Armor of Rull: Difference between revisions

The '''Armor of Rull''' is a [[Legendary]] [[Titan]] armor acquired in the [[Leviathan (raid)|Leviathan]] raid.

{{Quote|My planet was dead. The sky poisoned by war with an extrasolar enemy in a war that continued to rage. Then [[Calus]] came.|[[Rull|Rull, Gun of Kaga Clipse]]}}

The Clipse had only celebrated their first century of global peace when the cataclysm struck. A flash of interstellar gamma radiation killed every living thing in their western hemisphere, poisoned the atmosphere, and destroyed all technological civilization.

Millennia later, they had become a civilization that knew only war—a culture that revered the gun, batteries of planetary defense weapons holding back an endless poison sky-fall. The moon Kaga-Clipse bristled with interceptors, ready to fend off any threat. They were no match for the [[The Leviathan|Leviathan]].

{{Quote|Calus had won. But he took nothing from us. Instead he gave us everything we needed to end our perpetual war.|Rull, Gun of Kaga Clipse}}

The greatest warriors of the Clipse lay dead. They formed a bloody trail through the Leviathan. Only Rull had lived to see the throne room.

What could Rull do but accept?

{{Quote|Calus invited the Clipse to join his Loyalists. We refused, at first. So he sent a Shadow.|Rull, Gun of Kaga Clipse}}

Rull gathered his cloak around him tightly as he pushed his way through the teeming marketplace. All around him, Cabal stumbled and pushed their way towards the celebration. No one seemed to question his identity as a foreign merchant, but his heart still raced.

"Oh, Rull. Don't fret. I promised you a warrior's paradise and you shall have it. The gifts will buy you access to some of my former friends. I haven't spoken to them in some time, and well, I'd like them to know I haven't forgotten."

{{Quote|[[Valus]] [[Valus Nohr|Nohr]] marched on our capital with a few thousand. For weeks we battered them. But the Valus. She broke us.|Rull, Gun of Kaga Clipse}}

He arrived at the estate of [[Iska'al]], former friend and confidante of the exiled Emperor Calus. It took surprisingly little to convince the guards to grant him entrance. The Cabal must truly be crazy for the wine he offered up as a gift. It was a day of celebration, after all. Who knows how deep into their cups these guards were?

Rull was covered in the sticky black and violet of Cabal blood and wine. He dropped Iska'al's body to the floor with a soft thud. Just then, [[Moli Imoli|Moli the Celebrant]] entered the courtyard. When Rull realized that his second target had carelessly walked alone into a secluded space in the midst of a massive celebration on the Cabal homeworld, he thought, "Perhaps this is the warrior's paradise that Emperor Calus promised."

{{Quote|Calus could not heal our air. My planet is still dying. But as long as I serve, I have hope.|Rull, Gun of Kaga Clipse}}

Rull activated his staff's secondary configuration and fired a harpoon into Moli's exposed flank. The barbs pierced deep, and the giant beast of a Cabal let out a monstrous howl. Blind with pain, he began to run, dragging Rull behind like a harpooned whale dragging a ship.