On the way back to our apartments we heard a huge explosion and I could also hear heavy weapons fire then another smaller explosion. On investigation we found a group of military servitors rampaging about. Sangius and Drakar shot and destroyed one. I incinerated another in a firestorm. They open fired back. I stopped the incoming fire with nothing but a thought. Sangius then shot and destroyed another. Three of them charged at Drakar. He chopped one to bits. I then incinerated another with another fire storm and Sangius shot another. Drakar chopped up the two fighting him and Orday finally destroyed the last one after getting a lucky hit with a krak grenade.

Severus examined one of the servitors and found it had embedded in it a strange dart type device. He gathered similar devices out of the other servitors. I tried incinerating them but they reacted strangely to the heat so we decided to take them back to the inquisition for further study.

Upon checking the remains of the servitors we found they were recently manufactured in the administratum quarters in the servitor factorum by the skaelen-har hedgemony. The hedgemony are a large corporation with concerns across the sector. It is a major manufacturer of starship parts. Members of the concortium are expected to give up their personality in favour of the consortium.

Severus examined the devices further and determined they were exerting control through the nervous system of the servitor and it would take an expert tech priest to install one.

We went to the faqctorium. It had been rigged with explosive charges strapped to promethean tanks. Severus sent in a servitor to inspect them but the images it sent back were unclear so Drakar went in to try to disarm them. He pulled wires off all the detonators. None of them exploded.

There were bodies in the factorium, obviously killed by the servitors.

Severus examined the security video and found footage of 6 tech priests planting the devices in servitors before ordering them to kill everyone. The tech priests were then seen rigging the explosives before leaving in a vehicle. The vehicle was tracked to a vehicle hire company in the coscarla sector. Inquiries to the Skaelen-har hedgemony head office produced the identities of 6 recently hired temporary tech priests - Regis Novas, Castus Raltus, Calta Xantia, Tauron Litalus, Meta Flavia and Praetus Cylon.

We travelled to the coscarla district and went to the hire shop. Examination of their records revealed it was hired by Tauron, warehouse 3a coscarla district.

We went to the warehouse. Severus and Sangius went through the side door while Drakar and myself went through the front. Sangius and Severus surprised a couple of tech priests. They killed one and captured the other. At the sound of gunfire, four people attacked myself and Drakar. Drakar opened fire with his multi laser, missing them utterly. Two of them attacked me with power blades, inflicting serious wounds. Drakar was also attacked and took damage. He fought back, beheading one and severing the leg of another, but they both continued to fight back.

Drakar took a load more damage from them and dropped to the floor, minus his right arm The second tech priest started talking heresy to Sangius who executed him. I woke up in hospital, healed myself and went to find the others. Drakar had to beg an inquisitor to authorise the fitting of a cyber arm.

A search of the warehouse produced about a hundred security crates among the crates and an encrypted data slate. Severus was unable to decrypt the data slate. Cross examination of the warehouse workers revealed the crates were being shipped to and from the wilderness outside the hive. The tech priests had sent the workers away when they opened the crates, but they had got glimpses of generatorium and explosives inside.

The crates were opened in a quarantine area. One of the incoming crates had alien pistols. A crate going out had an industrial mining drill. Other crates had a similar pattern, mining equipment going out, weapons coming in.

We asked interrogator Sans to decrypt the data slate, which he did. It talked of a search of forbidden technology, described how funds were transferred and specified a planned meeting tomorrow.

We investigated the fund transfers. They were through the Skaelen-Har Hegemony. We went to their offices and traced the transactions to a member of the board called Trantia Jestilla and went to the top floor of the office. There were 3 secretaries who looked suspiciously distant. Suspecting they were more of the creatures from the warehouse I called down a firestorm and incinerated them.

The energy released was greater than even I expected, and all the technology in the room was overloaded and shut down, including Drakars cybernetic arms. Sangius opened a door to the next room where Jestilla was. The technology slowly started coming back to life.

Jestilla tried to erase the suspicious financial transfer but I stopped her then brought up the information. The transaction was a money laundering exercise for the purchase of all the equipment we found in the warehouse. Drakar put her to the question. She gave us the coordinates of the meeting point in the wilderness and that they were to meet techtriach Seccundus.

We made arrangements to travel with the land train to the meeting coordinates. Drakar filled one of the crates with explosives and rigged it to detonate if opened. Severus put some tracking device an another. We travelled with the land train as mercenaries. It met up with another land train and the cargos were exchanged. I watched the direction the other land train went and surmised it was heading towards the abandoned Hive Tenebra.

We called down our spaceship so we could follow. We landed a couple of kilometres from the entrance and crept towards it. Sangius scouted out ahead of us. The entrance was guarded by a couple of walkers and a couple of snipers. Sangius climbed to get a good shot on the snipers while I crept forward while wrapping myself in shadows. One of the snipers must have seen someone and fired a shot. Sangius shot one of the snipers as I brought down a fire storm on one of the walkers. The walkers opened fire wildly, surrounding the air around me with multi laser fire. I held my ground and emerged unscathed. The surviving sniper fired at me but I turned the bullet aside with a thought.

Sangius missed the second sniper, but Drakar sprayed the damaged walker with multi laser fire, causing it to explode. I summoned a vision of myself nearby to draw fire away from me and called down another firestorm, melting the second walker. Sangius and the last sniper exchanged fire for a while before Drakar finally killed him with a burst of multi laser fire.

Severus unlocked the door into the hive. As the door opened Sangius took up over watch position and killed two of the defenders inside as they came into view as Dakar blinded them with a flash grenade. Severus and Drakar killed another two. I hit the last with my melta gun but his xenos armour absorbed much of the energy. Sangius then finished the job. The crates were all stacked around inside.

Severus opened the next door further into the hive and I vaporised the two figures waiting on the other side in a firestorm. Further down the corridor was two gun turrets. Sangius fired at one but it had a refractor field which absorbed the shot. I hit them with a firestorm. They took damage but survived the blast. Severus talked to them in binary chatter, taking control of one and commanding it to shoot on the other. Drakar threw a blind grenade down the corridor. The turrets survived a second fire storm but Quintilla ran in and sliced one in half. Severus still had control of the other and shut it down.

Another six figures were hiding behind the next door. They all died a hideous death in a firestorm. As we continued we flushed out a tech priest. Sangius missed him but Quintilla shot him in the back, killing him. Two others were blinded with a flash grenade, and Quintilla executed one then Severus interrogated the other. Their ship detected unusual energy readings. When they investigated they found xenos tech scattered about. They also found a partially buried object surrounded by four obelisks. They are trying to power the obelisks in the belief there is more tech inside the buried object. The techtriach Prime is protected by four archo fladgelants and a dozen tech priests.

We decided the best course of action would be to overload their power station and destroy everything. We found it without too much fuss and planted explosives in the containment unit before creeping back out to our ship. The fireball was very impressive.