((Alright, since most of you are gathered, i'm going to move on with this, just catch up if you need to.))

Walking out onto a long walkway above the hangar that they were gathered in, Viqtor looked around, Space Marines, Guardsmen, Sisters... The Assassin... This was going to be... interesting.

"Brothers, Sisters, Hammers of the Emperor, I have gathered you here for your mission briefing." he said. "As some of you may know, our former hive-world, Lorinos IV, located in the Damocles Gulf, was home to a giant Manufactorum. What you do not know is that during the construction of the manufactorum, drilling teams discovered a Warlord-class Titan, buried, we believe, during the Horus Heresy, dubbed [i]Orphion[/i]. For a hundred years, our teams worked to get the Titan operational again. Then, during the Damocles Crusade, the filthy Xeno's destroyed the manufactorum, we believed that the Titan was lost with it... Until approximately 3 weeks ago, when we received a communication from a Tech-marine still alive inside of Orphion, claiming that repairs to the Titan are now complete..." he paused as thoughts of the Titan's magnificence flooded his mind "I... Doubt any of you have ever seen a Titan in action, but rest assured that it will go a long way to completing the Imperiums destiny." he then sighed.

"And now for the bad news... Unfortunately, after the Damocles Crusade, Ultimar-Command dictated that Lorinos IV was no longer of strategic value, and so, the colony was abandoned... By the Astartes, anyway. As such, the planet is under the control of the Tau Empire." there was a collective groan from some of the guardsmen. "What's even worse is that the Inquisition has deemed the aliens to be "Of strategic value" meaning that, we are not allowed to engage the Tau in open combat."

[i]"What heresy is this? Suffer not, the alien to live. It is a most sacred rule."[/i] one of the Space Marines muttered, a little louder than he should have.

"Please, believe me when i say that, were my wishes fulfilled, we would have a fleet of ships and a battalion of the emperor's most holy servants to deal with this, unfortunately, it IS the orders of the Inquisition that we do not break our Non-Aggression Treaty with the Tau. As such, i have been instructed to inform you of this." he pulled a parchment of paper from his robes, and cleared his throat.

[quote=The High Inquisitor]"It is by the power vested in the Inquisition, that i grant permission to retrieve the Titan from Lorinos IV, but not at the cost of the Non-Aggression treaty with the Tau Empire, as, for the moment, they have been deemed a necessary evil to further the goals of the Imperium. Any member of the army that unlawfully fires upon, or otherwise engages a member of their Empire in combat, shall immediately be branded with the Excommunicate Traitoris stamp, for damaging and possibly delaying the destiny that the Immortal God Emperor has laid out for Humanity."[/quote]

He finished and saw the angry faces bellow him. "I dislike this order as much as any of you, but it is our orders nonetheless, passed down from the High Inquisitor, who's words shall be honoured as though they were from the lips of the Omnissiah." he said. "Fortunately, for us, it appears as though one of the Hives of the world is under assault from the followers of Chaos and the false-gods, we shall crush them first, before retrieving the Titan, we cannot let their filthy heresy even so much as bask in the glory of the Titan. So they must be dealt with first. We are fortunate that those Heretics and Xeno's have no idea of the existence of the Titan. And i pray to the Omnissiah that it stays that way. Are there any questions?" he asked.