Mining Facility Primaris; Castiel

---Ship Captain Brastus

The Kill Team descended to Castiel once more. This blighted planet finds itself under the thumb of the Emperors Children. The main mining facility turned into some form of arms depot.

The kill team touched down on the landing pad. Inside overseers offices were coated in blood, no living humans were detected. A slaughter had happened the men of the facility not standing a chance.

The only way to progress through the mines was by way of large lift systems that the team were more than wary of. Descending into the mine they found themselves in a large storage area, where minerals, ore and refined armour plates were packed and shipped out. Mortis detected shadows on the Auspex, after determining that they were alone the team continued finding a storage room with 5 trapped workers inside.

The miners were scared and cowering at the sight of the Battle Brothers. Whimpering about not wanting to die or be taken by the others, but not making much sense. Brothers Mortis, Darnial and Magron ignored the situation and set to work on the next set of lift doors. Brother Claton tried to probe the mind of one of the humans, but ended up delving to far causing the workers brain to hemorrhage. Brothers Claton and Marcus wanted to just let the workers flee, they were no threat, but Brothers Ansum and Zaharial believed that having been near such corruption or being possible heretics that the miners should die.

A standoff occurred, the 4 Brothers argued with each other. Brother Ansum made to swing his Power Sword at the miners before Claton stepped in and with the help of Marcus pinned him against the wall. Zaharial kept his cool and made no move. Believing to have calmed Ansum down he was released though Marcus kept his Bolt Pistol trained upon him. Marcus fired a warning shot at the floor in front of Ansum as he charged again, ignoring it Ansum slaughtered the workers much to the disgust of some of his Brothers.

On the next level the team met their first opposition and took part in a running engagement through some buildings fighting off Chaos Marines. The team killed them with Bolter, blade and psychic flame. Brother Magron also tried to operate a forklift truck to which he destroyed the controls beneath his power armoured gloves. The next lift down bore a pair of terminators which immediately charged the Kill Team. The Terminators were ultimately destroyed but nearly at the price of Brother Mortis' legs, I believe he is annoyed at how his flesh failed him.

On the lowest level the team headed through into a refinery. Liquid metal filled several large vats within the room. Enemy Chaos Marines in power armour defended the room from ground level and from gantries above. The kill team, through well placed Bolter fire and Ansum charging up onto the gantries, broke the enemy and pushed them back. Knowing the fight was lost an enemy Astartes blew one of the vats. Most of the kill team avoided the spill of liquid hot metal, Brother Darnial was not so swift and the armour plate on the legs of his errant armour began to melt away.

After clearing the room the team managed to infiltrate the next area where an enemy Tech Marine was working upon sarcophagi to be fitted into Dreadnoughts and Defilers. The follower of the Dark Mechanicum and his coterie of Heavy Bolter Servitors proved little match for the team.

The enemy's plan was uncovered, using the mining facility to suit their own needs and constructing engines of war suitable for daemonic possession. By this point Brother Librarian Claton could sense the strong psychic presence that had been in his mind all along. Going the only way possible, deeper into the rock the team come upon a ritual in process.

A deep pit, with sacrificed corpses layering the bottom, took up a large portion of the room. Chained above it was a Defiler, an engine of Chaos, with an enemy Sorcerer performing a ritual of summoning whilst guarded by yet more of his heretical kin. A battle ensued. The Defiler could not be harmed by the teams conventional weaponry, nor could the Sorcerer. The Defiler due to its armoured hide, the Sorcerer due to a conjured field of energy.

Dispatching the Emperors Children proved easier. Brother Claton attacked the Sorcerer with a psychic lance, penetrating the conjured field. The strain of using his power in close proximity to the summoning caused the Librarian to collapse as he felt his power drained (in reality he nearly summoned a daemon price but used fate to dodge that bad boy). The sorcerer was cut down by the team as Power weapons were also found to penetrate the Sorcerer's shield, at the same time the rest of the team were cutting the chains to dump the awakening Defiler in the pit, before dropping every remaining explosive charge down on top of it.

Clearing the area quickly and extracting back to the Strike Cruiser we must now deliberate on Castiel's fate.

Has the planet fallen to far?

Is the populace corrupt?

Have they seen to much?

Can we risk a lingering taint?---