AN: So, this is my first story and first chapter ever on fanfiction Actually its not a chapter, it's a prologue of what is to come. Depending on the reception to this, I will continue to update. So I have been reading this story, The Imperium of Mankind's Rise, and I was like wow, this thing has no accuracy at all to 40k. 2000 imperial guardsmen sent to negotiate with the Quarians? If the the whole Imperium knows about them, its millions of guardsmen would flood that universe and exterminatus everything. The wars fought in 40k are grueling campaigns of years where thousands of guardsmen are sacrificed for a few more feet of ground. I also am sort of increasing the number of planets the Imperium has. It never made any sense in the lore that the Imperium had a measly million planets when they covered most of the galaxy. I am increasing the number of inhabited planets to exactly 150 million. Bite me.
You can expect chapters from here on out to be between 5k and 15k words.
So, I have an idea of a universe where dialogue between species still happens, no exterminatus, and even cooperation. But how is this possible, you might ask? Because the Ordo Xenos likes its secrets locked far away in the Vaults of Terra. Enjoy.
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A small shuffling and scattering of feet. Two sets of feet. One erratic and one robotic.
Both of them stop at the shelves and the robotic one pulls out a small cognitor.
"This is it Magos?" Asked the organic one.
"Yes," replied the now identified techpriest. "All you need to know is in there."
"Let us see what is in it." Said the mysterious man. The large man, now stepping into the shadow from the darkness. One could see his outline and a faint shimmering surrounding him. He was a huge man, taller than any Space Marine. He thumbed the play button and an inquisitor was now visible before him. As if it knew who he was, the hologram started playing.
"Fires rained from the heavens that day the greenskins came. Cadminus IV, a small agri world, shivered in fear as orks by the millions swarmed their world. Why had this happened? Had the Emperor cursed them for heresy among the ranks? Was this truly his will? But alas, for the small minds of the Imperial masses, the idea that an ork warlord did this without any interference from the Emperor at all was beyond them. But not to I, Inquisitor Quintilius. I know that the Emperor helps those who help themselves.
This small Waaaagh of just 2 million orks lead by a warlord dumb as a sack of rocks would have been completely overlooked where it not for the fact that the small planet had been hiding an unknown xenos secret. The 'Tuning Fork,' my retinue of misfits and seasoned stormtroopers took to calling it. It was well hidden in the ancient moon orbiting Cadminus V. As the Orks arrived en mass, their psychic Waaagh seemed to activate the object in the system.
That was the reason that a newly made Wrath class cruiser was in the system with two comparatively small cobra class escorts. The small shadows of the 1.2 Km cobras were overwhelmed by the massive 6.7 Km chassis of the Wrath class cruiser, named "Specter of Death."
Ironic, that the citizens of this world held the emperor's praise on their lips for being saved from the irate nature of the orks, when I was never even interested in the backwater world of Cadminus IV. Only the moon of Cadminus V held any worth at all.
The ork horde broke like a wave unto the beach when the reinforcements arrived. The small garrison of 600,000 PDF could barely hold the orks back for even 5 weeks. When my order of business here is concluded, I should make a note to have the governor's competency evaluated, and maybe have him executed on charges of heresy should I find him lacking.
The Emperor has tasked me with finding out what this device is, so that I may turn its purpose to the Holy Imperium's blessed crusades. May none find us wanting."
–End log. Date M41.999