Since the destruction of the necron device on Hexis the major powers had scaled back their efforts to hold and take ground on the blasted wasteland. Now the device had been lost altogether, the ruins of Hexis and the entire system of Lysis had lost all strategic significance, but for a number of reasons, the planet remained a contested battleground, although with diminished priority.
For the Imperium, the planet and the system still represented value. There was a necron ruin to explore, and the Adeptus Mechanicus were not willing to entirely give that up. General Konev still had a job to do, and if he was frustrated at no longer leading the most important campaign in the sector, he didn't show it. In the city of Praxis, the chaos forces held the ground, with the tyranids and genestealers of R'lyeh running riot in the eastern wastelands.
The necrons however, despite not being fully awake or able to access their full strength, still desired to rid the surface of their world of the invading "infestation". Marshalling a new host, the ancient race moved in force on the main city in early 04.020M42. Although defended by the chaos pact, the area directly to the south of Praxis was mostly occupied by the greenskin freebooters that had been present to augment the chaos forces at the outset of the campaign. The new necron assault took the orks completely by surprise, and over the course of a single Terran day, the greenskins were cleared from the south west of the ruined city, and the necrons were one step closer to retaking their ancient stronghold.
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