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From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
→Operation Deathblow: Turns out he was not in his battlesuit during this particular engagement (pg. 302)
Meanwhile General Syckava organized a prisoner uprising at a Tau POW camp manned by human collaborators. Syckava and several men managed to escape, attempting a harsh trek through the desert to reach Imperial lines. As he succumb to thirst and fell unconscious, he was recovered by Imperial patrols. Syckava told the Imperials of the Ethereal he had met, and now knowing the Tau Supreme Headquarters a new plan was devised: Operation Deathblow.{{Fn|1k}}
Targeting the Tau Ethereal in an attempt to decapitate the xenos hierarchy, the Imperials deployed a member of the [[Officio Assassinorum]]'s [[Eversor Temple]]. While Valkyrie-born Stormtroopers assaulted the rest of the headquarters, the berserker assassin managed to self-destruct inside the Tau command bunker, killing [[Ethereal]] [[Aun'Vre]]. However Shas'o [[R'myr]] was directing the bunker defenses personally from his battlesuit outside the bunker and was not killed in the explosion that consumed his Ethereal. Enraged by the loss of their leader, R'myr rallied the surviving Tau as their reinforcements arrived and the Stormtroopers fought to the end.{{Fn|1k}}
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