----- Excerpt from the journal of Lieutenant Louis Gatsby, 247th Mordian Iron Guard, Special Task Unit -----
Though the Blood Angels had made off with our prize, our forces ended up being none the worse for wear after our encounter with the Emperor's Finest. As we pushed deeper into the hive, our forwards scouting parties began to report rumours of a stash of weapons belonging to a gang, deep in the underhive. These exciting reports also spoke of a greater danger than just gangers, however. Mysterious disappearances of civilians and gangers alike were filtering in, the few witnesses reporting horrific automatons who's weapons disintegrated their victims instantly. Though the danger was great, I ordered my team down into the underhive to secure this potentially helpful weapons cache.
When we reached the cache, we were faced with more than a dozen gleaming metal warriors. Taking cover as best we could, we engaged. Though at first our weapons seemed ineffective, gradually we began to wear down the creatures. The timely arrival of the gangers aided us greatly, as they rushed to defend their treasures, blasting at both us and the metal warriors, but rarely causing much more than a light injury to our forces. The battle quickly became a confusing whirlwind of gunfire, while the lead robot charged into squad charlie, and later myself, who had taken the weapons bunker. I would most certainly have died had the creature not knocked me to the ground with a swipe of his staff. This action gave my warriors just enough of an opening for the monster to be vaporized by Squad Alpha's Meltagun.
In the end, we managed to secure the cache for ourselves, though 3 of my men were killed in action. Fortunately, we have reinforcements aboard the ship to replace those men we lost.
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