Written by Daniel
Recently recovered Captain Pauro Sandros decided to have his forces investigate one of the three old abandoned fortress monasteries that once belonged to a small Astartes Chapter called the Righteous Angels.

The Righteous Angels abandoned their monasteries more than 300 years ago when they were absorbed into the Black Templars constantly moving crusade.

Capatain Sandros figured a lot of the equipment left behind might be useful to a Magos of the Adeptus Mechanicus and so the missing Adept Biad-dur might be using the labs and workshops in the fortresses or might be simply hiding out there.
From his orbiting headquarters aboard the Strike Cruiser, Unwavering, Pauro ordered a recon force to investigate.

However, as the Imperial Fist Predators, Rhinos, and Land Speeders approached the massive fortress, the noble Astartes were suddenly ambushed by a sizeable Daemon force.
Shimmering warp gates opened and gibbering Horrors and Flamers of Tzeentch poured through, followed by snarling Bloodletters of Khorne.

Pauro ordered reserves to shoot down through the clouds from the Imperial Fist Strike Cruiser and soon bright yellow streaks landed in the thick of the fighting and mighty Dreadnoughts burst from their Drop Pods.
The revered giants blasted apart Daemons with storm bolters, lascannons, and missile launchers.

But this Daemonic incursion was not a random assault; it was lead by the mighty Keeper of Secrets, Temptatrix, and his new lieutenant ? a mighty Daemon Prince of Tzeentch.
The towering avatar to Tzeentch charged through the line of Dreadnoughts and blasted apart Brother Indicus with a bolt of blue energy.
Pointing his finger at a dominating Ironclad Dreadnought, the Daemon Prince screamed another unholy curse and crackling azure energy tore the huge war machine apart.
With their vanguard broken, the Imperial Fists attempted to rain lascannon blasts and krak missiles at the oncoming cursed horde, but the Daemon Prince of Tzeentch deflected blast after blast with magical shields of warp energy.
Realizing that his outflanking scout squads were about to fly right into the heart of the Daemon`s assault and certain death, Captain Sandros himself boarded a drop pod with 10 of his finest battle brothers.
They landed right next to Temptatrix itself and a nearby gang of disease-bloated Plaguebearers.
The Space Marines engaged the titanic Greater Daemon without hesitation and managed to cut down some of the filthy Daemons of Nurgle, but the walking god of Slaanesh slew the Imperial Fists with contemptuous ease.

The Captain again made one of his famous rash decisions and instead of running, challenged Temptarix to a duel.
The Space Marine Captain struck a might blow with his power fist that sent the Greater Daemon reeling backwards.
But the Keeper of Secrets would not be bested and thrust his huge magical blade through the captain`s abdomen, nearly slicing him in two.
Two scouts that had survived the Daemon`s fury later recovered Pauro`s body and returned it to his Strike Cruiser.
With an undefyable will to live and some bionic modifications, the Captain of 3rd Company somehow survived and pulled through.
From his recovery containment unit in the Apothecary`s lab, Pauro received the disappointing news that many battle brothers were lost and there was no sign of the Adept`s presence within the fortress monastery.

Captain Sandros was left to meditate his next course of action while he healed.
He hoped his Imperial Guard allies ? the Harkonian 151st and the newly arrived Yamadan Steel Guard - were achieving more success.
Meanwhile, Judass the Arch-Slayer, Chaos Lord of the Alpha Legion, discovered a new problem to add to his many other problems with the escalating war on Jenys-S II.
Borsis, one of his lieutenants, was apparently attempting to undermine him.
Borsis had a few loyal squads following him and had even taken to imitating Judass recently by tying his hair in a top-knot and wielding a plasma pistol like the Chaos Lord.
Judass decided to eliminate this upstart and his hangers-on in the most humiliating way possible and ordered them to check out one of the abandoned Astartes fortress monasteries for signs of the missing Adept and to counter resistance in the area from Eldar forces.
In fact, there were no Eldar in that region according to Judass`s spies.
So, he decided to set a trap by having his loyal follower, Supreme Commander Rolando des Gard attack the fortress when they spotted “loyalist Space Marines attempting to impersonate the Alpha Legion”.
The Arch-Slayer laughed at his diabolical plan and went back to his chief task of searching Adept Biad-dur`s mountain stronghold laboratory for clues to the Tech-Magos`s whereabouts.
The ensuing conflict between the PDF and Borsis`s forces was more of a slaughter than a battle.
Realizing his forces were under attack by their supposed allies, the Jenys-S II Firstborn, Borsis tired to raise a vox line to their commander and tell them to call of their massive bombardment and shelling of the Alpha Legion hiding in the ruins behind the fortress.

But, Supreme Commander Rolando himself answered, “You are not the Alpha Legion.

You are imposters.

My liege, Judass the Arch-Slayer has proclaimed so…and he has proclaimed that you must die!”

Enraged and watching his followers cut down like helpless lambs before the onslaught unleashed by the PDF tanks; Borsis lead the final charge from the ruins.
He punched a hole with his power fist through a PDF Banewolf tank causing the toxic chemical tank to rupture and drown all the occupants.
Roaring in triumph, the presumptuous Chaos Lieutenant looked up just in time to notice a group of Ratling snipers aiming their rifles at him… Judass laughed harder than he had in a century when he heard that the upstart Borsis was slain by a Ratling bullet through the head.

It momentarily took his mind off all of the startling revelations gathered from the Tech-Adept`s laboratory.

The Chaos Lord had been pondering all he had learned.

The whole history of the planet called Jenys-S II was a lie.

There was no civil war 700 years ago.

There was a war 150 years ago when Jenys-S II was still a lightly populated agri-world.
That war left two and half continents barren and lifeless, but it was not a civil war.

It was a war between the PDF and…

Piling the corpses of “pretender Alpha Legion” into two mass graves with the dozer blades on his Leman Russ Punishers, Supreme Commander Rolando des Gard smiled.
He had successfully carried out his master`s will.

But he was also a little agitated that he could engage the real threat to the Alpha Legion`s plans ? Lord Commissar Krauser and the Harkonian 151st.

He wanted to chop off the Lord Commissar`s head with his eviscerator and present it to the Arch-Slayer as a sign of his iron loyalty.

But little did the commander realize, his forces were being watched at that moment and were about to be attacked by a personal friend of Krauser`s… Colonel Gary McMillan had been the first to answer Lord Commissar Krauser`s call for reinforcements on Jenys-S II.

He brought a large strike force of his Iron Guard from the nearby Mordian 82nd.
Now, the disciplined forward commanders of his Mordian 82nd Iron Guard were waiting for the signal to begin their lighting strike on the suspected PDF traitors.
Leman Russ Executioners, Chimeras and Vendetta strike craft sped forward at the colonel`s command and began their swift attack from the opposite side of the abandoned fortress monastery.
But, Rolando and his men recouped quickly to intercept the attack.
Soon, the air was thick with lascannon, multi-laser, and lasgun blasts.

Seemingly impenetrable tanks were split open in balls of orange fire by unrestrained fire from both sides.

Colonel McMillan`s command Chimera was hit early in the fighting and he was forced to retreat on foot back to the rendezvous point.
His trusted second-in-command, Major Mighty Max led a solo flanking attack that nearly slew the traitor PDF commander, Rolando.
But, Max suffered grave injuries from return fire and crawled to safety.
Soon, the Mordian 82nd Iron Guard had no choice but to retreat; the Jenys-S Firstborn had claimed another victory.
300 kilometers away, the Lord Commissar himself had another enemy in his sights at that very moment.
The reports were correct, Tyranid organisms were not only crawling on the surface of jenys-S II, but they had taken over a large manufactorum sector south of the mountains.
The Lord Commissar led his men from the front lines again and drove the vile invaders out of the manufactorum complexes.
Krauser himself suffered a minor wound; but not before his tanks poured their firepower into the leader-beast, a massive and disturbingly self-aware Hive Tyrant that had been dubbed “Leader Organism #1342”.
Both sides took heavy losses during the battle, but Lord Commissar Krauser had brought plenty of back up to withstand a protracted fight.
The wounded Hive Tyrant and its surviving subjects scuttled away in retreat.
Guardsmen bearing flamers and heavy flamers scoured the manufactorum complexes with promethium to rid them of xenos taint while still keeping their production capacity intact.

Krauser personally inspected the facilities afterwards; he wanted these facilities churning out more lasguns and lascannons as soon as possible.

During his inspection, Krauser found a hidden laboratory underneath the main complex that hadn`t been disturbed in 152 years.
There Krauser learned the truth of Jenys-S II`s history.

There was no civil war 700 years ago that left 80 percent of the planet`s landmass uninhabitable.

That was just a story to cover up a more horrible truth.
It was true that the Imperium had chosen Jenys-S II as a site to test ways to combat the destruction of the Tyranids…160 years ago!

Organisms were captured from the surviving Tyranids in Hive Fleet Behometh and secretly brought to Jenys-S II for study.
But the forbidden experiments got out of hand and soon, a Tyranid organism mutated into what would become Leader Organism 1342.
That lone Hive Tyrant led an uprising of sorts and soon the Tyranids were attacking the people and agri-sectors of the planet.

The PDF mobilized to oppose the Tyranids, but it was too late: the xenos organisms had taken over more than half the planet in a little over 10 days.
So, Imperial navy vessels were called in and told to destroy everything because an uncontrollable Chaos uprising had erupted on the planet`s surface.

And the truth about the horrible experiments here on Jenys-S II ? so close to Terra itself - were left buried and forgotten for 150 years.

But some of the Tyranid organisms somehow survived and were now consuming what they could find…and their numbers were growing.

Would history repeat itself on Jenys-S II?
Would the Tyranids consume human and Astartes and Eldar alike until they crawled all over the planet`s surface and another exterminates had be ordered?

Krauser sunk into deep meditative thought when one of his advisors burst into his personal quarters and informed him that the location of Adept Biad-dur had been discovered at last!
But it would require an all-out assault to secure that area from a very dangerous enemy…
Battle Results
Round Two

1. Daemons defeat Space Marine and take one territory
2. IG(Elder) massacre Chaos Marine and take one territory
3. IG(Chaos) defeat IG(Imperium) and take back one territory
4. IG(Imperium) defeat Tyranids and take one territory

Current Standings
1. Imperial Guard (Imperial Faction) - 8
2. Daemons (Chaos Faction) - 7
3. Chaos Marines (Chaos Faction) - 6
4. Eldar (Xeno Faction) - 6
5. Tyranids (Xeno Faction) - 5
6. Space Marines (Imperial Faction) - 4

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