That he advanced alone, without flanking security, was not lost on the onlookers. No one had to part the milling Helions for him. Without fear or hesitation, Zhylaw started down the stairs toward the central dais. Silence fell as the Lord Marshal and his retinue entered. Still more had been rounded up and chivvied along against their will, unable to escape or turned in by the first of the inevitable collaborators. Others had arrived with hopes of working with the conquerors. Possible terms of surrender for their people. Some of the representatives had come willingly, hoping to negotiate the best
Politicians, bureaucrats, ministers, clerics, they waited and whispered while surrounded by an elite corps of Necromonger fighters led by Irgun. In the central meeting chamber, the leaders of Helion waited uneasily. It served to testify to the complete dominance of the Necromonger force, and to its indifference to any defense the locals might have thought of mounting around their capital. Vaako could have surrounded the dome with drop-ships, but marching up in good order across the approach bridge was far more dramatic. An appropriate place for accepting the capitulation of the planetary government. In a display of absolute power, the Lord Marshal, his most trusted senior officers, the Purifier and an appropriately impressive ground force, marched in a Procession of Conquest to Helion Prime's capitol dome, purposely left intact by Vaako's forces. For example, this tactic was utilized during the campaign on Helion Prime.Ĭommander Vaako during the Helion Prime Campaign.Īfter destroying most of Helion Prime's air defense network and air forces, the Necromonger forces proceeded to systematically overwhelm Helion's last pockets of resistance. When subjugating a newly conquered world, he believed in crushing resistance as quickly and ruthlessly as possible, so as to preserve as many enemy fighters as possible, to preserve them for purification and incorporation into the Necromonger Empire. Though he was a warrior, he was also pragmatic as well. A strict adherent to the tenets of Necroism, Vaako loyally followed the Lord Commander's will without question. Often, he is chosen as one of the Lord Marshal's favored commanders to lead the Necromonger forces in planetary assaults.
Unusually young to have achieved such a high rank, Vaako was considered a fine commander, as dedicated as one could ask for and a superb solo fighter in his own right.
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