<Feron> "By that logic we should of stopped defending the entirety of the Imperium ages ago to stop the cruelty and just die. Look at it like this. We've enemies in the Inquisition, if they want to catch us right now? I don't doubt for a second then that they will appear here or anywhere, able to outrun a crippled ship no matter how skilled the Captain and just blow us out of the void. Everything we do is a risk, this is just another one that coincides with the fact we still very much have a job to do. If we just take what we want and leave the people here we're no better than raiders and actually have given those loyal and right thinking amongst the Inquisition a genuine act that we committed that could be viewed as seditious if, once the lies are dispelled. I think its clear enough we're all dead regardless, even if we return with names cleared the Inquisition will wipe us away as an ugly wrinkle of them being wrong. The consequences are already set and stable, there isn't any escape. It's just a matter how much we can do along the way. "
"I am always ready young drake" as he spoke he looked at the librarian "i may also have something that may help you in the next battle, that is if marmoroth alows me to give it to you"
"It appears Uncle's nickname for me is catching, " chuckles Draconion. "We shall use the Invocation of the Five Kings, then, Ancient One. I thank you for your generosity," says Draconion with a short bow to Tempestus. Before he begins the rite, however, he turns to Amraphel and speaks his first words to him since they first met in the medbay. "Brother Amraphel. In the home I share with Commander Feron, there is a name fot those who take by force or guile what is not theirs and give nothing in return. That name is 'pirate', and we deal with such by cutting their sinews and throwing them to the sea and her hungry children." With that, he turns his attention to the Invocation, creating the ritual circle out of ink-scrawled paper and settling down in the middle to begin his chant.
<Steinar Greywold> The man simply rose from his bed, still clad in his armor. He looked at the former Blackshield and just passed him by. But instead of marching to the Briefing Room, he simply headed to the armory. His time has come. <Sirius Jules - @DeranVendar > "I would not even board the Orks unless we know their Warboss is there. Boarding Actions against Orks have factors we cannot calculate and we have no Terminator Strikeforce. If we do not know where to go, we are dead. We will get surrounded, we will get just flooded in their numbers and we will die. Locate their boss, teleport us right into their bridge, let us kill him and then get the frak out of there. That is the only way you can board an Ork ship with our resources. Even if you see a Nova Frigate, when Orks had it, it is completely different in the interior. Plasma Generators moved, Armories not where they are supposed to be, Quarters become Spore Pits, and not to forget we never know how crazy their Mek is and the ship could explode when trying to turn it's shields on." Sirius shrugged. "Just speaking from experience. Rather let them know that we have the best warrior of the Imperium with us, let them board us and kill the Warboss at the spot. We are probably better armed for a defense than an attack from our side." He turned to @Draconion to reply regards the raiding force for the Orks in the West. "You have the right idea, but you tell it wrong. We must split the force by attacking from three sides. West, South and East. and lure the Orks in different directions to split them up. Too bad we have no rough riders or bike squadrons to do this. Anyhow, we need to break the chain of command. I suggest that we get any sniper weapons we have such as Stalker Bolters or appropriate Sniper Rifles, such as the scouts use, and pick off targets. The local troops perhaps have access to Long-Las, we should tell them to prioritize the use of them against the bigger Orks, and ensure we don't let get the Orks any of them. Or else we get a repetition of what happened on Armageddon." The Apothecary shook his head and was only glad that it didn't happen to his chapter, nonetheless it was a grave loss for the Celestial Lions at the Mannheim Gap. Especially horrifying for him personally was how they picked off the Apothecaries. "That said, I care little what you actually will do, I just want to ensure that you had your input, as you asked for - Brother Feron."
Amraphel dismissively waved a hand at draconion. "Your threats are meaningless so don't waste your breath. What I proposed was never any kind of piracy. And as to your chapters famous high regard for human life, if we finish the orks fast instead of waging a long drawn-out defensive campaign the battle will end sooner, thereby causing less civilian deaths. If you were only able to stop being so narrow minded you would see that it is true!
If you refer to what happened on armageddon, during a certain infamous battle let me say the following: "What happened to the Lions was treachery! They were betrayed by some of those who wished to send the astartes a warning, nearly an entire chapters worth of gene seed wasted so that some fools could prove their power. Wasting astartes is the ultimate crime."
<Sirius Jules> "And you are wasting your life by being such a cocky fool, Blackshield. You are a wasted Marine, for you are on an eternal crusade of repentance." Sirius leashed out toward him, shaking his head in disappointment. "Hold your tongue or I cut it out, since your unnecessary blabber draws on my patience." He readied Durandal and held it in the Way of the Blade, as per Ronin teachings.
"Be quiet both of you" as he spoke the dreadnaught looked at the apothicary and the blacksheild "or will i have to place aomething between you" with that he stood behind the other librarian and started to chant along with him
<Sirius Jules> "Don't threaten me. And my problem with him lies at the bare fact that he is not telling his past to us. Icelos confessed he is a Son of Corax. Even your past is no secret to us, Veritas. But Amraphel? Despite all that happened he is still a stranger to us all. Having not a single friend among us and always alienating everyone. For all I care, the only way how the Unholy Alliance always knows where we are and what we do is his fault." The Apothecary openly accused him, still ready to strike.
"It was not a threat, if you want to fight go to the training pits me and draconian need to concentrate"
