Amados II Campaign

The **Amados II Campaign** was an Imperial castigation camapign conudcted by the Astral Carbines Space Marine Chapter against Chaos Cultists and the Forces of Chaos upon the agri-world of Amados II in 036.M42.

## History

Amados II was an agricultural world which was being ravaged by a daemonic incursion, when the governor, Indrok Fograg, turned to the god of Chaos to put down revolts against his unpopular rule. He established a Chaos cult, and summoned daemons to conquer the planet. Those who did succumb to Chaos either died or were pushed to an abandoned city of Limok, with barely enough food or water. An Adeptus Astartes Chapter, the Brazen Shields, came to defend the planet from this incursion, but they were ill-equipped for dealing with the invasion, as their flagship crashed into planet due to a warp storm, and over three years, their forces were whittled down. The Astral Carbines were alerted by the distress call, and came down to the surface. By the time they reached Amados, only the 2nd Company, led by Captain Menelaus, survived. Menelaus was a traditionalist, and was wary of the actual effectiveness of the Astral Carbines, who were very much a Primaris chapter. However, he still gave support to Darian. The campaign on Amados was primarily defending Limok, though contingents were sent out to sabotage the Chaos cultists' supply lines. Despite Menelaus' eagerness to engage in a full assault, Darian had to calm his temper.

After a month of attrition, the heretical forces had suffered much more casualties than the loyalists, but supplies were running low, and the daemonic attacks only seemed to grow more numerous. Therefore, the Astral Carbines and Brazen Shields would make a joint attack on the capital of Amados, laying siege to the city. However, the tide of daemons was still strong. His plan was to send a small squad of Reivers into the cultists' headquarters, which was once the luxurious manor of Governor Fograg, to assassinate Fograg and stop the summoning rituals of the heretics. Menelaus objected, as there were many ways it could go wrong.

Vipus Octavio, then a lieutenant, volunteered to do this operation, being fiercely loyal to Darian. And so, whilst the combined forces of the loyalists held a line before the city's fortifications, Vipus led a strike team into the headquarters, gunning down whatever they found. They disrupted the continuous summoning ritual with a plethora of explosives, and Vipus personally dragged Fograg from a cabal of daemonettes, and threw him off a balcony. With the daemons no longer being summoned, the siege lasted only 5 days before the loyalists broke through.

After Amados was reclaimed, it took an extensive six months for the planet to be returned to normality, the populace screened and heretic remnants hunted down. Menelaus and Darian had formed a bond of brotherhood, despite their different attitudes. Darian offered to take Menelaus and what remained of the Brazen Shields back to Imperium Sanctus, or absorb them into the chapter to make up for the numbers they've lost. Menelaus, reasoning that the Astral Carbines needed older blood to ground the chapter, chose to be absorbed and became 2nd Captain of the Astral Carbines. However, he would only accept Firstborn Adeptus Astartes, which Darian allowed.