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The '''Fall of Bromoch''' was a battle waged by the [[Iron Hands]] on the [[Hive World]] of [[Bromoch]] in .[[M41]].{{Fn|1}}
==Overview==
A [[hive world]] that had once
boasted vast oceans teeming with life, Bromoch had been torn asunder when a vast
mechanized tomb complex awoke beneath its surface, draining trillions of gallons of water draining away in a matter of days to leave a stinking quagmire of saltmud and rotting biomatter that covered half the world. From this awful wasteland rose legions of [[Necrons|mechanised warriors]]. It would be over a century before the [[Imperium]] officially recognised
and put a name to these terrible beings. They marched upon the hive cities in ranks many hundreds of thousands strong, and the outmatched [[Planetary Defense Force]] levies rushed to oppose them. Only weeks later, the ships of [[Iron Hands]] [[Clan Company]] [[Raukaan]] made orbit over Bromoch, accompanied by [[Kardan Stronos]] himself. [[Lydriik]] and [[Shulgaar]] still led the clan company, their command now shared with [[Iron Captain]] [[Grolvoch]] and the [[Master of the Forge]] [[Feirros]]. As these five inspected a holomap of Bromoch on the
bridge of the [[Strike Cruiser]] ''Solemn Silence'', it became clear that the planet was already
lost. The PDF regiments had fought bravely, but they were outnumbered and hopelessly
outclassed by their deathless foes. One [[hive]] city after another had fallen, their streets
swarming with metallic horrors, until only the Hive Primus remained. There the
defenders still held out against impossible odds, fighting tooth and nail to hold their
barricades while bulk lifters.{{Fn|1}}
Once, the Iron Hands might have dismissed the people of Bromoch as weak and
unworthy of their aid, but no more in the aftermath of the [[Gaudinian Heresy]]. However instead of saving as many citizens as possible, [[Tactical
Squad]] Taloch were dispatched in a [[Stormraven Gunship]], accompanied by [[Iron Chaplain]]
[[Shulgaar]] to assist the evacuation. Meanwhile, the rest of Clan Raukaan prepared for an immediate combat drop. Telltale energy signatures had been detected emanating from one of the great oceanic rifts, signatures that matched
those given off by the machines seized centuries earlier on [[Dawnbreak]]. The Iron Hands
did not recognise these monstrous mechanical aliens, yet they knew their works. This
time, however, Kardan Stronos led Raukaan not to claim the engines of the past but to
destroy them. The great trench ran almost eighty miles end to end, gaping over one hundred metres wide and surrounded by hard-baked mud and teetering, desiccated drifts of what had once
been thriving coral. From its depths leaked a leprous green glow, and it was into this
shimmering corona that the warriors of Clan Raukaan plunged by [[Drop Pod]] into the waters below. A good three thousand feet below the planet’s crust, the cave
was enormous in scale, dominated by immense ziggurats of glassy black stone that
swarmed with robotic alien workers and warriors. The Drop Pods crashed down in a tight
grouping between these mighty edifices, Iron Hands and [[Dreadnought]]s bursting free to
engage the foe that surrounded them.{{Fn|1}}
Stronos led the charge at the head of Squad Kuurvan, while a trio of Dreadnoughts led by Venerable [[Furnous]] began to carve a path through the machines. The strange, deathless creatures were reacting now, slowly but surely bringing
waves of floating metal constructs to bear against the invading Iron Hands, and Clan
Raukaan’s [[Techmarine]]s stalked in the Dreadnoughts’ wake, ready to tend to their ancient
charges should they fall to enemy fire. Suddenly, the foes ranks were torn by fresh blasts as a wing of Stormraven Gunships roared overhead, flanking the mighty form of the [[Thunderhawk]] ''Forgestar'', delivering [[Centurion]]s and [[Thunderfire Cannon]]s to the fight. Though the foe’s numbers were vast, most of their leaders
were far above, coordinating the final battle against Hive Primus – soulless machines,
they could not compete with the vital, crushing force of Clan Raukaan’s offensive.{{Fn|1}}
Finally, at the base of the largest ziggurat, Feirros summoned a pair of [[servitor]]s
bearing a heavy iron chest covered in panels and dials. As the device was slammed down
into the dirt, Feirros busied himself with its activation while the warriors of Clan
Raukaan formed an impenetrable wall around him. All the while, Kardan Stronos
remained vox-linked to Iron Captain Grolvoch, ignoring his subconscious protocols as
they balked at the rising casualty rate. Finally, Iron Captain Grolvoch voxed through – the chance of recovering further refugees from Hive Primus now stood at less than 20%, the Iron Hands’ agreed cut-off point. With a curt command, Stronos ordered Clan Raukaan’s aircraft down, Iron Father Lydriik directing furious covering fire from the [[Devastator Squad]]s as the battle-brothers scrambled back aboard their craft In their wake they left the iron chest, and
even as the airborne Clan Raukaan burst from the rift and into the open sky, their
ordnance detonated. Servo-bonded chains of crystalline prisms shattered, releasing
howling swarms of insane [[machine spirit]]s bent only on destruction. The spirits flowed
outward in a tide, corroding and devouring every mechanical system in their path.
Nothing was safe, the bodies and weapons of the [[xeno]]s burned along with the weapons
and systems of those few defenders who remained. Behind them – as the various craft of
the Iron Hands pushed hard for the upper atmosphere and their waiting cruisers –
Bromoch plunged helplessly into a new dark age, the planet’s orbital silos detonating
spontaneously and filling the skies with drifting, radioactive clouds. In orbit, a ragged
flotilla of refugee ships gathered to watch the planet die. The Iron Hands, inscrutable as
ever, denied the existence of any mechanical foe in the wake of the disaster, carefully
discrediting those wild tales told by the refugees. Though the Chapter might still keep
their secrets, millions of Imperial lives had been saved thanks to the strength and
determination of Clan Company Raukaan.{{Fn|1}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Clan Raukaan - A Codex: Space Marines Supplement]] - A New Resolve
[[Category:Battles (Iron Hands)]]
[[Category:Battles (Necrons)]]
The '''Fall of Bromoch''' was a battle waged by the [[Iron Hands]] on the [[Hive World]] of [[Bromoch]] in .[[M41]].{{Fn|1}}
==Overview==
A [[hive world]] that had once
boasted vast oceans teeming with life, Bromoch had been torn asunder when a vast
mechanized tomb complex awoke beneath its surface, draining trillions of gallons of water draining away in a matter of days to leave a stinking quagmire of saltmud and rotting biomatter that covered half the world. From this awful wasteland rose legions of [[Necrons|mechanised warriors]]. It would be over a century before the [[Imperium]] officially recognised
and put a name to these terrible beings. They marched upon the hive cities in ranks many hundreds of thousands strong, and the outmatched [[Planetary Defense Force]] levies rushed to oppose them. Only weeks later, the ships of [[Iron Hands]] [[Clan Company]] [[Raukaan]] made orbit over Bromoch, accompanied by [[Kardan Stronos]] himself. [[Lydriik]] and [[Shulgaar]] still led the clan company, their command now shared with [[Iron Captain]] [[Grolvoch]] and the [[Master of the Forge]] [[Feirros]]. As these five inspected a holomap of Bromoch on the
bridge of the [[Strike Cruiser]] ''Solemn Silence'', it became clear that the planet was already
lost. The PDF regiments had fought bravely, but they were outnumbered and hopelessly
outclassed by their deathless foes. One [[hive]] city after another had fallen, their streets
swarming with metallic horrors, until only the Hive Primus remained. There the
defenders still held out against impossible odds, fighting tooth and nail to hold their
barricades while bulk lifters.{{Fn|1}}
Once, the Iron Hands might have dismissed the people of Bromoch as weak and
unworthy of their aid, but no more in the aftermath of the [[Gaudinian Heresy]]. However instead of saving as many citizens as possible, [[Tactical
Squad]] Taloch were dispatched in a [[Stormraven Gunship]], accompanied by [[Iron Chaplain]]
[[Shulgaar]] to assist the evacuation. Meanwhile, the rest of Clan Raukaan prepared for an immediate combat drop. Telltale energy signatures had been detected emanating from one of the great oceanic rifts, signatures that matched
those given off by the machines seized centuries earlier on [[Dawnbreak]]. The Iron Hands
did not recognise these monstrous mechanical aliens, yet they knew their works. This
time, however, Kardan Stronos led Raukaan not to claim the engines of the past but to
destroy them. The great trench ran almost eighty miles end to end, gaping over one hundred metres wide and surrounded by hard-baked mud and teetering, desiccated drifts of what had once
been thriving coral. From its depths leaked a leprous green glow, and it was into this
shimmering corona that the warriors of Clan Raukaan plunged by [[Drop Pod]] into the waters below. A good three thousand feet below the planet’s crust, the cave
was enormous in scale, dominated by immense ziggurats of glassy black stone that
swarmed with robotic alien workers and warriors. The Drop Pods crashed down in a tight
grouping between these mighty edifices, Iron Hands and [[Dreadnought]]s bursting free to
engage the foe that surrounded them.{{Fn|1}}
Stronos led the charge at the head of Squad Kuurvan, while a trio of Dreadnoughts led by Venerable [[Furnous]] began to carve a path through the machines. The strange, deathless creatures were reacting now, slowly but surely bringing
waves of floating metal constructs to bear against the invading Iron Hands, and Clan
Raukaan’s [[Techmarine]]s stalked in the Dreadnoughts’ wake, ready to tend to their ancient
charges should they fall to enemy fire. Suddenly, the foes ranks were torn by fresh blasts as a wing of Stormraven Gunships roared overhead, flanking the mighty form of the [[Thunderhawk]] ''Forgestar'', delivering [[Centurion]]s and [[Thunderfire Cannon]]s to the fight. Though the foe’s numbers were vast, most of their leaders
were far above, coordinating the final battle against Hive Primus – soulless machines,
they could not compete with the vital, crushing force of Clan Raukaan’s offensive.{{Fn|1}}
Finally, at the base of the largest ziggurat, Feirros summoned a pair of [[servitor]]s
bearing a heavy iron chest covered in panels and dials. As the device was slammed down
into the dirt, Feirros busied himself with its activation while the warriors of Clan
Raukaan formed an impenetrable wall around him. All the while, Kardan Stronos
remained vox-linked to Iron Captain Grolvoch, ignoring his subconscious protocols as
they balked at the rising casualty rate. Finally, Iron Captain Grolvoch voxed through – the chance of recovering further refugees from Hive Primus now stood at less than 20%, the Iron Hands’ agreed cut-off point. With a curt command, Stronos ordered Clan Raukaan’s aircraft down, Iron Father Lydriik directing furious covering fire from the [[Devastator Squad]]s as the battle-brothers scrambled back aboard their craft In their wake they left the iron chest, and
even as the airborne Clan Raukaan burst from the rift and into the open sky, their
ordnance detonated. Servo-bonded chains of crystalline prisms shattered, releasing
howling swarms of insane [[machine spirit]]s bent only on destruction. The spirits flowed
outward in a tide, corroding and devouring every mechanical system in their path.
Nothing was safe, the bodies and weapons of the [[xeno]]s burned along with the weapons
and systems of those few defenders who remained. Behind them – as the various craft of
the Iron Hands pushed hard for the upper atmosphere and their waiting cruisers –
Bromoch plunged helplessly into a new dark age, the planet’s orbital silos detonating
spontaneously and filling the skies with drifting, radioactive clouds. In orbit, a ragged
flotilla of refugee ships gathered to watch the planet die. The Iron Hands, inscrutable as
ever, denied the existence of any mechanical foe in the wake of the disaster, carefully
discrediting those wild tales told by the refugees. Though the Chapter might still keep
their secrets, millions of Imperial lives had been saved thanks to the strength and
determination of Clan Company Raukaan.{{Fn|1}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Clan Raukaan - A Codex: Space Marines Supplement]] - A New Resolve
[[Category:Battles (Iron Hands)]]
[[Category:Battles (Necrons)]]
