"well met apothicary" as he spoke Zacharius removed his helm reveiling short white hair and a curled mustache "it is an honour to serve with you all"
"Now that you know each other with name, let us proceed with the reason you have been called here. Deathwatch Keeper Toran had assessed each of your qualifications and formed your squad after approval of a Watch Captain. Therefor I hope he is right that you are ready to face one of mankinds most horrible and most recent enemies. Tyranids." The Inquisitor let the revelation sink in before moving on. "We discovered them just thirty hours ago to even be here at all, we are not sure if they were capable of sneaking past our observation systems or if they were hiding underground like in some cases observed across the galaxy and just became now active. But what we are certain of is that we have three missions to accomplish while imperial reinforcements are on their way to aid us in purging them before they devour this entire jungle world and become a threat to the very chapters here or emperor-forbid even make their way to Cadia. Given the lack of spotting any sort of space travelling beasts, lets us assume that they collect bio-mass to grow such a craft." The Inquisitor clicked some runes on the holo-desk to activate a projection of the planet with three highlighted areas. They were indicated with a "1", "2" and "3", each with the same priority 'Primaris'. "There are three areas that resemble missions for you, you can do them in any order as you do, but you have to accomplish them. Luckily you can extract after each mission to be treated and replenish your ammunition or even change your wargear or squad leader. How you choose where to deploy first I leave to you." #1 Assault – Assassination (55 Req): Primary Objective: Destroy the Hive Tyrant Secondary Objective #1: Lictor Secondary Objective #2: Zoanthrope Tertiary Objective: Locate crashed Valkyrie & Supplies The Hive Tyrant, leader of the Tyranid forces, is currently in the procedure of growing a smaller hive, closer to the Watch Station Myruh. Destroy him to weaken the Tyranids leadership. Also a Lictor and Zoanthrope have been sighted nearby, each causing additional problems. Luckily these specimen are rare and seem to cost the enemy a lot of biomass, destroy them to weaken their force further. Last but not least, a day ago a Valkyrie with supposed supplies went down. Use it in attempt to find additional ammunition, first aid and perhaps even survivors to aid you complete your mission. Mission Giver: Inquisitor Zechs #2 Stealth – Recon (60 Req): Primary Objective #1: Locate source of power and its nature Primary Objective #2: Depending on source of power and its nature Secondary Objective #1: Recover Brother Armaleus remains Tertiary Objective: Raise no alarm until source of power has been identified An unknown power source has been located in the middle of the jungle. Locate it, identify it and then either recover or destroy it, depending on its origin. Furthermore, try not to alarm the Tyranids in this area, because they could be aware of the potential of the Power source and manipulate it some way. Also, a Space Marine called Armaleus, has a grave nearby, storing his remains in honor due to his exceptional research and aid for Watch Station Myruh, recover his remains if you can before the Tyranids add his mass into their ranks. Mission Giver: Magos Jax Hegen #3 Defence – Recovery (55 Req): Primary Objective #1: Protect the Magos Jax Hegen until data secured; extract him safely Secondary Objective #1: Secure the Magos adepts Secondary Objective #2: Secure experimental anti-tyranid weapons Tertiary Objective: Activate Self-Destruction to ensure Tyranids death after escape The Watch Station on the planet could be under Tyranid attack at any point. Defend it until the Magos can secure all research data, make sure he and his data survive. If time and situation allows you may secure his adepts and his experimental weapon as well. Once you are done, you may trigger the Self-Destruction of the Station to kill all Tyranids within it, rather than have them survive. Do not let the Xeno suffer to live. Mission Giver: Inquisitor Zechs
"So who will lead us and where shall we go?" old Space Wolf asked aloud, eyeing each and every member of his newly formed squad. "If it's up to a vote, I vote for doing the 3rd mission first. We don't know how long will those people down there survive without our assistance and saving them should be our primary concern."
<Caius> The Techmarine looked down at the mission details, pondering to himself quietly, the Wolf had a valid point, but not perhaps the best. "I see your point, but can we not aid them more at first by completing the first two missions, then directly aiding their efforts to defend themselves?"
"Just as a reminder. We are not sure if the attack is happening anytime soon. We only know it will happen, considering the Tyranids are circling the parameter, yet they seem to wait for something like a signal or waiting for something else to happen like reinforcements. The Magos does his best to extract the data, but due to the vast amount it still can take a big amount of time." The Inquisitor clarified for the squad.
"Indeed Techmarine, every mission here sounds like it has to be done before the other ones. I see there's a need for making a choice, so I made mine," Rollo grunted.
" i belive the third mision is our best shot at compleating first, as it will give us weapons to use against the tyranid horde" as he spoke Zacharius looked at the others "i also want to know who will lead us"
<Caius> "I suppose that's all any of can do, shame there is not more teams to do them simultaneously. But no point in wishing for what we don't have." The Techmarine's servos whizzed and whirled as he spoke.
-Maverick "I Agree extraction of the magos and his team will be essential and getting our hands on the anti tyranid weapons should help us in slaying the Hive tyrant and its lictor and zonathrope in the first mission." the blood raven said
