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{{Spoiler|source=Fires of War (Short Story)}}
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|Name=Stratos
The Salamanders were forced back to Cirrion's central square, but the Marines rallied there, successfully defending themselves and pushing the Cultists back. As the Company's [[Techmarine]]s reinforced the Marines' position in the square, the Salamanders encountered a band of surviving civilians.{{Fn|1}}
After regrouping, the surviving Salamanders tried to launch an attack on the Cultists' strongpoint in the [[Aura Hieron]] temple district but were unable to penetrate the Cultists' extensive defence network. They unexpectedly received a signal from Fugis, who had survived the ambush and found another group of survivors. One of the civilians, an engineer named [[Banen]] had suggested a plan to Fugis to clear the hydrogen amalgam from the city's atmosphere and deal a significant blow to the cult: if the Marines could escort Banen out of the city, he could purge Cirrion's air supply. Captain Kadai was unwilling at first, as this would result in any civilian survivors hidden in Cirrion would die dying from either a lack of oxygen or the extreme cold, but reluctantly agreed.{{Fn|1}}
Now able to use their heat-based weapons and with the Cult of Truth badly weakened, the Salamanders made their way to the Cult's temple. As they confronted and killed the Speaker, the true architects of the uprising revealed themselves: the [[Chaos Space Marine]]s of the [[Dragon Warriors]], lead by the [[Chaos Sorcerer]] [[Nihilan]].{{Fn|1}}
Nihilan unleashed a [[Chaos]] ritual that summoned a [[daemon]], using the Speaker's body as a host. In the resulting fight, Captain Kadai was able to banish the daemon back to the [[Warp]], but was killed by a [[multi-melta]] blastbefore the Dragon Warriors retreated. {{Fn|1}} Although Stratos was saved from the Cult of Truth, the Dragon Warriors escaped having achieved their real goal - to locate and retrieve a device known as the ''[[decyphrex]]''.{{Fn|1}}
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