"They're coming."
Most of what fell from the sky was wreckage from Ork warships. The tough Big Bosses could crawl out carrying Boyz missing arms and legs, ready for a good, satisfying fight.
Hiber had been clever. His fleet caught the enemy ships as they moved over the planet, with part of the fleet joining the planetary antiaircraft guns to form a web of fire that destroyed vast numbers of enemy vessels.
Gabriel stood at the cliff's edge, watching fireballs fall from the sky. The powerful shock waves from their impacts temporarily scattered the toxic miasma around the "landing sites."
The shock waves swept trees and poisonous beasts against the sheer cliffs. A storm that had almost engulfed the entire planet shattered against the escarpment surrounding this continent.
"Solonk Four's structure is a miracle." Wind erosion wore away this continent more slowly than it rose, at least over the past few hundred million years.
"The difference in elevation here is roughly fifteen hundred meters. If you'd come a few hundred million years later, it might have been three thousand." Only one Flesh Tearers Librarian stood beside him. Most of those around them were Krieg soldiers.
Entrenching Shovels swung swiftly, and the fortifications were built with meticulous precision. Here at the cliff's edge, they had left roughly two hundred meters of completely flat ground to shoot and shell enemies that had just climbed up. That was the second defensive line. The first, naturally, meant standing at the cliff's edge and firing down at climbing enemies.
"The wind is strong. At these speeds, the Orks wouldn't need aircraft. They could probably get up here with hang gliders."
"Unlikely."
These Orks possessed technology so advanced that building a sophisticated aircraft was child's play to them.
"The Thunderhawk units have already deployed to suppress