The Warmaster's envoy, clad in strange feather-woven garments and adorned with the bones of the dead, looked toward the Envoy Magos before him.
"Filippo, how much longer until the Fabricator-General arrives?"
Filippo smiled as his gaze swept over Captain Lasalle Coradon and his company of warriors in gray-green armor.
"The Fabricator-General has prepared a surprising gift for you."
"What gift?" Coradon asked. He had risen from the ashes and ruins of Isstvan III, personally slaughtering the loyalists within the Legion.
After the war, the leader of the Ravagers had been selected by the Warmaster as a captain.
During the prolonged guerrilla war at the Rock of Ghana, he had seized an Arcane Prism mine and become the most celebrated hero of the Legion's first defeat in that campaign.
Filippo raised his head. "Three Urato-pattern General Cannons."
Because Mars guarded the secrets of manufacturing colossal War Engines so closely, only a handful of Forge Worlds were capable of producing General Cannons.
The Diamond Star secretly supported by the Warmaster was one of them, capable of manufacturing the terrifyingly powerful Grand General Cannons.
Yet before the war on Gordian had ended, Nimrod had launched a surprise attack on Diamond Star, taking control of the entire Forge World and the Grand General Cannons it had produced for the warband. Their destructive power could even rival that of Titans.
Though the Urato-pattern was merely a lesser General Cannon, its firepower was still enough to destroy Titans. Its devastating barrage could wipe out the super-heavy tank formations of an Astartes Legion, making even the Diamartin-pattern Siege Cannons of the Iron Warriors pale by comparison.
"Scoria has always wavered. He rejected the Warmaster's offers many times, so why would he suddenly present such a precious gift?"
"My persistent persuasion changed his mind." The Envoy Magos believed