While the major focus of fighting in the sector shifted to the Hadron Expanse and the Lysis system, the Crusade, now fully under the control tech priest Dominus Cybixx, still had unfinished business at Destino. The adeptus mechanicus had hoped that the focus elsewhere would allow the new crusade to easily overcome the defences if Destino. This was not the case however. Inquisitor Hathek had decided to vigorously defend the Destino system while Vorushko had called most of her forces to the Expanse. This left Cybixx under gunned on the ground, despite having unquestioned space superiority thanks to the giant space station now in the system.
Lacking forces, the adeptus mechanicus managed to intercept a troop convoy bound for Destino, convincing or coercing the colonel of the Last of Sycorax to fight on behalf of the crusade. What lies were told is unknown, but the guard regiment equipped with super heavy tanks duly deployed on Destino 6, where Hathek had begun plans for invasion. Despite the crusade having the Mallem Cybixxum, the space station was slow and difficult to manoeuvre, and small troop transports could easily evade the lumbering behemoth. Hathek wanted to force Cybixx into using the weapon on ground forces, as conducting a genocide would add weight to his claim that the mechanicum were in fact tech heretics.
Cybixx declined to use his weapon, allowing the Novgorod Guard to land on Destino 6. Unfortunately the Last of Sycorax were unable to hold the veteran loyalists guard regiment and within days the Sycorax surrendered to the loyalists. Destino 6 held no particular strategic value, but without support or the deployment of Cybixx’s elite but in-expendable armed forces, he would be unable to overcome loyalist numbers at Destino.
by Novgorod Guard on the desert world of Destino 6
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