04102017 M41 The Knights of Ajax have won a resounding victory, regaining their honor that the Iron Warriors had stolen from them. Chapter Master Brellon Juche led the charge with a squad of Sternguard against the corrupting influence of Nurgle, which had overtaken the Iron Warriors of Haltmon. The divinations of the Silver Skulls had revealed that the dark master daemon Belakor had shown himself as master of the Iron Warriors, only for the legions of Nurgle to rise and overtake the chaos marines as a wasting disease turned them all into plague bearers, with the Warsmiths ascending into twinned daemon princes, bringing a great unclean one onto the planet, hopefully corrupting its promethium refineries forever. However, Brellon Juche and the battleship Just Retribution launched the Venerable Ironclad Castidian Fellfall who proved his worth once again, smiting the two Daemon Princes one after another with his powerful seismic hammer, proving that all the sorceries of the warp are no help when faced with a swift and righteous thumping. On the wider battlefield the Centurion devastators and Thunderfire artillery poured fire into the Great Unclean one for several hours even as it summoned more plaguebearers to accost Fellfall with their touch of rust. However, it was Sgt Gwen whose lascannon shot killed the daemon, sending it back to the Warp with a dark chuckle and a permanant stain on the metalworks it had occupied. She could not savor her victory however, for with a ripple of invisible air, Belakor charged at her in anger. Ripping her from her Centurion suit, the dark lord hurled her from the battlements, where she clung to the top of a landed drop pod, saving her from death, if not broken bones and blood loss. Though her comrades despaired, they stubbornly fought on, and were soon buoyed by the arrival of Chapter Master Juche, who engaged in a ferocious battle against the daemon prince who swore he would not be put down so easily. But it was not to be, for after only a few clashes of dark sword and thunder hammer, Belakor's attempted spell of invibility failed and he was folded in half, succked back into the warp for his failure. Mightly though he may have been, Belakor still must face the displeasure of his masters for as the Centurions and their Chapter Master offered a tempting target, the rest of the Knights had cleansed the promethium refineries and had swiftly isolated the remaining pockets of resistance. So it was that the weary Knights of Ajax regained the honor of their chapter and reclaimed a world from the horrors of Chaos. (Game 2) But just as day follows night, so too must the blades of the daemon be replaced by the guns of the Xenos. Seeking fresh resources, the Tau had come to Haltmon, only to find that the bloodied but determined Knights were not willing to part with an iota of the fuel or planet they had so recently purged. With a sigh, Brellon Juche stepped out of the shower and like the rest of his force, rode down to the planet once more in battle plate still covered in gore. The battle was not pretty, but it began on an excellent note for all that the Tau favored swift movement and battlefield superiority through three Riptide suits, the time it took for the three rare transports to be unloaded cost the xenos dearly, allowing Juche and his solders to set up defenses in and around the refinery, dictating the terms of engagement. Techmarine Judis's opening salvo of thunderfire shells ripped the delicate Tau drones to pieces, leaving the enemy commander exposed to Sgt Gwen's lascannon fire, making a mockery of its precious iridium armor. However on the other side of the refinery the Chapter Master had perhaps overestimated the strength and durability of his First Company Sternguard for though he shielded many of them with his terminator plate and storm shield, two riptides and an entire Tau Gunline proved to be too much even for such ancient and powerful wargear to handle. A stray burst cannon round knocked his helmet off and gave the Chapter Master a severe concussion while shredding the less fortunate Sternguard behind him. Enraged, the squad called for support from Techmarine Tashlan's Stormtalonwhich bought them time to charge the nearest Riptide. Though its armor was too thick for even hellfire rounds to reliably penetrate both its plating and force field, the scurrying marines did keep the heavy weapons platform occupied long enough for the heavy weapons teams to wreak havoc against the remaining Tau ground forces. Having been slaughtered, the Tau retreated into their ships and left the sector, claiming false victory under the pretense of having slain Chapter Master Juche. Knowing this to be false, the Knights of Ajax stand with their faces bloody and bruised, but unbowed on a planet of the Imperium that has fought hard to remain so. It also offers an opportunity to repopulate the world with many of the Imperial citizens that have been clamoring,at the Chapter's heels of late and the colony ships will be settled in the ruins as new, uncorrupted hivemcities, the Nurgle-infested ones undergoing the process of cleansing by the Ecclasiarchy and Ad Mech.
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