Alliance suffer defeats in Hadron Expanse

For many months the war in the Hadron Expanse had cooled off as the fighting on Hexis stalled. However, with the strategic value of Hexis and the Lysis system now virtually zero, a large number of forces were now freed up for other duties, which immediately put the Alliance, who already had no significant forces committed to the Hexis campaign, at significant risk. 

The first hammerblow to the alliance fell at the system of Mimir. Without warning death guard forces launched a series of attacks against tau bases on the outer worlds, including the significant base on the planet code named “Gregland 100”. 

The tau responded with their highly mobile battle suit units, sending rapid reaction forces to the outer ice planets where the chaos forces had appeared. The alliance units were unable to remove the death guard invasion, as it became clear they were supported by fleet elements. A full scale chaos invasion of Mimir had begun. 

While the tau were struggling at Mimir, the imperium had free up forces to retake Hussaria. They had already taken Orebro, but now a daring mission conceived by the Imperial Fists planned to cut off the alliance forces in the remaining major cities. 

Landing behind Svartan, the astartes soon faced a force of Librians barring their way. Equipped with heavy armoured elements the traitor guard army ought to have posed a significant obstacle to the Fists, but after an early precision strike that took out the leading Leman Russ and the most dangerous artillery units, the response from the Librians was farcical. The Librian general ordered a flank attack with his hellhound flamer company, which met with some success, but to the dismay of the federal forces some of their weaponry simply failed to work as intended. 

Manticore storm eagle rockets fell amongst the space marines but failed to explode, the only casualty caused as one missile landed directly on an unfortunate battle brother, driving him several feet underground. A second marine died to a rocket as it fell on him during a close assault against the launch vehicles, but this did not count in the statistics. 

The astartes, especially the Primaris, proved a difficult foe for the Librians, who were shocked to discover that even volleys of battle cannon fire didn’t stop the genetically enhanced humans, while their Repulsor Executioner battle tank proved lethal with its precision shooting. 

The federal forces responded to this threat with a precision drop of their elite forces behind the astartes lines, intending to take out the Executioner and force the space marines to turn to face the new threat. However, once again faulty weaponry came into play, and the grav tank, although heavily damaged, was not destroyed. It then turned its many weapons on the storm troopers, wiping them out and destroying any hope for the federal army. 

As the Librians were being mopped up outside Svartan, more forces landed in the east, sealing the alliance army’s fate. By 0103.020M42 the main cities on Hussaria had been secured by the Imperial Fists, and the entire alliance presence in the system was close to collapse.