Mitchum was shocked when first there was a noise, then the action started. He drew his lasgun as he had been trained to and began to fire. To his shock the woman didn’t even seem phased by his fire or that of any of his squad mates, the last thing that passed through his head…other than the shard of metal that killed him was to wonder how the Emperor would allow them to fail.<br/><br/>As the last guardsman died, and the final cognitor blew out a single screen was left undamaged, the words SYSTEM FAILURE repeating on it over and over in red.<br/>