Siege of Vraks - Destruction of the Anarchy's Heart: With its payload of drop pods and Thunderhawks released to Vraks surface, the Liberatorii Delictum set out in search of the Anarchy's Heart. Last sighted in the system in 824.M41, the enemy battleship would no doubt be lurking in the outer asteroid fields, and awaiting its masters call. She remained a major threat to the Imperium’s shipping in the Vrakis system and for those surrounding it. For that reason alone her destruction would greatly aid the war, but the Angels of Absolution hoped that the sudden attack on the surface and the end of the siege would flush the battleship out. During this mission the strike cruiser Repentant would act as scout scout, with a single escort both searching the asteroid fields, whilst the battle barge and its escort positioned themselves ready to respond swiftly should any contact be made or should the massive battleship make a run towards Vraks.As expected the final battle on the ground did bring the battleship from its hiding place. The war on the ground was lost and Arkos and his survivors needed an escape plan. At 288830. M41 the Repentant's long range augurs detected the energy spike as the Despoiler powered up its engines. Immediately the Liberatorii Delictum moved to intercept and the two colossal capital ships were about to meet in a dual of titanic firepower. Both traitor and loyalist ships bristled with massive weaponry behind banks of void shields and thick armour plates. The two leviathans were a match for just about anything else in the galaxy, and equal to each other.Engines at flank speed, the Liberatorii Dehctum closed in on the Anarchy's Heart. The enemy’s first salvoes began to detonate against her armoured hull, void shields shrieking in resistance to the titanic energies of lance battery impacts. The captain ordered the forward batteries to return fire, and the duel had begun.The Anarchy's Heart did not run but turned to bring her broadside to bear. The Space Marine vessel was fast, and whilst they remained determined to be engaged, there was no escape for the big battleship in the open. It must fight. As the two leviathans lined up, the Repentant was racing to join the battle, her firepower would be enough to swing the advantage decisively to the loyalists. Meanwhile, both the escort vessels withdrew to safety. These small vessels would be of no use in this clash, they would quickly be overwhelmed by enemy firepower to no gain. The escorts could only stand by and watch as the capital ships traded salvoes.Both ships unleashed massive salvoes, tearing at the other’s armoured hulls. The gun decks boomed and shrieked and screamed as the big guns unloaded in volley after volley, broadside after broadside. The battle barge was damaged, several fires burning as the ready magazines exploded, but the Despoiler was wounded too. Her engines were damaged, hampering he maneuverability, and allowing the Repentant, just closing into range, to attack from the rear. The strike cruiser’s guns turned the duel, the balance had shifted in the Space Marine’s vessels favour. Shells tore through the vulnerable engine rooms and plasma reactor chambers of the battleship. Anarchy 's Heart was losing power now, and the Liberatorii Delictum was moving in closer. With her cargo of battle brothers all landed upon Vraks she could not risk a boarding action, but her orders were not to capture the enemy vessel but destroy it. Her lance batteries raked the enemy’s flanks again, and opened a great breach in her hull, bleeding oxygen into space, that soon ignited into a sudden fireball that flashed in the void.The traitor battleship was dying. Listing heavily her remaining batteries still returned fire, but explosions were shaking her from prow to stern as uncontrollable fires within took hold. A plasma reactor overheated and detonated at the stern, tearing away more engines and leaving a trail of debris in her wake. The Repentant maneuvered away, her job complete. The Space Marine battle barge finished the job.The Anarchy's Heart died. One by one her guns fell silent as the Liberatorii Delictum turned her bombardment cannons onto the enemy’s superstructure, blasting the enemy vessel again and again. It was a storm of fire that would have seen any vessel in the galaxy smashed apart. Defenceless, the Despoiler class battleship was hammered into burning debris as she was torn apart by internal explosions. The Space Marine battle barge banked away, her own damage control teams fighting to bring the fires under control. The ancient traitor battleship would never again threaten the Imperium’s shipping lanes.