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The Death of Senegas was an Imperial defensive campaign carried out by the Destroyers of Worlds Space Marine Chapter against an invading Ork WAAAGH! when they invaded the Imperial world off Senegas. Despite their best efforts, however, the Chapter would inevitably be forced to subject the lost world to Exterminatus.
Background[]
The Kshatriya assault the Greenskin horde.
Senegas was a civilized world said to have beauty rivaled by no other. Alas, like many jewels of the Imperium, it was blemished when the Orks descended upon it. Despite their best efforts, the Planetar Defence Forces were overwhelmed and a call for aid was sent out. One Chapter who answered the call was the Kshatriya. However when they arrived, they found that the call had been sent out well over a hundred years ago and the planet had long since become an Ork world. This did not deter the Kshatriya who deployed regardless. Bellowing war cries and threats of death, the full might of the Kshatriya descended upon the greenskins like a spear into a heart and spilled blood with every blow. Then, before the orks could bring their own might around, the Kshatriya broke off and scattered across the planet, causing the Ork WAAAGH! to break apart in order to pursue the different Brotherhoods of the Chapter.
Unlike most armies, the Kshatriya did not scatter in order to find advantageous holding points. Instead they kept moving, forming overlapping lines and circles that raced around the roving ork mobs, stopping only to refuel and reorganize when they had time. What made this tactic so effective was that whenever one Kshatriya Brotherhood engaged an ork mob, there would be one or two other Brotherhood nearby enough to rush into the fray. The ork mobs were easily picked off one by one until, at last, only the Warboss' mob remained right where the Kshatriya wanted it. As if it was the finale of some bloody crescendo, the Brotherhoods of the Kshatriya fell upon the mob from all directions and slaughtered every last Ork. With the Warboss slain and much of the main Waagh destroyed, the Kshatriya were free to rampage across the world and lay waste to the many Ork settlements plaguing it. Despite their victory, Senegas was still infested with Orks and would never be free of them. Thus the Kshatriya condemned the world to Exterminatus and left.