Line #0 Awesome/GreyKnights


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3	* Saphentis' [[DyingMomentOfAwesome last stand at the end of]] ''Dark Adeptus''. Facing off against a Chaos-corrupted tech-priest whose biotech augmetics are far superior to his, he [[AnArmAndALeg loses most of his limbs]] and a significant amount of his organs. As his foe indulges in [[IShallTauntYou pre-execution gloating over his badly injured foe]], a dying and partly brain-dead Saphentis retorts by luring his opponent in close, then [[EyeScream overloading his augmetic eyes to create a makeshift shrapnel grenade]]. He caps it all off by using the last of his strength to pin them both in place to be crushed by a titan. Even for a high-ranking Archmagos cyborg, ''that'' was a hell of a way to go out.
4	--> '''[[BigBad Scraecos]]''': The chances of your prevailing over me were never higher than nil. Your death here was a logical imperative from the start. Here the equation is balanced with your death, for death is the ultimate logic.
5	--> '''Saphentis''': Your reasoning is faultless. Except for the one factor of which you are not aware.\
6	'''Scraecos''': Really? ''(Begins tearing Saphentis apart with his mechadendrites).'' And what is that?\
7	'''Saphentis''': [[FiveSecondForeshadowing You are outnumbered.]]
8	* In ''Grey Knights'', Justicar Alaric and a small team of his Grey Knights were about to face one of the most terrible daemons in the galaxy. In fact, it was one so terrible that it once massacred over 300 Grey Knights in one battle. To inspire his men, he gave this awesome speech:
9	-->''We do not know what our chances of survival are, so we fight as if they were zero. We do not know what we are facing, so we fight as if it was the dark gods themselves. No one will remember us now and we may never be buried beneath Titan, so we will build our own memorial here. The Chapter might lose us and the Imperium might never know we existed, but the Enemy - the Enemy will know. The Enemy will remember. We will hurt it so badly that it will never forget us until the stars burn out and the Emperor vanquishes it at the end of time. When Chaos is dying, its last thought will be of us. That is our memorial -carved into the heart of Chaos. We cannot lose, Grey Knights. We have already won.''
10	* Ghargatuloth himself has an epic moment despite being the villain of ''Grey Knights'', when he is revived and the extent of his scheme becomes clear. He manipulated events behind the scenes for thousands of years, including purposefully setting up an Imperial Saint and gradually corrupting the Trail of Saint Evisser with innumerable deep-cover Chaos cults in order to facilitate his rebirth. Then he goes on to explain how he manipulated the Grey Knights themselves, knowing that he could count on them to believe that the sword of Mandulis would banish him again when it was actually the final piece needed for his rebirth, essentially making a mockery of the entire Grey Knight order and the sacrifices they made a thousand years ago. Ghargatuloth ain't a greater daemon of Tzeench for nothing.
11	* Justicar Tancred gets one in ''Grey Knights'' when he rises up after the possessed corpse of Saint Evisser nearly kills him, marches up to the Saint while roaring the battlecry of the Grey Knights, and then decapitates the heretic. He doesn't survive the resulting explosion, but he went out like any great Grey Knight should; giving his life to hold back the darkness.
12	--> '''Tancred''': I am the hammer, I am the sword in His hand, I am the point of His spear, I am the gauntlet about His fist, I am the bane of His foes, and I am the woes of the treacherous, I am the end.
13	* And Alaric survives, and in the next book, along with less than ten Grey Knights, a few Mechanicus adepts and Inquisition agents managed to take down the Castigator, the Father of the Titans (basically the original and most powerful titan ever created), the daemon who possessed its data core and fool a Chaos Lord to destroy an ''entire chaos titan legion''.
14	* In ''Hammer of Daemons'' Alaric gradually loses his efforts to avoid possession due having his psychic defences nullified, but suddenly and finally overcoming the attempt by an ageless, Tzeentchian daemon with a single sentence. Later in the book, Alaric is on his last legs, the daemon makes another attempt at possessing him while a Collar of Khorne is suppressing his psyker abilities, the only thing holding back the daemon is his own willpower. Realising that the daemon is never going to give up, Alaric summons up every image of bloodshed, every atrocity he's ever witnessed, every horrifying and sanity-blasting memory he has.
15	** That moment is great, but not the real SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. The true Crowning Moment occurs just after that, when the daemon makes yet more attempts to possess him. Lets repeat that, he stopped himself from being possessed by voluntarily going mad. Wow.
16	* At the end of ''Hammer of Daemons'' Alaric starts an uprising which destroys ''an entire Khorne Daemon World and sabotages a Black Crusade'', and he survives, returning to the Imperium. All without any help from his Chapter.
17	* Alaric, before going off to fight Ghargatuloth in ''Grey Knights'', receives a communication from Legeia that seems to be gibberish. In the battle, after Tancred falls, Ghargatuloth is ascending, and it appears before Alaric and asks him if he has any last words. He proceeds to repeat the gibberish, which he realized was the daemon's True Name, stunning and horribly injuring it.
18	* The strike cruiser is about to go down. They're on their final deployment run. Nobody in the crew is going to survive, because they're charging straight at the planet's atmosphere so they can launch drop pods before the ship blows up. Hitting the atmosphere will be like ramming the ship into a solid wall. The following exchange occurs between Alaric and a crew member:
19	-->"Good work, officer. What's your name?"\
20	"None of us have names. Deployment in six minutes, brother-captain. The Emperor protects."
21	* Medic Haggard from ''Hammer of Daemons'' is a simple man who had survived many years on a Daemon World, Haggard nonetheless managed to remain sane and helped Alaric throughout his imprisonment, saving his life several times in the process. He then joins in the revolt and manages to escape on a ship, only to find the ship had already been infested by a millenia-old Tzeentch Daemon (the same one that nearly possessed Alaric, and one he had failed to completely kill). The Daemon would proceed to kill all the other survivors, but Haggard would get his revenge. He sent the ship hurtling straight into the warp, which resulted in the Daemon being obliterated by Tzeentch for failing to give him thousands of souls as he had promised. Haggard's victory was so complete that while the Daemon shrieked in horror, Haggard was ''laughing''.

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