Event: Azunth's apocalypse

Azunth the eccentric overlord of the Nihilakh dynasty attempted to take over the planet of Redacted. After many months of preparation and threats, he finally delivered on his threats and made them a reality. Using the peak of Necron technology he swiftly took over the planet, but a failling of his technology created a moment of weakness, which was used to stop Azunth's takeover and to take his life.

## Preparation and planning

Azunth's plan was to use the blackstone pylons he had been secretly planting all over redacted to block the warp, preventing any and all psyker powers from being used. Additionally, he used a powerful Necron gauntlet dubbed "Guns of the Necrontyr" to manipulate all technology on the planet. By controlling both factors, nobody would have the strength needed to stand up to Azunth and his forces, thereby taking over the planet as swiftly as possible.

The gauntlet needed in order to succeed in the planetary takeover of Redacted had to be brought in by ship. The gauntlet could not be brought in by portal, as it would corrupt and degrade the portal upon entering, causing it to malfunction. Azunth wanted to bring the gauntlet in using the smallest and stealthiest ship he had, in order to prevent detection from the rest of the planet.

Unfortunately the vessel in which the gauntlet was transported was noticed and picked up by a rogue trader purely by coïncidence, who later landed on Redacted unbeknownst to anyone while Penguin launched operation regicide. Azunth then contacted someone of the Alpha legion in order to ensure the ship and its crew was disposed of stealthily.

## Planetary takeover

Having obtained all the pieces he needed, Azunth launched his plan for planetary domination. He started off his invasion with a message broadcasted to all important leaders of Redacted, telling them to surrender or suffer the consequences. He then launched his armies, and assaulted every major area of Redacted while he personally went to the Underbright.

He rode to the center of the Underbright on his ghost ark while accompanied by several others. He met lord commander Katherine and started taunting her, telling her personally that she should surrender to him. Growing agitated by his remarks, Katherine ordered her soldiers to fire upon Azunth, who in return activated the pylons and Guns of the Necrontyr. Within an instance he took away all forms of weaponry from the planet of Redacted, and claimed the planet as his own soon after.

## Counter attack

Having realised what he had helped done, the Alpha legionnaire sought to correct his mistake by taking Azunth down. He lied in wait and waited for Azunth to be vulnerable, keeping track of his location at all times. He tailed Azunth's movements at all times and watched him bring his fortress known as the "reversed tomb" to the planet. He was the first to notice that the pylons and gauntlet of Azunth had stopped working, and notified the rest of the planet soon after.

Azunth was enraged at the legionnaire for noticing his slip up. He considered holing up in his fortress and closing the doors so that nobody could get in while fixing his gauntlet, but soon changed his mind after realising the cowardice of that action. He opened the doors to his fortress, seeing it as both a test to the people of Redacted and himself. Fortunately for Redacted, he only had a handful of guards in his reversed tomb after spreading the rest of his army out over the planet.

## First floor

The first attack started with Mortiary, Kovash, Rustfur, Bloodfang, Rat-ogre, Governor Penguin, and Osscarh charging the defending Necrons.

Moriarty came under assault by a myriad of destroyers, using an explosive and his canesword to to take care of an ophydian destroyer right as it was about to maul him. And swiftly disposing of a lokhust heavy destroyer with the same sword.

Kovash came under assault by a ghost ark's rapid fire. He teleported unto the vessel but he got shook off alongside the warriors on board after the ark started spinning. The warriors aim at him and attempt to fire but get taken out by the possessed T'au before they can. A herd of flayed ones charge towards Kovash but get taken out by him after he picked up a gauss flayer from one of the fallen Necrons. A lokhust heavy destroyer drops his enmitic destroyer which Kovash uses to take care of both the destroyer and the flayed ones. But in a final act of spite, the remains of the destroyer crash into Kovash with the force of a moving truck.

Rustfur, Bloodfang and the Rat-ogre get ambushed by a canoptek spyder and 5 necron scarabs hiding in a trenchcoat. They swiftly dispose of the Spyder and trenchcoated scarabs, but quickly get swarmed by more scarabs hiding in trenchcoats. They dispose of the herd of trenchcoated scarabs and expose the spyder who was making them. With a blast of the Ogre's plasma cannon the spyder is destroyed, and the trenchcoated scarabs stop being produced.

Governor Penguin encountered the first member of Azunth's elite unit, Mistral. The female cryptek Mistral started the battle by sending a wave of scarabs towards Penguin who responded with mockery. He disposed of the scarabs and Mistral entered close combat. Mistral launched a whirlwind of attacks which was promptly blocked by Penguin, who then continued to question her relationship with Azunth. She ambushed him with scarabs but Penguin countered by paralysing her and her scarabs. Mistral further struggled and attempted to kill Penguin, but he struggles were in vain and she was crushed by Penguin.

Osscarh was ambushed by an unseen force, and was almost cut in half by a chainsword attached to a tail but blocked the sword with his wraithbone rapier. encountered another member of Azunth's elite unit, Bladewraith. Bladewraith introduced himself as a canoptek wraith given higher intellect and sentience whose memory will be wiped if he fails to kill Osscarh. Osscarh tries to teleport to Bladewraith and stun him, but Bladewraith phases through it and pounces Osscarh. Osscarh responded by firing at him but Bladewraith endured and whipped his tail at Osscarh as a pincer attack. Osscarh once again evaded his attacks by jumping over him and morphed his sword into a spear to cut off the wraith's tail. This caused him to lash out in pain and made him do his final flurry of attacks. Making use of his phasing, he phased through all of Osscarh's attacks while assaulting him with his claws. Bladewraith couldn't keep up the constant flurry of attacks while phasing for long. Noticing that his phasing has started to give up on him, Osscarh used his "Super Ynnead Kamikaze attack" to blow Bladewraith up with the force of a melta grenade.

With Azunth's guard having been defeated, the attackers continued on to the second stage.

## Second floor

The Second attack contained Kovash, The three rats, Moriarty, Rook and his Britannic elite soldiers, Julian, Felix, Osscarh, Bluescale grenadiers, Nadvar and his guard, Penguin carrying Mistral's corpse, Jack and Ma'lum.

Ma'lum and his forces stayed stuck at the entrance, fighting off a large host of tombblades with his kabal of chaos.

Jack entered the tomb extremely intoxicated and began smashing Necrons to pieces and biting off their necks. A local Necron warrior who was witnessing this gained sentience and threw his gun on the ground, and engaged in melee combat. Jack came in swinging with a broken bottle of booze, and the warrior reacted by swinging with a bottle of wine. Jack attempted to bite the warrior's neck off, but his neck was too strong and he responded with an uppercut. Jack tried to counter the warrior with a rock she pulled out of her pocket but the necron warrior pulverised the rock by headbutting it. The battle eventually ended after Jack managed to bring her elbow down on the warrior's neck, crushing it entirely.

Julian encountered the ghost ark Kovash fought before, flying towards him while firing from his gauss flayer array. Julian responds with heavy plasma fire, destroying the ghost ark but not before deploying the 6 skorpekh destroyers it was carrying. Julian fires from his combi-plasma and finishes off the destroyers who got in melee with his power sword and heavy bolt pistol. Julian is immediately surrounded by cryptothralls who attempt to encircle him and dispose of him with their scouring eye. His bolter fire disposes of half of them and the other half either misses or fails to penetrate his armor. Disposing of the cryptothralls, he is met by a triarch stalker who attempts to incinerate Julian with its heat ray. Julian dodges and tries to take it down with supercharged plasma, but the hull of the stalker was too strong. The triarch stalker attempted to impale Julian with its heavy legs, but Julian dodges once again and cuts off the leg, imbalancing the stalker. The stalker backs up and tries to fire with its heat ray again, Julian tries to shoot the heat ray down with his bolter but he misses and hits the drivers instead. The stalker then falls down on Julian, crushing his arm.

Felix comes in with a squad of Bladeguard and Terminators, coming to Julian's aid. Unfortunately he always comes a second too late as the danger is already disposed of before he arrives. The two discuss the situation and exchange pleasantries. Felix helps Julian from underneath the stalker, and the two continue talking.

Penguin comes in carrying Mistrals corpse and is met by an angry Necron lord who fires his staff of light at him. Penguin and the Necron lord enter melee combat. Holding Mistral's corpse while they fought, the Necron lord found it difficult to attack him as he did not want to hurt his ally, making it easy for Penguin to combat the lord. The Necron lord tried to knock Mistral's corpse out of his hands, but to no avail. The Necron lord grabbed Penguin by the hand and headbutted him, Penguin resisted it and stabbed the lord with a vibroknife. The blade didn't stab deep enough and the lord raised his staff to try and bash in Penguin's skull. Penguin reached to grab the staff but his grip was too strong to take it from him, he did managed to weaken his hold over the weapon, softening the blow to his head. Penguin then kicked the necron lord in the cpu, causing him to freeze up and ask Penguin if he wanted to buy winrar, thus ending the fight.

Nadvar and his guard get attacked by a squad of preatorians upon entering the tomb. The preatorians, despite being quick and skilled enough to keep track off the eldar, quickly get overwhelmed by their superior numbers, along with Nadvar's power. They get ambushed by squad of deathmarks, although after firing once they quickly leave upon the entry of their boss. The preatorian Monsoon of the winds of destruction entered and blasted one of Nadvar's guard with his rod of covenant. Nadvar fired his scorching rays at Monsoon, but Monsoon evaded by magnetically detaching his limbs and floating out of the way, although getting hit by 2 of them. He gets within melee range and fires from his rod of covenant, Nadvar walks out of the way again and fires more scorching rays at him. Monsoon evades and throws down a smoke grenade, however Nadvar is capable of seeing right through the smoke and shoots him with his revolver. Monsoon endures once more and gets within melee range to shoot from his rod once more. Nadvar jumps out of the way and strikes at Monsoon's floating skull, at the time Monsoon's rod of covenant flies right into Nadvar's head, causing him to recoil before trying to split his head open again. Monsoon's head flies away and his fists come in to punch Nadvar. He dashes back and before Monsoon had a chance to react Nadvar slices his chest, causing disabling his ability to fly around and killing him.

A squad of bluescale grenadiers come in to aid the struggle against Azunth. A hexmark destroyer comes and fires his 6 guns at them. They hide behind cover and return fire with plasma weapons. Before his corpse even falls to the ground, a group of deathmarks exist hyperspace and begin firing at the bluescales. The bluescales call in the support of a kobold in a mech suit and begin to head towards the deathmarks while under the kobold's cover. The deathmarks shred through the kobold mech but by the time its limbs stopped working the bluescales were in range. They fire from their hellguns and destroy the deathmarks. Right as the deathmarks die, 3 wraiths show up to ruin their days. The grenadiers fall back from where they came and provide surpressing fire upon them. The wraiths however are very sturdy and keep moving forward while firing from their particle casters. The bluescales engage in melee, using their small size to their advantage and comparatively light weight to their advantage. Although the wraiths had an immense advantage over them, the bluescales managed to slip away from them and live to die another day.

Rook and the brittanic elite soldiers entered the second floor. A squad of immortals hiding behind cover fire at the soldiers to hold back their advance. The elite squad, captain and Rook hide behind cover and return heavy fire. Firing at the immortals with boltgun, plasma and a frag grenade. The immortals hold their ground however and sync their aim to destroy their cover. Having their cover destroyed the soldiers begin to back away while still returning heavy fire. The immortals have a tough time keeping up, but continue to hold their ground while an annihilation barge arrives as heavy support. The barge fires its twin tesla destructors and annihilates 3 of the elite soldiers. Three of the remaining 6 fire at the annihilation barge with overcharged plasma. Two of the plasma guns blow up and kill the soldiers using them, but manage to fire right before being destroyed. the third soldier's plasma gun luckily did not explode. One of other soldiers threw a krak grenade at the annihilation barge, while the remaining two continue their down pour of plasma fire upon the remaining deathmarks that recently entered the battle. The annihilation barge manages to live through its heavy damage and fires again. The deathmarks however couldn't manage to predict and evade the plasma fire, perishing while trying to escape. The barge manages to erase another brittanic soldier. The remaining three soldiers got out of their cover and fired their plasma at the barge, as the captain charged forth, attempting to swing at the barge with her plasma sword. Rook too got out of cover, switching from anti-phasic rounds to the few scorpius rounds he brought with him, and fired them at the annihilation barge. Unable to sustain such heavy fire, the barge perishes and explodes before the captain reaches it. A squad of lychguard appeared soon after to take care of the remaining soldiers. The captain, sad she didn’t get to engage in glorious melee combat with the barge, turns to the lych guard, happy to find new opponents. She refrains from charging them out of good conscience, and instead fires at them her bolt pistol while holding her power sword in her right hand, ready to swing at the lychguard as soon as they come into range. The last three temptus scions fire upon the lych guard with their plasma. Rook fires at the lych guard with his bolt rifle, while also circling them as to either flank them or draw their attention. The lychguard however were too tough, and easily endured their fire with their dispersion shields, moving forward while ignoring the encirclement. The captain stabs at the now in range lychguard with her power sword, although cunningly keeping them away while backing off ever so slightly, seemingly grinning underneath her helmet. The other three begin to actually use the vox implemented in the helmet and talk with to their captain. The soldier Russman asks her what the hell she is doing, Mariton agreeing with him. The captain Misty responds by saying she's having the time of her life. Russman attempts to tell her off but Samuel tells him to let her do what she wants, as he has a plan in mind. Samuel overcharged his plasma and kicks it over to the lychguard, trying to catch them in the explosion. The other soldiers stopped firing have stopped firing, as to not risk having their shot’s bounce off their shield. Meanwhile Rook has now circled the lychguard, and fires a vengeance round at the back of their heads. The overcharged plasma along with Rook's encirclement damage the lychguard causing them to be unable to continue fighting. They attempt to heal their bodies but the captain finishes off the lychguard lying on the ground. The three soldiers chat a while as they walk off.