Xenos Hunt at New Sogdia

The Xenos Hunt at New Sogdia was a xenocidal campaign carried out against the vile xenos known as the Gatanids on the Imperial hive world of New Sogdia by the Storm Zealots 4th Company.

History
For Captain Shoshanim of the 4th Company, slaying monstrous creatures is his lifetime thrill of the hunt. While other recruits manage to slay one Tyrodon, Jonah Shoshanim had slain three of such creature with a combat knives and a hand grenade. His skill later put up to good use and saw his meteoric rise from an ordinary battle-brother to the rank of Captain. Realizing such gift, Chapter Master Mordechai sent him to the newly colonized planet of New Sogdia where local PDF were struggling fighting thousands of arachnid xenos known as Gatanids. Though the chapter master advise him to bring his demi-company, Captain Shoshanim disagreed and only descended to the planet's surface with only two squads and four Whirlwinds to New Sogdia.

Once he arrived at the local hive city, Captain Shoshanim ordered all of his men to aid the local PDF to build a great impregnable defenses. New Sogdia is a lush jungle planet filled with vicious predatory creatures, beautiful waterfalls, and deadly xenos. The Gatanids, though numbering in the thousands, possess incredible agility, poisonous fangs, and a body the size of a Tyranid Carnifex. Knowing that this planet was a prominent hunting ground to glorify the God-Emperor, the Space Marine Captain decided to enter the jungles alone and hunt down every last Gatanid he could find.

For nearly eight months the Captain hunt every last Gatanid inside the lush jungles. He destroyed their nest with precision orbital bombardments, and hacked every last Gatanid he could find. With power axe and combi-flamer the population of Gatanids soon approached near-extinction, while his men fought to defend the hive city from retaliation. With their nest destroyed, the xenos eggs burned, and thousands of Gatanids heads piled up at their nest, the planet was finally purged from xenos, and no trace of living Gatanids could be found on New Sogdia. Continuous searches were conducted for nearly two more months.

The Space Marine Captain returned to the Hive City with only a scar in his helmet dragging a gigantic skull of a Gatanid Matriachs. Soon the captain and his men bid farewell to the Planetary Governor as the 4th Company returned to Jeras, bringing the skull of the slain xenos to be presented to the Chapter Master.