The eldar beam trepanned Victrix. It cut through the outer casing, the intermediate, the internal subcutaneous, spalling white hot shards in all directions and spurting out fat globs of superheated, liquid metal. The upper arrays went, the forward scopes, exploding in sheeting sparks. Narler lost his left arm at the elbow. Gylok, the famulous, was cut in two at the waist. The rear cabin bulkheads blew out as the beam passed through them and murdered tech-priest Solium in his aft compartment. Then the rear cranial generators blew. The beam missed him, but the blast effects caught him. Shrapnel
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