Heart of Fire

The Heart of Fire was a daemonic purgation campaign carried out by a company of the Storm Angels Space Marine Chapter to cleanse a vital Imperial relay-station from the grip of its daemonic usurpers.

Background
When Waypoint Omega, a small but vital relay-station between the wider Imperium and the Ghoul Stars, situated in the otherwise depopulated Baphomet System, cease to convey messages, the Storm Angels sent the 8th Company to investigate. Under the command of Akodu, the hundred Astartes reach the station in the closing days of the 835.M41. Without any answers to their messages, their Captain chose to act as if the station was held in hostile hands. The boarding operation allow all the Battle-Brothers to reach inside their target. There, they were greeted by visions of madness like none of them had seen before.

Where the divine machinery of the Machine-God once stood, fiery mechanism, operated by imps and small devils made of charcoal and fire, now unleashed novice fumes and burning flames. Akodu realize that vile wizardry, of the foulest nature, has been conducted there and decided to extract his forces, so that they may bombard the station with the Strike Cruiser Lament of Sanguinius. Alas, as soon as the order to retreat is given, the denizens of this foul place assaulted the Angels. Several brothers were killed in mere minutes and the orderly retreat turned into ferocious battle. For days on end, the abominations inhabiting Waypoint Omega managed to prevent the Astartes from leaving.

Finally, Akodu led a desperate cadre of his elite warriors deep into the fiery heart of the station. There, he discovered an abomination never seen before, a snake-like monster, whispering in the native tongue of each warrior present. Faces appeared and disappeared on each of his scales, some screaming, praying, laughing or crying. Akodu refused to listen to the blasphemous lies of the daemon and brutally charged him. Consumed by the fury of the Great Angel, the Captain managed to kill it, earning the nickname of 'Blood Serpent'. As 836.M41 finally dawned, the station was destroyed by the Lament of Sanguinius, its debris sent into the nearby star by controlled explosions.