Assault Upon Jerovian

The ship of Saint Lanassa was discovered, by the Agema Oracleos Dormatheos and his brothers, as having left the warp in the empty void near the Serdaex sector. Upon further investigation, a similar void gate as to the one found during the Galmor Chase was sighted, but it imploded itself in one swift stroke when the Phrygian Knights fleet shortened the distance between them. Thus Warder Lakatos, with the knowledge of the history of the Galmor Chase and of the battle between his Chapter and those Crimson Xenos outside the Milky Way, sought contact with the Adeptus Mechanicus, in hope of reaching Magos Explorator Nihilus Mor or those that had continued his discoveries. The sighting of the second Void Gate happened in year 925.M37, just five years after the Serdaex extermination.

Not only was Nihilus Mor still alive, but after three millenia he had made many discoveries about the nature of the Void Gates. He found out that the void gate near the Galmor Sub-Sector had only one route, and managed to pinpoint it to the extragalactic outpost that the Phrygian Knights had found. He also theorized that a second type of gates existed, where one could connect to several exit gates across the void, much like a hub. As he was brought by the Phrygian Knights to this newly discovered gate near the Serdaex sector, he requested years, decades even, to reactivate it, but he did manage to discover quickly, with the help of the Agema Oracleos, that it indeed led to a hub Gate on the other side, from which one could travel to countless locations. With this, Warder Lakatos temporarily withdrew his focus on the crimson xenos, and instead deployed his companies as required by the Imperium's on going wars, until, 65 years later on year 990.M37, the word arrived from Nihilus Mor that the Gate was ready to be reactivated.

The Warder then made the call for the muster of the Chapter and his allies. Three years later, the strenght of the Crusade surpassed all expeditions led by the Phrygian Knights in their history: 9 (1035 Space Marines) Phrygian Knights companies, 4 Host of Aiakides companies, 8 Space Marine companies of 6 other Chapters, one Imperial Guard battlegroup of 7 Imperial Guard Regiments, three Imperial Navy battlegroups, and one Sister of Battle Order Militant. The expedition risked through the Void Gate in one go, as it was feared that the xenos would implode the gate on the other side, if they knew they were coming. As they appeared in the intergalactic void, above a rogue gas planet, they saw that they had discovered perhaps the very capital or hub of the Crimson xenos, as was foreseen by Magos Explorator Nihilus Mor.

The planet, first refered to by JLEXGP-037.2490141241 (Jupiter-like Extragalactic planet number 37, in the following quadrant) by Nihilus Mor and afterwards by the ad hoc name of Jerovian, was heavily protected, with near a thousand vessels accelerating to face the Phrygian Knights and several orbital instalations. It was a rogue extragalactic gas planet with the size and mass similar to Jupiter, and its name would give the name to the Crimson Xenos, henceforth named as the Jerovians by the Imperium. What followed was ten terran days of battle in the void, the Jerovians taking a heavy toll upon the expedition with their gravitational weapons. Lakatos ordered the boarding of the hundreds of their orbital stations, them the size of massive cities, and only then the Imperium started turning the tide, as the Jerovians would not use their gravity weaponry near their own stations.

The Phrygian Knights Somatophylakes units were the first to board the enemy orbital plates, followed by the Space Marines of the other chapters and, lastly the soldiers and sisters of the Imperial Guard and the Adepta Sororitas, respectively. Battle continued in the void and inside the stations, one by one them getting cleansed by the Imperium as it was found that close quarters combat was not in the xenos favour. The flagship Indutiomarus' Revenge, forged by the shipyards of Inwit in M33, took to the vanguard and brokethrough the Jerovian fleet, the rest of the Imperium forces following it. In a desperate measure, the Jerovians started using their gravity weapons without care of damaging their nearby space stations, and several ships of the Imperium were broken asunder. The battlebarge of the Phrygian Knights, Kontos, made by the Ipsus Shipyard in the orbit of Korengal itself, was heavily damaged and broken in two by the Jerovians, the ship going adrift and captured into an orbit by the planet.

After several days, all the Jerovian space stations had been captured and then destroyed by having them sent into the gas planet below, them vanishing below the atmosphere. Inside them, the Imperium had also faced several thousand human indoctrinated slaves, and though the Phrygian Knights did find Saint Lanassa, herself heavily wounded and as if she had been tortured and examined, she perished in the arms of a Sister of Battle, her body vanishing.

When defeat was certain, the Jerovians sought to flee through a Void Gate on the other side of the planet, and were chased by the Phrygian Knights cruisers. After gaining complete control of the planet, most of the Imperium forces returned through the Void Gate, back to the Milky Way and to the Imperium. The Phrygian Knights however, with the help of Magos Explorator Nihilus Mor, continued their pursuit of the Jerovian remnants, and through the Hub gate on the extragalactic planet of Jerovian, they discovered inside the Milky Way more than a hundred exit gates, most of them near some sort of outpost of the xenos, though they were only lightly guarded. And thus the xenocide of the Jerovians continued, the Phrygian Knights chapter, now by themselves, slaying each outpost one by one and destroying the portals. After fifteen years, all the exit gates, but one, had been dealt with, and the Phrygian Knights returned to the Imperium, though not before recovering the Kontos battlebarge and repairing it, and priming the Hub Gate in Jerovian to explode. The Assault on Jerovian saw 70% of the Imperium forces being lost, with only 300 Phrygian Knights surviving those ten days. The fifteen years campaign to exterminate the Jerovians across the galaxy saw further casualties from the Phrygian Knights, though not in any alarming rate as the bulk of the Jerovians had been destroyed in their capital. The xenocide of the Jerovians was complete, or so the Imperium thought.