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|image= [[File:MidnightCoupHandCannon.jpg|300px]] | |image= [[File:MidnightCoupHandCannon.jpg|300px]] | ||
|manufacturer= [[Cabal]] | |manufacturer= [[Cabal]] | ||
|style=[[ | |style=[[Loyalists]] | ||
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|type= [[Hand Cannon]] | |type= [[Hand Cannon]] | ||
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|service= [[Guardian]]s | |service= [[Guardian]]s | ||
|affiliation=[[Emperor Calus]]<br>[[Leviathan (raid)|Leviathan]]<br>[[ | |affiliation=[[Emperor Calus]]<br>[[Leviathan (raid)|Leviathan]]<br>[[Loyalists]] | ||
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The conspirators came late in the night, skulking into my court while we caroused. [[Dominus Ghaul|Ghaul]] himself led the coup, and it was by his own [[Red Legion]] that we were arrested. | The conspirators came late in the night, skulking into my court while we caroused. [[Dominus Ghaul|Ghaul]] himself led the coup, and it was by his own [[Red Legion]] that we were arrested. | ||
Imagine my surprise to see the [[ | Imagine my surprise to see the [[Consul]] stride into my court so puffed up with pride. He took cheap pleasure hurling spittle in my face. We were frog marched to the Leviathan under cover of darkness. | ||
There was to be no execution; Ghaul and the Consul feared the mob. They knew how tenuous their grip on power would be, and how the people adored their god-emperor. | There was to be no execution; Ghaul and the Consul feared the mob. They knew how tenuous their grip on power would be, and how the people adored their god-emperor. | ||
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Ghaul dared not look me in the eye. What was the emotion on his face? Was it shame? How could he bear such hate for one who had been as a father to him? | Ghaul dared not look me in the eye. What was the emotion on his face? Was it shame? How could he bear such hate for one who had been as a father to him? | ||
We were sealed inside the [[ | We were sealed inside the [[Leviathan (ship)|Leviathan]] and ejected into the furthest reaches of space, left to the same fate I had determined for the Consul so long ago. We were left to die.<ref name="Leviathan"/> | ||
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Saladin passed the hand cannon back to Shaxx with an approving nod. "I doubt she feels differently. Seeing her father changed like that… had to be harder in the long run." | Saladin passed the hand cannon back to Shaxx with an approving nod. "I doubt she feels differently. Seeing her father changed like that… had to be harder in the long run." | ||
Shaxx holstered the cannon. "Maybe so, but that's what sets [[Caiatl]] apart. It's what set the [[Vanguard]] apart! Acting with honor, even at great cost to ourselves." | Shaxx holstered the cannon. "Maybe so, but that's what sets [[Empress Caiatl|Caiatl]] apart. It's what set the [[Vanguard]] apart! Acting with honor, even at great cost to ourselves." | ||
"Sometimes our honor IS the cost," Saladin rebutted. "And we'd better remember that on the other side of the portal."<ref name="ItL"/> | "Sometimes our honor IS the cost," Saladin rebutted. "And we'd better remember that on the other side of the portal."<ref name="ItL"/> | ||