Editing The Golden Throne (section)

== The Carrion Throne Conspiracy ==

So remember all that stuff about how the Ad Mech have known the throne was failing? By the time of the Gathering Storm, it turns out they'd known for almost 3 millennia that it was getting worse. Successive Fabricator Generals had tried every human method to restore it and failed. By the end of M41, the current incumbent - Oud Oudia Raskian - came to an inescapable conclusion ; the Golden Throne was only getting worse and the Imperium had no way of fixing it.

Driven by sincere desperation, Raskian attempted more esoteric methods of fixing the Throne. He found a way to negotiate with the Dark Eldar, whose knowledge of regenerative technology and shall we say "familiarity" with some components of the Throne led to a tenuous agreement - the Mechanicus would remove the protection guarding numerous worlds and allow the Dark Eldar to take as many as they wished ; in exchange, the Dark Eldar would both help repair and provide the materials necessary to fix the Throne. Raskian then entered into conspiracy with the Head of the Astronomican and the head of the Chartist Captains to help facilitate things, along with small parts of the Inquisition.

However, the Dark Eldar made it clear that at least one of them would need to get as close to the Throne as possible to assess the damaged parts that needed replacing. Given the psychic nature of the components and the psychically inert nature of the Dark Eldar, whether this was true is debatable. Regardless, the Mechanicum contrived to smuggle the components for a Webway Gate to Terra, hoping to bypass the security of Terra, and allowing a lone heamonculous get as close to the palace as possible. Unfortunately, Terra proved to be so rich in desperate, hopeful prey that the heamonculous went mad, slipped it's leash and started making monsters down in the underhives of Terra. The conspirators immediately went into damage control and attempted to keep everything quiet.

Unfortunately, other members of the Inquisition noticed the rather dramatic increase in cult activity and grisly murders in the hives. One Hereticus, Erasmus Crowle, cottoned on to the conspiracy due to a botched cleanup operation. This led him to pursuing the very cults that had been set up to try and fight against the Dark Eldar in Terra's underhives, bringing him into contact with the Custodes along the way. The Heamonculous attempted it's march on the Throne, even getting close enough to get inside the machinery before being stopped by Crowle and the Custodes.

Crowle was not convinced that the conspiracy ended there and continued his investigation. Unfortunately, this painted a bullseye on his organization. The other co-conspirators attempted to eliminate him, just as the Cicatrix Maledictum broke across the galaxy. Just in time, it was Crowle's investigation of the Astronomican that led to it being retaken by Imperial forces after going dark.

After this, Crowle went AWOL trying to track down the last of the conspirators, leaving his warband in disarray. The trail ultimately led to Luna, where another webway gate was being used by the Mechanicus to continue their negotiations with the Dark Eldar. Along with a squad of Custodes, Crowle gatecrashed the Fabricator General's last ditch negotiations with the Kabal, realising (due to weird blood bonding something with the previously dead Heamonculous) that the Dark Eldar weren't just getting slaves out of the bargain - the components they were replacing contained genetic material from the Emperor, allowing them to create a cloned psychic reactor to power their own "Dark Throne" to shut Khaine's Gate in Commoragh. It was even suspect as to whether the replacement components would have worked. Naturally, the Imperium went apeshit finding this out and everything went sideways.

So ultimately the Throne remained unrepaired but depriving the Deldar of a psychic battery was apparently worth it..



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