After intelligence sharing between Crusade Command on Grettoris and the Imperial Guard units deployed in the sector, all data on movements beyond the Eastern Fringe is pooled for analysis. With tensions running high, tyranid movements clouded in obscurity, and battle reports from Shelldrake, false alarms are inevitable. A strong movement towards Shellack places the whole garrison on alert.
Elements of the Shellack Garrison waiting on the station walls. Built of Scott Guild modular manufacture 'porta perimeter' sections, and with only a handful of Imperial Guard to defend it, no one expects the wall to be held for long, should the tyranids come.
There are just a handful of men here to defend an imperial listening post, and they know that they have little chance should the tyranids land. After a few hours the movement towards the world is identified as an asteroid group and the alert is cancelled, however eyes are still turned nervously towards The Fringe. An automated distress signal, containing no information about what has befallen the ship, has been received from a prospecting vessel operating beyond Shellack.
The signal halts abruptly.
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