Operation Helsing

The Imperium's counterattack against the ingress of the Rasmodine was swift and brutal but they were pressed for troops due to the other conflicts at the time. In addition to the local forces the 6th Neo-Jerionite Regiment, 2 clans of the Sons of Gwydion chapter (the Crows and the Hounds), void support from the Megamarines 3rd company aboard their ship "The Unseen Foe", 3 companies from the Emperor’s Marauders (prior to becoming renegades), the Horse and Rabbit Clans from the Stone Lions chapter, a company of and a Deathwatch Kill-Team that included the infamous Sergeant Coyote. The long and bloody campaign eventually saw the complete extermination of the Rasmodine.
The Imperium was, at first, losing the battle until they resorted to using planet-busters. The Emperor’s Marauders and the 6th Neo-Jerionite Regiment were famous for their use of heavy ordnance and were given leave to liberally employ such weapons against the Rasmodine. Only then did the tides begin to turn as the numbers of the Rasmodine mean little. The battle became primarily a void battle after that and the Megamarines proved their talent for such missions. Despite all of this the cluster-ship commanded by Rasmo, the 1st Paladin, was untouchable. In fact, projections at the time still showed a Rasmodine victory due to their ability to breed and grow soldiers fasters than the Imperium could replace marines.
It took the deployment of an elite Deathwatch Kill-Team to assassinate many of the queens to turn the tide. After that the Imperial forces began mopping up the mindless bugs. It was then that Nurgle, in his form as the "Divine Disease" the Supercult had been praying to, reached out to 1st Paladin Rasmo and offered to support him if he offered his entire species to the glory of Nurgle. As his race was murdered around him he agreed and he was then aided by daemons.
The final confrontation occurred on the surface of the deathworld of Crivor where the 1st Paladin and his elite honor guard of free Rasmodine warriors and daemons fought the forces of the Sons of Gwydion. The marines feigned taking losses and began to fall back before crashing a number of landing craft into the enemies. In the confusion Chief Lugh Gyffes, the Black Jester of Gwynedd, assassinated 1st Paladin Rasmo. As he lay dying Nurgle took Rasmon and remade him as a daemon with the body of the husks of his dead species. To this day the quasi-immortal greater daemon hunts those responsible for the
=== The Three Young Kings ===
The conflict is notable for the presence of 3 chapters from the 26th Founding, who had been founded relatively recently and thus were avaible. This included the Sons of Gwydion (a Storm Warden successor), the Order of the Stone Lions (a White Scar successor), and the Emperor's Marauders (an Imperial Fists successor). The relative youth of the chapters involved lead to some mishaps and clashes but by the end of it that had forged close bonds. The later excommunication of the Emperor's Marauders, the use of "mysterious powers" by the Horse Clan of the Stone Lions, and the general distrust of the Sons of Gwydion by the Imperium all seem to have some roots here. There is a theory that the "divine disease" that infected the supercult impacted, however subtly, these more susceptible chapters.
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