Þungur Metallikos~Picketing Action Against Unknown Vessel

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Battle Details

Type: Battle
Date: 552.008.M31
Sub-Sector:Centrumeh Sub-Sector
System: Waacos System
Planet: Þungur Metallikos
Victor: Loyalist
Draw:
Influence: 5

Forces:

Loyalists Involved In The Conflict Army:L-VII-5110

Traitors Involved In The Conflict Army:Vostroyan Separatist

Battle Summary

Official record of the boarding of the Voroshilov.

517 Local Orbital Time: Long range scans discover powered down ship attempting to circumvent the partial blockade the Imperial Fists 51 10th have been able to impose in the high orbit above Þungur Metallikos.

527 LOT: Hails have not been answered. Marshal Gerhardt is called to the bridge of the Ausdauer.

530 LOT: After little debate, company command decides to commit to boarding and seizing action. Escort vessels are called forth.

536 LOT: Scans reveal ship's profile matches the Voroshilov. The ship is registered as a heavy carrier from the factory world of Vostroya, previously thought to be stolen or lost in the warp.

546 LOT: The Voroshilov begins to burn its engines at full upon entering maximum weapons range. Long range lance exchanges begin. Gerhardt declines to command torpedo batteries activated. He demands the ship be captured, and it will be done by his own hands.

548-636 LOT: Void battle is engaged. VII Legion escort Swordstream forced to disengage, in need of repair. The engines of the Voroshilov are damaged and boarding torpedoes and vessels are launched. Gerhardt and his personal Huscarls await inside the teleportarium.

645 LOT: Boarding craft and torpedoes begin landing on the Voroshilov. Early reports of resistance at all entry points. Teleportarium is primed, awaiting signal from assaulting vox units.

666 LOT: Breacher Team Gram encounters multitude of human soldiers barricading hallways. Legion Contemptor Sandor breaks away from boarding party to try and find a way around the throngs.

668 LOT: Breachers lose several of their number to a devastating amount of augmented firepower. The weapons of the defenders appear utilize unknown power sources.

670 LOT: Legion Contemptor rounds a corner to discover a group of ship crew lugging heavy weapons into the flank of the action. They appear distraught to have been discovered.

671 LOT: Breacher Team Gram is forced to call in reinforcements. A crack of lightning and shimmer of haze envelopes the space between them and the militant horde. It is immediately seconded by the rapid barking of an assault cannon. The flickering lights reveal the forms of Tartaros pattern tactical dreadnought armor.

672 LOT: Preator Gerhardt himself has answered the call. He and his Huscarls advance to protect their assault cannon support.

675 LOT: Sandor wades through the weapons teams corpses. He is following a loud metallic clanging.

676 LOT: Gerhardt's Terminators break formation to charge the resistance. Sandor comes under heavy weapons fire from a trio of stalking Sentinel class walkers. Breacher team Gram continues to advance further into the ship.

680 LOT: Sandor's shielding can no longer stand up to the abuse of the enemies melta weapons. In a desperate rage he charges the enemy machines.

682 LOT: Gerhardt has lost a pair of his terminators in the fighting but follows Breacher Team Gram. They decide to flank a room likely to contain heavy resistance. Contemptor Sandor brings down the final enemy walker, but is order to reinforce the entry area instead of advance, for fear of his structural integrity.

685 LOT: An additional terminator is lost to suppression fire from entrenched enemies, but this allows the remaining Breachers to charge the enemy location. Sergeant Kaufman is brutally wounded in personal combat with the traitors apparent leader. The Breachers barely hold back the horde of soldiers.

686 LOT: Gerhardt's team manage to get into the masses melee. He calls out the enemy commander, who is summarily decapitated by a precision overhead slash. The horde continues to fight on, but without its commender are slowly cut asunder.

695 LOT: Traitor forces appear to be renegades from factory world of Vostroya. Captives refuse to communicate in Imperial Gothic, yelling instead in their native tongue. The incident will be recorded. The boarding parties continue into the ship, looking to cut of power from engines or to sever command from the bridge.

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Skirmishes Added

Skirmish Designation	Victor	Defeated	Faction Victor
Þungur Metallikos~Picketing Action Against Unknown Vessel~1469505123	L-VII-5110	Vostroyan Separatists	Loyalist

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