Space Hulk 3rd Edition Mission Book.pdf

CONTENTS

Introduction .

.. .2

Mission VIII - Escape Route .

. . . .2 4

Disaster at Secoris

The Sin of Damnation .

.. . .3

M iss ion IX - Regroup

.. . . .... . . . . .26

M ission X - Defend . .... . . .. . .28

Mission XI - Unknown Lifeforms

Missi on XII - Pitfall .

Board ing the Space Hu lk .

M ission Briefing .

... .30

.. .9

. . .32

Mission I - Suicide Mission

. . ... .10

The Imperium of Man .

The Space Marines

. 34

Mission II - Exterminate

Miss ion III - Rescue

. . .12

...14

.. .36

The Blood Angels

Blood Angels 1 st Company

. ... .38

Mission IV - Cleanse & Burn

.. . .. 16

.. . .39

... .40

Mission V - Decoy . . .... .... ... .

.. .18

..... . . .20

Terminator Armour & Weapons

Mission VI - Alarm Call .

Heroes of the 1 st Company ... ........ . .. .42

The Tyranids . .... .. . . . . .

Miss ion VII - The Artefact ....... ... .... . . .22

. .. .46

INTRODUCTION

Throughout the galaxy, the Imperium wages war against the many deadly enemies of humanity. However,

none of these enemies are as feared as the dreaded Genestealers. These horrifying, six-limbed monstrosities

travel across the galaxy in derelict space hulks in search of new planets to conquer. Only t he mighty Space

Marines stand between the Genestealers and the destruction of Mankind . Armed with an array of powerful

weapons and protected by massive Term inator armour, small squads of Space Marines board space hulks to

confront the Genestealers head on.

Of the many battles that have taken place against

the Genestealers that infest the ga laxy, none was quite

as desperate as the action that took place on board the

space hulk ' codenamed Sin of Damnation. Th is book

tells t he story of that battle, and includes twelve

different miss ions based on t he campaig n .

The Missions that follow describe the pivotal moments

of the Blood Angels' ensuing campa ign against the

Genestealers. As well as describing what happened on

board the Sin of Damnation, the miss ions provide all of

t he game information you need to refight thes e key

battles using the rules found in the Space Hulk Rulebook .

The M ission Book is split into three main sections:

The Campa ign Background, The Missions, and The

Imperium of Man. The Campaign Bac kground describes

the history of the Sin of Damnation ca mpa ign, starting

with the Blood Angels' f irst disastrous encou nter with

the Genestealers in the Secoris system . It takes t he

st ory up to the poin t that the Blood Angels board the

Sin of Damnation, intent on destroying the

Genestealers that lurked within and in so doin g

redeeming the honour of their Chapter. This is where

you co me in - the ultimate fate of the Space Marine s is

in your hands from this po int on .

Last but far f rom least, the f ina l section of t his book

describes the background for the Space Hul k game. Space

Hulk is set almost 40,000 years in our future. In the dark

universe of the 41 st Mill ennium, vast and terrible forces

threaten the very existence of humanity and al ien races

ravage en t ire solar systems. Sh ielded only by the potent

psychic power of the immorta l Emperor, the Imperium of

Man is besieged by its enem ies and our most potent

weapon against th ese terrible foes are the Space Marines of

the Adeptus Astartes. Th e Mission Book describes these dark

and compelling t imes, and includes detailed background

information on the Blood Angels and t he al ien Genestealers.

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DISASTER AT SECORIS

In the year 996.M40, an Imperial Navy patrol passing through the Secoris system detected a large space hulk

drifting in-system, drawn by the star's gravitational pull. The fourth world of the Secoris system was

a populous hive world, inhabited by more than fifty billion humans. It was a hub of commercial and military

activity and the threat posed by the closing space hulk was immense. Wary of boarding the vessel w ith his

crews, the commodore commanding the flotilla sent an astropathic message to the nearby fortress-

monastery of the Blood Angels. The Chapter responded in full, led by Commander Sangallo, and within

three weeks, the might of the Blood Angels had come to Secoris.

The sheer size of the space hu lk and its proxim ity to busy

t rade routes through the system preclu ded any kind of

systematic bombardment - debris would pose a serious

threat to navigation. Instead Commander Sangallo led a

full -sca le boarding action . The initial stage of t he board ing

went w it h little problem, but soon the Blood Ange ls

encountered growing resista nce as they attempted to

take possession of functioning engine rooms and control

chambers . Within th irty minutes, Ge nestea lers were

ro using from t heir hibernation in great numbers and

Sangallo committed his reserves to bolste r the defensive

perimeter around the boarding site, leading the

reinforcements himself .

t ide of the creatures. Of t he entire Chapter, only fifty Space

Ma rin es survived. Many departed t he space hu lk in saviour

pods still functioning aboa rd some of the spa ce hulk's

vessels. Meanwhile, a few selfless Thunderhawk Gunship

pi lots flew into open cargo bays and docking chambers to

extricate a handful of other squads .

The action had bee n a complete catastrophe for the

Chapt er. The shame of defeat would last far longer than

the losses infl icted .

Unable to secure thei r objective s, t he Blood Angels

diverted their attention to the inner areas of t he ship,

seeking the dormant Genestealers. Their attack on ly

se rved to has ten t he awakening process and soon

t housands of Genestealers had encircled the advancing

Space Marines. Under th e covering fire of t he 1st

Company Terminators, Sanga ll o tried t o extricate his

surro un ded sq uads and was eventua lly f orced to send

forward the Blood Angels protecting the landing zone to

provide a safe 'corridor' back to the boarding craft.

The Ge nestea lers attack relente d for a short while

and it seemed as if t he Blood Ange ls would be able to

withdraw in good order and re-establish their beachhead.

However, the ca lm was short-lived, as the Genestea lers

had not ed the Space Marines' tact ics and now attacked

to separate t hem from the ammunit ion and support

personnel at the board ing si t e. The battle desce nded into

anarchy as some sq uad s attempted to break through to

their objective wh il e ot he rs fell bac k t owards the

boarding torpedoes. Divided , the Bl ood Angels were

picked off, squad by squad, swamped by the

overwhelming numbers of their foes .

The batt le ended w hen Sangallo had no choice but to order

a general retreat. Though kill estimates put enemy slain at

close to twelve t housand, there seem ed an unstoppable

THE SIN OF DAMNATIO

It is rare to encounter a space hulk. For much of their existence they are tossed upon the ripples of the Warp,

only occasionally breaking into realspace . Even in the material realm the vast distances between inhabited

worlds makes it an unusual occurrence to encounter one of these wandering behemoths.

Th e immense interstel lar distances of the ga laxy make

conventional means of travel next to impossible. In order

to traverse these vast distances, the spaceships of the

Imperium and other races utilise Warpspace. However,

Warpspace is a dangerous place, w racked by storms

and inh abited by monstrous creatures, and it is not

uncommon for the crew of a vessel to be wiped out,

either from sta rvation, Warp-borne predators, murder,

suicide or countless other horrors.

Perhaps it was fate, the will of the Em peror or t he

machinations of the Chaos Gods, that the Blood Angels

were contacted by the Rogue Trader Borrak Vorra,

captain of the Windrush, a little more than six hundred

yea rs after the disast er at Secoris. By cosmic coincidence,

the Rogue Trader had dropped out of Warpspace almost

on top of a gigantic space hulk only a few light years

from the Blood Angels' home system of Baal.

+ + CAPTAIN RAPHAEL, BLOOD ANGELS CH A PTER,

MISSION L OG START. MISS I ON CLOCK SET AT EIGHT

MINUTES TO IMPACT. BOARDING PARTY DESPATCHED.

SUPPORT PARTIES WAITING FOR LAUNCH. + +

+ + BLESS YOUR WEAPONS, RAISE PRAYER FOR YOUR

ARMOUR. BEGIN TidE LIT ANIES OF' HATRED. + +

Th e lifeless ships are left drifting for ce nturies. Many of

the Warp's rivu lets of power draw together in certain

places, particularly where the Wa rp pushes aga inst the

boundaries of reality and causes a Warpstorm . The ghost

sh ip s of the Warp are dra wn to these places, where they

are crushed toget her by titanic forces. The resultant

mangle of seve ral ships is known as a space hulk.

Some space hulks are relatively small, only two or

three vesse ls compacted together. Others are ancient

and vast, hu ndreds of cubic kilometres or more. Li ke the

ships that spawn them, the space hulks wander upon the

unpredictable currents unt il a chance event deposits them

back into realspace. It is then that they may becom e a lair

for t he Genestealers. The space hu lks can drift through

spa ce undetected for cen turies, bringing t he Genestea lers

to new worlds to infect. Th ei r space-borne home is a

perfect lure for the unwary; the ships that make up a

space hulk often carry highly prized, imperishable cargoes

or are examp les of va lu ab le lost technology.

When word came of the new space hulk the Blood

Angels seized the opportunity to redeem t he ir past

f ailure. Under the leadership of Cap tain Raphae l of the

1st Company, the Blood Angels sent a task force to

intercept and investigate the vessel.

Dubbed t he Sin of Damnation by the Blood Ange ls,

the space hulk was large, made f rom the w re cks of

nearly a dozen different vessels. Scans performed by the

Windrush crew revealed there were high concentrations

of alien lifesigns aboard and Captain Raphael treated the

entire vessel as hostile territory, suspecting a large

Genestea ler prese nce.

Strike Cruisers of the Blood Angels transp orting t he 1st

Company an d su pporting troops broke Warp close to

the Sin of Damnation and launched boarding torpedoes .

Wh il e t he assault craft blazed through the ether, sca nn ers

ba thed the vesse l w ith low-power multi-spectral

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+ + TH E BLOOD ANG E LS HAVE RETURNED.

WE AVENGE NINE HUNDRED'AND' FIFTY DEAD.

TIME A L ONE DOES NOT HEAL OUR WOUNDS. + +

ana lysis, to provide ove rall layout data and identify the

concentrations of the dormant aliens. Stronger scanners

risked alerting the hibernating Genest eale rs before the

Terminators were aboard, so Ca pta in Raphae l dep loye d

autonomous recon dev ices known as Cyber-Altered Task

un its, each teleported to a strateg ic point aboard the

space hu lk to co ll ect vital inf ormation.

atoms at t he first sign t hat the Genestea lers were

escaping or that the mission was failing .

Eve ry warrior was un der immense press ure t hat day; it

was a matter of honour that the Blood Angels scoured

the Genestea ler threat from the space hulk and allowed

archeotechnologists and other Techp riests to conduct a

full survey of the ancient vesse ls t hat comprised it.

Anyth ing else would only serve to further crush the

Chapter's self-regard, stripping them of all respect and

authority. For the sake of the Chapter, Cap tain Raphael

and his warriors could not afford to fai l.

The scans showed that the majority of the space

hulk was powerless and lifeless, exposed to the open

vacuum of space. The bulk of it s vast. chaotic

architecture served no function at all. Inside was a

seem ingly random labyrinth of empty mess rooms,

access corridors, dormitories, loa ding bays, storage

chambers, command decks, maintenance bays and

other facilities. The haphazard maze was criss-crossed by

energy lines, power relays , pipes, cab les, comm unication

trunks, venting ducts and other crawlspaces. It would

have taken years to clear every last nook and cranny.

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+ + HO LD ING CO U RSE. ASSIGNED IM PACT POINTS

ID E NTIFIED. T ARGETING COM P LETE. IMPA C T

P ATT ERN

A NTIC I P A TED 99 . 5 % AC CURATE. + +

+ + W E A RE THE VAN GUARD O F HONOU R .

THE CUTTIN G EDGE OF THE SLooD ANGELS.

WE BRING DEATH. + +

Rap hae l's St rike Cruise rs orbited the space hul k

at a safe distance, their bombardment cannons and

torpedoes primed to reduce the Sin of Damnation to

BOARDING THE SPACE HULK

Closer analysis of the life scan data showed a huge concentration of Genestealers in the cargo hold of an

ancient merchantman. Though it was impossible to get anything like an accurate number, due to the low level

of the scan and the dormant metabolisms of the aliens, Captain Raphael's technicians informed him that there

were at least forty thousand Genestealers aboard, probably more.

Any other commander might have baulked at such odds,

but not Raphael. He was a Space Marine of the Blood

Angels and the pride of his Chapter rested entirely on

hi s sho ulders. He gave the order for the boarding

torpedoes to comp lete their final approach . The battle

would begin very soon.

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+ + RETR O SEQUENCE COMPLETE.

IMPACT VELOCITY. + +

++ ENEFlGISING RAM SHIELDS .. + +

+ + OUR MISSI ON IS A GIFT FROM T HE E MPER O R .

VICTDRY WILL RE D EEM OUR FOR EBEARS. WE ARE

BLESSED. + +

+ + IMPACT. + +

With painful memories of the Blood Angels' defeat at

Secoris, it was decided to commit only the Chapter's

Terminators against the enemies aboard the Sin of

Damnation . Over long ce nturies, the 1st Company

had been rebu ilt and Termin ator armou r repai red and

constructed . Roughly eighty warriors in total were

involved in the f ighting, under the command of

Captain Raphael, the company commander.

The majority of these Space Marines were organised into

five-man squads. With information sca rce, Raphae l

deployed his warriors using boarding torpedoes, rather

t han putting his trust in the vagaries of teleporter

technology. Huge missile-like boarding craft blasted

through the ether, punching through the outer hull of

the space hulk. The Space Marines disembarked from

their assault craft and swiftly established guard positions

against cou nter-attack.

With t he breach made, a perimeter was established inside

which Techmarines and other support personnel could be

moved aboard the space hulk. Thi s base of operations

would be essential to the Blood Angels' success, providing

ammu nition and ongoing repairs to the Space Marines as

they pressed outwards from the landing site.

In order to retain command overview, Captain Raphael

remained on board the Strike Cruiser Angel's Sword.

From here he was able t o pass on strategic objectives to

the squads in the space hulk, leaving individual missions

to the initiative, t raining and experience of the squad

sergeants. By removing himse lf from direct f ighting,

Captain Raphael was able to maintain a degree of

strategic oversight that was lacking in the Blood Angels'

encounter at Secoris, ensuring that the Space Marines

and their support resources were effectively deployed in a

hazardous and ever-changing battle.

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