Editing The Glassing of Djangoris Alpha IV (section)

==Siege on the Forge Factories==

In the closest call one would describe an Astartes panicking, Eximus Secarion regrouped with Benedict Amanos' squad after the 1sr Company captain found the battered Astartes underneath some rubble. Fearing that without proper support and competent leadership, Eximus Secarion put out a relay beacon for help to any nearby Space Marines, Guard Regiments or any allied Imperial forces near Djangoris Alpha IV. Knowing the Covenant would most likely intercept the call for help, Eximus Secarion hid the distress signal within a false encryption log that only the upper echelons of the Imperium can recognize. The Covenant meanwhile, hearing nothing more that mere static from a ruined planet. With the prospect of facing a full Scarab legion face to face with nothing more than infantry weapons, Secarion and Amanos both agreed that the remaining forces of Djangoris would dissolve their conventional military force and go guerilla. Knowing that the Covenant had relied upon sheer attrition and assassination attempts, Secarion deduced that once the Scarabs have dug their way up near the Forge Factories, the Covenant would then send in their Spec Ops teams to place detonation charges near the weak points of the Titan Manufactorum. Additionally, Secarion further figured out whilst the Scarabs were formidable, they were strangely vulnerable to normal anti-tank weapons around the knee joints which forced them to kneel down for self-reconstruction; making them vulnerable to boarding. Additionally, they lacked void shields, instead relying on their speed and agility to evade fire from the Titans. It also explains why the Scarabs avoid erupting near buildings as a collapsing building would trap or crush a unsuspecting Scarab, relying instead on vast open fields to erupt. Knowing this, Secarion being the only leader closest to being of high command, ordered the remaining Djangoris Helljumpers and infantry to set up anti-tank rockets and Lascannons above on top the partially destroyed city blocks whilst tasking the remaining SPARTAN II's to set up booby traps and hunt down any Covenant assassins potentially around the Forge Factories. Secarion hope, that this would create a 5km kill zone of mangled but heavily armed city blocks, razor wire, tripwires and mines filled with hypervelocity diamontine sabot spikes to destroy any Covenant vehicle.

As the first of the Scarabs erupt from the vast open killing fields near the Forge Factories, Secarion told the guardsmen to hold their first strike until all remaining Scarabs have properly position themselves to melt the ceramite encased doors of the Titan Manufactorum. Once all Scarabs (a number that grows up to 10) were positioned, a horde of some 4,200 Spec Ops teams emerged from the ground to get themselves ready. In that moment, Secarion signaled a simple hand gesture and within moments, a rain of rockets, missiles and lasers burst forth from the City Blocks. The unsuspecting Covenant forces was caught off guard. The heavy bombardment of anti-tank weapons destroyed the primary anti-air gun from the Scarabs whilst the sabot mines impaled Spec Ops infantry and mangled the leg joints of the Scarabs, temporarily crippling them. Amanos and his squad picked off the exposed Spec Ops who have not even switched on their stealth camouflage as the low-level bunkers were filled with Imperial heavy machine guns, bolters and sniper rifles. In 30 minutes, all 4,200 Spec Ops were wiped out and the crippled Scarab are now vulnerable to boarding. Without haste, Secarion screamed at his top of his lungs to slay these xeno warmachines in the name of the Emperor. 

With their superhuman skills and martial prowess, both Astartes and SPARTAN's boarded the panicking Scarab crew, massacring them with righteous fury. Once all available crew were compromised permanently, they were initially bewildered that the machines were still functional. However a quick search at the back of this monstrosity and they found out who the ''real'' drivers were. Lekgolo worms. Secarion and the SPARTANs than proceed to shred these xenos with their firepower before abandoning ship as the Scarab start to self-destruct from the destroyed Lekgolo core. They proceeded with the rest of the 10 Scarabs and as the last of these machines fell, Secarion and the Imperial forces for the first time. Roared in triumph.