Sazennus and His Daughter (1)
While Torgaddon, captain of the Second Company of Horus's XVI Legion, the Shadowmoon Wolves, was nursing his wounds in sorrow after suffering terrible losses by provoking someone he shouldn't have, far away at another Shadowmoon Wolves landing site, Sazennus, captain of the Fourth Company of the XVI Legion, was directing his reinforced company, a large force of Imperialis Militia, and priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus as they completed their deployment around the outskirts of Ruins City. They were now preparing to assault the defensive positions there, held by the Canopy Star garrison.
Yes, an assault!
As captain of the XVI Legion's Fourth Company and commander of this landing force, Sazennus had only one task: to seize Ruins City's military positions, its fortress base, and the main mining base in the mountains not far to the west!
However, to take the Canopy Star humans' shielded mining base, they first had to get past Ruins City, the fortress-like Steel Fortress beside its ruins, and the numerous permanent defensive positions manned by the garrison around the base.
Only after he had completely captured Ruins City, which faced the mining base from afar, could he and the million-strong Imperialis Militia and mechanical legions under his command turn their full attention to assaulting the largest and strongest mining base!
Unfortunately, Ruins City was no easy target.
Sazennus knew that Ruins City was the first city on Canopy Star that the Hero Federation of that Star Sector had reclaimed from the Warp Daemons. It was also the site of their first fortress-like Steel Fortress outpost, and it had been developed for the longest time and boasted the strongest garrison. On top of that, the mining base in the distance could send reinforcements at any time. So, although they had spent several