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The surviving tanks of the Vostroyan 39th were reunited before the reactor’s citadel. They were battered and blasted, with only traces of peeled paint clinging to their blackened hulls. Yet there, in line abreast, they met the foe with Hammer of Vostroya in their midst. As the streams of the lost and damned filled the plaza before them, each commander gave the others a last salute before sealing their hatches. For a while, their firepower was a righteous thunder. The cultists turned to flee, rather than confront the fury raining down upon them, but they were to learn the fatal lesson that their new masters would just as willingly slaughter them. The tide of attackers pressed onwards, and one by one the Vostroyan tanks began to fall. Yet still ''Hammer of Vostroya'' fought on, her gun-barrels glowing with heat as the super-heavy tank fired again and again. From the midst of the traitor horde, the mighty Lord of Skulls rumbled forth, a horror of brass and blood that crushed all beneath its grinding tracks. The Vostroyan Baneblade’s first shot left a deep crater in the chest-plate of its daemonic foe. Its second smashed through one brass-armoured shoulder and sent its rotary cannon crashing into the cultists’ midst. Yet still the engine of Khorne’s wrath could not be stayed, and with a horrible finality its great cleaver descended. It hacked down into Hammer of Vostroya’s hull again and again, sparks raining outward in sheets from each dolorous blow. Finally, the cleaver’s churning blades sank deep into the Hammer’s power plant, triggering a blast of colossal proportions. The fireball of the exploding super-heavy wreaked terrible damage, cracking the nearby reactor and poisoning the air for thousands of miles. Long after the battle, amidst the massive craters, [[Tech-Priest]]s retrieved as many fragments of the super-heavy tank as they could find, for both vehicle and crew deserved to be honoured as heroes of the Imperium.{{Fn|1}}

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*{{Endn|1}}: [[Escalation]] - ''Uprising on Obsus Prima''

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