Betalis III Campaign - Return of a Warrior 032.894.M41: A solar month after the attack on Relay Station NX87-04, a shuttlecraft set down on the primary landing strip at Port Ryira. Onboard was General Myndoras Odon, commander of the 6th Cadian Armoured Regiment and a decorated veteran of over thirty campaigns fought in the name of the Emperor.Recovering from the injuries he'd received whilst commanding the regiment in its successful defence of the Agri-world of Saras VII, the general had abruptly cut short his rehabilitation, giving only two solar hours notice of his impending arrival to the now nervously waiting Planetary Governor Escava.Striding past the fawning diplomats from the mining cartels that had hastily gathered to greet him, the general's first action was to reassume command of all divisions of the Cadian 6th garrisoned on the planet.Bowing to the general's superior military expertise, some might suggest almost too eagerly, Planetary Governor Escava put the planet's defence forces at the Astra Militarum commander's disposal.Only a few solar hours behind the general's ship but already filling long-range pict-screens at Port Ryira was an armada of vessels, on board which was the remainder of the Cadian 6th Armoured Regiment.Their headquarters had been temporarily based on the system's primary planet, Betalis IV, and the general had issued orders whilst en route that they were to redeploy to Betalis III; his assessment of the situation was that events unfolding on the planet were serious enough to warrant their immediate relocation.General Odon's long years of tactical training and battlefield experience had led him to conclude that the seemingly indiscriminate attacks were neither random nor the actions of opportunists taking advantage of what the general saw as a woefully poorly defended star system; an abomination he would be taking up with the commanders of its Imperial Navy fleet forthwith.Each attack had been planned by minds infinitely greater than those they had been toying with, and were undoubtedly, in his opinion, part of a much wider initiative.Although none of the facilities attacked were directly connected, by plotting the raids and then projecting where the next one would most likely occur, General Odon had realised that a tipping point would soon be reached where Betalis III's entire global surveillance network would be rendered inoperative with the removal of just four more relay stations thousands of kilometres apart from each other.With the planet unmonitored, and units from the 6th Cadian Armoured Regiment and Planetary Defence Forces spread too thin across its surface chasing ghosts, the world would be utterly unprepared for the much larger invasion General Odon believed the attacks were a prelude to. Betalis III's custodians had been foolishly dancing to someone else's tune and General Odon had arrived to put a stop to it.Knowing that time was a precious commodity he could now ill afford to waste and with not enough troops or armaments to protect the entire planet, General Odon ordered that all Astra Militarum and Planetary Defence Forces be recalled from the less populated southern and western continents with immediate effect.This raised a heated storm of protests from the cartels' representatives who feared what would happen if they lost the total control they currently exerted over the belligerent population, still bitter over what they saw as the "twisted" promises made to their ancestors centuries before.If the workers were not kept in check it was feared that riots would soon break out, affecting production rates and preventing the cartels from meeting the planet's stringent Administratum tithe.But during times of war rarely do the priorities of the common man, their Imperial overseers and the might of the military concur, and whilst the cartels petitioned furiously for him to rescind his order, the general had far greater concerns. He believed that what they would all soon face was far worse than a barely restrained militant population or the Administratum's vast chapters of auditors and bureaucrats.General Odon suspected that whoever was behind the raids was already massing its forces in the unmonitored glacial wastelands, and should they gain a foothold on Betalis III, then the infinitely more valuable Industrial World and staging point of Betalis IV would be their next target.Betalis III was nothing more than a stepping stone, in his eyes, to the indispensable strategic gem that hung in its heavens.