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[[Guardsman]] '''Floscan Hartoum''' of the [[Aurelian 9th Regiment]] is aboard the troopship ''Emperor's Vengenace'' when it breaks through a warp gate and is ambushed along with its escort the ''Glorious Redeemer'' by an [[Ork]] fleet. Hartoum is able to launch a escape pod, after escaping the wrath of a [[Commissar]] '''Leminkanen''' before the ship is destroyed and guides the rudimentary pod down to an unknown planet's surface. Surviving the entry into orbit and the landing, hartoum finds himself on a bizarre planet with a relatively high gravity, barely able to stand without tedious effort. He then encounters a pack of strange alien centaurs who attack a large scorpion like creature and kill it. They then pick him up and take him back to their camp with no explanation whatsoever where he meets Ochtar, the Elder and Remembering One. He tells Hartoum that they are the descendants of an explorator fleet which crashlanded on the planet in ancient times. Their descendants found that they needed to bio-engineer their people to give them the extra legs to stand and the strength to fight the bizzare monsters on the planet. Ochtar then explains that he learnt Imperial Gothic from a free trader who came and collected gemstones before leaving behind a heavy gravity suit which Ochtar then gives to Hartoum. Ochtar then takes Hartoum to a sacred site to prove their stories and descent, however they must pass through the territory of those who follow the [[Blood God]]. Once at the sacred site, Hartoum witnesses ancient cogitators [[cogitator]]s of the [[Cult Mechanicus]], possibly from the time of the [[Dark Age of Technology]]. This proves that Ochtar is descended from humans, not of some alien race> Hartoum is excited by the fact that some [[Standard Template Construct]] data may be present within the machinery. However the warriors of the Blood God discover their presence, destroying the machinery and slaughtering Ochtar whilst taking Hartoum back to their camp. Thrown into a hut, Hartoum discovers that Commissar Leminkanen has survived and is being held prisoner by the Blood God centaurs. Hartoum tries to explain to Leminkanen that the centaurs are descended from humans, which he firmly disbelieves. Hartoum dismays and rubs through his bindings, making an escape from the camp, whereupon he is discovered in the morning by Ochtar's warriors. Hartoum directs them to the Blood God centaurs camp where a messenger of the Emperor is prisoner (Leminkanen). Whilst the two forces battle, Hartoum releases Leminkanen and asks him to witness the good work of Ochtar's centaurs. however all that he sees is a giant millipede creature which has surrounded the village and is consuming the warriors. The Commissar states that this is all an afront to the Emperor and starts to detail a report for [[exterminatus]], however mid report he is devoured by the millipede creature. The two forces of the centaurs kill the creature by stting it alight and escape, drawing up across from each other, ready to battle once more. However a Imperial shuttle craft descends and interupts them.