Sturmhex Incident
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The Sturmhex Incident was a battle fought between the Space Marines of the Grey Knights First Brotherhood and Chaos Space Marines of the Lords of Decay.[1]
Overview
The Prognosticars of the Grey Knights Chapter directed the First Brotherhood to the planet Sturmhex Prime, where a warband of the Lords of Decay, led by First Captain Roga, were enacting a ritual to summon the Daemon Prince Anahk'hir. The Daemon Prince had promised The Despoiler a foothold in the Materium from which to launch a Black Crusade and planned to use the dying star Sturmhex to open a rift into the Warp.[1]
Arriving in the system aboard the Castigator, Grand Master Vardan Kai deployed the entire First Brotherhood using a squadron of Stormraven Gunships, an undertaking of normally unprecedented scale for the Brotherhood. Descending into the planet's depths via its subterranean tunnel networks, the Grey Knights were able to use the Stormravens' superior manoeuvrability to their advantage to disrupt the Chaos forces within the caverns. Grey Knights Terminator Squads led by Brother-Captain Cadrig Pelenas were deployed to fight against the Lords of Decay and their summoned Daemon allies, while the gunships provided invaluable fire support. Anahk'hir, however, had planned for this, hoping to exact revenge on the Grey Knight who had banished him in their last encounter.[1]
Seeking to draw the Grey Knights commander onto the battlefield, Anahk'hir unleashed a flight of Heldrakes which wreaked havoc on the Stormraven squadron. Grand Master Kai and his Honour Guard took to the field and attempted to banish the Daemon Prince by invoking his True Name, only to have no effect, as the Inquisitor who accompanied the strike force, had lied to Kai and not supplied him with the correct name - he hoped to capture the Daemon rather than destroy it. Kai was instead forced into a duel against Anahk'hir until he was able to receive support from the surviving Stormravens, which had defeated the Heldrakes and regrouped.[1]
Anahk'hir, incensed at being fired on by the Kodachi, abandoned his duel and took to the air in an attempt to engage the gunship. Aegir, the gunship's pilot, delivered the Daemon Prince a crippling blow by ramming him with the Kodachi, enabling Kai to trap the Daemon in a tesseract labyrinth.[1]
In the wake of Anahk'hir's capture, the Lords of Decay were swiftly defeated by the Space Marines, Roga was killed and the tesseract was brought to Inquisitor Quixos.[1]
