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The war In Ultima East
During the Skaventide Event, many forces of the eastern fringes of the ultima segmentum found themselves under heavy attack from all sides by the vermin menace, leaving them no choice but to form uneasy alliances. These acts of cooperation even went as far as to, in the eastern reaches of the ultima segmentum, force factions that would normally at war to fight side by side.

The Battle of Feran Primaris
The battle in the feran system played an important roll in bringing the factions together. The conflict itself began when the Tau 1st sphere defence fleet let by commander Shas'vre Velk'Han Iro began a mostly unchallenged conquest of the feran system, far from Tau space, in an attempt to establish a base of operations for future conquest during the ongoing 5th sphere expansion. Spotting this endeavour was none other than Prince Gaius of the Knights of Laeren warband. Recognising a potential opportunity, Gaius offered the Tau an alliance in the face of the all but inevitable imperial response to the conquest. Much to his and everyone elses suprise, the Tau took up his offer and the defence fleet took on the blessings of Slaanesh willingly and became corrupted by the ruinous powers. Both forces began setting up a fortified base of operations on the continental planet of Feran Primaris.

An imperial reponse came soon enough when segmentum command dispatched both the a unified military force of the imperial guard dubbed the 'feran crusade' and a macroclade of the forge world agros to retake the system and crush the expansion force before they could take root, these forces numbered at roughly 3 million and 2 million respectively.

Imperial guard forces arrived first and found themselves encountering stiff resistance from both the knights of laeren fleet picking off their transports from high orbit with long range lance fire and the now daemonically corrupted Tau automated defences as they broke atmosphere. despite their protection with substanital force of thunderbolt and lightning fighters defending them, it wasn't until the imperial navy, chaos and tau closed the gap in orbit that ground troops were able to deploy without facing suicidal losses. Even then, guard landing zones found themselves under attack as soon as they landed by both Tau fire warriors and daemons of slaanesh working in rough tandem.

When the mechanicus entered the system they found the imperial navy taking a considerable battering, the flagship Sword of Absolution finding itself boarded and having no choice but to retreat into gas clouds at the edge of the system with the rest of their liberation fleet and hope to catch their enemies at close range.