Battle for Nenia Pomarium

The Battle for Nenia Pomarium - or more accurately, the battle to hold Port 624 was a battle fought in late M41. The Space Marines of the Revenants Chapter's Fourth Company - were sent to the planet Nenia Pomarium to investigate the possibility of a Genestealer infiltration. By the time they get there, the Tyranid force known only as the Alpanga Swarm had already arrived, necessitating a last ditch holding action to pull the untainted survivors out.

Revenants Fourth Company
The Revenants Fourth Company, under the command of Jared Severus, were on a mission to locate the unknown Space Marine who had aided the Revenants Chapter Master against Hans Nieman and Sanctimonia Praesentia, when they received a distress call from the planet Nenia Pomarium. The planet had recently been forced to deal with an attempted Xeno incursion by Genestealers and, though the creatures had been apparently defeated, the authorities required the aid of those more experienced with the Tyranid taint to be certain. Knowing his first duty was to the peoples of the Imperium, Captain Severus agreed.

Arrival
When the Revenants arrived however, they found things in a bad way; the Tyranids were nearly upon the planet, and with precious little time to organise an effective defence, the best Severus could do - as much as it galled him - was to order a retreat, and an evacuation.

The Planetary Government was admirably speedy in organising the retreat, with over half the population hang already been evacuated. The remaining population were about half way through evacuation when the Tyranids hit. The majority of the spaceports - and their people - fell within hours, while more managed to escape. Eventually, the only port that needed holding was port 624; a not very easily accessed port, but accessible enough for the mission. The colonists would take time to be herded informs last evac ships, and now only 85th platoon PDF under Major Lewis Mortenson and Captain Severus' Marines were left to hold the last defences against the Tyranids.

The Battle
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Aftermath
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Forces
Apart from the small, scantly armed platoon of Guardsmen, the Space Marines had less than a full company left to hold against the Tyranid horde. However, there was a strange light at the end of the tunnel for the Marines, for at the darkest hour of that battle, when all hope seemed lost to them, the Space Marine they had been seeking, known as the stranger of Orbis, appeared. Captain Severus acknowledged his arrival with little but a nod, and the stranger stood with his brothers.

The Stranger's Fate
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