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Almost a year later a besieged Imperial research station received unexpected help. The garrison had been attacked by Ork pirates. After three hours of fighting the situation looked hopeless. Then, without warning, the Orks found themselves attacked from the rear. Within half an hour, several hundred Orks had fallen to the mysterious, power armoured figures. Then, as suddenly as they had appeared, the warriors vanished. This time they left behind a banner - the banner—the gnarled chapter flag of the Fire Hawks - and Hawks—and inscribed upon it was the motto ''In dedicato imperatum ultra articulo mortis'' ("For the Emperor beyond the point of death"). As well as the banner there was a recorder and sundry other sealed items. These were shipped to Terra.{{Fn|1a}}

The Legion has even appeared in the astral docks of [[Luna]], freeing a [[Salamanders]] kill team from the vacuum traps of the renegade Draco Clan. This act allowed the Space Marines to intercept a transfer shuttle that had been wired to detonate upon landing within the Great [[Terra]]n Autoarchive. If the Autoarchive had been lost, the Adeptus Administratum would have suffered a blow that would have compromised their its logic engines across the galaxy, and possibly even prevented the Imperium from coordinating its military actions for thebest part of a century.{{cite this}}