Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Intercepted message from Mordecai Secundus

+++Incoming Transmission++++
+++++Decoding..++++++
++++Complete++++++++
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+++++Ident Confirmed ++++
++++Agent Cynack+++++
+++++Mordecai Secundus +++++++

Great and Benevolent Lord Inquisitor Hathek.
As per my most sacred duties that you have bequeathed to me, I have maintained vigil over the operations upon that most BLASPHEMOUS of places Mordecai Secundus.

Primary operations are covered in the main reports submitted to your most holy office, however, I wish to appraise you of an unusual development outside of expected operations.

On 0911.019M42 picket stations around Mordecai Secundus received a transmission from incoming Astartes vessels demanding they move aside and clear area x-3549431 y-68461 planet side. While the ident codes were valid and fully up to date neither the Chapter nor the vessel data pulsed identification. The picket vessels allowed the Astartes Strike Cruiser to pass after said vessel began firing warning shots at the picket vessels! An aside sire: I naturally I have had the crews of the offending picket vessels flagellated and mind scrubbed for Arco implantation for such gross laxity in duties! Rules are rules as the God-Emperor decreed!

Aerial shots and Pict Servos captured the Astartes in question, well that is to say tried when the when the Astartes in question did not shoot at them to avoid identification. The Astartes were in crossed Magenta and Teal livery. The coordinates in question placed them in range of the Death Guard traitors under the local command of a Heretic Astartes known only as the “Bloat-Bringer”.

From pict captures, the Astartes were clearly targeting the traitor leaders carrying significant sniper arsenal.BIt appears that the Astartes successfully encircled the Death Guard and were exterminating the commanders, killing the “Bloat-Bringer” with 3 placed sniper shots through the skull, ending the blasphemous creatures miserable existence.

Low drop Interceptors (that shot another pict skull during drop!) completed the encirclement of Death Guard forces. However, whoever had taken command in the wake of the Bloat Bingers death was far more capable than that creature, using the Death Guard armour to physically block the kill box and advance of the mysterious Primaris Astartes.

Once the mobility and misdirection of the Primaris was curtailed, the resilience of the Death Guard prevented the creation of the kill box that the Primaris were attempting, who were in turn pushed back by the traitors.

As casualties mounted the Primaris Astartes retreated, leaving the battlefield to the Death Guard, but not before bombarding the site from strike cruiser.

Sire the bombardment was odd as it appeared they were targeting areas of their own fallen rather than bombarding the Death Guard directly. Furthermore, the Death Guard, rather than being hurled into confusion by the loss of their commanders have become bolder, seemingly led by a far more aggressive and competent creature than the Bloat-Bringer. What this means for the overall campaign is unknown. My Lord Inquisitor I am concerned for what these Astartes intend

Your most humble servant
Cynack
Thought: Victory needs no explanation; Defeat allows none.

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