# 2025.6.15 - RR - The Final Hour _A Remembrancer's Report: The Aeternum Sector - 005.M31_ This is Remembrancer Patrick Stella. As I record these words, the ancient chamber beneath Finitum pulses with malevolent energy that makes my instruments scream and my soul recoil. I can feel the presence below stirring, responding to the battles raging throughout the crystalline depths. What we thought was a prison now reveals itself as something far worse—a chrysalis, waiting for the right moment to birth something that should never exist. Both loyalist and traitor forces have committed everything to this final descent. Through the access tunnels they pour, while the darkness between reality's cracks grows wider with each passing moment. The very air tastes of copper and ozone, and shadows move independently of their sources. I have managed to compile reports from the first wave of engagements as both sides fought to control the approach chambers to the central prison. The battles that followed defy all tactical understanding—reality itself has become a weapon. [[S1 Session 11 Scores and Results|Technical Notes - Session 11]] **First Descent - The Approach Chambers:** 1. **Southern Convergence:** The Sollusan Sunborne made a heroic last stand against the Sons of Horus in the crystalline passages. Wave after wave of loyal mortals threw themselves against the traitor Astartes, and their sacrifice was not in vain. The Sons of Horus Praetor and Chieftain both fell under this endless tide of humanity, though their deaths came at a terrible cost—their blood seeped into the crystalline matrix around the prison, loosening the bindings that have held this shard of primordial chaos for eons. >[!Note] PICT CAPTURE > ![[Session 11 - Game 1 - Table 1.jpeg]] 2. **Eastern Junction:** Thousand Sons sorcerers attempted to teleport directly into the Iron Hands' defensive positions, seeking to bypass the loyalists' methodical advance. Despite the surprise of their mystical assault, the Sons of Ferrus held firm. Praetor Hassan Lys was torn apart by a Leviathan Dreadnought, his psychic death-scream echoing through the chambers and causing several crystal formations to crack ominously. >[!Note] PICT CAPTURE > ![[Session 11 - Game 1 - Table 2.jpeg]] 3. **Northwestern Passage:** The Umbral Kings found their preferred darkness turned against them as the Scions of Ultramar brought portable illumination arrays into the tunnels. Caught in the harsh light, the Night Lords were systematically destroyed by Suzerain squads, their terror tactics useless against the disciplined sons of Guilliman. >[!Note] PICT CAPTURE > ![[Session 11 - Game 1 - Table 3.jpeg]] 4. **Central Approach:** White Scars attempting a lightning strike were ambushed by a mixed force of traitor Ultramarines, Word Bearers, and militia. The confined tunnels negated their mobility advantage, and many leaders fell in the brutal close-quarters fighting. The traitors secured this critical passage, opening a direct route to the prison chamber. >[!Note] PICT CAPTURE > ![[Session 11 - Game 1 - Table 4.jpeg]] 5. **Mechanicum Sanctum:** A force of Black Shields—traitor Astartes who had abandoned their Legion colors—met fierce resistance from loyalist Mechanicum forces. Though the tech-priests held their position, it came at grievous cost. A Black Shield Vigilator died screaming as Thanatar plasma fire burned him alive, his death adding another soul to whatever hunger stirs below. >[!Note] PICT CAPTURE > ![[Session 11 - Game 1 - Table 5.jpeg]] 6. **Northern Antechamber:** The Emperor's Custodian Guard were overwhelmed by lightning-fast Emperor's Children in these narrow confines. Even the golden warriors' legendary skill could not overcome superior numbers and the unnatural enhancement their enemies had gained from proximity to the prison. >[!Note] PICT CAPTURE > ![[Session 11 - Game 1 - Table 6.jpeg]] 7. **Deep Sanctum:** Most devastating of all was the fall of Magos Deozz. Leading his forces and the Warhound Titan "Perro Azul" against the Geno 3-7 Chiliad and their own Titan, the loyal tech-priest achieved the first engine kill of the entire Bellatoris campaign. But victory turned to catastrophe when the Magos himself was captured alive. His knowledge of the containment fields he helped develop is now in traitor hands—knowledge they need to fully breach the prison. >[!Note] PICT CAPTURE > ![[Session 11 - Game 1 - Table 7.jpeg]] --- With the traitors holding four of seven approach chambers, they pressed their advantage immediately. The second phase of the battle began before the loyalists could regroup, as both sides descended to the prison chamber itself. **Second Descent - The Prison Chamber:** The chamber that houses the shard of primordial chaos defies description. Crystalline walls pulse with veins of sickly light, while the floor is inscribed with warning glyphs in languages that predate humanity. At the center sits the prison—a massive crystal formation shot through with growing cracks. Each battle, each death, each drop of spilled blood feeds it, weakening the ancient bindings. 1. **Eastern Stabilizers:** The Iron Hands faced the Geno 3-7 Chiliad in a battle that took a surreal turn when the traitor commander used warp energy to resurrect their fallen Warhound Titan. This blasphemous act backfired spectacularly—the reanimated war engine's explosion decimated traitor ranks, allowing the Iron Hands to secure this section of the prison chamber. >[!Note] PICT CAPTURE > ![[Session 11 - Game 2 - Table 1.jpeg]] 2. **Northern Binding Matrix:** White Scars under Praetor Jorgah Khan initially broke through with a brilliant Golden Keshig charge, but the Emperor's Children had summoned daemonic reinforcements. Khan and Chaplain Khoros Ghol both fell to waves of possessed warriors, leaving only Storm Seer Jaygor Yesuberi to witness the chamber's final moments as reality hemorrhaged around the failing prison. >[!Note] PICT CAPTURE > ![[Session 11 - Game 2 - Table 2.jpeg]] 3. **Central Prison Core:** The most critical engagement saw Custodian Guard attempting to hold the prison's heart against traitor Ultramarines. In acts of ultimate betrayal, Captains Ahara Xis and Nagra Thuul threw their own warriors into the golden guards' weapons, buying time with their brothers' lives. This sacrifice allowed them to ascend to daemonhood at the prison's base, their transformation sending massive cracks racing across the crystalline surface. >[!Note] PICT CAPTURE >![[Session 11 - Game 2 - Table 3.jpeg]] 4. **Western Power Conduits:** Thousand Sons sorcerers made a final attempt to claim victory for their Primarch, but found little purchase against the Mechanicum's weapons of devastation. Their leadership fell to concentrated firepower, though their psychic death-screams further weakened the prison's bindings. >[!Note] PICT CAPTURE >![[Session 11 - Game 2 - Table 4.jpeg]] 5. **Southern Approaches:** The Sons of Horus Praetor, somehow revived by the stirring powers within the prison, led another desperate assault against the Scions of Ultramar. Though he fell again to Guilliman's sons, his repeated deaths and resurrections had fed the entity within, bringing it closer to freedom. >[!Note] PICT CAPTURE >![[Session 11 - Game 2 - Table 5.jpeg]] 6. **Deep Foundation:** The final moments of Magos Deozz came as the Warhound "Perro Azul" made its last stand against the Umbral Kings and their Kytan daemon engine. When the Titan's reactor went critical, it took the recently rescued Magos with it—but not before the Night Lords had extracted the critical information they needed. The prison's failsafes were systematically disabled. >[!Note] PICT CAPTURE >![[Session 11 - Game 2 - Table 6.jpeg]] 7. **Northwestern Matrix:** The Sollusan Sunborne's final moments came as reality itself turned against them. The reality hemorrhage caused by the weakening prison decimated their ranks, allowing Black Shield forces to systematically eliminate the loyal mortals. >[!Note] PICT CAPTURE >![[Session 11 - Game 2 - Table 7.jpeg]] --- As I write these final words, the prison shows massive fractures running across its entire surface. The entity within—this shard of the Primordial Annihilator—presses against its weakening bonds. Through the cracks, I can see something that my mind refuses to process: raw chaos given form, older than the gods themselves, hungry for a universe to devour. The traitors have won. Four of seven stabilizing chambers in each phase fell to their forces, and with Magos Deozz's knowledge, they have disabled the ancient failsafes. But I fear they do not understand what they have unleashed. This is no daemon to command, no weapon to wield. This is entropy incarnate, the force that existed before creation gave it shape and purpose. The crystal prison shows hairline fractures now spreading like a spider's web. Each crack leaks pure chaos—not the familiar daemons and horrors of the warp, but something far older and more terrible. The walls of reality itself are hemorrhaging. I can hear it now, pressing against my thoughts—a voice that speaks in mathematics and madness, promising truths that would shatter sanity. The entity stirs, and with each movement, the cracks grow wider. The planet shudders. The mountain ranges around Finitum are beginning to crack. Even the stars above seem to flicker as this thing prepares to emerge fully into our reality. If anyone receives this transmission, know that we held the line as long as we could. Know that the Aeternum Sector dies not from brother fighting brother, but from our collective folly in awakening something that should have remained buried until the heat death of the universe. May the Emperor forgive us all. This is Remembrancer Patrick Stella, recording his final— ***TRANSMISSION INTERRUPTED*** ***SIGNAL LOST*** ***NO CARRIER DETECTED*** --- # ++ASTROPATHIC RELAY STATION SOLARAE-7++ # ++COORDINATES: EDGE OF SOLARAE SYSTEM++ # ++DATE: 189.M31++ # ++PRIORITY: MAXIMAL++ --- **...zzt...partial signal detected from Bellatoris vicinity...attempting reconstruction...** **...Emperor protect...seven months since the Dark took Bellatoris...** **...this is...tella...final transmission from what was once a system...** **...the thing beneath Finitum...it didn't spread...it pulled...Bellatoris collapsed inward like a wounded star...** **...where the system should be there is nothing...not even black...absence that hurts to perceive...a hole torn in the fabric of space itself...** **...watched from evacuation ships as planets, moons, the star itself...folded inward like origami made of screams...three days of impossible geometry before everything just...wasn't...** **...ships that approached the boundary where Bellatoris used to be...they don't return...they don't die...they just...aren't...** **...the entity didn't hunger for conquest...it IS hunger...not spreading but compressing an entire system into something smaller...denser...wrong...** **...loyalist and traitor survivors evacuated to Solarae and Obscuron...our war meaningless now...united in horror at what we unleashed...** **...Magos Deozz's final calculations were transmitted before...before the system wasn't...Bellatoris has become a dimensional fold...a pocket outside normal reality...** **...but worse...the Ruinstorm that once protected us has turned inward...the warp storms that surrounded Aeternum now circle like carrion birds around the wound where Bellatoris was...** **...we're trapped...the storm wall has become impenetrable...no ships escape...no astropathic signals penetrate...the sector has become a prison with a wound at its heart...** **...WARN TERRA IF THIS REACHES BEYOND THE STORM...Bellatoris no longer exists in any reality...it has become something else...a prison...a grave...a mouth that swallowed an entire system...** **...Solarae and Obscuron remain...for now...but the void where Bellatoris was pulses like a heartbeat...reality ripples outward from it...each pulse stronger...** **...the Warp itself recoils from the wound...Astropaths go mad when they look toward the absence...some speak of purposes beyond comprehension...of becoming components in a machine that spans dimensions...** **...survivors speak of dreams...of voices calling from the place that isn't...promising reunion with lost brothers...with a purpose greater than the petty wars of mortals...** **...sending this through the storm barrier while quantum tunnels still function...each day the isolation grows more complete...** **...this is Remembrancer Patrick Stella...witness to the death of a system...chronicler of the Aeternum Sector's transformation into a tomb...** **...tell Terra we opened a door that should never have been opened...and something on the other side devoured an entire system...** **...the mathematics are impossible...beautiful and impossible and the wound grows wider each day...** **...Ruinstorm barrier solidifying...tunnels collapsing...** **...we are alone with our guilt and our monster...** **...tell them Bellatoris is gone...tell them Aeternum is sealed...** **...tell them we...** **...ERROR...QUANTUM TUNNEL COLLAPSED...** **...RUINSTORM BARRIER IMPERMEABLE...** **...SIGNAL LOST TO OUTSIDE REALITY...** ***TRANSMISSION TERMINATED*** ***BELLATORIS SYSTEM STATUS: NULL - SYSTEM NO LONGER EXISTS*** ***AETERNUM SECTOR STATUS: DARK - ISOLATED BY RUINSTORM*** ***QUARANTINE: ETERNAL*** ***EMPEROR PRESERVE THE SURVIVORS...***