Shattered Legions - Notable Campaigns: The military actions undertaken by the survivors of the Shattered Legions against the Traitor Legion forces are too numerous to list, many of which have been forgotten or went unrecorded in official Imperial historical records.Due to the tenacity, sheer determination and uncommon valour of these disparate cells of Loyalist survivors, they were able to strike many significant blows against the Traitors -- upsetting supply lines, committing sabotage, conducting guerrilla warfare and hit-and-run attacks, as well as bolstering the beleaguered defences of multiple Loyalist worlds.Much to the Warmaster Horus' chagrin, he was unable to fully remove the surviving three Loyalist Legions' presence from the galactic regicide board, who went on to become a constant annoyance and proved to be a bitter foe who would continuously disrupt Horus' meticulously laid plans throughout the Heresy. Below are listed some of the more notable actions of the Shattered Legions:Deliverance Uprising (ca.006.M31) - Following the calamitous events of Isstvan V and the Raven Guard's flight to Terra to bring word of the disaster, the shattered XIX Legion returned to their homeworld of Deliverance. Unknown to them, the insidious Alpha Legion had inserted several of their own Legionaries into their ranks, surgically disguised as Raven Guard Astartes who had died on the black sands of Isstvan V. Gathering intelligence on Primarch Corax's efforts to reconstitute his Legion utilising a sample of pure Primarch DNA given to him by the Emperor Himself, the Alpha Legion operatives patiently waited until the Raven Guard had achieved a genetic breakthrough. In the meantime, they fomented rebellion amongst the old tech-guilds of Kiavahr, the Forge World that the moon of Deliverance circled, while assembling Alpha Legion forces nearby, for an unsuspecting surgical strike. The Alpha Legion successfully tainted the Primarch DNA, which resulted in the disastrous mutation of newly inducted Raven Guard Aspirants into hideously transformed creatures. At the same time, the Alpha Legion's plans reached their climax. The Kiavahr rebellion was well under way, supported by the newly-arrived Alpha Legion force, who were camouflaged as Raven Guard. The Loyalist Raven Guard successfully put down the rebellion and killed all the Alpha Legion operatives.Battle of Perditus (Unknown Date.M31) - The survivors of the Iron Hands 98th Clan-Company, led by Cassalir Lorramech, fought a traitorous Death Guard task force, led by First Captain Calas Typhon upon the world of Perditus, to prevent them from claiming a powerful alien sentient technology, which was later secretly secured by the Dark Angels Legion.Theft of the Kryptos (Unknown Date.M31) - The Raven Guard survivor Nykona Sharrowkyn and Iron Father Sabik Wayland, two Isstvan survivors aboard the Iron Hands vessel Sisypheum, infiltrate a Dark Mechanicum fortress upon the Forge World of Cavor Sarta and obtain the enemy's most valued asset, a mysterious device known as a Unlingual Cipher Host -- one of the so-called "Kryptos" -- a hybrid abomination creature of the Dark Mechanicum that had previously made the Traitors' code network a cryptographic impossibility to break. With the Kryptos, Loyalist commanders were able to finally access the Traitors' coded communications. During one of these transmissions, the Sisypheum obtained valuable intelligence indicating that meeting of two Traitor Primarchs, Perturabo of the Iron Warriors and Fulgrim of the Emperor's Children, was to occur upon the world of Hydra Cordatus.Attempted Assassination of Fulgrim (Unknown Date.M31) - Learning of a meeting between two Traitor Primarchs upon the Forge World of Hydra Cordatus, the Sisypheum inserted Nykona Sharrowkyn and Iron Father Sabik Wayland to assassinate both Perturabo and Fulgrim. Acting as a sniper and spotter, Sharrowkyne successfully shot Fulgrim in the head, and by all accounts, had fatally wounded him. The pair of Loyalist operatives managed to successfully evade the enraged force of two Traitor Legions, who scoured the surrounding area for the assassins, and rejoined their crew aboard the Sisypheum. The Loyalist cell decided to intercede in the Traitors' plan to acquire the unknown alien weapon known as the Angel Exterminatus. And so, the Sisypheum changed course and made their way to the Warp Rift known as the Eye of Terror.Assault on Iydris (ca.006-007.M31) - In the wake of the terrible slaughter of Loyalists at the Drop Site Massacre on Isstvan V, a small fleet of Astartes from the ravaged Raven Guard and Iron Hands Legions managed to flee off-world. Among these vessels was the Sisypheum, a Strike Cruiser commanded by the mortally wounded Iron Hands Captain Ulrach Branthan. Determined to continue to strike against the Traitor Legions wherever and whenever they could, the crew of the Sisypheum eventually manged to intercept the encoded communications of the Traitors and learned that the turncoat Primarchs Fulgrim and Perturabo were leading their Emperor's Children and Iron Warriors Traitor Legions, respectively, into the Warp rift later named the Eye of Terror by Perturabo, in search of an unknown Aeldari weapon known as the Angel Exterminatus. The crew of the Sisypheum temporarily interrupted Fulgrim's ascension to daemonhood, while the surviving Iron Hands Morlock Ignatius Numen slew the Emperor's Children's Chaos-corrupted Third Captain Marius Vairosean while Raven Guard survivor Nykona Sharrowkyn fought and temporarily killed Lucius, the former captain of the Emperor's Children's 13th Company.Battle of Dwell (Unknown Date.M31) - In the aftermath of the events on Isstvan V, Iron Hands commander Shadrak Meduson led a series of Loyalist reprisal raids against the Sons of Horus in revenge for the Warmaster's treachery. Upon the world of Dwell, Shadrak successfully marshalled a substantial Loyalist force comprised of 58 Imperial Army battalions, some Mechanicum forces, as well as a small force of Salamanders survivors and a token force of White Scars Legionaries. Though the Sons of Horus easily brushed aside the Imperial defenders, they were shocked to discover hidden Loyalist Legionaries hidden throughout the Loyalists' battle lines. During the fighting, Captain Horus Aximand, "Little Horus," was gravely wounded in the face by White Scars Legionaries, and barely escaped with his life. Though the Sons of Horus eventually proved victorious, due to their superiority in numbers, the Loyalists had proven much more difficult to defeat than at first believed. Later, Horus met with both Primarchs Fulgrim and Mortarion in his command tent to discuss their next moves. The trio of Traitor Primarchs were nearly successfully assassinated when Meduson ordered a surgical strike of a trio of previously hidden Iron Hands Fire Raptor gunships, which wounded all three Primarchs and several Legionaries to some degree. This was perhaps the most successful assassination attempt against Horus of the conflict to date. Enraged, the Warmaster detached a substantial portion of his Legion's resources to launch a hunter-killer force to seek out and destroy Meduson and his Loyalist cell. This force was placed under the command of Captain Tybalt Marr, who wished to settle a personal score with the Iron Hands commander.Raid on Cruciax (Unknown Date.ca. 006-007.M31) - The Raid on Cruciax, which harboured a listening post of the Word Bearers Legion, marked the Raven Guard's return to the battlefield after the crippling losses suffered during the Drop Site Massacre. Intended as a field test to further assess the capabilities and discipline of the new contingent of the XIX Legion called the Raptors, the raid was a full success, wiping-out the Word Bearers garrison and destroying the facility in less than twenty minutes. The first three hundred members of the Raptors, who were all genetically perfect, were declared battle-ready following this action and the Raven Guard quickly put its eye on a more important target -- the Siege of the Perfect Fortress on the world of Narsis.Siege of the Perfect Fortress (ca. 007.M31) - Located on the world of Narsis, the so-called "Perfect Fortress" had been erected by the traitorous III Legion, the Emperor's Children. Taking the Perfect Fortress would be an arduous task, a task which in truth lay beyond the capabilities of the severely depleted Raven Guard to take alone. Following the Legion's catastrophic losses and the ill-fated attempt to quickly replace these losses, Corvus Corax decided that his Legion would assail the highly symbolic location. It was then fortunate that shortly after the Kiavahrian Uprising, the ranks of the XIX Legion were swelled by the reconstituted and vastly expanded Imperial Army regiments of the Therion Cohorts. The so-called "Perfect Fortress" fell within the day. This highly symbolic action not only marked a severe defeat for the notorious III Legion, but also the return of the XIX Legion to the front lines. It was purely an act of spite against Horus, and even though it nearly brought it to extinction, the Raven Guard would still oppose him and prove to be a thorn in the Traitor's side.Liberation of Scarato (Unknown Date.M31) - Having fallen early on in the Horus Heresy, the former Imperial world of Scarato had been turned into a prison world by its new masters, the Sons of Horus under whose yoke the population suffered heavily. Despite the execution of much of its planetary nobility, resistance -- if discreet -- was progressively organising itself, building its strength for a full-scale rebellion against the Warmaster's troops. When the Raven Guard arrived at Scarato the uprising was nearing its final stage. With the help of the XIX Legion, Scarato liberated itself from the meagre occupation force left by the Traitors. With Scarato liberated, the Ravenlord ordered its astrophatic choir to be used to send out a rallying call to those scattered warriors that still fought in the Emperor's name. This allowed the Raven Guard to considerably bolster its forces, drawing more than three hundreds Astartes of various Legions to teach them the art of guerrilla warfare that made the Raven Guard such a thorn in the Traitors' sides. Most distinctively, this call allowed the Legion to welcome back one of its most esteemed sons, Gherith Arendi, the former commander of the Shadow Wardens -- Lord Corax's own bodyguard that had been disbanded on the sands of Isstvan V -- and who had been believed slain. During his time away from the Legion, Arendi had gathered information on another prison-world, Carandiru, which would soon come under attack from the Raven Guard.Raid on Kapel-5642A (Unknown Date.M31) - With the XIX Legion severely reduced, the Raven Guard focussed its attention on sensitive and -- where possible -- less-heavily defended targets in an effort to disrupt the enemy's supply lines and reduce its manufacturing capabilities. The brief but hard-fought assault on the asteroid-base of Kapel-5642A emphasised the new strategy by which the Sons of Corax would now fight. Located in the Cretherach Reach, Kapel-5642A was a Dark Mechanicum-controlled asteroid-base that functioned as a shipyard, tasked with building new warships for the Traitors' fleets. When the Raven Guard struck, they utilised Stormbirds, Thunderhawks and other assault craft to deliver assault cadres of Legionaries which quickly disabled the bases' orbital defence grid, wreaking havoc amongst the defenders and distracting them from the Loyalists' true intent. This enabled the Raven Guard vessel, the Avenger, to launch a devastating torpedo strike, which destroyed the base's orbital docks and the voidships it contained. So swift was their assault that the Raven Guard had departed the asteroid-base well before their torpedoes hit their target. The entire offensive had lasted a scant few minutes.The Liberation of Constanix II (Unknown Date.M31) - Atlas was one amongst several barge cities that roamed the skies above the acidic and toxic seas of the minor Mechanicum Forge World of Constanix II. Archmagos Delvere, master of the capital city of Iapetus, had allied himself with the Traitor Word Bearers Legion and begun the manufacture of presently unknown Daemon Engines. Stumbling upon the Kamiel -- the Strike Cruiser in charge of resupplying the Traitors of the XVII Legion -- more by luck than anything else, Corax himself led the assault to take the ship with his most senior officers in tow. Corax split his small flotilla in order to head to Constanix. The Raven Guard quickly assessed that Delvere's malign influence had expanded to each of the other city-barques, including some of the Titans of the Legio Nivalis charged with the protection of the planet's floating cities. Using diversions, the Raven Guard infiltrated and successfully seized control of the city-barque of Atlas with the help of Loyalist Mechanicum elements and the might of Castor Terminus, a towering Warlord-class Titan. With Atlas firmly under their control, Corax was swift to order an attack on Constanix II's capital, the city-barque of Iapetus, where the Word Bearers and the forces of the Dark Mechanicum awaited them. There the Primarch encountered a new model of hence-unknown Daemon Engines whose descriptions matched those of the dreaded war-engines known as Defilers. The Raven Guard were eventually able to claim yet another victory over the Forces of Chaos.The Day of Vengeance (Unknown Date.M31) - The Day of Vengeance on the prison-world on Carandiru was to inaugurate a new method of warfare -- a new means to destabilise Traitor-held domains -- but instead became known as one of Corax's closest brushes with defeat. A lone Astartes named Commander Shoukonou infiltrated Carandiru's population and began to expand, form and contact existing resistance cells in order to sow the seed of rebellion against their common oppressors. At the chosen date -- designated "V-Day" or the "Day of Vengeance" -- the civilian uprisings broke out, mobilising the enemy forces and turning their attention away from essential facilities which were then targetted by the Raven Guard. Elite infiltration squads of Mor Deythan landed covertly in the capital, seizing plasma generators and overloading the city's power grid, thus disabling anti-air defences and shrouding the entire capital in darkness. The Raven Guard discovered that Carandiru had not only been a prison but also a diabolical laboratory where gruesome experiments had been conducted on captured Loyalist Astartes. Under the dark input of the Emperor's Children dire Chief Apothecary Fabius, these experiments had evolved into the creation of a superior type of Astartes sometimes referred to as "New Men" or so-called Legiones Superior. Equipped with experimental technologies of unknown and esoteric designs, these "New Men" successfully overcame Corax himself, capturing him, until a taskforce of Raven Guard Legionaries under former Commander Gherith Arendi, disobeying the primarch's orders, arrived in the nick of time to save their primarch's life.