The Legion Deredeo Dreadnought gave the Sons of Horus a rare and potent source of heavy fire to complement their aggressive armoured doctrine. Interring a fallen veteran within an archaic and formidable frame, the Deredeo bristled with autocannon, missile racks, or plasma weaponry, and could lay down a withering barrage that softened an enemy position before the spearhead struck home. Once the XVI had seized a vital point, the Deredeo anchored it, its interred ancient sweeping approaching reinforcements from the field and daring any counterattack to break upon its guns. The Sons of Horus were pragmatists above all, and they valued the Deredeo not for ceremony but for the sheer weight of fire it added to their assaults, a tireless killing machine that never tired, never wavered, and never yielded ground once the Warmaster's warriors had paid in blood to take it. In the Legion's ruthless calculus of war, few assets returned so brutal a dividend.
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