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The idea was a simple one for TalOS to achieve, cut off whatever reinforcements the Orks can gain, then join back with Rogal when the time slaughter was to start. From the reports that TalOS was getting from the new Fortress World of Le’or, Dorn’s ability to hold back the enemy left few things to be desired.
With that the same could be said for TalOS. Every two days a new planet of Orks were exterminated and their atmosphere cleansed of the Ork Fungus that allowed so many of their kind to grow.
The easiest thing about dealing with Orks was being able to break their lines and obliterate their higher life forms. Orks, when fully grown, will always go for the fight no matter where the fight is which made it extremely easy for TalOS to wipe them out. One simply need to introduce a place for them to concentrate, such as a Drop Fortress, and the next day the Blackstone Fortress arrives to enable the wholesale slaughter of their kind.
Those battles were glorious at all parts. TalOS did not know it until he began relentless amounts of fights with the Knights of Dutonis, but the satisfaction of fulfilling their vows and eliminating an ancient enemy was somehow fixed into the Motive Force itself. With every success they achieved the greater and more powerful the Knights of Dutonis were.
Particep Semper was far too powerful to be swayed by such things but TalOS enjoyed them. It was something that he was learning about the Universe which seemed to suggest that the Motive Force was also afflicted by emotions. That, or that these machines became like this because that is what the Motive Force, through the Machine God, had turned them into.
So many Questions with so little time.
The latest numbers came and it was determined that the flow of Orks had been reduced by eighty percent. There were plenty of other worlds to take from the Greenskins but there was no really a need to take it from them. TalOS’s objective was finished as it was now easy for TalOS to finish the pincer.
