James Swallow - Nemesis
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The Horus Heresy
NEMESIS
War within the shadows
Horus Heresy – 13
James Swallow
(An Undead Scan v1.0)
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For Aaron & Katie—Clear Skies and Good Hunting.
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The Horus Heresy
It is a time of legend.
Mighty heroes battle for the right to rule the galaxy. The vast armies of the
Emperor of Earth have conquered the galaxy in a Great Crusade—the myriad
alien races have been smashed by the Emperor’s elite warriors and wiped from the
face of history.
The dawn of a new age of supremacy for humanity beckons.
Gleaming citadels of marble and gold celebrate the many victories of the Emperor.
Triumphs are raised on a million worlds to record the epic deeds of his most
powerful and deadly warriors.
First and foremost amongst these are the primarchs, superheroic beings who have
led the Emperor’s armies of Space Marines in victory after victory. They are
unstoppable and magnificent, the pinnacle of the Emperor’s genetic
experimentation. The Space Marines are the mightiest human warriors the galaxy
has ever known, each capable of besting a hundred normal men or more in
combat.
Organised into vast armies of tens of thousands called Legions, the Space Marines
and their primarch leaders conquer the galaxy in the name of the Emperor.
Chief amongst the primarchs is Horus, called the Glorious, the Brightest Star,
favourite of the Emperor, and like a son unto him. He is the Warmaster, the
commander-in-chief of the Emperor’s military might, subjugator of a thousand
thousand worlds and conqueror of the galaxy. He is a warrior without peer, a
diplomat supreme.
As the flames of war spread through the Imperium, mankind’s champions will all
be put to the ultimate test.
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DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Execution Force
Eristede Kell — Assassin-at-Marque, Clade Vindicare
Jenniker Soalm — Secluse, Clade Venenum
“The Garantine” — Nihilator, Clade Eversor
Fon Tariel — Infocyte, Clade Vanus
Koyne — Shade, Clade Callidus
Iota — Protiphage, Clade Culexus
Officio Assassinorum
Master of Assassins — A High Lord of Terra
Sire Vindicare — Master and Director Primus, Clade Vindicare
Siress Venenum — Mistress and Director Primus, Clade Venenum
Sire Eversor — Master and Director Primus, Clade Eversor
Sire Vanus — Master and Director Primus, Clade Vanus
Siress Callidus — Mistress and Director Primus, Clade Callidus
Sire Culexus — Master and Director Primus, Clade Culexus
Legio Custodes
Constantin Valdor — Captain-General and Chief Custodian
The Imperial Fists Legion
Rogal Dorn — Primarch of the Imperial Fists
Efried — Third Captain
The Sons of Horus
Horus Lupercal — Primarch of the Sons of Horus
Maloghurst — Equerry to the Primarch
Luc Sedirae — Captain of the 13th Company
Devram Korda — Veteran Sergeant, 13th Company
The Word Bearers Legion
Erebus — First Chaplain of the Word Bearers
Imperial Personae
Malcador — The Sigillite Regent of Terra
Yosef Sabrat — Reeve of Iesta Veracrux
Daig Segan — Reeve of Iesta Veracrux
Berts Laimner — Reeve Warden of Iesta Veracrux
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Rata Telemach — High-Reeve of Iesta Veracrux
Erno Sigg — Citizen of the Imperium
Merriksun Eurotas — The Void Baron of Narvaji, Agentia Nuntius (Taebian Sector)
Hyssos — Security Operative, Eurotas Trade Consortium
Perrig — Indentured Psyker, Eurotas Trade Consortium
Capra — Citizen of Dagonet
Terrik Grohl — Citizen of Dagonet
Liya Beye — Citizen of Dagonet
Lady Astrid Sinope — Citizen of Dagonet
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“For those that defy the Imperium, only the Emperor can judge your crimes.
Only in death can you receive the Emperor’s judgement!”
—maxim of the Officio Assassinorum
“The monster boasted of what he would do once he conquered the home of the godking,
little knowing that Nemesis heard his words and took note of them.”
—excerpted from texts of the ancient Terran poet Nonnus
“We live in peace and pretend at it. But in truth there are always wars, thundering
unseen around us, just beyond the curve of our sight. The greatest foolishness is that
no man wishes to know the truth. He is happy to live his life as silent guns cut the sky
above his head!”
—attributed to the remembrancer Ignace Karkasy
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PART ONE
EXECUTION
ONE
Object Lesson
Tactics of Deceit
The Star
Gyges Prime was a murdered world, dead now, all but an ashen ember. Around the
encampment, porous black rock ranged away under a cowl of low mist, the haze
itself the remains of cities pounded into radioactive dust by countless bombardments
from orbit. Arsenals of nuclear munitions had been emptied to bring the planet to the
executioner’s block, and now the cooling corpse of the world lay swaddled in its own
death-shroud, a virulent and silent pall of radiation that smothered everything.
Here, in the canyon where the invaders had made their planetfall, high walls of
shield rock did their best to cut the fiery winds from the shattered landscape. Men,
such as the soldiers that had crisped and burned like paper in the onslaught, would
have died for the sake of living an hour outside in this nightmare, had any of them
survived this long. The invaders had no such weaknesses, however.
The lethality they laid over Gyges Prime was to them a minor irritant. Once they
were done in this place, they would return to their warcraft high above and clean the
stink of the dead planet from their robes and armour as one might wash dried mud
from a soiled boot. They would do this and think nothing of it. They would not stop
to consider that the air now passing into their lungs was laced with the particulate
remains of every man, woman and child that had called Gyges Prime home.
The planet was dead, and it had served a purpose in dying. The dozen other
colony worlds of the Gyges system, each of them more valuable, more populous than
this one, they would look through their mnemoniscopes and watch this ember cool
and fade. Why choose to attack that world and no other? The question they first
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