For many weeks following the destruction of the necron device the war on Hexis had become almost dormant. The Imperium and Chaos forces had stopped all meaningful attempts to dislodge one another, as the chaos forces were now mainly holed up in the city of Praxis itself, while the Imperium under General Konev held sway over much of the ruined and now worthless barren landscape of the planet's northern plains. Konev was stripped of much of his war assets, and now commanded only a fraction of the army he could once call upon, as his commander, General Percival, reorganised his forces in the Hadron Expanse. Now all imperial effort was focussed on the defence of Corticant in the Perseus Deeps, and the invasion of Mordecai.
In mid 02.020M42 however, Konev's army came under assault from a significant force of necrons. The "front" against the necrons was weakly defended by imperial forces as there was no reason to expect a necron advance, especially as the device was no longer active. However the imperium had failed to understand the motivations behind the partially awoken aliens, who were resolute if not fully rational in their drive to rid their homeworld, no matter how destroyed, of the alien taint that they merely considered an infestation.
The initial appearance of the necrons caused panic amongst Konev's troops, but a small force of Imperial Fists agreed to take the matter in hand and stabilise the situation. Unfortunately the small group of marines woefully underestimated the necron threat and found themselves on the defensive almost immediately. Soon after deploying the Fists were forced to retreat, and the Imperium had to trade land for time before the necron advance peetered out. Fortunately, the land was worthless.
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