THE VOID BETWEEN STARS IS NOT EMPTY. THE VERATHARI HAVE BEEN THERE FOR MILLENNIA.

From the fragmented star-charts of the Free Merchant Vessel Perseverance, recovered after the crew vanished without trace

"We saw them on the long-range scanner first — a dozen silhouettes moving faster than anything with mass has a right to move. By the time we understood what we were looking at they were already through our hull. They didn't board us like pirates. They moved through the ship like they'd memorized every corridor before they arrived. Whatever they took, they knew exactly where to find it. We never saw their faces."

⚔ BATTLE HAMMERED ORIGINAL DESIGN

These figures are an original Battle Hammered creation — concept generated, designed, and produced entirely in-house. You will not find these sculpts from any other source. Every VeraThari Void Raider is a unique figure exclusive to the Battle Hammered range, zenithal primed and ready for your brush or the battlefield.

THE VERATHARI — ANCIENT EXILES WHO CHOSE THE DARK:

Long before the younger races built their first cities, the Aetheri walked among the stars — an ancient people of impossible grace and devastating intellect, masters of both arcane science and the hidden pathways between worlds. Then came the Fall. The catastrophe that shattered their civilization drove most to seek refuge wherever they could find it. But not all.

Some chose a different path entirely.

The VeraThari are the ones who refused to grieve. Exiled from their own shattered society, unwilling to submit to the cold disciplines of their sanctuary-vessel kin, they took to the void and never looked back. For ten thousand years they have plied the dark between stars — raiding, trading, mercenary work when it pays, outright piracy when it pays better. They answer to no authority, bow to no lord, and recognize no law that doesn't come from the barrel of a weapon or the edge of a blade.

They are not savages. That is the mistake every species makes exactly once. The VeraThari carry technology millennia beyond anything the younger races have managed — ancient arcane weapons that fire crystalline shards capable of bypassing conventional armor, sensor systems that read a ship's crew manifest before the vessel knows it's being watched, and knowledge of spatial pathways through which their raiding craft vanish and reappear without warning. They supplement this ancient arsenal with whatever they've salvaged across ten thousand years of void-roaming — repurposed alien machinery, looted components, xenos devices of uncertain origin jury-rigged into their existing systems with the casual genius of a species that has forgotten more about technology than humanity will ever learn.

They are ancient. They are patient. And they have been doing this for longer than your civilization has existed.

THE VERATHARI CODE — BATTLEFIELD DOCTRINE OF THE VOID RAIDERS:

Veteran void-captains who have faced the VeraThari and survived understand precisely why these ancient outlaws dominate every engagement they choose to enter:

• Sliver-Fire Supremacy: Every Void Raider carries ancient crystalline weapons that deliver a hail of razor-edged sliver fire with lethal precision — on the finest shots, the shards find gaps no armour can cover, making even a glancing hit potentially fatal. A full squad saturates an area so completely that even heavily armoured targets find their joints, seals and visors compromised by thousands of micro-shards moving at hypervelocity
• Fuelled By Suffering: The longer a VeraThari warband remains in combat, the more dangerous they become — ancient neural-stimms flood their systems as the battle progresses, sharpening reflexes, accelerating reactions, and transforming already deadly warriors into something altogether more terrifying by the time the fighting reaches its peak
• Phantom Discipline: VeraThari have operated outside conventional military structures for millennia — a squad that deploys from a raiding skimmer hits the ground already in formation, already firing, already advancing before the enemy has processed that boarding has occurred. They were shooting before they landed
• Warden's Authority: The squad's Void Warden drives the warriors forward through ruthless personal example — marked by trophies and battle-honours that speak for themselves, their presence alone is enough to keep the line advancing when lesser warriors would break
• Void Lance Reach: A single Void Lance specialist extends the squad's threat envelope dramatically — an ancient anti-armour weapon capable of punching through a tank's hull from across the battlefield, its shots so precise they find weak points lesser weapons cannot even threaten
• Sliver Cannon Suppression: Where the squad needs to lay down overwhelming fire, the Sliver Cannon specialist delivers a torrent of crystalline death that saturates entire formations — the sheer volume of shots means even the luckiest target cannot dodge everything, looted and adapted from a dozen conquered worlds and firing faster than anything its size has a right to

TACTICAL VERATHARI WISDOM:

A full squad of twelve Void Raiders delivers maximum sliver-fire output with the bodies to absorb casualties while maintaining combat effectiveness. Deploy from a raiding skimmer for a fast-moving strike force, or position on foot to hold captured ground and extract maximum cost from anything that tries to retake it. These warriors have been doing this since before your empire existed — trust the doctrine.

SQUAD WEAPONS MANIFEST — 12 MODELS TOTAL:

• 6x Sliver Rifles — standard ancient crystalline shard weapons, rapid-fire anti-infantry
• 1x Null Blaster — compact anti-armour pistol-carbine hybrid, short range tank killer
• 1x Web Shredder — filament dispersal weapon, anti-infantry area saturation
• 1x Thermal Javelin — superheated close-range lance, melts through armour at point-blank
• 1x Sliver Cannon — salvaged multi-barrel suppression weapon, devastating anti-infantry rate of fire
• 1x Void Lance — long-range anti-armour lance, threatens vehicles from across the battlefield
• 1x Void Warden — squad leader, additional trophies and battle-honours, power blade and sidearm

CONDITION & VOID-READINESS:

• Original sculpts — unique VeraThari figures not available from any other source
• Zenithal primed and ready for your brush or battlefield as-is
• Complete squad of 12 warriors with full weapon loadout as listed above
• A complete dark elven raider squad for 28mm sci-fi wargaming — all weapon variants included for full WYSIWYG compliance across multiple game systems
• Each squad is individually assembled and may have minor variations between batches — no two warbands are identical
• Structurally complete, no damage
• Ready for immediate deployment into any void-raider warband

VOID REAVER FLEET TARIFF INTELLIGENCE: Intercepted transmission — origin unknown, destination unknown

"Attention commanders operating in Imperial American space. All VeraThari materiel in this consignment was manufactured in forge-facilities located in the United Kingdom of Terra. Under current trade accords, such items enter your territories at the standard 10% levy — as opposed to the 145% punitive tariff applied to goods originating from Sino-sphere manufacturing. Void-traders sourcing from Battle Hammered receive authentic British-manufactured war-materiel at minimal tariff burden. This window does not remain open indefinitely."

BATTLE HAMMERED VERATHARI CERTIFICATION:

"These VeraThari Void Raiders have passed through the shadow-ports of Battle Hammered and been judged worthy of the long voyage. Original sculpts, unique to this listing — you will not find this warband anywhere else in the void."

VOID-FREIGHT PROTOCOLS:

• Wrapped in null-field packing materials rated for transit through turbulent space
• Full tracking through the dark between stars
• Ships from the frozen void-station of Alberta, Canada
• Battle Hammered satisfaction oath — upheld in every sale

Ten thousand years of void-piracy. Your enemies won't know what hit them.

FOR THE VERATHARI. FOR THE VOID. FOR BATTLE HAMMERED.