SEVER ZERO
Through his sniper scope, Ren saw something that made the blood freeze in his veins.
The rear doors of the second APC hadn't closed properly. As the vehicle turned, the doors slid open by a few inches.
Standing inside the troop bay wasn't a squad of bored, coffee-drinking Blackwatch guards.
It was a Seraphim.
In the real world, the Admin's ultimate anti-virus programs didn't look like fifty-foot-tall golden angels. They were Inquisitors—elite, cybernetically enhanced human operatives who answered directly to the Admin AI. They wore sleek, seamless white armor that contrasted sharply with the Blackwatch black. They didn't carry kinetic rifles; they carried heavy plasma lances.