Battle of Furious

The Battle of Furious is one of the earliest recorded campaigns conducted by the Emperor's Reapers Space Marine Chapter in the defence of the Imperial world of Furious Prime against a warband of the Sons of Horus Traitor Legion.

Background
Not long after their inception, the Emperor's Reapers Chapter faced off against their first, and most formidable opponents - the Sons of Horus - the vile Traitor Legion of the Arch-Traitor Horus, that led half the Legiones Astartes in open rebellion, and nearly saw the destruction of the Imperium. In the aftermath of their failure to conquer and subjugate Terra, the Traitor Legions had fled for the refuge of the infamous tear in reality, known as the Eye of Terror. However, due to circumstances, some elements of the Traitor Legions had either been cut off by Loyalist forces during the subsequent era of reciprocity, known as the Great Scouring, or were stationed in isolated or far reaching locations. In some cases, many of these detachment elements did not receive word for a number of years, that Horus had been killed and his rebellion had subsequently failed.

Cut off from their Legions and forced to fight for their own survival, in their rage, many of these Traitor Legion elements sought out their destinies or conducted their own wars of vengeance against the hated Imperium. One such world that felt the wrath of the Traitors, was the Imperial world of Furious Prime. A large Sons of Horus warband fell upon the unsuspecting world, which was still reeling from the wars of the Age of Darkness less than a decade earlier. The Heretic Legionaries cut a bloody swathe across the war-ravaged world, bombarding major industrial centers and launching ground assaults to slaughter whole cities. Sending a desperate Astrotelepathic communique, their prayers were answered in the form of the merciless and unforgiving Emperor's Reapers Chapter, which fell upon the Traitor forces with righteous indignation.

Nearly a year of bloody conflicted lasted between the opposing forces, which culminated in the last surviving Traitor Legionaries being executed by the Emperor's Reapers in a gruesome manner. Using their trademark power sickles, the vengeful Astartes sliced the limbs off the fallen Legionaries before having their vital organs cut out of their bodies and displayed in a grim display. With their enhanced transhuman physiology, they slowly bled out over a manner of weeks, until finally, they expired. Their organs were then scattered across the planet - a grim reminder and a dire warning to those who would dare turn from the light of the Emperor.