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== Description ==
General Dravere made his headquarters in a ducal palace which was miraculously intact after six months of serial bombardment, and overlooked the wide rift valley of '''Diemos''', once the hydroelectric industrial heartland of Fortis Binary, and now the axis on which the war revolved. In all directions, as far as the eye could see, sprawled the gross architecture of the manufacturing zone: the towers and hangers, the vaults and bunkers, the storage tanks and chimney stacks. A great ziggurat rose to the north, the brilliant gold icon of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] displayed on its flank. It rivalled, perhaps even surpassed, the Temple of the [[EccesiarchyEcclesiarchy]], dedicated to the [[God-Emperor]].{{Fn|1a}}
There were silos and shelled-out structures of the rising industrial manufactories just behind the [[Shriven]] lines, sooty shells of melted stone, rusted metal girder-work and fractured ceramite. Gargoyles, built to ward the buildings against contamination, had been defaced or toppled completely.{{Fn|1b}}
