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Vulkan descends. He drop pods down next to Cassian and begins butchering DG marines, saturnine terminators drop pod down around Vulkan and start annihilating DG too. They set off the DG mines.
Orasus sees the mines blows from two kilometres away, phospex mines which send the gas billowing into the sky. He encounters a DG marine and is lucky to kill him as he quickly realises one bolt isn't typically enough to kill a fellow marine. He starts mag dumping into more DG marines that emerge from trenches and tunnels. Before he is overwhelmed two saturnine terminators find him and save him and tell him to stay with them. They hear the titans awaken in the fortress.

We see Jonah Aruken, princeps of the Penumbral Reaper march alongside the Dies Irae, except the titan quickly stops listening to his orders in its hunger to kill. The PR leaves its position and a gap in the defences of the Dies Irae. The titan begins to torture Jonah.

Orth in his fellblade is still fighting in the EC zone although using one barrel to try conserve ammunition. We are told they have lost as many of the legion in the last fifty minutes as in any single engagement of the Great Crusade. His fellblade falls into a deep trench and starts getting attacked by Thallaxi cyborgs. They manage to get free and rise up almost right Infront of the EC kakophoni marines.

We see Appius look at Orth's fellblade, he is outside to guard Fabius as he gathers geneseed. Following a path of destruction he focuses his attention on the fellblade.

From Orth's point of view we see rivets shoot free and the entire tank begin vibrating, a shell inside the breech block explodes and throws the turret free of the chassis with Orth inside.

Fabius forces Appius to leave the area and move to safer ground.