Crusade Abruptia

Crusade Abruptia was a Crusade upon the Segementum Obscurus Sector : Abruptia launched by Supreme Commander Ulric Von Elkin an Imperial Noblemen. This Disasterious Crusade led to not only the destruction of two entire Chapters (Most Notably the Black Fists and Dusk Bearers), but several thousand /Imperial Regiments.

Order of Battle
Crusade Abruptia consisted of a Nine Hundred Million Imperial Guardsmen, Eighteen Tempestus Scion Regiments, Several Space Marine Chapters (5 Full Chapters, and Several Strike Forces drawn from Eighty Chapters), an two entire Titan Legion of Lakios (Forge World), Eight Scout Titan Legions, a thousand Armored Regiments, a hundred and Eight Skitarri Legions, twelve kill teams drawn from the Deathwatch, half the Imperial Fleet of the Widow Prime Sector, and the support of three rogue traders with their fleets.

Lead Commanders:
Supreme Commander Ulric Von Delkin : Leader of the Crusade, Ulric is a former Segementum Administrator and Warlord, having gained many honors from the Nobles of Terra. Ulric was given the special command as leader of Crusade Abruptia.

Desius Jahred (Black Fists) : Desius is one of the most respected Chapter Masters in Segementum Obscurus his chapter the Black Fists have long been the defenders of the Imperium's Northern Western Borders. He leads the Adeptus Astartes committed to the Crusade.

Lord Admiral Vixen Lucan (Imperial Navy): Vixen Lucan is the Lord Admiral of the Widow Prime Sector. This sector is famed for its access to raw resources and massive fleets. Vixen Lucan is famed for his commanding of his capital ship an Emperor Class Battleship.

Lord Commander *UNNAMED* - A Cadian General who Leads all Imperial Ground Forces. (This character has not been named)

Lord Inquisitor Jared Neomius - An Ordo Xenos Inquisitior, Jared serves as the Overseer of the Destruction of the Havan Proectorate, acquiring knowledge on both the Xenos Creatures and the capabilities of the Segementum Obscurus.

General Oela Ulysf - General in command of the Armored Divisions of the Imperial Guard forces.

Specialist Commander *UNNAMED* - Leads all Tempestus Scion Operations.

Rear Admiral *UNNAMED* - Leads the Vanguard of the Imperial Navy

Chapters Involved:
The Black Fists - Ultramarines Successor - No Dossier here at all. - Entire Chapter Committed

The Dusk Bearers - Blood Angels Successor - Currently in the Works - Entire Chapter Committed

The Storm Crusaders - Imperial  Fists Successor - You can find them on the wiki - They supplied half their chapter to this effort  lead by their Chapter Master Veronis Habel, though they did not committ their forces until after the Disaster.

The Wanderers -  Dark Angels Successor Chapter - You can find them here on the wiki - Essentially the Special Forces, they committed only two companies to this crusade. Only two Knight hosts were intially deployed in the crusade, but were reinforced after the disaster.

The Sword Templars - Imperial Fist Succeessor -  You can find them on the wiki - Committed Three Companies lead by their Second Company Captain, they arrived in the second wave of reinforcements.

Dread Echoes - Raven Guard Successor - You can find them on the wiki- Committed their Fourth Company.

Iron Praterioans - Imperial Fists Successor - You can Find them on the Wiki- 7th Evocati Cohort led by Centurion Thane (First Wave). On board the Strike Cruiser Illphirim.

The Phantoms Chapter - Unknown Successor - You can find them on the wiki - 4th Company Assault Company led by Talon-Captian Ivaras Trelemann.

Astartes Commanders:
Centurion Thane - 7th Evocati Cohort of the Iron Praterioans

Captain Delkor Talon - Dread Echoes 4th Company

Angel Beriel Heldi - Wanderers Shadow Knight Host

Wrath Prince Keltizifiel - Wanderers Knight Host of War

Grand Templar Veronis Habel - Storm Crusaders Chapter Master

First Templar Calick  - Storm Crusaders First Captain

First Captain Beric Dandir - Black Fists First Company

Captain Jero Helia - Dusk Bearers Fifth Company

Talon-Captian Ivaras Trelemann -Phantoms Chapter Fourth Company

Adeptus Mechanicus Forces
Skitarri of Lakios - 20 Legions

Scout Titan Legions of Lakios

Risum Fabrica - 2 Legions of Skittari

Titan Legion of Lakios

Regiments
Widow Prime Regiments 1st - 305th

Drancorian Steel Regiments 25th - 79th

Inqusition Agents

Jacob Flux - Inqusitior - Serves in Observational Role

10 Death Watch Kill Teams

Various Henchmen Inqusition Assassins

History


Crusade Abruptia


Details
=== Conflict === The Janarian Wars, The Havan Conflict

=== Date === 359.M41

=== Place === Halo Stars

=== Outcome === Pyrhic Imperial Victory and Utter Annihilation of the Janarian Empire    WARNING THIS SECTION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Recently in M41, an Imperial Campaign lead by the Brotherhood of the Stars had engaged an Advanced Avian Race called the Havan Protectorate. When the Crusade came to a standstill with the Avian race the crusade's leadership had been unknowingly infiltrated by the Janarians.

Disaster
Within years the crusade fell upon trouble after trouble until finally when the crusade was at its most vulnerable the Janarian Empire struck and slaughtered almost half of the crusade. Half of those who fought in the crusade turned out to be moles of the Janarian Empire. Within weeks the crusade was in shambles, Two Entire Space Marine Chapters, Three Imperial Guard Regiments, and an entire contingent of Deathwatch Astartes were destroyed.

The few survivors of the crusade were lead by an unlikely commander. Angel Beriel of the Wanderers Chapter. The Imperial survivors did not trust the Wanderer but after he saved entire vessels of the crusade from being captured by the Janarians, he earned their respect. Beriel faced a grim situation, one that as a mere Sergeant could not handle alone.

Much of their communication had been scrambled and entire contingents of Imperial forces were landlocked or engaged, Beriel and his host descended upon a Forge World to capture a communication's array from the Janarians. After a grueling battle and losing half of his strike force, a message was sent directly to the Imperial High Command, with coded details of the Janarian Empire, and a single word in response to the status of Crusade Abruptia, "Devastation".

The Wanderers have heard of the devastation of the Crusade, sent out the largest grand company lead by the Archangel of Justice along with an entire Crusade from the Storm Crusaders Chapter. Though the Imperial Survivors of Crusade Abruptia did not know of the intent of Imperial Forces. A lone Imperial Commissar, Levai Rexia, was one of the few Imperial Guard commanders left. She along with Beriel organized the defenses of the Crusade's remaining fortress, a Hive World of Edefel.

The Crusade was beset on all sides as the Janarians threw themselves against the last Imperials. In the brutual siege that came the Wanderers and Imperial Guard held the line. Hundreds if not thousands died in the battle. For the next three weeks the Janarians cut off the supply lines and encircled the Hive of Edefel Primus. The Wanderers numbered only a hundred, and the guardsmen a thousand, along with various crippled Planetary Defense Forces.

Three weeks later the bewildered defenders looked to the skies of Edefel and saw a grand sight. The Wanderers, Storm Crusaders, and the Imperial Navy appeared with an Inquisitorial task force of no less than five Deathwatch Squads. The Storm Crusaders led by Grand Templar Veronis Habel and Arch Angel Tariel relieved the besieged defenders. Bringing with the might of two Reaver Titans and the aide of the Inquisition the Janarians assault was broken.

The leaders of the crusade and Imperial Reinforcements met and knew that the tragedy of what occurred must never be repeated and that involved Janarians specifically. The Inquisitor Lord Jared Neomius suggested that they go on the offensive and purge the Janarian's government. The Astartes meanwhile planned with the Deathwatch the best way to destroy the Janarians and discover how many Janarians remained that could be a threat to the crusade. Beriel chief amongst them suggested that the purge must be taken to their homeworld. The Deathwatch Captain agreed and set out to find a leader of the Janarians.

The Hunt
While the Deathwatch hunted down the leaders of the Janarian Empire, the Crusade set about to defending and purging every world that had a hint of the Janarian's presence. A grim undertaking that many within the crusade carried out with impunity. Thirteen Imperial Worlds bursted into civil war caused by the Janarians. This shook their very cores, mass panic and widespread paranoia taking root throughout the entire Sector and well beyond.

The Deathwatch meanwhile hunted the Janarians and with the aid of the Tech Priests of Mars were able to develop technology to easily identify Janarians from imperial citizens. Which the Imperium started to deploy, Psykers and technology seemed to allow the Imperial Tasks forces the ability to identify Janarians.

Deathwatch Team Majoris Alpha, discovered from their experimentation that there were 'hive' leaders of the Janarians, leading to many within supposing that there has to be a centralized leadership able to communicate with one another. The challenge came as the Hive Leaders were expertly hard to find and catch even with the aide of the Tech Priests. Finally, Keltizifiel an Angel Prince of the Wanderers and a very capable psyker captured one of these beings by shackling it with his mind and turning time back upon it several times.

The Inquisitors of the Ordo Xenos and the Deathwatch aided in the interrogation of the creature and the secrets it harbored and brought to light led to the deaths of several key Imperials, Commanders, Noblemen, Inquisitors, Generals, Priests. It even included the Imperial Admiral of the Halo Stars, and Ghoul Stars who turned out to be agents of the Janarians. Though tragedy struck when the creature was killed by an 'over zealous' Inquisitor Hector after the being gave him his own name as one of those agents. Hector was put to death similarly after the discovery he harbored the Janarian gene.

During a mission to fight the Janarians, the Grand Templar of the Storm Crusaders was marooned after his thunderhawk crashed behind enemy lines. Angel Beriel who had been monitoring the situation asked of his host to aide him in rescuing Habel. The Shadow Host answered Beriel's call and they deployed deep behind enemy lines and for weeks tried to find the Grand Templar and his honor guard, to find him deep in enemy lines slaughtering Janarians with his Blades, his honor guard having died. The Grand Templar having been saved by Beriel, he could not believe to be saved by a Wanderer, whom had dishonored them so many millennia ago. The bad blood disappeared after Beriel fought with blade on hand against the Janarians who shifted into tyranid creatures. After slaughtering the Janarians the host with their valuable asset returned to the Storm Crusaders fleet. Veronis having seen the bravery of the Wanderers recommended first hand that they would now and forever be the honor brothers of his and would always be welcome amongst them.

Though the Storm Crusaders had once deeply mistrusted the Wanderers, Angel Beriel proved himself to them the aspects admirable to them. For his actions, Beriel was awarded by both the Wanderers and Storm Crusaders gave him the Title of the Angel of the Crusade, and his Knight host the honor of the Sword of the Storms.

Crusade of Extermination
After many years of delegation and hunting of the Janarians, the devastation that had marked an end of a crusade came to route as the Deathwatch and several Imperial Agents confirmed the location of the central hive of the Janarian Empire, a thought loyal imperial world *EXPUNGED*. Due to the location of the planet, the entire crusade could not be deployed in fear of upsetting the Highlords of Terra, due to this, a task force drawn from several chapters of Astartes and an Execution Force of no less than twelve Assassins were sent with the Astartes Task Force of two hundred and fifty-five astartes led by Angel Beriel and First Templar Calick of the Storm Crusaders, the Inquisitor Lord placed in charge of the entire operation: Jared Neomius led the logistics of the desperate ploy.

When the Taskforce arrived in the system they immediately were beset by the Janarians Fleet. But in a surprise even to the task force, an Eldar of Meil-Von attacked the planet. The two unlikely allies communicated and learned that they both saught the same goal, the destruction of the Janarians. The Taskforce and Execution force and the might of an entire craftworld landed upon the world and began to slaughter every single being upon the planet.

Thus the Astartes, Eldar, and Assassins went about killing the world's populace, the Eldar Farseers went about slaughtering even the creatures of the planet. Such was the slaughter as the Astartes ripped through the populace, the Janarians appeared in force with their forces but were devastated by the Eldar Titans.

While the fighting raged on the Assassins were dealt grievious blows by the Janarians as they transformed into monstrous creatures and even Tyranids. One amongst them shapeshifted into a creature long thought dead, a Barghest, which tore through the assassins. The accompanying Inquisitor was the only survivor.

Beriel and a deathwatch team were able to track down the Inquisitor and find the assassins dead and Jared Neomius impaled upon the ceiling. The Janarian's council were no ordinary beings have lived for eons. Beriel heard their pleas and saw a final assassin an Eversor slice the head off of one of the Janarians.

The other Janarians enraged shifted into various forms again, but the Deathwatch squad without a moment's thought fired upon the creatures and slaughtered the council. The Eversor Assassin removed his mask, and revealed himself to be the Inquisitor Lord Jared Neomius who had known of the creatures tenacity ordered that the Deathwatch move on.

The Wanderer asked him, "What is my name Inquisitor?"

The Inquisitor surprised by this, could not say, he struggled too, before Beriel answered with a melta pistol that disintegrated the final Janarian Council Member.

The world in ruins, and the Astartes and Eldar having slaughtered the creatures and the entire population of the planet parted ways. Though not before a delegate of High Lords of Terra arrived with the entire Minotaurs Chapter. Beriel and Calick confronted the Delegate, the Delegate asked, what they had done. Calick, who had grown to trust the Wanderer and his fellow astartes answered, "Saving the Imperium."

The fleet docked well above the world and the Highlords Delegate ordered the planet purged, and all records of the planet expunged. With the entire system put to the sword. The Janarian's empire was annhilated, and since its destruction the Imperium created the Ordo Consarius to forever watch for any of the Janarian Empire's agents. The Abruptia Crusade was a disaster but the Xenos empire that had tried to slither into the Imperium's hierarchy and inflitrated its ranks was destroyed. Never again would those aliens try to rule the Imperium of Man.

Aftermath
With much of the Crusade in tathers, the Imperial Leaders struck the records of the Janarian subterfuge and sabotage of the Crusade. Though many of the surviviors protested at this and even the Inquisition strangely protested at this and claimed that for the betterment of mankind, the Abruptia Crusade, must be associated with the heroes who had fallen and that the destruction of an entire Xenos Race was cause for celebration across the Segementum.

The Crusaders and Wanderer Chapter had notably worked together for the first time in millenia, and many strains between the two chapters were repaired throughout the campaign

The Ordo Xeno and the Lords of the Crusade requested the Highlords of Terra to deploy two space marine chapters, and a fortress world to ensure never again should the Xenos of the Halo stars ever return as a threat to the Imperium.