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‘When will they come?’ asked Geron. His tension spoke for them all. No one replied. All of them remained focused on the hololith. Dante had set his pieces on the board. Twenty-one battle-barges, ninety-four strike cruisers and several hundred smaller craft would intercept the hive fleet under the command of Bellerophon aboard the Blade of Vengeance. They would strike, cripple as many large vessels as they could, then fall back to Baal. Six thousand Space Marines were aboard those fleets. Twelve thousand were on Baal, six thousand on Baal Secundus and five thousand on Baal Primus. They were the largest gathering of the Blood since the Horus Heresy. Time would tell if it would be enough. They stood for hours staring at the hololith. It was almost a relief when the first blinking red dot of enemy contact sprang into life at the edge of the system. ‘They have come,’ said Dante.