Imperial Fists turned back by Kel Sandros

Although an imperfect tool the Imperium had been proving far more effective than the T'au and Federacy in the fight against Chaos and for that reason the Eldar were reluctantly resigned to the realities of the situation within the Aleph sector. To that end the Aeldari were content to allow the Foramen to remain open in order to supply the Imperial war machine, at least for the time being. But the hearts of men are weak and easily corrupted and signs of xenos genetic contamination were already evident within the human forces on Corticant. For this reason the Eldar were determined to maintain control of the device holding the Foramen open so they might have a way of limiting the Mon Keigh's indiscriminate aggression should it later be directed in ways not to their liking. For years an uneasy truce had held between the two races on Corticant but now that was shattered and a new equilibrium could only be reached once the planet lay entirely within the control of either Eldar of humanity.

In response to Farseer Tarquil's visions of the future a Kel Sandros warhost had deployed to an abandoned mining outpost in the planet's sparsely inhabited north. There he had foreseen that a force of Astartes clad in yellow plate would come in search of psychic anomalies that betrayed the presence of webway portals, portals that would in some way become vital to the outcome of this campaign. There, cloaked in the frequent squalls of acidic rain that were the legacy of the brutal Mon Keigh's rape of this planets ecosystem, the Eldar waited patiently in ambush.

Shrouded in the stinging rain the war host waited for the yellow clad humans to reach point blank range before springing their ambush but the augmented sensors of the human's armour allowed them to spot the concealed rangers overlooking the kill zone and they immediately opened fire. Forced to spring their ambush early the Eldar retaliated, annihilating in moments the vanguard of the enemy force as Dark Reapers rained destruction into the kill zone and aspect warriors converged from all sides.

Despite the blow dealt to them the humans fought on, their hatred for the alien stoked to fever pitch by a chanting skull faced warrior as they raced forward into the firestorm without hesitation or fear. Soon Aeldari began to fall to the enemy counter attack and Tarquil watched in horror as the casualties mounted. Disgusted at the waste of life he strode forward and brought the hulking brutish warriors down with storms of writhing eldritch lightening to complement the thunder storm raging overhead. Soon every one of the humans lay dead on the field of battle but far too many Eldar would return to the halls of Morai-Heg for the victory to taste sweet.