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At first the Space Marines made little progress. The natives were so entrenched that even the most devastating orbital bombardments made scant impact on their positions. Nonetheless, the Imperial decree was that Grissen should be brought back into the fold, for it would prove an excellent recruiting ground for the Imperial Guard, and so Phoros held back from ordering Exterminatus. Biting back his mounting frustration, Phoros directed his Techmarines to construct a weapon that would win the war. Within a week of the first Land Raider modifications the Fire Lords took Grissen's capital city. Within a month, the largest planetary faction was suing for peace and Grissen was part of the Imperium once more.
In the wake of the Grissen campaign, Phoros disseminated his new design's schematics. Hawing Having always been possessed of a sardonic frame of mind, he named the new pattern 'Prometheus' after a god from Terran legend who brought fire to men. He changed the official designation to Redeemer only upon learning that the name was already taken by a variant developed by the Salamanders. Nonetheless, the original Redeemer still serves in the Fire Lord's second company, the name ''Prometheus'' resplendent on its flanks and honoured in the Chapter's Histories.<sup>3</sup>
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