<strong>General Bracker</strong><br/>General Bracker nodded his head "I fully agree" he said to the Inquisitor. The man made most people nervous but Bracker had nothing to hide and no fear of any who would seek to prove it to themselves. And the support of the Inquisition was a very good thing to have! "The dreams that warp travel produces wreak havoc with moral. But I take it you didn't come up to the bridge to discuss the morale of the rank and file." As he said this Bracker walked over to a holo-console. He punched several keys entering his secuirty code. As soon as he had punched in the last key an image of their destination appeared. "This is mining station 157-AV" (http://www.nss.org/settlement/calendar/asteroid_colony_2-650.jpg) he told the Inquisitor "it is a smaller sized adamantium mining facility, and . Last word we received from them was of an Eldar attack quite some time ago. The crusade has orders to re-take the facility and eliminate any xenos presence." Bracker paused choosing his next words carefully. "that is not all" he said "For some unknown reason the Mechanicus has a strong interest in station 157. I have not been told why and do not expect to be told. But what I have been told by the crusade's head tech magos is that there is a very specific device on station 157 that the Mechanicus wants back in their hands. And they have promised full logistical, and Titan support for the remainder of the crusade should we deliver it to them. Now obviously this an opportunity I can't pass up and so I am asking you if you wouldn't mind traveling down to the station and retrieving the device. In my experience I've come to realize that the Inquisition has a talent for finesse."<br/><br/><strong>Palatine Corley </strong><br/>Olivia was still standing where she had been since she had risen to her feet, her fellow sisters had all arrived and she had just finished leading them in their prayers for victory in the coming battle. "come now my sisters" she said "follow me to battle, in the name of he who guides us all, he who shelters humanity, the one true God-Emperor of mankind." Without another word she led her sisters through the halls of the ship to their waiting Valkyries. As she walked she went over the information she had given her sister's in the chapel. She had told them of the mining facility, and of it's attack by vile xenos, of the Orders Hospitaller convent within the facility, of it's containing of a sister who could trace her lineage to one of the Ecclesiarchy's largest supporters on Holy Terra. And she had told her sisters that it was their duty to secure the convent, locate their lost sister and if she still lived insure that she was safely retrieved. From there they would have a strong position to help out flank the enemy. Olivia always kept a self made vow of silence in the time just before battle only speaking when asked a direct question until her feet had touched the battleground.<br/><br/><strong>Brother-Sargent Amadeus</strong><br/>Sargent Amadeus looked at his squad, his helmet was already on and his jump pack strapped to his back. The squad's Thunder Hawk was sitting on it's landing gear engines primed and ready for take off. With a glance he used his helmet's heads up display to instantly check the vital signs of all of his squad members. Blink clicking the squad com-link frequency. Despite the noise of the hangar bay as craft were powered up and deck crews loaded weapons he was able to speak to his marines and be heard clearly through their helmets. "Brothers, we have the honor of being among the first to take the field of battle this day" his voice was full of pride as he spoke. "We go to war with the Eldar, who have dared to take what is rightfully The Emperor's."<br/><br/><br/><strong>Brother-Captain Batiatus</strong><br/>Batiatus chuckled as he heard Crixus's comment, the marine was always eager to shed blood in the name of The Emperor. The brief to 1st Squad was very similar to Sargent Amadeus's. Batiatus informed his squad of the fact that they would be facing the Eldar and told them that they along with the rest of the company would be key to operational victory, flying ahead of the rest of the crusade to initiate the first combat procedures. "We are The Immortal Emperor's Space Marines, and we will not fail!" He shouted as his speech ended and he heard the ship's hull groan in protest. They were exiting the warp...and reality was once again asserting itself on the ship. He did not need to be on the bridge to know that the strike cruiser was already pulling ahead of the rest of the crusade fleet. Nor did he need anyone to tell him that the time for battle was now truly upon them. Looking at his helmet's chronometer he smiled his words reaching every space marine on the cruiser "Brothers....war approaches, we drop in 3 minutes. Board your Thunderhawks and Drop-pods"<br/><br/><br/><strong>Lieutenant Devri</strong><br/><br/>The ship groaned around Lt. Devri and he forced a calm look on his face. Translation always worried him, despite what anyone said he was always thinking the ship would come apart as soon as it left the warp. "Our target is a mining facility, home to several hundred Imperial families as well as a small PD force. Several weeks ago the facility sent word that it was being attacked, since that point contact has been lost. We have to assume that there are no Imperial forces remaining or that they are unable to get into contact with us. The facility also had several stationary guns placed in by the Mechanicum to defend against a land assault. For what ever reason those guns did not come online. Our platoon, working with several others, has orders to take the gun control building.....That's going to be the easy part. The hard part is going to be the fact that we are going to have to hold the position long enough for a techpriest to make landing, get to the building, and bring the guns online. We'll be moving out within the hour so report to your troop landers. Dismissed"<br/><br/><br/><strong>Cpt. Alonzo </strong><br/><br/>Captain Alonzo Diaz stepped into the Valkyrie moving to his seat and strapping himself in. He'd already checked his gear and knew that he didn't need to check the gear of his fellow stormtroopers, only the elite would ever have the honor of fighting by his side. "Listen up" he said "we are approaching our destination and we've already made translation back to real space. We will be entering combat along side several platoons of The 7th Yuktobonian, The Tameranian 34th, and the Cretan 43rd. Command has decided that their objective is too vital to trust to normal Guardsmen, and we are to make sure that no matter what it falls into Imperial hands and stays there. We'll be going up against Eldar, so be sure to keep a sharp eye even if you don't think anything's there."<br/>