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>The Two Comets
Pursing a Night Lords grand cruiser, a Blood Angels monitor and Dark Angels light cruiser force the warband's ad hoc flotilla out of orbit. Loss of orbital supremacy leads to a loss of air superiority, allowing the loyalists to set the terms of each ground engagement by providing rapid resupply and reinforcement. This predicament is unacceptable as blackshield aircraft would be forced into lengthy, vulnerable, flights from hidden airfields. The matter is solved succinctly as the warlord titan Pallidus Rex shoots each vessel down as they enter low orbit. The feats are recorded on the titan's war banner as a pair of falling comets.

>Breaking the Silence
The deployment of the Imperator Titan "Olim Erat Tacit" threatens to conquer the planet by itself. Unable to engage the titan conventionally the blackshields deploy their aircraft in a near vertical assault, attempting to take advantage of the titan battlegroup's most obvious weakness. As their interceptors and limited bombers buy time three dreadnoughts armed with melta weapons and chainfists, along with a dozen veterans, land on the Imperator's cathedral. As the veterans hold the secutarii back the dreadnoughts burrow into the titan's plasma reactor and detonate it, turning two square kilometers of prairie into glass.

>The Parade Ground Massacre
A consul-centurion by the moniker "the Fury" leads some two hundred and fifty volunteers, along with forty vorax, in a three day march in order to ambush a foot column of nearly one thousand Alpha Legionnaires. Only eight blackshields survive the engagement, the Fury not among them. While the battle is a tactical loss for the outnumbered warband, it is a brutal demonstration of intent that seems to unsettle even the psychotic Alpha Legion.

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