Editing The World Engine (section)

== TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO DIE ==
[[File:Necron_deathstar.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Artist's Impression]]
Chapter Master Artor Amhrad of the Astral Knights decided that if weapons can't break the shield, maybe something bigger would. He brought his battle barge, ''Tempestus'', around to bear, fired up the engines, and rammed it directly into the World Engine.

And it totally worked. He sent the entire Astral Knights chapter to war, now that his ship was through the shield and crashed on the World Engine's surface. The Astral Knights proceeded to kick the collective buttocks of [[awesome|a world's worth of Necrons over a 100-hour period]]. They blew up everything they found in their path, yet it seemed not even that would be enough, however the Space Marines persisted; because Chapter Master Artor Amhrad had a plan.

Chapter Master Artor Amhrad was going to overload the WHOLE PLANET.

There are two versions of this final battle. Both are epic as fuck, so we're printing them both. In the first, only Artor Amhrad and five other Marines were left standing, while the surrounding fleet continued to pound on the still-impenetrable shielding while being slaughtered by the still-mostly-operable Gauss batteries. The team finally hit the Central Command Tomb after one hundred hours of continuous fighting. After presumably strangling Tut Guevara to death with his bare hands (how do you strangle a robot!? By popping its head off of course) and beating the sorry scrapheap's head in, Chapter Master Artor Amhrad planted meltabombs all over the Command Tomb, blowing it, himself, and his five remaining, finest marines to kingdom come. Because the Knights had destroyed so many generators and command nodes, when the Central Node exploded the power couldn't regulate itself fast enough, backed up, and blew out the whole shielding array, most of the remaining weapons, and several other critical systems in a glorious chain reaction.

In the second, Amrad sent all the survivors of the Chapter on a suicide distraction attack, meanwhile a crack commando unit made of the entire Astral Knights' HQ and lead by the man himself went to plant meltabombs at the central generator of Borsis in order to release the imprisoned C'tan who was powering up the entire World Engine, after fighting against some crazy-scary overpowered Necron Judicator (we really need a mini of him) Amhrad blew himself and every Necron and marine up at the generator, releasing the C'tan who proceeded to mulch evil Overlord <s>Tut Guevara</s> Heqiroth out of existence along with most of the Engine's power systems. 

When the Imperial Fleet saw that the ''World Engine's'' shields were down (in both versions), they let everything they had fly, and promptly [[exterminatus|BLAMMED]] [[awesome|THE FUCK OUTTA IT.]]

Point is, no matter which version you read, it's fuckawesome final act of FUCK YOU meltabomb sacrifice. With his last act, Chapter Master Artor Amhrad had both ended the Astral Knights Chapter, and saved the Imperium from this unstoppable foe. Oh, and in the second version, the last Astral Knight, a librarian whose mission was to record everything in his mind so when the Inquisition found his corpse they would know what happened, vowed to the C'tan the Imperium would hunt him down too, because [[Humanity Fuck Yeah|that's how imperials roll]].

The after-mission report was similarly filled with win. The fleet remained in orbit for several weeks after, not because they were searching for any remaining Necrons, mind you. No, they were letting the Adeptus Mechanicus ''actually sift through the wreckage for useful stuff.'' And, the Blood Angels salvaged the wreck of the ''Tempestus'' themselves, towing it down to make planetfall on the recently-harvested Dead World '''Safehold''', to raise an Imperial Shrine ''inside the wreck'' dedicated to ''each'' of the last 772 Marines of the Astral Knights Chapter who fought and died to cripple the World Engine. Every one of them got a personal statue inside the shrine. And despite the fact that the world is totally deserted save for only about nine scavengers that still live on the entire planet to this day, the shrine is personally guarded by ''volunteers'' from each of the 14 Space Marine chapters that fought alongside the Astral Knights. Fucking. Metal.