House Draconis - To the Brink: Shortly after the high king's party had left their camp, the enemy was able to discover their location and launched a massive attack to eradicate the threat posed by the remaining Imperial Knights. The 454th Cadian and the Knights under Jennika Tan Draconis held the enemy foot-soldiers and Daemon Engines at bay while the evacuation was underway.At the height of this battle, the Sacristans of House Draconis were finally able to develop a data-ward counteracting the crippling effects of the Chaos techno-virus, reestablishing communications. So it was through the vox that Jennika learned of the devastating ambush sprung by Alicia Kar Manticos: her brother lived, but they had lost twenty more Knights, effectively halving their fighting strength.With the camp on the verge of being overrun, Danial ordered his uninjured Knights forward. Led by Markos Dar Draconis and Eleanat Dar Pegasson, the vengeful Knights attacked the Chaos army from the rear and promptly routed them.While the Sacristans busied themselves repairing the stricken Oath of Flames, the high king's Knight, a council of war of House Draconis' most important members was called. Having vented their rage upon the Chaos Cultists, the more senior Knights were willing to consider retreat or at least linking up with other Imperial units to reassess the situation.While the first pleaded their case to retreat as far as the Pentakhost Peninsula, High King Danial listened carefully before flatly dismissing their proposition. Retreating now, the high king argued, would be equivalent to defeat. If they retreated, they would let the enemy seize the initiative and with all the advantages he already possessed, Gerraint might well push them back into orbit.Finally settling into the mantle of the high king, Danial set another course of action: to march on the Valle Electrum and knock out the Adamant Citadel.Many considered this folly, a suicide attack at best, but for once luck was on their side. After the Loyalist communication network was re-established, Jennika Tan Draconis had intercepted an orbit to air vox exchange indicating that one approach to the Valle Electrum had been heavily bombarded by the Imperial Navy.With their goal finally agreed upon, all of the surviving Knights marched on the Valle Electrum and to what they believed would be certain death. However, unknown to the Imperial forces, their chances of winning this conflict were indeed better than they thought. For Gerraint Kar Adrastapol and Varakh'Lorr had turned upon each other.Upon reaching the Valle Electrum, the Imperial Knights were pleased to see that a sizeable Imperial army under the command of Sheik Halna'sir of the Mubraxis Dustdogs was already laying siege to the gateway to the citadel they had chosen to use. With the reinforcements under High King Danial, the Imperials now had the necessary strength to break through the heavily fortified outskirts of the Valle Electrum.Having been rendered immune to the baleful effects of the enemy scrap-code, the Imperial Knights led the attack and destroyed the source of the baleful signal so that the Imperial Navy's aircraft could finish the job.Through many heroic acts and the obstinacy of their new high king, the Adrastapolian Knights fought through the outer fortifications and penetrated to the very heart of the Valle Electrum. Despite the toll taken during yet another ambush, this time by concealed Knights of House Wyvorn, the remaining Loyalist survivors successfully confronted the enemy leaders, slew them and destroyed the source of the baleful scrap-code signal before extracting themselves just before the first bombs began to fall.Through their heroic efforts, the Knights of Adrastapol had brought an end to the Donatos War and ensured that the planet would remain a part of the Emperor's domain. But in doing so, the three remaining Knight houses of Adrastapol had been bled dry.