Looking down at the ruins of Gladstone IV Hammerhand reflected on the eventful last 4 months fighting across the surface of the planet. When he had arrived, from Orbit, the planet was a radiant ball of blues, greens and browns covered with patches of high swirling white cloud formations. It had looked a paradise despite the evil lurking presence of chaos on the surface.
Now brown and black clouds spewed from massive eruptions and their plumes roiled across the grey surface. All was grey, lands and water. A massive Imperial evacuation was underway. Despite the destruction of the planet the Imperial and Inquisition's proclamations had declared a massive victory over Chaos. The Chaos space fleet had been defeated as it passed the solar shock wave and so all traitor forces were trapped on the doomed planet.
Only Hammerhand, Inquisitor Hawk and perhaps the Assassins Guild knew exactly why the planet was collapsing into a black hole. The astronomers were have a field day with new theories of quantum black hole creation and their propagation in time and space.
Hammerhand knew that his friend Halfhead the Ogryn accidentally dropped a molecular black hole. This had fallen out of Sophia's weapon that Hammerhand had been investigating under Hawk's orders. The black hole had destroyed most of Dogbelly in a sub nuclear explosion and then leaving a rapidly growing volcano had dropped through the crust of the planet to the core like a hot knife through butter. It was now growing exponentially. Eventually it would consume the planet and in a few years the entire Gladstone system.
