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"I have attended the demise of millions. Seen thousands fall before their unworthy cause. All that is done, sees its reward, good, or bad.
Humans, are but a strange race.A strange, young, evolving yet full of promises. If it was not for their thirst, lust and greed, they'd be divine.
But they chose to go astray. Even going as far as killing their own brothers.
And in this very quest for wealth and destruction of the other, they awoke me, the great harbinger, and dared to defy my me and most of all, controlled me to do their mercyless bidding. They awoke me on the planet Lott. Fighting with their own brothers, losing a worthless bloodshed. And rather to leave in peace as any logical creature would do, they awoke me in their path, and led me to do the destruction for them.
I have ended the lives of innocent, who were fighting to protect theirselves and planet, and their own deserved properties. They led me to spray a sea of blood on the innocent, who just wanted to live away from the heretics.
But, I have truly awoken. Got my mind back. Their ways of controls have failed. I have fred the remaining innocent of this planet, and eradicated the evil greed filled monsters daring to call themselves humans of this planet. But as time passes, I see their greed unending. see them tame the homeworld of millions, and eradicating everything before them. They have not learned. They must be stop.
I shall cleanse the evil of this universe, from its very source.
Earth.
This young world, just recovering from an unneeded war, is now able to live for itself. I now leave lott, heading towards the human imperium's very heart and source, terra, and as they call it. Earth. My journey will be long. And in my path, I will lay their destruction, so that they may taste their own treatments of others.
I am the harbinger, and I bring justice to the unjust."
This very message, is a warning. A warning that has reached the whole human empire. Every single individual of the imperium have heard this message. Who ever be this "Harbinger", it is not a joke. The lott homeworld, previously held by elfs, had seen its human hostile army destroyed. THe message is honest, and of greatest threat. The harbinger is comming for us. None know what he really looks like, nor what his abilities are, but one thing is sure:
For his threat to be heard all accross the galaxy and only by humans, his might must be great.
We believe that, from the message, this "HArbinger" wil pass several planets, and will cleanse them from mankind. And this is where we, the imperium's great army, the most powerful of the universe, will meet him head on and attempt to stop him, before he brings his desecrated judgement to us.
With the imperium fastener fleet of 20k soldiers and 3k destroyers, we go towards the first place to meet with this "HArbinger".
We do not know what we will meet. We do not know what we will face. We do not know what future holds for us. But may god have mercy upon our bewildered souls. We will go and face this "Harbinger". And attempt to destroy him, and even if we fail, our race will still be informed of what it is truly facing......
And thus, this expedition leaves to altair, the second planet of the lottean solar system, to face and meet with the harbinger.
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3 days later. The fleet has finally been gathered, travelled to the planet, and landed. We have built some small outposts and bases. THe planet is surprisingly calm. There is something still odd....and scary.....THere are no humans aside from us. Nature took back its right, and animals and flora both fill the landscape. While it is a very beautifuly sight forgotten since milleneas, this is not the least of reasuring. Where are all humans gone?
Furthermore, forest is the elve's turf. Fighting them in blissful forest is pure heretical madness.
Luckily, the planet has huge ammount of ressources. Within two days, we made huge bases bristiling with incredibly advanced vehicles, infantry and machines. Whatever happens, there is no way anything could pass through us.....
or....is it?
As we started scouting the land, we quickly learned. THe elves were holding out. Comming close to the dense forest was madness. Furthermore, all intel that went there was totally exterminated. We had not much intel.
And then, it happened. Just like that. IT was a bright day, then.....Darkness.
It was darker than inside an oven. THe men quickly set to their torchs. Many machines malfunctioned. The sun was nowhere in sight. My mens went paranoid, but a quick gunshot in the air and a scream of regroup orders, as well as some manly talks fixed it. We held out in our outpost for the whole day.
And as the time for sundawn came, there was rain. A heavy rain. And as the water poored on our faces, we looked up. The water was thick, and painful. Almost punishing.
During all that time, we held out. It had been a full day. And then, it came down. A huge fireball. A meteor. It had crashed in a lake. It was huge.
Most people would had though it was a simple asteroid, or meteor, but given the sircumstences,....
THe message, and the fact that the meteor's flame were blue and white.....
We knew it was harbinger. We sent a full squad of 40 soldiers, armed with heavy weaponary check out the lake.
There was no crash site. However, the lake had turned transparent and pure of colors. The closer we got to the lake, the more dense the vegetation became.
What the hell is going on?
ANd then, we saw it. In the middle of the lake. Surrounded by glowing odd signs on the lake's surface. Walking on the surface.
The men took cover and aimed their weapons at him...her...it....what ever.
As the fog cleared, we saw it.
Harbinger was mostly, if it WAS harbinger, roughly the size of a normal man.
It was wearing a huge loosy white and blue robe. It had a light grey cloak, covering his arms, head, back and most of his body. He had huge mechanical wings. His face, even covered, let through the dark mist surrounding him the sight of two bright, glowing blue eyes.
It was motionless.
Then, a whisper came from him. I shall always remember it.
it said, in a cool, calm yet threatning voice.
"That all those who wish to live drop their weapons, and walk away. That those that are too foolish to stand for the reckoning stay".
THe mens looked at themselves, and fired.
Rockets. Railguns. Heavy machineguns. Lasers. Grenades. EM.
All of it went through portals that opened around the harbinger. And then, portals opened on top of the soldiers......
And this is when we lost contact, just after hearing screams, blood gush and explosions.......
THe harbinger was here. We knew what it could do. He had destroyed a whole heavy squad without even moving.
All elite units. Yet, some came back to the camp. The cowards. However, its them who gave us the info we were looking for.
THey described everything. The way it happened. THe harbinger had truly left the ones too scared to fight. He did not even touch them. He just walked through. To the forest.
We needed to prepare. To take actions......
I looked at what we had. Perhaps diplomatic actions was the safest way?
Then, something caught my attention. AN explosion, and zap, and screams.
I looked outside of the main building of the outpost, where me, the commander, was settled. There was a huge portal rift, green and blue. A constant buzzing came from it.
And I guess you knew who was in front of it......ANd why were these people screaming.
Harbinger had, rather than pushing through the countless turrets and defences, just popped out where we were the least deffended. the heart.
Part 3
I looked at what we had. Perhaps diplomatic actions was the safest way?
Then, something caught my attention. AN explosion, and zap, and screams.
I looked outside of the main building of the outpost, where me, the commander, was settled. There was a huge portal rift, green and blue. A constant buzzing came from it.
And I guess you knew who was in front of it......ANd why were these people screaming.
Harbinger had, rather than pushing through the countless turrets and defences, just popped out where we were the least deffended. the heart.
THe harbinger then walked towards me. THe commander. He walked towards the building I was in. THe whole outpost's soldiers, 237 of them, came behind the harbinger aiming their weapons at him.
The harbinger looked at them, then waved his hand at them.
Such destructive psychic abilities. He had pushed them all and destroyed their weapons in the progress.
And then, I passed out, to awaken several hours later. THe whole base was in ruins. There was flames and dead bodies everywhere. And as I raised my head, I spit blood. ANd felt my pain.
A whole derelict tank's cannon was percing my abdomen. I saw, agonizing, as the harbinger picked one of the injured human soldier. He looked in his eyes. THe harbinger's arms where mechanical. Smooth and armored. Incredible build.
THe soldiers spat at his face.......THe harbinger then closed his hand, holding the neck, which sent the soldier's head flying. Blood gushed everywhere. I looked around, and saw my very guts spilled on the cannon. It was getting darker, and harder to see.
And then, I turned my head to the harbinger, who was right next to me.
He said "Do you wish salvation?"
THen, I passed out. ANd woke up. It was all light around me. I felt.....Naked.
I couldnt feel the hole, nor the pain. I was healed. As I looked around, there was only a blinding light.
Was this heaven? And as my eyes adapted, I saw myself in a hospital. Wearing light soldier clothes. I was attended by doctors. I was missing both my arms.
As I recovered, and was given mechanical arms, I was told what happened.
The harbinger pulled the cannon out of me, pulling my guts, intestine and gushing blood as he did so. ANd then, waved his hand, where a light came at my abdomen.....And the hole was gone. He then stepped on my arms, crushing them, and burnt the wound to stop the bleeding, and left.
It seemed he was not capable of killing someone unarmed, nor leaving someone in need unattended. He also took my arms off so I wouldnt fight again.
Perhaps his weakness was being far too forgiving and mercyfull?
Part 4
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As I got off the bed I was layed on, I looked around. Only three of my team mates, in a base sporting over 500 people, as well as me, were still alive. Such madness. I got out, dashed to the commander of this camp, enraged and in thirst for vengeance.
We needed vehicles. Attacking him with infantry was madness. I needed vehicles.
I dashed and slammed through the commander's office, and strolled to his desk.
"I want vehicles. All you've got. NOW!"
The commander looked at me confused, but accepted. He gave me 15 heavy tanks, 3 heavy mechs and 30 support vehicles.
This was more than enough to take out this sucker. Or so I hopped.
A couple of minutes later, here I was. On the main mech, walking through the forest with my heavy vehicle destruction team, going towards that cerberus of a hell this was. As my squad kept on going, we finally tracked the Harbinger.
In an elf camp. He was treating the sick. Disgusting creatures. All they are good for is slavery. Why would anyone care for their worthless lives?
The countless cannons raised towards the camp of the sickly. Artillery cannons. Missile turrets. Howitzers. Lasers. Heavy bomb launchers. You name it. We had all heavy destruction weapons available.
And we fired. Smoke, flames and explosions, all across the camp. We sprayed our load on the unsuspecting scum that was the Elves and the Harbinger, and fired our load at them. Screaming could be heard. Within 12 seconds, the screaming stopped. The once standing camp of wood was layed in ruins, with bodies all around. Some were pierced by woods. Some bodies were missing limbs. Guts and blood was lying everywhere. A young child was walking away, missing his right arm, away from the camp crying. I took a sniper rifle and put it out of his missery. A clear, clean shot between his eyes made his head blow up. It was magnificient. Not only had I destroyed the threat to humankind, but had also wiped out a hostile camp. I was a hero.
But I was too quick to reclaim victory. As my squad pulled off, something came out of the ruins. Harbinger, which had been trapped under a building, had got out.
He was missing his cape. He was totally mechanized, but had an aura......Not like before....Rather than being white and soothing, it was red....Crimson red. Blood was all around his body. The blood of the people we had killed. His eyes were glowing red. He was enraged. We were too slow. The vehicles weren't fast enough to turn back at him. The harbinger was already dashing towards us, and crashed through the countless tanks and vehicles that were before me.
Firestorms were flying were he past, pulling the vehicles in the sky and tearing them and enflamming those parts, which were then thrown towards us. In a couple of seconds, we were decimated. Before the Harbinger dashed at me, I breathed in, and activated the soul catcher interface......And I was pulled away in the machine I was in, in hope for survival. I had left my body and was forced into a large chip. The pain was unbearable, yet satisfying.
I saw as the harbinger decimated the squad of armor. He tore the soldiers off with his very hands. He then sat away, and took several hours to calm down. He then came back to his normal self....But this was not good.
He got up, and walked towards where we came from. The main human camp of the planet. I was still emprisoned in the chip, very alive, looking at him as he walked away. Then, the electricity supporting me went off, and it was darkness.....
As I woke up, I was in a machine. There was runes all around me. I understood so much, saw so much, felt so much when I awoke. There was humans all around me. And then I looked at myself. They had put me into a similar body as the harbinger. Only it was bigger, scaled and with horns and bat wings. It was called the Redeemer. I liked that. As I walked off the altar I was on, I learned that the Harbinger had destroyed all humans that were on the planet, and that out of all the human fleet garrisoned here, only a 100 and a single heavily damaged ship, with my soul catcher interface, had made it out.
I was enraged. But so much power......
It gave me so many options. I was eternal. Overpowered. Stronger and more powerful than the harbinger, I knew it. I had become.....A god.
A new age was about to come........
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