When the Raven Guard chose to abandon stealth for sudden, overwhelming violence, they unleashed the Dark Fury Assault Squads, elite killers who fell upon the foe on whispering jump packs and tore him apart with lightning claws before he could raise a defence. These were not line assault troops but specialists in the swift execution, warriors chosen for their ferocity and trained to end a fight in the first devastating seconds of contact. Descending from darkness with talons flashing, a Dark Fury squad targeted the enemy's officers, champions, and heavy weapons, gutting the cohesion of a formation from within and leaving the survivors leaderless and reeling. Their assaults embodied the paradox at the heart of the XIX: warriors of a Legion devoted to silence and restraint who, when finally loosed, struck with a savagery few could match. Through the grinding vengeance-war that followed Isstvan V, the Dark Furies repaid the massacre in traitor blood, one lightning raid at a time.
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