House Minotos - Notable Campaigns: Horus Heresy (Unknown Date.M31) - While the Imperium of Man tore itself asunder in the great interstellar civil war known as the Horus Heresy, Adrastapol had prospered under the aegis of High King Rhoderic Tan Chimaeros. But the taint of Chaos had also taken root on Adrastapol as both House Hydrax and House Medusos openly declared for the Traitor Warmaster, Horus Lupercal, and waged a war of conquest that took a heavy toll on the remaining Knight Houses. House Minotos joined the alliance formed by High King Rhoderic that ultimately vanquished these Renegade Knights.Ork Wars (Unknown Date.M41) - When the Ork Warlord Skarjaw led his WAAAGH! to the Knight World of Adrastapol, all the Knight Houses gathered their forces under the aegis of House Chimaeros to defend their homeworld from the depredations of the Orks. Belonging to one of the most savage and feral tribes of his race, Skarjaw and his Greenskins rode to battle on towering warbeasts known as Squiggoths. These great beasts can easily pose a threat to Imperial Knights, a fact the defenders of Adrastapol became painfully aware of when House Manticos' ancestral home and fortress were destroyed by the invaders. House Minotos bravely fought these invaders but was not present during the invasion's pivotal encounter at the mighty fortress of House Draconis, the Draconspire, where Skarjaw was slain by Tolwyn Tan Draconis, then the mere Gatekeeper of the Draconspire. Although the WAAAGH! had been defeated, the Orkoid survivors of this invasion soon turned feral and scattered. In the years that followed, the Knights of Adrastapol mercilessly hunted down the remaining Orks and Squiggoths until their homeworld was declared purged from the xenos filth which had tainted it.Chondax Crusade (Unknown Date) - All data redacted.Galhorm Crusade (Unknown Date) - Very little is known about this obscure Imperial Crusade save that it was a costly battle for the Imperial troops involved and especially so for the Knights of Adrastapol. Following the death of the Kingsward, Gedric Tan Chimaeros, the crown of the High Kings of Adrastapol passed on to House Draconis.Donatos War (Unknown Date.M41) - Variously referred to as either the Donatos Insurrection, the Donatos Uprising and the Donatos War, this conflict marks the struggle for the possession of the Industrial World of Donatos Primus. Following an insurrection of Donatos' civilian population and some of its Planetary Defence Forces, it soon became apparent that elements of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion were to blame. Their leader, the Dark Apostle Varakh'Lorr, hoped to attain daemonhood by sacrificing Donatos' menial classes and his own followers. The Imperium reacted with uncustomary swiftness, counterinvading Donatos Primus at the head of several regiments of Astra Militarum and the combined forces of the Knights of Adrastapol. Under the guidance of High King Tolwyn Tan Draconis, the Imperial troops soon pushed the insurrectionists back. In what was believed to be the final battle of this conflict, House Chimaeros and House Wyvorn betrayed their allies, catching them in a murderous crossfire which nearly brought about the end of House Pegasson and House Minotos. Suffering crippling losses, Grandmarshal Gustev Tan Minotos nevertheless was able to maintain unit cohesion and lead its battered survivors to a safe haven. While House Draconis escaped with less casualties but mourned the loss of High King Tolwyn, House Pegasson was virtually crippled. Following his betrayal, Viscount Gerraint Tan Chimaeros proclaimed himself High King of Adrastapol, but true to their oath, the Nobles of House Minotos chose to stand with House Draconis and openly supported the claim of Tolwyn's son, Danial Tan Draconis. Upon the new High King's orders, Grandmarshal Gustev was appointed as liaison officer between the surviving Knights and their Cadian allies. As one of the more experienced military leaders, the Grandmarshal's voice was well-represented in the Loyalists' war councils. Hard-pressed against the resurgent forces of the Traitors, House Minotos committed much of its remaining strength to High King Danial's first counterattack. Although this assault succeeded in confronting and annihilating a small portion of House Chimaeros' numbers, the gathered Knights were led into a carefully planned ambush within an abandoned Adeptus Arbites Precinct Fortress. It was there that House Minotos suffered the loss of its leader when Grandmarshal Gustev and his Knight were transformed into a hideous and rabid Chaos Spawn by the terrifying Warp-infused powers of Alicia Kar Manticos, who was both a powerful Witch and an adoratrice of the Chaos God Tzeentch. Suffering further casualties in the collapse of the Precinct Fortress, House Minotos' soon possessed no more than a dozen operational Knights. Despite their losses, House Minotos resolutely stood by its allies and joined them in their desperate but ultimately victorious attack on the enemy stronghold within the Vale Electrum, a desperate battle which ended in the deaths of all the enemy commanders, including the Dark Apostle Varakh'Lorr, Archduke Dunkan Tan Wyvorn and Viscount Gerraint Tan Chimaeros. Leaderless and scattered, the remaining Word Bearers quickly retreated from Donatos Primus whilst the vengeful Imperial Knights mercilessly hunted down the last of their traitorious brethren.Second Ork War (Unknown Date.M41) - Barely five standard years after the successful conclusion of the Donatos War, Adrastapol was invaded by the numberless hordes of WAAAGH! Killfist. The Ork Warlord Gorgrok Killfist of the Deathskulls was a far cry from the savage Skarjaw the Adrastapolian Knights had defeated in the past. Great Ork combat walkers, from Gorkanauts and Morkanauts to Stompaz and even Gargantz, marched behind hordes of Orks in blue warpaint; whole squadrons of captured Imperial tanks kicking up dust alongside the Orks' own ramshackle creations. Lacking the aerial and orbital defences of the other Houses, the lands of House Minotos were hit particularly hard, unable as they were to destroy the Ork Roks before they reached Adrastapol's surface. While bravely assaulting the Orks' landing zones, the Knights of Adrastapol bought themselves time but within solar weeks Gorgrok's various warbands linked up to form unstoppable hordes. Due to the sheer dint of the Greenskins' numbers, the Knights were forced to retreat to their fortresses. Beleaguered in the bastions known as the Eyrie, the Iron Maze and the Draconspire, the Nobles bled the enemy as best they could but ultimately each House was forced to make its own stand separately. In this dark hour, a lone voidship, fittingly named the Unbroken, broke through the Ork fleet and landed a single lance of Imperial Knights in the wilderness of the Adrapotine Mountains. Their leader was no stranger to Adrastapol, for he was the Freeblade known as the Knight of Ashes, the last scion of the corrupted House Chimaeros who had come seeking redemption. Guided by the hands of prophecy, the Knight of Ashes had returned in Adrastapol's hour of need. Before all communication was lost, the High King of Adrastapol tasked the Knight of Ashes with seeking out the other Houses to come to the rescue of House Draconis, now trapped in their Draconspire fortress by the vast armies of Gorgrok himself. Rallying House Pegasson first, the Knight of Ashes led a sizable force of Knights to lift the Siege of the Iron Maze where the bloodied but ultimately victorious Knights of House Minotos joined his nascent army. Together the two Knight Houses and the Freeblade force known as the Exiles then made haste to the Draconspire where High King Danial Tan Draconis fought what he believed to be a desperate last stand. While the Ork Warlord was slain in personal combat by the High King, it took the slaughter unleashed by the reinforcing Imperial army and the destruction of the horde's remaining super-heavy walkers to fully rout the WAAAGH!. Follow-up operations lasted for well over a Terran year before the Knight of Ashes was able to resume his hunt for his mother, the fearful Chaos witch Alicia Kar Manticos.