Leviathan RETURNS - the FOURTH Tyrannic War | Warhammer 40k Lore

hi gang with the arrival of 10th edition 40K a new fourth tyrannic war is brewing at the end of the third tyrannic war the high Fleet known as Leviathan had been thought defeated in the skies above Baal when kadia fell on the Great Rift spread across the Galaxy but as it turned out Leviathan really was gonna live up to its name [Applause] so by the early years the 42nd Millennium a lot had changed in the Grim dark future of Warhammer 40K the Great Rift had spread across the Galaxy separating Imperium Sanctus from the Lost worlds of Imperium nihilus the Primark of the ultramarines Robert gilliman have returned leading the indomitus Crusade who Shore up the Imperial defenses and try and hold strategic corridors through the rift and Abaddon that a spoiler fresh from splitting the Galaxy in half had partnered with the Demonic entity vashtor the arcophane to reform a great key piloting this moon-sized key into the web way in search of an ancient Vault of hidden weapons hotly pursued by the second returned Primark lion l Johnson of the Dark Angels and all that happened in the first couple of Decades of the 42 thousands which is a lot for the Imperium but you know what hadn't changed bugs well they've changed a little bit but we'll go into that since the first invasion of the tyranid High fleet called Bayer moth back in the 700s m41 the incursions of The Great Devourer have become more and more common and the old bedstead of the Imperium was now thoroughly riddled with them munching away at its proverbial legs After High Fleet Kraken was halted during the Battle of icar 4 in 993 m41 the much larger high Fleet leviathans died to appear attacking from underneath the galactic plane across a much wider front and ushering in a third tyronic war just a few years after the second one all of these major incursions as well as a slew or smaller ones had made Splinter fleets and Rogue bio ships full of ravening biological Horrors a pretty consistent threat for the Imperium but with the dawning of the era indomitus and the breaking of Leviathan at tarsis Ultra and Bal the biggest high Fleet yet encountered was thought defeated but while the Imperium had set its sights on the more urgent threats posed by the forces of chaos the indomitus Crusade the plague Wars and the fight against the arks of omen Leviathan was still coming new tendrils winding their way through the void between galaxies as they closed on hours like all of the previous tyrannic Wars the fourth started in silence as systems on the fringes of the Imperium dropped out of communication in the west across the segmentum tempestas systems in the asmodiacs and morphium sub-sectors went dark astropathic Communications ceasing entirely or briefly ending in a series of Screams and a wave of psychic Terror in fact the morpheum sector command was almost annihilated when their astropath received a panicked communication from the fringes of the region losing control and accidentally summoning a warp horror of thrashing tentacles and massive teeth and there were other signs both those sectors were under attack but orc fleets would suddenly redirect themselves away from the Imperial world and sectors gearing up to fight AI of impending attacks from votan corporate interests or chaos Renegade warbands would find themselves facing off against nothing their enemies suddenly gone and then the survivors came refugees fleeing the fringes of both sectors picket ships the last of their battle groups breaking warp with news of systems overrun by vast swarms of warrior organisms but this time the Imperium would be ready not because their systems had improved or anything no this time the Imperium would be ready because the people making the reports had friends in high places the eyes of the emperor are a Secret order within the adeptus custodies the custodians are the personal Bodyguards of the emperor himself mostly confined to Terror and the segmentum solar but who range across the Galaxy seeking out potential threats to the Imperium each of them is a gene crafted Warrior created from infancy through a process that is far more advanced than the crude augmentations used to make space Marines and they can live for thousands of years but when they start to slow when age starts to take its toll even a bit they have a tradition the custodian puts aside his traditional armor and weapons and leaves the palace venturing out into the cursed Earth to bring the law to sorry sorry venturing out into the Galaxy totally different to keep watch for distant threats and report back to their younger Brethren three eyes of the emperor have been in the affected sectors and raced back to Terror broadcasting identode so senior that the defense officers who heard them and granted their Passage through to the throne world had to be put to death afterwards the three reported their news to trajan valoris Captain general of The adeptus custodies Who as a high Lord Of Terror strong armed the rest of the high Lords into actually taking the threat seriously and one of the people who took it very seriously was the Lord Commander solar leontus who was to be honest a bit embarrassed about missing the whole second Siege of Terror thing few decades back because his model hadn't been invented yet and wanted to show willing I guess this meant that rather than the hurried response to the previous three invasions led by locally stationed Space Marine chapters or the forces of the Inquisition this new threat was to be met by the entire military and industrial complex of the Imperium leontes ordered mass mobilizations of the astrum militarum new regiments raised and existing ones redeployed as Imperial High command analyzed the pattern of Silence spreading through the void two new tendrils of Leviathan have made inroads into the Galaxy the first prometheor was pushing up through the underside of the galactic plane just like during the last war though much further west assaulting the morpheme sector and the cassidor gulf but the second named nortilon was coming from the opposite direction from above the galactic plane pushing down through the asmodeax and vinyl sectors before both tendrils turned East running parallel to each other towards the segmentum solar this wasn't the first time Terror had been threatened like this some of the tendrils of Leviathan from the previous war had been heading that way before they were redirected and the sector had suffered smaller attacks by high Fleet Cilla and charybdis as well as a brief Gene Steeler Uprising on terror itself but it was enough to Spur the high Lords into action the wheels of Imperial bureaucracy started to turn PDFs of planets in the path of the Swarm were ordered to muster Department Armory worlds ramped up production or released Munitions and supplies from their vaults while embattled systems fought desperate last stands to slow the two tendrils but this would all take time the Imperial Guard does not move quickly and so in the interim valaris and leontes proposed the formation of strike forces known as Soul blades formed from the elite of the Imperium these would be small forces that could take the fight to the tyranids harrying and delay the two 10 drills while the astrum militarum swung ponderously interaction sometimes only a few ships in number Soul blades were formed from Space Marine companies questing night houses adeptus mechanicus explorator ships dispatched from Mars and often missions of the sisters of battle the convent priorists on terror dispatched forces from the orders of the Eben chalice sacred Rose and Argent shroud into the dark these were often led by famed commanders kayvan shrike of the Raven guard Commander to Soul blade while the ultramarines dispatched Soul blades from the Far Eastern Fringe under the command of first Captain agmen a veteran of the first tyranny war and even trajan valoris and his custodians LED fleets as they departed Terror Amongst a ton of Imperial Pomp and propaganda the soul blades fell on the two 10 drills as they continued their path East the Swarm had dispersed a bit as it pushed into the Galaxy Splinter 10 drills pausing to feed on conquered worlds and the Soul blades conducted a hit and run War falling on these tendrils as they ate destroying Rogue bio ships in the void or reinforcing the defenses of vulnerable worlds but there was a little confusion the Imperial fists deployed to effectively hold the latora system against the oncoming tide but Soul blades led by the sons of Medusa came across such strong resistance that they contented themselves with rescuing just the Magi and Tech relics from the forge worlds they'd attempted to save and when Soul blades led by house Tyrion and the Silver Skulls chapter found that their attack on the tiranids was assisted by eldari forces their Zeal for the destruction of the zenos got the better of them and they turned this hit and run conflict into a protracted three-way campaign but while the soul blades took the fight to the slowing nautilon and prometheor tendrils the high command of the astrum militarum were busy preparing the defenses leontos and his vast strategic staff had divined the path of the two tendrils and designated a series of anchor worlds planets is in the path with formidable defenses that anticipating the shadow in the warp lay on reliable warp routes for resupply these worlds would act as bulwarks against the Swarm and Supply bases for further Soul blades and the most important of them was to be sanctum in the formidar system of the bastior sector okay look there's going to be a lot of these silly names in this the current 40K policy of having copyrightable names means that we can't just have Nautilus we have to have like no chiliacs or formida or you know the Fortress planet of defensotron and everything ends up sounding like a He-Man character [Music] anyway sanction was the home planet of the white Templars chapter and already had formidable defenses though much of the chapter were away fighting with The indomitus Fleets leontes transferred his vast Command Staff there aboard the Phalanx Fortress Monastery of the Imperial fists and the Skies of the system were filled with Naval assets as millions of Imperial guards deployed to The Fortress Monastery and bastions across its surface across the segmentum tempestus a ring of defenses sprang up and way out from the anchor Worlds the two tendrils started to slow under the constant efforts of the Soul blades things seemed to be going well for the Imperium and we all know how that usually works out systems started to fall silent on the edge of bastior the alarm was raised by a task force of the indomitus Crusade Fleet sextus that have been patrolling nearby and have been re-tasked as part of the Defense Forces a tendril had been missed lost in the confusion its Advanced elements assure assumed to be parts of the other two as nortalon and prometheor converged and pushed in from the West a third tendulum of Leviathan probably the biggest so far had pushed in from beneath the galactic plane heading directly for the largest concentration of Imperial forces as if it had been waiting for this moment all the tyrionists just learned to read a map and guess based on the name bypassing the soul blades this grendelus tendril had already overrun the Mozart cluster and the rendor belt and consumed loads of tasty tasty squats in the votan held unhar stars and was fast surrounding the outer bastior sector but leontes and his staff had to a degree planned for this they enacted the sanctuary protocol broadcasts went out for aid from nearby anchor worlds as all forces in the Bastille sector pulled back to the three Central systems of Castile pyramotes and formidar the only ones as yet unaffected by the shadow in the warp Stylo called an iron Tower were cut off their Defenders consigned to hold in the face of the oncoming tide pulling back from the orc Rays they were initially defending against and trusting The Hive fleets to take care of the problem for them the votan mining colonies in the Saint Catherine's tears asteroid belt fortified themselves against bioship incursions as on The Verdant worlds of the palat system Imperial authorities were reminded why the system had been placed under quarantine Millennia before as necrons awoke from their Slumber and Eldar hosts descended on the tyranid Invaders unleashing ancient super weapons elsewhere the civilians panicked on distant Gallows Spire the clergy refused to believe that the emperor would allow zenos this close to their world and declared any claims to the contrary heretical even as the astrum militarum Defenders received their orders pointed their guns Skyward and manned their fortifications the factionalism between the two sides soon devolved into violence as the clergy denounced the actions of the military and the ministorum continued to declare The Invasion a heretical conspiracy that didn't exist even as the spores were falling from the sky and the tyranid swept across the surface weakening the Imperial defense even further so next time someone tells you there's no satire left in Warhammer anyway The taranod Fleets kept coming as more and more side tendrils of grendulus entered the system so did more Imperial reinforcements arrive in response to the sanctuary protocol stalocide was overwhelmed by 11 waves of Hive ships their Ground Forces led by a giant Hive Tyrant wielding four bone swords who Could That Be pyamo came under attack from both the tyranids and the Orcs led by a creature called the monster boss and Castile was assaulted eight waves breaking on the naval blockade of the system before new tyranid ships emerged from the deeps dubbed mind flayers they spread Discord and paranoia amongst the fleet and deployed new bio forms onto the surface psychic beasties that spread a wave of hallucinations and Terror ahead of them but for midair any waves were impossible to discern the attack was relentless on some Worlds the higher fleet was so thick that it could be seen from the surface hundreds of fronts broke out across the system from void battles at fractam and lembic to Gene silicon uprisings on jovenghast fleets of bioorganisms slowly overwhelmed the star forts of the system and then pushed their way through the asteroid field of the dawn's wall on their way to sanctum itself they were resisted in the void by the Imperial fist's Fleet led by the Phalanx and the remains of the indominus task force but once Roots have been cleared through the asteroids what had been an incremental ponderous Advance suddenly sped up as bio ships threw themselves at the Defenders and discouraged billions of organisms to the surface the initial assault spread across the whole planet Imperial forces fighting a war of maneuver with tyranid swarms through forests harbors and planes lijo Destructor walked dueling giant bio Titans but as the high Fleet landed more and more zenos The Defenders were forced back into the fortresses that studied the planet the biggest assault would be in the heights of our Taurus centered on the holdfast The Fortress Monastery of the white Templars and leontes's headquarters besieged with waves of tyranids being cut down as they rushed the walls Lord Commander solar leontas walks the ramparts with his train of strategic and support staff rallying the troops while coordinating the defense while the white templar's chapter Master Stavro LED task forces of his veterans against infiltrating trigons and morlocks in the depths of his Fortress but while the hive mind continued to send waves of constructs at the walls it also deployed infiltrators to try and take the base from within three non-emissories attempted access one squished itself into a lift shaft and emerged in one of the highest command points of the Fortress attacking and destroying the monitoring equipment there one emerged from the tunnels under the monastery opposed by a score of white templar's Dreadnought station there and eventually killed by chapter Master Stavro but the third climbed one of the Peaks that overlooked the monastery and lay in white when leonta's command train emerged into a high Courtyard it's struck plunging down into the AIDS and strategists and scattering lifeguard and Veterans knocking leontes from his Robo horse but before it could kill the Imperial Commander gunfire pinned it in place as an adeptus custody's gunship circled the courtyard golden figures deploying from it led by trajan valoris finally managing to disengage from the initial two tendrils the soul blades have received the sanctuary summons and returned fighting their way through a dark warp and massing together into bigger and bigger fleets during the journey forces from the Raven guard black Templars and blood angels broke sieges in the Castile system and a fleet comprised of Soul blades from a dozen chapters attacked the monster boss in pyamotes valoris and his custodies had led Soul blades in a charge directly towards for midair linking up with Tor garadon on the Phalanx on the way and breaking through the Swarms of bioships just in time to save the Lord Commander solar as Soul blades continued to pour into the system sanctum was saved and the timing invasion of this system stalled but the same was repeating on hundreds of Worlds across the segmentum anchor worlds are sale by new tendrils of Leviathan remote planets lost to the darkness and a new wave of chittering gripplies munching their way ever closer to Terror and then back in bastior while engaged in cleanup operations a ship of the Raven guard made the first sighting of a strange moon-sized object too big to be a simple bio ship but obviously tyranid in design heading directly for Sanctum the fourth tyrannic War had only just begun and there we go that's the fourth tyronic war or at least as much as we know of it it leaves us on a cliffhanger but that was the same with the previous editions of the game when the second edition tyranid codex came out in the mid 90s it detailed an invasion of high Fleet beer moth that the invasion of high Fleet Kraken was still undecided and the final battle of icar 4 was actually decided through a massive worldwide campaign and then in later editions the story of high flee Kraken was filled out but the new threat was Leviathan and that was added to over multiple editions the final big battle of the third tyrannic war the devastation of Baal was only concluded pretty recently so I think we can expect the same to happen with the fourth tyrannic War maybe I'll need to make another part of this video in a year or two but for now that sets us up for the 10th edition of Warhammer 40K and that's everything we know thanks for watching [Music] [Applause] you'd like to hear more about the events of Warhammer 40K then click on the little link to the right there you can also join the patreon or the Discord for Early Access to videos and the 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Published: Sat Jun 03 2023