Evacuation of Herculeia

The Evacuation of Herculeia was an Imperial campaign conducted by the Wolf's-Head Marines Space Marine Chapter against encroaching Forces of Chaos when several systems were engulfed by a massive warp storm that erupted from the Eye of Terror.

History
The first recorded appearance of the Wolf's-Head Chapter occurred in the terrible year 666.34 when a vast warp storm erupted out of the Eye of Terror spawning a dozen or so wandering daemon stars to threaten worlds and shipping in the surrounding sectors. It was at this time that a strike cruiser with unfamiliar heraldry appeared unexpectedly in the skies over doomed Herculeia, a civilized world in the Rubicon Sector, which was sliding inexorably into the grasp of an eerie green warp star. The accompanying electrical storms and earthquakes triggered by gravitic stresses were wreaking havoc and complicating evacuation.

The Wolf's-Head Captain aboard offered the services of his sixty or so marines to the Governor of Herculeia who, of course, gratefully accepted. The Wolf's-Heads promptly took the over the evacuation, organizing collection centers, performing search and rescue operations all over the globe, and overseeing the loading of the refugees aboard the Imperial Navy and regular merchant ships who had answered Herculeia's call for help. When these proved inadequate to the need the Strike Cruiser White Wolf went out and collected more ships - by force since no captain in his right mind would willingly get any closer to the Green Star. As Herculeia was drawn nearer to its nemesis loops and tendrils of warp-energy erupted from the star's corona engulfing the dying world and shredding reality.

The Wolf's-Heads rallied and led the remainder of the planetary PDF against chaotic incursions as the last of the population was taken off. Their fate remained uncertain until the White Wolf appeared in the Compito system to drop off some thousand or so PDF survivors several weeks after the other Herculean refugees had arrived. The Wolf's-Heads exchanged a few brief and uninformative messages with the authorities, ferried down their passengers, then vanished into the void.