>>5630364>>5630436>>5630562>>5631709>>5631737>Highway: 12 Sisters, 1 Vehicle>Urban: 9 Celestians, 40 Sisters, 6 VehiclesCanoness Malin organises the swift consolidation of her troops within a small plaza. Wounded Sisters are pulled from rubble or dragged from smouldering vehicles as the surrounding hab-blocks crackle and groan from blazing fires within. The dead are collected and Malin steels herself for Karmen's report.
4 of Velna's Celestians were badly crushed by rubble, 2 of Rosaline's Celestians and 3 of Malin's own Celestians were struck down in the ensuing firefight. 40 other Sisters have been killed or severely wounded by the Styrian assault, many lost beneath countless tons of rubble but others struck by heavy autocanons or explosive weapons. Karmen also reports the death of three of her Hospitallers, gunned down by traitors as they attempted to treat their wounded Sisters.
Styrian missile launchers and suicide bombers have taken out Castigator and wrecked two more Rhinos, an Immolator, and a Repressor. Some are merely immobilised with shattered tracks or weapons, but others have been torn asunder with the loss of half a dozen of their crewmembers.
Canoness Malin takes comfort in the fact that for every Sister she has lost, dozens of Styrian renegades were slaughtered and they leave at least half a regiment of corpses and materiel in their wake as the wounded are sent back to the elevator and the remainder of her force push on towards the stronghold.
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