Gamma World's doctrine.
First, strike from range. Once the bombardment had done enough damage, descend for targeted elimination.
After all,
their firepower was sufficient.
"Chaos is actually fighting itself. That saves us some trouble."
Through their scanners, they observed Chaos followers fighting among themselves on the battlefield below.
Towering psychic flames mingled with lightning and howling winds of decay. Their collision tore apart the earth's crust and triggered localized earthquakes above magnitude nine.
An ordinary person would not even have been able to stand, much less fight.
But—
Gamma had arrived.
On the ground, just as the psychic powers of the Tzeentch sorcerers and Nurgle sorcerers collided once more—
Light from Gamma World descended from outer space at faster-than-light speed, crashing into the center of the battlefield like a meteor weighing tens of billions of tons.
The sustained, roaring plasma turbulence instantly tore the battlefield apart.
The Chaos forces and human soldiers at the center of the battlefield were completely burned to ashes within the plasma turbulence. Farther away, the Chaos forces that had not approached the battlefield raised their heads, wondering who was bombarding them from the Warp.
Gamma World's light lances had always covered a broad area.
The Chaos forces still attempting to flee the turbulence discovered in mere seconds that the pillar of light had grown thicker and sharper. It was clearly scorching hot, yet it carried a chilling air of slaughter.
Before the first beam had even ended,
a second light-lance strike descended from the sky, landing upon a factory corrupted by Nurgle's Second Company. Vast numbers of Chaos structures that had yet to leave the flesh factory were scattered completely by the roaring plasma turbulence of the light lance. The Chaos daemons near the factory did not even have time to flee.
Only a small