FORGE AHEAD 

All of the Space Marines had seen the pictures of the Genestealers sent back by the
cameras of the squad and there was no denying how deadly they were. Storm bolter fire
could kill them, and heavy flamers were particularly effective, but in close combat
the sheer strength and ferocity of a Genestealer was more than a match for even a
Terminator-armoured Space Marine warrior.

They watched with the sergeant as the stealers ripped through a solid steel door in
seconds, tearing it apart with great slashes of their claws before forcing their 
bodies through the rens and leaping at the second marine company five stories below
their own feet. Point black storm bolter blew the first two back into the door, the
third stealer dodged the worst of the blast and latched its teeth into the Marine's
power fist, champing through his armour.

A fourth stealer squeezed through the door and hurled itself straight at the attacked
marine's head, bearing the marine backwards down onto the floor with a mighty crash.
With two snaps of its teeth it smashed through the helmet and tore off the head in a
spray of blood.

How many stealers were on the hulk? The Commander had no way of telling. They must
continue their reconnaissance. The terrible death just presented to them made Commander
Borgia even more determined to destroy the Genestealers and seize the hulk.

Working to the original plan, he split his force into smaller units and sent them into
the hulk. The opposition would be fierce, but this was no time for subletly. Courage,
firepower and faith would prevail. Some Brothers would fall, but ultimately they would
emerge triumphant. Of their civoty, Borgia was assured.. 
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