Loken and other surviving Luna Wolves are aboard the Blood Angels flagship Red Tear traveling to Terra after escaping the virus bombing of Isstvan III. However, the ship encounters a violent warp storm that causes an emergency exit from the warp, dumping them near the planet Murder. Murder was previously discovered by the Blood Angels and is the site of a fierce ongoing battle between Space Marines and giant insect-like Megarachnids. Loken fears not just the Megarachnids but also encountering the human Interex civilization on the planet, who have formed an alliance with the simian Kinebrach and their dangerous weapons, which Loken blames for turning Horus against the Emperor. Sangu

1. Lone Wolves
Chapter 1
Loken looked down at his freshly repainted armour and admired the
brilliant white, the trademark colour of the Luna Wolves.
He was on board the Red Tear, Sanguinius’ flagship, travelling through the
warp. It had only been a month since that treacherous battle on Isstvan III
but he had already developed a hatred for most of his former friends, they
all followed the Warmaster.
Loken was sure he would have died if it hadn’t been for the Blood Angels.
They were on a routine scouting mission when they noticed that there was
no vox-chatter from the planet. They came in closer and realised that the
planet had been virus bombed, they were brave enough to land and explore
the planet. It was fate that brought them to the Choral City, they scouted
around for a bit and then they found, under a pile of rubble from a
collapsed bunker, Loken, and in various other places other surviving Sons
of Horus, although they had now repainted their armour and retaken the
name the ‘Luna Wolves’. The apothecaries aboard the scouting ship had
helped them cling onto life until they got back to the Red Tear.
So now Loken sat there awaiting the moment when they arrived at Terra.
The ship started to jolt as if there was turbulence, but the ship’s stabilisers
should have counteracted this.
The ship’s inter-vox system started up, “There appears to be a violent warp
storm. Would all personnel please prepare for emergency warp exit.”
This was not good, but Loken supposed that they had been lucky to get
this far with the Warmaster having all but total control over the warp.
Loken looked out of the window of his makeshift chamber and saw the
dazzling colours of the warp stop and the normal blackness of space
reappear. It took him a few seconds to realise where they were. He was
sure that the entire Blood Angels fleet felt the same sense of terror as he
did. He knew the planet that they were approaching, everybody aboard that
ship did. It was Murder.
Chapter 2
The battle between the Megarachnid and the Space Marines had been
fierce. The Blood Angels had been the first to discover Murder and the

2. entirety of the fleet sent down from the Misericord had been wiped out
leaving only a repeated help signal with the captain reporting what was
happening over a period of days. The final thing he said on that recording
gave that planet its name, “This. World. Is. Murder.”
The Luna Wolves and the Emperor's Children came to their aid to late but
still fought a violent war with the Megarachnid, giant eight-legged insects
mainly, but some flew or were towering building machines. But it was not
the Megarachnid that Loken feared, but the Interex.
The Interex were part of the human race that left Terra to colonise the
galaxy. They had also fought the Megarachnid but decided not to wipe
them out but to place them on a prison world with no form of space
transportation. The Interex had also formed an alliance with a simian
species called the Kinebrach who brought with them dangerous weapons
such as the Anathame which had wounded the Warmaster and caused him
to turn against the Emperor. Loken almost completely blamed the Interex
and Kinebrach for this treachery, even if Erebus had stolen the Anathame.
The Blood Angels did not know of the Interex and Sanguinius had to be
warned about them and the threat they posed.