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Lem is able to spot Sioux quite easily, the Governess in cover beneath an overturned table, pinned down by a hail of Tau pulse fire. Most of her guards lie dead around her, riddled with shots. Sioux clutches a plasma pistol, occasionally taking pot shots at her would-be assassins.

Tarkhan’s charge allows him to close with the Tau Stealthsuit mounting the Fusion Blaster, the alien unable to pull away before being seized in the grip of the servo arm. The other suits move forward, unwilling to fire in any way that might harm their squad leader – though the trapped Tau instead resorts to thrusting the still hot barrel of his blaster straight at Tarkhan’s face in a desperate and clumsy attack.

Many of Ishmael’s colleagues do not survive the advance towards the Tau, blown apart by concentrated burst cannon fire. But the Tau’s rear-guard is weak, and the few remaining Penal Legionnaires find themselves closing on the breach in the Palace Wall – bringing down a couple of Stealthsuits with concentrated las fire.

Not far from the skirmish around the palace, Cyradon and his colleagues are stationed – based in Golgotha to support the Imperial forces in the case of a Tau attack. Alerts have already filtered through to them of an assassination attempt on the governor, with other security forces across the city already converging upon the Imperial headquarters to drive off the Tau. The Blood Angels are thankfully only a few minutes away from the palace building.

Likewise, Hen is stationed in a barracks only a block or so away from the palace. Alarms and sirens blaze, warning him and the other occupants of an attack on the city, while an Imperial Guard sergeant quickly shouts to the occupants that Governess Sioux is under attack and that all available forces are to diver to the palace immediately.