The tale of the Techpriestess continues from >>96461212
>As these heartwarming events transpired half a galaxy away, Inquisitor Dominic Corsini was screaming in incoherent rage. And though this was not an unusual state to find the Inquisitor in, his wrath was kindled as never before. Beneath his fists lay a crumpled missive from the High Lords of Terra rejecting his demand for the arrest and execution of the renegade Techpriestess Salafié Al-Faiz, nor would they even grant him an audience to make his case against her pardon! He had given everything in the Emperor's service, tirelessly hunting this heretic, yet now, in the very moment she revealed herself, justice was denied!
>Almost seventy years earlier, Inquisitor Corsini had been witness to an atrocity that proved but the first of many carried out by the Priestess across the fringes of the Segmentum Tempestus. In those days, he had been but a child, serving as a page in Governor's palace on Meridia Prime when Salafié had graced the planet with her presence.
>Though Dominic never knew what terrible offense had precipitated it, the Governor dispatched his personal guard to arrest Salafié, only to have them return to the palace as hideously shambling things of metal, while the Priestess herself strode the halls amidst her horde of mechanical thralls, cutting short the lives of men with the casual ease of a girl picking flowers. The slaughter continued for days as Dominic hid in the ventilation ducts, half starved, witnessing scenes of bloodshed that would haunt his dreams all the years of his life.
>When the Imperial Guard relief forces arrived weeks later, the Priestess was nowhere to be found, but the capital was in ruins, reduced to a vast excavation site seeking some unknown object that had lain far below. Every person Dominic had ever known, his family, his friends, all were lost. And on that day, the boy swore an oath to the God-Emperor that he would slay this accursed Priestess or die trying!