The Sicaran Longbow tank formation raced between the Word Bearers' crash-landed landers, heading straight for the center of the Forge Temple.
Bukayo Arshavin, Chapter Master of the Shadow of Order's Third Legion, scanned the video feed. Signs of heretical desecration filled the entire industrial complex.
Automated construction pods stood on enormous altars, every inch of their surfaces carved with evil runes.
What burned in the furnaces was not Promethium, but Warp fire boiling within bizarre devices.
Transport Ships had been forced into the industrial conduits. Inside their open holds, Mark IV Power Armour was stacked in neat rows, and Warp elixirs that shone with brilliant colors were piled high.
The decks of Thunderhawk Gunships bore the tread marks of Sicaran Tanks. Empty Leviathan Dreadnoughts waited for wrecked remains to be entombed within them.
The forge complex rumbled and shook. Countless mechanical tentacles burst from the walls and lunged at the steel hulls.
Screeching Melta shears tore at the tanks, rocking them violently.
Distorted plasma torches slammed against the steel hulls, spraying sparks everywhere.
"Incendiary warheads!" Bukayo shouted.
The Sicaran Longbows carried newly developed twin Longbow launchers capable of firing all kinds of warheads.
Each warhead had been carefully designed for a different tactical need, removing the need for large tank formations equipped for separate roles. The twin Longbow launchers spat blazing warheads. Rolling flames swept through the tentacles and blasted thousands of them to pieces.
Boom!
The entire Forge Temple trembled. Distorted machines extended dense clusters of Servo-arms and lashed the Sicaran Tanks from every direction.
A barrage of heavy blows sent one tank lurching sideways into a wall.
Mechanical tentacles swarmed over it and bound its black hull tight.
"Neutron Flux Warheads."
Because the Sicaran Longbow's primary ammunition was the Neutron Flux Warhead, Adeptus Mechanicus doctrine forbade the model