Retaking of Aevis

The Retaking of Aevis was an Imperial xenocidal campaign carried out by Ironclad Templars Space Marine Chapter alongside their brothers from the Black Templars to re-take the Ironclad Templars' ancestral home world of Aevis from the Drukhari.

Background
After being fleet-based for almost five millennia, the High Marshall of the chapter wanted something back- Aevis, the original home world of the chapter. But the High Marshall knew that they couldn't do it alone so he reached out to their battle-brothers of the Black Templars to which they obliged, sending 2 battle companies to the Crusader's aid. So in 490.M36, a small advanced party of Crusaders and Templars inserted into a lesser guarded sector on the planet where they established a landing area, headquarters area and a communications relay. The Crusaders then sent out multiple scout parties to recon key Drukhari targets and marked some for orbital bombardment, then it was a waiting game for the main assault. But a disaster happened in 491 when communications with one of the scout parties were lost.

Fearing that the invasion would be compromised, the High Marshall ordered the invasion. The invasion began with a massive orbital bombardment followed by a massive cluster of drop pods of Astarte's. The Drukhari wasn't prepared for such an invasion so in the initial attack, the Drukhari took massive amounts of casualties, due to the swift and furious attack of the Chapter's 5th Company which formed the spearhead of the attacking forces. The Crusaders and Templars wouldn't pursue the enemy all the way but instead expand on the landing area that was created back in 490, this way they can have a proper HQ element and landing site for the invasion.