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Weeks have gone by, several planets completely obliterated as the Mechanicum Marched forward. Before them was the largest Orkoid fleet that he had ever come across before them. Before they were fighting ships that were counted in the hundreds but before TalOS was one thousand seventy eight ships within the fleet that was massed.
Behind this massive fleet of Orks was a planet that would more closely resemble one of the Ork’s vessels than an actual planet. Filled to the brim with scrap it contained within it so much iron that TalOS knew it was the home of the Orks.
+Victory is upon us.+ TalOS told both the crew of the Black Stone Fortress’s bridge and the rest of the fleet as he looked upon the horde of ships. He took a moment to look at his sensors before giving a solemn nod, +We fight today with the understanding that these Orks will be fighting closer to their full strength than usual. Do not underestimate them and begin gunline menuevers.+
Upon his words those ships with the longest range brought themselves to the front. A few were the Frigates but a great many others were the Tartarus class vessels that covered the gunline from one end to the other.
Just as TalOS had done so many years ago the gunline began firing upon the Orks who relentlessly charged at them. Just as the Arch Dominus estimated the Orks were experiencing what he realized to be the normal levels of battle damage their kind have. He brought up a series of records from the numerous skirmishes that were outside the range of the range of the Blackstone Fortress and compared them to the fight before him.
+Frigates prepare to receive boarders. We will not be able to take out all of the enemy before they arrive to strike us. All Tartarus ships after the fifteenth cycle will scramble behind the frigates to provide covering fire.+ TalOS said as he sent out a demonstration of the ideas within his mind, +Any edits suggested?+
Within seconds TalOS was flooded with thousands of responses from the Tech Priests who held a moment’s thought. So much knowledge and brain power before him was so much that he simply turned their responses into a graph for the Machine Spirits to place messages into.
He took his moment’s study and gave a nod, +Edit Cycle event to the sixteenth. Individual locations are being transferred to their specific Tartarus. Prepare for a five hundred unit error in the performance of this plan.+
With those words TalOS received an affirmation from each and every ship captain within the fleet.
