Post by IncubiLord on Apr 15, 2007 2:23:23 GMT -5
Tiorl 7
In the final days before the Hulk which has come to be known as the Plucked Eye struck Tiorl 7, Imperial forces have been busy evacuating their people from the Celestine Peaks, and Chaos warbands have been more than willing to move into the abandoned fortifications.
The Ork gunz were beset be attacks from Imperial, Necron, and even Eldar forces, all intent to see that they do not completely destroy their impending doom, and they have met with some margin of success. What has reached the planet includes large fragments which are not small enough to be destroyed by the intense heat of atmospheric entry.
As the few remaining Ork gunz blasted away at the debris falling towards Orkopolis, however, the human slaves began to sicken – their squalid living conditions proving a perfect breeding grounds for the plague carried into the heart of Ork “kulture” by afflicted Inquisitorial Storm Troopers.
Meanwhile, from their vantage in space, many of those with a psychic gift report having seen a flare of power simultaneously light up each of the fortifications left by the Black Hands Chaos Marines as well as a few locales deep within the wilderness of the mainland…
The Plucked Eye (Hulk) -
Amidst the flames and explosions which dot the landscape of the battered Hulk, the final plans of many factions played out as time ran short.
The forces of the Eldar and Dark Eldar alliance in the Glasswind Heights managed to prevent a direct bombardment of the crystal ship by Ork guns, and were also seen attacking Orks and Necrons around the engines of the battered Tomb Ship. What drove this ancient race into such contradictory behavior with that planet-side remains unclear, but it is speculated that they were playing both sides against the middle, attempting to ensure that their goal was attained whether the Plucked Eye was destroyed or survived.
Ork and Eldar attacks upon the Necron engines were largely successful, but the Necrons were able to keep a few engines running right until the destruction of the Plucked Eye. As a result of this, much of the debris from the Hulk did continue along a collision course with the planet.
Meanwhile, the dreaded Nightbringer hunted for those of the C’tan’s servants whose minds have been corrupted by their stay in the Warp, slaughtering uncounted Necrons whose bodies were recovered by the loyalists. His rampaging carnage was only cut short when Ork ordnance impacted upon the soul repositories of the re-souled ones – a small rift of Warp-spawned terrors giving the C’tan pause in the final moments before the Hulk was destroyed.
As the Ork bombardment reached its peak, great tremors rocked the Plucked Eye, its amalgamation of crashed vessels, embedded meteors and decaying matter not able to withstand the forces exerted upon it any longer. The massive Hulk tore apart, becoming a cloud of derelicts, space-rocks, and space-debris accumulations headed on a path roughly towards Tiorl 7...
Overall
As the Plucked Eye neared Tiorl 7, the constant bombardment finally succeeded in tearing it apart, resulting in five massive portions and a number of smaller fragments which continued on a path that intersected Tiorl 7's orbit.
Three of the larger portions missed the planet entirely, and are currently drifting out of the system, though it is possible that one of them might come dangerously close to Tiorl 8.. Another of the large masses, by a fluke of physics, has taken up orbit around Tiorl 7, it's mass and velocity enough to resist falling but insufficient to escape the planet's gravity. The last of the most-significant remnants, however, came crashing through the atmosphere along with several smaller - yet still - dangerously-large fragments.
The large mass which collided with Tiorl 7 struck to the South-West of the Celestine Peaks, causing immense waves to decimate much of the Southern hemisphere of the planet.
Smaller portions of the Hulk mostly burned up or were blown apart by the remaining Ork artillery during their trip through the atmosphere, but a few derelicts made it to the ground to the North, their hulls designed to survive such trips but the openings in them allowing for much of the interior to be melted on the way down. These liquid-filled shells shattered upon impact, releasing a deadly spray of super-heated metal.
Amid the chaos of the fracturing hulk, three vessels were sighted moving free. One was a large vessel composed entirely of black crystal which vaguely resembled an aquatic creature and was quickly flanked by a variety of Eldar vessels which escorted it to their inter-dimensional realm, but the other two were smaller masses still covered in the debris of the Plucked Eye. These unidentified vessels used only a quick flare of thrusters to propel them away from the system and disappeared into the Warp from an uncomfortably close proximity to the system before other vessels could reach them to investigate...