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EXECUTION HOUR
A battle based on Gordon Rennie’s novel ‘Execution Hour’
by TIM DRISCOLE
“SOMEWHERE FAR OUT on the fringes of the Belatis system, something vast and terrible
ripped its way out of warp space and back into the realm of the real universe.
Following in its wake, dragged through the breach in the fabric of reality by the pull of
the object’s massive warp drive field were numerous smaller vessels, some of them
formidable weapons of war in their own right, but none of them as terrible and
powerful as the object they clustered around. This far out-system, it would take many
light-minutes for the energy of the object’s unique and massive warp-burst signature
The current situation is this. The of In one of these pockets is Imperial Navy
Belatis is doomed, its execution hour has been Captain Leoten Semper, commander of the
set and Abaddon the Despoiler’s Killer Macharius. He was on a mission to the surface
fleet are en route through the Warp. The when his shuttle was hit and crashed. The crew
Imperium have no hope of defending the of the Macharius, now under mand of
, so are hastily abandoning it. First Officer Ulanti, believe their Captain is
dead, until the ship’s astropath receives a
The Imperial Navy have constructed an
message from the surface using Semper’s
evacuation fleet to rescue important p