Editing Codex - Knights Inductor (section)

===Provisional Captain, Garven Brias, Master of Ordnance - 150pts===
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''"Nothing like a couple of earth-shaking Harbinger rounds to liven up one's morning!"''
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''"First officer, give me a status report." Garven watched from the captain's chair of the Battle Barge; Radiant Dawn, as his crew ran about combat stations. Several men ran between the bridge entrance and a reader-servitor. After a minute of inspection, the first officer stood to report. "Captain, confirming the presence of six Tyranid cruisers matching the markings of Hive Fleet Jormungandr, as well as six hundred Narvhals and accompanying Mycetic Spores entering the Gravity Pause near Aprior Stellar Secundus. Movements appear to be to Nyx, Hydra, and- Scratch that report, They're avoiding the moon of Nyx. The rest of the fleet seems to be heading to Aprior Primus, our homeworld."''

''Garven twisted his arms about under a massive set of grey robes. Before giving any orders, he turned to a servitor to order it to retrieve his power armor. "Now-.. Send commands to the Ward of Saint Pius, Ward of Saint Emelia, Battler Errant, and Aprior's Finest. Send all crew to their battle stations alert one, bring all guns to the forward position and engage engines. Link up to Battlegroup one, set to my personal group. Send a message to Darren's ships and allies, set to battlegroup two and standby for jump. Battlegroup two will receive an encrypted band of signals, upon receiving they shall engage their jump drives to a position and formation I dictate."''

''His crew scrambled to transmit orders to the nearby frigates and battle barges, each in turn scrambled over the vox frequencies as a buzz of activities. "To my Battlegroup. Set engines to Burnout! One hundred and sixty percent of the safe values, engage Dive-Systems, match FTL Vectors to the Radiant Dawn." The Captain watched in earnest as his battlegroup followed the orders, and all preparations were made. "And finally, Helmsman, plot a course to a retrograde orbit of Nyx. Ignore all warnings of Narvhals in orbit of the planet.''

''The Ship lurched into motion, turning frighteningly fast for a ship of its size. All four of the Radiant Dawn's engines roared to life, and then continued to create a titanic noise that shook the entire hull for many more minutes. When the Dive-System engaged, the crew collectively felt as the entire universe was simply shunted closer to them. Everyone was sucked into the nearest wall, or seat restraints as their velocity rose. The Tyranid scout cluster rose into view, and then a Narvhal slammed directly across the brow of Radiant Dawn. Ichor splattered over the ship, but it remained undaunted in its maneuver.''

''When the Radiant Dawn arrived at Nyx, it came with four other ships, and met the entire right-hand flank of Jormungandr's scout fleet. Guns roared as Lance batteries cut open the Tyranid ships like a bolter through supple flesh, as they cleared a path through the mess of scouts and transports. Garven's battlegroup swung around the gravity well provided by Nyx, and came face to face with an overwhelming mass of smaller xenos vessels.''

''"Distance to the bulk of the xenos bioforms is eighty kilometers and closing in eight minutes. We have our gunnery crews clearing up the stragglers, but how should we proceed?" One of Garven's senior officers looked to the captain as he gave his notices. Brias quietly contemplated the feeds coming in for a few moments, and in his mind he considered a few decent options.''

''Brias finally settled in his own personal helmet and sealed it, as a more specialized form of Tactical Autosenses engaged. "The Radiant Dawn, Battler Errant, and Aprior's Finest will deploy all thirty of their lightning squadrons. Ward of Saint Pius and Ward of Saint Emelia will deploy half squadrons, keeping the rest in reserves."''

''Brias watched as the mass of Tyranid ships slowly lurched towards his fleet, but the bulk of them stayed back in reserves to launch more mycetic spores. His senior captains relayed the orders to his whole fleet, and within two minutes he started receiving notices of fighter squadrons launching. "It's not enough, send orders to the fleet to take a Claw Formation with my ship as the Convex, and move the Concave Focal Point to stern, mark negative thirty degrees Z to stern."''

''His Senior Officer balked at the orders, and was nearly about to protest them when Garven continued. "When you're finished, have the reserve fighters form a Wall Formation on the X-Y plane directly above our ships. Then move this whole formation directly below the xenos, initiate quarter-burn.''

''Without the full burn of his ships superior thrusters, Garven's fleet made its formation changes in three minutes. Only the most senior of officers were able to match the Captain's wits realized how suicidal the maneuver was. Sensing the Aprior fleet moving into a poor position, the Tyranids shifted their entire mass directly towards Garven, while outright ignoring the planets surface. They surged forwards, greatly increasing speed as the swarm formed an outstretched tendril.''

''Just two minutes before contact could be made, Garven flew into action. "ALL SHIPS, FULL BURN! Shift our focal point to directly face the xenos, and surround them! Execute transmission code charlie-sierra-echo" His officers quickly relayed commands, and the entire fleet seemingly turned as a single being not unlike the Tyranids. With an agility unlike anything the hive mind has ever witnessed, Garven's ships suddenly broke from a poor position, into one that quite suddenly ensnared the tendril in the grasp of its claws. Only the rear of the hive remained open, but it was surrounded in five different directions as ships laid into the mass with all guns.''

''The Hive wavered momentarily, then it surged out along two directions to try and break out of the claw. It had failed utterly to react to the pair of tau tigershark carriers that translated directly above it, led by the command of Captain Darren upon receiving of his commands. With only a few moments to spare, the tigersharks launched into an assault on the tendrils that were about to engage Garven's claw arms, cutting them off from the mass. As one, they all fired directly into the core of the xenos mass, dissolving it under combined fire of Lance, Cannon, Missiles, Torpedos, and Rail.

''"CLEAR UP, all ships fire at will against the unengaged Mycetic spores! The enemy defenses are down, prepare to repel planetary invasions!"''

The former Ship Master of one of the Knights Inductors' vaunted Battle Barges, he was called back into field service when the previous Captain of the 8th Company went missing in one of the excursions to The Dead Stars and has since taken up the post of Master of Ordnance. He has an unhealthy fascination with orbital bombardments and doesn't hesitate to use one, or two, or three when he is authorized to do so with no civilians in sight. He, like most other Knights, disdains from close-ranged combat and applies his considerable range-gauging skills with back line units like the Suppressors, utilizing his Tactical-Sense upgraded helmet to calculate firing trajectories perfectly. It's just as well that he's not a diplomat, or else the majority of his negotiations attempts would likely end with a surprise: spontaneous, sustained space to surface bombardment of massive proportions.</div>
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! Name !! WS !! BS !! S !! T !! W !! M !! A !! Ld !! Sv
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| Garven Brias || 4 || 5 || 4 || 4 || 3 || 6" || 2 || 9 || 3+/4++
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:'''Unit Composition''': 1 (Unique) <br>
:'''Unit Type''': Infantry (Character)<br>
:'''Wargear''': Power Armor, Bolt pistol, Iron Halo, Power Sword, Tactical Autosense, Frag & Krak Grenades
:'''Warlord Traits''':
*Garven Brias has the Big Game Hunter Warlord trait by default
:'''Special Rules''': And They Shall Know No Fear, Independent Character, Suppression Tactics
*'''Naval Dominance''' - Whilst Garven is alive, you may choose to add or subtract 1 from the result of a friendly reserve roll.  In addition, enemy reserves take a -1 penalty to their reserves roll.
*'''Master of Ordnance'''- If Garven Brias is the Warlord of your army, Suppressor squads gain Objective Secured.  In addition, he has the authority to call down a volley from an orbiting Strike Cruiser's gravitic Harbinger cannons.  This ability can be used once per game in his Shooting Phase.  Calling down a Harbinger Volley otherwise counts as firing a ranged weapon and uses the following profile:
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! Name !! Range!! S!! AP!! type
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| Harbinger Volley || Unlimited|| 10|| 1 ||Ordnance 2, Large Blast, Barrage
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*Note: If a scatter is rolled, the shot will scatter the full 2D6, Garven's BS makes no difference