June 10th at 10:59am
-EPILOGUE-


Katharine Bryce

Upon receiving the report, High Commissar Pernus ordered the immediate quarantine of Red Reach and the deployment of a full investigative task force. The official inquiry would continue for nearly twenty years, becoming one of the largest internal investigations in the history of the Aurean Subsector.
Commissar Bryce never publicly discussed what she had found beneath Red Reach. Though repeatedly commended for her diligence and discretion, she would refuse every promotion offered afterward. She remained in service for another three decades before disappearing from public records entirely.

Thanatos Tempesti

The testimony of Thanatos Tempesti proved instrumental during the Red Reach Inquiry. His firsthand accounts of the deployments, the disappearances and the conditions beneath Red Reach helped investigators reconstruct decades of concealed military operations. In recognition of his service, and after a formal review of the circumstances surrounding his desertion, the charges against him were dismissed and his rank restored.
He accepted a position within the Chagothian training corps, where he spent the remainder of his military career instructing new generations of soldiers. Recruits remembered him as a harsh and demanding instructor who tolerated neither excuses nor complacency.
By the time of his retirement, hundred of thousands of guardsmen had passed through his training grounds, none knew the full story of the old instructor who taught them to fight and survive.

Adept LIV

Adept 01001100 01101001 01100001 01101110 01101110 01100001 00100000 00110100. Maniple MCCXII, from L series, unit IV became one of the principal authorities overseeing the Red Reach's hidden infrastructure and proved invaluable in securing the site and integrating its technologies into Mechanicus custody.
Over the following decades, LIV rose steadily through the ranks of the local Mechanicus administration, eventually assuming command of the Adeptus Mechanicus presence on Chagoth Primus
In the years that followed, five former members of the Chagothian ruling council were arrested under Mechanicus authority and transferred to Red Reach. None were ever seen again. Official records merely state that they were selected for "cognitive reassignment in service to the Omnissiah."
Several years later, five new techno-organic processors entered service within the complex.
Adept LIV never commented on the coincidence, but found it statistically amusing.

Titanya

Anya never fully understood the political consequences of Red Reach. She remained attached to Commissar Bryce for many years afterward, accompanying her on assignments across dozens of worlds. Witnesses repeatedly reported seeing a gigantic ogryn with a perfect denture carrying luggage, cooking supplies and occasionally wounded people through active warzones.
When Commissar Bryce eventually disappeared from Imperial records, Anya vanished with her. The only known mention of her appears in a routine medical record concerning the delivery of a child.

Aegor Nowak

Aegor survived as he always intended to.
The collapse of the whole Pixie Dust distribution network created opportunities that only a man like him could exploit. Within a decade he controlled a significant portion of Chagoth's underworld economy, even becoming a well known political figure, but he never involved himself in narcotics trafficking. Whether out of caution, wisdom or guilt remains unknown.
He would die of sepsis when his artificial kidneys failed at the age of 452 terran years

Priz Asagri

Always under Aegor`s orders, the “cosmic witch” worked as a bodyguard and enforcer for many years until her sudden demise, caused by a catastrophic warp backlash while attempting a psychic feat that witnesses would later describe as "unnecessary”.
By this moment, she had managed to avoid imprisonment, execution, daemonic possession, bankruptcy and at least three separate assassination attempts. By all reasonable standards and according to her own words this constituted a successful career.

Liutenant Miles

A small number of survivors recovered from the deepest tunnel networks of Red Reach were eventually extracted during early sanctioned operations severely malnourished, psychologically fractured and bearing extensive exposure trauma. After extensive medical and psychological treatment under Imperial supervision, those who retained basic cognitive function were quietly reintegrated into the Astra Militarum training academies, where their experience proved highly valuable for future subterranean and containment warfare doctrine.

Jarsus Stulton

Former Commissar Jarsus Mortimer Stulton was imprisoned while the Red Reach Inquiry took place. After twenty years of investigation, the whole judgment and the final verdict lasted less than twelve minutes. He was found guilty on every charge.
It was acknowledged that his actions had prevented the immediate collapse of Chagoth and it was also concluded that no practical alternative had existed by the time he assumed command. Neither of those considerations altered the sentence. On the day of his execution by hanging, Stulton declined legal advice, religious counsel and the opportunity to make a final statement.
Witnesses reported that he appeared relieved.

Doctor Nikia Bast

Pressured by circumstances, Doctor Bast left Chagoth and eventually settled on a remote world near the borders of Imperial space, where she put her medical skills to work as a respected back-alley physician. Far from the scrutiny of Imperial authorities, she neutered the rescued cub and raised it in secrecy, naming her Raheebah.
Contrary to every prediction, Raheebah did not grow into a mindless beast. She learned language slowly, displayed empathy, curiosity and kindness, and matured much like any other child. When Doctor Bast died in an industrial accident many years later, the local orphanage took Raheebah in, inscribing her as an “undetermined species”.
In time, she became one of its caretakers and eventually its co-director, dedicating her life to protect her children by any means necessary.