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The event that became known in Imperial records as the Morritaga Massacre was discovered by an Imperial Navy patrol in 087.M42. The wreckage of an Imperial outpost was discovered in the dust wastes of the forlorn world of Morritaga II. Inside a bloody battle had been fought between the Flesh Rippers and the Secessionist Astartes of the Baleful Spectres Chapter and was a part of the much larger Hades Crusade.
History[]
The event that became known in Imperial records as the Morritaga Massacre was discovered by an Imperial Navy patrol in 087.M42. The wreckage of an Imperial outpost was discovered in the dust wastes of the forlorn world of Morritaga II. Within the outpost was a nightmarish scene of carnage and destruction rarely witnessed before by men. A bloody battle had been fought between two company-sized forces of Space Marines from the Flesh Rippers and the Secessionist Baleful Spectres Chapter. These two forces, infamous, for their savagery and unyielding stances towards their foes, had fought each other to a bloody standstill. The base around them was ripped apart and many of the bodies of both sides showed signs of having fought on despite suffering horrendous wounds, severed limbs and massive trauma that should have felled even an Astartes, and several were found locked in deathly, gore-splattered embraces, striking at their foes with their last ebbing strength. It is not known which Chapter's last warrior survived to the end to claim a bitter victory. Neither Chapter has acknowledged any survivors of the massacre living to tell of what happened at Morritaga II.