"Old Foes"
Cocytus System
Judecca
Isle of Dleacht
Construction Site

The shuttle landing pad was one of the first things built on the island by the engineers of the Imperial Scholae Guard once Field Marshal Dante had selected the location for the new headquarters of House Imperium. It had been the busiest place on the island until the secondary landing locations had been constructed around the various new complexes that were being placed on the island. For the past couple of weeks, it had only really served the senior officers of the Guard, but now it was serving the personal shuttle of the Voice of the Brotherhood and former Proconsul of Scholae Palatinae, Evant.
Evant stepped off the shuttle and headed over to the waiting Dante. “I was just stopping by to see the Emperor when he asked me to personally bring this to you. He says that we couldn’t trust the communication system,” he said as he handed Kell a datapad that contained a list of targets.
The University of Teyr was on the target list. Located not far from the Dante’s estate, Petitor, Umbrarum, Kell knew it quite well. “Thanks, Evant…” Kell opened his comm and said “I need a lift to the mainland. Let’s get going… signal the estate and have a platoon of the 90th ready to deploy upon my arrival.”
One hour later
University of Teyr
The plan was simple. Dante had set up snipers on the rooftops of eight of the buildings around the campus. Each team was on the lookout for the various members of the attack team that had been listed on the disc.
“Fire!” yelled the Field Marshal over his comms as he saw the pair of terrorists heading for the quad area where hundreds of students gathered to eat their lunch and study under the shade of the green canopy of trees. Almost instantaneously, projectiles impacted the sides of each terrorist’s skull. Grey matter and blood shot through the air as the two crumpled to the ground.
Running across the quad, Dante pulled out one of his DL-44’s and put a well placed shot into a robed figure that was walking out of the library. A headshot left little of the human’s features intact, but it was enough to stop the human from continuing his attack.
With the destruction being held to a minimum, the members of the Imperial Scholae Guard looked around at the civilians who were hiding behind the various structures in the quad. “Everyone please head to your own domiciles and await further instructions from the local police and security forces.”
One of the corporals of the platoon that had come with Dante kicked the corpse of one of the enemy terrorists, but Dante yelled “NO!” just before the body exploded and shook the entire square. The young soldier disintegrated, and the blast encompassed an area of at least forty meters in a wide circle.
Dante picked himself up off the ground and was visibly shaken. This new mixture of groups was not only in it for the destruction, but they were all ready to become martyrs for the cause. Hitting his commlink, Kell said “All units… use EOD teams when touching any of the enemy KIA’s… they’re rigged to blow with some type of explosive. Dante out.”
This wasn’t the norm for most of the groups that Dante had faced over the years, but it seemed to be the new modus operandi for the terrorists of the Cocytus system. A new battle had begun…