Hunters and Monsters

The campaign known as Hunters and Monsters was a mysterious incident that occurred to squad of Astartes from the Emperor's Trident Space Marine Chapter, who were kidnapped from their vessel by unknown xenos while they were enroute to a nearby system. When they awoke, they realised they were trapped on a mysterious jungle world. During their time there, the squad of battle-brothers were being hunted down by their mysterious captures, whoe whittle down their ranks of a year, until there were only two surviving battle-brothers. These two Astartes would later be rescued by an Imperial colony ship and returned to their homeworld.

History
During a routine escort mission to the Nemaz System to pick up tithes to the chapter and the Oranthian pirates, the mission was being surveyed by Brother-Sergeant Kair of the 4th Company and his squad of twelve battle-brothers. While enroute, a blinding light swept through the escort vessel and when Kair's squad awoke, they realized that they were on a jungle world. Kair and his squad were without their armour and weapons, the only piece of technology the squad had on them were goggles to shield their eyes from the sun. As the week progressed, the team tried to find a way off this planet. Sometime during the evening, Kair found a camp which he could only describe to his brothers as nothing short of a slaughterhouse. Further investigation revealed that these mutilated humans were the crew of the escort vessel as they noticed Oranthi tattoos and rune markings.

Soon after, the Astartes squad was ambushed by an unknown xenos species. During the confrontation two brothers of Kair's squad were killed in the ambush. The xenos species are described as hulking creatures, with arms that end with sharp claws, with powerful legs that allowed the xenos to jump long distances. Within the next few days the squad was whittled down to six battle-brothers. Kair and his remaining brothers were said to have killed 79 of these xenos. At the end of a year, there were only two remaining Trident Brothers - Brother-Sergeant Kair and Brother Desh. Kair and Desh thought they would be trapped on this planet until they would eventually die, but this thought was cut short when the brothers witnessed an Imperial colony ship that landed on the planet's surface. The colonists were shocked at the appearance of two surviving Astartes. The colony ship voxed nearby vessels to pick up the two Astartes and send them back to Oranthi. The planet Kair and Desh were stranded on was later named to Kairodesh, in honour of these two valiant survivors.