Shino and Kanas each led their squads toward the other. Both sides regarded the other as their opponent, and only by personally killing the other could they obtain everything they wanted.
For Shino, only by killing Kanas would the Space Marines on his side, who were still desperately holding on, have any hope of turning defeat into victory. Shino had always believed Kanas was the leader of these traitors.
After leading his squad in teleporting onto Shino's battle barge, Kanas activated the signal jammer on their new equipment, cutting off communications between the battle barge and the Imperium's other warships, leaving the Imperial fleet unable to contact one another.
The signal jammer covered only a limited area. Those within its range could still communicate with each other, but their messages could not be transmitted beyond the area covered by the jammer.
After all, the intelligence Shino had received was that a group of just over a thousand Space Marines were attacking an Imperial planet, though these rebels were exceptionally well equipped.
Yet only after arriving in this star system did Shino realize something was wrong. Not only were the enemy Space Marines well equipped, they also possessed a powerful fleet. During this naval battle, these heretics had relentlessly suppressed and battered the Navy, the Adeptus Mechanicus, and the Space Marines alike.
Had the Adeptus Mechanicus not deployed those three incredibly powerful bombs and severely damaged the entire Imperial fleet, the Imperial fleet would not have been able to keep holding on. It would merely have been defeated a little later. Although Shino had always known Imperial intelligence was unreliable, he had never imagined it could be this far off.
When both sides entered a conference hall, they spotted each other. For a moment, neither side fired. They merely sized each