The Sitprep 20:10

As a planning meeting it had been a fiasco as a response to the military situation. The Governor of Bubo IX had rebelled folowing a raid on the systems' Administratum by the Ordo Hereticus. The rebellion had been a preplanned tripwire response as the only surviving Imperial forces loyal to the Emperor that had not been destroyed during the coup were the Sisters of Short Mercy and their indentured Imperial Guard Regiments beseiged in their planetary fortress. The embattled Ordo Hereticus forces that had triggered the rebellion and the recuperating Penal Legions were all that was left on Bubo IX. Inquisitor Lord Beisenhorn who had also been covertly investigating the administratum on behalf of the Ordo Malleus had assumed command of all Loyal Imperial forces as the surving representative of the Inquisition. He had used his personal astropath to summons help from the Imperium from the Penal Legion's base in the vast equitorial desert crater at the equator of Bubo IX. Help was unlikely to arrive within the year unless fortuitously a Space Marine battle force was transiting nearby. Only the Penal Legion had been left unmolested by the rebels, possibly because they assumed that sooner rather than later the legion would go over to them.

The meeting had started with recriminations and had ended with recriminations and improbablyimpossible orders.  

The Sitprep 20:01

While Hells Owns small pool of officers listened to Beisenhorn's hologram image reiterating an abridged version of the mission objectives he had given Colonel Sven at the briefing earlier that day Hammerhand's mind drifted back to the actual briefing he had attended with the Colonel. As usual Inquisitor Hawk seemed to have dropped Hammerhand up to his neck in the proverbial. Hells own had been relocated to Pressoul for two reasons. The rank and file of the penal legion had been markedly depleted after recent combat and Pressoul had jails replete with scum that could be absorbed into the legion.

The Sitprep 20:00h

After Colonel Sven and Hammerhand has arrived back from HQ the Colonel called his officers to a briefing once the techpriests had informed him that they were ready to show Inquisitor Lord Beisenhorn's sitprep holo. Hammerhand sat at the Colonel's side at the planning table. As sharply animated image of the Inquisitor Lord appeared at the head of the table to address the gathered officers as if he was present in the room with them it struck Hammerhand that suprisingly the cogboys had excelled themselves this time. He had sat through many a sitprep holo previously that was blurry, jumped disconcertingly and audibly only just above a mouse squeak.