++A breach has appeared in the Divination Tower sector. The pressure on the reinforced ground is too great.++ ++Repair the damage and prevent xenos from entering the Machine God's miraculous holy ground.++ ++Deploy the Skitarii?++ ++The Skitarii's mission is complete. Their technology must be recovered and deciphered. Have the 37th Regiment seal the breach.++
The tech-priests linked to the Divination Tower sensed its damage as though it were damage to their own bodies.
To outsiders, they looked like heads embedded in the walls. Only their red-glowing eyes and the ceaseless torrent of data proved that they were alive.
An order was swiftly passed down and reached Tech-Priest Delia's communicator.
"Colonel, the ground outside has collapsed. Many xenos units are pouring in through the breach. The Divination Tower tech-priests have ordered us to seal it."
"Oh?" Lin Fan pulled his blade from an XV95 Ghostkeel Battlesuit. "Looks like Magos Kaos put on a convincing performance. That long chat I had with him wasn't for nothing."
"A performance?" Commissar Cain asked in confusion as he used his bolt pistol to kill several still-struggling T'au.
"Yes, a performance. Shadowsun is a cautious and cunning commander. If the act wasn't convincing, she wouldn't commit all her troops."
Lin Fan patiently explained the significance of the planet's defenses to Commissar Cain.
First came the Skitarii counterattack, which had inflicted enormous losses on the T'au forces. They had also never witnessed the Adeptus Mechanicus of the Imperium in action before.
Shadowsun would therefore believe that the towering structure was the core of the Imperium's defenses and would continuously deploy more troops to the battlefield.
Meanwhile, the Imperium's air force and various anti-air missiles would disrupt the T'au Empire's transport efficiency as much as possible, preventing them from deploying enough troops at once to overwhelm