The galaxy!
Salamas descended!
Like a brilliant waterfall hanging across the heavens.
On Talqun at the perimeter, they looked up at the neutron plumes in the sky.
Light and delicate, they fell from the heavens like the holy wings of angels.
Just as the loyalist soldiers of the Imperial Space Wolves Chapter were preparing to welcome the Blood Angels Chapter—who had come to join them in attacking the enemy—with a final meal of fresh meat mixed with wild game and powdered Ceramite armor.
The Blood Angels said they had quit.
And then.
A report soon arrived: the planet they were planning to attack appeared to have already been attacked by someone else.
Their scouting vessels sent word from ahead. Vashtorr's traitorous Dark Mechanicum servants had come under attack from a hostile force.
Upon receiving this news, the Space Wolves immediately realized that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
The Space Wolves and the Blood Angels had both been sent to the dark side of the Imperium during the early days of the Great Rift. Their mission was to hunt down a traitorous Mechanicum Magos and resolve the Imperium's energy-supply crisis, caused by a xenos force occupying the hub planet that supplied energy to the surrounding worlds.
Yet not long after their fleets arrived, they investigated the enemy and discovered that its forces were exceptionally powerful. They would need unimaginable strength to retake the occupied territories from the enemy.
During that time, they gathered nearby spacefaring forces and formed a temporary alliance that included the Carcharodons Chapter, the Space Wolves Chapter, and the Blood Angels Chapter.
Then Warp storms descended. Before they could assemble all their forces, they lost contact with the others.
By now, their numbers had dwindled.
Moreover, the emergence of the Great Rift had left them even more at