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When the war finally arrived to Port Maw, the betrayal was put into motion. The Control Panopticon sent powerful signals and data-djinn to all the ships that had been so reliant upon. [[Vox]]-circuits burnt out, auguries were filled with static, [[auspex]] scanners shut down as systems failed as ships were suddenly blinded. Moving ships diverted or suddenly accelerated, crashing into each other, their wreckage flying into the paths of others. The crews of many, unbraced and unprepared for sudden impacts, were hurled against the walls of their vessels into a bloody pulp. Ship bridges were flooded with [[scrapcode]]. Over a hundred lesser vessels were overridden entirely, their ships venting their crew into the void, while the [[machine spirit]] programming of larger vessels fought against the attack. At this same time, turncoat ships within the Port Maw fleet were left unaffected and began to fire upon their former allies, sowing terror and confusion, and causing many loyalist ships to surrender to traitor demands.{{Fn|1c}}
The Provost-Marshals of Port Maw, having thwarted a mutiny in their own ranks, gathered elite armoured [[Veletaris Storm Section| Veletari]] troops of the [[Ash Scorpions| 905<sup>th</sup> Lethe Cohort]] to storm the Control Panopticon, which failed to respond to communications and was now clearly the source of the malevolent signals. Fighting They fought their way past frenzied servitors, servo skulls, giant mechanical spiders, and hulking traitor [[Tech Priest]]s as heavily armoured as [[Terminator]]s, and [[CastellaxCastellan Class Robot]] s [[Automaton]]s, only . Only a single Veletari soldier managed to survive and make , making his way to control dias of the panopticon, and destroying it even as his helmet was being crushed by steel claws, - ending the malignant signals coming from the Panopticon.{{Fn|1c}}
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.{{Fn|1c}}
