Post by Yurrath (aka Rezzy) on Jun 21, 2006 9:29:57 GMT
For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about here are a couple of links:
forums.tauonline.org/index.php?topic=25117.0 - My Jaeden Commander.
forums.tauonline.org/index.php?topic=25221.0 - Photoshop Montage.
forums.tauonline.org/index.php?topic=22677.0 - List (although it has changed slightly since I wrote this).
This fluff is quite brief, please ask me to fill in any gaps you spot or correct any mistakes you notice. Any other comments are very welcome. Cheers!
Jaeden - The Homeworld
Jaeden was an advanced civilised world. On it are three major continents, two of which were once densely populated (Ascerna & Vollisten). The third and smallest of these landmasses (Kamada) is relatively isolated, with only small outposts surviving in the harsh jungle environment due to formidable predators. There is no government on this continent, save the localised martial law imposed by small-time warlords attempting to further their own agendas. Each of the two larger continents are super-states, living in relative harmony. However, one year the balancing act of keeping the peace became impossible to maintain.
A foreign entity was detected plummeting from space by both country's system monitoring stations shortly after all contact with the planets moon (Akta) was lost.
Initially both countries suspected each other of foul play, but diplomats settled the dispute and each of the countries sent a contingent of troops to Kamada in a joint operation to ascertain what had landed there. Each team was to land on opposite sides of the continent, and then converge on the target in the centre of Kamada. Upon arrival, both teams reported bizarre findings, including wild bursts of foliage growth, discoveries of mutilated wildlife and battle-scarred military outposts. However, these findings did not come as a complete suprise, it was common knowledge that rival regimes often skirmished in the deep of the jungles here, and beyond this neither team was certain of what they should expect to find. However, they were not prepared for what they discovered next...
Two weeks into the operation, Vollisten's team was ambushed and slaughtered. There was little anyone could do, and what was heard over the comm links was hard to decipher. There were tormented screams heard over cries of agony and inane laughter, whilst other shouted nonsense and wailed in grief. The sounds of friendly staccato gunfire set the beat to the terrible playback but there were also weapons of unidentifiable caliber thundering away like field guns. Above the cacophony of sound intense reverberations and high-pitched crescendo's were heard that were of such wavelengths as to be almost inaudible if it were not for their ferocity.
Many of those who listened to the comms as they attack occurred had severe fits and bled through the ears shortly before falling brain-dead. Others were deemed insane for constant uncontrollable laughter or the committing of obscene acts that were completely out of nature.
Vollisten's government demanded an explanation for the massacre, but Ascerna could not provide one. The second team was told to pull out, but Ascerna had no clue that the team never made it back to their drop-ships. The drop-ships however, did head for home.
The small air fleet arrived at one of the major star-ports in the western continent and there took place the bloodiest massacre seen on Jaeden in centuries as a Slaaneshi Greater Daemon led his swift and brutal force into the thousands-strong crowd of civilians at the port. Simultaneously, other captured drop-ships were assaulting all four of the continents coastal communications complexes, preventing Ascerna from calling for reinforcements. within three days only isolated pockets of resistance remained.
Whilst Ascerna's defences were ravaged by Chaos forces Vollisten's satellites were being systematically destroyed by a small chaos fleet that had been using the planets moon to shield them from detection. Without their orbital stations, and with Ascerna's communications network in disarray, there way no way for Vollisten to know what was occurring in Ascerna. Every attempt to land forces on Ascerna's shore was thwarted by unknown aggressors, and there was never any coherent feedback from friendly troops identifying their assailants. Vollisten assumed the worst; Ascerna had instigated a war over whatever it was they had acquired on Kamada. Vollisten's government voted unanimously, they would unleash the fury of their coastal cannons.
Vollistens cannons were apocalyptic, just as the Chaos forces had anticipated. After supressing the resistance in Ascerna they had retreated to the soutern mountain range where they hastily constructed defensive bunkers designed to shelter it's occupants from all but a direct hit from the opposing continents cannons. The population however, remained in their cities, still reeling from the horror of the Chaos onslaught. It was they who suffered. Entire cities were razed to the ground and horizons blazed with fire as the mighty nuclear weapons scoured the earth. Millions died as the firestorms broiled over coastal towns and cities, and tidal waves caused by massive off-shore explosions smashed apart any remaining defences. After just two weeks, only the lucky few, and the distant city dwellers from the opposite side of the continent remained. The scarred city skylines and burnt earth a terrible testament to Vollistens apparent betrayal.
The Chaos plan worked brilliantly. The remaining populace were broken, bitter, vengeful and without government or direction. they soon fell under the sway of the Chaos preachers powerful oratory. Chaos offered them revenge, power, and the ultimate Slaaneshi promise - perfection. Those who resisted, either because they saw through the plan, or through devotion to their own causes, were offered up to Slaanesh.
Ascerna belonged to Chaos, and was now ruled over by the mighty Daemon Prince that led this terrible army - Dhol'Kesh.
Soon Vollisten's guns fell silent, their blackened turrets raised up in a macabre salute, silhouetted against the reddened sky. Vollisten gathered it's forces and awaited Ascerna's inevitable counterstrike. They were woefully unprepared for the scale of the assault; and it came not from the seas, but from above. A half dozen Chaos ships descended on Vollisten, containing almost the entire twisted population of corrupted Ascerna under the rule of the Chaos Undivided forces and a horde of Slaaneshi Marines.
The defense was fierce, millions of well-equipped defenders manned the walls of Vollisten's great desert penal centres, and the formidable walls that connected them over a 400km stretch, but even this was not enough, and within days it was clear that these Daemonic forces and the entire population of Ascerna were going to overrun the defenders and lay waste to the cities beyond. It was clear that there was a powerful far greater than Ascerna's government behind this assault, something purely evil.
There was only one option.
In a final desperate attempt to save themselves Vollisten turned it's nuclear guns on the vast ships that loomed over it's desert and the marauding Chaos forces below. They brought down many of the ships, rending part their hulls with the brutal fury of a cornered animal. But the ships did not break apart as anticipated, they fell from the atmosphere like titanic asteroids, annihilating Daemon, Chaos Marine and Human alike.
As the ships impacted they cracked the planets crust like half-cooled magma, the resulting earthquakes shattering the tectonic plates beneath the desert and bringing entire cities to their knees. Their exploding ammunition and warp drives exploded with the force of a hundred hydrogen bombs, evaporating everything within hundred of kilometers and darkening the sun with dust and ash. When the blasts and eruptions had ceased hours later there was nothing left of the Chaos ground forces. Even the mighty Keeper of Secrets had been reduced to nothing. Only those hundreds of miles away had survived on the continent of Vollisten, and the resulting radiation wiped out many of these over the next few years.
For all intents and purposes, the planet Jaeden was dead.
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More on the aftermath of the war and the re-discovery of Jaeden by the Imperium (which then formed the Jaeden forces) later.
What do you think of what I've done so far? I realise it's not amazingly coherent, but it was written late at night.
Cheers!
- Rezzy
forums.tauonline.org/index.php?topic=25117.0 - My Jaeden Commander.
forums.tauonline.org/index.php?topic=25221.0 - Photoshop Montage.
forums.tauonline.org/index.php?topic=22677.0 - List (although it has changed slightly since I wrote this).
This fluff is quite brief, please ask me to fill in any gaps you spot or correct any mistakes you notice. Any other comments are very welcome. Cheers!
Jaeden - The Homeworld
Jaeden was an advanced civilised world. On it are three major continents, two of which were once densely populated (Ascerna & Vollisten). The third and smallest of these landmasses (Kamada) is relatively isolated, with only small outposts surviving in the harsh jungle environment due to formidable predators. There is no government on this continent, save the localised martial law imposed by small-time warlords attempting to further their own agendas. Each of the two larger continents are super-states, living in relative harmony. However, one year the balancing act of keeping the peace became impossible to maintain.
A foreign entity was detected plummeting from space by both country's system monitoring stations shortly after all contact with the planets moon (Akta) was lost.
Initially both countries suspected each other of foul play, but diplomats settled the dispute and each of the countries sent a contingent of troops to Kamada in a joint operation to ascertain what had landed there. Each team was to land on opposite sides of the continent, and then converge on the target in the centre of Kamada. Upon arrival, both teams reported bizarre findings, including wild bursts of foliage growth, discoveries of mutilated wildlife and battle-scarred military outposts. However, these findings did not come as a complete suprise, it was common knowledge that rival regimes often skirmished in the deep of the jungles here, and beyond this neither team was certain of what they should expect to find. However, they were not prepared for what they discovered next...
Two weeks into the operation, Vollisten's team was ambushed and slaughtered. There was little anyone could do, and what was heard over the comm links was hard to decipher. There were tormented screams heard over cries of agony and inane laughter, whilst other shouted nonsense and wailed in grief. The sounds of friendly staccato gunfire set the beat to the terrible playback but there were also weapons of unidentifiable caliber thundering away like field guns. Above the cacophony of sound intense reverberations and high-pitched crescendo's were heard that were of such wavelengths as to be almost inaudible if it were not for their ferocity.
Many of those who listened to the comms as they attack occurred had severe fits and bled through the ears shortly before falling brain-dead. Others were deemed insane for constant uncontrollable laughter or the committing of obscene acts that were completely out of nature.
Vollisten's government demanded an explanation for the massacre, but Ascerna could not provide one. The second team was told to pull out, but Ascerna had no clue that the team never made it back to their drop-ships. The drop-ships however, did head for home.
The small air fleet arrived at one of the major star-ports in the western continent and there took place the bloodiest massacre seen on Jaeden in centuries as a Slaaneshi Greater Daemon led his swift and brutal force into the thousands-strong crowd of civilians at the port. Simultaneously, other captured drop-ships were assaulting all four of the continents coastal communications complexes, preventing Ascerna from calling for reinforcements. within three days only isolated pockets of resistance remained.
Whilst Ascerna's defences were ravaged by Chaos forces Vollisten's satellites were being systematically destroyed by a small chaos fleet that had been using the planets moon to shield them from detection. Without their orbital stations, and with Ascerna's communications network in disarray, there way no way for Vollisten to know what was occurring in Ascerna. Every attempt to land forces on Ascerna's shore was thwarted by unknown aggressors, and there was never any coherent feedback from friendly troops identifying their assailants. Vollisten assumed the worst; Ascerna had instigated a war over whatever it was they had acquired on Kamada. Vollisten's government voted unanimously, they would unleash the fury of their coastal cannons.
Vollistens cannons were apocalyptic, just as the Chaos forces had anticipated. After supressing the resistance in Ascerna they had retreated to the soutern mountain range where they hastily constructed defensive bunkers designed to shelter it's occupants from all but a direct hit from the opposing continents cannons. The population however, remained in their cities, still reeling from the horror of the Chaos onslaught. It was they who suffered. Entire cities were razed to the ground and horizons blazed with fire as the mighty nuclear weapons scoured the earth. Millions died as the firestorms broiled over coastal towns and cities, and tidal waves caused by massive off-shore explosions smashed apart any remaining defences. After just two weeks, only the lucky few, and the distant city dwellers from the opposite side of the continent remained. The scarred city skylines and burnt earth a terrible testament to Vollistens apparent betrayal.
The Chaos plan worked brilliantly. The remaining populace were broken, bitter, vengeful and without government or direction. they soon fell under the sway of the Chaos preachers powerful oratory. Chaos offered them revenge, power, and the ultimate Slaaneshi promise - perfection. Those who resisted, either because they saw through the plan, or through devotion to their own causes, were offered up to Slaanesh.
Ascerna belonged to Chaos, and was now ruled over by the mighty Daemon Prince that led this terrible army - Dhol'Kesh.
Soon Vollisten's guns fell silent, their blackened turrets raised up in a macabre salute, silhouetted against the reddened sky. Vollisten gathered it's forces and awaited Ascerna's inevitable counterstrike. They were woefully unprepared for the scale of the assault; and it came not from the seas, but from above. A half dozen Chaos ships descended on Vollisten, containing almost the entire twisted population of corrupted Ascerna under the rule of the Chaos Undivided forces and a horde of Slaaneshi Marines.
The defense was fierce, millions of well-equipped defenders manned the walls of Vollisten's great desert penal centres, and the formidable walls that connected them over a 400km stretch, but even this was not enough, and within days it was clear that these Daemonic forces and the entire population of Ascerna were going to overrun the defenders and lay waste to the cities beyond. It was clear that there was a powerful far greater than Ascerna's government behind this assault, something purely evil.
There was only one option.
In a final desperate attempt to save themselves Vollisten turned it's nuclear guns on the vast ships that loomed over it's desert and the marauding Chaos forces below. They brought down many of the ships, rending part their hulls with the brutal fury of a cornered animal. But the ships did not break apart as anticipated, they fell from the atmosphere like titanic asteroids, annihilating Daemon, Chaos Marine and Human alike.
As the ships impacted they cracked the planets crust like half-cooled magma, the resulting earthquakes shattering the tectonic plates beneath the desert and bringing entire cities to their knees. Their exploding ammunition and warp drives exploded with the force of a hundred hydrogen bombs, evaporating everything within hundred of kilometers and darkening the sun with dust and ash. When the blasts and eruptions had ceased hours later there was nothing left of the Chaos ground forces. Even the mighty Keeper of Secrets had been reduced to nothing. Only those hundreds of miles away had survived on the continent of Vollisten, and the resulting radiation wiped out many of these over the next few years.
For all intents and purposes, the planet Jaeden was dead.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
More on the aftermath of the war and the re-discovery of Jaeden by the Imperium (which then formed the Jaeden forces) later.
What do you think of what I've done so far? I realise it's not amazingly coherent, but it was written late at night.
Cheers!
- Rezzy