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[Prosperan Son]

With but a word from Tehran,transmitted through out the entire vox network amongst the traiotrs; All of the Tarkions, those not driving behind a wheel or manning a gun, fell to their knee. Their voices erupted as a chorus of sound, all of them reciting their oaths, speaking in a language native to their home world. All of them, dark skinned and dark haired, spoke with a language that was very rough.

Upon completion of their oaths, the entirety of the division mobilized Chimeras and Salamanders advancing first, overfilled with troops, followed behind by the massed infantry. The first wave. Another host of infantry, accompanied by Gorgon Assault Carriers waited

[Armoured Priest]

The Doom Drakes advanced in silence in their chimeras behind the first wave, more interested in getting into the thick of the fight than simply reciting words. Besides, they rather listen to the Blood Brides singing thier hymns that can be heard over the engines of the rhinos and immolaters. As the vehicals moved around it and the dark hymns floated through the air, the Abominable Rift lets out harsh mechanical roar through the dirge casters mounted on it's hull as it moved with the wave.

[Prosperan Son]

As they neared the vast building once more, their chants to the gods, their pleas for war were answered with a hail of lasfire, plasma burst and bolt rounds. Auto-Cannon and Heavy Stubber rounds smashed into the Chimeras and Rhinos as they charged, followed by missiles. The fourth assault had begun.

[Armoured Priest]

With the battle now joined, and Tehran’s men taking the brunt of the fire it seems for now, Angmar tap a few commands into the console and brought up a link to Kain and Mosdron down below. "It has begun up here, commence the breaching." He told them. "Yes sir." Kain said his hologram giving a curt nod before fading. "See you in a little bit." he could hear Mosdron chuckle in the back ground. Angmar cut the line and watched the battle progressed on the data feeds, more than confident in his commanders' abilities.

After the line was cut, Kain shut the device closed and stuffed it in one of the pouches of his black and grey camo uniform. He looked to his men, stormtroopers in similar camo patters with wolfen like masks of their commander. “Form up behind the drills, our hunt starts.” He said to them, a wicked grin under the mask as the troopers moved out. He looks over to Mosdron, who was finishing the rites needed to make sure the daemon engine spirit would do its job. It was repeated by other black cloaked tech adepts as well to the other breaching drills. “Are they ready yet?” he asked him, getting impatient now the hounds were allowed to go in. Mosdron held up a bionic claw. “Just a few more …….and done.” He said with a chuckle as one of the mechanical tendrils closed the panel on the drill. He goes to the back to the control panels and activates the drill, the signal for the others to start the drills they are working on.

Drills!:
1d100 rolled for a total of: 81 (81)

Back above ground, Doom Drakes with heavy weapons and heavy weapon platoons set up on or behind either by transports or corpses of vehicles of earlier assaults along with Blood bride retribution squads armed with heavy bolters. They aimed and fired at the gun emplacements and other defensive positions of the complex. The rest of the forces set up to provide assistance to their longer ranged cohorts. Gurias and his command squad and chimera set up outside the range of the Vault’s guns, in front of the massive door. He stood still in the black officer trench coat, staring at the entrance, almost as if trying to open it with sheer will alone. “He better not take long.” He said finally, his bone white mechanical claws on the pommels of his chainswords. “I’m surprised you’re not worried about him getting to it in the first place.” Said a female voice beside him. Naarette was standing beside him in her blood red and black trim power armor, her helm on. Her and her veteran celestian squad, helms and armor covered in engraved scripts and reliefs of devotions, set up beside Guiras’ command vehicle, waiting for the door to open as well. He looked to her with a quiet whir of servos in his neck. “It’s Kain; it’s a question of when, not if. I know he’ll be fine.” He said with absolute certainty. He could hear a small laugh come from the helmed sorotias. “You’re right, I suppose the real question is if our meatshields will last long enough till then.” She said, looking down to Terhan’s forces in the meat grinder. “Agreed, they get to go first, they better be worth it.” Gurias said, annoyed of not getting into the thick of it. “Patience friend, we’ll get our chance soon enough.” Naarette told him, trying to soothe the bezerker cyborg. Gurias sighed in his reptilian helm housing and nodded content to watch the battle from where he stood with Naarette.

Further behind the lines, saug stood in the hatch of his command tank, a vanquisher leman russ tank, watching his basilisks moved toward their designated spots by their commander. “The moment they are in position, I want them to open fire and start clearing the mines and razorwire in front of the door. Once that’s done, we’ll start scraping the walls clean.” He said to his comms officer down in the tank. The man nodded and began relaying the orders to the basilisks crews.

Barrage to clear out:
1d100 rolled for a total of: 92 (92)

[Prosperan Son]

A rain of shells screamed overheard moments later, the hurled explosives splashing across no-man's in a series of reverberating BOOMS. The ground shook as each shell went off, activating a series of land mines set around them. The Troop transports continued unabated by now, the only thing slowing them was the wall of fire from the gun-emplacements.

Several drills lanced forward into the ground at once, dirt and cement shooting out in every direction as the blades and melta charges dug and burned away at the surface furiously. It was quite a wonderous process to see. "We can expect to hit the cavern's underneath in at least 30 minutes"

[Armoured Priest]

Kain looked over to Mosdron with an impatient look now. "Is he serious? That will take too long." he said annoyed. Mosdron only shrugged his cloaked shoulders as the smile only widen as he looked at the hades drills with his blank helm visor. "Any faster and we risk having the machines break down mid tunneling, want that to happen Seeker?" he techpriest asked with a tilted head. The stormtrooper only growled as he continued to waited

With the series of Artillery strikes clearing the path toward the complex over, the Doom drakes and Blood brides inched forward to provide covering fire for Tehran's advancing forces now, missile launchers and lascannons now brought forth as well to destroy the emplaced guns from afar.

1d100 rolled for a total of: 92 (92)

[Prosperan Son]

The advance continued, gunfire matching them every inch of the way. Several chimeras slewed to a halt, lucky shots had managed to make their way through the visor slits and kill the drivers, several more had their treads blown off by stray missiles and plasma bolts. For these, the passengers were quick to evacuate the vehicles, seeking cover behind them, or in holes that had been blown open by missiles and grenades. Even behind tank traps.

The transports that had been unlucky were those that been struck straight on by lascannons or missiles in volatile areas that had sent them up in flames.

The Daemon Hammers' Artillery strikes had been almost pinpoint, taking out several of the emplacements. However, the Vault Dwellers, were sure to return the favor. Several massive slots opened along the ceiling, massive medusa siege guns extending outwards.

And then they fired.

1d100 rolled for a total of: 100 (100)

[Armoured Priest]

As the shells began raining down, the Doom drakes and Blood Brides immediatly try to seek shelter or cover, seeking the best ways to survive the intial barrage before moveing once more through the field.

1d100 rolled for a total of: 89 (89)

Seeing the massive barrels of the guns poke out of there hidden postion, Saug immeditaly recognized what they were and got onto the comms of his command vehical. "I want all guns to aim for those barrels and muzzle flashes now!" he ordered them. This was the perfect time to neturalize the enemy heavy artillery, when they were exposed to counter battery fire.

counter battery fire: 1d100 rolled for a total of: 98 (98)

Down below, Kain could feel reverberations, feeling much different from the ones caused by the drilling of the machines. He was already drawing conclusions. "How much longer are we going to have to wait?" he growled to the tech adepts, playing with a particliarly large wickedly serrated knife in his hands.

[Prosperan Son]

One of the tech-adepts blurted out a harsh form of binary code, barely acknowledging Kain's impatiences. It was about to say something else, when a lucky shell round fell down upon the breaching drill, setting off an explosion that sent everyone around it to their feet, and those unlucky few tending it to a burning inferno. Luckily, there was still several other drills.

The siege guns continued to fire, one shell after the other in a sporadic volley, however two of the guns fell silent, destroyed by Saug's counter fire. Shells screeched overhead from both sides.

[Armoured Priest]

Mosdron was the only one to stand still while Kain, his hound, and the other tech adepts took cover or doved for the floor. With his permenat smile, he looked over down to Kain and chuckled. "Anymore questions Seeker?" he asked in a jolly tone. The storm trooper just shook his head and remained silent to no incur more shells.

The Daemon hammer guns kept up the tempo of shells, trying to zero in on the positions on the last of the enemy guns to knock them out of action.

1d100 rolled for a total of: 93 (93)

[Prosperan Son]

Another volley of shells, rained across the field, the thudding pattern of shells leaving a trail of destruction across the Chaos Armies lines. The Daemon Counter shells, had proven minimally effective, taking out only one more gun, before they the Mechanicus defenders reeled them back in. The field before them was bloodied, doused in flames and bodies, the corpses of dozens of carriers scattered everywhere. The advance was slowing to a halt.

"We're almost through the ground!" One of the diggers shouted out, others relaying the information.

[Armoured Priest]

With a bark of a command from Kain, the other seekers quickly formed up a safe distance from behind the drilling machine. A number of them at the front of the formation pulled out smoke grenades, ready to be primed and thrown out of the emergence hole.

1d100 rolled for a total of: 91 (91)

With the enemy artillery now drawn back into their armored holes the daemon hammer guns where denied anymore counter kills. Gurias grunts in annoyance as he sees both his doom drakes and tehran's forces stalling the advance. "That door needs to be opened, now." he mumbled to himself before a click sounded in him, opening a comm link to his commanders in the field. "Advance and bring down the remaining implacements around the doors. Maybe that will get our allies the backbone needed to move." he growled into the vox link. His orders are carried out as suppressing fire began pumping out as rocket launcher armed teams began moving and aiming to fire krak missles to put the remaining fortifications out of commission.

1d100 rolled for a total of: 80 (80)

[Prosperan Son]

With a massive thump, dirt and concrete sprayed in every direction as the breaching drill finally dug all the way through.Unfortunately, there was not much beneath and the drill fell downwards five meters into the cavern floor beneath. It fell with a thud, falling on it's side, unable to right itself, like a turtle on it's back.
"We're through!" The first of the tech-workers shouted, a call that was repeated by the other 5 drills as they each started to break through.

The gates to true war were now open.

[Armoured Priest]

"Everyone move." he barked into his command vox unit of his wolf helm. As one, the company of black and grey uniformed stormtroopers began to move out of the emergence holes and scale down the height to the bottom with the repelling gear after setting them up. Kain was one of the first one do scale down, always first before his seekers.

1d100 rolled for a total of: 82 (82)

[Prosperan Son]

A thump echoed down the tunnel as Kain's feet hit the ground, the sound of his feet striking the ground ringing down the tunnels, followed by the incoming sounds of gunfire from above. Save for the lights from the collapsed breaching drill and arc from the holes, the tunnel was dark.

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