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Action Post - The High Imperium
As the fleets form up, Elandra can hear the chatter of the other allied navies as they question each other back and forth. Perhaps this offensive can push the Mak back once and for all and then the fleet could tur- Her mind whites out in a blur as the machine in her skull flares to life.
She groans and grabs the console with shaking hands as the pain increases, fighting its commands with every ounce of her will. Around her, the crew merely continue their jobs, the slave engines in their heads stripping away all personality and outside initiative.
Fight. Break them on the anvil.
Still, she resists, until the device clicks and then she’s lost, screaming herself hoarse as blazing knives of razored fire slice through her mind. The agony continues until she’s barely even aware of the slight stinging pop as her nails tear her eyes apart and claw her cheeks into bloody ruin.
When the pain fades away for a few blessed moments she feels a phantom hand brushing her jaw.
“So brave. And yet so foolish. No matter. You are mine, your family is mine, and your heirs will be mine. The House of Vos is under the yoke, and none shall lift it. There will be no glorious revolt, no empire from the ashes, built on blood and ships with a burning heart of war. The Circled Star shall fade and gutter out and you will be the instrument of my will. And at long last, the Imperium will be no more.”
Her will finally cracks apart under the strain, and when the machine finishes, Elandra Vos, one of the Dual Imperators of the High Imperium, stands tall and gives the order that will be remembered for ten thousand years.
"FIRE."
The Imperial fleet suddenly retargets their guns, and then the RKV carriers open fire. 600,000 chunks of durasteel the size of a frigate, each moving at .999 c rip outwards from the fleet into the back of their allies. Close behind the assault is a sheet of antimatter missiles so thick nothing can be seen of the other side of it. And for the following hammer blow, the Trisagion SuperDreadnoughts open fire, waves of turbolaser bolts lashing out.