The Warzone

This year's Maelstrom Mixer takes place in the Athelstan system, home to Athelstan Prime, an expansive Hell-Forge world crucial to the Warmaster's crusade.

Reunion at Athelstan Prime

In the year 652.M31 a trio of titans were commissioned - massive god-machines that won victory after victory for the Emperor in the early days of the Great War. The three engines formed a maniple with a unique synaptic bond - brothers of a sort with a level of coordination in battle unseen before in engine combat. After years of conflict and dozens of triumphant victories for the Imperium, the forces of the Archenemy eventually defeated the maniple, not on the field of battle, but through the sinister injection of corrupted code into the datastream of the youngest brother, Morea Furor.

This plan eventually succeeded, and led to a great schism as the two loyalist machine spirits were powerless to stop Morea’s slow slide into madness. Now 10,000 years later Morea lives on the Hell-Forge world of Athelstan Prime - heavily sedated by his Dark Mechanicum masters and fed a corrupted datastream specifically designed to foster his hatred of the Imperium. He is unleashed upon the enemies of the Dark Gods at critical junctures and where his massive weaponry will turn the tide for the armies of the Warmaster. Meanwhile his two remaining loyalist brothers bide their time to enact revenge on those who took him from them all those years ago.

Gabriel's Gambit

Magos XXXXX of the Adeptus Mechanicus working under the guidance of Belisarius Cawl has made a discovery - a datastream that when loaded into a corrupted machine spirit, cleanses the taint of Chaos. After extensive testing and refinement in secret, the time has come to finally put this new development to a true test.

The Imperium musters its strength; under the leadership of Ultramarines Captain Marcus Gabriel a fleet is sent to Athelstan Prime with a mission. Threaten the Hell-Forge with sufficient strength to trigger the awakening of Morea Furor, then flood its data channels with the Mechanicus's datastream in a final test of its efficacy. Aeternus Rex and Ilotar Fortis have joined the war effort, to maximize the plan's chances of success. If their plan works, the brothers will be united once again in their war against Horus and his traitors. But if they fail, the remaining two brothers will have been hand-delivered into the eager arms of the archenemy.

Arbat's Deception

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Ilphant'ar's Intrigue

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Agathos' Reprisal

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