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Yes. You shouldn't be so absolute.

"Here on Shaprias a new army was being forged from brutal and tainted tribal warriors enslaved to the Tyrant's cause, and was in the process of being tempered into a spear to be hurled at the Loyalists from an unexpected quarter - a disposable weapon to kill and be killed at Lugft Huron's will." - pg. 14, Imperial Armour X.

In reference to the naval component of this force:

"Here they heard testimony of increased slave raids of nearby systems, and attacks by human corsair ships led by an Astral Claws strike cruiser they identified as the Hyrcania" - pg. 13, Imperial Armour X

"Clearly visible above the feral world of Shaprias a ragged armada of star vessels, scows, and wrecks had been assembled for scavenged hulks and pirated freighters, while auspex scans and augury-probes revealed that on the planet below vast camps and training grounds had been raised up beneath the shadow of iron-sided bastion towers" -pg. 14, Imperial Armour X

"Mir'san deduced that the bulk of the enemy warships were away on some mission of plunder, and there would be no better time to strike." pg. 14, Imperial Armour X

Just in case you don't believe there was direct involvement...

"As the broken ground of the training fields was steadily covered with more mounds of twitching bodies, the horde, shying away from bloodshed, only rallied when their taskmasters took the field behind them, the bloodstained and steel-coloured power armour of Astral Claws Retaliator squads amid the dirty cloth and pale skins of the horde clearly visible to the heightened senses of the Salamanders as they kept up their relentless tide of fire." pd. 14-15, Imperial Armour X

I've just checked my own copy of IA vol X and found no such passages in the pages you quoted. Are you sure you picked the correct pages?

Pages 13,14 and 15 of the book only describe the arrival of the Charcarodons, and don't have any description of battles or raids.

Same for IA 9 btw.

Um maybe I have a different version? It should be in Chapter Six: The Tyrant Stands Alone...Under the first section 'A Clash of Iron and Fire' before the section 'The Red Hour'




I guessed which page #'s by the closet page which was numbered...Page 10........My books are well loved!

Ha, I'll check chapter six then, thanks.

EDIT: Found those passages. The assault on Saphrias (guess I had forgotten about this passage in my previous comment lol ) is described around page 23 of my copy of IA vol 10.