One day war, meeting someone

At dawn, a Messenger from the imperium arrived at the Commonwealth of Technology institute and met one of the scientist that waiting to give his answer.

He noticed along his path towards the institute is filled with synths and every building, his helmet detecter is pinging nonstop of enemies that is hidden in his journey.

He found several gun emplacements that was dragged from some rusted military base and he scoff of the fact, that these were the enemies that puffed themselves to be the threat against the imperium? Hah, even Tau echelon regiment is more than enough to kill them...

The Astartes nearby didn't even bother to put up a fight as they continue to assimilate Boston under the imperium banner. Leaving the section of the city control by the institute unattended.

He arrived at the former institute of technology where there is another gen 3 synth waiting for him.

"Are you willing to hand the people that attempt to kill our High lord?" The messenger asked

The scientist gave a arrogant look and simply answered.

"We will never surrender our own, the institute will win." He gave a mocking look as he gave a signal for the nearby synth snipers to snipe the messenger.

The messenger smiled.

"Killing the messenger is added to your list of crimes." The messenger teleported before the bullets reach to where he stood.

The war against the Institute began upon that shot.

Countless of settlements under attacked by disguised synths. Caravans destroyed on the route to Boston...

Klaxon horns sounded across the Boston... Making the locals fearful of their Iives.

And the enitre section of the block that lead to the institute was cordon off from the locals. And those that lived there were evacuated.

"What is happening!?" Said a woman that is fearful as she is being dragged out of her home. She was one of many that is evicted from their homes

"War, Come with me if you want to live, unless you wished to die here." The soldiers bearing the aquila spoke.

Thunderous sounds in the horizons rumbling in the distance and smoke that flew up the skies making a curtain of smoke made the soldier kept their pace up...

The hired mercenaries and their security turned commanders that control the synths watch nervously of their enemies in the alleyways and the streets of the enemies that is coming towards them. They had flash training of the enemies like the Sino-America war in Alaska from the training pods... But somehow they felt that wasn't even enough... So they tried a best method they currently possessed.

Guerilla warfare.

They could not handle the massive armies of the imperium, they hoped to exhaust the manpower of the imperials through attrition warfare.

Circuits whirrled and guns clicked as the institute soldiers hidden themselves in every building along the way, even the sewer leading towards the institute is laced with booby traps and gun emplacements.

Drones that is a size of a plate hover the skies...

But never did they realized of what's coming for them...

Several mercenary companies joined the fight against the Imperium as the cash was enticing enough for them to forget the fear of the Imperial wrath... Many of the veterans mercenaries shooked their head at the brash and greenhorn mercenaries and refused of the offer as they take their services elsewhere.

As they heard the rumblings they thought it was a ritual to spook the tribes in the west to collapse morale.

"What are these war drums? Did they made that many to scare us?" One of the mercenaries mocked

"We are not afraid!" Another cackle

A shell landed where they hidden and engulfed their squad very lives.

It was a extensive artillery barrage, where several Basilisk and Medusa Companies worth of shells landed in the institute defense lines. High explosive, Plasma, even Neutron shells launch into the institute vicinity. Even a Missles of various sizes tossed freely as replicators copied and spat out the same missile over and over again.

Since they believed that imperium is correlation to superstition empire that is from the books, they bunkered down in hopes to meet them in the shadows of the intact Boston.

The entire landscape was covered in fire...

Buildings collapsing by the sheer volumes of the shells destroying whatever was the inside of the buildings and the direction it fallen.

After a section of Boston burnt down. The Defenders met a different kind of enemy...

"Johnny, Get yourself up! We are retreating to the next defensive position! We ain't getting paid for lying on the ground." His commander yelled at the shell shock man. The man unresponsive to the amount of debris and shrapnel that rained down on his squad. He raided several settlements for technological pieces on the behalf of the institute as a mercenary, he face people .. Now he got the feeling that some of these shells were cursed by the dead...

"What we are facing Lewis..." He spoke blankly.

Another rumbling occured , somewhere closer to them. The cracked roads trembling by the sheer force that headed towards them.

<|Threat Identified: Eliminating Traitors of Humanity from America!|> A Monotone voice echoed beneath the sounds of overwhelmed tremors and a bright light envelope the mercenaries.

A team of metal robots was in a baseball pitch position when it clarified when the mercenaries were eliminated by nuclear fire.

<|Threat eliminated: proceeding to liberate Humanity. Liberty Squad Alpha Moving out!|> The machines spoke in unison as they marched in a line tossing nuclear bombs along the way.

They were a replica of Liberty prime, or more like its spiritual successors. They lobbed nuclear bombs that is shaped like a American football.

And only a hundred is produced for field testing for PDF titans usage.

If the artillery shower and its collateral damage didn't killed off the synths that is on the surface, the Liberty primes will make sure of it. Every inch is covered by minute radiation causing the mercenaries and securities teams alike to die immediately. As they made their way to the institute. A behemoths group that the institute unleashed in a panic rushed towards the Liberty Squad.

<|Threat Exceeding Parameters: Activating Chain Blades. Chances of success 100|>

The Liberty primes got their Chainblades that is the size of a 7 foot building, activating the weapons that came to life with a roar that Taunted the beasts.

The behemoths taunted by the chainblade activation went into a frenzy and lumbering towards the mechs. And they met with a Claymore Chainblade to their skulls.

And the Liberty primes moved in unison as they cleaved their way through the behemoth crowd.

In the wake of their destruction, the Imperial guard followed behind them a few kilometers in power armor due to the intensive radiation that litter the place. Killing off any stranglers that had the dumb idea to fight against the imperium and setting up a checkpoint to gatekeep the scientist from fleeing.

Alexander watched in a field command station of what is happening in the situation in a Holo table that shows every situation in realtime.

Alexander cared for the troops more than some city of a bygone era... It could be rebuilt better but the people that followed him dies, they die for real.

The system gave the living and the dead for Alexander to follow, but if they died, they can't be recruited back in the system...

He could conquer the world as easily as he could, but he could never control their hearts... He was a human so he understood the fickle nature of humans want and needs first hand. In a desolate world like this, chaos is enough to bring them a dose of euphoria to shield them from the harsh reality... Whispers of power, wealth and lovers as the dark gods use them to ship their cursed beliefs beyond this place. He could be another cheap knockoff of the imperium... Bringing misery and madness in his ranks to keep chaos at bay, but he willing to give the locals a chance to spread their wings...

He understood the plight of the manufactorum workers in a forge world that forced them to worked 19 hours in Terran time, he understood the family plight of Taxes and misdirected beliefs...

He understood of a parent that lost their child in a biased family court...

While the primarchs were genecrafted for perfection of humanity zenith... To be the shining example of what humans could achieve... He was a human forcibly turned primarch to provide a insight of what is the lower strata of humanity and their plight. Every laws and taxes is kept simple that even a gretchin could understand and no loopholes were included. He is not Roboute that makes a Empire of Five hundred worlds, but a Man that have priority and burden that would have crushed Roboute... But he had what it takes to keep it working and implement it... Even now as he walked with some locals companions to see the situation on the ground. He hopes to see the perspective of the people that lived in this earth.

His technologies is beyond what the locals could understand or even hoped to replicate... But he took the hardest road of assimilate the people to the Imperial future...

Better to be a Emperor that cared for the people than some politicians that democratically voted into power that will gaslight with false promises, divert the issues for the next four years.

He watched as a nuclear football eradicated a synth holdout and closed his eyes.

He wanted to have a decent relationship with the institute...

He already got Big Mountain under his banner and wanted for the institute to go peacefully....

Their stubbornness of thinking that the world is a utopia by using their methods...

Killing settlement that joined his banner.

And the attempt for them to replicate him as a synth... Is his final line..

Of the reports given by Madison Li... Almost a third of the institute wanted to defy the imperium... A fence sitters force to vote for the war... And Father, director in the institute is in stasis... Unable to direct their purpose.

He already gave a kill order to those that wanted war and set the rest to apprehended...

"War Never changes... Is that the lines spoken across the dimensions?" Alexander ponder at the fact that the fight never ends and peace is just a lie for the next apocalypse... He felt the warp stirring in this place and chaos gods felt a fresh food of souls in abundance....

He have to find his body parts then claim this Universe for the God Emperor... Only then would this would be cleansed from infestation from chaos.

"High Lord, We have already breached the last defenses of the institute with one of the Liberty Squads, now installing the Anti Teleportation grid." One of the officers spoke put as the war came to a ironic ending.

"Alright, arrange a transport to the institute and have a radiation suit for my companion." Alexander spoke. Many resumed their task as they commence the final stages of the capitulation of the institute.

Piper was outside of the field command center and she heard a brief discussion of the situation, she saw a different look of the man that that saved her in good neighbor...

Cold... That is his look as several of his soldiers assisted her to a armoury to dress up in a radiation power armor.

She asked one of the personnel about their thoughts about him.

"Excuse me, what is the High lord does for the imperium?" She asked a female officer that helped her in a radiation suit.

"He is the emissary of the God Emperor of mankind that watches us dear."

"I want a logical truth... I heard about the religious text about him... What is he? A Man or a God?"

"What is up to the person interpretation, Many have expectations for him, some called him a god because they found their faith lacking, many saw him as a man that brought civilization from this nuclear wasteland. He often hated of being worship as a god... But when you met a man that brought back civilization to the wasteland and brought us to the stars... Can you blame them?"

"Is that why he always wear that ranger uniform?"

"I put this in his perspective, if he wears golden armor and a flaming sword, brought a group of people living in destitute shithole that is plague by raiders and monsters to be the richest people on earth... Would they not worship him as a god?" The officer answer patiently.

"Wait he did that? Wearing that look?"

"It's in the imperial archives dear, and we don't lie about our heritage."

"What's your story?"

"Me? I just a Texas citizen that volunteer for Federal service. Born in Austin... Nice place to visit at this time of the year."

"Federal service? Not Imperium?"

"He called it the imperium to intimidate the raider of thinking twice, but we gain citizenship through federal service. We got the chance to vote for the policies and local leaders of where we lived."

"So you are democratically elected?"

"Not really, but I heard rumors that he already lived in world war one and worked in the shadows till now...and he is the defacto leader of the imperium. Only he veto and accept the policies."

"That makes him almost..."

"Like a grandfather of our civilization... But that is a women rumors as he looks the same throughout the ages..."

"How did you came to be in this position?"

The officer looked at the distance as if remembering something.

"I was born in Austin a few years ago life it was hell... Living in the slums as people fight for scraps and eating our own... Until, he came with the army..."

"He gave us a choice... To be a free man or a slave to our desires, to wallow in the ruins... He spur us to rebuild our city by our own volition. Gave us jobs that meant something, a purpose..."

"So you joined the army?"

"Yeah, gave us a chance to give us a place to be someone. Gave us a decent paycheck, a roof and food to eat, but that mystery meat Thursdays is a hit or miss. Alright miss, the radiation suit is ready can you move now?" The Officer gesture her to move piper struggle to move the radiation suit. But she got the hang of it.

"Thank you for your point of view miss."

"No problems, you can Interview people when you have permission, when we are off duty. Let's not keep the high lord waiting shall we?" The officer smiled as she pushed piper to the exit.

Piper met Alexander waiting for her in a Landraider.

She have more questions than answers of the man before him but she shrugged and joined him to a hatch of the Land Raider. Seeing the downfall of the institute would make a big scoop of her life.

"Let's go..." She smiled knowing some history about the man that she followed.

The institute underestimated that the Imperium would simply just marched their soldiers to the maze of Boston ruins that is filled with their soldiers and booby traps like a Concrete jungle Vietnam. But never in their minds of a fact with the amount of artillery and liberty primes set lose by the imperium. Their plans were destroyed leaving a few survivors in its wake, a ending cut short and brief in the annals of Imperial history.

Had they known that Alexander held back Exterminatus grade weaponry and orbital bombardments is that he had citizens and civilians of the imperium living with him. Never mind a Titan leagion that would erased Boston from the map altogether. They would already scared shitless of the notion if they played their hands too far... And he have plenty of ways to kill them quickly, and a quick death is a luxury in Alexander Imperium... As they would be Servitors working in some uranium mines is the more likely fate of their defiance.

As the last nuclear football lobbed at the last defenses. A team of Liberty primes surrounded the location where the Institute kept themselves hidden. And their visors began to gleamed in red light as they fired their lasers into the earth and breached the underground sanctuary of the institute. Making several holes to breached into the institute.

Several teams of soldiers in power armor arrived and stood around the holes.

"Alright, Epsilon team ready to bounce! Prepped the landing zones for the rest of our men to hop in! Conversion shields activate now!" Yelled the captain as they jumped into the holes as venier thrust slowed their descent. The synth on the upper level notice the intrusion and opened fired at the teams. And they were met by scores of laser fire.

The institute personnel began to realized that the Imperium is not something to boss around and they tried to flee and found their teleporters to be unable to let them flee, leaving them trapped in the institute.

Many of the synth securities flooded the holes and

The first vanguard of Imperial guards arrived in power armor and immediately opened fire at the synth hordes and their plasma tech seamlessly bounce off or deflected by the Conversion shield.

They met several scientist fleeing from the scenes.

The soldier receive new orders.

"Apprehend all scientist, any one still defy us, put a bullet in their skulls."

They looked at each other and nodded and replaced their weapons with stun guns and fired upon the scientists, many of the soldiers that joined later assist the first wave by killing the synths .

The sythns were overwhelmed by the numbers of soldiers and now the last of them is destroyed.

Many of the scientist now in sitting position in the center square of the institute.

Many of them had looks of fear of what the soldiers about to do to them. Many of the techpriest arrived and began to catalogue what is useful and what is not. Many soldiers gave a salute at the entrance.

"The high lord is coming, attention!"

They met the man in the flesh... As his armoured figure was dropped into the entrance of the facility.

He looked at the scientist that arrogantly spoke out against corporation.

So look at the mighty institute... How it had fallen...

You lot should have been killed for conspiring to kill what could have been a reformed america from the minutemen. And now you wanted to kill me... Do you know whats the crime?

None spoke out as the man that they belittle from afar is now breathing on their necks.

"No one wants to answer? Fine, You sent synths to attack settlement under my banner, took my gift of technology and used it for your own selfish desires... I am a forgiving man, that is able to let it under the bridge... But when you attempt to replicate me to be your puppet in good neighbor? Tell me one reason why should I not send you all to the firing squads?"

"I will play a game with you all that I picked out from the west, Caesar lottery game... Only one of you will free... Unless you tell me who's the people that ordered the execution of replicating me as a synth? Don't lie, there are 30 of you who did." Alexander stared coldly through his helmet visors.

Many pointed at one another and played the blame game... It was hilarious that a unified society collapse due to suspicion and distrust.

Alexander watched it unfolding as they began to rip each other apart with words.

Until one of them spoke something interesting. A junior scientist squealed a information that is different from the rest.

"It was Gibbons that ordered the execution! He fled the day before your soldiers came!" The man desperately wanted to speak out...

"Where did he go?" Alexander asked.

"He..um... Went to the enclave, in white springs as the imperium already taken over the Capitol wasteland. Please spare us" The man sheepishly spoke.

"Alright... You may be free from the squabble. The rest of you... I have big plans for you..."

"You lot will be arrested and your experiments will be halted, and you will be observed by my tech priests any deviation or a chance of rebellion...all of you are off to execution... Do you get me?"

Many of them began to protest.

"My experiment need constant observations!"

"There are things I need to learn!"

"If you hadn't go off the rails and voted for my death, I would be more lenient with your crimes, a Judge will arrive to assess your criminal acts upon the people of the commonwealth and beyond... And if you rebel upon that notion, all of you wil die. A fair judgement or immediate execution your choice."

"Now where is the director of the institute?"

"We haven't able to contact him as he was placed into stasis from cancer he gotten 30 years ago and gibbons is a substitute director until he is healed." The junior scientist spoke out.

"Take me to him."

Alexander and piper followed the man.

"Why didn't you simply just kill them?" Piper asked.

"Though they committed much of the crimes, being the bogeyman of the commonwealth, I wished the nightmare for the citizens to end, they will be judged individually than a group. The less sinful will recommenced their research under heavy supervision."

"I see... So what are your plans for the Director?"

"See if he is clean, if not... Incarceration."

The trio arrived at where director is. And there was a boy that is a synth whose face is incomplete waiting next to a stasis chamber.

"Who are you people?"

"Just asking the man before me, opened the chamber."

"But sir..."

"Do it"

The scientist began to operate the system and with a hiss, a late thirties looking man stared at them.

"Who are you? What happened?" He cautiously spoke. As the figures before them is wearing different uniforms that he remembered.

"What happened? The Institute is now under the banners of the imperium and right now we are apprehending the leaders for their crimes against humanity."

Shaun had his head piercing with pain as he screamed out in agony.

Alexander scanned his soul and found a taint of chaos chained around it. He banished it with his will and the man found himself relieved.

"What was that?"

"Seemed your organization was compromised long ago... Something pretended to be a cancer in your brain."

"I see... Seems like Gibbon lied to me... He gave me a vial that supposed to clear my cancer and placed me in this stasis pod until they could get the cure..."

"We have the cure and the reversal of age... But are you willing to take the risk?"

"What's the catch?"

"You only have to tell me what is Gibbons planning?"

Shaun had his head racking up and he realizes something.

"He said something about starting a nuclear war once more if we failed... Something.... About dedicating sacrifices to the god of metal..."

"Thank you, I will sent a medical team to a nearest hospital and cure your cancer... Follow me piper "

Shaun became exhausted and several medicae staff arrived and get him to a field hospital where medpod is able to cure all his ailments.

The institute became another property that is undergoing assimilation with the imperium.

As promised a judge retinue arrived along with a psyker to oversee their crimes, many of them may deny it, but could the soul lie? Many of them ended up in the servitorization program, but others are given strict observation until they deemed themselves worthy.

Many of the tech priest that is inquisitive in nature found that the synth technology is abominable enough as it is. But they found something useful about it for making life like decoys...

From the news he gotten, he ordered a nationwide manhunt for Gibbons and they found a man that attempted to enter the congressional bunker below white springs.

He was a disappointing character.

Alexander found him held in a underground facility. Piper is not with him as she Interview someone in the town nearby.

He is chained up and psyker wards was placed as a strict measure. Sisters of battle became the prisoner warden.

Alexander watched the man features.

A bald thirty looking man with his notable feature is his Chinese glasses and a crooked teeth.

"Why do it?" Was all Alexander asked.

"Do it?" The man chuckle "You are ruining my power fantasy. Had it not been for your meddling Imperium, the Institute would win."

"You must be one of the reincarnated... But you didn't join the numbers?"

"Hah, they express free will to liberate the galaxies from the corpse emperor by destroying said universes is a joke. You must be the ones they spoke about... The Corpse Emperor Herald." The man sarcastically spoke.

"Why gave the order to replicate me?"

"You are a threat upon the foundation of this world, had you not been here, the Russian commie bastard would have not jumpstart his crusade, the Institute would had found time to destroy that farce that worship chaos."

"But you also have ties to chaos yourself?"

"Oh please, Vashtorr and I have a business relationship and only that. " Gibbons scoffed.

"Why you want a nuclear war in the first place?"

"Because of you the institute is a bust and the nukes is a one way to set the stage clean once more."

"How did you got the vial from?" Alexander revealed a vial that Shaun gave him.

"Well... He came to provide it thanks to a organization that rivaled the numbers... Said it was a deal to make me head of the institute as we prepare our way to the surface-" The man suddenly fell down and gasp for breath. And exploded into viscera.

Alexander saw that his soul exploded at the same time..

Alexander noticed something is wrong as the way wards that blocked the demons from appearing remained untouched by the incident... And there was no way a sniper managed to hit him as it is a Underground facility.

"What force is enough to bypass the ward?" Alexander began to take the organization more seriously...

He pissed off the Round tables that is the predecessor of the Numbers that wants to ruined his home universe and another organization that employed a Warp chaos god? More enemies is now stacked up against him...

<Wow, you getting popular huh Alexander.>

"Theseus just ramped up more soldiers to conquer the place."

He left more questions than answers...

In a town nearby, Hooded figure approach by a cafe and went past a woman that is drinking tea.

"Job done, managed to kill the target before he blabber out our secrets."

"Your payment is in your bank account... Dear Scrapper. Head to the next universe as this galaxy will be subsumed by the Carrion Emperor hands soon. Await for the next order"

"Understood, I will be heading out first." The hooded left behind the woman as she drinks and sighs...

"The forces of order and chaos will emerge soon that will engulf the Multiverse into a bloodshed like there's nothing to compare. He is the necessary part in our plans, with the data we received from this world is proven he is more of a threat than numbers as he subsume the world not through force, but with faith and acceptance which is more terrifying, we can't kill him...yet as fate is strong within him.. and the scent of death and blood still linger around him." she spoke as she disappear with a tip and a empty cup.