In mid 04.020M42 the battlefields of Hexis were a shambolic and confused ruin of irradiated landscapes, craters and dust storms, but while the Hexis campaign had been deprioritised by Imperial command, sheer stubbornness meant there was no immediate prospect of the war there ending. By now, the planet had an infestation of tyranids, several ork and chaos warbands that had become detached from the overall command structure of the traitor forces, necrons in the west, eldar in Praxis and, latterly, an uprising of the diminutive grot greenskins.
The "grot uprising" had caused surprise and bewilderment amongst chaos forces before turning towards the Imperium, who to be fair had the nicer ruins to sleep and shelter in. This was therefore the direction of the next advance by the surprisingly organised and numerous gretchin "army". Their next attack fell upon the Adeptus Mechanicus excavations in south Menthoteph, the city lying to the west of the capital Praxis. Unprepared and taken by surprise, the Mechanicum forces were simply overwhelmed by the numerous greenskins and their contraptions, finding themselves pounded by artillery before being overrun by angry little green men.
By the end of 04.020M42 a defined "Grot sector" of Hexis had formed, stretching from the west of Praxis along the southern perimeter of the city of Menthoteph. General Konev was unwilling to call in the astartes just yet, for fear of the embarrasment, but the grot uprising was now the single biggest threat to the campaign on the planet.
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