic story filled with like countless amounts of bravery the guardsman

really showed like their strength here and Creed is such a Chad. Oh God, Creed is so badass. Like, as this thing was going on, I was like, oh my God, Creed is going to survive this. Like, he's somehow going to get off world, and he's going to survive this, and he's going to go on

to be the shattiest Chad that ever chatted. That's a word. Those are words. I use them. But, God, I, it kind of, I'm kind of sad that Creed is just kind of stuck for eternity in Trazen's gallery. He deserves better. At least he's alive.

I don't even care about the garden. I'm just, man, he deserved better. He deserved that, like, honorable death. Like, oh, I did this. I was the one that fended off and let Cadya survive. And, yeah, I, this was me, and I'm going down with the ship. And, you know, have that honorable captain leader death. But no, he's stuck for eternity and with a brain shackle.

And it's like, oh, God, Tray's probably going to put him in a polka ball and use him in another battle. Yeah, but it's funny. Yeah, but it's funny. It's 40K. It's supposed to be tragic. right yeah all right I think that's it should I round us out take us home all right thank you all so much for listening to the fall of Acadia if you really badly want to see better versions of the fall of Acadia check out the opening prologue to Battlefleet Gothic

they do a great job at it honestly we could have gone the same hour-long episode done by just showing DK 20 minutes of that and it would have done the same thing but even so if you want a little bit more like visuals to listening. That's, that's the best way to do it. Um, besides that, my eyes and Bricky. You find me a Bricky anywhere and everywhere. D.K. Where can they find you? D.K. Diamanties everywhere except Instagram. There you can find me at real D.K. Diamanties. Blah, blah, blah. Don't have the thing. Yeah. You know, you know. You get it. I, I know. I know. Um, and of course, you can find quite shy, or quiet shy or quite shallow, depending on which one she feels like doing,

because I don't know which is witch anymore at this point. And we will see you next week for the Indominus Crusade and the resurrection of robot girl man. Goodbye.