Compliance of 30-92

Shaaa Hydrades

### Outcome

Induction of planet 30-92 into the Imperium, Daito Ueyama installed as Primarch of the VI Legion.

In early M30.905, the 30th Expeditionary Fleet, under the command of Shaaa Hydrades, exited the warp over a world designated as 30-92, and prepared for full scale compliance actions.

## Story

Sensors indicated a sizable, but primitive planetary defence fleet in close orbit around the planet. Immediately, following first contact protocol, The Primarch of the IVth Legion proclaimed the coming of the Imperium, and demanded the complete and unconditional surrender of the world, and all of her defenders. Foolishly, through predictably, the fleet refused, coming about, and forming into a blockade formation before the 30th. It was all the provocation the Breacher Lord required.

The naval battle was over in what amounted to an instant in void terms, with the Praetorian boarding the enemy flagship, and crushing the head of the offending fleet Admiral personally. Soon after, the IVth began to land, the Hydra Auxilia, and Mechanicum forces remaining in reserve for what would surely be a simple matter of wiping out the dissidents.

The locals responded to the landing with extreme ferocity, and zeal, soldiers charging into battle led by warriors clad in clunking proto-Power armour, and accompanied by primitive Knight Armigers, carrying themselves like the ancient samurai of myth as they clashed with the Star Guardians. They fell back in droves in the face of the superior Astartes, and they were repulsed with little difficulty.

The compliance was not without Legion casualties however. While the IVth Legion quickly established dominance on the ground, their aerial support elements found it much harder to secure. This was due largely in part to the defenders interceptor craft, which while being exceedingly fragile compared to Legion aircraft, were lighter, and more maneuverable. This, in combination with built-in heavy armaments, enabled the defenders to claim no less than six aircraft kills, two of which were fully loaded at the time, before their airfield was disabled by pinpoint orbital bombardment.

It did not take long for the disciplined army that had started the war, to collapse, the local warlords resorting to conscripting civilians, throwing away untold lives to be butchered by the merciless invaders in a vain effort to hold back the unstoppable tide. It was this development that finally roused the anger of the mightiest warrior of the world.

Inevitably, one city after the other fell to the advancing IVth, the Hydra Auxilia descending to secure every inch of territory gained, freeing the attention of the Astartes to move forward towards the last bastion of resistance.

As the Immortal Scion marched his forces through one of the many cliffside hugging, bamboo jungles that dotted the world's surface, a faint rustling brought the advance to an immediate halt, their bolters raised in expectation of an ambush from another foolish warlord’s forces. Instead, they found themselves standing in the path of a force of nature itself.

A blurred shape, easily the size of one of the Castraferrum-pattern Dreadnoughts, though still smaller than the Primarch of the IVth himself, burst forth from the bamboo, heedless of the fire being directed at it as it charged directly at the Breacher Lord. Shaaa turned to face the sudden interloper, but his ponderous speed worked against him. One of the Praetorian’s sons, one Saturnalian Sergeant Xerus Kantrol, bravely imposed himself between the shape, and his lord, only to be crushed utterly as the attacker tackled Shaaa.

For any normal foe, that would have been suicide, for no mortal could hope to overpower the Primarch of the IVth in a test of strength. This time however things were different, the being’s weight, and momentum, clad in a suit of proto-power armour powered into Shaaa with the force of a cannon shot. Normally, Shaaa would not have shifted, his entire being geared towards holding his ground, having faced down far larger targets than this being. But that was on solid ground, and as the two collided, the unstable ground that Shaaa found himself on gave way, the pair tumbling from the cliff top together, the IVth unable to do anything but watch as their Gene-sire fell before their eyes.

The pair slammed into the valley floor far below, a small crater created by their impact with the ground now surrounding them as they pushed themselves back to their feet. The Breacher Lord recovered first, his heavy terminator plate having protected him from the worst of the fall.

The other figure had suffered more, his cruder armor dented and crumpled, but as he rose to face the Primarch of the Star Guardians, it was now clear he was flesh and blood, the pair readied themselves for the fight to come, Shaaa bringing his shield to the fore, the cannon upon his back lowering to point at his foe, preparing to fire and end this before it even began.

Then, Shaaa hesitated, the pair of them looking at each other fully for the first time. Reaching up, the figure across from Shaaa removed the helmet he wore, revealing a face that the Breacher Lord instantly knew, despite having never seen it.

“Who are you?” The figure spat, his anger still present even as confusion waged a war for dominance across his face.

“I am Shaaa Hydrades of the Star Guardians,” Shaaa spoke, pulling his own helmet clear, grimacing as he left the confines of his enclosed suit.

“And I, am your brother.”