While the fighting on Lodax continued to intensify, and the tyranids arrived on Mezria VI, the overall commander of imperial forces in the Rifts of Hecate, newly appointed general Maximus, had not yet established full control over the units he was at least nominally in command of. As an imperial general, he could not order the astartes to bend to his will, but he was making attempts to establish a war council. While appointed as "Crusade General" - nominally a senior role, Justinian Flavius Maximus was under no illusions that his posting was to get him as far away from the sector HQ as possible. He now felt, quite correctly, that the Inquisition were suspicious of him thanks to the closeness of his relationship with ex-sector commander Titus Luthor, and Maximus was under no illusions that his commander had been taken out, rather than "retired". Maximus had not even been allocated any direct forces, and had spent the first weeks of his new deployment trying to work out just what forces were at his disposal, or even in the region.
He was therefore, taken by surprise, but not shocked to learn that a demi-company of Crimson Fists had arrived at Calthingum, an emerging chaos base, and annihilated a small force of Thousand Sons they discovered there. Fielding entirely Primaris astartes, Maximus was keen to get into contact with the Fists, who had now established a small base of operations on the world. The Imperium needed a strategic focus and soon, rather than sending their forces on disparate and uncoordinated operations.
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