While the fighting above ground continued, the underground fighting in the tunnels of Praxis saw no let up in 11.019M42. These battles, in tight corridors and conducted by elite forces on both sides, the Heretek mechanicum battled the Grey Knights for control of the device room. In order to prevent the orks from funnelling into the device chamber, the imperial navy conducted raids against the ork positions in the southern regions of the ruins of Praxis, led for the first time by fighters loyal to the "one true king Boris" of Cerberex, deposed and exiled following the fall of Cerberex to the Federacy in 008M42.
The air raids against the orks successfully distracted the grenskins, defeating the ork air force and impeding their ability to intervene as the Grey Knights took the vital objectives under the city chamber by chamber from the Dark Mechanicum. Eventually, after bitter fighting, the Grey Knights secured the device room on 2411.019M42 although the keenly psychic astartes were unable themselves to enter the chamber. After the entrance was secured for the Imperium, the loyalist mechanicum were able to reach the device, and change its polarity. The Foramen Ignotum shifted, stranding several chaos transports in the madness of the Cicatrix Maledictum, and a passageway once again opened between Hexis and the Imperial bastion at Maccragge
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