Game 1: Vore Syndicate close in on Scydriel

**Prologue Transition Narrative:**
Scydriel and the Governor were both surprised and horrified to see that the Jade Serpent's brought not one, not two, but three Shadowsword super heavy tanks in their last ditch attempt to steal the corrupt governor's personal void yacht and flee the incoming and surrounding dark void by stealing and escaping in it!

A whole company of the governor's praetorian plasma airmobile Valkyrie tempestus regiment, who were eventually swarmed and lost along with some of their characters to the gsc attack, destroyed the first shadowsword that fired at but failed to down the valkyries, and were then immediately horrified to see another shadowsword coming up behind the wreck of the first one!

As the praetorians got cut down, they destroyed the second shadowsword in the gsc column, and the Callidus phasesword cut down what she thought was the progenitor, but turned out just to be a psychic projection, and then almost got him a second time, but he escaped into the tunnels again as usual

The Jungle King has still never been killed in any of his games, despite acting suicidally heroically brave in all his games, and being in what looked like some tight spots...the best being when both squads that had accompanied him in his flank's unit battlegroup were killed by shooting and then melee from Scott's always-in -cover so 2+ armor save beatiful Tyranid Warrriors, but the Jungle King was spared by the emperor's grace.

The reserve unit rallied "To the King!" and then he and father barbatios, the wild haired ministorum priest, each gave the Jungle Fighter Catachan infantry models an extra attack, some they're each putting out 4 S4 attacks at WS4+,
And they cut through all of what started at a 9 model Tyranid Warrior squad!, against whom, incoming attacks were almost always -1 S because of a maleceptors? aura

The Governor's Space Ship was saved, that bastard! The Jungle King was exalted and sure that Destiny and the Emperor were on his side!
It was clear to his long honed instincts about people, from being hereditary King of the semi-feral jungle deathworld, that the Governor's Castellan was both the brains AND the muscle of her partnership with the Governor.

One thing the Jungle King did not understand was the fate of the corrupt governor, who could have been the one of them that delivered the deathblow to the second shadowsword with his powerfist, after it rolled into and over his plasma praetorian formation, and it looked to the governor (the jungle king had seen it on the governor's horrified pale face) like they were all about to die.

The second shadowswords guns never stopped firing, blasting away chimeras per turn, and winging but failing to down both of the always -1 to be hit electronic countermeasure (for -1CP) -equipped Valkyries!
The superheavy tank made some tread attacks, which killed the last of the jungle fighters in the squad around the governor, and then very improbably failed to wound the governor, whose best-money-could-buy refractor field belt, for the 4+ invlun and for 5 extra points (normally his platoon-commander unit profile has a 5++ invuln), managed to save one of the two wounding attacks, so that he only took 2 damage from the one adamantium tread superheavy tank melee attack that wounded him.

Sure he was going to die, the Governor somehow didn't. He couldn't exactly remember what had happened, but maybe the emperor had saved him? The watching-Jungle King saw and decided he would make sure that the corrupt governor knew and was sure that it was he, the Jungle King, who had saved the governor from the second shadowsword SH tank!

He thought about trying to make that entrancingly impossibly succesful and appealing Facilitatrix-turned-Castellan general of the governor's forces His Wife!
If he played his cards right, maybe she could rule this system with him when the dust settles from the now-visible coming Imperium Victory.

The Jungle King fantasized and imagined that he could make glorious and unstoppable Scydriel his third wife. He was sure that the deal with his two current wives could be sealed and agreed with the condition that Sydriel not spend too much time in system, or on Astheneia, and not often come to visit him after this is all over. He figured the Castellan would LOVE to take his proposal and change up the from weak man who she currently maniplutes, for him!, the much more stronger man who could hold and rule the Astheneia System!

The Jungle King was pleased he had distinguished himself and his men, as one of the only forces that could be relied upon and resist destruction during the long-retreating middle phase of the imperium war. He imagined that the ones he would really need to convince to leave him in charge after all the dust settles will be two Inquistors, Coteaz and the Saskia Ardens. The Jungle King was never, and is so far still not, aware that the Castellan Scydriel is actually a Callidus Assassin, though she's clearly a great hero of the Imperium, kind of like the retired rogue trader who served and serves the corrupt governor, and now Scydriel.

What a fantastic couple they would be! Together they would rule the Astheneia System as Imperium Governors, with the mandate of his current feudal vassalship to the Emperor expanded to include not just the Jungle Deathworld, but heritary King of the whole system! He must convince the inquisitors of his mandate and control, and emphasize how clearly the Emperor favors him and his men as they serve the Imperium Alliance.....maybe then he could be left in charge?! With Scydriel's help maybe! He wasn't averse to letting her run the show a bit.... she was clearly good at it, given how effectively and unstoppably she had served the Governor and Emperor during the war.

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