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From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
→Treachery at Port Maw
The Provost-Marshals of Port Maw, having thwarted a mutiny in their own ranks, gathered elite armoured [[Veletari]] troops of the [[905th Lethe Cohort]] "Ash Scorpions" to storm the Control Panopticon, which failed to respond to communications and was now clearly the source of the malevolent signals. Fighting their way past frenzied servitors, servo skulls, giant mechanical spiders, and hulking traitor [[Tech Priest]]s as heavily armoured as [[Terminator]]s, and [[Castellax]] [[Automaton]]s, only a single Veletari soldier managed to survive and make his way to control dias of the panopticon, destroying it even as his helmet was being crushed by steel claws, ending the malignant signals coming from the Panopticon.{{Fn|3d}}
With the malignant signal from the Canopticon halted, order began to reassert itself as battle lines were now properly drawn between traitor and loyalist. Grand [[Admiral]] [[Ospheus LaBray]] thwarted a mutiny on Port Maws flagship - the ''[[Triumph of Reason]]'', a large command ship designed to direct an entire Segmentum fleet as needed. He ordered the [[Dictatus Class Battleship]] [[Kurga]] to destroy the now silent Panopticon tower. The Ram-Battleship smashed into the tower with its piercing ram claws and joined by melta-tipped harpoons spearing into the tower, burning its engines and then ripping the panopticon tower into the void.
Meanwhile, far out into void, the rest of the reinforcement ships of assembling Port Maw Armada also had to deal with the Panopticon Signal and mutiny among its own vessels, while others such as a squadron of cruisers from [[Agathon]], stayed out of the fight, confused as to the battle that had no clear cause nor side to choose. At this time, [[Cyclothratine War-Ark]] ''[[Arithmetic of Violence]]'', also having remained quietly out of the fight, would unleash a massive volley of void [[torpedo]]s smashed that devastated the Agatheans.
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