The second phase of operation Scorpion began on 1506.019M42 as Grey Knights strike cruisers deployed small elite forces of astartes, supported by Land Raiders around the defence lasers they had volunteered to destroy. Imperial high command were however unaware of the true nature of these astartes, still considering them merely another chapter of space marines.
The real motivation behind the Ordo Malleus attack was intelligence that suggested the Emerald Serpent were defending Tarlius III. Eager to destroy the daemon princes Marcus and Andreos, and unaware of the status of the former, the Grey Knights set about their assigned task almost as an afterthought. However, the forces they found were not those of daemons, but the traitor Cybixx.
Irritated, but resolute nonetheless, the astartes formed up behind their land raiders and waited for the inevitable onslaught. Fortunately, the Iron Striders were too eager in their approach, allowing the Emperor’s finest to launch a brutal close assault against them. The captain of the Grey Knights terminators destroyed two of the walkers with one sweep of his mighty axe, and the land raiders themselves charged into the fray, using their tracks to crush and maim.
This was a pattern repeated as the Grey Knights vented their fury on the heretic Mechanicum. Dunecrawlers and Kastelan robots were similarly rammed by the space marine vehicles as the counter attack was driven off. Having destroyed the defence lasers and finding no daemons, the knights then withdrew, simply stating to Bessas “mission complete”.
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