Warhammer 40K: Darktide’s New Enemies Reveal Treachery In The Militarum
Warhammer 40K: Darktide will pit players against the enemies of the Imperium. But what if your new enemies…are your former comrades?
Things are pretty bad for Hive Tertius at the start of Warhammer 40K: Darktide, and new enemies unveiled by the dev show just how bad they’ve gotten.
Because there’s treason in the ranks. The very members of the Astra Militarum sent to protect the Hive… well… hear for yourself:
That’s right, you’ll be fighting traitor guard. Fallen Militarum. Tertium Hive is under attack by a regiment of soldiers once designated as heroes of the Imperium: the Moebian Sixth.
Warhammer 40K: Darktide – New Enemies, Moebian Sixth
But who are they? Well we can turn to developers Fatshark to learn more about the Moebian Sixth:
These men were veterans: brave, well-trained, determined, and tough. Raised, for the most part, on Atoma Prime itself, they were sent away to war, and served long tours in the so-called Fringe War, a pacification campaign that has rumbled on for years in the feral worlds at the edge of the Moebian Domain. There are several Moebian regiments, in fact, but the Sixth is the most famous, the most decorated, and the most celebrated. Back home on Atoma, to the citizens of Tertium Hive, they are heroes. You don’t get lasmen any tougher than the Moebian Sixth.
They have spent their lives (and, in many cases, given their lives) to fight that campaign and keep the people of Atoma, and all the other populated worlds of the Moebian Domain, safe and free from invasion.
So where did it all go wrong? Well, like most things in the grim darkness of the distant future, it went wrong amidst the meatgrinder of endless combat.
Fatshark describes the members of the Moebian Sixth as battered by trauma, broken by experience, and embittered and disillusioned by the Imperial Administratum.
And when they learn too much about the Warp, they can turn…
Ultimately, they are not just monsters looming out of the dark to kill you. They’re highly trained, highly-experienced veteran troopers, with full military gear. They have been seduced by the creed of the Darktide, and they have come home, not simply to kill and exact vengeance, but – more poignantly – to share the ‘truth’ they have uncovered. The Moebian 6th truly believe they’ve seen the light, and that the dark ways they have discovered are far better and more liberating than the stagnant rubrics of the Imperium. They want to share that truth with you… with you, and every living soul on Atoma.
