Order of the Valorous Heart - Notable Campaigns: First Savaven Crusade (555.M38) - Having fallen prey to a cult uprising amongst its bloated population of crypt-dwelling tomb-helots, the Cardinal World of Savaven is retaken by the battle-sisters of Order of the Valorous Heart in a decade-long crusade of fire and zeal.Orphean War of Faith (903-922.M39) - With several worlds firmly in the grip of the vile adorators of Chaos in the distant Orpheus Sector of Segmentum Tempestus, the order responded to the call to arms issued by Arch-confessor Marduk of Helvamon, who was later beatified. Guided by his sacred visions of the Emperor, the arch-confessor rallied the remaining Imperial worlds behind him. In a gruesome twenty-year-long campaign that would see a full fifth of the sector's population die, the Order of the Valorous Heart purged several worlds of the vile touch of daemons, mutants, Renegades and Chaos Space Marines alike. The order however did not stand alone as it fought alongside their sisters among the Order of the Black Sepulchre, the Space Marines of the Angels Revenant Chapter and the secretive Chamber Militant of the Ordo Malleus, the Grey Knights.Aschen War (307.M40) - The Aschen War was a series of brushfire revolts and incursions that erupted across the Aschen Sub-sector between 300.M40 and 307.M40, after a bloody Chaos Cult-inspired revolt on the Cardinal World of Dimmamar exposed how overstretched Imperial control over the surrounding region had become. Slowly stripped of much of its defences over the course of several generations to provide for the needs of other pressing conflicts nearby, this border region was ill-equipped to stave off catastrophe when it came. The Imperial counter-invasion was led by the combined forces of two Space Marine Chapters -- the Dark Hands and the Exorcists, backed by the Necromundan 54th and 60th Rifles of the Astra Militarum and the battle-sisters of the Order of the Valorous Heart. The Exorcists quickly realised that one of the keys to victory would be locating and destroying the single dark master of many names that lurked behind the divergent Chaos Cults in the region, a daemonic creature that on Dimmamar was known as the "Horned God." The Exorcists finally cornered the Daemon Prince in the maze-like pre-Human ruins of the Dead World of Belphago. The Exorcists, with the aid of a hastily composed Ordo Malleus strike team, managed to banish the Daemon Prince back to the Immaterium, but fully a third of the Exorcists Chapter had perished. But with this victory the tide of the war was now in the Imperium's favour, and within a standard year, the sub-sector was brought back under Imperial control.Serpheris Secundus Intervention (Unknown Date.M41) - Several squads from the Order of the Valorous Heart were sent to help augment Inquisitorial forces in quelling a series of mutant riots on the planet of Sepheris Secundus in the Calixis Sector.Achilus Crusade (777.M41) - The Order of the Valorous Heart participated in the Achilus Crusade to retake the Jericho Reach in the Ultima Segmentum for the Imperium.Battle of the Penitent (938.M41) - The Order of the Ebon Chalice and the Order of the Valorous Heart suffered great losses against Warboss Blackaxe's Ork hordes. They were eventually pushed back to the walls of the Cathedral of Saint Dufaux. The attackers were held back only due to the determination and sacrifice of hundreds of Sisters Repentia. They bought enough time for the battle-sisters to open the vast cathedral gates, and the greenskins were slaughtered shortly after by two dozen Penitent Engines.Plague Wars (ca. 100s.M42) - The battle-sisters of the Order of the Valorous Heart aided the Ultramarines in the defence of the Realm of Ultramar from the assaults of the Death Guard and other Nurglite forces in the Plague Wars.Unwelcome Resurrection (Unknown Date.M42) - Amidst the darkness of the Imperium Nihilus, the Order of the Valorous Heart established a bastion in the Vesmir System. Nearby Imperial forces flocked to the highly-fortified sanctuary ensconced in the orbital hive city above Vesmir II. There, they pooled what strength they had to fight back against the marauding Heretic Astartes and Chaos daemons. Elevator mineshafts plunging down to the gas-enshrouded planet surface provided a steady flow of raw materials, while the hive's manufactoria implemented exhaustion shifts to ensure that the Sororitas and Astra Militarum troops in the city were stocked with the necessary tools of warfare. The Sisters of Battle and their allies successfully defendde the hive against two Chaos assaults, but as the Heretics prepared for a third siege, the mineshafts suddenly ceased functioning. Massive energy signatures showed that some eldritch force had awakened beneath the toxic clouds of Vesmir II. Canoness Jocindyr recognised the threat, informing her sisters that the planet they were stationed above was a Necron Tomb World that was just now stirring into action. Her tactical assessment was that the hive city could not hold against the invading Heretic Astartes without supplies. However, both enemies could be defeated if they were drawn into battle against one another. The sisters prepared to descend to the surface and draw out the awakening Necron army. Before she disembarked, Jocindyr issued a standing order to the Astra Militarum defending the orbital hive, telling them to hold the line, no matter the cost, until she returned.