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Special Report collated by Maeister Lukov for Segmentum Command, Kar Duniash
An Ongoing Investigation into Events Surrounding the 3rd Saturune Crusade, M38
Addendum 44.8b
It is believed my Lord the Astartes "Stalker" consists of Icarus Stormcannon Array mounted on a Rhino chassis. It is notable for having a larger design than our common Hydra Flak Tank and from our intelligence reports exhibit both higher rates of fire and the ability to track and engage multiple targets simultaneously. Our Adeptus Mechanicus liaisons were unable, or more correctly unwilling to provide details other than to confirm it is part of sacred STC data that was unearthed less than a millennium ago. As to then why the Astartes traitors seemed to field this seemingly modern addition is disturbing. When pressed, the Mechanicum representative unequivocally stated 'No further data is available' and made it clear it would remain that way irrespective of what threats we intimated.
However lack of information forces us to postulate the following scenarios:
*The intelligence reports are wrong
*The Scions of Perturabo have captured and salvaged Imperial equipment
*They are in possession of fully working and available manufacturing specifications and may self arm
*They have access to Adeptus Mechanicus manufacturing sources of the vehicle.
The first is unlikely due to multiple independent verification channels rated quality: Primus. The next two possibilities are logical due the well known technical acumen of the 4th Legion though the extreme technical specificity required producing the needed logis engines preclude that. As terrifying as this may be to conjecture, the last possibility is a most terrifying prospect, my Lord, to think that perhaps they have found succor and support from some dark cabal of our Martian allies. The secretive and almost isolationist nature of the Machine Cult is well known but to say such things, even in private must be careful of...
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Painter's Notes:
OMFG I hate this model. These were the very last purchase I ever did from the antepodean source. While under all this you can tell the design is great, the casting of the 6 I got is so terrible as to make one weep. Soft details, misaliged, fugly errors everywhere and just YUCK. I ditched 4 of them but decided to give a stab at doing at least 2 for the IW as they do have them in the NetEA list. I figured that after letting them sit for 6 months, meh...just slap some paint on them, come up with a possible backstory as to why they'd be theirs, and call it good enough.
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