Battle of New Mectra

The Battle of New Mectra was an Imperial castigation campaign conducted by the Storm Zealots Space Marine Chapter in the defence of the Imperial desert world of New Mectra against an invading force of Thousand Sons Traitor Legion and their daemonic allies.

History
Storm Zealots receive a distress call for aid from a Desert World of New Mectra. Once they made a planet fall, the Storm Zealot under leadership of Chapter Master Mordechai himself found that the planet is heavily infested with warp daemons of Tzeentch. Later during the briefing, the Planetary General told the brave Chapter Master and his captains of the 2nd 3rd, and the 6th Company that an ancient artifact rumored to be taken from the Black Library was hidden deep inside a small town of Gezin.

While the Chapter Master and the 3rd, and 6th Company  tried to push away the Daemon invasion, Captain Zachariah alongside Librarian Lievinsky with 3 squads from the 2ndCompany push deep within the fortified town of Gezin. It was there that they were ambushed by a horde of Rubricaes and Exalted Sorcerers of the Thousand Sons. Even though the 2ndCompany failed to recover the artifacts, Captain Zachariah manage to slay a Chaos Sorcerer Achmet and the infamous Hell Brute Lokar the Undefeated with his Thunder Hammer. After the Thousand Sons recovered the artifact, an unknown powerful Sorcerer ordered the Thousand Sons to retreat back to the warp. Soon a once crowded town became silent as nearly 16 men of the 2ndCompany perished surrounded by hails of magic and gunfire.

The daemons of Tzeentch had been successfully destroyed as the Captain Avishai manage to duel and slay a Chaos Sorcerer Morakhai. The planet is liberated after 13 days with cost of the 61 Storm Zealot Space Marines alongside nearly 12,000 PDF.