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The Dark Angels reached Dulan first, its location identified by Lion El'Jonson from signs in the old annals. The fleet's capital class vessels held back, firing from a distance while escorts were sacrificed at close range to prevent the Faash from closing in with their shorter-ranged interference weapons. One of the largest [[battleship]]s was boarded by ten squads of Dark Angels from the ''Blade of Numarc'', intending to turn its weapons on the orbital defence halo. Before they were able, however, the Space Wolves arrived.{{fn|1b}}
Jorin Bloodhowl, refusing to answer hails until he had blooded the ''Aesrumnir[[Aesrumnír]]'', destroyed the Faash battleship and the Dark Angels aboard. The ''Blade of Numarc'' turned her guns on the ''AesrumnirAesrumnír'', and would have crippled her if Russ had not ordered the ''Nidhoggur'' to intercept the second [[lance]] strike. In the middle of the battle, the four largest Imperial ships - the ''AesrumnirAesrumnír'', ''Blade of Numarc'', ''Nidhoggur'' and ''[[Invincible Reason]]'', had their weapons trained on each other. Russ spoke with the Lion, agreeing to come before his brother himself after the battle.{{fn|1b}}
The Space Wolves fleet concentrated their fire on the halo's command station in order to overload the shields and launch a boarding action. Landing the better part of both Great Companies, they seized the halo and turned its guns against the Faash fleet. The Dark Angels were free to engage at closer distance, and the two Legion fleets destroyed the remaining Faash ships - although a handful of shuttles were able to flee from the halo to the planet's surface. [[Ulbrandr Crowhame]] informed Jorin that the numbers of the dead and living did not add up, leading them to suspect some warriors of Dekk-Tra were aboard the shuttles that escaped to the surface.{{fn|1b}}
