This is a world shaped by pain.
Don't think this description is crazy. This is not some false poetry or twisted metaphor. The crust of this planet is made of painful breaths, terrifying dreams, and the eternal echo of the gods.
All of the above flowed out from the subspace, and finally formed a wasteland like withered bones.
If it were me when I first entered the Eye of Terror, such a scene would definitely excite me.
It is said that if you touch the bone ground with your bare hands, you will feel the unconscious blood echoes of the dreamers and victims - it is their pain that shaped this place.
Even without touching the bone-white earth, you can still hear whispers emanating from the cracked surface filled with the stench of bone marrow.
They will mention a name repeatedly -
Eyes of hell.
This is a disordered, chaotic world filled with twisted creations of the warp, and it is also home to a group of exiles and Avengers.
Those exiles who were once the guardians of the great empire beyond the warp are now its plunderers and destroyers.
They call themselves the Red Pirates, but they once had another name.
Claws of the Stars.
No one can imagine what kind of crazy fantasy created such a world?
Was it Huron's sinister spirit that shaped this place to his will, or was it simply the energy of the void materializing, the filthy torrent of the Warp washing away without guidance and changing a world?
However, for a world overrun by demons, the climate and landscape of this nameless planet are quite stable.
Only occasionally, the lies of the past will turn into boiling blood and pour down. The blood-red storm often has corrosive properties that are enough to melt ceramic steel.
Due to the turmoil and corrosion of supernatural forces, part of the world's surface has been destroyed into a wasteland strewn with ashes. The tyrant Huron's fortress stands in such a desert of bone meal, half buried in the dust and dust that erodes nightmares. Down.
Its crooked towers point to the sky, shrouded in a haze of toxic chemicals.
On the sides of the tower, ugly and huge vents emit toxic gases into the nearby desert, forming another line of defense.
Even so, this fortress is still a holy place of pilgrimage for the beasts and mutants who inhabit the planet - thousands of corpses in various degrees of decay are scattered in the surrounding desert.
In this world, most creatures no longer care about time, because time is meaningless to them, and it is almost impossible to record the changes of the sun, moon and year.
The only life here is breathing, bleeding, breathing again, bleeding again, forever flowing in the cycle of killing and death.
Only the existence of that moment is real, either dead or alive.
This is the nature of chaos.
Time is a mundane concept, a product of the material universe, and its constraints have no effect on anything in the subspace.
After entering the fortress, you can see huge indoor arsenals and slave prisons everywhere. Various mutants with guns guard every key intersection and passage. A large number of automatic turrets and laser arrays form the defense system of the fortress. And its core? It's a huge monastery-like hall - just like the Starclaw's once home.
Some say that this was Huron's mockery of the hypocritical empire.
Some people also say that this is the echo of the past that cannot be forgotten.
But no matter what, it has now become a heart overflowing with venom.
Entering the church? The carved window lattice originally decorated with stained glass is now just an open hole.
These panes shattered into millions of colored diamonds covering the ground. The scene they depicted is now a secret. A row of golden statues on both sides turned into a swaying defeated phalanx scattered among the ruins.
A huge white stone double-headed eagle once spread its wings and sat on the high wall, but now it turned into rubble and fell on the stairs, replaced by a chaotic eight-pointed star smeared with blood.
There were corpses draped in white robes everywhere. Their robes were torn by sharp claws and stained black with blood.
The condition of these corpses is far from ideal? Each corpse has partially melted into the wall, as if absorbed by the world that is now their tomb, only to stop abruptly midway.
They are all priests of the state religion, 444 in total, who were captured here by the red pirates and sacrificed to the dark gods in the most depraved rituals.
Just to keep a withered life alive.
Now? That withered life is sitting high on a huge black iron throne.
He was like a huge shadow, hanging over the even larger church. His entire body was covered in scarlet armor full of cracks and strange symbols.
But the whole person looks uncoordinated. The right side of the body seems to have shrunk due to illness, and is slightly smaller than the left side. The original arm has also been replaced by a huge mechanical claw.
A large number of tubes wrapped around his neck. The only face that leaked out was like a wax figure that melted and then solidified again. It was covered with criss-cross scars, and his wide-open eyes were bloodshot, like smoldering briquettes in the shadows.
He is the former guardian of the Maelstrom, the chapter leader of the Star Claws, and the current leader of the Red Pirates, [Black Heart] Truff Huron.
The Claws of the Stars were founded in the mid-M35 as one of the Expeditionary Chapters. Their purpose was to help stabilize the empire that was slowly collapsing during the transition period to New Terra.
After Huron became Chapter Master, he and his troops were sent to patrol the Maelstrom, a meeting point between the Warp and the physical universe in the Ultramarine Segmentum and an important trade hub for the Imperium.
Immediately afterwards, the Great Vortex Watcher Alliance was officially established.
In order to deal with the threats in the Great Vortex area and protect the resources and waterways of the Empire, the Star Warrior Alliance was formed under the order of the Earth's Supreme Lords Council and required that several Star Warrior Chapters be permanently stationed in the Great Vortex.
This alliance is led by the prominent Star Claw Chapter, who leads several other war groups to form the Watchers of the Great Vortex, responsible for the stability of the Great Vortex area. Initial members included Chapters such as the Star Claws, the Lamenters, and the Mantis Warriors.
At first the Star Claws did a good job, and Huron was even awarded the title of Guardian of the Maelstrom, but as time went on, flaws in Huron's character began to show.
Although he was a heroic and resourceful leader, he lacked the steely faith and selfless devotion necessary to be a Septon Astartes, so as his glory grew, so did Huron's arrogance.
As the Badab sector became more powerful and stable than at any time in history, the Star Claws Chapter began to expand externally, even launching raids on other nearby alien-dominated sectors, and achieved Great results, once gained control of nearly half of the vortex area.
After being dazzled by the victory, Huron sent his servants on a pilgrimage to Earth, and attached a detailed plan, mentioning that if the Great Vortex and nearby star areas could be completely conquered, the Empire would gain more power. To achieve this, we can apply for the Empire to send more Space Marines to support the Great Vortex Sector, and we can even consider building an army specifically for this plan.
It was a pity that Huron's proposal was rejected without being seriously studied by his superiors. The empire's needs elsewhere were much more important than the expansion of the Great Whirlpool region.
After their request to reallocate resources to the Great Vortex region was rejected, Huron began to stop paying tithes from Badab Prime to the Ministry of the Interior, and also closed trade routes passing through the areas under its control to protest the lack of payment from the Empire. He and his allies have more than enough resources to defend the Maelstrom.
This behavior seriously affected the production of refined ores in the Badab sector itself and the Pale Sector crystals from the Maelstrom area; in addition, the void lanes near the main planet of Badab, as well as the ore supply in this important area The chains were all severed.
Huron characterized this action as his purview as the defender of the Maelstrom region, requisitioning all these industrial resources and labor to increase the defense capabilities of the Badab sector, while deploying more fleets and fortifying important worlds controlled by the tyrant .
In the Badab sector, Star Claws enhanced the defense capabilities of the space and created the "Ring of Steel" defense system.
This interstellar channel blockade caused serious damage to the trade in neighboring star regions, and also laid the foundation for the subsequent war.
