Reclamation of Kathur - Dire Portents: After reporting to Inquisitor Bastian Caius, who revealed to Captain Thade that the main goal of the Ordo Sepulturum was to discover the exact cause of plague zombie outbreaks but little else, the Cadians were introduced to their new commissar.Overseer Maggrig had added a petty insult to his punishment by selecting a non-Cadian commissar, disregarding the Cadian tradition of having Cadian-born commissars assigned to them.Yet Thade was pleasantly surprised, for the man facing him, Adjatay Tionenji, was not some unthinking living book of regulations (the kind of commissars most Astra Militarum personnel dread), but actually a competent, if extremely fanatical, officer.The next morning, Overseer Maggrig summoned all his underlings to a war conference where he detailed his plans for the retaking of Solthane. His plan was straightforward, with each of the four regiments under his command given a clear objective and vector of attack, and realistic time schedule to advance in a united front, yet still with time enough to clear the reclaimed buildings of any remaining zombies.The presence of Chaos Space Marines was a concern, but Maggrig was confident that their actual number was low, for even a company-sized force of Heretic Astartes would never have hidden inside the city, but hammered the Imperial forces as they attempted to land. The only objection to the overall plan came from Colonel Josuah Lockwood, the commanding officer of the Cadian 88th, who argued against committing the totality of their forces to retake the city, suggesting instead that the Imperials leave a small force behind with vox-boosters to serve as overall coordinator.Maggrig waved the objection away, stating that the Imperial Navy ships in orbit would provide battle-coordination, and that every gun was needed in the city. The meeting was then interrupted by the arrival of Brother-Captain Corvane Valar of the Raven Guard, who quickly analysed the Imperial battle plan, and decided where to deploy his troops in order to maximise their efficiency.The Space Marine then saluted and made to depart, but he was interrupted by Seth Roscrain, the Cadian 88th's Sanctioned Psyker, who asked if the Raven Guard contingent included a Librarian, and if he could confer with him.The boldness of the request shocked the other officers into silence, but Captain Valar merely asked why, and when Roscrain explained that he had received a dire portent when reading the Emperor's Tarot, but was unable to interpret it and now sought the council of one more powerful and versed in Warp-lore than he was, the Space Marine acceded to his request.Roscrain then left the meeting to confer with the Raven Guard Codicier Zauren Kale. The Cadian explained to his Space Marine counterpart that he had read in the Tarot that despite all evidence to the contrary, Chaos was not done with Kathur; and that according to his premonition, another being, a personal enemy of both the Cadians and the Raven Guard, and a rival to Abaddon the Despoiler, would be coming to Kathur.Codicier Kale reassured him, for his own readings forewarned of the very same events. Emboldened, Roscrain dared ask the more powerful psyker if he too could hear spectral voices coming from the Empyrean. He himself had picked them up when attempting to rescue the Janus 6th Regiment the day before, but had been unable to understand nor explain them and, wary of being shot on the spot for daemonic possession, had not reported this fact to his superiors.Kale merely smiled and established a psychic meld between them both, allowing the Cadian to hear what he heard: the first voice, the one coming from Kathur, was a deafeningly loud plea for assistance, and the second, much fainter, but growing stronger each passing moment, was a reassurance that help was on its way.