(Date: 129 AR)
Kal was a recent recruit to the Black Hammer Legion. This was his dream. The Legion had to finally bend deployed. Growing up, he had heard stories from his grandfather about the heroic Events that took place during the Clone wars.
He told Kal Of the many campaigns, the 25 legions took part in. About how the surrounding galaxy slowly fell apart after the war ended. And why the only reason their lives were so comfortable was because they were a part of the 25 worlds controlled By the Primarch Rowland. Those 25 worlds were Protected by his 25 legions. His grandfather told him about how he served as a part of the black hammer Legion. A legion that apparently descended from one of the Primarch's 20 brothers. Though his grandfather wasn't a space marine he was a trooper. A clone trooper.
Before the events of the clone wars, the Primarch Had Been beseeched by his wife to participate as a general in the coming conflict. He had agreed, but had made a deal that he would get to keep some of the spoils From the campaign, And the Galactic Senate had Acquiesce to his request.
Now in the current day the 25 worlds we're starting a new campaign to reclaim the galaxy and Kal Had been one of the first to show up for recruitment. He had been hoping to become a trooper, just like his grandfather before him, but Fortune seemed to smile upon him as he was found to be exceptionally compatible with the legions space marine chapter. The elite fighting force Trained to be the best of the best than enhanced with the gene seed of one of the Primarch's siblings.
And so he became a scout in the black hammer legion. The Legion that hailed from his home planet of Krem. A legion that specialized in its skills in engineering, their love for mechanized vehicles becoming the cornerstone of the Legion's strategic capabilities.
All these Memories passed through his mind as he boarded a dropship heading to the first planet in the system they were reclaiming. Each legion had been Ordered to reclaim One of the surrounding Solar systems. Their Orders were too Scout the system determine every planets Strategic value. Then choose the optimal planet To invade first to use as a base for future campaigns.
The solar system, the black hammer Legion had been asigned was called the Polarx system. The system had four planets Orbiting a singular red sun. And the planet selected for The beginning of their campaign was designated Polarx-2. It would be renamed in the future, depending on what the inhabitants called the planet. But for now it was referred to as Polarx-2.
The planet was very similar to the capital planet of the 25 worlds. It was blue and green just like Naboo. Covered in forest, deserts, rivers, lakes, and seas. It was a Beautiful planet that would probably be referred to as a garden world. The problem was the planet was slowly losing that Brilliant green color. From what The Legion's Trooper Scouts had discovered the planet was currently engrossed in a devastating war against an entity that was thought to be dead. But apparently this being has risen again, and now seeks a vengeance on the planets people With an army of wyverns and undead. The people on the planets, call her, the dragon witch. And now it is the black hammer legions duty to destroy this individual and claim the planet and it's small population for the newly named own imperium.
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The ride down to the planet aboard the drop ship was bumpy. The squad captain said it had something to do with Mana saturation in the ozone. If I had to be honest with myself my basic Magicraft knowledge wasn't very good. If I knew are first deployment would be in a mana rich environment I might have paid more attention to Professor Tinsa back in basic training.
With a Thud I felt the drop ship land. As we all got up to exit the drop ship, our captain stood up and began giving his Orders. "all right Brothers exit the drop ship and prepare for marching orders. More than likely, we will be deployed to civilian zones to escort as many as we can back to secured points! After we arrive at those points, we will Defend them until the civilians have been evacuated from the planet! After that we will more than likely repeat the process all over again! Am I understood!" The squad captain yelled. I've never been good with names and he couldn't remember the captains. It was something like Jon or Johnson or it doesn't matter. He was just going to referred to him as Jon, captain Jon.
"YES SIR!" I shouted with my fellow scouts as we quickly exited the drop ship. As I disembarked I finally got to take a look at our current position. The black hammer Legion had taken over a recently destroyed city. It was currently being repurposed and rebuilt as a fortress. Which wasn't very hard this planet was a medieval world. The majority of the population had never even heard of soap. Transforming a destroyed city made of stone and wood into an actual military base wasn't exceedingly difficult.
I watched in fascination as magic and machines were used to construct bunkers. I witnessed librarians using their magic to rebuild the city walls as camouflage and construct bounded fields to alert them of magical incursions. I watched his towering machines of industry quickly tore down the buildings inside the city reconstructing their materials into proper fortification.
"Hey you coming?" I turned around to see Carson one of my closest brothers in the legion reminding me of my surroundings. I had technically only stopped for a second, but a second of the battlefield could cost me. I had had that beaten into my skull thoroughly.
"Ya just scouting the perimeter." he nodded, and I trotted it after him as we climbed into transport vehicles and exited the soon to be impenetrable fortress. As we exited the Fortress my helmet displayed our route. We were too evacuate several small villages to the north And hopefully not run into any monsters Along the way. But that was wishful thinking we all knew the chances of that were slim.