White Scars - Hunt for the Shatterling Prince: From their first days as tribal huntsmen upon the plains of Chogoris, the warriors destined to become White Scars learn the art of the hunt. Those skills are only enhanced by a tribesman's advancement into the ranks of the White Scars Chapter.Natural hunting ability is wedded to transhuman reflexes and senses, and to the accumulated strategic psycho-indoctrinal inloads and relentless training that is every White Scar's inheritance.No wonder, then, that the sons of the Great Khan are considered some of the Imperium's foremost hunters and trackers.Even those outside of the Chapter's ranks know of the Master of the Hunt, and his quests across the stars to run down the Great Khan's chosen quarry. Yet while these hunts are perhaps the most storied and celebrated of the White Scars' venatorial exploits, the Master of the Hunt is but one warrior in a Chapter of over a thousand.Even as Kor'sarro Khan and his predecessors have discharged the ritual duties of their office, across the millennia the White Scars as a whole have tracked down and slain countless enemies of the Imperium. The elusive, the bestial and the unforgivable, all have fallen beneath the White Scars' blades, their lastmoments filled with the roar of engines and the guttural howl of Korchin war cries.Such a campaign was the hunt for the foul Drukhari torturer known as the Shatterling Prince.It was during the early 41st Millennium that a full two brotherhoods of the White Scars -- the 3rd and the 5th Brotherhoods, supported by elements of both the 8th and the 9th -- engaged in a system-wide hunt for the Drukhari Haemonculus who named himself the Shatterling Prince.This vile creature had secreted himself like an unseen parasite into the Asmari System. His ghoulish raiding parties preyed upon the vital breadbasket of Asmari's Agri-worlds, seeding biomutagenic phages into food supplies bound for multiple Imperial war fronts and snatching up local garrisons as slaves for the barter-pits of Commorragh.Khajaten Khan, then Captain of the 3rd Brotherhood and overall Force Commander of the White Scars forces, was a canny huntsman. Rather than storming in and offering his quarry a chance to ambush his warriors or -- worse still -- slip away into the Webway and escape vengeance, he concealedthe majority of his forces in deep space beyond the system's Mandeville Point.The khan then sent out small bands of warriors, travelling aboard commandeered civilian bulk haulers and charged to observe and assess the Drukhari threat. Once his own scouts were well positioned across the system, Khajaten Khan feigned heedless aggression and led a portion of his brethren to the aid of the worst beset world, Asmari Tertius.Khajaten's strike force made planetfall directly into the midst of the fierce fighting that raged through the world'sprimary agriplex. Multiple Haemonculus Covenite raiding bands had sundered the Imperial fortifications and were making sport of pursuing and tormenting the surviving defence garrison regiments when the White Scars struck like a thunderbolt.Roused to wrath by the horrors that had been inflicted upon the planet's people, Khajaten Khan drove the panicked Drukhari before him and scattered theminto the volcanic swamplands beyond the agriplex. The xenos response was not long in coming, and was precisely as the khan had hoped.Driven, the White Scars assumed, by arrogant outrage, the Shatterling Prince hurled a sizeable army through hidden webway portals onto the surface of Asmari Tertius. They swirled down like a dark storm upon Khajaten Khan and his brave warriors, the skies welling with barb-hulled raiders and whip-fast combat skimmers as the Haemonculus Covenites came to claim the White Scars leader as a plaything for their master.At the same time, no doubt assuming that the Imperial response was limited to Asmari Tertius, smaller raiding parties crept like bloated spiders from the Webway to fall upon the population centres of Asmari Secundus, Quartus and Sextus. The moment the foe revealed themselves, the White Scars struck.Summoned by the psychic cry of several Stormseers, the main White Scars fleet roared into the system with its drives at full burn. Flights of gunships and waves of Drop Pods thundered down upon every world, reinforcements guided in by the runic beacons of their comrades' armour. In some locations, strike forces arrived too late to relieve their battle-brothers, the brave scouting parties giving their lives to the last in order to keep the Drukhari engaged and out in the open.In others, including upon Asmari Tertius, the white-armoured reinforcements arrived in the nick of time. They sustained brutal losses in their own right as their deadly prey fought back with eldritch weaponry, but ultimately they cut off the Drukhari war parties from their Webway portals and crushed them as if they were within a vast ceramite fist.The portals themselves could be neither damaged nor sealed by any artifice that the White Scars possessed; instead, a standing garrison of Chogorian warriors was left in the Asmari System, charged with patrolling from one world to the next and keeping watch lest the Covenites return to exact revenge.The only true fault in Khajaten Khan's plan was his failure to locate and eliminate the Shatterling Prince himself. The Haemonculus never emerged from the labyrinth dimension, and -- mindful of the tales of his Primarch's disappearance -- the khan refused his warriors permission to enter the portals and hunt down their quarry in his lair.The decision likely preserved many White Scars lives, but it was to cost Khajaten himself dearly. Less than a standard year later, the khan was found dead in his meditation cell in the White Scars fortress-monastery of Quan Zhou, expression twisted in horror, throat slit ear-to-ear and blood frozen in a macabre waterfall down his chest.No assailant was ever detected, but every mirror and window within three levels of the Khajaten's chamber shattered upon the moment of his death. The message was clear, and a fresh hunt has since been launched to at last bring the foul Shatterling Prince to justice. The White Scars will not rest until their murdered khan has been avenged.