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The cannon was loaded, then shot. Loaded, then shot. Loaded again, and then shot again.
His Machine Spirits alerted him that it had been four minutes since they had taken position over the gun. Every time the gun fired he felt his sensory organs drop just that little bit more in quality. If he was not one of the Vanguard he would have worried about losing the Tech Priests one of his organs that were gifted to him. He was a Vanguard equipped with a Radium Carbine however. He was expected to lose the quality in organs before either conversion, cancer, or simple death took him.
With it being so quiet the Vanguard Alpha took out an Omnispex reader and began to scan the area. Whatever bits of knowledge this Machine Spirit could gleam was delivered in both a display and shot directly into his brain. It was then that he noticed a fuzziness with the results. He gave the Omnispex reader the subscribed knock to see if it would correct the issue and nothing came of it.
Within a matter of seconds his mind began to race through issues with his device. As a Skitarii Alpha he took the best care with his machines that only the Engineers and Priesthood were above him. He ran through an ingrained list of procedures that he had taken and after twleve seconds found that he had done all that was instructed of him.
While he did not like it he finally spoke, +Lord Dominus L3ST3R, my Omnispex system is failing and my Machine Spirits do not recall such an error happening in its history. I am sending you the information now.+
It took him about eighteen seconds but the package was sent from his databanks. It was only a matter of seconds before his sensory organs were taken over again and his Omnispex was forced upwards. As another shot of the artillery gun went off XKY spoke a line of occult binary that he never knew existed. The Omnispex flickered to life as the rear loading hatch to the gun opened.
Several hostiles were alerted to the Skitarii within seconds.
+Clear the firing deck!+ Shouted the Tech Priest who had possessed XKY as they forced the Skitarii to raise his Carbine against the targets. Within a second all of his lesser Skitarii did the same and the gunfire started.
Within seconds the guns fired up with green radioactive blasts of power. They slammed into the metal cylinder that was the Artillery gun’s barrel without harming the metal. The sounds and hollars of those inside rang through the air as the Skitarii were scoring shots against the Orks inside.
And like that the presence left the Skitarii. Whoever took over his systems must have had better things to look into.
