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With the death of several million Orks who failed to arrive upon their beloved battlefields the Mechanicum reached forward. A simple process of clearing out the remnants was something that many of the smaller ships of the fleet did for their masters, after which the battlefield was evident to TalOS.
Upon the ground the Orks were shoulder to shoulder numbering billions upon the ground. Even with said words though they covered only a small part of the planet as all their forces were concentrated in trying to pierce the Fortress they had built on the most optimal mountain.
Fortress OR-1, the first fortress of the Orkoid Reconquest. Many more would soon be known to the records of the Mechnicum and likely to become the basis for several Forge Worlds. Their names will likely change too as they either Honored a great War Machine that had fallen or a Magos who reluctantly left the Crusade to begin the process to reconstruction. This planet was able to host liquid water after all, there was no reason to abandon it to anyone else.
+Angle barges to bombardment positions.+ TalOS declared as he sent a vox signal down to the battlefield, +Arch Magos Dominus Sicarian, are you in a position to lower the shields to receive orbital bombardment?+
TalOS waited for a moment as the line continued to be dead. Quickly he seeked any records accessible from the air and saw a series of dangerous items. Several bogies of the Orks were able to make it into the Fortress…
As he studied this fact he finally got a signal, +My apologies Sanctus Dominus, the situation that you are learning of has been resolved thanks to the air troops of Columnus.+
+Good, prepare for bombardment followed by air drops.+ TalOS informed the Magos as he began making a series of commands through the Blackstone Fortress.
+Received. Shields shall be lowered in thirty two seconds.+
The Primarch studied the screen before him for every second that was declared. His mind quickly registered the alignment of the numerous ships and craft that he had brought arriving in their position.
At thirty two seconds, the shields being projected from OR-1 were dropped. Without even a word from TalOS the bombardment soon began.