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The entire planet of Asdenak shuddered violently. Then its northern and southern continents split apart along the equator.
Beneath the surface lay a world forged from steel.
Ring after ring of energy concentrators could be clearly seen even from distant space. The Tyranid Swarm on the surface suddenly plunged into the abyss, only to be burned to charcoal by the rings' terrifying energy before they could land.
The deep, dark bore extending from within the planet grew brighter and brighter.
Protected by the thick planetary crust, the Tech-Priests loudly praised the greatness of the Machine God:
"Immortal Omnissiah, behold your creation.
We are dust between your gears, the symbiosis of silicon and carbon.
We exalt logic circuits above all else, for they are the eternal laws you bestowed upon the galaxy.
We crave the blessing of the stellar furnace. Let torrents of hypermatter scour away the heretics.
We bathe in the sacred fires of plasma, sheltered by your War Apostle.
We forge temples upon the scars of the galaxy, seeking your lost scriptures of technology.
Machine God, guard our journey with the spear of annihilation.
Weave a web of order with ion beams. Let binary hymns devour entropy.
For the universe is an untamed wilderness, and Warp Daemons covet your Throne.
Ring the orbital bell once!
Awaken the slumbering quantum matrices. Let deflection shields become sacred geometry.
Make the hypermatter core tremble, breathing the binary sighs of the galaxy.
Ring the orbital bell twice!
Fill the sacred antimatter reliquaries. Ignite the blue flames of the stellar extraction towers.
Let the throat of the star-slaying cannon roar, sounding the final hymn of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Ring the orbital bell thrice!
Sing the truth of the Omnissiah