Campaign 1: Biel Tan Rescue

This Warp Spider is undoubtedly a hero on his craftworld...

As the Jade Emperor sat in the conference room with his newly recruited Haemonculi, Archon Shaka walked in, immediately removing his Hell Mask. The upset look on Shaka's face was just as horrifying. But it humbled at once as he sat before his esteemed Emperor.

J.E.: Report.

A.S.: We failed you. I have no excuse, and I await retribution.

J.E.: Spare me the pleasantries and debrief me on what happened.

A.S.: My entourage entered the battle late, as did most of my reserves. The warp did not work in our favor, sir. Apparently the Biel Tan employ the utmost elites exclusively, instead of regular troops. Our troops took heavy casualties almost as soon as they touched down. And the transports that you hired from Lord Scarab were useless. Utterly useless. A unit of Warp Spiders recovered the slave and flanked him. The Talos that was retained did manage to take some of them out, as well as our troops. We whittled them down to just one 'Spider. The raider's gunner Shot him dead in the chest with the dark lance, I saw it with my own eyes. The Warp Spider shook it off! I assumed that the lance was just defective, but the Ravager's weapons were just as ineffective. By the time the Reaver Squad came through the warp, they zipped right through the Biel Tan's army but too little too late. They got away with the slave, holding us off with a Grav Tank. Without our transports, we were totally at the mercy of the Eldars heavy weaponry. I have shamed the Kabal and await punishment to temper my soul.

J.E.: I will allow you to suffer with your loss and that alone will temper your soul, of that I'm sure. We will be fine. Being that this slave escaped from Lord Scarab's domain, I doubt he will tell others of our failure. He can't afford the loss in status right now. As for his remaining troops that we've retained from him, I want them all killed. Immediately. You will tell him that we lost them in battle with almost all of our troops. He will buy it since I've been doing some heavy recruiting lately. In fact, meet Haemonculus Hanibal and Haemonculus Medea. <Shaka nods.> They will assist you in running the campaigns while I deal with the administrative intrigues at home. You two Haemonculi will coordinate raids at several secret warehouses that my spies have found. We are in need of military equipment, and quite frankly I can't afford it so we shall steal it. <The Haemonculi smile> I shall be busy solidifying our relationship with the Cult of Misery. Shaka, first you are to organize our troops. I want five armies organized: Your Zulu Knights, and then I want five orders of knights each with a Sybarite. Organize them as Obsidian, Emerald, Ruby, Cobalt, and Diamond. I want our Reaver Squad to now be known as Horns of the Bull. I like the way they've performed. I've also recruited a small army of Scourges and I am currently training some in secret. Once this has been done, I need you to perform a patrol search the area around our secret cache on planet Rool. I have a feeling that even if Scarab doesn't invade it directly, some Kabal will do so unwittingly on his behalf.

A.S.: To hear is to obey.