Betrayal of Blood

Armorial of the Grey Hounds.

The **Betrayal of Blood** was a the defensive campaign conducted by the Grey Hounds Space Marine Chapter, when their home world of Udivar was invaded by the massive Chaos Warband known as The Sanctified, whom attempted to despoil the Chapter's fortress-monastery and steal their gene-seed stock in order to replenish the warband's ranks.

## History

During 862.M41, the Chapter's home world of Udivar was besieged by an fast strike on it's Fortress-Monastery, led by members of the The Sanctified, who sought to steal gene-seed and cripple the Grey Hounds Chapter while it was isolated due to warp storms in their sub-sector. Recieving heavy bombarment for months and cut out from reinforcements or help, the Chapter Master Tito Madrugada braced for impact, ordering to destroy the gene-seed stocks kept under the fortress labs, as he suspected them to be the enemy's objective. After a long siege The Sanctified landed on the planet, entering the fortress by a secret entrance, created by an traitor cell of both currupted Grey Hounds and Chaos Space Marines, who managed to inflitrate the chapter, cornering and taking the tired and few Grey Hounds remaining in close-quarters combat.

After months of fight, and attempts to buy time for the arrival of reinforcements, only a few loyal Grey Hounds on the fortress remained alive. The Chapter Master Tito Madrugada had already beeing slayed for a long time, and his orders to distroy the stored gene-seed beeing unfufilled due to intervention of the traitor cell. Their fate was sealed, and so, they decided to take down as many of the enemy as possible, destroying the entrances used and blocking key points of the enemy invasion, one by one they died, deleying the enemy victory. This sacrifice although wasn't invain and as the warp storm soon started to faded away, leaving the small The Sanctified fleet exposed to the elements. Knowing of the impending doom aproaching with every day wasted on their effords, the band leader Bodah Madagoth decided to pull the most of his warband and ships back in the warp with what spoils they managed to gather. The remaining landed troops would try to scavange the ruinings and then embark with the remaing gene-seed and war spoils in the ships left and then regroup with the rest of the warband.

During the final steps before their departure twelve ships of the Grey Hounds coordinated by Captain Mor Caldera entered the system, cutting off the three remaing The Sanctified ships and bombarding them with all the fury and might that their could muster. The The Sanctified ship Birth of Dispair attempted to activate it's warp drive and flee the system but was blockated by the Escort ship, the Celestial Hunter. Damaged during the assault from the Grey Hound's fleet it's drive had been severily damaged, and upon activation missfired, cutting the Celestial Hunter in half and exploding inside of it. With the remaining ships dealt with, the fleet turned it's attemption to the ground forces of the Cruficiers and started bombarding them, who had taken refuge on the destroyed Grey Hound Fortress-Monastary. The 1st, 3rd, 6th and 9th soon landed on the planet and cut down every one that they could see, loyal or traitor alike. No Grey Hound stopped ultil they were surely regained control over their planet.