Ordo Xenos.com now has a complete version of this story titled The Secrets of the vault and a new sorry by Scribe Rippin.
Scribe Rippin has documented one of the battles fought by Ultramarine Squad Ferinates whilst still led by Sergeant Tiberius now of Killteam Appache. Mission Ba'Throom
The young man
strode across the small secluded docking bay’s metal plated floor towards the
sleek and fragile looking black ship. He’d taken the time before this meeting
to arrange for all the security monitoring this section of Erioch Fortress to
be disabled and all staff to be scheduled elsewhere within the station. He was
to be alone with the courier, and no one was to know about what transpired. He
stopped by the side of the vessel ad waited whilst the ramp descended. ‘By the
Emperor let this work.’ He thought as with a mild creaking sound the ramp locked
in place and down it came a cautious, armoured figure. Lithe and on edge she
held herself with a natural grace and poise that could only disguise no
eradicate her uncertain wariness.
The man ahead
of her was no Space Marine like she encountered on the Yngirbane world, this
man was Mon-Keigh but seemingly non-perturbed by her alien status. He was
cloaked in a aura of calm and assuredness, the kind that hung about the seers
of her craftworld Banshees before a battle was joined. She couldn’t explain why
but his calm alongside her only added to her worry.
“You bring
that which Harvin asked me to care for?” The Inquisitor asked gently, trying to
set the Eldar woman at ease with use of the Eldar’s own archaic tongue. “As the
favour has been asked no others of my home or order know of this meeting. I
shall hide that which you bear and bring it forth only when it is needed.” He
approached her openly with arms held out showing a willingness to take a
burden.
As the
Mon-Keigh spoke her own tongue Lenara relaxed slightly. “I fear you know more
of my duty than I do.” Her voice was gentle and incredibly light seeming even
for one of her slight stature. ‘Perhaps this man can be trusted, he speaks of
those who I know and seems to aid them.’ “I do have a package for you, and I
would be grateful if you took it so as I may leave this alien place.” She
pulled from her satchel the bulky metal container she had taken from the Marine
hoping that the man ahead of her would not realize that she had killed to get
it.
Raising his
hands forward the man grasped the Imperial designed containment unit and
watched the Eldar woman slump to the ground in front of him. Grateful that the
task had been this easy he attached the containment unit to his belt as he ejected
the used charge to his Jokero digital weapon. There was ways he could pass the
vessel and body to certain arms of the Adeptus Mechanicus without it becoming
known to many, he mused on this as he headed into the Fortress.
Standing at
the doors to the Omega Vault Inquisitor Drake marvelled again at the scope of
humanities endeavour within the Jericho Reach. As the doors opened themselves
on his arrival he walked in to the antechamber, this time a door opened where
before Drake had seen only a wall and his path through the Vaults was new to
him. Arriving at a chamber with a pedestal standing ready to receive the
containment unit he carried. Alongside the pedestal was an archaic looking
dataslate that activated as Drake approached. On it flashed a word over an
image of a green looking planet.
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