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  1. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.

    I just noticed the thread title does in fact say ARMAGEDDON so I decided it'd actually be best to start a new thread for the second part of the trilogy, it can be found here: https://www.the-sietch.com/index.php?threads/the-salvation-war-pantheocide.4958/
  2. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Pantheocide
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Pantheocide - 1

    This is a direct sequel to The Salvation War - Armageddon whose thread can be found here. (Note: Approval for the republication of this work on The Sietch has been granted by the author.) Pantheocide: The pre-planned, organized and systematic extermination of gods. Source: World Online...
  3. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.

    That's the end of the first story, Armageddon. There is a sequel which is almost just as big called Pantheocide which you can probably guess takes the series. I'll start (re)posting that sooner... or later... but more likely sooner. And I might just do it in this thread... because it is called...
  4. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - The End

    Heavengate, Hell Belial looked at the great fortress that guarded the one single gate that led directly from Hell to Heaven. The guards were sloppy, ill-disciplined and this compared badly with the days under Satan’s rule. The humans hadn’t found out about this place yet and their machines were...
  5. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 85

    Outside Palelabor, Tartarus, Hell “Do you think she’s lying?” “Of course she is. This is hell, remember. The only question is, what is she lying about?” General Thomas Waldhauser was watching the gates of the fortress with professional interest. “You know, looking at this place, you’d almost...
  6. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 84

    Hartlepool, Lancashire. “BBC Radio 2, online, on digital and on 88 to 91 FM.” The voice of veteran DJ Terry Wogan said over the car radio. “It is eight o’clock, here is the news read by John Marsh.” The news reader said once the time signal had finished. “Allied Forces in Hell continued their...
  7. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 83

    Hills Around The Underground Fortress of Palelabor, Tartarus, Hell “Team-One reporting in Sarge, there’s life down there.” Cassidy shifted her position on the rocks and steadied her binoculars on the gates concealed in the canyon walls. Whoever had built the approach had done a fine job of...
  8. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 82

    HMS Astute, Northern Seas, Off Tartarus, Hell “The spams said the Seawolfs were fast, they never said they were that fast.” Captain Phillips looked up from the chart plot with irritation in his voice. “We’re falling further behind all the time. How long until we’re off the coast of Tartarus?”...
  9. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 81

    Command Area, Free Hell “Looks good on you Jade.” “Did I get it right? Nobody back on Earth dresses like this any more, not that I know of anyway.” “Looks right to me, look if The Boss isn’t interested, you might give me a call.” Jade Kim punched Titus Pullo’s arm and entered Caesar’s tent...
  10. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 80

    The Amphitheater of Tranios, Underneath the City of Dis, Hell It had once been a gigantic volcanic bubble, a chamber filled with lava from the vents underneath. Then, during the great eruption that had created the Hell Pit super-caldera, the bubble had vented to the outside and the magma had...
  11. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 79

    Bravo Portal, Off Bermuda, Earth The black ellipse had mushroomed open and now dominated the Great Sound of Bermuda. The shipping channel into the ellipse was guarded, for what came one way through the hellgate could be matched by what came in the opposite direction. Naval Base Hell-Bravo was...
  12. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 78

    Grays Lane, Clifton Council Housing Estate, Outside Nottingham Time, tide and the SAS wait for no man. Gorgons, they were something different. Gorgons needed care, the available intelligence pointed out that they were uniquely dangerous. They had a means, as yet unidentified, of entrancing...
  13. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 77

    Plateau of Minos, Hell By the standards of Hell, the Plateau of Minos was well-organized. If was dominated by the great black gate at one end, a gate that had all the appearances of a transit portal but was set in the rocky face of the Hell-pit, in the mouth of a cave that defined its shape...
  14. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 76

    Walls of Dis, Hell This wasn’t like normal sieges. The rules of a siege were well-established; the defenders mounted guard on the walls of the besieged fortress, the attackers started to build their own fortifications around that fortress. Their aim was to cut supplies to the besieged garrison...
  15. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 75

    RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, UK. Flight Sergeant John Archibald wiped his brow, reflecting on the fact that changing the gun pack on a Hunter FGA.9 had never been as hard work ‘back in the day’, at least it was not a Lightning ‘quick change pack’. If ever there was a misnamed piece of equipment...
  16. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 74

    USS Turner Joy, On Trials Before Leaving For The AUTEC Transition Point "Kind friends and companions, come join me in rhyme... ..Come lift up your voices in chorus with mine. Come drink and be merry, from grief we'll refrain.. For we know not when we will all meet again. So here's a health to...
  17. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 73

    Vulcan XH-558, Over Western Iraq. XH558 was flying her first operational sortie since returning to RAF service, a survey flight of Hell. With her long endurance she could stay on station for a long time and increase humanity’s knowledge of the geography of Hell. Wing Commander Winters was...
  18. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 72

    Four Leagues West of Belial’s Stronghold, Tartaruan Range, Northern Region of Hell Memnon settled back and closed his eyes. He was almost gray with exhaustion but he’d made it up and found a good place to hide. One concealed from Belial’s stronghold yet with good observation points near to it...
  19. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 71

    Dis-Dysprosium Highway, Hell His army was disintegrating, dissolving into chaos even while he watched. It had sounded so easy, so sensible, to drop back to a defensible line where he could hold and block the human advance. Demonic warfare had few concepts for defensive operations, mostly the...
  20. LTR

    Original Fiction The Salvation War - Armageddon.
    Threadmarks: The Salvation War: Armageddon - 70

    Recreational Hall, Camp Hell-Alpha, Hell “Aces and Eights with a Queen on the side. Read’em and weep.” Sergeant (deceased) Tucker McElroy reached out and scooped the pool off the table with a flourish. Corporal Gerry Links looked miserably at the empty table and his depleted stake. “I guess...
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