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The Immaterium was a place expansive and empty used by many as a place to skip quickly about the material world. Some immersed in it protecting from the horrors within with a Gellar field and others long ago built sealed channels through it to protect from incursion. A young race, the Tau, could do little more than dive into the layer for a time before being shot back to the surface. Computers carefully managing the path through the Immaterium to prolong their dive and push through reality. One in such a dive noticed an oncoming area of ease through the endless warp deflecting ever so slightly toward the area. The channel of slight but growing stability the computer determined to slow their inexorable ejection into normal space. However, a third option remained, and the light behind them in that tunnel approached quicker than they were able to see in the endless dark.

The light approaching within that tunnel was Tolyl the Unbinder, a titan serving an immensity of a psionic collective, with a dragon's face as wide as a battle barge and four times its length. Its helmet and reactive armor on its own enough to repel attacks of warp fauna its body and will shaped the immaterium ahead of it. The transection engine was a thing that quieted the rage of the immaterium then steamrolled trough as the engine of war raced from place to place to go about his duties. When the slight blip of a transport ship's envelope appeared in the short horizon Tolyl noticed it though a discerning eye sensed no humankind upon it. The train continued choosing to ignore the unspecting bug its sensors screaming paranoia about a quieting immaterium the force racing upon them now deflecting its course.

Tolyl crossed the short span of the Tau's awareness into the dark in moments having no psykers among them to see very far. An ignorant eye paying no attention to the ship pounding into its massive helmet reflecting away from the Immaterium. There were already a line of corpses of warp fauna shredded in its wake their engine's envelope keeping the Tau ship alive even though at the impact point the sheer momentum imparted by an immaterium strike liquified the minds of those too close to that side of the outer hull. No more attention paid to it than the other creatures thrown to the immaterium in shards of ash and salt their immortal substance ground down into psimass, annihilated unworthy obstacles.

The ship entered realspace above the highlands in a massive fiery flash as Tolyl's transection engine ejected the materially bound object back to whence it came. A blue flash led to a orange fireball that lit up the night sky and much of the highlands. The shockwave hitting moments later just ahead of a ship trailing immolated metal and plasma. At a sharp angle to one of the cliffs it hit hard to the rocky substance compacting and melting a channel straight down as it skidded its violated engine envelope away. Perhaps the transport might have survived if not for another pilot meeting an unfortunate train of wrath. A thunderhawk pilot with little time to dodge and less room flying through the channel.

The two ships impacted with a scream of armor heading straight down the angled cliff face. Shrapnel and suffering entered both ships as they seared across a heavy forested floor then came to rest. Crews as mangled as the two ships now were.