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The bridge was soon witness to the hundreds of shots fired off by the stellar installations. The movement of all the nearby monitor ships began their ranged bombardment of the flying xenos.
Shot after shot the Xenos would lose what seemed to be several of their ships but the protals from the rear kept supplying the Orks with more and more ships. Even when the Orks reached medium range the Tartarus Class ships did not move in to engage as it was a simple fact that the Xenos were much better in the melee than them.
Still it was a simple and frightful fact that with the volume of Orks coming through they were actually doing damage with their gunfire. It was slow but every minute one or two of the ships joining the defence platform fell. It was slow but the loss was evident.
+Is your accuracy holding Magos P0LT?+ TalOS asked the Magos though he already knew the answer.
+That is correct my Lord.+
+Sir, there is a slight deviation from the horde.+ Delcared one of the Magos, +They have changed their vector from Lucius towards the Blackstone Fortress.+
TalOS nodded as he heard those words. This was both expected and known to him.
With that thought TalOS for the first time in this battle looked towards the estimated moment that the Blackstone Fortress would switch from positive to negative. It was predicted that the moment their event occured that it would caused such a massive swath of devastation that it would route both armies.
Was it reliable, maybe. It was simply the only hope that the Mechanicum had and TalOS was happy enough to propheltize it.
Now though Lucius was under attack and seeing the amount ready to crash into the planet TalOS knew that it would result in damage that would surpass even the Plastoid Invasion.
Would he stay back and watch it happen?
>No, he will not. Move the Blackstone Fortress into engagement range.
>Full speed ahead. Time to show the Orks a thing or two about ramming
>Yes he will. The cost of the Fortress’s success outweighs whatever happens to Lucius.
