Blunting of Gitsmasha

The Blunting of Gitsmasha was an Imperial campaign carried out by the Jonmarines Space Marine Chapter alongside their allies from the Battle-Sisters of the Order of the Martyrs' and local Lawsundan PDF and Adeptus Arbites forces, in the defence of the Lawsunda Majoris Sytem against the vile Orks of WAAAGH! Gitsmasha.

History
It is without a doubt that the arrival of the Space Hulk known as the Ashamed Desolation came as a surprise to all, even including Jonavaux Romulus himself. The Jonmarines, nor Lawsunda's Imperial Guard or PDF regiments, or the Martyrs' Rose Order needed to send recon missions to discover what inhabited the hulk, as the orks within immediately attempted planetfall on Lawsunda, the horde's mega-armour wielding Warboss announcing himself as Gitsmasha as soon as the Warboss had landed.

While a large portion of Gitsmasha's forces had been destroyed by Lawsunda's orbital defence weaponry, the Warboss made for the Haedric Hive, seemingly intent on rolling over the system's capital to get to the Asteralix Bastion. With this in mind, Jonavaux Romulus placed most of the chapter's forces both in the Haedric Hive and within the Asteralix Bastion, personally commanding the 'Haedric detachment', alongside Haarvik Hallic, Kaavian Launaas, and Julian Kalviathan, while Haedvust would command the 'Asteralix detachment'. Eventually, as predicted, Gitsmasha attempted to assault the Hive, meeting half of the First company and the entire Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth companies alongside the 23rd, 38th and 39th Imperial Guard regiments.

The orks would be crushed by the defenders of the Haedric Hive, but at a dire cost to the chapter. As a result of an oath the Chapter Master had made thanks to him blaming himself for Asteralix's death, Romulus accepted the ork warboss’ challenge, only to be apparently killed instantly by a downward swipe of the beast’s massive power klaw.

With Gitsmasha’s eventual, if not forced, retreat, the Jonmarines were able to fight off the rest of the ork invaders, and, despite Romulus’ massive number of injuries, including his caved in skull, inter the Defender of Lawsunda Majoris into the chassis mounted sarcophagus of the Jonmarines’ first dreadnaught, decorated in the ornate designs fitting their second Chapter Master.