<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=104145.msg4752353#msg4752353">Quote from: NotoriusBEN on 07-06-2011, 07:54:49</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"And Krozer DID get away, Darius. There are more ways to fight wars than with bolters and lasguns. I had that bastard in the palm of my hand for the stunts he pulled, but that is gone now because YOU. DIDNT. THINK. This is too public, and I have nothing of leverage on this world I can protect you with. Cortez cant protect you either without spending ALOT of money to buy favors that would naturally indebt him along with it."<br/><br/>Baromir pressed the voxcomm "Rourke, Im done out here for now. We're dropping Darius with the authorities at Port Wander, then I'd like a lift back to the fleet at Ares."<br/><br/>This was going to be a mess to explain to Cortez, but small mercies in that the truth is easier than the lie...<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The Battle Limo rammed through the assembled Imperial Guardsmen, and drove a quick route through the city, pursued by Valkyrie assault carriers.  Luckily, the hive had too many narrow tunnels for the guard to track down the group, and they arrived at the ship just as Archbishop Krozer's plan came together.<br/><br/>"Attention, all people of the Lupercal system.  This is an emergency transmission from your Imperial Commander.  The forces of chaos have brutally attacked us.  The monsters have tried to besmirch the reputation of the honorable warrior Baromir.  In the coming days, all of you will know the legend, and you will be inspired by our grand crusade against the forces of chaos in the Mextil Cluster!"  Governor Juzgden said, overriding every vox frequency in the system.<br/><br/>While the<em>Lookinglass Curtain</em>activated its rockets to launch into the atmosphere, the opening crawl of the movie "Pirate Killer Baromir" was projected into the plume of smoke coming from the theater.  At the very least, the movie was going to hit a lot of eyeballs.  "Just so you know, Krozer edited the movie to make it more "morally uplifting." Captain Rourke said, using his fingers to provide the sarcastic quotes around the bishop's agenda.  "He inserted many many images of heretics and mutants being executed into the film, most of them sublminal, and there was a gratuitous scene of a cultist of slaanesh being burned at the stake inserted into the film.  I probably should have told you on the way to the premiere, but I was kind of... occupied... at the time."  Rourke explained, blushing just a tiny bit in the first show of shame he'd done in a long while.  "What I'm saying is... let's get out of here.  The merchandising contracts are already in place and the profits should be massive."   Rourke said hopefully,  while the city slowly began to recede and Darius stood in the center of a vast swarm of arbites and Imperial Guard.<br/><br/>A few moments earlier, Darius had been locked inside the Brutus while the remainder of the crew escaped, narrowly getting past an oncoming group of chimerae thanks to covering fire coming from the heavy bolters and autocannons of the<em>Lookinglass Curtain.<br/></em><br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Profit Factor Increases By 3!</span></strong><br/>