On 1608.019M42 the authorities at Dnatha were sent into a panic as warships from the Emerald Serpent appeared in the system. The target world was put on high alert, but General Percival, commander of imperial forces in the Hadron Expanse was initially unconcerned. The forces did not seem strong enough to take the world, but the reason for the raid remained a mystery to the Imperial forces.
However, Percival was under pressure to respond to the threat, and dispatched House Corvus to interrupt the raid and protect the citizens of The system. The imperial knight household arrived swiftly and identified chaos forces roaming around in the northern hemisphere of the largest world.
House Corvus launched an attack on the chaos forces, finding the enemy equipped with knights, while nurgle daemons swarmed around their titanic feet. The imperial knights’ initial firepower lacked accuracy, and though damaged, the chaos knight that took the brunt of the imperial ordnance remained standing. Despite this poor show of accuracy, the imperial force began to take down the three enemy war engines, but the time it took allowed the nurgle daemons to swarm over the centre of the battlefield. Having lost all their knights however, the chaos force was eventually surrounded and cut down, although House Corvus had their knight Errant put out of action in the process.
After this initial engagement, the remaining Emerald Serpent forces abandoned the world, allowing House Corvus and General Percival to claim success. However, the imperial forces remained unaware that the delayed success against the chaos forces had allowed the Serpent to complete their mission, and what looked like a victory for the imperium was actually a defeat.
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