Alpha Squad is tasked with processing large groups of civilian laborers who have been liberated from assorted locales around Lycurgos. Lady Commissar Cedercreuz has to produce a great deal of paperwork as the individuals file past and give her their relevant personal details. The rest of the team helps to provide security in the captured storage facility which is currently being used to house the civilians and their families.

Commissar Niklet appears with two other troopers and introduces them to Cedercreuz, explaining that they are new additions to the unit, Sanctioned Psyker Yekaterina and her overseer Private Isabella. Yekaterina is clearly unstable and prone to violent outbursts, causing some awkward moments in her introduction. Harmon welcomes her and her comrade to the squad, then is handed some of the Lady Commissar's paperwork to deliver it to the Regimental Supply Officer in another room.

As he walks to hand over the documents, Harmon notices some suspicious troopers entering a room where food supplies are being kept. When he questions them about their actions, he suddenly realizes that they are traitors in Imperial uniform. Calling for the aid of Alpha, he engages the disguised rebels with his heavy flamer. The rest of the squad arrives to support him and they are able to stop the infiltrators from poisoning the drop troopers' food storage. Unfortunately, the paperwork he was transporting is destroyed in the fight, meaning Lady Commissar will have to redo a lot of her previous work.

Later on, the squad is given a briefing by Lieutenant Kravos in which they are given the mission of capturing the Ordnance Manufactorum, a weapons and munitions construction facility located further within the star fort. He explains that the Imperium needs the factory captured relatively unharmed, noting that there are workers and servitors inside who are not to be killed in addition to Severan Dominate defenders. The squad acquires a Chimera APC and is to be supported by Beta Squad.

Travelling to the vicinity of the Manufactorum, the squads scout out their target and see that its entrances are protected by enemy soldiers behind makeshift bunkers. Cedercreuz sends Beta to enter via a maintenance corridor approach and ambush the defenders inside the facility while Alpha will charge one of the entrances in the Chimera.