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XKY-8766 felt his machine spirits give him instruction. As a Skitarii Alpha the Vanguard was a step over his fellow warriors in the art of leadership and ability but he still paled in comparison to the knowledge of both Machine Spirit and Tech Priest.
Such acceptance of his lot in life that the Vanguard organized his forces around the gun itself. He noted that such arrangement was place forward by the Arch Dominus himself meaning there was some arcane form of lore that the Skitarii was not privy to.
Thus wordlessly the Skitarii arranged themselves in what surely looked to be a firing cordon on the workers. Many of these workers, foreign to the idea of Skitarii and Lucius, looked at the forming barricades and wordless troops with horror. The only thing that forced them back into work was the beeping of the Servo-Skull that monitored their operation of the gun.
As this installation was planned to be under siege the barricades employed were both many and able. Each and every one of them possessed some form of explosive so that when the Skitarii started their retreat they would be able to employ some form of scorched earth tactics.
With their positions solidified they waited and watched. The crew of the artillery gun painfully placed another round into the massive gun and the nearby Servitor fired the gun into whatever fool decided to attack Lucius.
XKY was curious, in a certain way, to what was happening out in space. It was not his duty but as preached he was expected to acquire as much knowledge as he could. Though was it really a desire from his doctrines or that of a simple human? He hoped it was the former, for the latter meant that his implants were malfunctioning.
It was after that he felt one of his implants activate and his motor functions were yanked from him. He had heard from the Skitarii that such a feeling was jarring but to XKY it was sort of settling. Knowing that someone from far up above him was taking interest in his tasks meant that he was doing his duty.
If he understood the Machine Spirits correctly, the one who had possessed him was none other than the Arch Dominus himself.
Just as suddenly it came it left him. The simple knowledge that he was at the crux of action was something that the Skitarii could not hold back his excitement over.
He gave out a ping to his lessers, and recently made Skitarii from the same planet as the artillery crew. He was given the affirmation that everyone was indeed in position.
