Crusade moves on to Destino

Having all but secured the Vandrax System, the Crusade now moved into their second phase. From her base on Bastien Inquisitor Vorushko communicated her orders to Cybixx and her other Crusade commanders. Take Destino next. meanwhile Vorushko continued her own agenda in the Deeps, while Hathek desperately tried to contain the Crusade itself. Vorushko however had no power to command her Ordo Malleus colleagues, and the Grey Knights continued to pursue their own agenda, however aligned it was to hers.

The Grey Knights did aid the Crusade at Destino however, assaulting and destroying several Loyalist defences on Destino 3, defeating and massacring the defending Lunar Guard regiments which had only recently been installed as a garison force. However, Cybixx's mechanicum and the Angels Repentant were unable to follow up this victory, and the initial landing at Destino was met by a strong and coordinated Novgorod defence, who swiftly forced a crusade withdrawl. The crusade forces now had a presence in the system though, and without a decisive battle in space, which seemed unlikely given both sides' unwillingness to risk their vessels, another assault by the Crusade seemed a certainty.