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The fleet was destroyed in short order which allowed the Blackstone Fortress to go through the system with ease. The civilization here, whose name did not matter, had a series of outposts across the system to act as both defenses and as homes for their people.
As these could act as flanking bases and minor fortresses, they were cleaned out with a combination of Skitarii Vanguard and Proelitor arms. It was a swift undertaking as all the lives that were upon these ships were taken and the vessels themselves filled with new monitoring equipment.
The natives had an infantile form of the Vox Network that the Mechanicum enjoyed so much. As it was young it was easily turned to work in the Mechanicum’s favor so that the invaders could learn anything and everything that could possibly be found.
Nothing was lost, let it be simple pictures to entire conspiracies that currently held the world under its dominion. Such information, which would have been useful during the negotiations, was shelved as the Mechanicum knew that these were facts that did not matter any more.
The last of the defenses, a series of artillery systems on the moon or orbiting the planet, were destroyed with a series of precision laser shots from the Blackstone Fortress. The fears of debris was easily defeated as any scrap which laid in the atmosphere was taken out through precision fire of the Blackstone Fortress’s guns.
As this was a settled world that could sustain the life of man, it was ruled that this planet was within the first percentile of acceptable planets. According to the same analysis this meant that bombardment was not an acceptable method of destruction for the planet below. There was plenty of exploitation that needed to be done and so war designs were made.
With a series of ships in position the drop pods were released upon open fields that were outside the city defense systems that would have held some resistance to the invasion. Such was standard combat formation as Lucius did not need any air to surface support now that touchdown was made. A series of long marches were made that arrived at many of the major cities, including the capital of the world.
The siege officially began when the teleportation beacons were turned on.
