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KILL TEAM 1, PLANET VANITY, CELLEBOS SUB SECTOR, JERICHO REACH

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Strike team Daarmal Hes'taan, Techmarine of the Salamanders and Donas Etherio, Tactical Marine of the Blood Angels, have been selected for this mission from their respective squads due to their specialized skill sets. Additional support may be provided as tactical information is relayed and mission assessment is updated.

MISSION DETAILS

Reports of increased and disruptive Xenos activity has been received from our Rogue Traders. Apparently, something has clawed its way up from the nuclear wasteland that is Vanity and is mobilizing forces. Your mission is a bug hunt. Objective one: report Xenos strengths and force, as well as tactical information on whatever organization they have. Objective two: kill whatever Xenos Leader has risen and bring back genetic material for analysis. Mission leader is Donas Etherio.

For the Glory of the Imperium!

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The two Space Marines assembled on the Thunderhawk feel the familiar touchdown as the craft makes it to the surface. The doors open and the servitor pilot states mechanically over the vox, "Destination reached. Craft will return to orbit in 5 minutes. Signal when ready for exfiltration. Debark now."

Actions, Donas and Daarmal ?

The radiation levels of the planet seem to be interfering with the Imperial Records download.

The landscape is bleak. Your sensors detect nothing along your journey. The lack of ambient noise is in itself disturbing. Without incident, you reach the outskirts of the town.

From this vantage, you can tell that this city received a direct hit from a thermonuclear device, as the central portion of the city has been completely erased. Several taller buildings are within a short walking distance. You also see various access points leading downwards, most likely towards some sort of subterranian transport system.

Action, Donas?

You center yourself and looks around your environs, searching for guidance in the region you find yourself in. Most planets you visited have been ravaged by war, but the method of planetary destruction is usually brute force or viral in origin. Radioactive wastelands like this planet has been reduced to are rarer in the great scheme of the Emperor's Grand Design. Familiar blast patterns dot the landscape, as well as regions fused to sheer glass. As you climb a crag, you see, in the distance, the remains of a large city beckoning. A ruined city may make at least a base of operations...for you, or others...

Action, Donas?

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Welcome to the Deathwatch, Kill Marine. Time to prove your worth.
Your first mission is a bug hunt. The Davros has transported you to Vanity in the Cellebos War Zone. We have reports of a mutant creature rising from the atomic ash of this planet. Find it and kill it. If there is any genetics left after dispatch, return the biomatter to Command. Good Hunting.
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