Gehenna Crusade

The Gehenna Crusade was the campaign spearheaded by the Ordo Malleus of the Inquisition and consisted of forces from multiple Adeptas Terra including the Adeptus Astartes, Adeptus Mechanicus, and Astra Militarum to annihilate the Ravager Jackals Chaos Warband. Taking place halfway between the Second and Third Wars for Armageddon in the forty-second millennium Terran standard it was a brutal and lengthy conflict stretching for over nine years.

In less than four centuries the so called Ravager Jackals had grown to one of the largest and most successful pains in the Imperium’s side. But their latest raid was one too many for Inquisitor Solus Ures of the Ordo Malleus, who set his life’s work to the purging of these heretics from existence. After thirty-seven years, in the year 958.M41, he found what he was searching for; the current location of Gehenna, base of operations for the Ravager Jackals. Like all Daemon Worlds this planetary hellscape would not stay in one place for long, giving the inquisitor little time to spare to assemble his force.

The heralds went out, and what might they returned with in tow. Almost four-thousand Adeptus Astartes from nearly five chapters, a score and a half Imperial Knights from House Anubis, an elite regiment of the Astra Militarum, and a Skitarii contingent from Forge World Batamhurt. Borne across the void in the holds of a gargantuan war fleet it was a wonder to behold, more so when an onlooker learned of how hastily such a crusade had been gathered. But the servants of the ruinous powers were not idle as their doom gathered on the horizon, sending out a call to their fellow Iron Warriors. From the nomadic, space-hulk based Hellforge Fornax came the Lords of Desolation, the Iron Crucifers warband. A full great company sailed across the turbulent miasma, making planetfall as Crusade departed their rally point. The stage had been set, the battlelines drawn, and the die cast