Reclamation of Kathur - Coming of the Traveller: Overseer Maggrig's reaction to the warnings that Chaos reinforcements were on their way was to press his attack forward with all haste. He was confident that the Imperial Navy group in orbit could deal with any single Chaos voidcraft, and, even should enemy reinforcements make planetfall, the Imperial spearhead would be in a better position to withstand a siege from within the city rather than in the open ground surrounding it.While sound, the order came too late, for the assault was barely underway when a massive Plague Armada, over twenty capital ships led by none other than the ancient pre-Heresy battleship Terminus Est, emerged from the Warp in close vicinity to Kathur.The Traveller, Typhus, the Herald of Nurgle, had come. He was the ancient enemy of both the Cadians and the Raven Guard the Emperor's Tarot had hinted at, for the creature once known as Calas Typhon, first captain of the Death Guard Legion, had slaughtered the Raven Guard in the orbit over Isstvan V during the Drop Site Massacre, and destroyed the XIXth Legion's flagship, Shadow of the Emperor.In the ten millennia afterward Typhus had plagued the Cadian Sector with his patron god's foul blessings.Hopelessly outnumbered by the Chaos warfleet, the Imperial Navy battlegroup decided to go down fighting. Lantyre Stryden, flag-captain of the Depth of Fury and overall commander of the Imperial space assets, gave but a single order to his warships: drawing his sabre and pointing it toward Terminus Est, he spoke but three words: "Kill! That! Ship!".Outnumbered seven to one, the Imperial battlegroup could not hope to last, and made straight for the Chaos flagship, with each smaller Imperial warship sacrificing itself in turn in order to buy more time for their Dominator-class Cruiser to fire its fearsome Nova Cannon.Twice it fired, and twice it hammered Terminus Est, blasting the ancient battleship's prow apart, and gutting its underside. But it would not be sufficient, and while building up power for a third shot, the Depth of Fury was in turn hammered by its damaged but still-battleworthy opponent, and destroyed when catastrophic damage to the Nova Cannon systems caused it to overload.The Chaos warfleet then made for Kathur, where only the Second Shadow remained in orbit. Captain Valar, aware that the Death Guard would eventually make planetfall in order to claim their prize, had used the time bought by the other Imperial warships to prepare his demi-company for war.The Raven Guard made an immediate planetary drop with all available personnel, while at the same time launching Boarding Torpedoes at the Terminus Est. Typhus' amusement turned to outrage when the boarding craft turned out to be filled with explosives rather than live opponents, compounding the damage from the Depth of Fury's Nova Cannon.The Terminus Est was forced to abort its approach, and Second Shadow pounced amongst its remaining foes, claiming three capital vessel kills before finally succumbing.With all Imperial voidships destroyed, Terminus Est finally made orbit around Kathur, and Typhus ordered his retinue of deadly Plague Marines to accompany him to the surface.