Reclamation of Smirnia

The Reclamation of Smirnia is one of the longest ongoing campaigns that the Void Ravens Chapter is involved in. Since the early centuries of M35, these stoic and stubborn Scions of Corax have attempted to re-conquer and win back the vitally important world of Smirnia from the Forces of Chaos, and will not rest until they have fulfilled their vows to do so.

History
Smirnia is a world well acquainted to violence and war. It was conquered by the would be Storm Draugar when they made their entrance into the Exile Sector, at the onset of the Horus Heresy and then annihilated by the Everchosen when this host moved to the River of Exiles. Left alone for centuries, it was settled again by faithful believers of the Emperor and thrived for thousands of years. Until the return of the Storm. In 280M.35, the warband of the Blackspawn brothers returned to Smirnia and laid waste to it, toppling the great cathedrals to erect temples to the Chaos Undivided in their place. While the defenders of this world were quickly dispatched, they had had the time to make a call for help. Alas for the Ravens who answered it, the forces of the enemy were left unknown by this distress call.

When the Fifth Hold came to reclaim Smirnia, they discovered only a token force of occupation left after all those years. They quickly destroyed the cultists of the Chaos Gods and quickly deemed Smirnia utterly lost and prepared themselves to purge all the livings on this world. Alas for the loyalists, the Draugars came to protect their conquest. The two months long war was extremely brutal, with warriors of both side resorting to ever greater acts of brutality. Still, terribly outmatched both in skills and numbers, the Ravens were forced to flee this cursed planet, leaving behind themselves more than 50 corpses to be defiled by the Storm Draugars. Since that terrible failure, the Void Ravens have returned to Smirnia on multiple occasion, repeating a cycle of carnage against the Chaos forces of the River of Exiles, all a part of the greater Reclamation. For the Sons of Corax this campaign will only end when Smirnia is returned to the Imperium for good.