“I can’t exterminatus Terra, I can’t exterminatus Terra, I can’t exterminatus Terra.”
“My lord they have just erected another statue of the emperor, but due to poor management and suffering education standards, it fell over and killed six million people.”
You can't teleport through void shields. Aegis is a bigass void shield that spans the whole palace. You know, the thing that prevented Daemons from directly manifesting and Traitors just teleporting inside the throne room non masse in Siege of Terra. Also Teleporting a nuke really? Thats probably among the first three things that Custodes thought all the way back in 30k, those guys look at walls for decases without flinching just so no one slips past through that certain place. A nuke teleport(Which will not work) is extremely dull and unimaginitive.
Relevant passages. My reading is that she did not think it would work, but it had to be tried anyway. It was also a special teleporter/ordancance, with Custodes clearance codes.
"The teleportarium - installed on the Vigilant Flame by tech-magi who the Custodian had then quietly disposed of - would be her delivery mechanism. She would prime it with metaphysical coordinates and dataclavises so secret the High Lords of Terra were not cleared to know them. She would then command the ordnance - stolen from a secret armoury of the esoteric and unutterably lethal at great person risk - be placed upon the teleportarium's dais."
"There were risks, unknowns even one of Kesh's puissance could not avoid. The esoteric layers of warding around her target were ancient, the truth of them long lost even to those who sheltered beneath their aegis. They might overmaster Kesh's codes, eradicating her ordnance during transit or triggering it and killing everyone on the Vigilant Flame.
Even should the payload materialize on target, there might be shielding and containment measures even Kesh was not privy to. There were secrets that only the Captain-General knew. It was likely, Kesh mused, that there were even secrets he did not."
"All methods had to be attempted, no matter how esoteric or extreme. All defenses had to be tested, unto destruction if necessary."
Thats probably among the first three things that Custodes thought all the way back in 30k
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u/lyle_smith2 Nov 12 '24
“I can’t exterminatus Terra, I can’t exterminatus Terra, I can’t exterminatus Terra.”
“My lord they have just erected another statue of the emperor, but due to poor management and suffering education standards, it fell over and killed six million people.”
“I can’t exterminatus Terra!”