Alliance invade Hussaria

With the Imperium and Chaos forces locked in epic struggles on Hexis and in the Foramen Interdictum, the Alliance began implementing their next phase of operations. The Federacy decided to commit more forces to the combined Tau-Federal expansion plans, and sent a number of Librian and Tallaxian regiments to bolster the Alliance forces. In addition, for the first time in the Aleph wars, the Hartak titan legion known as the Squad Confederacy was shipped for operations against the Imperium.

The Squat Confederacy was the final success of the Federacy on Hartak. Combining ancient Imperial designs with tau and Tallaxian scientific knowledge, the squats of Hartak had finally mastered how to re-engineer the MIU of titan machine spirits in order to wield these mighty war engines in battle. In their first engagement, the success of the project would be tested to the limit, as on the Alliance target world of Hussaria, the Titan Legion Gryphonnicus had been deployed at the request of Vorushko , as the Imperium found themselves strategically overstretched with their wars on Hexis and the Foramen.

The squat titans engaged Legio Gryphonnicus on the plains of the major world after the Federal Fleet, assisted by Shadowstrike's tau vessels, outran Stark's fleet to reach the key planet of the Hussaria system. The initial landing caught the imperial defenders by surprise, but near the city of Svartån the Imperial titan legion but up a stubborn defence. However the loyalist titans suffered several misfortunes, having their warhound scout titans annihilated and their reaver blown apart by the might of the squat war engines. By 0303.019M42 the federal invasion had destroyed the imperial defences and taken Svartån, putting the imperium firmly on the defensive in the Hussaria system.