Paradorn contested, chaos build base

On Paradorn the situation was far more fluid than at Vandrax or Destino. At Vandrax the crusade were locked in a war with the Loyalists as Inquisitor Hathek tried to prevent the destruction of the Foramen Maxoris by Vorushko, while the Federacy fought the Imperium as a united entity at Destino. On Paradorn however, the most critical system, the war had already become one with four sides. The Alliance had been unable to gain a foothold, while the Imperial Fists had all but secured Paradorn 1 after stopping Magnus the Red from performing his arcane ritual.

On Paradorn 2, the eldar had so far eliminated anyone straying too close, but had not as yet made a move elsewhere in the system. Paradorn 4, the outermost system had seen the successful installation of an Imperial base, but Paradorn 3 was now the realm of the Thousand Sons. Realising the threat of having a chaos controlled world between their base and the inner planets, the Adeptus Mechanicus sent a small probing force to the planet to analyse the situation. Unfortunately they were soon discovered by the forces of chaos and slain to a man, although they did manage to report to the Imperium that the Thousand sons had not been idle. There was now a small base on Paradorn 3 which had the potential of becoming a thorn in the side of Imperial ambitions to control the system, and thus control the entrance to the Foramen Interdictum.