Inconclusive engagement at Destino

A week after the action at Tarlius Admiral Enkvist had recovered the Kirov, which was now hiding in the outer reaches of the Tarlius system as it was prepared for a warp jump back to the naval docks at Farport. The ship would fight again, but not for a significant time period. Meanwhile Enkvist himself joined the fleet in Leipzig, now ready for their transfer to Destino, where Admiral Barham had reported some strange readings from the outer system.

Enkvist's journey took less than a standard week using the Foramen, and he arrived on 1204.018M42. Initial investigations of the outer reaches detected nothing of interest, until a previously unmarked asteroid field drew the attention of the tech adepts aboard Leipzig. Not only should the asteroid field not be there, but it was behaving in a decidedly unnatural way. This was soon confirmed as the imperial fleet approached, as the asteroids opened fire upon them. Rather than an asteroid field, Enkvist had stumbled on the Bork.

The Bork fleet were a previously known force of space dwelling orks, who had been known to assist other warbosses invasions of worlds, by design or by accident. They had been present in the battle of Calliden in 011.M42, and now they had turned up in force at Destino. Aboard Leipzig Admiral Enkvist chose to attack, but as jellicoe himself had found at Farport, it was far from easy to deal with the massed Rok formations, within which other ork vessels and carriers lurked. Charging into this hornets nest Enkvist was able to deal some damage, but eventually the admiral withdrew rather than wasting precious ammunition on the orks. Once he had disengaged he was alarmed to notice the remaining orks forming back up into an asteroid field, and simply using traktor beams to reassemble their broken roks. It now seemed Destino had an ork infestation which would be difficult to remove.