Assassin Hunt upon Vershic

Armorial of the Gray Hussars Chapter.

The **Assassin Hunt Upon Vershic** was a notable action carried out by the Gray Hussars Space Marine Chapter upon the Imperial hive world of Vershic.

## Background

An Assassin from the Vindicare temple of the Officio Assassinorum was dispatched to the distant world of Vershic, a hive-world within the Saras Sector. The mission tasked to Assassin was to assassinate the planetary governor, Grand Duke Unter Vershic, and his family. 101.M42 The Assassin landed upon Vershic, smuggling himself on a merchant vessel. The Assassin failed to report to the Inquisitor of the Ordo Sicarius, Luk Kaesar, the Inquisitor would depart for Vershic. Upon arrival to the planet, the Inquisitor requested an audience with the governor as he reported to the Inquisitor that a man had abducted his family.

The Inquisitor despite there to make sure the governor had perished, now turned his attention to the rogue Vindicare. Inquisitor Kaesar released his entire retinue to hunt down the Assassin, but every time they get close, the Vindicare would get away. Inquisitor Kaesar would request the assistance of the Gray Hussars in hunting down the Vindicare. The Grand Master, Riley von Gergan, not wanting to compromise any of the fronts the chapter was engaged in, dispatched a single unbound unit, Reconnaissance Platoon Golf. The Astartes Destroyer equipped with a stealth system entered the system and only revealed themselves when they were near impact with Inquisitor Kaesar's Cruiser. They joined the hunt. The Infiltrators skilled in deep Reconnaissance discovered the location of the Governor's family while the Vindicare was out.

The chapter set an ambush for the Assassin. The combined efforts of squads of Infiltrators, Incursors, Reivers and Eliminators managed to slay the Vindicare after Eliminator Sergeant-Knight, Ferdinand von Deabrisch, shot the Vindicare with an Executioner Round. The Astartes investigated the warehouse the Nobel family was held in. Discovering the reason the Vindicare was sent to this world. Inquisitor Kaesar convinced the High Lords to send the Assassin on false pretences of instigating heresy. In reality, the Governor chose to defy the Inquisitor when he failed to surrender his daughter to Inquisitorial authority when Inquisitor Kaesar requested marriage with his daughter, the Princess of Vershic. Senior-Knight Reiner von Junkernberg viewed the current Grand Duke as a vile human unworthy to rule over a world under the Emperor's domain. The Inquisitor had betrayed his sacred duty to the Emperor and would need to be purged.

The Gray Hussars killed the Grand Duke in front of the Inquisitor and his small retinue. The Inquisitor praised the Astartes but was forced silent as Senior-Knight Junkernberg drew his bolt pistol. The Reivers and Incursors drew their weaponry, and they explained the evidence they had against the Inquisitor before his retinue and their intentions of apprehending Inquisitor Kaesar, in reality, they intended on having him killed. The retinue denied the Astartes claim, a Sister of Battle firing her bolter at the closest Reiver before his blade beheaded her. The Inquisitor used his retinue to escape, letting them be slaughtered by the Astartes.

In orbit the Infiltrator Squad accompanied by a Void Squad disabled the Inquisitors Cruiser. Killing the Astropath, disabling the engines and slaughtering the entirety of the crew. The Astartes would send the cruiser into the warp without their navigator, being lost for eternity, at least that's what they would report to Inquisitor Xerxes of the Ordo Zenos that had a debt to the chapter. Inquisitor Xerxes would state that Inquisitor Kaesar was lost in the warp. Inquisitor Kaesar descended into the underhive of Vershic, not knowing he was pursued by Eliminator Sergeant-Knight Deabrisch. The Inquisitor would be shot with a Mortis round, encapsulating the Inquisitor, allowing him to come in close and finishing him with a blow from his Powersword, with a prayer to the Emperor and a singular swipe of his blade. Senior-Knight Junkernberg would install his daughter as the new Planetary Governor of Vershic, elevating the status of their title from Grand Duke to King of Vershic with the blessing of the platoon's Chaplain in the name of the Emperor of Mankind.