While the war dragged on at Hexis, new forces arrived in the Hadron Expanse in late 01.019M42. The Ordo Xenos, led by an Inquisitor searching for his missing colleague, Huron, had dispatched a significant force to the Expanse following reports of various alien activity.
The force was small but powerful, comprising of a strike cruiser and a small but mobile independent flotilla of support ships and escorts. The core of the ground force was a company of Deathwatch astartes, but supported by imperial guard and a detachment of knights, the battle group punched well above their weight in numbers.
The Ordo Xenos force arrived first at Goreen, intending to set up a base of operations, independent of imperial command. At Goreen the imperium already had a small base, but were in constant running battles across the many planets of the system against both orks and chaos forces. The outer system was controlled by the Emerald Serpent, who maintained forces there in order to threaten the flanks of the key imperial worlds of Hussaria and Arawath.
The guard forces arrived first, deploying against the chaos forces. The Emerald Serpent reacted swiftly, sending in rubric marines to deal with this latest incursion by the imperium. However, the chaos forces were undone by the sudden arrival of the Deathwatch, supported by knights. The small elite force of chaos marines was summarily butchered, leading to the fall of the outer worlds of the system and removing the Emerald Serpent from the Goreen system.
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