Por’lo close encounters of a plasma kind
After the removing of the elder competition work had been coming in thick and fast, since my last journal entry I have completed four more missions and I am about to enter my fifth. I had been given a contract my a local merchant who wanted a artefact bringing back from a distant planet, the money for this job is unbelievable if I complete this mission I will be able to buy a all district this planet.
The planet in question was not owned by anyone as far as the local records said on the planet, I did notice the sign of a Liberian on the documents which meant that some where else there was even more information on this planet. I would have to pay one of my Liberian informants to dig out more information on this planet; I didn’t want to go there if something terrible was waiting such as a tyranid hive fleet.
A week or so passed before my informant returned, he told me that the information I wanted took him to a different planet where the records on this planet were deeply buried in one of the vaults, he had found the information I wanted but it’s not like anything he had ever seen before. The files said the name of the planet was Humice and that the space marines had tried to colonise the planet over 3500 years ago, there were 5 invasions of the planet and not one succeed in the planet becoming another to the emperor. The documents also stated that the planet was inhabitable and that’s why they decided it was best not to own it.
This was odd, the merchant who hired me had been n the planet before as he had managed to draw a map to where the artefact was been kept, he wanted a large dark stone bringing back to him, he had seen it with his own two eyes, I didn’t like these facts but the money was to good t be passing up, plus if I can complete this mission my name will be huge, I did know that he had sent three other groups before me to collect the stone but non of them had ever returned.
Me and Herrati had been talking about this mission he wasn’t comfortable with the all idea knowing that s many men had already died for this stone. We decided that since we had enough money we would hire some locals and make sure we had enough men to back us up, after a week of hiring and training we had a bunch of cut throats ready for the mission, we bought three brand new out of the factory of thunder hawk gun ships from a imperial officer. We had hired two more pilots and roughly 50 men for each gunship, it ad cost us a fortune but if we complete this mission it’s a small price to pay.
The merchant loaded us and our ships on to his imperial trades ship ready for deep space, he asked me if I expected a war of some sort, I told him it’s better to be prepared for one then not. The merchant agreed, we took of and made the 2 week journey to the planet, while on the ship me and Herrati had become close to one of the men we had hired a ex imperial guardsmen called Yarr he had been kicked out of the imperial guard for a insane attack on a orc base, he had killed all the orc’s but lost three squadrons of men.
We arrived at the planet ready for disembarking, the pilots all took their places in the gun ships ready, we loaded the troops and the weapons into the gun ships ready for the attack, the merchant ship lowered to around 12,000 feet above the ground and opened the cargo bay door, with a blur of flames all the gun ships shot out the back of the cargo ship, Herrati took the lead and the two supporting gun ships dropped behind in a V formation.
We lowered to around 1000 feet above ground and begin speeding along the desert, in the distance we can see the huge pyramid, out side the pyramid is where the black stone is located, we arrive above the stone and with the gun ships we lower to the ground, once we touched the ground we disembark from the ship as quickly as possible, 10 men out of each squad create a defence line as we approach the black stone.
The drop ships take off apart from Herrati who is waiting for the stone, the two other drop ships begin circling the area with their massive bolters, we reached the black stone and nothing had happened, I picked the stone up and could feel the power flowing through it, this was strange I could sense it was a object of power, I begin to move back to the ship still with the defence line of men following.
