Editing Signus Campaign (section)

==The Opening Stages==

When the Blood Angels’ fleet arrived in Signus, a bizarre veil descended over the Cluster, cutting them off from outside contact. Puzzled, they set off to find out what the hell was going on. Every world they scanned had been scoured of life. Dozens of ships drifted in the vacuum, unresponsive to hails. When the Blood Angels boarded these hulks, they discovered that the crews and passengers had all been reduced to boneless sacks of skin. The first planet they investigated exploded into Chaos runes when they got too close. The second planet turned out to be overrun with giant trash golems that nearly wiped out the squad sent to investigate it, and then started flinging chunks of itself at the legion’s fleet. Sanguinius, who was becoming increasingly irritated by all this unmanly warpfuckery, considered this last offense unbearably impolite, and so had his fleet drop an [[Exterminatus]] on that world. They stopped at the next planet, an agri-world called Scoltrum, long enough to look for survivors. They found that the planet was overrun with daemons (which they thought were some kind of aberrant xenos) but were able to recover a few survivors including a lady named Tillyan Niobe, who was a [[blank]], unknown to her. While all this was going on, the Word Bearers had sacrificed their astropath to summon Ka’Bandha the Bloodthirster, whom Horus tasked with killing Sanguinius.

Meanwhile, the non-Astartes in the fleet were going increasingly nutty thanks to all the Chaos bullshit going on around them, and the legion's ex-Librarians were suffering from really intense psychic visions of a screaming angel drenched in blood. When they got close enough to Signus Prime, things went to hell in very short order. Something unleashed a psychic shriek that staggered even the Space Marines and caused every mortal in the fleet to completely lose whatever was left of their shit and start killing themselves and everyone else. A [[Keeper of Secrets]] named Kyriss the Perverse used the frames of some broken servitors to manifest on the bridge of ''Red Tear'', Sanguinius' flagship, and start mocking him, and then a horde of Chaos-corrupted ships popped out of a nearby asteroid belt and began engaging the Blood Angels. This ended with Fleet Admiral Athene DuCade, who had been handpicked by Sanguinius himself, getting mindfucked, murdering her entire bridge crew whom she'd mistaken for daemons, setting the flagship to crash into Signus Prime, and finally killing herself for fear that she too had been contaminated. What's all the more tragic too is that DuCade was demonstrably capable, reasonable, and well-regarded by the senior commanders of the Astartes, non-Astartes, and by even the Angel himself. Even when her sanity broke from chaos mindfuckery, she was under the impression that she was doing her duty to the primarch and the Emperor. Tragic circumstances notwithstanding however, in the immediate wake of DuCade's [[Blam|blam-a-palooza]], all the rest of the Blood Angels on board wanted to GTFO, but Sanguinius ordered them to hold fast and rode his ship down like a boss until it plowed into the corrupted soil of Signus.