![]() This is the story of every pebble making up that cliff and every drop of water making up that wave. Yes it was an entire system built to celebrate the grandeur of the Dominatus and to defend it at all costs - a mighty cliff reinforced by the arrogance of its masters, but against it came a tide of all those it had wronged - a roaring storm of both ghosts from the past and enemies from the present. ![]() In the black and gold hulls of the remnants of the fleet defending it lay a metaphor for what historians would question as either a brilliant gambit or delusional insanity. In the dead eyes of those statues, both on the great roads of Malogenesis or in its museums lay a smug look of the Dominatus' defiance. It stood as a symbol for the hubris and arrogance of the Dominatus. It was beset on all sides by the raging fury of virtually the entire Gigaquadrant. Vast lines of statues - those of heroes of ages past guarded its boulevards, encouraging its defenders on while the planet itself seemed to be a guard dog, hellbent on serving its master's to the last.-īut this world was not Mirenton, nor Alcanti, not Paris, not Mou' Cyran, nor any of the capitals of the other great powers. Beyond that it was dotted by a network of nigh-impenetrable fortresses - towering bastions designed to obliterate the attempts of lesser species to topple the rulers of this world. Its capital city lay as a monument to the pride of its leaders - a mural on which its denizens celebrated their superiority. The capital of a Gigaquadant-spanning empire, it stood as metaphor for the defiance of its ruling race. In the baleful eye of its sun, a world stood. I yearned for sleep in that endless night - for my nightmares provided me solace from the present.” We abandoned the cherished values of freedom and thought, for during times like these, it is hard enough to follow orders, harder still to compel the bones and muscles of your body to assault a position that has inflicted 80% casualties on your unit, and hardest to acknowledge that this is all necessary. That was the battle we fought, a battle where only our officers had the punishment of being forced to think. And when there was touch, there was only that fleeting sensation that reminded you the last attack had claimed all your friends, and that your gun was your only comrade left. Where there was taste, it was the bitter salt of dried tears and sweat inside the uniforms that would be our coffins. ![]() To those unfortunate enough to smell anything aside from the puke and shit in their hazmat suits, there was only the evacuation of their lungs. Where there was silence, sound only conveyed agony. Where there wasn't darkness, light only illuminated death. The sounds in the dark unending night of a potential Dominatus counter-attack, of those wounded screaming for help that would never come, and the unending blizzard of Dominatus ordnance. Mountains of our dead and dying, entire armoured units melded together, and the ashes of our comrades obscuring our visors. Even in my darkest dreams, I recall formerly indomitable senior officers break down or sometimes commit suicide due to the stress of attacking positions where even the most efficient attack decimated their units. There we fought, in a land where a single break in your armour would corrode your skin to death and where insects would feast on you as you died, or if you were lucky, the extreme temperatures of the planet would take care of you long before you were consumed from inside out. “ We fought in an endless, darkened sky - a blanket of pitch black oblivion only illuminated by the flash of orbital bombardment dissipating through the shield and not bolts, but mountains of arcing red lightning whose impact caused the earth to shake. Tybusen Intergalactic Allied Federation.Andromedan Galactic Commonwealth with the exception of a few members.Katar Sector Alliance with the exception of the Aeoneonatrix Empire.Dissolution of the Drakodominatus Tyranny.
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