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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. They fought their way past frenzied servitors, servo skulls, giant mechanical spiders, hulking traitor [[Tech Priest]]s as heavily armoured as [[Terminator]]s, and [[Castellan Class Robot]]s [[Automaton]]s. Only a single Veletari soldier managed to survive, 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 Maw's flagship - the ''[[Triumph of Reason]]'', a large command ship designed to direct an entire Segmentum fleet as needed. He ordered the [[Dictatus Class Battleship|Dictatus Class Ram-Battleship]] [[Kurga]] to destroy the now silent Panopticon tower. The Ram-Battleship Kurga smashed into the tower with its piercing ram claws and joined by fired melta-tipped harpoons spearing spears into the tower, burning then burned its engines and then hard ripping the panopticon tower off its base and sending it adrift into the void.{{Fn|1c}}
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 their 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, one of the three Cyclothrate War-Arks, the ''[[Arithmetic of Violence]]'', having thus far remained quietly out of the fight, would unleash a massive volley of void [[torpedo]]s smashed that devastated the Agatheans, now revealing the Cyclothratine Mechanicum fleet's [[Dark Mechanicum| true colors]] to the Warmaster's cause.{{Fn|1c}}
