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For long years, the White Scars have fought for the Imperium, bringing worlds to compliance. But when a new project, to embed psykers in the Space Marine Legions, seems likely to come to fruition, Jaghatai Khan must decide if he will comply...Listen to it because Chris Wraight returns to the Khan of Khans with a tale set at the height of the Great Crusade and showing the momentous decisions that, in some ways, led to the darkest events of the Horus Heresy.

As word of Horus's treachery spreads to fully half of the Legiones Astartes, Terra looks to the remaining loyalist Space Marines to defend the Imperium. One group, however, remains curiously silent in spite of apparent efforts from both sides to contact them—the storied V Legion, Jaghatai Khan's fearsome White Scars. In the ork-held territory of Chondax, a bitter war has been raging since the Triumph at Ullanor, and only now do the sons of Chogoris return their gaze to the heavens.

The war is over, and the Mortal Realms have all but fallen to Chaos.... Korghos Khul rampages across the fiery Realm of Aqshy, hunting down mortal kind to slaughter or subjugate to Khorne. His Goretide have crushed all resistance...until the storm. From the heavens hurtle paladins clad in gold. Sent by Sigmar, the Stormcast Eternals have come to liberate all the realms from the yoke of Chaos.

A galaxy burns and brother turns on brother as the conflict brought about by a beloved son’s betrayal reaches its fateful end. The Warmaster Horus has triumphed. His massive fleet at last nears Terra and the patriarchal Throne of his hated father. Many have fallen to bring this moment about; their tales are the ashes upon which the Heresy was born and prospered. Others have played their own small parts, drops in an ocean of war and blood. None of it matters. Terra looks to the skies as it raises its defences. Armies muster, heroes raise their swords, citizens cower. The war is coming. And nothing can stop it.

In the sprawling Imperium of Mankind, everyone serves the Emperor in their own way. From the Inquisitors who hunt the hidden enemies of humanity in the dark places of the galaxy to the brave soldiers who stand on the front line, and the Imperial Assassins who can change the tides of war with a single shot, each has a part to play in preserving the Imperium. This audio drama anthology contains eight stories of the agents who dispense the Emperor's justice.

Abandoned by his primarch and left to lead the Space Wolves into an uncertain future, Bjorn the Fell-Handed is amongst the greatets of the sons of Russ. But even legends must fall, and when Bjorn meets his end on a distant world, his body broken beyond repair, his brothers battle to save him, and he remembers the events that brought him to this place...and realises his destiny.

Salvor Lermentov, Astra Militarum officer turned would-be freedom fighter, languishes in a dark cell deep within an Inquisition fortress. Captured for the crime of treachery, he is sure of his innocence - for did he not aid a servant of the Inquisition in preventing a grievous threat to Terra itself? As he and Inquisitor Crowl match wits in an interrogation, Lermentov outlines his reasons for deserting - but Inquisitor Crowl knows darker truths about the Imperium of Man, and with them in mind, can he possibly allow this traitor to live?

As Lord Commander Primus, Eidolon leads the Emperor's Children in the absence of his primarch - who even knows where the daemon prince Fulgrim resides now? But a challenge from within the Legion forces Eidolon to confront one of his rivals, the ambitious Archorian, a capable officer and tactician who would see the Legion returned to glory. Dissent is unacceptable. It is time for the Kakophoni to be set against their erstwhile brethren.

For more than 200 years, the armies of the Emperor of Mankind fought to reconquer the galaxy - led by the superhuman primarchs, the Space Marine Legions brought countless worlds back under the rule of ancient Terra. Now Horus, once honoured Warmaster and favoured son of the Emperor, has been corrupted by the whispered promises of Chaos. At his command the Imperium is torn apart by a terrible and bloody civil war, the likes of which the galaxy has never seen....

As war continues to ravage the galaxy, the new Age of Darkness sees whole systems simply lost and countless battles forgotten. Surely there can be no hope for peace, forgiveness or respite in such times, and all that will be left are the dying warp-echoes of supreme galactic ruin....

Chagrined by his defeat at the hands of Jaghatai Khan, Mortarion abandons the pursuit of the White Scars and instead leads the Death Guard in a spiteful, punitive rampage across the systems of the Prosperine empire. World after world has fallen to this horrific onslaught, and yet the insular and secretive primarch seems preoccupied by some other unspoken goal. Finally, on Terathalion, the truth of Mortarion's sinister heritage will be exposed, and the future of the XIV Legion will be written....

After the horrors of Isstvan, the XVIth Legion destroyer-class Grey Talon now flies under a loyalist crew on a campaign of retribution and vengeance, using her original colours to strike covertly at isolated traitor forces. Commanded by Bion Henricos of the Iron Hands, the ship is also home to many disgraced White Scars who have taken death-oaths to seek atonement. But tensions run higher with each new engagement and, without a wider strategy to guide them, the crew will surely come to a sudden end.

In the sprawling Imperium of Mankind, everyone serves the Emperor in their own way. From the inquisitors who hunt the hidden enemies of humanity in the dark places of the galaxy to the brave soldiers who stand on the front line, and the Imperial Assassins who can change the tides of war with a single shot, each has a part to play in preserving the Imperium. In this audio anthology, three of these disparate heroes are put to the test, each facing a personal crisis that will see them either fall to darkness, or rise to continue doing their duty in the Emperor's name.

Caught by the renegade forces of the Alpha Legion and forced to take refuge in the Alaxxes Nebula, the Space Wolves are bloodied but unbowed. The young pack leader Bjorn - now known to his warriors as 'the One-Handed' - is desperate to recover his honour in battle, but replacing lost limbs for proud legionaries is not a task worthy of the Iron Priests. If Bjorn is to fight again, then he must seek out new claws for himself and christen them in the blood of the traitors....

As daemons swarm across the fields of Velbayne, bringing madness and Chaos to all that they touch, Leman Russ and the Rout stand arrayed against them. Packs fight back to back, brothers protecting one another - except for one. The Lone Wolf, the warrior without a pack, stands alone. And somewhere on the battlefield is a foe against which he will have vengeance.

Als die Ereignisse auf der von Pestilenz verseuchten Welt Ras Shakeh außer Kontrolle geraten, greift das Imperium mit all seiner Macht ein. Njal Sturmbringer, Runenpriester der Space Wolves, landet auf der Welt, um das bedrängte Jarnhamar- Rudel zu unterstützen, doch seine Ordensbrüder gehen sich gegenseitig an die Gurgel. Jeder von ihnen verfolgt seine eigenen Ziele.

Als Roboute Guilliman, der Regent von Terra, sich auf den Indomitus-Kreuzzug begibt, lässt er eine von Unruhen geplagte Welt zurück, auf der Kultaktivitäten einen neuen Höhepunkt erreicht haben. Ohne seine gewaltigen Verteidigungsarmeen, die nun an der galaktischen Offensive gegen die Feinde der Menschheit teilnehmen, erholt sich Terra nur langsam. Die Custodeswächter tun, was sie können, um den Palast zu sichern, und die Schwestern der Stille bauen ihre Festung auf Luna wieder auf. Als die Phalanx, das gewaltige Kriegsschiff der Imperial Fists, zurückkehrt, scheint es, dass nun endlich Ruhe und Stabilität einkehren werden.

Abgeschieden. Allein. Die Krieger des Járnhamar-Rudels sind gezwungen, vor dem Urteil ihres Ordens zu fliehen. An Bord eines gestohlenen Leerenschiffes durchqueren sie ein Imperium, das im Krieg versinkt. In ihrem anhaltenden Rachefeldzug gegen altes Unrecht durchsuchen die Space Wolves die Ruinen von Welten nach einem Feind, der sich hartnäckig versteckt hält. Doch während dieser gefährlichen Reise erkennt das Rudel, dass nicht nur ihre Nemesis ihr Überleben auf die Probe stellt.

Nachdem sie ein halbes Jahrhundert getrennt der Deathwatch und ihrem Orden gedient haben, sind die Space Wolves Ingvar und Gunnlaugr nun wieder vereint. Sie werden auf eine bedeutende Schreinwelt geschickt, um diese gegen die seuchenbeladene Death Guard zu verteidigen. An ihrer Seite stehen die frommen Schwestern des Adeptus Sororitas, welche die Space Wolves für wenig besser halten als den Gegner, gegen den sie kämpfen.

Seitdem das Imperium den Planeten Chogoris entdeckte, stand die mythische Kultur der White Scars im Konflikt mit den Idealen der Vereinigung der Menschheit. Während der Große Kreuzzug durch die Galaxis zieht, kämpft ihr enigmatischer Primarch Jaghatai Khan dafür, ihre Einzigartigkeit in einer Galaxis zu bewahren, die von kalter Vernunft beherrscht wird. Trotz seiner bewussten Abschottung, wird er von der Bruderschaft der Primarchen in einen ideologischen Kampf gezogen – über die Rolle, die psionische Kräfte innerhalb der Legionen spielen sollen.