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Memorex

Datafile: 0110010110111000101101010111
Voxparse: Retrieved Datafragment, Listening Post xFtg56
Date: 12 54 205.M42

. . . . . . . Mary? . . . . . . .
. . . I listen, I listen, I listen. I record. I record. . . .
. . . . This is what I do. I am Servitor 626. So I am called. . .

But Mary, I can’t see you. Are you there? The kids.
I’m so alone. I listen, I listen, I record, I record.

They took me. I remember how hungry we were. The kids. So hungry.
Yes, I stole and was caught. I was wrong. But they were wrong. Servitor
lobotomy. All wrong. I’m not supposed to remember. Am I? Mary?

I am plugged in to the floor, to the machine. I listen.
They let me keep my ears. My eyes.
I can see the rest of my body is gone.
They should have taken my memories.

. . . . Mary? . . . .

Servitor Image by Andrew Davenport / ArtStation

Update: 004077
Date: 12 65 205

The Orks gather at Malo Tori
I remember the name.
Star System. Once mining planets. Planet busting for minerals.
Ork Waagh invaded. I remember.

We know this. We monitor.

Orks planet bust now, sending asteroids towards Purgatory. Towards the
Imperium and our Emperor. Towards you.

I hear the transmissions. I record. I listen.

The Orks grow. Zagstompa Waagh will swallow the galaxy. No one cares. This is
just data.

Update: 006012

. . . Mary? . . . I don’t remember what the kids look like.
How long have I ? . . . .

Update: 006012

There’s someone in the room with the Servitors.
I hear “Inquisition.”
Just them and the servitors.
They are terrified. Not the servitors. My Emperor, your most devote are terrified.
For the first time, I listen to the room, not to the transmissions.

“Two years, they disappear and then all of a sudden this is where Tiamat shows.”
“The Emperor protects.”
“There is no emperor out here, thrall. Let me think!”
“I don’t understand your agitation master. You said the Ork Waagh was
building. Let them fight.”
“Idiot. This is the very mistake Kryptmann made. Think, thrall, what does the
Tyranid do to grow stronger?”
“Consume.”
“Correct”, and what does the Ork do to grow stronger?”
“Fight.”
“Correct. All we do is buy ourselves time here. The tyranid will consume and
grow. The Orks will fight and grow. All while we continue to circle the drain.”
. . . . .
“So what do we do? Will you alert the Warmaster?”
“No, I have other plans for now. Torch this room, we’ll blow the station.
Nothing leaves, understand?”
“Yes Master.”

. . .. Mary. . . .
Not much time.
I don’t listen anymore. I transmit. Can I do that? I try.
My torment as at an end. So many centuries.
. . . Tell the kids. . . .
. . . I see fire. The room. . . .
. . . They should have taken my memories. They shouldn’t have left me. . . .

War Goals — Tyranid Hive Fleet Tiamat

When last year’s campaign ended, the planet Caluphel fragmented releasing the Chaos God Malice back into the Galaxy. The final apocalyptic battle also saw the arrival of the Hive Fleet Tiamat from the far eastern fringes. During the battle, a new, frightening Hive Queen was also released from her confines within Caluphel, thereafter vanishing along with the fleet.

Two years later, tendrils of the Hive Fleet are starting to appear in isolated regions of the sector. However, the bulk of the Fleet has arrived at the Zagstompa Waaagh! area of the Erigaea Sub-Sector. An obvious goal for Tiamat is to grow and consume biomass.

Where else but a Waaagh! for an overabundance of growing biomass (much to the delight of the Orks)?

However, one has to assume that the Hive Mind has a larger plans… including those whispered by Malice into the ear of the Hive Queen over the
past millennia.

Here we go … our 2019 summer Warhammer 40,000 campaign kicked off this month! Caluphel: Eternal War returns the players to the ill-fated sector in the Easter Fringe.

When we last visited, way back in 2018, it was revealed that the planet Caluphel Prime was actually an artificial prison constructed eons ago to imprison the Chaos god Malice. A massive Chaos incursion led by the Death Guard aimed to breach the prison and release Malice into the sector. The followers of Nurgle were assisted by the arrival of a Tyranid hive fleet, which ultimately swung the campaign in favor of the bad guys and sent the Imperium reeling in defeat. And that’s where we left things in 2018.

Now, it seems that twilight has fallen across the myriad sub-sectors that make up the Caluphel Sector…

Official transcript of Sheldo Marcus
Remembrancer for the Conflict in the Caluphel Sector
017.114.M42

Despite the furious conflict for the doomed world of Caluphel Prime in the latter part of 112.M42 and the subsequent retreat of Warmaster Jedhansen, Imperial forces were able to hold what little ground they had within the sector. From the Erigaea and Occulta Manticora Sub-Sectors, they were able to fend off the unending tides of Orks, incursions from Traitor Astartes, and tendrils of Hive Fleet Tiamat.

To the north, they had allies in the from of the Sister of Battle Order of Our Lady Ascendant, and foes in the shape of the Maggot Magnates Death Guard vectorium. Throughout the rest of the Caluphel Sector, scattered Imperial forces slowly made their way back to Imperial space or were surrounded and either destroyed or locked into position. To the far east, in the Juventius Sub-Sector, Jedhansen saw no allies as bloody civil war tore apart the region, while the tendrils of Hive Fleet Tiamat drew ever closer.

Jedhansen’s war of bloody attrition was waged with numerous regiments of the Astra Militarum, forces of the Militarum Tempestus Scions and several chapters of Adeptus Astartes, along with auxiliary units from the Adeptus Sororitas. For two years he held the sector with those forces — just barely, but he held. Planets would be lost and regained in a matter of months, only to be lost once more. And then, as if by an act of the merciful God-Emperor himself, the Tyranids slowly withdrew. Not from the sector, but from the front line, freeing Jedhansen to slowly push back his other foes.

During the whole ordeal, rumors began to spread through the ranks of the Astra Militarum (punishable by death, mind you) of a new blasphemous power that had been unleashed into the sector with the destruction of the planet Caluphel Prime.

Now, the seeming withdrawal of the Tyranids gave competent officers a new worry. The Tyranids were now observed actively patrolling the inner sector around the husk of old Caluphel…as if they knew something the Imperium didn’t, as if they were searching for something. Stranger still, around the very time of the Tyranids’ withdrawal, a psychic scream was heard throughout the sector, killing half of all human astropaths in mere seconds.

Nevertheless, Warmaster Jedhanson saw an opportunity to regain momentum and free Imperial forces trapped throughout the sector. Little did he know there were now more eyes than ever watching the Caluphel sector. Even the Imperial Palace turned its gaze on the war-ravaged sector. It was time for unseen plans and unnoticed forces to enter the fray.

And here we go with our summer 2019 campaign! The Caluphel Sector was absolutely ravaged at the conclusion of last year’s campaign, so it will be interesting to see how the players shape the narrative this time around.

As before, we’ll give out points each month through the summer for doing things like playing games, painting models, developing backstories, and writing lore. Alex, our fearless GM, has also introduced the concept of custom units and characters, so we’ll be exploring that as well. Check out out his campaign flowchart below!