Kalidar War - Unconventional Methods: In the wake of the Ork attack, Captain-General Iskhandrian called for an emergency meeting in the Magnificence’s command centre, the so-called Chamber of Strategies. Sharing its space with the Leviathan's own command deck which occupied the lower level of the Leviathan's command tower, the Chamber of Strategies was bristling with activity as the senior commanders of the Imperial army gathered together.The powerful voice of Commander UvTerra filled the Leviathan's command deck, demanding updates on the damage done by the Orks. The Kommandoz had hit the Magnificence hard. The big explosion Bannick had felt while exiting the behemoth had been a sizeable armour-breaching charge that had destroyed the Leviathan's right track, effectively immobilizing it.One of the fortress-vehicle's three main entrances had been destroyed and the Orks had planted two bombs within, expertly eliminating the Leviathan's means of communication. The Imperial ground forces currently had no technological means to contact their fleet-assets in orbit or the southern army group. Fortunately the Magnificence’s astropathic choir had not been hit, for it now constituted Iskhandrian's only means to coordinate his troops.Led by a still-irritated Honoured Captain Hannick, the officers of the 7th Paragonian Super Heavy Company joined the meeting. They were surprised to see that Sanctioned Psyker Logan and a small choir of Astropaths around Astropath Prime Mastraen surrounding the Leviathan's astropathic relay, gently chanting.Opposite them were five Preachers of the Adeptus Ministorum, while modified Servitors filled the air with the heavy smell and smoke of incense. Standing at a high bronze lectern, two Tempestus Scions standing behind him, Captain-General Iskhandrian addressed the gathered crowd, his previously immaculate dress-uniform now splattered with Ork-blood -- a testimony to how close the Greenskins had come to success. Over the commander of the Imperial forces on Kalidar, a cyber-Cherub wept at the most recent list of casualties.The gathered officers were quick to realize that some of their number were absent. While four had been killed in the assassination attempt of Iskhandrian, several senior commanders were absent and were not yet listed as casualties. Colonel Gemael, responsible for setting up camp, was one of the absentees, as were Tulligen and Ostilek, two other senior commanders of the Atraxian regiments. As General-Captain Iskhandrian would reveal in the opening lines of his speech, all three had been incarcerated and awaited their trial.The charge levied against them was treasonous inability to adapt. Gemael especially had a reputation as a hopeless dogmatist, one who firmly believed in the tenets of the Tactica Imperium. Gemael had even ordered several of his troopers executed for voicing their concerns the Orks might outsmart their patrols and perimeter defences, solely because officially the Tactica Imperium stated that the Greenskins were incapable of stealth and guile -- that it said different in other parts or other versions of the cumbersome work mattered little. In that respect, Iskhandrian and Gemael had been alike, but Iskhandrian was ruthless enough to sacrifice one of his protégés to safeguard his own career.Without acknowledging his own short-comings, Iskhandrian promoted the leader of the Paragonian Regiments, General Lo Basteen, as his second in command before letting Sanctioned Psyker Logan continue the briefing. For those that had been present at the banquet his report held precious little that was new: the Orks possessed a powerful psyker, a Warphead. This Warphead had developed an uncanny mastery of his craft, mastering skills that so far the Imperium had only encountered with the Aeldari or the Renegades who adored the Ruinous Powers. That this "Greeneyes" was able to invade the mind of a trained and sanctioned psyker over vast distances and despite the disturbances caused by the Lorelei and Kalidar's turbulent magnetosphere were all testimonies to the Ork's true power.It soon became evident that the Ork witch, or perhaps others of its kind, had indeed infiltrated the minds of the gathered officers previously, discreetly siphoning tactical intelligence -- hence the Kostoval Rout and even the attack on their camp. The astropaths' and priests' efforts to shield the Chamber of Strategies from the Orks' prying mind suddenly became clear: Iskhandrian wished to confuse the Orks by entrusting his plan only to those that would execute them. Those not privy to the plan's details were encouraged to feed the Orks false information by thinking on the Orks' motives for being on Kalidar in the first place.One of Iskhandrian's aides continued by revealing telling information. A long-range reconnaissance flight had been conducted by a specially modified Lightning and brought back photographs of their principal objective, the fallen hive city of Meradon, now more commonly called Orktown. The pictures revealed a vast construction at the bottom of the hive which Imperial tacticians now believed to be a psychic amplifier fueled by great quantities of Lorelei crystals.Not only did the device considerably enhance Greeneyes' power, it also made Imperial astropathic communications increasingly difficult as well as providing Hive Kimeradon with Omnicron-level psychic shielding; in other words, Hive Meradon was void-shielded to a degree that even the firepower of Commodore Spasduki's entire orbiting squadron could not penetrate.Therefore, the elimination of Greeneyes and his covenant of shaman-witches had become priority target number one for the entire Imperial war effort on Kalidar. With the Imperial Navy unable to act, the ground forces would need to launch an offensive on Hive Meradon by themselves.To achieve this goal, Captain-General Iskhandrian and his advisers had devised a highly unorthodox plan involving all of the northern army group's remaining mobile assets. Two formations of tanks and mechanised infantry would pass through the impracticable region of the Ozymandian Basin, a region the Imperials wished to avoid because of its large deposits of yet-untapped Lorelei.The reserves of Lorelei crystals in the Basin were so potent that they had prevented the region from being settled, causing the construction crew of the unfinished hive city of Kimeradon to slaughter each other in their madness. The Imperial strategists now gambled that the Lorelei deposits of the Ozymandian Basin would be able to shroud the formation's movement and the thoughts of its crew from the Ork psyker.To further limit the chances of discovery, only the chief of this expedition, Captain Exertaxes of the 121st Atraxian Mechanised Regiment and the vehicles' drivers would remain awake. The rest of the crews would be put in a three-days-long sleep, a hibernation that would mask their trail until they reached the heart of the Ozymandian Basin. By following a previously established list of way-points, this formation was to circumvent Orktown's main defences and strike directly at the psychic amplifier. To this end, each of the twin formations' sole super heavy tanks were issued with special ammunition, Lorelei shells psychically-charged to disrupt the catalyzing properties of the psychic amplifier.