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The Imperial Fist nods and moves to attend to his duties.

By this point the alien force has been cut to the bone; both Jarik and Daon find themselves encountering the occasional straggler – alien skirmishers who struggle to offer resistance on their lonesome to the Astartes. The air is thick with smoke and the scent of gunpowder, as well as the sickly sweet smell of burnt flesh. The xenos begin to pull away from the bunker, taking what wounded they can and abandoning others. By the time Daon reaches Sun’Haku, the Astartes Anat had discovered have also moved into the ruins, the two groups now firmly trapping what little remains of the alien force in a narrow pocket just outside the bunker. They carry with them a pair of fallen Astartes from the Word Bearers legion, taking care to lay down the crimson coloured Astartes forms.

In his search, Jarik finds that beneath the rubble and earth the aliens have dug several tunnels. They are narrow passages – a struggle for any Astartes to navigate – but far from it for the limber forms of the aliens and they human allies. They stretch deep into the ‘earth’, though you find that they are carved into stone or moulded metal. Even from a quick glance they appear to stretch for miles. There is nothing in the way of turrets, though the hard terrain and shattered rubble will work well as makeshift barricades.

As the party finishes off the xenos, Jarik and the others find their voxes buzzing with excitement, while the creak of tank treads and aircraft from the north draw your attention as a pair of Predators and fighter craft begin to move on your position, accompanied by a smattering of multi-coloured infantry. The xenos, realising they are about to become totally trapped, attempt their break out. Shock troops move ahead first, unleashing a barrage of fire upon the regrouped rear-guard as they attempt to break out towards the south, charging the Space Marines lines and attempting to push past.