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→Waaagh! Mogrok: Typos.
Unbeknownst to all involved, it was Big Mek Mogrok (who many Orks suspected as having engineered Grukk's death) who was already well ahead of the game. While his rivals were fighting among themselves, Mogrok and his [[Mek]] horde struck at human forces with well-planned traps. Mogrok understood that the key to obtaining power for himself was to start large and impressive battles that would draw the attention of all the Orks in the region to his forces. Mogrok executed his plan with an attack on the Auspice Savannah, far east of the Sacred Mountain. Sacrificing his first wave of vehicles to Imperial fire, this created a metal wall on the plains that allowed the Orks a secure position on the battlefield. While the Imperial Guard defenders initially held their ground, an advance of [[Morkanaut]]s air-dropped onto the Cadian lines led by the [[Gargant]] ''Gungutz'' combined with an Ork aerial assault broke them. Satisfied, Mogrok activated his [[tellyporta]] and sought to move on the coastland islands that was the key to Imperial reinforcement of the Savannah.{{Fn|3}}
The battle for the Isles began, as Mogrok led a siege of these enclaves. First blocking their causeways, Mogrok deployed 200 heavy tanks to move on Isle Kamata. Dropping in [[Kommandos]] to infiltrate the island by hiding themselves underneath the vehicles of a supply convoy, Kamata's island oasis fell by morning to the Ork infiltration troops. The Orks captured a great deal of equipment, leading to a massive increased increase in Looted looted weapons, vehicles, and even Knights in greenskin hands. Mogrok himself was working on a weapon that could destroy an entire island in one blow.{{Fn|3}}
Soon enough Mogrok revealed his doomsday weapon: an oversized [[Traktor Kannon]] that would latch onto the orbiting frozen comet and send it plummeting onto the Sacred Isle. The only hope for the Imperial defenders fell on [[Salem Whitlock]] and his [[Tempestus Scion]]s, who would attempt a raid behind Ork lines to disable the device. In the vicious battle at the Ork base that housed the Tractor CannonTraktor Kannon, the Scions were successful in destroying the weapon.{{Fn|3}}
Despite the setback, the Orks made one final attack on the Sacred Mountain anyway as the frozen comet still plummeted towards Alaric Prime (though it was now thrown off course). The final battle, this time focused at Fortress Alaric, soon was underway as Stein again led the defense alongside Knights, [[Baneblade]]s, and [[Stormsword]]s. In a vicious, desperate final battle the Imperial forces were barely holding out but following an Ork explosive chain reaction in space with the Frozen comet, the celestial object was again on a collision course with the Sacred Mountain. The comet struck the mountain, wiping out the Imperial defenders and many Orks with them.{{Fn|3}}
Despite the apparent doom of the defenders, hope was reignited when the survivors noticed [[Space Wolves]] [[Drop Pod]]s on the horizon.{{Fn|3}} And despite the gains made by Mogrok, the myriad greenskin forces on Alaric Prime are still often fighting amongst themselves and overall the Waaagh ! is a shadow of what it once was.{{Cite this}}
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