[center][i][h3]'Saint's Chariot', Personal battleship of Emperor Gregori Amastov, Present day[/h3][/i][/center]

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As Gregori made his announcement Gabriel was glad that he had agreed to leave the Canoness in orbit. The Munitorum in general never had good relations with the cult Mechanicus and Gabriel doubted that had changed. Though as Gregori mentioned capturing Tech Priests alive Gabriel couldn't help but grimace a little. Tech Priests had a reputation for stubbornness and would not come easily if it came to blows. Nevertheless his would order his men to do the best that they could. When Inquisitor Alexius began addressing him Gabriel couldn't help but smile.

[color=1a7b30]"I thank you Inquisitor for giving me command of your troops. I will use them to the best of my ability, though I hope I won't need them in the upcoming campaign"[/color] he said as he returned the bow to the Inquisitor.

Gabriel remained in the stayed in the chamber as the Inquisitors exited before turning to Gregori.

[color=1a7b30]"My Emperor, I have a request regarding the stealth drive that the xeno, K'vari, demonstrated. While yes it is revolutionary and could change our void tactics, I do not trust him. I would ask that you ask him to allow further tests with the device before you think of purchasing it. I would not want to rely on a device that would only suddenly fail when we need it most."[/color]

His request made Gabriel bowed before leaving the chamber to board his shuttle down to the surface.

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[center][i][h3]Imperial Guard Headquarter, Arexia Prime, Present day[/h3][/i][/center]

Gabriel had been busy in the last couple of days as he had been drafting orders for the PDF, Imperial Guard, and the Inquisition troops under his command. Most of the orders had been to start preparing for the campaign, though a few consisted of orders telling what the men left behind would be doing. Namely, the continuation of the training of the next generation of guardsmen. Because of that he was a bit behind on reports of what were going on Arexia Prime. Though now that he was done he could start to go over the reports that had been put on his desk.

As Gabriel read through the reports on the Obsidian Crusade and what had happened to them, he couldn't help but sigh in exasperation. As got to the gang wars that were occurring in the underhives right now Gabriel put down the dataslate and cursed. That situation was handled poorly to say the least. When Gabriel had first read the reports on the Obsidian Crusade he had hopes that he might be able to recruit them to the Imperial Guard to serve as a militia here on the capital. But that oppurtunity was gone now.

Gabriel sighed once more as he began to draft new orders for some of the units of the PDF who would be staying behind to garrison Arexia Prime. They were to march down into the underhive and subdue the gangs that were currently fighting. In the process though they would also begin the construction of aid stations down there and begin to provide better food, water, and medicine that the underhivers probably didn't have access to. These aid stations would also serve as recruiting stations for those that wished to leave the underhive by offering them places among either the Imperial Guard or PDF. They were also ordered to induct the gangs that surrendered into the Guard so that they might prove their loyalty to the Imperium.

As Gabriel finished drafting the orders and began issuing them to the appropriate units he couldn't help but sigh once more. He didn't want to do this, but unfortunately the Arbites were having trouble handling this and the gang wars could not be allowed to rage unchecked. Gabriel could only hope that this would perhaps improve the public's view of the Guard and he would see an upsurge of volunteers. He didn't want to have to rely on conscripts.