Big Guns Never Tire

The Imperial troops march forward onto the Mansion, that is what the soldiers are calling it. Imperial command are naming it Objective R-1, or Rashidamin One, it is the origin of the data-taint.

Adept Phoboes, along with his servitors and droids, are first to enter the Mansion. They report finding a device, two infantry squads also find the same devices.

The Commander deems the devices heretical, and two of them are smashed with powerfists. The rest of the Imperial forces dig in.

As the ogryn servitors near the device it begins to hum, the sound is audible across the battlefield. Vox-picts capture a Keeper of Secrets materializing in the Mansion. Other daemons begin to appear as though following her into realspace.

Fire and yelling emits from the Mansion as monsters and servitors unleash hell and retribution on each other.

Yelling his trademark rant about Dolly, Jakk-01-d-9 begins another killing spree.

There was nowhere safe as daemons appeared, infantry casualties were moderate, and casualties inflicted were high.

This is the last vox-pict of Phoboes before he was incinerated in unholy flames. The Mechanicum has lost a great priest. Even the ogryns were bested, but only after a grueling slug-fest.

The captured towers proved to be safe, although the ground troops took the brunt of the assault.

As these combats rolled out, the Commander was last seen engaging the daemon princess known as Severinia. Command has been reduced to infantry command only, and currently Lt. Cm Oshaz is keeping the platoon together well.

Any daemon who survived bombardment was a great challenge in combat, a challenge a guardsman was hard pressed to come out of alive. The survivors, all, are heroes.

Last of the daemons to return to hell, was the Lustgrinder (known to Imperials as Lilith), which IKE immediately engaged. As they drew closer, the air between them erupted with atom-shattering energies. Lilith, damaged, charged IKE, beginning a titanic combat.

The data-taint was stopped, and the day was won, but at the cost of much Imperial blood.

Lt Cm Oshaz has requested additional forces to cover their return to Tempestus from Imperial Command. The request was confirmed by the 609th IST regiment and is enroute.

-V.O. Leems, your Imperial guy on the front line.