Ullanor Crusade Part 1
"There a force that is growing to threaten Mankind.
A Xenos Empire rose in the Ullanor Sector that will subjugate Humanity in a Violence and bloodshed.
It is Green, it is bloodthirsty and it only knows war. They are not reasonable and they would kill you if there is loot to be had. And enslaved you for what you are worth to them.
This are dark times for humanity.
Greenskins or Orkzs have been confirmed.
A race that only lives for war.
Massing under a Warboss named Urrlak Urruk as they prepared to Invade Imperium Space.
With Valiant Scouts that gave their lives to protect Mankind, sending their souls to collect the location on the enemies of Man, And with the Grace of The Emperor Himself and his Primarchs Legions leading the Charge, And with the Aid of the League of Ten Thousand...
Victory have been assured." - Imperial Broadcast circa m000.31
It was a Grim day in the Golden Palace...
As The Orkz are Flooding into the surroundings sectors...
There are human planets that is lost in the tide of Green...
Fleets of both Imperium and League assets arrive to assist the besiege forces...
While some are barely able to hold on, awaiting reinforcements from Terra...
Almost all the Primarch were present saved Magnus that was conducting research in Prospero...
The Emperor overlooked the war table and sighed. "My sons... This is a Threat like none have ever seen before." The Emperor closed his eyes as he could imagine the destruction the Orkz have wrought...
"Let me be the First to Drive the Orkz." Leman Russ Volunteered.
"These Orkz have Made Fortress worlds... And it will be a long lengthy siege even if we retake it would be costly, my forces are barely holding them back...unless you want them destroyed."
"Nonsense we could win with our Legions!"
"I am not willing to allow you to sacrifice your sons on a Gambit!"
As the two quarrel on the gambit...
The Emperor made a decision...
"Let Horus be in charge."
"Are you sure?"
"That much I trust in him."
Horus Devised a Plan...
As on there are two lanes heading towards to Ullanor Prime are heavily fortified... The Imperium and the League have a Join Cooperation once more... One side was undertaken by the Imperium and the Other was Tasked to Alexander to crush the opposition forces. And make the supply chains on both side running.
While both of them Divert the Majority of the Orks to their respective Frontlines, Horus will head towards the Capital planet with his Legion and kill the Ork Warboss.
"I believe that is reasonable."
As the Primarchs was in agreement.
Some of them were on standby defending the Imperium territory while other join the Crusade.
Combat forces
Imperium :
100,000 Space Marines from the Luna Wolves, Ultramarines, and White Scars combined (with Raven guard and Alpharius Detachment already went ahead flof the main forces to sabotage)
8 million Imperial Army troops
100 Legio Mortis Titans
600 Imperial Armada warships
League of Ten Thousand:
10 legions of Thunder Warriors (legion sized is 100k per legions)
20 legions of Men of Iron
25 million League Ground Forces (not Including Logistics crew)
170k Artillery
50k Assorted vehicles
30k is Sentinels
5k is Baneblades
55k League Frigates class (comprised of Acclamator and Venators.)
2k Carriers.
5k Battleships.
15 Gloriana Battleships
1 Abbysal Flagship (Alexander)
1 "Borrowed" Death Star (mobile supply base, Super laser is not available on paper as it only serves as a role as a supply base and a Manufacturing hub. Horus should not know much about it. It got a Beacon that allows all Hyperdrives ships to arrive in their area.)
90k Mobile suits (not spoken to Horus )
3k worth of Logistics and Medical ships. (They have Replicators and Duplicators aboard. With courtesy of Reverse engineering the Star trek Enterprise Yuri given him. Thanks Yuri)
"That is a lot..." Horus was amazed of the Support he was given.
"Never underestimate the dammed Orks. Once we done securing the planet, bathed it in flames to prevent their spores from reemerging."
"You knew them personally?" The Emperor was curious to know about it.
"They been a pain of Raiding my Colonies during the Age of Strife and my scientist know their biology."
"When will your forces get ready?" Horus asked.
"Approximately three days from now. That much Is all I can afford to rally my people."
"That is Enough... Jaghatai Khan and Roboute You will lead on the Proposed sector and deal with the Orks. Until Alexander have arrive to aid to this plan we shall be ready."
(???, Hive World near Ullanor Sector)
On a Planet that heard the Orks were heading on their way, the people began to panic as the Panetary governor was tasked to Make the population evacuate to Bunker complexes.
The people flooded into the shelter in a tide of flood desperate to live as the Local PDF began to mobilize. The Planet governor have sent help.
Anti-aircraft Batteries aimed at the Skies, Soldier dig trenches and sanbags in the preparation of the horrors of what's to come, Tanks are being activated and Moved from their motor pools... Soldier began to have a Final check on their weapons as this would be a final line between death or Victory... Some prayed to the Aquila symbols on their chest...
The defense fleet was facing in the direction where the Orkz are coming... They were just meant to be against Pirate fleets and Xeno Cosairs but never a full blown Ork Fleet.
The Commander of the fleet is nervous...
"Sir, there is still no signs of the Orks.." the Radar operator looked as if he hasn't slept in days knowing that his home would be invaded.
His men is nervous for days seeing that Any second, any minute from now his home would be eviscerated...
The Awaited time have arrived...
The Orks have arrive...
Their shoddy battle barges and the Roks that is the sized of Planetoids that followed them was more than enough to raise the Alarms to the highest level...
The defense fleet destroyed one... Another two takes its place...
The Last Act of defiance was that the Captain of a Luna Class ship ordered his own to be exploded and rammed into the Ork Fleet.
The bravery of a single ship didn't turn the tide of war... As it only damaged some of the Ork battle barges... The defense Fleet was in disarray and they were picked clean to the bones... And the Existence are just husk that is destroyed
The Roks with all the boosters attached to their rear began to light up and headed towards the Planet. Ignoring the damages and the casualties they made on both side they gleefully hung tight to their doom.
The Orbital Defenses desperately shot at the Skies as much as possible to delay or even destroy even one of them but the mass of the Meteorites have prevented them have any lethal damage done to the Roks...
The Rok Collided upon the land ruining the landscape, killing thousands of defenders in it's wake...
The Civillians huddle closer in the Evacuation bunkers in fright as they prayed to whatever god is out there the PDF will kill them each tremble of the surface made them more scared making some of them lose hope... Waiting for that single hope... A single child stood silently among the frightened masses... As he stare up into the Shaking structure... As if he knows something.
Upon the Surface it was a Desperate attempt for the Defenders as they struggle to defend...
Sporadic Lasguns and Artillery echoed in the distance only to be overpowered by the roars of Waaagh... Scattered anti-aircraft kept on firing it's tracers fire In The Hive city...
For a Month they bled as the Orkz flooded out of their Roks that is now like a base...for growing a endless tide...
The Planetary Governor was this closed to putting a Bolter to his head... Until he recieve a glimmer of hope...
"Sir... We are receiving reinforcements!" A Man rushed in the office... His face was covered with Rockcrete dust and his eyes beamed with hope
"Is it from the Imperium?" The Governor calmly put down his gun.
"It is the League!" The Officer handed a Symbol of the Aquila but it was different as it had a shield as Two Swords embellished on it...
As the Orks was Busy Sieging the planet...
Several Ships appeared into realspace and opened fire. They were puny thought the orks.
But they loved a good Krumping...
Most of the Ork Kruisers met the League Forces...
And they were met by a Hail of Fire and missiles that enveloped the fleet. Some turned them into molten metal husks, others was swallowed by black holes as the force of such nature ripped the hulls and their occupants apart.
As the Fleet was distracting the orks.
Several Wedge ships ventured down to the surface below... Breaking past the Atmosphere while those that accompanied them launched Lander ships from orbit.
On one of the Door that lead to the depth of the bunker Complex, the last remains of the PDF defend against the Horde of Orks....
Several Bolter turret hardpoints are desperately stemming the Ork Tide...
"Defend this point! if we die our families are next!" A Sergeant yelled as he unloaded his Bolter to a Ork.
Several Ork Rokits slammed into the Bolters turrets and the Explosion have Incapacitated the defenders...
The Orkz roared in laughter and proceeded to Rip them to shreds...
One Guardsman is face is staring at the skies injured from the blast... Prayed to what ever God is out there... Save his home...
He saw a Wedged shaped shadow appeared from the Clouds... And Several lights began their descent to the planet....
The Orkz enamoured from their victory ignored the Danger that is Approach them from the skies...
Several Fury Interceptor began to start their strafing runs... And Several Valkyries and LAAT arrived to provide Close Air support.
"What da' Gitz?" One of da' Shoota Boys that survived the strafing wonder how did they managed to pass Da Great Fleet?
He couldn't answer as his Torso was wiped clean off the face of the earth...
Moments later Drop pods landed before the gates...
And Come out not the Famed Astartes... But Men of Iron that immediately opened fire on the Nearest Greenskins they see and Burn their remains as soon as they done...
The PDF looked in wonder of the Marvels of their heritage... Their dreades past... Now appear to save them... They were met soldiers In power armor... That dropped from a Valkyrie as some of them tended to the Wounded... And Firing back again the Orks...
The Guardsman witness the Soldier of the League as he being patched up and Injected with a Healing Potion...
"Come with me if you want to kill the Orks!" The medic Grabbed the PDF hand as he shoot his Gun at a Gretchin that was about to stab at him.
The Fight began to turn to the defender favor as the Acclamators in the Skies now began providing fire support, each of their Turbolasers made Craters the size of continents that incinerated any Orks they found...
They may not able to provide a decent fight against the Ork warships as they are only stock models but they could provide the needed support. They driven back the Ork to the Roks that landed on the planet and a Single concentrated Bombardment have ended the Ork threat... The Men of Iron went there to crush any remains, Scorching the Lands to prevent any spores... Which they don't know that they were influence by Alexander perk that already killed them all...
The Kaptain that Lead the attack already sense that the Tide is Turning ordered his Deadnot to return to Ullanor to inform Warboss of what he have seen here....
A Moon sized planet appeared before his viewport... And opened fire, killing him permanently. Preventing the leak from happening.
The Hive world is in ruins...
Untold lives of the PDF was unaccounted for and The Hives were badly damaged...
However the League stayed behind and Follow protocols of the Solair Auxilia.
Stabilized the Planet and ensured they stayed loyal to the Imperium...
Relief goods flooded into the planet.
A Box of food, Parcels of Cheese, Stick of Hams and medical supplies entered to the population...
The Citizens were being taken care of.
Such methods was used in all the Ork assailed planets that the League liberated on the journey to Ullanor Sector.
The Hives were being fixed and remade to be a bit better for the human to survive...
As the Fleet left towards Ullanor, they leave a Garrison overlooking the planet until they are fully self sufficient to handle themselves...
The Families of the soldiers that was lost, the League could do little to save them... They do have the Technology to Revive them... But the Leader explicitly stated that they would not intervene...
As they would be looked at as a God and the Remains are too damaged to make a full recovery and he feared that they would not be the same as they are not the League soldiers that been bathed by the Emperor light since birth... The Imperial Corpses might be possessed by the demons in the warp.
"Why!? Why did you let my son die! Why did you come sooner!" A Hysterical woman scream in the supply center... Before she was dragged out by security....
"This is a Third time this week..." As the Supply captain sighed as he handed a MRE Package to another Civillian...
"Well... War is not fun and games... Lieutenant...what are you planning once you done with the military Leave?"
"Dunno, maybe go on a food Trip?"
"Hah at least you are much better than Clive... He wanted to visit the brothels. Especially those Eldar ones from Comoragh..."
"Like you one to talk, You been buying those Eldar Gravure magazines...what was it 54th-56th edition? That the Commander borrowed for study?"
"At least those are just pictures!"
A Child Came towards them...
"Hello, where is your parents?" The Captain asked.
"Dead. Father died in the defense and a Ork killed my mother." Said the child bluntly. His eyes were blankly staring at the two...
"What are you doing here in the back lines?"
"I want to join the League..." His eyes was filled with determination to kill the Orks...
"Kid, Joining the League is very hard... You know that right?"
"Wait, let me get the Meter..." The lieutenant went back to the storage and came with a device...
It was a joint cooperation with Magnus and the League to make a device to see potential Psykers... he knows how much the broader Imperium hates the Psykers...
He turned it on and saw that the child was a Psyker... It was Decent...
"Ah... You are a Psyker kid?"
"What is that?"
"Congratulations... You have a Chance to join the League..."
"I do?"
"Captain you know the procedures right?"
"Yes, let a Sanctified Psyker see that boy... Lest he is filled with taint..."
A Men of Iron that worked as a Navigator probed his mind and found that he have no taint of the chaos in him... And the Child was later Inducted into the League Scholar Progenium to be trained by Eldar Trainers... His story of his hatred towards the Orks was known by his peers... His powers grown and he was grown up to lead a charge against the Ork territory... During the Horus heresy... He was one of Billions that was displaced by the Orks...as the Imperium Civil war started they didn't heed the call of the Warmaster Horus as they never met a Man that promise to Save them when their homes burned down decades of not years ago, not lifted a Finger when they cried for help, Horus flaunting his position have made those that was Protected by the League that defended against the Traitor forces to disavowed the Fallen son and their loyalty was to the League as they provided the means to aid their revenge, they resumed their duties against the Orks incursion that wanted to take advantage of the chaos...
After the Heresy ended and the High Lord went missing and the League was swallowed up by Magnus Warpstorm... They returned to a group of planet that became known as League Remnants that held some of the technology that is hungered by The Mechanicus... But knowing their history of the Omnissiah Emissary they ignore their greed and focused on to their duties elsewhere...
However Several Of the Inquisitors arrived and demanded they should give them the legacy that the League left behind or face consequences...
Some planet obeyed and their technology was locked away never to be used again, other was blown by the Inquisition madness or misused by power hungry Inquisitor... Forcing several of them them to turn traitors, and the planets they rebel was swallowed by the warp and their fates unknown to the galaxy... Empowering the Chaos to have a advantage in the coming Millennia as some chaos Marines and Cultist have been seen using the same weapons that the League uses...
Some of this League Remnants was left alone as the implications was more severe of they tried to send military force forcing more to enter the warp... Making the balance of power more into the favor of the traitors...the high lord often sent assassin's to eliminate the planetary governors and replacing them with a Pro Imperial Officials but they failed, making more join the Chaos Forces by providing more weapons and armors to them via Placing them on meteoroids and informing them of the location as those were fully aware of Choas so they used Channels like the Thousand Sons or Iron warriors to do their dirty work, it forced the High lords to rally the forces to attack the League Remnants... They were repelled and a message was sent with the Warmaster Skull that the High Lord have chosen poorly, that if they do any more, they will as a whole will join chaos, In exchange of their neutrality they were allowed to send a tithe of weapons not manpower that the League right them to make...