Liberation of the Vivlis Triumvirate Worlds

Armorial of the Argent Eagles.

The **Libertion of the Vivlis Triumvirate Worlds** was an Imperial castigation campaign conducted by the Argent Eagles Space Marine Chapter as a part of the much larger Imperial Crusade known as the Crusade of the Claws.

## Background

With most of the enemy fleet destroyed and Void superiority as good as assured, it seemed as though the remainder of the traitor forces would be quickly overcome and the Worlds of the Surtar System liberated. Cautious from their previous battle the imperials moved on to the three worlds closest to them on their path. The planets of Vivlis, Vivlis Alpha and Vivlis Beta orbited each other in a way similar to the planets of Baal and were known collectively as the Vivlis Triumvirate. Once said to be the seat of a great Knight House, it was now under the thrall of cruel masters who did not even bear names for their victims to curse. The Triumvirate's population was considerable, sharing 30 billion imperial subjects distributed evenly between the three worlds. While much of the native military had turned and pledged their allegiance to the Unnamed, many of them simply obeyed out of fear for the mighty Space Marines which were numerous enough to ensure obedience in their ranks. Due to this the Unnamed were spread thinly and only possessed a concentrated force of Marines in each of their three Citadels located on the Vivlis Worlds. The 2nd, 5th and 8th Hosts were tasked with liberating the population of the Triumvirate by turning them against their chaos masters.

The plan was simple. In each of the world's capitals the Argent Eagles targeted strategic or culturally symbolic locations and struck in overwhelming force. On Vivlis they descended from the skies on the former grand Cathedral of the Imperial Cult and made a great show of exterminating every single traitor they could find within its defiled halls. They then dragged out the commanding officer of the city's PDF, tied him to a great plateform outside of the Cathedral and asked the onlooking soldiers and citizens what they would do now. Inspired by the radiant Angels that had appeared to deliver them from strife, they killed the officer who had betrayed them and declared In one voice that they would take back their home from the filth that had occupied it for so long.

Similar scenes took place on Vivlis Alpha and Beta as the image of the Argent Eagles falling from the Heavens with wings of Luster and Light slaughtering their oppressor woke the spirits of those who had suffered under the whips of the Unnamed for far too long. With renewed vigour and flaming courage the people of the Vivlis Triumvirate rose up in open revolt against their superhuman slavers, guided and supported by the Astartes of the Argent Eagles and the Guardsmen of Valhalla. One by one each of the mighty Citadels fell, brought to ruin by the vengeful mortals washing against their walls and the glorious Angels obliterating their high towers. As the brave hordes of the vivlian people fought tirelessly on the steep walls and in the tight hallways of the horrid bastions the Argent Eagles performed precise decapitation strikes against the Unnamed chain of command, bringing the enemy defenses down from the inside as the common folk brought them down from the outside.

Learning from their past mistakes the Argent Eagles made sure to capture the Commanders of each Citadel alive. They would not take the risk that they may have performed rituals similar to those in the battle of Colvrin. Additionally they would be questioned to try and uncover information about this foe of whom they still knew next to nothing.

With the Vivlis Trumvirate Worlds liberated, the Crusade pushed on.