Emerald Serpent ejected from Webway

The forces of chaos had not been idle while General Konev pounded their positions on Hexis. The Emerald Serpent, led by Ahriman himself, determined to outplay the Imperium in the Hadron Expance. While the worshippers of the corpse god dug in on Hexis, despite not even controlling the necron device or the alignment of the Foramen Ignotum, dug in on Hexis, the Emerald Serpent would find another way to assert their dominance over the region.

At Vespae the eldar and dark eldar had been highly active, stealing or concealing many ancient ruins once part of a gigantic necron empire. The sorcerers of Tzeentch theorised that on the world may lie an exposed entrance to the webway, and this was confirmed by a patrol team. Realising the value of such a breach in the eldar domain, the Emerald Serpent sent a strong force to Vespae, moving into the webway en masse, searching for a "back door" onto Hexis that would end the imperial struggle and confirm chaos as the pre-eminent force in the Expanse.

Unfortunately for Ahriman, the eldar detected the blasphemous presence in their domain, and sent a strong force to oppose them. Bitter fighting ensued under a sunless light, as the webway recoiled from the violence, psychically attuned to the slaughter happening within. In the fighting, Ahriman was struck down and had to be evacuated by his remaining followers, while a unit of cultists, unseen by the eldar and forgotten in the chaos of the fighting, managed to slay the eldar commander before the rest of the xenos ejected the chaos forces from the webway. The fighting had been bloody, but the webway protected. The eldar resolved to fortify Vespae, using wards to conceal its presence from their enemies. The Emerald Serpent had failed, this time, to deal a decisive blow in the war in the Expanse, but they resolved to keep trying.