If the Great White's combat style resembled Khorne's daemonic hordes, filled with savage violence and bloody slaughter,
then the Rakuan Clan assault squad from the Iron Hands Chapter displayed the cold logic and combat efficiency possessed only by mechanical constructs.
Some wielded melee weapons clenched within their Mechanical Prosthetics, repeatedly hacking at the cultists surging toward them.
Others raised heavy weapons emplaced across the position, continuously clearing out Chaos vehicles attempting to breach the defensive line.
And with Rorschach's thunderous arrival alongside a large number of Astartes,
the precarious battlefield situation on this Imperial World immediately underwent a dramatic reversal.
Countless bolt rounds and Whirlwind Missiles streaked back and forth through the smoke-filled skies, while formations of engine-roaring Thunderhawk Gunships relentlessly reaped the fragile lives of cultists and rebels.
At this moment, Rorschach, having just led five Giant Raven Guards in a Combat Charge, slowly drove his Vibranium Power Armor, stained with thick blood, into the Imperial defensive position.
Several Astartes from the Iron Hands Chapter stepped forward without hesitation.
They offered loyal greetings to the renowned Regent of the Dark, lord of the Scourge Legion.
Rorschach also learned from them exactly what upheaval had occurred across this Wuyou Sub-sector.
In truth, Rorschach's earlier speculation had not been far off.
A Chaos rebellion sparked by Slaanesh corruption was indeed sweeping across the entire sub-sector.
For this, the Iron Hands Chapter had dispatched an Astartes company formed from five clans, leading hundreds of thousands of Mortal Warriors to suppress the rebellion and reclaim the territory.
At first, the entire operation had proceeded relatively smoothly.
Because the Chaos rebellions on the various worlds had only recently broken out, the highly efficient Iron Hands clans had even successfully reclaimed nearly seventy-two percent of the region.
However, perhaps the Iron Hands Astartes had also