SABOTAGE

Thanks to the selfless heroism on the previous mission, the C.A.T. Scanner had been retrieved.
Two of the boarding crafts, laden with wounded Terminators, had already declamped from the side
of the hulk and were slowly turning back to face the mothership. The third boarding craft was
barely half full, the Space Marines on board were waiting for the two last squads. The fourth
boarding craft was dark and empty, it had been left left to the space hulk as a mark of
respect for the dead.

The chapter had to destroy the space hulk. Such a thing was too dangerous to leave drifting
through space. Humans, blinded by greed or hungry for forbidden knowledge might try to raid it.
Also the hulk might be caught by the gravity of a planet and crash there, spelling the doom of a
whole world. If Genestealer infestation reached too high a level for the Imperium to suppress,
only one option remained: Exterminatus - the destruction of the entire planet.

The chapters spaceships lacked the firepower to destroy the hulk, and the Commander Borgia could
not afford to wait for the Gothic class battlecruisers of the Imperial navy. There was one
deperate course of action left open to him, they could try to destroy the hulk by sabotaging its
decrepit nuclear reactors. If the damping controls were destroyed, the chain reactions within the
engines would tear the hulk apart from the inside. Two squads of the chapter had been slowly
working their way towards the engines and were now within striking distance.
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