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===The Fall of Achab===
Yet Achab would not let up. Even as the Administratum ordered them to retreat, to await reinforcement from an Imperial fleet even now inbound, Achab drew up plans to launch a devastating ground assault. For the Alliance had moored their ships in the gravity well of a small moon, well in sight of the wounded Star Kraken, and had fortified a position in an abandoned facility there. Twelve men looked at the holographic overlay on the enemy positions, so artfully acquired by their scouts, and eleven of them saw a trap, clearly baited. Only Achab saw opportunity, and even without the support of his Captains, he would launch the assault on the next day.

That night his Captains met in secret, and they voted unanimously to end their Master's life. He would be given one last chance to repent, and if he refused - when he refused - his fate would be sealed. The men clasped hands on this, and with a great weariness in their chests, they awaited the final confrontation.

The Kraken fleet screamed in on the moon, and as Achab had predicted the enemy fleet scattered and withdrew. Now open to a ground assault, Achab ordered marines to pods, and he himself strode down the launch corridor of his great vessel, clad in the armour that had seen him through the Heorot Crusade unscathed. One last time his Captain's begged him to change his course, to withdraw in compliance with the Imperium's wishes, to await reinforcement so that they might truly vanquish this unholy collaboration of aliens and men. Without a word he climbed into his drop pod, the first which would crash down on the world, and looked expectantly at his men.

With regret, no other man climbed into the pod. They launched it with Achab aboard. Alone.

It is said that during the descent to the world below he never stopped cursing. At first his brothers for their betrayal, and then the Imperium at large for forsaking him, and finally the universe itself, for failing to recognize the glory of the mighty Star Kraken. When the pod finally impacted the Captains stood silent, and with heavy hearts listened as Achab fought the grand alliance of aliens alone, slaying many before he finally fell. Then, even as the silken voice of an Eldar insulted their honour, trying in vain to tempt them into following their Chapter-Master. It might have worked, if the Captains of the Star Kraken felt they had any honour remaining to them. Instead they retreated from the system.