Somewhere in a certain direction within the Eye of Terror.
A vast quantity of warship wreckage drifted through the cold, boundless void. The symbols of the post-Heresy Iron Warriors could be seen everywhere upon the larger fragments.
Beneath the drifting wreckage lay the planet Medrengard, along with the immense fleet of the White Scars Chapter.
The White Scars Chapter, masters of Void War, had already annihilated the Iron Warriors fleet, even though the fleet barring their path had been so weak that it left them utterly baffled.
A small number of strike Cruisers conducted orbital bombardment against Medrengard's surface, while many more support vessels aided the ground assault personally commanded by Jubal Khan, Chapter Master of the White Scars.
From the perspective of the local battlefield, the landing operation was undoubtedly astonishingly fierce.
The White Scars' First and Second Companies had both been deployed in full. Great numbers of mortal auxiliary troops and Chapter serfs gathered from the Chapter's recruiting worlds fought alongside them. They had even made extensive use of heavy armored vehicles intended for Space Marines, constructing positions near the landing zone.
Though weak at positional warfare, the White Scars had entered the battle as attackers and somehow begun fighting a war of fortifications against the Iron Warriors.
Thus, from a broader perspective, the offensive confined to the vicinity of the landing zone was little more than a minor skirmish. The Warsmith directing the battle even doubted whether the White Scars truly intended to attack Medrengard, because in the fighting around the landing zone, the Iron Warriors attempting to retake it looked more like the attacking side.
Meanwhile, the Chapter's new flagship, the Lightning, a forty-seven-kilometer-long Glorious Queen-class warship, remained far from Medrengard, hanging motionless in the void as though it were protecting the planet.
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