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Reality once again tore itself asunder to beckon the new arrivals into the realm of the Machine God. These arrivals were numerous and contained within their ships of rock, metal, and the occasional piece of Mitu Crystalline formations.
While it had arrived on schedule the fleet was larger than previously thought.
Upon realizing the ships coming into the system was the moment all systems of the Mechanicum were set to alert. Just as that was set numerous Monitor Ships awakened their Machine Spirits and aimed their armaments at the incoming horde of Ork.
Upon seeing their new foe the Orks began their assault in the truest of fashions. Running towards the ships of the Mechanicum with a reckless abandon that would not be out of place with the Mechanicum’s own doctorine against the Mitu.
This was within initial parameters and nothing held itself against the incoming forces.
The speed they exhibited was immense. The rate they had thrown themselves towards the Mechanicum ships marked them as running faster than the 95% of known cases to the Mechanicum’s archives. Such a situation was marked for questioning and examination.
With knowledge that they were approaching at incredible speeds a new order was given to the fleet of Tartarus Ships. With the command the ships began their route away from the Ork ships in what was an easily laid retreat.
The Orks did not slow down even as the Mechanicum Ships began to grow to full speed. They seemingly were unconcerned thanks to the fact that they were slowly catching up to their prey and would surely ram them when the chance presented itself.
As they did their retreat there was a sudden change to their demeanor. The Tartarus ships were given instruction to fall back and allow the Orks to get within range of the batteries built around Lucius.
Upon reaching thirty light seconds from Lucius they quickly changed their direction and faced themselves towards the planet proper. Scanner systems failed to gather some sort of meaningful detection systems originating from the Orks so it must not have been new knowledge gleaned from intelligence systems. Thus the enigma was found.
This situation was marked.
These matters of knowledge did not matter to the Orks who quickly started to charge their way directly towards Lucius. Upon quick estimates of their velocity they were all roughly making a beeline towards the Blackstone Fortress.
